Exclusive: Richard Fernandez of Pajamas Media interviewed Dr. Robert Ayson of the Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence at the Australian National University to get some sense of how Australia and Japan might react to the North Korean nuclear test.

Helen couldn’t make it — it was a bit late for her — but I caught up with milblogger Scott Koenig, better known as Smash, when he passed through Knoxville last week. Since he’s a celebrity blogger, I took along a portable recorder and managed to cadge an interview.