Friday plan: Desk day, enjoy rain, plan February. Lunch in Newtown is available. Plans may change.
@ApostrophePong Storm cells cross Stanwell Park and Campbelltown… not long now!
@ApostrophePong Storm cells approaching Bellambi and Appin from the SW… it approaches!
@ApostrophePong Radar shows massive thunderstorm just hitting Wollongong. Patience, patience…
Humidity and broken air-con have defeated me. Sloth will reign until one or other is fixed. Thunderstorm, please! [collapses]
@zhasper James Polley you are worth your weight in spiced banana peel! Thank you!
Anyone know if Bruce Schneier’s Linux Conf Aust keynote is online anywhere yet?
Getting Duped: How the Media Messes with Your Mind: http://tinyurl.com/2x3xgm
Thursday plan: desk day (at least until the thunderstorm hits)
Today is International Delete your MySpace Day: http://tinyurl.com/2xa6yw
@Wolfbyte “Microsoft position”? Is that with the dog on top, or…?
My website is now in the National Library’s PANDORA archive: http://pandora.nla.gov.a…
@trib Great article tho. How do you balance the need for govt accountability with moving at a 21st century pace? Transparency! Openness!
@trib You say “in the government space”? Why not just “for government”? “Space” is a meaningless IT management buzzword.
Free Wi-Fi and good food at Kelly’s On King, Newtown, could make it a good “afternoon office” for geeks. I cn vouch for that as we speak…
@mpesce I agree with your sentiment, but what can you do short of a shotgun?
Loose on King St, Newtown for 2 hours, working from That Location.
Wednesday plan (tomorrow): Sydney CBD middle of day, lunch possible; afternoon unplanned; gym
Mobile on Enmore Rd / King St for next 1.5 to 2 hours.
Mobile to Sydney CBD until 1430 or so.
@zhasper Ah the logic is therefore: “If curry powder is for making curry, then baby powder…” Just add onions and selected meat & veg.
If talcum powder is ground-up talc and curry powder is ground-up curry mix, then baby powder… [shudder]
@ApostrophePong All octopuses are gay. Oh, hang on, that’s snails. As you were.
This morning’s first rant: “Social Media: It’s about the people, not the tools”: http://tinyurl.com/2xznwx
Wed plans confirmed: Desk to 1000; meet with Zern LIew; CBD lunch anyone?; arvo open; evening gym, dinner etc with Snarky Platypus
Excellent, I am now top Google search result for “heath ledger jokes”. http://tinyurl.com/2xs3aw
“Experiment”, that is. “Expirement” was not a pun on death…
Latest on my Heath Ledger expirement: http://tinyurl.com/239jms
Today’s rant: “I don’t understand computers” is not an excuse. http://tinyurl.com/ys4ntu
Tuesday plan: Desk day, nothing exciting so far. Lunch in Newtown is a possibility.
Peter Black on new Comm Bank TVC and my response: http://tinyurl.com/yrfx8x
Today’s rant written: “Are you proud of your culture?” http://tinyurl.com/ywp69a
Monday plan: Already writing, writing more. Anger is subverted into prose. Bow before me, read my words, and tremble!
Does anyone else know the How & Why Wonder Books? Geek heaven! http://tinyurl.com/ysqlbs
Oh dear! Just realised ‘Pong has learned all his Oz accent from “Kath & Kim” and “Pizza”.
Return to base, offline.
@trib Agree that race is irrelevant for you and me. Not so America: it’s their deepest cultural marker, even ahead of religion, I reckon.
Going nomadic: Lunch at Suan I-san, King St South, Newtown, then…? Beautiful summer’s day, options open.
World population explosion, graphed simply: http://tinyurl.com/2bur3a
@trib True. I dunno that I’d have said a black man had competence in “spades” though. [wink]
@trib What’s more important about running a nation? Being competent and non-corrupt? Or being spine-tingling?
@ApostrophePong So many people in your Oz Day photos use the flag as clothing. Fat-arsed drunks sitting on it! Nation’s flag: show respect.
Sunday plan: No plan; slowness; pottering. Changes of plans are possible if not even quite likely.
Australia’s new National Anthem: “I Am So an Aussie” http://tinyurl.com/yv3td6
Gym abandoned, at Kelly’s on King in Newtown from 1300.
‘Pong has posted a beautiful photo essay of Thai street shrines. http://tinyurl.com/29m52b
I think 4 blog posts is enough for this morning. http://stilgherrian.com
@trib It doesn’t take much to keep me happy, I’m a man of simple tastes. [shreds evidence]
@duncanriley I’m happy to have been the first producer to allow the word “fuck” to go to air on Adelaide radio during daylight hours.
Saturday plan: Potter at desk & write; meet Snarky Platypus for gym, lunch, wine, sarcasm; evening is open so far.
The drab choices of Australian of the Year tells me that geekdom needs to get more involved in the nominations next time around.
Australia Square Plaza is where they flush out Macquarie Bank at the end of the week.
Australia Sq Plaza is full of self-important suit-droids getting drunk, maybe time to move.
@crispin_harris Live comment preview was broken for me, turned it off. Turned it on now. Works for you?
In Australia Square Plaza, DM if a drink appeals (valid until 7pm unless updated)
@Nickhodge 11 August of officially Wasabe Boy Day, where you must have LOTS of wasabe on your sushi
@SilkCharm Oops. “Questions” and “statements” are arbitrary categories anyway.
@SilkCharm Please ask Chairman Rudd that I’[m happy to explain internet filtering to Senator Conroy over a drink or three.
Friday plan: Desk morning, lunch in Sydney CBD (invites?), afternoon with Zern Liew, art at CarriageWorks tonight (join us?)
Heath Ledger’s death MUST be important, Channel 9 have sent in Richard Wilkins.
“If you pay peanuts you get monkeys.” Indeed. http://tinyurl.com/2aarhh
@Nickhodge A broken bicycle could make you look smart too… *ducks* Sorry, at the pub…
I’d join you folks at the Facebook thingy if I didn’t have a prior, and if I was actually a geek. *smirks*
Loose on King St, Newtown, for next 2 hours.
The EU reckons your IP address is personal data. http://tinyurl.com/yqhfow
What does your career look like as a “Timeline of Understanding”? http://tinyurl.com/22arhp
My friend Zern Liew has a new website. Choice. http://eicolab.com.au/
@mpesce I find tracking every single Apocalypse exhausting! But then I slept thru gunfire before. And thru 9/11…
@mpesce The Full Moon was actually at 00:36 this morning Sydney time.
@mpesce Moonrise calculator and more at Geosciences Australia http://www.ga.gov.au/geo…
Finally, some comments on my blog other than on the Ledger joke page at http://tinyurl.com/ys6es6 *smirks*
@Nickhodge Whaddya mean NOW blog the weird shit? Have you READ what I write?
Gawd! The National Library of Aust just emailed to ask if they can archive my blog “in perpetuity”!
New blog post: Gaydar exists! http://tinyurl.com/2g7v2p
New blog post: Quote of the Day, 23 January 2008 http://tinyurl.com/2dwyv4
New blog post: Oz stock market “crash” in perspective http://tinyurl.com/ytxjw2
Forget ASX. Second Life bank meltdown! http://tinyurl.com/yutsz9
@Warlach Re HL, this old post has material on “recreational grief” you might like. http://tinyurl.com/222337
@grum I love a man with a sense of perspective.
Nine HL death jokes so far (some of which are variations). http://tinyurl.com/ys6es6
@randomphrase The jokes should go on th ewebsite, not on Twitter. ;)
@duncanriley Yep, Heath Ledger is A Major National Event Which We All Must Share. There is no other news.
Wow. Experimenting with Google AdWords on “heath ledger deasd”. Already 2000 impressions, 41 click-throughs!
@gapingvoid Bleeding-edge early-adopters talk to other early-adopters, forget that most normal people can barely use email yet.
Thursday is another desk day, unless I find a brown envelope with $20,000 in unmarked cash on the way to the shops.
New blog post: Lessons from tacky Heath Ledger jokes, Day 1 http://tinyurl.com/yu2v6d
Heh! Virgin Galactic’s website is overloaded. And the “book now” button was a separate link in Google too.
Virgin unveils first commercial spaceliner design. http://tinyurl.com/29a3m5
12hr ago I got Google AdWords on “heath ledger dead” for A$0.06, now it costs A$6.50!
I never realised that cockroaches like Sambuca!
@funkycoda Mornin’ You missed Heath Ledger’s death and my tacky exploitation experiment. ;) I’ve already been called as “asshole”.
Yay, first Heath Ledger joke has been posted!
Oh. Twitter Tools for WordPress twitters when I edit OLD posts too. Silly thing.
New blog post: Heath Ledger dead: jokes here please http://tinyurl.com/ys6es6
@randomphrase My pleasure, Alastair, glad to be of service!
New blog post: Lolcat version of stilgherrian.com http://tinyurl.com/ywspja
Odd. Yesterday morning lots of comments on my blog. Today none. Full moon effect?
New blog post: Facebook’s neocon financier http://tinyurl.com/ypkjhy
Today’s full moon was at 00:36 Sydney time.
Hearing kookaburras at dawn is a wonderful thing.
The March of Democracy: Watch 4000 years in 90 sec! http://tinyurl.com/2aufz8
New blog post: Is it really so wrong to mix business and politics (and religion)? http://tinyurl.com/2a55zb
New blog post: Melbourne’s best cocktail bars? http://tinyurl.com/yv5cke
@funkycoda As Homen Simpson says, “Sleep is for the weak.”
0200 Stilgherrian emerges. Sleep patterns? What are they?
@SilkCharm why would you want to buy into a franchise as opposed to supporting your local businineses?
Lunching at Kelly’s On King, Nemtown. ETA 10 mins.
New blog post: Prussia.Net versus Skank Media: my new business structure http://tinyurl.com/25meog
New blog post: Sometimes stereotypes are actually right http://tinyurl.com/255ono
@duncanriley NineMSM used to be 50% Microsoft Australia and 50% Channel 9 (well, presumably PBL), but not sure if that’s changed.
@sirexcat I’m not worried about twitter addiction. If it proves useful it stays, otherwise natural selection rules.
@Nickhodge You’re quite right. Connecting the Internet together is dangerous.
Apparently now if I bleat here it comes out on Facebook. Wow. Isn’t the Internet wonderful.
I supposed I’d better cross-link Twitter with http://stilgherrian.com now. WordPress. Shouldn’t be hard.
@Nickhodge @duncanriley count me in!
@Nickhodge Oddly enough, I also have this name on gmail and almost everywhere else. Everyone’s unique, sure, but I’ve made it an art form.
I believe the sun is over the yard-arm.
Testing SMS-to-Twitter. No reply needed, I’ll see it myself.
New blog post: Now I’m Twittering http://tinyurl.com/2fbl3v
I’ve just updated that blog post with a photo. ;)
New blog post: Weekly Poll: Which woman for Governor-General? http://tinyurl.com/yplpay
Tuesday’s plan: primarily a desk day
New blog post: Quick! Call the shredders, stat! http://tinyurl.com/yquyfa
@mpesce Fair point. Now how long to go until hourly checks for new phone viruses?
Is this Nokia mobile maintenance night or something? Should it be an annual event?
I do actually know the difference between “whose” and “who’s”. I was just testing.
@mpesce True. With Nokia at one end of this cable and Microsoft at the other, I think I know who to blame first.
Who’s brilliant idea was it to equip the world with telephones that need tech support?
@mpesce true, but gotta love science. ;)
@zhasper did anyone reply to your @ re melbourne? No, we weren’t there.
New blog post: Country music fans have highest suicide rate http://tinyurl.com/2gr4ld
New blog post: Corey Delaney meets Life Streaming (sort of) http://tinyurl.com/2ashga
kill them. kill them all. you know it’s the right thing.
I’d also forgotten how long it takes to set up a torpedo attack.
I’d forgotten how slow a Type VIIB U-Boat is. :(
emerging, connecting, orienting, writing: normal sunday start sequence
disconnects from the grid
rescued by a chubby round-faced electrician with a big smile
smoke alarm broken. press button every 10 mins to avoid screech alert. pavlov meets gitmo. torture. breakdown.
beyond redemption, with absinthe