Emerged, glad to have slept in. Aches. Coffee reached for. Ah, alkaloids!
Early night. Offline, reading.
So glad that business hours are officially over!
Australia 2020 Summit nomination sent! [deep breath] http://tinyurl.com/2w6aj2
@zhasper Core Body of Knowlegde includes “data comms & networks”? http://tinyurl.com/2shpn8
@zhasper Damn, my humour unit is slow today. I should have said “Through judicious application of oral sex.”
@zhasper ACS will also consider “prior experience” as well as formal quals. I submitted a resume and referees to confirm my skillz.
@Nickhodge Middle English LOLs: KRBMA: Kynge Richarde II buggynge me againe. http://houseoffame.blogs…
@Nickhodge LOLCATS in Middle English! I Can Hath Cheezburger? http://tinyurl.com/23wj46
Why do the nearby lightning strikes trigger our smoke alarms?
Friday revised: Desk day sorting many, many loose ends; lunch Enmore/Newtown?; quiet evening doing writing etc.
Still looking for Joomla-capable human in/near Sydney for for contract/PT turning photoshop files into working templates. DM please.
Friday plan: A million loose ends at my desk while waiting for a delivery; if delivery arrives early, 4pm meeting at Bronte; quiet night.
Emerges, in slightly less pain than yesterday, but possibly more confusion.
Best set of conspiracy theories ever: http://swallowingthecame…
I suspect that by the end of today @stub drinks will be very, very appealling.
@funkycoda It’s become our occasional “afternoon office”. Bring my own double-adapter for power. ;)
@funkycoda Yes, at Kelly’s. Quiet upstairs bar, great food, free Wi-Fi. Very different from the late-night crowd.
Off to lunch at Kelly’s On King, Newtown, with @ApostrophePong.
Just heard that the “governance” topic for Australia 2020 Summit is “not as oversubscribed as the others”.
@randomphrase I think I’d notice if the house was actually on fire. Unless it’s on fire ONLY when the lightning strikes.
At least this thunderstorm is helping my mood. If only I could direct the lightning bolts though…
@ReneLeMerle Welcome to following my every move! You poor, poor man…
Annoying: Still haven’t decided who to nominate me for Australia 2020. Note to self: more of the right kind of whoring in the future.
Thurs plan: Aust 2020 stuff this morning; lunch with @ApostrophePong King St; 4pm client meeting in Bronte; @stub or quiet evening TBA.
Stretching, with a little pain.
Collapsing. Do you hear me? Collapsing!
@mpesce Absolutely! If I am going to be an affront to nature, I intend to do it PROPERLY! (Just ask my doctor.)
I am an affront to nature! Yay!
@Nickhodge Cool, you can be my second referee for Australia 2020 ;)
@mpesce They know that there’s a storm about to hit, now that I listen to which call they were making: “Gather the clan!”
The corellas are very noisy this afternoon.
@mpesce Ah, yes! Nothing like a good Reign of Terror to live up proceedings! Australia 2020: bring your own dangerous mob.
Jacobin: A breed of Fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding. @mpesce is there something you’re not telling us?
@mpesce Now I’m going to have to look up “Jacobin” or my afternoon will end in frustration!
My rant about Aust 2020 nominations: http://tinyurl.com/2rfblv
@gnoll110 I still think too many of the names are “people who are well-known & done good stuff” as opposed to “have a clear future vision”.
Aust 2020 nomination strategy: Who to choose as referee? Someone the non-luminary luminaries will recognise?
All inspiration has departed.
Errands & lunch, perhaps. The computer shall not be coming with me.
Anyone know a Joomla-capable body for contract/PT work in Sydney, turning Photoshop files into working templates? DM me!
Wednesday plan: Desk day, with lunch in Enmore/Newtown (takers?); evening gym & dinner with the Snarky Platypus. Planned pace: sensible.
Waking to the sound of yet another thurnderstorsm is truly wonderful… even at 4am.
Internet-via-Nokia-N80 is about to run out of battery. I disappear.
@trib Mind you, I think the entire Olympic Games are “unnecessary”. I am a killjoy of the first water.
Does anyone else find this creepy? http://tinyurl.com/2rre4t Blogged at http://tinyurl.com/3e27dw
@zhasper Corey Worthington Delaney’s nipple ring is an important cultural artefact!
I have just realised that today’s tweets are creating disturbing theme on my website. http://stilgherrian.com
@grum I have a small cage that you might find comfy… it has ADSL2+ via Wi-Fi, as well as… certain comforts.
@zhasper Oh, well, I suppose at some point I’ll have to sort out your Protestant repression there! ;)
@zhasper One and a half beers is “tragic”? Are you ACTUALLY an Australian?
@zhasper I’m sure you can get Internode discounts through judicious application of oral sex.
@zhasper Ah! “Open source hippies.” No wonder the ACS Web Tech SIG knew SFA about Web 2.0.
@zhasper I thought the ACS was ALWAYS wanting to be The Big Official Body for All of Computerdom?
@zhasper Well yes, I still have “concerns” about the money I spend on my ACS membership. I will seriously reconsider its value.
Teleworking is an INNOVATION? Huh? http://tinyurl.com/2sta2w
@artywah You mean I’M so retro I’m hip again! ;)
@mpesce Ah yes, I forget that the universe is not made of binary opposites!
@zhasper Well, only half a Coopers, but the promo I added to Fender Australia’s website is for country music, so maybe not enough consumed?
I’m doing website maintenance for a client from the pub. Is that tragic or the future?
Medico says I’m healthy enough, apart from cholesterol and RSI. Now at Brighton Hotel, Oxford Street
En route to CBD/Darlinghurst, medico then meet @AportrophePong. Humid!
Tuesday plan: Pottering at home; 2.45pm doctor in Darlinghurst; meet @ApostrophePong after that, and make things up.
“Size matters” is a western european protestant post-19th century construct, apparently.
It’s OK to talk about penises if you’re holding champagne surrounded by ancient pottery.
Note for future: largest collection of antiquities in S Hemisphere. Worth a visit.
Nicholson Museum wins points: Vast quantities of bubbly, phallic eclairs!
Oh, it’s actually a 2pm panel discussion (despite previous tweet). I suppose I’d better get going…
Monday plan: Start at one end, do one thing at a time, then do the next thing, until the end of time. And then stop.
Returninp southwards along King St, Newtown, with possible alcohol & reading breaks.
“Freud is the last great humanist in the post-modern age.”
“The ultimate validation of Freud’s theories: John Howard. Nothing else needs to be said.”
The guy taking the (phallic) mic to audience is dressed as a schoolboy. Yes, this is about Freud!
I never knew Freud’s nephew founded the modern PR industry.
“American psychoanalysis was medicalised, all about creating ‘normal’, compliant citizens”
Link for panel: http://tinyurl.com/386wyl
Sunday plan: Restful, apart from 3pm panel discussion “Putting the Penis in Envy, On th Couch with Sigmund Freud”, chaired by @mpesce
Emerging into a world with slightly faded colours and a small petting zoo.
Kelly’s about to turn off Wi-Fi, time to go home…
@funkycoda Fun. Without beer. Sorry, I don’t understand…
@grum I’ve had just enough Kilkennys to reach the point where that’s the best suggestion I’ve heard all day.
@grum “Root beer” we call “sars” here in Oz. [slaps]
@Nickhodge A Japanese journo in Adelaide said he thought cricket was very Japanese: A game lasts 5 days and can still end in a draw!
@Nickhodge I blame the ABC for requiring me to understand cricket. I even had to do cricket commentary one day (for all of 10 mins).
The Snarky Platypus has gone to watch sport on TV with friends, and they’ll drink alcohol at the same time. Is this normal?
Lunching at Kelly’s On King, Newtown (sorry, @stub, too much effort after gym).
Departing for a world of better health and fitness (and sweat).
@funkycoda Fair point. We’ll consider Glebe, tho Sat is usually our long afternoon of political conversation. Will see how we go!
Saturday plan: Wake up; 1130 Gym & lunct etc with Snarky Platypus; relaxing afternoon; evening undecided.
Saturdays are one of nature’s oddest creatures.
Finally out of Balmain. Systems implode. Mind melts. Sleep beckons. That, or a gun.
At client’s at Balmain, too nice an evening to be worrying about RAID but hey…
Off for late lunch, errands Enmore / Newtown / Darlinghurst; remainder of day as previously advised.
The kookaburras in Enmore are noisy again today. Humid day after a full moon: I bet I know what they’re up to! ;)
Aust network FAQ 1994. Nostalgia! V22 modems! http://tinyurl.com/3dujag
Aust 2020 Summit nominations extended to 29 Feb: http://www.australia2020…
Wow Tim Dunlop quotes me at length http://tinyurl.com/3ydxkm
Friday plan: Apply for Aust 2020 Summit, prepapre blog re same; 4.30pm Dr removes stitches; 6pm Balmain to rebuild broken RAID for client.
Opens newspaper. “Government implodes”: is certainly a catchy headline! Thank you, Sydney Morning Herald.
Overheard at Carlisle Castle: She’s not homicidal any more, just insane.
I blame my injured knee for any departure from the agreed plan.
@Nickhodge Not any more! City cleared, safely back in Newtown. Gym abandoned. Bank Hotel, then…?
Latitude increasing, as it should at this time. Goodbye Mosman!
Latitude decreasing. Next stop: Mosman.
Thursday plan: Desk morning to prepare for; 3pm client meeting Mosman; evening gym & dinner with Snarky Platypus; Full Moon 1432 Syd time.
We’ve arrived at ACP, and been personally welcomed by Clover Moore. I feel special.
En route to Aust Centre for Photography, Paddington
I am annoyed that I mis-typed “Mardi Gras”. Not that I CARE about MG, I just care about speeling.
Not on ACP website, but last year’s “Madi Gras: The Slide Show” will be in one of the galleries.
Wednesday plan: Relaxing until now; desk time until 5.30pm; 6.30pm Aust Centre of Photography, Paddington: Some @ApostrophePong images!
Loose on the streets of Sydney’s inner west.
@Nickhodge I would prefer not to have status reports on the state of your underwear, sir!
My piece on Internet filtering after Senate estimates last night: nhttp://tinyurl.com/2nj7ua
Watching Senate Estimates is bad for one’s mental health. Only the gods know what it does for the minds of the participants.
Tuesday plan: Plan to have no plan. “Paperwork” reigns supreme. Will writing get done too?
@funkycoda Which 50% is, as you so delicately put it, “tipsy”?
Writing a quick piece for tomorrow’s Crikey on NetAlert / ALP filtering plans etc based on tonight’s Senate estimates committee.
Senate Estimates has returned to Telstra/CDMA/NextG. Care factor for NetAlert low? Or just not controversial? Or just too hard?
Senator Steve Fielding has started asking about NetAlert. Discussion is patchy. Webcast at http://tinyurl.com/2jrdm8
Currently a confused discussion about Telstra and CDMA network turn-off. Minister Conroy is getting snarky.
Senate Estimates on NetAlert tonight before 11pm. Webcast http://tinyurl.com/2jrdm8
Monday plan: The desk-day of planning and arranging and emailing begins. Interruptions will doubtless abound.
Sunday plan: Ersatz-gym (watching with wounded knee) & lunch with Snarky Platypus; ad lib from there.
@Nickhodge The Bill dropped off the viewing list some time back.
Saturday is a Slothing Day this weekend. The worls is being ignored, largely.
Preparing to return to my proper latitude. St Ives is always weird and slightly disturbing. And for me that’s saying something!
Decreasing my latitude now.
Friday plan: Leaving soon for St Ives for a day at clients’ premises; evening unknown.
@ssharwood <3 from the Cleveland St Theatre.
The Sherbet will be explained tomorrow. Just experienced it in a play.
Is it possible to mis-use the music of Sherbet?
Crikey article written: Underbelly vs BitTorrent. And now to an early lunch!
Transferring to Kelly’s On King, Newtown, for breakfast and a day of writing.
@Nickhodge And a Happy Manuafactured Hallmark Occasion to you too! Nice clip. The word is “uninymous”, I’m “reliably” told.
@grum I’m fairly sure that eating old women is wrong, somehow.
Thursday plan: desk day (focus on writing); lunch Enmore/Newtown (accomplices?); 8pm The Fabulous Punch & Judy Show, Cleveland Theatre
@mpesce Inbreeding could be the solution. Or maybe a coat hanger wire thru the ear?
@mpesce Your family is infested with talent.
@mpesce Do you know the old poem? Those who have good livers are long livers, but those who have bad livers do not live as long.
I now have a much deeper understanding of how a knee works, and how limiting life can be without one.
@bck All proceedings of parliament are streamed of http://www.aph.gov.au
Wednesday plan: Rest the knee (4 stitches); arvo meeting with @ApostrophePong re his plans; evening probably not the gym (see knee)
Still in queue to see doctor, can someone just give me needle & thread? Stapler?
@grum Well funny you should say that… More tomorrow. Back to the queue, phone off.
Waiting to have my knee stitched back together. Don’t ask!
Shopping malls are a pox upon the earth and the sooner every single one is burnt to the ground the better.
@paullyoung @PhilipBeck Welcome to following my every move. @PhilipBeck I reckon post SOMETHING about YOU, look like a stalker currently.
@Nickhodge I’m so glad you’ve got such a positive attitude today. :)
“Stakeholder buy-in: what the cat taught me”: http://eicolab.com.au/20…
@duncanriley If we’re missing the bus, that message needs to get to govt, not just each other. :) Govt doesn’t read blogs or Twitter (yet).
Tuesday plan: desk day (writing & client strategy), get topic9.com.au online, all while watching parliament. Evening undefined so far.
@stilgherrian One angle will be that I think the “tech industry” (narrowly “infotech”) spends too much time talking to itself.
@duncanriley “Clever country” is a good slogan, agreed, but “tech” is one industry(s), not goals for the people, e.g. their health.
Fed Parliament starts today: program at http://tinyurl.com/2kens4
@duncanriley Later I’ll write riffing of your complaint of no Tech topic at Aust 2020. Tech is a means not an end, applies to ALL topics.
Emerging at 1030 is either suitably sensible or suitably dodgy. Which?
Australia 2020 Summit website (official) finally online: http://www.australia2020…
@crispin_harris Well, you tested it on the bench. Was there a bench on-site?
Working from “The Afternoon Office” (upstairs, Kelly’s On King, Newtown)
@gnoll110 “Govt gives money to big business”: business as usual?
@Nickhodge Conroy did not mention specific tech. Interview focus was business: competition, $4.7B funding, Opel, Telstra.
@ssharwood Indeed. Alan Kohler saying “12Mb/s is pretty fast” is such short-term thinking. If we’re spending billions, let’s spend it well.
Senator Stephen Conroy on broadband state of play (ABC Inside Business): http://www.abc.net.au/in…
@grum Humans are bad at assessing risk. http://www.schneier.com/… Yours is a good assessment. For now.
@grum If the choice of airlines is between, “cheapest” and “spends more time and effort on safety & maintenance”, which do you choose?
This week’s challenge: resolving mis-match between business installing CRM system and sales manager who “doesn’t use computers”.
Monday plan: Ache; Desk day, plan week etc, with lunch Enmore/Newtown; evening gym & dinner with Snarky Platypus. Any writing in there?
@garthk Well met! We’re lunching at JB’s Bar, Holiday Inn, opp Ent Cent. Swordfish! Wine!
@gnoll110 @trib I’ll specifically invite readers/contributors from well outside geekland, so don’t see it as duplication. Comments?
@gnoll110 @trib Trib’s site says it’s “the Aust tech community” discussing issues. My focus specifically on ONE topic, not just tech angles.
@gnoll110 Yes, 160km adds a new meaning to “local”! Thanks for the heads-up. Mind you, many urban local govts are ridiculously small.
Just registered topic9.com.au for discussions of Aust 2020’s govt/media/democracy area. http://tinyurl.com/2mdkc6
Seen in Sydney CBD yesterday: teenage lad with placard: “Honk if you detest Scientology”.
WTF do Medibank Private staff on Segways got to do with CNY?
@ApostrophePong has already jumped the barricade, without a media pass. Chinese NY not a terrorist target.
Leaving for Chinese NY parade soon. Starts 1100, but ‘Pong needs to scout for camera angles. Lunch afterwards, anyone?
@Suelibrarian The policy is at http://tinyurl.com/3bsevk for those who missed it.
@Suelibrarian Thanks, I had fun writing that Privacy Policy. People are too stuffy, afraid to say things directly.
Sunday plan: Slow start; ‘Pong + me to Chinese New Year Parade, Sydney CBD, 1100+; afternoon/evening NFI
Still farting about in WordPress.
Currently geeking out in WordPress, setting up the Skank Media website.
Saturday plan: The Muse strikes in the rainy solitude! Writing, making a website for Skank Media, plus other things.
Saturday plan: Meet the Snarky Platypus for gym / lunch / whatever; enjoy the rain & let the Muse strike for the rest. Plans may change.
@zhasper STUB = Sydney Twitter Users’ B-something, basically an excuse for beer and lewd activities
@grum Oh dear, we’re thinking the same thoughts!
@fanbloodytastic You work for ABC Local Radio? You have my sympathy! That was my fate 1985-1991.
@dekrazee1 Sure banks have values. “Values” is a marketer’s term for “slogan”. ;)
@dekrazee1 The new Comm Bank ad is genius: It’s got everyone talking about banks and their values. Complete, magnificent genius!
Working from Kelly’s On King, Newtown: free Wi-Fi, good food; Will skip STUB tho.
Friday plan: Big catch-up desk day after yesterday’s gap, with lunch Enmore/Newtown TBA; STUB in evening?
Blog post: The Internet is The Enemy: http://tinyurl.com/3dtwxu
@mpesce That is, of course, virgin on the ridiculous! [tish-boom!]
@mpesce Though where did you find a virgin in SYDNEY? In february?
@mpesce Eclipse peaks at 1534 http://tinyurl.com/2m3zs2
@mpesce Just getting up in time for the solar eclipse, eh?
My new website “Privacy Policy” (well, rant really): http://tinyurl.com/3bsevk
@kcarruthers Thanks for that observation, yes. I wonder whether I should bother retaining my ACS membership sometimes.
Thurs plan: Potter at desk until I don’t want to do it any more; gym and dinner this evening with the Snarky Platypus.