Going off-grid for 24 hours or so. It’s a Good Thing.
@jeffsonstein Probably more confusing is the fact that your iPhone is called “Tinkerbell”, not that it’s running Apache. Just sayin’…
@sirexkat On “Teh Gay” scale out of 5? About 11. [smirks] It has shocked even us.
@Nickhodge Oh the song research has just been done… @SnarkyPlatypus is with me now. ;)
I have just chosen the closing song for next week’s Stilgherrian Live Alpha. It’s pretty special. Very special. Unbelievably special.
@4fthawaiian Yes. Yes, you must be.
@SnarkyPlatypus Your tweetcloud continues to be weird. http://is.gd/caH And now to meet you at the gym & lunch…
@jeffsonstein Correction, 43/day during May, according to http://is.gd/j1Y just updated.
@jeffsonstein In April the average was 16 tweets per day, according to a TechCrunch piece. I currently average around 50.
@IanKath Locking phones to specific networks without ANY chance of moving is illegal in Australia under anti-competition laws.
@IanKath Optus & Vodafone have already confirmed they’ll have iPhone. Telstra certain but not confirmed. Yes, will have unlocked from Apple.
@jeffsonstein Doug Engelbart’s original 1968 The Mother of All Demos is on Google Video btw, linked from http://is.gd/ovy … see the mouse!
@chris23 Loved your piece on Twitter just now… I figure you’ll cope with my wild subjectswings. ;)
Dear m.twitter.com, standard interface is unsupported content type why?
AFK? I have the Internet IN MY POCKET!
OK, out the door to The Rocks for a client meeting. AFK.
@mpesce Thoughts are gurgling re that program, trust me. More soon. ;)
@mpesce Well, yes, I suppose SOME planning for each episode could be fruitful, as opposed to just printing my Twitterstream and ad lib-ing.
@Warlach Yes, quadrupling the CPU performance (or whatever) solves all video problems my end. All artefacts are now compression-related.
Retweet @dedlam: DO U WANT TO PLAY A GAME? http://tinyurl.com/659sy China and U.S. lead in Internet attacks
@Mediamum You’re right. Exposing Camden Council’s decision-making process is more important than the freak show. Not as much fun though.
@trib I do wish I didn’t have so many things on my plate already. Interviewing the crazies would be my forté, I think. Working on it…
@mpesce Yes hacker / Discordian threads are deeply intertwingled. ;) Bonus points for naming who coined that word though I suspect you know.
@Mediamum Freedom of speech is tough. ;) Re the flag, I think you’d like this post: http://is.gd/oui And perhaps this one: http://is.gd/8NL
Let me check today’s tweets… Geekery, yep. Extreme violence… Drug reference… Nazis… Politics… Just need to mention sex & I’m done.
@mpesce I know I must be at least an above-average Discordian because I confuse so many people, yet can use grammar n’stuff. Even compters.
@mpesce I’d happily interview Kate McCulloch at length and unedited. Give her so much oxygen of publicity she self-combust. Drive to Camden?
Sat plan: reading & writing; gym & lun@SnarkyPlatypusPlatypus, then sort out the poor monotreme’s email; evening unplanned.
@mpesce … But then we need to kill it and stick its head on a spike outside the village as a warning to others. We must have tolerance!
@mpesce Oh we need to face the deep, deep racism the bubbles in the heart of this society (and others). We can’t pretend it doesn’t exist…
@SnarkyPlatypus “If you insist, I bags song selection at your funeral.” Sorry, do you know something I don’t? “Insist?”
@Mediamum “Am I the new Pauline Hanson? I hope so.” [sigh] Another pig-ignorant racist hogs the spotlight. http://is.gd/otF
“May explode if disposed of in fire.” You KNOW what I want to do now, right?
@SuperMacMan I’m not very good at things I’m “supposed” to do.
@goaldeebug Actually, even more offensive would be a band called Cocaine Mohammed, and a song called “Special Friday”.
Retweet @jeffsonstein: “My fear is the Google cockroaches noticing me.” @SnarkyPlatypus you need to be aware of this!
@kerryank Cocaine Jesus would be an awesome band name, yes. A 54yo cocaine jesus does have a MySpace profile. According to Cockroach Google.
@jeffsonstein Tweet from the agonising meetings, then we can share your pain. And laugh.
Retweet @abcnews: Drug traffickers craft cocaine Jesus. http://tinyurl.com/69cd2q
I am far too sophisticated to get excited over just upping my MacBook Pro’s memory to 4GB, and I certainly wouldn’t say “w00t!”.
@mpesce Oh, those Nazis are causing problems for you again? Shame. ;)
@mpesce There is a conspiracy to prevent you using the Internet because it causes you to have Dangerous Ideas. You Must Be Stopped.
Emerging. Closing all the windows on screen which the cats opened by sleeping on the keyboard. They like Zern’s blog. http://is.gd/orJ
If only cats ate cockroaches my two most significant household chores would cancel out. Goodnight all.
@SnarkyPlatypus Shoosh, dont reveal the keywords.
I still give $20 to the Salvation Army collecting at the pub, despite their theological weirdness. They do good things.
@Fifikins Getting that credit card fraud down pat now, eh? ;)
@stokely Not software-specific but “Radical Project Management” by Rob Thomsett is heaps good. Part of the XPM movement.
@fulltimecasual “virgin gives good data” sounds like a personals ad from the near future…
Guiet Kilkenney at Kelly’s with New Scientist, Monocle and backache. Watching my village wind down.
Off to King St, Newtown, on important errands: bank, bookshop, newsagent and possibly… just possibly… the pub.
@PeterBlackQUT Scary, I was just re-watching the program too. I think I need to keep taking the tablets. Did you stick pins in your eyes? ;)
Crikey article re-posted for cheapskates: “eBay Australia: Who? Us? Anti-competitive?” http://is.gd/o1n
@babycakesjase Oh I did grok the context. :) Even with Twitterlag, even on a Friday, I do pretty well. ;)
@babycakesjase Unless, of course, you’re saying that we suffer from nephelococcygia?
@babycakesjase Plz don’t use big words on Friday kthxbye.
City Software FAIL. Prove I live at address? Client’s address! I ask what to do. They repeat auto-email, no answer, add me to spam list.
@djfoobarmatt Welcome to my Twitterworld. Congrats on the new baby girl. I guess that means no Twittertime for you!
@BernardK All lotto number sequences are equally likely. The idea that “patterns” are unusual is down to human interpretation.
@ragnarok1971 Much like that sort of code, yes. It’s secretz tho.
@mpesce How much was the lapel mic? Which camera? Can haz details kthxbye.
Startrack Express FAIL. Can’t deliver in less than 1-day window. Even “deliver after 3pm Fri or on Mon” fails. Drivers don’t have phones.
The Wiggles playing Enmore Theatre, street awash with 3yos & milfs. [sorry]
@mpesce I also stand corrected. I’ve conflated two books on related themes. [sulks]
Coded security message just issued at Town Hall station.
Returning to home base after fruitful client meeting & a Bloody Mary.
@ragnorok1971 @CCarney Actually the original original Soylent Green reference is Harry Harrison’s novel Stand On Zanzibar.
@SnarkyPlatypus Your last 2-word tweet explains everything. Now get back to work.
@jeffsonstein It feels uncomfortable at first, maybe even painful. But if you relax it can be pleasurable.
@paccadoodle Welcome to my Twitterworld. It’s not always as thoughtful as this morning, but it has its moments.
(Why do I feel that I’ve just closed off some massive time-loop by saying that?)
@mpesce @jeffsonstein Ted Nelson’s “Computer Lib / Dream Machines” & D&D were both important influences. Still have original copies of both.
@tibbetts_sound Re “intertwingled”: http://is.gd/ouB Important things are linked from that page.
@decryption Speaker Oliver Weidlich is from Ideal Interfaces, a mobile interface usability expert. #mcw
80% of room alertly looking at iPhone screenshots on the big screen. They clearly haven’t ever seen the thing. They are truly DOOMED! #mcw
(Does this mean that iPhone in Australia will also have unlimited data plans? Is this Apple’s deal?) #mcw
iPhone purchase experience: data included so no fear of cost, can sign up in iTunes, simple options, no in-store sign-up. #mcw
Weidlich expanding on those problem points. Alert folks in audience. Is this stuff NEW to them? In 2008? Fark! #mcw
Problems with mobiles: data plans; irrelevant functions; poor access to apps & content; small screen & buttons; slow nav; net dr#mcwts. #mcw
Oliver Weidlich on stage, session on iPhone user experience. #mcw
Afternoon tea. Next session on impact of iPhone starts 3pm Sydney time. Must save battery for that! #mcw
Twice now the Vignette guy has said it’s all about creating a more “addictive” experience for young people. What sort of ethic is that? #mcw
Making your content “social” seems to be about sprinkling magic social dust like “commenting”. Apparently. #mcw
Presentation now on Vignette Digital Services Hub. Yawn. Claims to have invented idea of web CMS! Bold! #mcw
Telstra & other telcos getting grief for complicated data pla#ocw#ocw
On mobile interface, “satisfaction of impulse” is key. Must tap into 10-second impulse. #mcw
In. Michael Beresford from Telstra on. No WiFi. 3G connect fail. Bloody SMS again. #mcw
All paths lead to gaming room. I can not haz gaming room. Must haz TV execs. #mcw
Arrived Star City, looking for registration desk. #ocw
OK, off to Mobile Content World. If I can haz WiFi I’ll tag tweets with #mcw. If not, I’ll save all my bile for my little program tonight.
@mpesce I’m glad you recall me making the statement because it was like… oh… ONLY FUCKING YESTERDAY! OK, I’m now in right state for MCW.
@tristjones Morphic resonance? Man, it is AMAZING to see conversation topics ripple thru Twitter. Use http://summize.com to track thm.
@mpesce “@stilgherrian *and* Twitter ist geborked” perhaps, but at least Twitter can be fixed. Oh. No. Other way around.
@mpesce http://tinyurl.com/6dmgay was the trick.
@mpesce “Twitter is (like all networks) just an amplifier. Natural news-bringers bring news. Natural wankers wank.” via Summize.com
@mpesce Well at least my tweets aren’t *continually* dull. Incomprehensibly obscure, or just plain confusing maybe, but not dull.
@mpesce “I just unfollowed someone whose updates, over whole weeks, continued to be dull as.” See my tweet re networks as amplifiers. ;)
@tristjones Re @mpesce: I’d rather have @trisjones wait until next week when I will have video. Text: http://tinyurl.com/5uls8s Edumacation!
Just ONE more coffee before going to Mobile Content World. Need to be in same mindspace as TV/Movie/Telco executives.
@mpesce Can you plz tell @tristjones where your education rant is? He just graduated as a primary school teacher so we must infect his mind.
@jeffsonstein I know I know, the world is going to hell in a handbasket. The other day I even heard that an elected official LIED in public!
@tristjones Yes, following me on Twitter is the second-best decision you’ve ever made. (I assume your lovely lady is the first-best.)
@sethyates No, Twitter isn’t stable yet, but at least it’s delivering a consistent level of up-fuckedness.
@BernardK The episode 5 mistake was fixed about 90 minutes ago. stop living in the past. ;)
@jeffsonstein Yes and saying “good” websites will still be OK to visit with flawed Flash player is like thinking “Nice girls don’t have VD.”
US-CERT just issued a n alert re Adobe Flash Player. Time to upgrade, folks.
@jeamland The passport works, yes, but I will now fax a copy of my passport to a business interstate…? They can LOOK at it, not copy it.
Getting pretty fucked off with companies that think a driver’s license is needed to do business. Do you want my $1000 order or not?
Head down while I write things for Crikey.
Fri plan: Write up #mcw for Crikey; 1100 client meeting The Rocks, Sydney; lunch there?; afternoon at desk tidying loose ends; evening free.
@mr_gadget Morning! Glad you enjoyed the… spectacle. ;) If you want to see it again it’s at the top of http://stilgherrian.com ;)
@DCouch Welcome, also… Your profile’s a bit thin there, though, I must say. Makes you look like a stalker.
@IanWoolf Welcome to my Twitterworld! :) I hope you find something of interest… as a broadcaster, you’re bound to! ;)
Emerging into… what are we up to? Friday! If it’s Friday, why does it hurt so much?
Collapsing.
@wolfcat Welcome to my very odd Twitterworld (and live media experiments).
@limburger2001 Sorry, no transcripts or notes on Stilgherrian Live Alpha. It’s, um, live. I work from very rough notes. That will change.
@jeffsonstein I’m running the program at 9.30pm Sydney time each Thursday night. I think it’s about 0430 your time.
Returning to Twitterverse after SLA ep 4 and dinner. Thanks for all the supportive comment, people! Recorded program at http://is.gd/nwL
Sorting out the audio problems for Stilgherrian Live Alpha episode 4 http://stilgherrian.com/…
Wow. Cam Twist settings migrated successfully to new MacBook Pro. I will be daring, @mpesce! I shall USE THE NEW COMPUTER!
@bengrubb The “alpha mode” runs for 8 episodes”, then decide how I want it to go from there. [Sometimes I wonder why I have a website…] ;)
70 minutes until episode 4 of Stilgherrian Live Alpha… 9.30pm Sydney time at http://is.gd/dnm Quake and tremble!
@mpesce @jjprojects Yes, DO leave Andy Warhol alone. You don’t know where he’s been… [passes cloth]
@totalomnivore A link in Twitter? You just put in the link and it auto-converts. Cleverness is built in.
Retweet @tangararama:”The only thing a VCR is good for is to watch old porno movies.” Exactly.
@garthk MacBook Po was successfully cold-booted, but haven’t tried to do anything with it yet. Will try it once I have program inserts done.
@plasmaegg Yes, a cold reset it is… Computers, eh?
@totalomnivore “Why must we take an Adelaide parklands train of thought on this one?” What IS that train of thought, exactly? [shudders]
I’m starting to suspect that the MacBook Pro still not finished booting for 15 minutes after installing Soundflower is a Bad thing.
@totalomnivore “When was the last time you had possum fur up close and personal?” You think I’ll answer that in public?
@ApostrophePong “Going to drink with Sydney PhotoBloggers at Bank Hotel” translates as “See you some time Saturday”? ;)
@oliverw Oh I’m sure we’ll meet up at some point. I only popped into #mcw for a bit this afternoon, was a last-minute assignment.
@mpesce I also have problems with Vodafone not being able to maintain 3G data links in busy periods. Will try your USB method too, tomorrow.
Installing software on the new MacBook Pro in the hope that tonight’s program will be less crap technically. The content will still be crap.
@mpesce See, now you are starting to understand the logic. Pointful ~= pub ~= Eurovision. I’m sure you can more links to the chain.
@shanegold And welcome to you too… I can guess how I blipped up on YOUR radar today! ;)
@DebHuff Re mobile events worth going to, I’ starting to think that any event not at a pub is pointless. Out of date info for the droids.
@DebHuff Hey and welcome to you too… I’m picking up a lot of traffic this week. Scary.
@adrianlynch Thanks for the reminder about Dave Winer, but yes Vignette did just claim to have invented CMS 15 years ago. Sure.
Coffee, food, relaxation then prep for episode 4 of Stilgherrian Live Alpha at 9.30pm Sydney time. http://is.gd/dnm
@oliverw Oh hello! I was only talking about you this afternoon. ;) Welcome to my Twitterworld. I’ll make further contact in due course. #mcw
Back on the grid from my luxurious home office overlooking the grand plazas of Enmore, Sydney. Well, it’s dark… I can use my imagination.
“Luxurious possum fur” is an oxymoron.
Going offline… will be back on grid later. #mcw
Crapped-out N80 battery about to die, but I think I’ve got my story. Confirmed that content producers are well behind the pace. #mcw
Weidlich speculates users will start using mobile apps on their PCs because less useless guff in interface. #mcw
@leslien Oh it really does feel like I’ve stepped back in time. And not in a good Kyliesque sense. #mcw
@metarand’s post from earlier: “Mobile Content World: Deer In The iPhone Headlights” http://is.gd/nnu Agree with his point now. #mcw
@mbuckbee Weidlich was talking about US experience. Given data cost is biggest consumer far, MUST be overcome. #mcw
@jeffsonstein As that great philosopher H J Simpson said, “Sleep is for the weak”. http://is.gd/j1Y However I see non-tweet times 0000-0400.
Reviewing video footage from Eurovision at the Pub… scary!
OK I’ll have a poll at the start of the program to decide whether there’ll be any Eurovision material. I promise not to rig the result. Yep.
@mpesce I am assured by @garthk that it is indeed a feral goldfish. He made it: refer all complaints to him.
@jeffsonstein I am detecting certain anti-Eurovision tendencies from the North Americans and ex-pats. You simply do not understand!
@garthk I have no energy for snarkiness today, not after snarking for Crikey and awaiting my new Macbook Pro.
@mpesce Oh, surely I have to show video highlights of our Eurovision pub night? @SnarkyPlatypus’ explanation of The Mid-Tempo Gap FTW!
@mpesce You will be happy to know I will have better CPUage for tomorrow night. ;)
I am sharper now. Better pixels all round.
@garthk (It looks blurrier to me ‘cos Twitter’s scale-down-to-icon isn’t the best.)
@garthk Does this new avatar work to your satisfaction then?
@garthk My advice is that “they” has been a non-gendered singular pronoun for centuries, an they need to learn to speak English. ;)
@garthk Wait? They have mechanical watches now? [Snuffs out striped candle.]
Emerges. Thinks: “Project management? Conference? Streaming media? All in one day?” Fuck, I’m gonna need a LOT of these alkaloids…
@SuperMacMan Oh it’ll be left until the weekend! Conference tomorrow and my own micro-media tomorrow night. Plenty of client work on Friday.
@SnarkyPlatypus Well Google is mystery FULL STOP. ;) I type in text, it tells me things. I think it’s run by teh evil cane toad cockroaches.
@jeffsonstein Oh tomorrow with TV/movie/telco people will be funny. People ask why I don’t return to radio. Um, because it’s the PAST?!?!?!?
@SuperMacMan Agreed with all of that. Independently I’d just decided to do a complete manual transfer to the MBP as a “clean environment”.
@jeffsonstein Well both Sydney and San Francisco are cities of 5m people full of queers on a picturesque harbour. Say no more! EQUIVALENCE!
@dizzystuff Sorry, did you just say “cocktail party”? I can usually hear those words at a range of 450 metres… in the wind.
@SnarkyPlatypus I’ve previously written about Apple and Google as dangerous cults. ;) http://is.gd/mTw
@jeffsonstein Yep, the Sin City of Sydney corrupts all. except those who were pre-corrupted. I still like being called “cherished” though.
@Fifikins Drowning cockroaches gives you joy. Freezing toads gives you joy. Are you an evil witch?
@SnarkyPlatypus I thought I was already one of the Children of the Damned for not going to the gym tonight?
Retweet @metarand: “Carriers - deer in the iPhones headlights - my Mobile Content World take: http://snurl.com/2b1mk” I’m going tomorrow.
Anyway, working out details is what tech support is paid to do. i *can* figure it out, but why learn something I’ll never use again? ;)
@SuperMacMan Agreed, a manual transfer to a clean install is good. I don’t need the USB key tho, have plenty of network and drives here.
The new MacBook Pro (correct capitalisation) is a joy, I’m sure. Migrating from a battered well-hacked Tiger PowerBook G4 is tedious.
I’ll leave Mac migration for now. Conference tomorrow. I’ll call Apple on Friday. If no joy I’ll do a manual transfer on the weekend.
@mpesce The old G4 does go into target mode. The CD which is in the drive is remotely mounted by new machine, but not the G4’s HDD!
@jeffsonstein They are media and marketing people in TV, movies and telcos, they have no clue whatsoever. I will heckle beyond all belief.
@garthk Old machine isn’t visible as Firewire drive with Command-T startup; via ethernet there’s a “network error” after ~10 mins (untimed).
Tweet 3001, but it’s not from the new machine. :( The OS X Migration Assistant is teh FAIL. Well, or the old machine is teh brokenz.
This is tweet 3000. PowerBook “posen” will be shut down. My next tweet will be from “danzig”. Newer, faster and fewer embarrassing stains.
Sometimes I wonder whether my use of Twitter is appropriate. Sometimes I think “appropriate” is such a Victorian concept. Sometimes I don’t.
@ApostrophePong Twitter’s new role: domestic disputes at a distance in public. ;) I’m phone-fucking rice as we speak. Misinterpret ad lib!
@ApostrophePong’s photos from Eurovision at the Pub: http://is.gd/mOO I’ve got the video camera. Guess which one is @SnarkyPlatypus… ;)
@ssharwood You get a traffic spike for Bill Henson, I get one for Samantha Fox. 12500 additional visitors this month to http://is.gd/d6r
For my sins, I now have a media pass for Mobile Content World in Sydney. Missed today, but looks like I’ll catch up fast. http://is.gd/mJF
@ApostrophePong Thank you, Twitterverse! I can haz red wine?
@mpesce I would never have teh *special* sugar cubes… on a Wednesday before a silly conference.
My god! It’s full of stars!
@dedlam Yes, “blog meme” is a completely perverted usage of the word “meme”. Misses the point entirely.
@tibbetts_sound Tonight’s storm in Sydney looks small but intense. Radar view: http://is.gd/5JA
@ragnarok1971 Yeah was watching the cloud approach as I took the cab home. I took a quick snapshot, will upload later.
@SnarkyPlatypus Copying 70GB of data and other testing takes a while. Anyway I know we’re worked out our schedule by our usual telepathy. ;)