@mpesce Dreads never appealed for *me*, though I don’t mind them on others (unless at the unwashed end of the doof scene). Lice annoy me.
@mpesce If we’re talking 1979 style… here’s me, 1991. Long curly hair too, though not an afro. Our genes differ. http://is.gd/aPP
@ssharwood Maybe that’s CeBIT’s test. The folks who pay must be out of touch n00bs, so mark them down as easy targets?
@mpesce At least your new avatar stays in the same species. Though mine stays in the same century.
@ssharwood CeBIT as bellwether for sector health… marketing spend = confidence for growth? Or is just just ‘cos they have solid PR?
@mpesce He also seems to have acquired a new avatar. ;)
@mpesce Feral goldfish! Feral goldfish! Feral goldfish! Feral goldfish! Feral goldfish! Feral goldfish! Feral goldfish! Feral goldfish!
@ssharwood Presumably The Australian gets CeBIT advertising $? For many folks, a trade show is their one big input of new info.
@decryption However CeBIT is already seeing record registrations this year. [shrugs] Look, we just spent more time reinforcing their brand!
@mpesce CeBIT have indeed gone viral. I have succumbed! Infection code “stilca08”. If registered, cancel & re-register so I look good. ;)
FFS! CeBIT have given me my own promotional code! http://is.gd/aPt “Readers of Stilgherrian’s blog… attend CeBIT free of charge.” [giggle]
Re-skinning a client extranet and pretending to be creative, or, at the very least, competent. Back in 2 hours.
@noony Welcome to my Twitterworld. With luck, you’ll survive the severe turbulence and/or mild psychosis. Careful what you smell.
@raena Now, 20 years later, I wish I had photographed that notebook… [sigh] @Nickhodge I have no idea where the millipedes came from.
@Nickhodge He tested various poisons, all failed. In green ink he wrote: THE MILLIPEDE MENACE MUST BE STOPPED! He was… odd.
@Nickhodge A guy I dealt with at ABC was convinced the Adelaide millipede invasion was a govt conspiracy. I had his notebook for a while…
@mpesce Today’s First Dog on the Moon cartoon: “Things you shouldn’t sniff.” I wonder if someone will leak it from paywall?
@SilkCharm Beware! @ApostrophePong and I will be at Mobile Monday, he with camera.
@mpesce No, haven’t met Calacanis. I’d never heard of him until @duncanriley’s post, discovered his profile after my blog post hit Techmeme.
@mpesce I don’t know that it’s about being “man enough”. One of the scariest people I met was a shortish, wiry woman ex-special forces.
@grum Is it the biffo you want to see, or the semi-nakedness? Answer truthfully now. He’s American, tho, he’ll have a gun.
Thinking of settling on the name Eurovision4Geeks for our Eurovision pub night. Lame? Anything better?
@grum Wouldn’t @Jasoncalacanis have to throw down the gauntlet? I insulted him. Still, caged death match jelly wrestling… I’m in if he is.
@Jasoncalacanis Seeing I called you a prick I’d better follow you, especially as I’m covering CeBIT. ;) I will learn your non-prick side(s).
Thu plan (yeah, nearly 1200 I know, see earlier tweets): re-skin client extranet; tonight podcast technical tests.
@gavincarr It’s not about hardware prices. It’s about setting up infrastructure to install, maintain, train, review, safety assessments.
@gavincarr Poke your head into a station office some time a marvel at the Windows 98 boxes. ;) Or are they Windows 95?
@tangararama [smirks] One mention of railway signalling and the train geeks emerge. ;) Welcome to my Twitterworld, sir!
@gavincarr The signalling system sees trains on blocks of tracks ‘cos they short the rails, but signals staff have to phone station staff.
@gavincarr The CityRail info came from Claire, one of their customer service people, on the phone just now.
“On December 20, 1879, the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad became the first line operate its trains by telephone.” http://is.gd/b8p
How does Sydney’s CityRail know a train is late so staff can tell those waiting? Each station PHONES the next one along. Welcome to 1879!
Retweet @leslien: “Start a business, not a startup.” http://tinyurl.com/5lr44j More sensible advice from 37signals’ Jason Fried.
@mpesce Yes the frog-in-hot-water imagery is apt. There’s my next Hallucinating Goldfish post I think, a nice fat graph of oil prices.
Oil down to $US111 is a “slump”. http://tinyurl.com/3nvouy Surge! Slump! Crash! Boom! All so dramatic, yet ripples in clear long-term trend.
Best excuse ever for watching teh pr0ns in business hours: a developer’s best sample work is a pr0n-related site. Must examine in detail.
Fri plan: Morning tidying up client extranet after re-skinning; lunch Newtown/Enmore?; afternoon doing whateve seems right; night free.
@andrewdotnich Welcome to my Twitterworld, you picked a good day. My week is wrapping up after a c&%$ful start, there will be… oddness.
@andrewbarnett “Contraception”? We need not talk of such dreary things when I have A REALLY COOL ARMOURED GLASS GOLF CART! And a silk frock.
@Fifikins Indeed, that does mean I am infallible today. Though I do not endorse your non-traditional spelling.
You may kiss my ring.
Bless you all, my children.
Emerging to face the reality that is Friday. We make our own reality. So if I made this Friday, I must be Pope Gregory. It’s only logical.
@decryption A mate of mine had a blues band, “Mr Wong and the Travelling Czechs” (if you recall the old American Express TVC).
CeBIT PR respond more: Their numbers show that their email flood gets them more punters than it pisses people off. http://is.gd/aTX
iPod-Linux status: I now understand the technology. However iPod must be formatted as WinPod not MacPod for new boot loader to work. Later.
@joypog Oh happy listening to podcasts, but prefer to hear birds, kids playing, overhears conversations etc when walking the streets.
@88Michael Doom on the iPod? Now that IS a wank! :) No games for this on, tho, purely for field recording.
@joypog I don’t listen to music when “out and about”: prefer to hear the world. At home, I listen off computer or radio. But usually quiet.
Running Linux on an iPod is a complete wank anyway, of course. But it means this iPod serves some purpose instead of sitting in a drawer.
@sethyates Thanks. Windows/Ubuntu paths are painful atm (computers in pieces) so will try the replace-kernel advice I found first.
I haz found forumz info. I can has new kernel plz kthxbye. [I had really hoped to avoid hunting for kernels… oh well.]
@stokely welcome to my Twitterworld by the way, I’ll *wave* while I decide whether to give up on geekery for the night.
@sethyates No particularly current Linux box available. [blushes] My old file server is Fedora Core version [mumble intelligible].
@sethyates I want Linux running on the iPod so I can record high-quality audio from mic input. iPod Linux Installer for OS X failed…
iPod-Linux installer. Alpha software from 2006. Last news on website 2006. Kernel panic. Methinks I may be barking up wrong tree. Woof.
@artywah @mpesce All good suggestions. Meanwhile I just had a Linux kernel panic on my iPod, which is a good sign. I think.
@mpesce Billy Kwon is an interesting suggestion, yes. We certainly want to get out of our village! Do they have restaurants in Surry Hills?
@ApostrophePong and I celebrate 7th (wood) anniversary on Tues 6 May. Where in Sydney should we have dinner? We are omnivorous.
About to install Linux on a 60GB iPod Photo. Aim: allow high-bandwidth recording, so it’s my field podcast recorder.
Bother. iTunes hath b0rked mine cache. Perforce I must conduct certain procedures ‘pon my PowerBook. I shall return via Nokia’s mechanisms.
Italy’s tax office puts everyone’s taxable income online for all to see. Uproar. Site suspended: breaches privacy laws. http://is.gd/aQ4
LOL! A quote from my post with photo: “Eddie Maguire is as the piss-stains of a mouse to this Grand Old Dame [Melbourne].” http://is.gd/aPP
@ApostrophePong has compared the photos of me and @mpesce, and declares it “creepy”.