@SnarkyPlatypus News! Quebec concerned that Paul McCartney will “bring back painful memories of our Conquest”. http://is.gd/VE5
@SnarkyPlatypus The song was John Paul Young’s “I Wanna Do It With You”, one of the highlights of his career.
Look, my day is continuing in a strange fashion, so I think it’s appropriate to share my emotions. http://is.gd/VBO
@trib That would be “cranky” as in “powered with volatile cheese and capable of immense speeds underwater”. Yes, Mr Dumpty… what you said.
Este is indeed a smart chap, I thoroughly enjoyed our conversations both on- and off-record. I shall buy him that beer back soon.
@trib Este is fine, I reckon. His response is appropriate. We did indeed chat as he describes. We’re just continuing our chat in public. ;)
A response to my Crikey rant yesterday: “Bloggers: the biggest whingers since journalists” http://is.gd/Vyz Jonathan Este from MEAA rocks!
@SilkCharm Going thru http://abc.net.au/mediaw… would find HUGE lists of journalistic upfuckness.
@SilkCharm I’ve never had the “I AM A BONAFIDE JOURNALIST” tattoo though, on any of my buttocks. “Producer”, yes…
@SilkCharm I think you mean “incidents” not “incidences”, but it’d be pedantic to point out “incidence” means the rate of occurrence.
I’m guessing that the latex-ckad nun in fishnets on Enmore Rd isn’t a registered pilgrim.
@ecoknowgrapher “Micropersuasion of the ontic”? Please, sir, we have the Pope in Sydney at the moment, don’t use that sort of language!
@ecoknowgrapher Ah! But authority is also based on trust. Of course *I* can be trusted to be authoritative! ;) The Fail Whale IS important!
RT @jayrosen_nyu: “Wikipedia is radical about authorship, conservative when it comes to authority.” Nice way of putting it.
@ApostrophePong “Closer to God, best for doing Tax Return”? But “Render unto Caesar”, surely? http://is.gd/Vry
@ApostrophePong Doing two things in one morning seems excessive. I mean, I’ve ALREADY had a shower AND fed the cats.
@SilkCharm Did you see my latest bomb-throwing effort? http://is.gd/UuS [smirks] I am SO unemployable now. Again.
@trib Why didn’t someone TELL me that Fail Whale is gay? Quick! We’d better hold a dance party to raise money! [sigh] ;)
Hmmm… What’s more important in my morning? Writing the proposal for a $20k project which is already late? Trying to save the Fail Whale?
They’re as bad a journalists.
Wikipedia should just fucking record ALL knowledge and leave it to the historians to figure out what’s “important” later.
@BadTmy Well spotted! I don’t know Margaret Simons, but yes I’ll pass that on. An excuse to make contact! ;) I have read her book tho.
Retweet @jayrosen_nyu: “When people talk about re-inventing journalism they almost never talk about re-drawing its ideology. Why? “
RT @PeterBlackQUT “A piece… on the privacy of IP addresses following the Viacom v Google decision is now online .” http://is.gd/Wx0
Fri plan: Potter thru the backlog of annoying tasks on my desk for the day, with a lunch break, then have a weekend until Monday.
@jeffsonstein It wasn’t an article by @ChrisSaad, just a tweet this morning. So, by Wikipedia standards, it doesn’t exist.
@lewellyn Ah the interface just changed back. With instant Twitterfeedback, I hope they didn’t respond to sudden negativity… a load test?
@SnarkyPlatypus But ur ‘scope says “You’ve got enough energy to tackle a week’s worth of problems in one day - so get to it!” So get to it!
@ChrisSaad Spot on re Twitter design. It’d be happy with a list of tweets, refreshed reliably. Maybe the design hides new AJAXey goodness.
@Seanabc Maybe all the Irish have come to see the Pope in Sydney. Or are working in telco call centres and “Irish” pubs here.
OK, who just changed my universe. I want their names! I want their goddam names and I want their cards on my desk by sunset!
@kcarruthers “I turn away from twitter to watch final season of west wing & it’s all trannies & shoulder pads here.” So what’s the diff?
@Colgo I’ll ask Jonathan Este today whether I can republish his response, I’m sure he’ll say yes, but yeah will email you his snark back.
Emerges. Friday yay. Potential Papal Inconvenience less yay, but then I hope to avoid the central city. Let’s see how we go…
And on that note… [exit]
@mpesce You can check the action replay at http://is.gd/VRb should there be any doubt… ;)
@mpesce That tranny was ACTUALLY Pete Burns, as it happens. The original singer.
@mpesce “Questions such as”, precisely.
@livnenna No, no Alexander Downer, but the one that I did an hour ago. It’s still a cause for concern.
@mpesce Yes, I just watched the entire thing. It… it leaves many questions unanswered. ;)
I have decided, after watching the program that I just did, that the world is a disturbing place.
@andrewbarnett Glad you enjoyed, I’m watching back now. The chat may or may not scale, that’s the interesting experiment. ;)
30 seconds to go…
Ep 6 of Stilgherrian Live Alpha in about 12 mins at http://stilgherrian.com/… … I think it’s all working this time! ;)
@jeffsonstein Yes, I will be live on the big electric internetz in about 30 minutes.
I’ll be doing Stilgherrian Live Alpha ep 6 in about 75 minutes at http://stilgherrian.com/… … eek!