Configuring, running and testing multi-gigabyte backups has to be one of life’s less-fascinating activities.
@ApostrophePong Ouch! It’s a NASTY cold. I’ll get appropriate drugs for you on my way home. Or since I’m by Kings Cross, inappropriate ones.
RT @susan_m: RIP Sydney Opera House architect Joern Utzon who died in Denmark yesterday aged 90 http://tiny.cc/uALFl
RT @smartbrain: mms://manager.co.th/11news1 for Government House and /toc for BKK airport. Works in Windows Media Player and Windows Mobile.
@ApostrophePong I know the Royal Thai Army has a… erm… fondness for elaborately decorative uniforms, but what are you saying? :P
@ApostrophePong I don’t think “Green Shirts” = Army here! BTW, @Nickhodge asks questions at http://is.gd/9rBf
@ApostrophePong RT @smartbrain: Green Shirts to bring in 60 buses to protest metal smelting factory. ??? Why now?
@tathamoddie “I just screwed up the IP routing settings for 200 domains. There goes my afternoon.” OUCH You have my sympathy, Sir!
@ApostrophePong Who are the Green Shirts of which @smartbrain speaks? Yet another Thai faction I didn’t know about?
@Nickhodge Thank you for asking sensible questions about the Thai situation. Answers now online with further commentary. http://is.gd/9rBf
Mobile. Walk to Sanmore station / Kings Cross station / Darlinghurst client for the afternoon, maybe into the evening.
Note to my new followers: I do see all @replies but don’t follow everyone back unless an obvious connection. My Twitterriver flows fast!
I’ve updated (via a long comment) my “Thailand’s political crisis: an introduction” http://is.gd/9rBf
@websinthe Yes, I’ll RT too. ;) Understanding Senaor Stephen Conroy’s political power base. http://is.gd/9yeZ From 2004 but still very good.
@kcarruthers As I said, enter odd search phrases into YouTube, then random-walk the “related videos” links. Explore the weirdly Long Tail.
@websinthe From 2004: “Senator Stephen Conroy’s plotting and warring has added to Labor’s decline, writes Paul Sheehan.” http://is.gd/9yeZ
Sun (remainder) plan: Amble to Darlinghurst to do this out-of-hours client work. Almost 1300, I’d better start getting my act together.
@websinthe Correct. Conroy is one of the ALP Right’s bullies. He’s demonstrating that bullying does not good Minister material make.
@websinthe The Senate website says Conroy is a Senator until 30 June 2011. http://is.gd/9ybO Suffer.
@websinthe Conroy’s risk is not being voted out at an election but being sacked from the Ministry for performing poorly. He’d had few wins.
@websinthe The ne next Federal election is 2 years away (3 year terms), but half the Senate is up for re-election each time (6 year terms).
@websinthe Conroy’s mandate for censorship is tenuouss.He’s geing beyond the wording of the pre-election policy, such that it was.
Fuck! They’e turned on the Stargate and we’re DOOMED! http://is.gd/9y8W Direct link to image, should it be replaced: http://is.gd/9y8E
The Institute of Public Affairs doesn’t like Conroy’s Rabbit-Proof Firewall either! http://is.gd/9y4D So who has Conroy got left on side?
@kcarruthers @SnarkyPlatypus That Sid Davis anti-homthexual film from 1954 I mentioned was “Boys Beware”. http://is.gd/9y2A
@jdub That is EXACTLY the stupid brain-dead manager-sheep usage of “space” to which I refer.
@jdub What shits me about the use of “around” is that you can be fairly sure the sentence will end with the word “space”. Grrr. :)
@jdub Pls don’t say “be careful around”. It’s “be careful ABOUT” or “WITH”. “Around is NOY the all-purpose preposition kthxbai.
@pixel8ted My 1600-work backgrounder on the That political crisis is at http://is.gd/9rBf
@kcarruthers I’m not sure that I’d associated every event wih @stub. Tiwtter is not the centre of the universe, and limits the appeal.
RT @TerrorTV: christian teens use as test group for the binge drinking ads? How bout some alcopop ValleyGirls bitchscratching each other up
Fairfax: “Children’s welfare groups slam net filters” http://is.gd/9E4V Even the child-protectors think Conroy’s wrong! #nocleanfeed
@Tuna People comment wherever it’s easiest. So they whinge to each other rather the, say, write to their MP or the manufacturer of whatever.
Mon plan: AM desk catch-up; PM Darlinghurst client for some sysadmin stuffs; evening gym & dinner w@SnarkyPlatypusypus.
@alecthegeek [smirks] I don’t mind my “thoughtful posts” geting out there without my name attached, as long as he memes are transmitted. ;)
Video promoting rallies against Internet censorship 13 December. http://is.gd/9DtU #nocleanfeed
And for those who missed THIS gem, a 2004 article explaining just why Senator Conroy is such a nasty piece of work. http://is.gd/9yeZ
@paulwallbank I am suitably happy with your comment, yes. @bronwen Yes, comments on the website will be seen. Twitter is ephemeral.
It would be wonderful if people making one-line comments on Twitter would turn them into one-paragraph comments on my website. ;)
@spinopsys @paulwallbank Yep, sections of the media love scare stories. But why do politicians ACT on this paranoid fantasy as if it’s real?
@paulwallbank Agreed, the risk-avoidance by politicians and schools, reacting to SOME scared and noisy parents.
Fascinating profile of New Journalism “leader” @jeffjarvis at http://is.gd/9Db5 and his rebuttal at http://is.gd/9cQJ
@_dianne Ta. A parliamentary researcher told me it’s impossible to overstate how clueless politicians are about computers and the Intenret.
@paulmckeon The $2245 for “customised notebooks” includes software, configuration, networking and training. That’s not unreasonable.
@crispynoodles One of the hurdles is the word “social”. It sounds like “social likfe”, or “slacking off”.
RT @crispynoodles: @sometimes I think the sillyness of not letting kids access social media at school is because parents are. [Agreed.]
And still catching up on the Thai crisis? My backgrounder at http://is.gd/9rBf and @ApostrophePong’s at http://is.gd/9D3S
My response to NSW schools BLOCKING social media http://is.gd/9B0k is “Do we really care about our kids?” http://is.gd/9D3m
@SnarkyPlatypus The Brit tourist at BKK airport is free to leave and, oh, catch the train down the penisula to another airport. Idiot.
RT @Darcy1968: Read Par 4 *sigh* http://tinyurl.com/5qg7kt [Yes, NSW school laptops blocked from social media ‘cos of “unwholesome things”.]
There is a special level of Hell completely filled with job tickets requiring web server SSL certificates to be reconfigured. Endlessly.
Emerges. I want to whinge about Mondays and stuff but know I’m not going to get any sympathy.
Fading. [exit]
@SnarkyPlatypus ‘Why won’t search.twitter com accept my search request for “The Way We Were”?’ Twitter has become sentient and knows better.
@Nickhodge Wikipedia article on King Bhumibol Adulyadej makes interesting reading, partic his early life and ascension. http://is.gd/9Aik
@misswired @candysnap @kurokaze204 @susan_m @franksting Yep, Moon drops back 11 degres per day (roughly). I didn’t measure but tomorrow…
@misswired The Moon’s still got a day or so to drop back before it’ll be a smiley face with Venus and Jupiter.
@docbaty Well I guessed that one was Luna. I did Astronomy I at uni! ;)
Is that a Venus / Jupiter conjunction I can see right now? Or Mars?
@ApostrophePong Your post http://snurl.com/6ye3d with background to the Thai crisis is a fine thing. Like your explanation of the cycle.
Ah now here’s a story to warm the cockles etc… http://is.gd/9zZ5 Anyone need a diagram?
Enough for the Darlinghurst stuff. Electric tubeworms ahoy!
RT @smartbrain: Cellphones cut at BKK airport, uncle Chamlong [PAD leader] urges PAD to gather at government house.
Excellent. Australian wine glut to continue. Production up, sales down. http://is.gd/9rUD Cheap wine FTW!
@mpesce We let all sorts into the country now that mandatory detention is being cut back. Honestly, some of the riff raff!
@websinthe Alas, @ApostrophePong and I were in one of our Secret Lair last night. I wasn’t up for drinkies anyway. Next time!
Sat (remainder) plan: 1400 gym & lunch w@SnarkyPlatypusypus; 1@stubSTUB Goes to the Dogs http://is.gd/9rKD Greyhounds FTW!
@timoreilly Since you RT’d my first piece about Thailand, this longer backgrounder may be of interest. http://is.gd/9rBf
@cshirky As promised, Sir, that backgrounder on the Thai political crisis. http://is.gd/9rBf Enjoy.
As promised: “Thailand’s political crisis: an introduction” http://is.gd/9rBf Long-ish, but I think it ties the threads together.
@misswired There was one win by @kcarruthers and a couple of complete fails elsewhere. But a good night out.
@misswired @stub Goes to the Dogs was an intimate gather of co-conspirators. :) @kcarruthers and @SnarkyPlatypus and @ApostrophePong and me.
Thinking back to last night, how could me betting on a dog called “Seditious” have failed to win? IT’S RIGGED.
@jdub Yes, useful covereage of #wordcampau at http://bethesignal.org and will keep an eye on it when at the client’s this arvo.
@stokely I do follow you on Twitter, but if I miss something I let the river flow on, it’s gone. Bummer. I’ll have to see the movie instead.
CNN report on the siege of Bangkok airport shows it spookily empty with all operations shut down, a good backgrounder. http://is.gd/9xoK
@jdub It’s annoying. Given the work I do in WordPress (CMS of choice) it’d be handy. But I can’t delay this client work another week.
@jdub I only found out about #wordcampau on Monday, after already committed for the weekend (and of questionable heath). Oh well.
Emerges. After a gloriously drenching thunderstorm last night, Sydney looks like it’ll be bright and crisp. Love it.
@SnarkyPlatypus I have contacted the relevant people about ou idea for an award too. ;)
Home. Tired. @stub Goes to the Dogs was @kcarruthers, @SnarkyPlatypus, @ApostrophePong and me, and the food was surprsingly good.
@kcarruthers So who’s actually coming to the Dogs?
OK, @ApostrophePong and @SnarkyPlatypus and I are en route to @stub Goes to the Dogs. http://is.gd/9rKD
@mpesce You feel like @stilgherrian? And what does THAT feel like?
@mpesce There should be questions in the Cit test about real Oz culture, like the hits of Chantoozies.
Part of me wants to stay and watch the emerging day in Bangkok, but it’s time for the gym. Goddam demanding @SnarkyPlatypus!
RT @BBCWorld: Thai PM promises peaceful means to end the sit-ins that have paralysed Bangkok’s airports. http://tinyurl.com/65xvq3
RT @smartbrain: Thaksin (who is on the run from the law) urges PAD protesters to respect the law http://tinyurl.com/59y7sl
RT @smartbrain: Police use guns on BKK protesters
@paininthenet Damn! Sorry to hear about the wine investment fail. Some win, some lose… Not TOO bad for you I hope?
@viveka Subset of tweets to Facebook? RSS of those tweets into a second Twitter account, then feed THAT into Facebook.
@ApostrophePong I’m tracing it from 1976 to explain why Samak is controversial, hinting at 1960s, but really starting from 2001 elections.
I’m sorry, did I ASK for all these mosquitos?
The more I write about the Thai political crisis the more I realise this will not be solved easily or quickly. It’s a clusterfuck of a mess.
@steven_noble I suspect you’ll find my own style more Chandler than Rushdie too. Plenty of short, punchy sentences. ;)
Sitting on the backdeck overlooking the rain-wet garden and beyond, finishing my backgrounder on the Thai political crisis.
@steven_noble Well, “Hello. I’ve fed the cats and now I’m making coffee” is pretty damn banal, don’t you think? :)
Emerges. Initial noise-cancelling feline sustenance logistical procedures complete. Alkaloid-boiling under way. Houston, we have Saturday.
Battery life FTL. Our Secret Lair does not have power points. A pretty crappy Secret Lair, I know. I think off-grid is the mode now. [exit]
Core narrative written, @ApostrophePong says it’s right. I’ll polish & publish in the morning.
@Nickhodge What’s scary is I can write the basic narrative of Thai constitutional politics since 2006 from memory, just need to link it up.
@Nickhodge This will be 1000+ words. The 18,000 PAD demonstrators and their opponents are hyperconnected flash mobs roaming BKK.
Which is scarier? Our Secret Lair playing Spandau Ballet’s True”? http://is.gd/9lSO Or @ApostrophePong KNOWING ALL THE GODDAM WORDS?
“Eye of the Tiger” FTW!
@ApostrophePong and I are deep in conversation about Thai politics. I’m drafting my 500-word explanation of WTF is currently going on there.
@awmitchell Thank you, Sir! I am MUCH better today (yes, colds last 7 days in average), though I still sound like a frog.
Wondering why you’re seeing lightning across Sydney? The radar explains all. http://tinyurl.com/6q43ez Severe Thunderstorm Warning!
@ApostrophePong and I are in one of our secret lairs. Video shows Billy Idol’s “Nice Day for a White Wedding”. http://is.gd/9lpz
watching lightning hit the Citigroup tower. Omen? Too late to matter?
FileZilla Server’s interface is atrociously fucking ugly, but the imaging device’s is worse.
Thank you, FileZilla recommenders. We now have HD medical imaging video flowing from the consulting room onto the surgeon’s workstation.
@tathamoddie @IanWoolf @ragnarok1971 @Mikenicholls88 @kurokaze204 Anyone NOT recommend FileZilla? Can this many geeks agree on something?
@Mikenicholls88 @kurokaze204 There’s 2 votes for FileZilla and none for any others. Democracy is the winner here! Thank you, gentlemen.
Dear Twitterverse, is there a good FTP server proggie for Windows XP? (Yes, need to shunt data off a medical imaging device.)
Darlinghurst, watching various coloured bars grow to the right and then change colour. Eventually something goes ping. Then it all repeats.
@KainTietzel Ya for “re: cuisine - this is how they did it” http://tinyurl.com/5vg7qz but was that meant to be to me? Interesting video tho.
Despite this annoying waking-up-early I’m feelng substantilly better today, though vertainly nowhere near 100% yet. This is a FIERCE cold.
@kcarruthers @JonoH @facibus @dnwallace @limburger2001 @ZebraBites @zuzu Ta for your thoughts last night, and anyone I may have missed…
Looking at The Big Picture’s feature on the International Space Station (ISS) 10th birthday. http://is.gd/8Qxl Lush.
Senator Conroy’s response to Senator Ludlam’s questions about Internet filtering plans. http://tinyurl.com/5e9lfr Hat-tip @websinthe, ta!
@deanlk I’ve only ever used the standard encoder on Ustream. I may do some more technical experimentation over summer.
Emerges far too early. Awoke, couldn’t get back to sleep. I’m told pottering around for a bit is the thing to in these circumstances.
Thanks for the best wishes, everyone. I wish I could do a program tonight but I am dying. Not literally. More soon. [exit]
Alas, my throat means no “Stilgherrian Live” tonight.
RT @erkpod: @stilgherrian It’s one of those pop up player thingos. www.4bc.com.au then click on “Listen Live”
Ta @monkeytypist! Me on radio 4BC Brisbane momentarily… http://tinyurl.com/56ljv9
Can someone find me the link for 4BC’s live stream, so I can pimp it? Ta. :)
Apparently I am on radio 4BC Brisbane in about 20 minutes.
I believe this is called the Doncaster Hotel on Anzac Parade. The discussion continues with 18-20 people.
@DavidFeng Yep, there’s an Aust govt plan to have an ISP-based internet “filter” with a secret blacklist.
Back from lunch at UNSW Internet Filtering Forum, live-blogging NOW at http://is.gd/94Wi
Back from coffee break at UNSW Internet Filtering Forum, live-blogging NOW at http://is.gd/94Wi
RT @Nickhodge: @KevinRuddPM’s sockpuppets need more sock and less puppet.
Only one Shakespearean actor was brave enough to play Hamlet using the REAL skull they’d been donated. Yep, David Tennant. http://is.gd/9jwU
It’s good to see the local Enmore monk with his alms bowl laughing with staff at the Thai diner.
Mobile. Enmore Rd / Newtown station / Town Hall station / HYde Park / Oxford St / 1100 appointment.
@monkeytypist Actually I like that! “The Prime Minister flew in regards to Peru today, and met in regards to the G20.” Choice.
Heh! A spam I just received is faked up to look like a ConstantContact mailout, but the unsubscribe links go to some dodgy website in China.
RT @michaelmeloni: IT News report on UNSW filtering forum http://is.gd/9j7T - writer Kathryn Small was in attendance #nocleanfeed
Fri plan: Quick webby work; 1100 Darlinghurst personal appointment; 1330 Darlinghurst client; 1700 or 1800 down tools, relax, quiet night.
A friend who was clearly deeply affected by the Cold War has sent me some important news from Nebraska. http://is.gd/9iAn
@facibus Complaining that Twitter isn’t good for multiple conversations is like complaining that a can opener can’t carry passengers.
@deanlk We need a War on Prepositions in Journalism, actually. Replace all prepositions with “about”, just like in IT and management-speak.
RT @smartbrain ASTV back on air. Anchorman is unharmed. Said explosive and guns were used. Some damage, nothing serious. Back to normal now.
@BreakfastNews He says ASTV now replaying (old) music stuff.
@BreakfastNews In BKK @smartbrain says gunshots at ASTV studios, camera now pointing to the ground… someone saying “turn the mic off now”.
@Nickhodge Thank you. I know you know thay Julie Bishop and I have a “special understanding”.
@vealmince Three-quarters of the sniffer dogs’ “detections” are false positives, says NSW Ombudsman. http://is.gd/94dI (Dumb photo though.)
@DrMiaow Tomorrow’s forum on Internet censorship (I’ll liveblog) http://is.gd/76VZ the Conroy Rule is no equating free speech & child porn.
@sammyjopeters The sniffy sniffy dogs ARE cute. They don’t bite. It’s the big bitey snarley dogs that do that. Division of K9 labour.
I note that Senator Stephen Conroy is doing a doorstop interview at 5pm re the National Broadband Network tenders received today.
@firstdogonmoon I see that Wilson Tuckey is your new bestest best friend too!
@michaelmeloni “The Conroy Rule” is Gold. I wonder if anyone will be fool enough to break it?
11+ police at Kings Cross station with 2 x sniffy sniffy woofies.
Said rule has been named “the Conroy rule”. [smirks]
Yay! A rule for tomorrow’s Internet filtering Forum: “The first person to equate free speech and child porn loses the floor and all points.”
@jeamland Crikey story sizing was originally partly about how big an email would fit in little POP3 mailboxes. Remember 1MB max emails?
@ragnarok1971 There were no symptoms of the Vitamin D deficiency as such. It showed up in a routine batch of blood tests.
RT @efa_oz: GetUp! launches #nocleanfeed campaign: http://www.getup.org.au/… #fightthecensor
@rod3000 Welcome to Twitter. Love your work at good ol’ New Matilda.
@kurokaze204 Indeed. I see nought wrong with Christians, any religion advertising. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion. Or non-religion.
@plasmaegg “Too much news” does seem a hangover from limited dead-tree space or time-based linearity. I am not the editor tho.
Mobile. Hitting Stanmore station to Kings Cross station to Darlinghurst client office. More en route and from there.
@wolfcat Certainly in Sydney Hillsong advertises their Chrismas events on buses. Will grab a photo when I see one next.
RT @wolfcat: Atheist Foundation of Australia… refused permission to buy advertising space on public transport. http://is.gd/93zR
My Crikey piece has been bumped ‘cos there was too much news today. Bloody news. They still run @firstdogonmoon’s goddam cartoons tho. Pigs.
I’ve gymed. I’ve lunched. I’ve hung out my damp towel and enwashingbasketed my dirty socks. I’m now preparing for a journey to Darlinghurst.
@martin_english I am UNWORTHY to stalk Julie Bishop? Ahem! http://tinyurl.com/6xxoef
Approaching gym. Uhoh. Going quiet.
@comedy_nerd The Ruddiversary piece was done in 450 words ‘cos could link to previous articles.
@viveka You’re spot on. Conroy’s part of the bully-into-submission Labor right. Bullying is not a good community consultation strategy.
“Statistics Laundering: false and fantastic figures” http://is.gd/91Iy Research into “alarming” stats on child pornography on the Internet.
Crikey article sent. Prepare for the gym now. @SnarkyPlatypus and I will both ache, it’s been too long a gap.
@crispynoodles THA is a major trading parter with AUS, but @ApostrophePong and I have had to get coverage from Twitter and blogs. MSM FTL.
@cshirky My parther is Thai ex-pat. We’ve been following this closely. “Journalism in a hyperconnected world” http://is.gd/91hX re this. ;)
@StephenEdgar I’d love to know what #NPRNews is doing with Twitter, thanks for the tip, will look into it some time.
@wolfcat I woke up before the heavy jets AND the cats AND the alarm, so perhaps I have had enough sleep. ;) Beware, people, beware!
@cshirky Amusing that a crisis running for months only gets into US news when it disrupts Western tourists at the airport. Parochialism FTL.
@cshirky If we’re trying to reduce Thailand’s political crisis to an ill-informed 140-character slogan then we’re truly fucked.
@BreakfastNews Unless, of course, you intend to say “violence across Asia this morning”. Bah to tabloid beat-ups.
@BreakfastNews I wouldn’t have thought Mumbai was “South East” Asia. South Asia maybe. Don’t try to link unrelated incidents IND and THA.
Emerges. Seeing what it’s like living as one of the plebs by turning to ABC @BreakfastNews as I drink coffee. Why do people do this?
Almost home. Going off-grid. [exit]
@JonoH For me someone using Magpie would be unfollow.
@greymatter78 I’m told I’m responsible for introducing Shaun Micaleff to Supernaut’s “I Like It Both Ways”. Not sure what that means.
@Laurelhed It’s @PeterBlackQUT’s characterisation, with an “or”.
@PeterBlackQUT I’ll just be me. What happens depends on how the forum unfolds.
Time for me to head west-ish. I must be rested for tomorrow, since @PeterBlackQUT finds me “offensive or provocative”. ;)
@RozP @storyseeker @JulzM Thank you for your support / sympathy / empathy / convient attachments. ;)
I’ve just been told that certain people find me “amusing”. Fuck them. Fuck the lot of them, the patronising cunts!
@facibus Alas I must be tired and ill, I missed the obvious oral sex joke. :(
@facibus The only times pigs enter my life are 1. pork fillet, rare, various treatments; or 2. very very private.
@SnarkyPlatypus I think you might be right about the Internet filter being a Conroy-specfic job. http://is.gd/94yr
@franksting Pls trawl my Twitterstream re tomorrow’s forum. ;)
@franksting The Conroy can’t ban encrypted networks. No ecommerce would be possible. Anything can be encapsulated in anything.
@cameronreilly Congrats on 4 years of The Podcast Network. Now pimp the links so new folk can find your casty goodness.
I hope I sound less like a frog tomorrow. Otherwise “Stilgherrian Live” will be a text stream with dirty pictures.