@dreamingspires I am always classy.
@renailemay Ha! Yes, “Conroy at an early age” indeed. http://is.gd/otox
@dreamingspires I am not a llama. I am Grass Mud Horse! (Cao Ni Ma). Song at http://is.gd/neBm with background at http://is.gd/omSm
Crikey story filed!
@renailemay Oh. So I asked CenITex the questions and they give you the answers. http://bit.ly/10msxv Botheration and lots of poo. :P
RT @crikey_news: First Dog on the Moon presents A Tribute to Democracy. http://is.gd/4e3d [It makes NO sense, but I laughed anyway.]
Tue plan: AM write for Crikey; errands and stuff; PM another afternoon of project management and administrivia. I think.
@ncb I don’t use ad-blockers ‘cos there’s sites I’d like to support by giving them real hits, and I don’t need more software to maintain.
@SnarkyPlatypus Je refuse de vous parler de paroles de chansons. C’est ridicule.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Le sommeil est pour les faibles.
@stufromoz Let’s hope the foot-swap can happen in an instant and not require a wait. I shall enquire, ta.
@eddit0r @trib Yes, jokes involving Spandau Ballet, “True” and “Gold” are now noted to have been done. No more, please.
Dear Fairfax, with auto-play ads with audio, and stupid page-curl ads over half the home page, I no longer bother with you AT ALL.
Rubber foot fallen off MacBook Pro. Have AppleCare. Can it be replaced without having to go into Apple Store? That place is creepy.
Rachel Maher’s New Matilda summary of the Internet filtering debate, “The Tangled Web”: http://is.gd/oBH5 [RT with spelling correction.]
@franksting Playing the Canterbury RSL would have been the highlight of Howard Jones’ career. ;)
Microsoft abuses word “ecosystem” by using it to describe monoculture software. http://tinyurl.com/dhrcq7 Hat-tip @franksting.
Embalmers announce latest breakthrough: Spandau Ballet to tour. http://is.gd/oBQB
@GreenJ You need to edit your tweets. There are redundant words. ;)
Treasurer Wayne Swan announces amazing discovery: With less money, there’s less money. http://is.gd/oBKq
@jimboot I see nothing wrong (per se) with the government including blogs, Whirlpool etc in its media monitoring. http://is.gd/oBIU
I suspect that breakfast here at Le Bake was indeed a better choice than whatever I had at home, which was… grapes and cat food.
Brisbane tonight: New Matilda forum “The Tangled Web: Beyond an Internet Filter ” chaired by @PeterBlackQUT. http://is.gd/ondO
@trib “Media monitoring” is probably more than just the collection phase, if I can use terminology from the Intelligence Cycle.
@trib I’m thankful I’m not looking for government work but just doing research.
This is not a “risk”, as AusTender ATMs (approaches to market) are, in theory, public. It’s just a flawed workflow, whatever the aim was.
Oh excellent. AusTender allows you register and access government tender documents BEFORE you’ve clicked on the emailed confirmation link.
“Twitter primarily used as a business tool” http://is.gd/oAtl
@garthk I’m often up at this hour… but “snark”? Where? My last tweet was hintful, and the only other one had no real content!
@courtney_gibson Good to see more ABC staff on Twitter. Perhaps if your bio said what you did, linked to YOUR profile not ABC website?
Emerges.
Going off-grid (relatively) early. I may read. I may not. Either way, I’m exhausted and you’ll have to learn to live without me. [exit]
Homeward bound, on foot, thru my village.
Mobile. Meeting @SnarkyPlatypus at the gym, though I shan’t be doing gym stuff ‘cos my damaged thumb. Attention reduced.
@seancarmody Of course the taxi queue is shorter on the JetStar side. If they can’t afford a proper airline they can’t afford a cab!
@derekbradley Yeah the Wikipedia incident http://bit.ly/leui was one on our list. :)
@ncb As it happens, I don’t have IE7 on my MacBook Pro, so I should be OK. ;)
@ncb That example of Google’s blacklist screwing up was a good one, yes. Silly me, I even wrote about it! http://is.gd/i2L7
@duncanriley If we’re charitable, maybe we can say they didn’t download the new list before Wikipedia went offline. It WAS the weekend.
@ApostrophePong Maybe #grassmudhorse is only well-known in certain parts of China? Or in a certain sub-culture?
@duncanriley Yep. At 1444: “We have not seen the alleged leak… not in a position to confirm whether this is in fact the ACMA blacklist.”
@rebel But http://boingboing.net DOES contain some material that might be PG or MA15+, so it’s not being incorrectly classified.
@michaelmeloni As of early this afternoon, Conroy’s office has not yet seen the leaked 18 March list or received advice from ACMA.
Dear Twitterverse, anyone got examples of sites wrongly classified as “bad” in previous (non-ACMA) blacklists? Anywhere will do.
RT @alpharia: Original report from #RWB is here in the pdf at bottom page 2 & 29 is about Aust [12MAR09] http://tinyurl.com/c6qgmw
@ashermoses Indeed. Still, not my story, not my problem. Slag away! ;)
@ashermoses Which is old news? The New Matilda story? Perhaps. But I’ll wager it’s still news to half the folk who just clicked through. ;)
RT @OzAtheist: More on net blacklist http://snipr.com/ed8dw Australia has been placed on watch list of repressive countries.
@mtats Shhh! Don’t mention “Websites_ACMA.txt”! It’s a SEKRIT!
@alpharia @christinathurn @kategroom Thanks for the suggestions for finding the stuffed toys. I shall a’seek!
Me in Crikey today: “Yet another ACMA internet blacklist springs a leak” http://is.gd/oufd
Dear Twitterverse, has anyone seen critters like this for sale in Sydney? http://maleandgebi.com
RT @renailemay: iiNet pulls out of Conroy’s filtering trial: http://bit.ly/4vZToy
@ApostrophePong It must be getting to be your turn for a hospital visit. I’ve done my recent quota of ambulances and A&E wards.
@renailemay I’m still going to sulk. (Though nicely done. Bastard.)
RT @genrobey: @stilgherrian you’re the most mentioned person (non-politician) in news re Stephen Conroy. http://is.gd/oCZF [Gawd.]