Failing to find focus so I can choose which of the many, many urgent tasks to do first. This does not bode well.
Oh. The Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia http://bonzle.com (which I’d never heard of) now has a mobile version at http://m.bonzle.com
@GreenJ Oh dear. You’ve been saving up that joke for weeks and you fucked it up, didn’t you. Poor chap.
@GreenJ More on oil and gas in Nigeria, including that it flares (just burns) 71M cubic metres of gas annually. http://tr.im/mZ7E
@GreenJ Um, why look at Nigeria? Two million barrels of oil per day might have a bit to do with it. http://tr.im/mZ77 Just a guess.
Senator @KateLundy’s Public Sphere #2 “Open Government: Policy and Practice” is on 22 June. http://tr.im/mZ2k #publicsphere [Ahem.]
@SnarkyPlatypus Oh dear. While Senator @KateLundy is a woman of the world, I’m sure she did not mean me to say that. I’ll try again.
New “A Series of Tubes” podcast with Communications Alliance CEO Anne Hurley on NBN, and me on stuff. http://tr.im/mZ4h Ta, @R_Chirgwin.
Senator @KateLundy’s second Public Sphere forum “Open Government: Policy and Practice” is on 22 June. http://tr.im/mZ2k #pubicsphere
For those who missed it last night, News Ltd’s new SEKRIT project “The Punch” went live at http://www.thepunch.com…. etc etc.
@stephenconroy The dream would have been much better had there been a hovercraft. Hovercraft improve every difficult situation.
Also, my dream had me sharing expensive cigars with @stephenconroy and two other men near a cypress hedge on a hot, dusty day.
My bad dreams had two repetitive songs. They went for hours. Which is worse? A: http://tr.im/mYZJ B: http://tr.im/mYZR
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Cette semaine va être beaucoup plus stressant et complexe que je voudrais. Et vous?
Emerges. Cautiously.
OH Woman 1, looking at Apple Store: “I don’t understand that place at all.” Woman 2: “Um, well, it’s a shop!”
Should anyone care, “The Punch” has just gone live at http://www.thepunch.com…. Uncle Rupert pwns you. Suffer.
@garthk Bah! LET your son destroy the sand mandala “ahead of schedule”. It’ll teach the monk valuable lessons on impermanence, attachment.
Yes, I will be speaking at “SoGiKII: Law, Communication Technologies and Culture Conference” on 9 June. http://tr.im/mR56 Note, @mpesce!
Mobile. Etc.
Dear Soccer Fans, please consider this: “A tale of two shirts”, Manchester United vs Barcelona. http://tr.im/mR8L
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. La pluie mai être un inconvénient, mais il est magnifique.
@derekbradley Most commenters objecting to the cat article are picking on the sub’s summary, not the science, it seems.
Scientific American: “The Evolution of House Cats” http://tr.im/mQD8
The author of this site about The Posture Theory http://tr.im/mQAE wants me to write about Wikipedia censorship and bias. http://tr.im/mQBb
Emerges. But don’t tell anyone.
[exit]
Home. Warm. Tea. Tired. Quiet.
@jdub Alas, I won’t make it to SLUG tonight after all. Knackered. Unless something changes dramatically. Break a leg!
Spine adjusted. On the train again, back tn the village. Will respond to everyone when home.
Potts Point. It’s about to rain.
@ssharwood Hah! No, it appears I was not the target. I passed freely, even after making eye contact.
RT @WoollyMittens: I bet the dog was the senior officer.
14 police at Newtown station, including sniffy sniffy dog. Is this really the best allocation of resources against real-world threats?
@smperris While the kiddies may like the seagull, I’m certain I’m not suitable for 3yos. Like, really.
Did the Sydney temperature just drop suddenly? BOM observations say 15.5C at Observatory Hill. http://tr.im/mL6c
@pixel8ted What I find even more interesting is people deciding they like or don’t like Google Waves on the basis of a keynote, not use.
@PennySharpemlc Thankfully, yes, I’m over the shots and things go well. I’ll have another Project #TOTO update on Monday!
@lukasp I am reliably informed that you rock, and you know why.
@eddit0r Yes, ABC/SBS are indeed a public good. And they’re making good use of the Internet within their appalling small budgets.
@eddit0r By “public radio”, you mean what we’re now meant to call “community” ‘cos the ABC and SBS are the “public broadcasters”?
TGIF.
@eddit0r I think the key issue is that instead of N channels we now have infinite channels. What does audience fragmentation me for society?
Just thinking that being accused of “Champagne Trolling” by @stephenconroy is high praise indeed. Chuffed.
@eddit0r But, public and community broadcasters can (or will) send audio streams cheaper online than broadcast. Customised, too.
@GeordieGuy Well, that’s enough pimping from me today then. I have done my duty.
@theburgerman In summary, “What does Breakfast with Blocko and Narelle really offer that can’t be done by a $160 plastic rabbit?” ;)
@GeordieGuy Cheap-arse! Fess up and pay Crikey your 20c a day and support fine independent trollin… erm, journalism. :P
@eddit0r Wow. So radio will survive for farmers on salt-riddled dried mud flats. Now THERE’S a market advertisers will flock to! ;)
@stephenconroy Thank you, Sir, thank you. :)
@thetowncrier Need to listen in the car? Try the car-mount Internet “radio”. ;) http://tr.im/mKKL
Gawd, it’s a bit early for loud Canto-pop power ballad karaoke. Especially that far off key. And did I mention loud?
Me in Crikey today: “Digital Radio: Who gives a toss? Radio’s dead anyway.” http://tr.im/mKEK Behind the paywall, but 21-day free trial.
@jdub Yes. Yes, I did see what you did there. You are a very clever man and not at all unattractive to most mammals.
@jdub I still don’t know why it’ll take you 45 minutes to say “It’s full of bees.”
Pondering going to SLUG tonight to hear @jdub explain how the new Crikey website works in WordPress. http://is.gd/HUPp
@Jen_Bennett I believe they have ways to move objects across the ocean now. It’s all terribly sophisticated.
@elerimai And if you get 100 Nabaztags you can create “Nabaztag Opera”! http://tr.im/mKkG
@elerimai OMFG! There are now LITTLE PLASTIC RABBITS! http://tr.im/mKe5 And they come in pairs!
@skribe I have never fraternised with Playboy Bunny. As far as I know.
@leighsales Look, I really DO hope that when you say “Tony Abbott vs Mark Arbib” you mean jelly wrestling. Please say yes!
@GreenJ Cao ni ma! Cao ni ma! Cao ni ma!
@prawn_gravies A U curve, maybe? If the dead animal is too gross to show, it’s gratuitous, unless astoundingly gross, when it’s news again.
Crikey story filed! It’s about rabbits. Kinda.
Audi, BMW and Lexus seem to be the top aspirational brands, but plenty of speculation that those days are over, what with media dying n’all.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je ne comprends pas pourquoi je n’ai pas vous voir plus tôt. Ma perception est un échec.
SOME OF YOU PEOPLE ARE NOT HELPING!
@MichaelPhipps Ah, y’see my question is precisely what those “executive/luxury models” would be, since I don’t know cars AT ALL.
Dear Twitterverse, what sort of cars would Australian commercial radio advertising sales managers drive? I don’t know cars.
Fri plan: Write for Crikey; lunch somewhere nice?; the client web work I failed to do yesterday; 1700 chiropractor Potts Point; TGIF.
“How Journalists Are Using Twitter in Australia” by @julie_posetti http://bit.ly/k9dbY RT [I haven’t read this yet, will do later.]
Are you a Thought Processor or an Idea Generator? Does living in a hyper-stimulated world kill our ability to innovate? http://tr.im/mJ3K
Oh, for those who asked, yes, I’m substantially better today, thanks. The post-vaccine problem is another 24-hour thing, I’m told. #toto
@ApostrophePong Just so you know, the cat that was just walking in the litter tray is now walking on your toothbrush. #tongueastoiletpaper
3 June is [US] National Fisting Day! Story: http://tr.im/mIPg Original video: http://tr.im/mIPt #fisting
Calling your wife ugly could soon be a crime in Malaysia: “emotional violence a form of abuse”. http://tr.im/mIO8 #toto
Emerges.
Home. Exhausted. [exit]
Mobile. Heading to Newtown for dinner. (I cancelled gym, I’m not up for it. Will I fit in an extra session next week?) Attention reduced.
@PennySharpemlc Hi, Penny. As always, it’s great to see another politician exploring Twitter. Especially a New South Wales MLC. [waves]
@NewtonMark As usual, you are destroying all of my cherished dreams. You are a cruel man.
@kdelarue I didn’t know the word “dysphemism”, so thank you. But applying it to our situation is rather… creepy.
RT @viveka: Sunset - time to put the chooks to bed. [I’m sure that’s a euphemism for something.]
New Australian passport features art of late Uta Uta Tjangala. http://tr.im/mDL2 Is the government paying his family royalties?
@jdub I have tried again now, and my world is instantly filled with rainbows and a shower of caramel cocaine. Thank you, Sir!
I mentioned the Kuleshov Effect earlier. http://tr.im/mDAt Here’s the actual, original film. http://tr.im/mDAw
@jdub If I’m at an old Crikey article like http://tr.im/mDzt which says “3 comments”, but the comments don’t show, do kittens die?
@plasmaegg Nope, I didn’t watch the SBS doco on sleep last night. We have no TV reception. I watch very little TV anyway. Seems so quaint.
@prawn_gravies No, I wouldn’t put a warning on it, and wasn’t calling for one. Just making an observation about human nature.
@babycakesjase Codeine (and ibuprofin) consumed! Thank you for your excellent advice. Is there anything else I should consume? ;) #toto
The “official” description of this hour’s Sydney light rail extension plan. http://bit.ly/SWHD3 Hat-tip @mayorofnewtown. #sydneylightrail
@prawn_gravies Curious. If it were pics of a human corpse, puppies or kittens, there’d be a warning. Not with a whale. http://bit.ly/cOOLK
Tea. Tea will help. Tea always helps. Also, thank you @iain_chalmers for the pointful cartoon. http://tr.im/mDgp #toto
@babycakesjase Hmmm… I have ibuprofin, but only with added codeine. It’s not that bad, so I’ll be a brave little seagull for now. #toto
@sylmobile Agreed, the 10-minute rule for naps is (usually) good. This is clearly not just tiredness though. It came on fast, too. #toto
I’m guessing that shortage of sleep thanks to unrelated insomnia helped push me into that 2-10%. Plus unrelated stress. #toto
Yellow Fever: “2-10% may feel tired, headache, muscle aches, fever for 24 hours starting 3-9 days after the vaccine.” Correct. #toto
A 3-hour nap has not really helped. I feel shocking. #toto
@crikey_news “Malcolm Turnbull emissions”? Try to get THAT image out of your head! :P
Having negotiated trade with the Chinese, further concessions have been made to the Feline Empire. Peace reigns once more.
@calrion No military threat yet. It’s what you’d call a “highly vocal and confrontational protest”. Bloody cats.
@archielaw That’s “herd immunity”, yes. http://tr.im/mCna It’s all about % chance of transmission. #toto
Delegates from the Feline Embassy advise the smaller-than-usual breakfast was unacceptable. Current policy calls for prompt rectification.
@Jen_Bennett Not Gatorade. Gastro-stop and Gastrolyte. But correct, no more coffee for me today. Does anyone need more details? ;) #toto
@archielaw Erm, no, they didn’t mention the vaccine is “pretty much useless”. Ah, I see… “efficacy approximately 85%”. Bother. #toto
Thankfully the 1100 radio interview has been rescheduled, and I can sloth a bit before doing some webby work this afternoon.
“Oral inactivated cholera vaccine (Dukoral)… gastrointestinal adverse effects are most common.” Yes, they are. Grrr. #toto
Writing. Attention limited.
RT @derekbradley: Audi’s tagline “Vorsprung durch Technik”; English translation, “Get out of the … way, you dickhead!” http://tr.im/mJrV
@juhasaarinen Well, yeah, but consecutive tweets = reasonable assumption they’re connected, eh? :)
RT @mtats: According to ‘Top Gear’, Audis are driven by knobs and dickhead and BMWs less so. So the answer is ‘Audi’. [Makes sense.]
@juhasaarinen Also, my all-caps tweet was not related to my question, so if that’s your angle, well, you just happen to be wrong. [shrugs]
@juhasaarinen Sorry, asking for advice occasionally is now “all the time” and “leeching”? And which “we” do you speak for, exactly?
@jdub The Crikey website is not letting me log in, even with a newly-emailed password. Also, I broke my Fail Whale mug. Many sadnesses.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je suis encore plein de mots, mais ils sont des mots différents. Et vous?
RT @kcarruthers: I did not realise how I was disconnected from nature #livelocal http://bit.ly/wulML [I’ve added a comment too.]
Fairfield Council: Members of political party banned from public forum. Um, free speech, anyone? http://tr.im/mB8B Ta, @Level20EastGuy.
That broadband forum Sen Kate Lundy ran? The wrap / briefing is openly editable before they publish it. http://tr.im/mAVA #publicsphere
@bennglazier Yes, we were ALL much younger when we were much younger. (Is it too early for tautology?)
@geetee808 Ah, Mr Groove Terminator, DJ and music producer extraordinaire! Good to see you on Twitter, Sir, just like Teh K00l Kidzâ„¢. ;)
Emerges. Though I’m not entirely sure why.
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@bennglazier Wow! That’s back from when I was cool!
RT @bennglazier: Flashback. Listening to SouthOz DMC’s at Base 1991. @geetee808 plays Quadraphonia! @stilgherrian & Scott T are the MCs.
@kcarruthers I have successfully delivered Mr Rundle to his hotel and I’m on the way home.
Men in charcoal tailored suits, expensive dress shoes invisible in the gloom. Yellow tie, always a yellow tie.
Deep reds and blacks. Tastefully dim downlights, candles. Robust matrons, spike heels, botox, polite subdued laughter. G&T commenced.
Time to leave my SEKRIT eyrie, brave the wilds of the Sydney CBD, and meet The Mysterious Man for a drink. Or two.
Yes, Vodafone’s still sending bills for a closed account, now burnt thru $11 credit by billing for sending the bill. Fools.
Mobile. Enmore Rd / King St / lunch / Newtown station / Town Hall station / SEKRIT Sydney CBD eyrie to read and write.
“Jakaya Kikwete in the US to promote Tanzania 2.0” http://tr.im/mvFb #toto
Annoyingly, I forgot to have the second dose of the cholera vaccine earlier, so now I have to wait another hour before eating. #toto
@NereadersDigest @ADevenish @mpesce Thank you. But I’d also like to hear from people who disagree with me. ;) http://tr.im/mvfL #toto
New blog post: “Look, about that damn topless gnome…” It’s rather long, but there are pictures. http://tr.im/mvf
There is no “Stilgherrian Live” tonight, ‘cos I’m well behind on client work and some other bits and pieces.
Thu plan: Research over breakfast; 1000 podcast recording; 1100 ABC radio recording; afternoon of client web work at home; gym & dinner.
@SnarkyPlatypus Ce n’est pas un Burtroll. http://tr.im/mBwZ
Reminding myself about the Kuleshov Effect http://tr.im/mBt4 and its relationship to my own media work. #toto
@SnarkyPlatypus Plusieurs fusions? Il ya beaucoup plus de choses à vous soucier de mes multiples fusions. Avez-vous besoin d’une photo?
@franksting There’s Rundle’s “The World According to Clare”. http://tr.im/mBrb Then there’s the readers’ suggestions. http://tr.im/mBrm
@jdub Oh. Now it is letting me log in. Further failings. I now wish to do something cruel to a small mammal.
Said it before, but again: Australia’s Medicare is a gloriously efficiemt operation. Thank you.
@kcarruthers Well, to turn Bono into jerky, you’d only have to add the “y”. ;) But I have no beef with him personally. Har har. #toto
@scotartt True, the portrayal of Sol Trujillo as a cartoon Mexican was always lazy and unimaginative IMO.
@ApostrophePong @kcarruthers How about we feed Bono to the starving Africans? His ego’s more than 1000 daily requirements. #toto
“Red Bull pulled in Germany after cocaine test” http://tr.im/mnrv Hat-tip somebody who’s already scrolled off my screen.
Wed plan: Desk day at home, some writing but an awful lot of bookkeeping catch-up that was meant to happen yesterday; 1800 SEKRIT drinks.
@sylmobile @viveka As it happens, I like to think my essays are my best writing. A gnome-oriented one is almost done. #toto
From 2004, but still valid, Paul Graham’s idea that the Essay is a natural form of writing online. http://tr.im/mu21
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Mon monde est plein de mots, beaucoup de mots. Et pas assez de sommeil. Et vous?
@BernardKeane There’s more than one Frank Devine? Oh. Dear. They. Breed.
Emerges. The alarm cat went off early, but I managed to ignore it for a while. Not so now. Botheration. Proper sleep is lacking.
Uhoh. Battery fail. [exit]
@barrysaunders “The Frankfurt School… of neo-Marxist critical theory”? There’s not enough vodka in the world to endure that!
@kcarruthers Too late. That table of students has gone. Even the cute one. No stamina.
@katska Chomsky’s 1950s linguistic work on generative grammars was groundbreaking. Respect. His political frames, however, are way dated.
@barrysaunders I suspect I should be glad that I’ve never even heard of Adorno and Horkheimer. Is that correct?
@ThePlasticAge Anger is not a vice. Anger is a healthy emotional response to the world’s vast stupidity.
I’ve finished drafting my response to The Gnome Issue, but will post tomorrow or later once I’ve slept on it and added linkage and pictures.
Oh God. The students at the next table are debating issues from Noam Chomsky’s “Manufacturing Consent”. IT’S 2009, PEOPLE!
@Nickhodge Hah! BBEdit just said I should spell your surname “hodgepodge”!
@sleemol Examples are upstairs bars empty during the day, organisations I’m connected with.
@sleemol Yes, I have a couple SEKRIT spots which are perfect for writing.
@mgherman Not hiding under the Westin, no, but that’s a good theory.
My other SEKRIT city hidey-hole is filling up with dull corporate folks discussing their iPhones and middle management. Time to move.
@NewtonMark @mpesce It’s not just teens who are fluid in their conversations across media. I do it myself. And I’m no teen.
@vealmince This was an adequate goat curry in the CBD. I haven’t really come across any especially wond’rous goat. Yet.
Last week’s AusCERT 2009 conference audio is online at http://tr.im/moyB, program at http://tr.im/moyC
Goat consumed. Continuing errands in the Sydney CBD. Attention limited.
Skulking.
Canberra, August: “Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums & Wikimedia: Finding the common ground” http://tr.im/moay Hat-@Wittylamalama
@ocean Well, #toto is a backronym http://tr.im/mnQ9 but it’s from The Overseas Training Operation.
There is an irony in mis-spelling “efficient” there. Medcrare is effiemt doog kekrgj jphddwwww wwwwwwwwwww wwwwww. Poo.
@viveka Ah, I suspect I already have too many stories about security, both over the top and dodgy. Still, filed for reference… ;)
If I get a compelling dinner suggestion by 6.30pm Sydney time, I may consider it. Otherwise, I’ll make my own arrangements.
In email re an event, forwarded from one list to another: “For entry to the car park, key in ’1111’ to open the boom gate.” Ah, security…
Sad to say, I’ve got a rhythm going, so I’ll continue this bookkeeping for a little while longer before… well, interactions and dinner.
While I find this bookkeeping to be EXTREMELY FUCKING TEDIOUS, I’m clearing a lot of the checklist so it does make me happy. Sort of.
Oh dear. It’s not even 4.30pm, and yet the cats have already sent a delegation to submit an ambit claim with respect to fish.
RT @774melbourne: We’re looking for bored teens whose schools have been closed due to swine flu… [And so are other pedophiles. Ahem.] ;)
@ApostrophePong reckons Sol Trujillo should run for Prime Minister of Thailand. He seems to have Teh Skillz.
@stephenconroy The “hat-tip” is solely for drawing the story to my attention. But, this full-body massage…? Do tell! #toto
Oops, in my tweet http://tr.im/mnhE that should be ASX200 down 13% compared with Telstra’s 37% during Sol Trijullo’s Reign of Belligerence.
Ah, Marketing Mag has a story on Project TOTO. http://tr.im/mnhe Hat-tip @FiBendall. #toto
I find it odd that a citizen of America, where racism runs deep, is critical of the world’s multicultural success story. Prick.
@franksting Well, transnational teams, part of a re-branding and re-org, bound to be delays. Hope to get dates this week though. #toto
Poor Sol, reckons Australia is racist (well, der!), spat the dummy on “AM” today. http://tr.im/mnfo
Sol Trujillo, just fuck off, you belligerent little turd. Telstra shares down 37%, cf ASX200 “only” 3%, other telcos stable? Ta, mate.
@TheMarketerAus Right now I’m still in Sydney but, yes, soon to be in Tanzania. http://tinyurl.com/r4ssnm Dates not set yet. #toto
Tue plan: Breakfast on Enmore Rd; errands to Sydney CBD; peaceful writing and planning in my SEKRIT CBD eyrie; evening undecided.
Of course, I am committing certain hypocrisies this morning. With luck, no-one will notice.
Hah! http://www.howtousetwitt… Yes, finally THE key. Hat-tip @peteashton via @tomewing.
RT @frankwkelly: Still no [“140”] filmmakers in Africa, France, Italy, Japan, Alaska, Sweden, Finland, Greenland, Greece… lots of places!
@QuakerQuotes I know little about the Quakers, but everything I see intrigues me. I shall read about William Penn later. http://tr.im/mmMv
@sylmobile If I was up earlier, I’d have gone into the CBD to see that fog. http://twitpic.com/5y5nj My pic from 2007: http://tr.im/mmKn
Fight the real enemies of online communities: bores. http://tr.im/mmGT Thanks, @tomewing!
@SnarkyPlatypus Il ya trop de métaphores mixtes dans mon horoscope d’aujourd’hui. Les ondes ne pas explorer, pour commencer.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je tente d’être plein d’esprit sont détruits par le traducteur inutile. Merde. Merde. Merde. Merde. Merde. Merde.