@mzjaygee It requires a DNS entry for the domain without “www” sub-domain, plus the web server configured to respond to same.
FFS, people! It’s 2009! If your website doesn’t work unless I explicity type a “www.” at the front then you’re a fuckwit!
As Muses go, I wouldn’t be a writer’s worst choice. I think.
@JohnBirmingham You do realise that sets the tone for the entire day. And, since it’s the 1st today, the entire month.
RT @JohnBirmingham: I promised a vacuous Hey Hey column, but thanx to @stilgherrian i also deliver tentacle pr0n! http://bit.ly/7TcQD [Oh.]
@SnarkyPlatypus Les moutons sont néanmoins peu coopératifs.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Il ya des moutons. Des centaines et des centaines de moutons. Et pas dans la bonne voie. Et vous?
Emerges. Cautiously. Painfully.
[exit]
@JohnBirmingham Thank you. My suggestions are always excellent. Nearly.
Home.
@JohnBirmingham Hint: You don’t HAVE to watch “Hey Hey it Whatever Day”. You can, like, just drink whiskey and masturbate to tentacle pr0n.
RT @Colgo: iSnack2.0 trade name was registered before comp closed http://bit.ly/Z1Hn5 on thepunch now
RT @megpickard: Dear TV commissioning people, two words: “Celebrity Cheesemongers”. You can have that one for free.
@penbo Is that actually a sentence?
RT @Warlach: I encourage everyone to buy a ajar of Play-Doh for their desk - so much fun for only $2
@firstdogonmoon Are there Space Vixen boxer shorts? If not, um, could you… perhaps… you know…?
RT @DamianM: Turn your avatar brown to suport iStack2.0!
RT @Nickhodge: #isnack w00t! social media takes credit for saving democracy agin. this is better than #iran
@CastleJames But does it compare with “The Intergalactic Adventures of Julia Gillard, Space Vixen”? http://bit.ly/kPqFv
Why do I not know of this movie? “The Revenge of the Teenage Vixens from Outer Space” (1986) http://bit.ly/GXHwW
No, @ApostrophePong! It’s bad luck to clean a computer!
@rbbrown Awww… I think it’s a GREAT name for a Thai restaurant! Shame about the hair, though. http://bit.ly/43c8XF
But @ApostrophePong, if we’re going to Newcastle on the weekend, who’s going to feed the cats and keep them company?
Do people also know about the National Library of Australai’s Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954? http://bit.ly/sUJca
RT @JudeEkerick: Have you seen what you can access from home through the State Library of NSW. Even betterer. http://bit.ly/15BgW5 [Oh! Oh!]
RT @Nickhodge: Greek Democracy seems to be very Homoerotic. No wonder the US adopted it. Just imagine Founding Fathers oiled up & wrestling.
@garthk They’ve cunningly named the stations “Domestic” and “International”, and the signage has little aeroplane icons.
I joined the Marrickville LIbrary today. I now have free access to these premium online resources from home. http://bit.ly/lPYWU
@garthk Um, Mascot station is not the same as Domestic station. Domestic station is right next to the domestic terminal buildings.
@renailemay Nah, your comments on ZDNet don’t need threads, just heavy use of the “delete” key. ;)
@jdub Cool. I do have a guy who’s quite good with WordPress, but this is a site which may require Muchly Extreme Clevernessâ„¢.
@renailemay @jdub Indeed, I’m thinking of dropping threaded comments. It’s not easy for someone to see which are newest.
@jdub But we also have a large WordPress site for a client. The client who gave us the green light today, as it happens.
@jdub Cool. I’m re-doing my site so people who find me for the first time don’t just get whatever my most recent blog post was.
@jdub Ah, your disownment of recommending the jQuery Carousel plugin is noted. I will explore when I can be bothered.
See what I did? Asked a question, then posted answer so all could see. I am always polite and considerate.
@jdub Thank you. “Generated as part of Crikey theme, based on jQuery Carousel.” http://bit.ly/NunDk Want my site to not have blog as home.
Ah, I have found a guide to fixing my MacBook Pro’s keycaps. Now I just need someone with eyesight and tiny fingers to follow it.
@jdub As an aside, which WordPress carousel does Crikey use on its main home page?
@jdub Glorious! Your spatula will be sent immediately! I don’t want to know what you plan on doing with it, but it shall be sent!
THE CANARY IS SUCCESSFUL!
@jkerrison Hah! No, I just have a broken / damaged keyboard. This machine is much travelled and it probably just needs a new keyboard.
I have abandoned the idea of gym and dinner tonight on the grounds that what I really need is a lot more sleep. A lot more.
Oh. They’re going to be VERY intermitent now.
@andrewdotnich I don’t know why those keys have gone intermittent, but they have.
Hmmm… Dear MacBook Pro, I was hoping to type some text that used the “9” and “0” keys occasionally. This is not good.
@ApostrophePong Your mail is showing as inbound into the system, but then diappears. Can you please re-send?
Listening to Newington College students ridiculing a classmate because he did well in an assignment. The “elite” are so mediocre.
RT @ozdj: AU second only to USA in terms of hours per month people use the Internet. #asm09 [Linkage please?]
@deconstructo Oh the rant is nice. I’m guessing the production was probably just a bit rushed ‘cos it was a topical thang.
Dear World, the Hitler / iSnack 2.0 video is disappointing. Unlike many others, the subtitled words fit very poorly with the spoken ones.
@natface Very dream! They always pay within 7 days; we invoice weekly as we go; they state a “happiness scale” rather than demanding quotes.
I just received the response to the proposal I emailed a client at 1145 today: “Yes get on with it :)” THAT’S a good client!
@mpesce @SnarkyPlatypus @ApostrophePong @ch3ssman I have not received your completed Goat Quest judging forms, by the way. Ahem.
@artsjourno I have a need to visit Stanmore. I didn’t visit the pub “for Thai” but “for lunch”. Also, experimentation. And now you all know.
@htgoldcoast You are thinking of Goat Quest, yes, but that’s not every day. That requires the full Goat Quest Expedition Team.
The pad thai gai at the Salisbury Hotel in Stanmore, despite being cooked by actual Thais, is hopelessly bland and Westernised. Yet mae!
Mobile: Across to Stanmore village (!); lunch; join Marrickville Library at Stanmore; not sure after that.
@ApostrophePong No, it’s cool. Instead, I seem to be discussing the colour of my poo with @RickyMaveety. I guess it’s a Texas thing.
The conversation currently taking place between @smperris and @ApostrophePong is more than a little disturbing.
My friend @zern is celebrating failed business partnerships. Pls send your stories. http://bit.ly/TAmPv
@RickyMaveety @J4yZ33 @deanlk @ericscheid There will be no further references to red poo. At least until we have photos.
Having not posted my photos/videos of the dust storm, wondering whether I should bother. What can I say that ain’t already been said?
Feeling righteous ‘cos I sent a client a document to approve, one which I’ve been procrastinating over for longer than I care to reveal.
Beetroot soup was wonderful. @ApostrophePong and I had two bowls each. Plenty left. I declare this National Red Poo Week!
Wed plan: Various SEKRIT plannings and eatings, and so on. Shhh!
@iain_chalmers What you say about @mpesce and cellphones http://bit.ly/nxdkD is true. But watch it RT anyway.
“The Moguls’ New Clothes”: much sense in this analysis of Big Media from The Atlantic. http://bit.ly/1adbhv
How the mobile phone became a key tool for third-world development. http://bit.ly/fGo0j
@GreenJ Yes, I’m looking forward to Fuckofftober. I do hope Crikey has something very special planned for tomorrow.
@SnarkyPlatypus Moi? Je suis l’image même de l’innocence! http://bit.ly/QCh95
@GreenJ I was going to say something rude, but then I remembered that it’s the very last day of Respectember. So I shan’t.
@SnarkyPlatypus Je ne sais pas pour sûr. Les détails sont inconnus. Je viens de le sentir dans mes eaux. http://bit.ly/vtyZb
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je prédis que d’aujourd’hui sera une journée étrange. Et vous?
Media140 Sydney: Today’s your last day for early-bird registration. It’s on 5-6 November in, um, Sydney. http://bit.ly/D6u46
RT @kcarruthers: Just don’t conflate the #goatquest with that greek democratic homoerotic wrestling. [This is always good advice. I think.]
@CastleJames Oh dear. There goes the Internet. And it used to be such a nice place.
Emerges.
Faded. [exit]
Fading fast.
@safzoro I grant you some of the NLA newspaper scans’ OCR is dodgy, but then you can log in a fix them. ;)
@ApostrophePong Beetroot soup cannot fail. Have you instead considered borscht? http://bit.ly/CZXD8
Spaghetti marinara. McLaren Vale shiraz. Abba’s “Dancing Queen”. Such is my life today.
Mobile: Enmore Rd; lunch; possible errands to King St. Does this look like a regular pattern to you?
Waiting for the washing to finish so I can go and have lunch and stuff. I am always politely patient.
@andrewdotnich @ceigbner Oddly enough, I did once produce a zine called “Hordes of One-Legged Seagulls”…
@Nickhodge Yes, I’m an evil Capitist. Does it show? If it does, maybe I DO need one of those knitted things.
@RanmaSaotomeS Knitwear does have its place. Why, I’m wearing a jumper [US: sweater] right now! Around a penis is not one of those places.
Dear Clients, I have a new concept for doing business which you may like. HOW ABOUT YOU PAY YOUR FUCKING BILLS! Ahem.
“The Most Unsexy Male Lingerie Ever”, according to @TheBloggess. Indeed. http://bit.ly/sAQMT
@franksting @kcarruthers @barrysaunders A “social netwok for whisky”? Yes, it’s called a “pub”.
RT @gnoll110: Minsky was a post Keynesian economist, had theories about was causes economic instability http://bit.ly/nsGc7 [Ah, thank you.]
Ah, I do love Hunter S Thompson’s conflict-resolution techniques! http://bit.ly/l68Ir Hat-tip @mpesce, kinda, I think.
Dear Mafia Wars players, while I don’t begrudge you your pastime, personally I’m not interested and think less of you for not asking first.
RT @stephenconroy: For those outraged by @isnack20’s Twitter account, I think I speak for everyone when I say you are dumb motherfuckers.
RT @jayrosen_nyu: Robotic response from Washington Post editors to a reader’s question about their social media rules http://jr.ly/uns4
@unsungsongs Rudd signs his tweets ‘cos the ones by his team are also tagged as such. Transparency. But @WilliamShatner signs his.
I’m interested in language, so finding The Eggcorn Database will waste at least an hour. http://bit.ly/PJeO6
@BernardKeane “As of 2008, Kym Wilson was a board member of Australian In Film, based in Los Angeles,” says Wikipedia. http://bit.ly/24NG6W
@seancarmody Your mathematical mind like to consider whether you can pick someone’s job by the language they use. http://bit.ly/JGNoN
Bostom Globe’s @big_picture now doing monthly focus on Afghanistan “as long as necessary”. http://bit.ly/19ofQA
The actual historical sequence of events makes my last tweet both wrong and unfunny. My apologies.
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: There’s nothing like a Minogue sister to spoil that evanescent, sentimental moment. [True. Ask Michael Hutchence.]
Oh I do like the word “merdique”. I shall have to use that in another sentence later today.
@SnarkyPlatypus Non, il n’est pas sentimental. Il est troublant. Comme une histoire de fantôme. Par ailleurs, cette chanson est merdique.
@seancarmody Hello. Is your part of the world functioning appropriately?
@SnarkyPlatypus Une pendule tiques fort. C’est le son uniquement. Et vous?
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Mon esprit est encore plein de vieilles photographies, le jaunissement des nappes en dentelle et le thé amer.
I rarely remember my dreams but just then I did, and it’s a lovely plot idea for a short story or short film. Written down! Joy.
Emerges.
Enough medical procedures before bed. [exit]
@sylmobile Intriguing to watch ep 2 just then and watch an appendectomy done NOT with keyhole surgery.
@commuter_dirge I do have a swivel chair. And an undeground lair, alas sans volcano.
@commuter_dirge Maybe I AM a Bond villain. However the cats do not have one blue eye and one green.
@leehopkins @sylmobile I’ve also just discovered the entire series of Jonathan Miller’s “The Body In Question”. http://bit.ly/pup4p
@commuter_dirge Remarkable coincidence! Alas, I’m already in bed surrounded by cats. It’s either creepy, or a sign I’m getting up early.
Goodness! I’d no idea Jonathan Miller directed an “Alice in Wonderland” in 1966! http://bit.ly/2YYviW Wonder if I can find the whole thing.
YouTube has suggested I watch this, and who am I to disagree? http://bit.ly/S7mk8
37signals valued at $100 billion after bold VC investment. http://bit.ly/2K0cYL
@unsungsongs For some reason the words “duty free” and “absinthe” seem to go well together.
RT @isnack20: I am made of despair, and cheese.
I am home and arguing with the cats about the logistics of the fishing industry.
Ah, the difference between “can’t just” and “just can’t”. Discuss. Also, http://bit.ly/nlrgh Audio broken?
@derekbarry Your “ipjone” seems to be working perfectly.
@theburgerman That piece on journalistic “balance” is spot on! http://bit.ly/10OGzP Thank you!
@theburgerman Exactly. The “equal time” to “usual suspects” is why I can’t just watch Insiders. It’s as ritual as kabuki.
RT @OverlandJournal: My hatred for the present tense continues to grow. [He says, all in the prsent tense.]
“Merrick & Rosso and Kate Ritchie want to give you a happy ending” is NOT a successful radio promo, sorry. Srsly.
@theburgerman @julie_posetti @natecochrane Having been at ABC Radio, “balance” means stopwatches, and all the wrong that goes with that.
@petawb Anyway, the voices in my head and @unsungsongs and @ApostrophePong say I have to be in Newcastle this weekend. Apparently.
@petawb 2-minute rant to 2000? http://bit.ly/19kYrs Bah! My own website delivers me that, and more, for nothing.
@natecochrane @vealmince I’d use “claimed” rather than “said” if there was no other evidence to support the statement, or controversy.
@WarWraith I am a master of disturbing imagery. [bows]
@DrunkyPants I would never call Germaine Greer a “meathead”. She’d hit me.
@julie_posetti @natecochrane I should have been in your discussion, but I’m already on record as saying journalistic objectivity is a myth.
@WarWraith True. I would gladly nail my theses to Germaine Greer’s forehead. [Why does that sound like a euphemism?]
Speaking of Germaine Greer, can anyone explain this diptych? http://bit.ly/Gfj4x
@Darkon_ @RantRotAndRuin I think the login for @crikey_news website (WordPress) is geb0rken connecting to the free trial login. Help!
@RantRotAndRuin I am a mere contributor to @crikey_news so I’m not sure how the free trial is meant to work. [sulk]
@Darkon_ Hmmm… there continues to be Crikey free-trial paywall fail. :/ @crikey_news can you help this man? He seems nice.
@andrewdotnich Hah! Maybe I should just gatecrash with a manifesto 95 theses… and present them to Germaine Greer.
Hey, if there’s a “Festival of Dangerous Ideas” in Sydney this weekend, how come I wasn’t invited? I have LOTS of dangerous ideas!
Me in Crikey today: “Conroy’s internet filter dread”, a state-of-play piece. http://bit.ly/3ry4YS Paywall’d but free trial.
It is inconvenient that the Attorney-General’s Department website is not alive at this current moment.
RT @drjon: COVERED IN BEEEETROOPS! http://bit.ly/F9Aqq [This was a suitable time-waster, yes. Also, funny.]
@BernardKeane Yes, yes. A “beetroop” is usually called a “swarm”. You’re hilarious. Sigh.
@bengrubb Erm, well you RTd the question instead of answering it. Silly chap.
I cannot believed I typed “beetroop”. That contains a large amount of fail.
@sarahinthesen8 @bengrubb As explained earlier, @KevinRuddPM’s tweets signed KRudd are him, “#KevinPM Team” not him. Transparency. Good.
But right now, a quick trip to the shops for fresh bread and caraway seeds to go with @ApostrophePong’s beetroop soup. For breakfast.
Tue plan: Potter hayfeverishly through a variety of project planning tasks, mostly from my desk at home; gym & dinner w@SnarkyPlatypusypus.
@ApostrophePong Yes, “REPAIR TABLE wp_comments” is your friend, deleting 3 corrupt rows. Or something.
@Darcy1968 @durk94 @TonySearl Thanks. I’ll re-edit that piece. http://bit.ly/dR89n was semi-improvised, and it shows. #nswsphere #gov2au
Home.
Mobile: Enmore Rd; King St; @SnarkyPlatypus; gym; lunch; caution.
“Risk, Fear and Paranoia: Perspective, People!” http://bit.ly/dR89n My #nswsphere presentation, video & transcri#gov2auv2au
It’s the Marrickville Street Festival today. http://bit.ly/11sb9r Family entertainment, as they say.
@gnoll110 Sorry, I don’t know what a “Minsky moment” refers to.
RT @ForsakenDAemon: Would the morons be clichéd, or would it be their work? [Good question. Both, probably.]
@SnarkyPlatypus I can think of words starting with “S” other than “Salubrious” to describe real estate…
Who first called the weekend’s Sydney property auctions “Super Saturday”? I demand their head on a spike by lunchtime. Lazy clichéd morons!
RT me: “Risk, Fear and Paranoia: Perspective, People!” http://bit.ly/dR89n My #nswsphere presentation, video & transcri#gov2auv2au
Not new, but grown Japanese men dating schoolgirl love dolls? Even taking them on the subway? http://bit.ly/hTYUD
Further Monday challenge: How to cover costs of Canberra for War 2.0 symposium? http://bit.ly/7PHd8 More thoughts later.
@CShawyer Where does an employer’s right to control behavour end? The Facebook Six case here may interest you. http://bit.ly/3Zu2fT
Mon plan: Morning writing at my desk; lunch & errands locally; afternoon client project planning, probably at my desk; evening TBA.
“[NSW] Prisoners being used as cut price telemarketers” http://bit.ly/ll7Lw As if imprisonment wasn’t punlishment enough.
@artsjourno Mind you, many journalists are not given much time to do real reearch and analysis. Speculation is quick and cheap. As am I.
Crikey: “Vegemite’s new name unites the internet in contempt” http://bit.ly/3UDVh4 Nice compilation, @rbbrown.
@artsjourno Political journalists tend to thrive on speculation about what might happen, hence endless talk of Double Dissolutions.
@SnarkyPlatypus Peut-être. Et pourtant, il est inévitable, car nous allons construire l’avenir. À Notre Image.
Also RT me: Frank Schaeffer’s takedown of (US) fundamentalist idiots is a must-see. Truly. http://bit.ly/XpZ8P
RT me: Antony Green explains exactly, precisely and in detail how and when a Double Dissolution can happen. http://bit.ly/GwdRu
Joe Hockey, having eaten three poor people for breakfast, craves more. http://bit.ly/11TmO6
@SnarkyPlatypus La singularité est déjà là ! Déjà , nous sommes tous comme Penny Wong! Voici la photo! http://bit.ly/pZY0I
“Executive salaries not a matter for Govt: Hockey” http://bit.ly/UUasT Yes, Liberals only interfere with poor people.
“Trimestre”? Are you sure that’s right, Mr Google?
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je suis étudiant la meilleure manière d’aborder la semaine. C’est presque la fin du troisième trimestre! Et vous?
Australia continues to spend millions on a handful on boats, ignores 10,000 visa-overstayers in Bondi. http://bit.ly/xli5A
Washington Post reckons it can tell its staff how and what they can tweet. http://bit.ly/DsCLb
Emerges. Ahem.
And after that eclectic mix of reading, my brain is suitably programmed for dreaming. [exit]
That cringeworthy Microsoft video about Windows 7 parties http://bit.ly/17Dc2q is now durrrty! http://bit.ly/Zr0oX
“Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine” http://bit.ly/1AbrhU Yes, it appear there was one. Kinda.
@TimNoonan Erm, no, because the cats don’t pay the bills. If only they WOULD do the shopping instead of demanding we do it!
@ApostrophePong Cat language explained. Vocal http://bit.ly/31H3bh and scent / body language http://bit.ly/jVccL
Antony Green explains exactly, precisely and in detail how and when a Double Dissolution can happen. http://bit.ly/GwdRu
RT @EnexTestLab: Question is was it flat or sparkling? [I reckon there’s a tender worth submitting, eh?]
Frank Schaeffer’s takedown of (US) fundamentalist idiots is a must-see. Truly. http://bit.ly/XpZ8P
Maybe I shan’t comment on any other Martian water suggestions ‘cos some of therm were, like, rude.
@unsungsongs Holy water would be news. If there were some way of telling from any other kind of water. ;)
“Martian water found on Mars”, says ABC News. http://bit.ly/ZIYWy As opposed to…?
@gabfran It’s not a particularly elegant structure, shall we say. It makes the programming task I was going to do vastly more complicated.
I have just seen how WordPress stores the metadata for its media gallery and I feel a little sick inside.
It appears both cats like the anise-spiced satay kangaroo jerky! What have we done?
@benmoretti I do have a backlog (if that’s the right word) of urinal photos to post. I might do one when I’ve finished a transcription task.
@SnarkyPlatypus Il n’ya pas de laxatifs. Je faire avec un manche à balai et d’un entonnoir en plastique.
Old blog post: “Secret Men’s Business” http://bit.ly/Sx5FH Now organised into a series, with more to come soon.