Crikey story filed. Now, to decide which interview to run in today’s “Patch Monday”…
RT @latikambourke: Nick Xenophon ‘election day this year could well be ”Independents Day.”’ #senatedoors [Proof he’s an alien?]
Ah yes @maungle @LiamT it would indeed be Neil Campbell. I’ve had beers with him, heard some of the stories from his side.
@LiamT It hasn’t been 100% confirmed, but Assange is in all likelihood “Mendax” in that “Underground” book.
@LiamT I’m fairly sure Ken Day was one of two AFP guys who formed the cybercrime unit. One of those two now works for Dimension Data IIRC.
New Yorker: “No Secrets: [Wikileaks’] Julian Assange’s mission for total transparency” http://bit.ly/dzXPmt re th@LiamTmT conversation
@LiamT Dreyfus’ book “Tales of hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier” has it. http://bit.ly/cse3z6
@LiamT All the Assange / Nortel / AFP stuff happened back before “the press” covered this stuff, pretty much.
Tue plan: Write for Crikey; haircut; 1400 “TV” interview for UTS students; 1530 ABC Radio National interview; generally stay warm.
@samotage @zephoria Given Facebook’s continual spin and persuasion style, I don’t trust them full stop, let alone to delete data.
I mainly point to @zephoria’s excellent “Quitting Facebook is pointless; challenging them to do better is not” http://bit.ly/9sVycc
My response to the comments on my Facebook piece is a big vague, but it’s early. http://bit.ly/cXuFhv
Today’s earworm. Qantas is to blame, if only indirectly. http://youtu.be/IcsVPis1…
Reading and soon responding to comments overnight on my “Why I’ve deleted my Facebook account” post http://bit.ly/dBGHAL
Stratfor: “Flotillas and the Wars of Public Opinion” http://bit.ly/90ylem
Emerges. Full of mucus and pain. I do not like having this cold. Someone will suffer for this.
[exit]
@sylmobile We’re talking jet lag and a really bad cold here, actually.
Fading fast, and not really interacting because of that.
You may like this story about the posture of a SCOTUS judge, @peterjblack http://bit.ly/ddWI12
New blog post: “Why I’ve deleted my Facebook account” http://bit.ly/dBGHAL
And… there’s my Facebook account queued for deletion.
No @SnarkyPlatypus, “FB = Facebook” and “FB = fuck buddy” are two slightly different concepts. Slightly.
Waiting for ABC Radio Statewide NSW to call and chat about some thing called “Facebook”, I think it is. Anyone heard of it?
Home.
Mobile: Enmore Rd and back again, because simple errands require it.
New “Patch Monday” podcast via @zdnetaustralia: Closing Adobe’s security chasm http://bit.ly/bEPU9a
And… that’s “Patch Monday” filed.
@sonieee Well, all @crikey_news pieces emerge from the paywall after 2 weeks, but perhaps if we ask nicely this one may emerge today.
Me in Crikey: “Letter from Redmond, Washington: inside Microsoft HQ” http://bit.ly/bbnhM9 [Paywall’d for now.]
@SnarkyPlatypus Je suis une oie. Les photographies ne mentent pas.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je suis plein de douleur et de l’enthousiasme et non pas les cellules du foie très nombreux. Et vous.
What would be Melbourne’s equivalent to North Ryde, or any new high-end office park like the Microsoft campus? http://bit.ly/a7H2bn
Head down, attempting to write something amusing, or at least interesting, about my visit to Seattle.
@LucasJamesAU I did think of deep vein thrombosis, yes, and “if pain persists I shall see my doctor”. Must earn some income first though.
Mon plan: Write something for Crikey; do a “Patch Monday” podcast; quiet evening, because the gods know I need to get some rest.
“Now, I am become Cirrhosis, the destroyer of livers”, eh @jasonlangenauer ? HT J Robert Oppenheimer and others.
Emerges. With a cold. With a mysterious pain in my left leg. Ah, what a glorious start to the week!
[exit]
Home.
OH: “The wrong pants, and the wrong camera angle.”
Upstairs at Kelly’s on King, Newtown, where we will make a transition to SBS.
@deconstructo @nigelwadsworth The film is only loosely related to the book tho. Plenty of goats but.
Mobile: Enmore Rd; King St; Kelly’s on King; an eternal state of perfect health and vitality.
I watched the film “The Men Who Stare At Goats” on the plane last night. It was amusing enough. Clooney is rather fine in it.
Sadly I think the weather may put people off a night out too @DemonicVel @Illdrinn … we shall see.
I’ll head to Kelly’s on King, Newtown, at 6pm to ensure things are set up to Watch Eurovision. Who else will be there?
@DamianM “Homepage” gets syndicated across a few community stations. Not a big audience perhaps, but I’ll always support student projects.
@sylmobile Yeah 2MCE is streamed from http://bit.ly/b0QR but this was a pre-record for Friday’s “Homepage” 3.30pm. ;)
About to be interviewed by Radio 2MCE for a piece about Facebook etc and the employer-employee relationship.
Ta for the welcome home @D_Keating @sylmobile @bob_bain @middleclassgirl @NanoPunk I think it’ll take me a while to recover.
Sun plan: Rest and reign in this cold; 1630 be interviewed by Radio 2MCE; 1800+ Eurovision at the Pub, Kelly’s on King, Newtown, in theory.
@jasonlangenauer I’m reasonably sure that vodka solves many household problems. Or dissolves them. I always get them confused.
Home and dealing with the clean sock situation. And the empty cat situation.
Stabby.
Sydney International Airport is short of cabs and passengers with brain cells.
Touchdown Sydney. Further facts to follow.
Transmitters off. See you in Sydney at 6.30am.
I should also re-plug Eurovision at the Pub, Kelly’s on King, Newtown, Sunday from 6pm. Show starts 7.30pm.
Our Airbus A380-800 at LAX, right now, via Skycam. http://post.ly/hlu1
@rod_benson If that was a pickup line, it ain’t gonna work. Airliners are not erotic IMHO.
A Qantas steward tells me, before I board, “See you on the bus, buddy!” Welcome to an Australian airline, eh?
Frightening TAS security staff. Possibly not a good strategy.
Touchdown Los Angeles. We did not crash into the slow-flying C-5 ahead of us. Bonus.
@itamer I’m on the other side of the other ditch at the moment, in Seattle. :)
Emerges. With a cold. Whacko.
It is midnight here. I need to fade away. Although my minders have organised a late checkout for me. I am so pwned. [exit]
@drearyclocks And Fender Australia has been a client of mine for a decade, and I am embarrassed to misidentify a guitar.
@drearyclocks Shit. So it is a Telecaster. I should know this. I do know this. Blame Seattle.
@itamer Interestingly, a Goggle News search for “neil jenman” returns zero results. Not making ANY media, ‘cos it’s industry-specific?
@drearyclocks Man, how DARE you poison a Stratocaster with that shit! ;) http://twitvid.com/UJZ0U
Back at the hotel. What happens at the restaurant after they close, stays at the restaurant after they close. #twctour
Of to dinner at Maggiano’s Restaurant, Bellevue, Washington. #twctour
Microsoft’s own transit system #twctour http://post.ly/hcqv
@itamer Sorry, I don’t even know who Neil Jenman is. I haven’t watched any TV.
Yay, I have survived the interviews! Oh. Another dinner? Oh dear. #twctour
Some folks don’t seem to understand the carry-on baggage limits. They cause delays. They must die.
@sylmobile Oh yes, tinted windows, Russian driver with Bluetooth earpiece, cool jazz plays.
In a giant black 6-litre V8 GMC SUV, being chauffeured to Seattle-Tacoma airport.
Fri plan (at 1230 Seattle time): 1330 quick trip to Microsoft to take some photos; 1700 fly SEA-LAX; 2230 fly LAX-SYD.
@brettw Ah, Adobe’s head of product security was a presenter at the 3-day Trustworthy Computing Tour. It all connects up. #twctour
@grum I think you accidentally typed an extra “c” in your last tweet?
@brettw Hah! Well yeah look for an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-800 at around 6.45pm, I guess. Hope all’s well with you.
@brettw I’ll wave as I fly past. I’ve been in Seattle with Microsoft, but I fly to LAX then Sydney this evening. Alas, no SFO this trip.
I can recommend Seattle Town Car, excellent service http://bit.ly/c3ihit but they don’t have my book.
Since I can’t find the book in my hotel room, I left it either in the town car on Monday or on the plane. Oh well, it’s only a book.
@JackyAV It’s appalling that your friends are stealing my books. It’s the thin end of the wedge, you know, a complete breakdown of society.
Bother. If anyone found a copy of Hunter S Thompson’s “The Gonzo Papers Anthology” http://amzn.to/ad8ANq it’s mine. #twctour
Room service is far, far too cheerful for this hour. It’s not even 9am yet. Just. But breakfast looks good.
Firefox plug-in erases Justin Beiber from the web http://bit.ly/9EKYXU HT @JNY2
“His wife away on business, he pleasured himself with house porn.” http://bit.ly/c4C7Cz
@jayrosen_nyu Even with their generous sugar-daddy. Still, their managing editor @rod3000 may have insights there.
@jayrosen_nyu I think Newmatilda.com’s demise is really just about Australia’s small market, harder to get advertising dollars.
Three 1-on-1 interviews to record. Fascinating topics, but my brain is fading. I wonder whether I’ll cope. #twctour
Four minutes until the Full Moon. All is explained.
Yes, listen to The @SnarkyPlatypus. Eurovision at the Pub, Kelly’s on King, Newtown, this Sunday from 6pm. Tell him if you’re coming.
@SnarkyPlatypus Ici, c’est seulement jeudi. Mais demain, j’ai besoin de Microsoft robots mort tueur.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je suis débordant de connaissances. Il fuites sur le sol. Et vous?
@grum Oh no, I get the “I don’t understand what you’re talking about” quite a lot. I blame other people. It’s easier that way.
@grum Don’t you have some sort of special appendage for opening bread bags? I swear that…
RT @tomsanders: Microsoft cloud services hosted in “10-100 datacenters”, says Microsoft. No clear answer because Osama is listening #twctour
Some seriously tricky questions are being asked about international compliance and certification issues in the cloud. Woof. #twctour
Here is us absorbing stuff about cloud security at 0930. We are a bit slow today. http://tweetphoto.com/24… HT @ruudj #twctour
Mobile: Downstairs to the foyer again; another shuttle bus to Redmond; breakfast and Day 3 of The Microsoft Experience… #twctour
Yes actually @ireckon this is all an excellent briefing on what Microsoft is doing with security. Day 3 of 3 about to start. #twctour
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: We may get some sort of meal deal at Kelly’s if we have numbers. Pls @ or DM me if you’re def coming to Eurovision.
@franksting See previous tweet. ;)
@tonekee Well, did you see how I started this Seattle trip? http://bit.ly/9yGpyq #breakfastofchampions
@ireckon Oh by all means call me Supertramp. My toilet bowl is called Toto. True story.
Mostly.
I am ignoring suggestions that I should have vodka for breakfast.
Yes @johnhalton … People should keep their food allergies to themselves. Eat what they’re given, then die. Quietly.
As a gay man, I find the sachet labelled “non-dairy creamer” to be a little more disturbing than necessary.
Yes, Facebook is evil, @SnarkyPlatypus … but we need some way to remind people to go to the pub on Sunday. I can’t prod them from here.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonsoir. Je n’ai pas eu plus d’été que d’habitude. Ah, le manque de sommeil! Je vais survivre. http://youtu.be/ZBR2G-iI…
I’d better be better by Sunday, ‘cos that’s Eurovision at the Pub at Kelly’s on King, Newtown, from 6pm-ish. Anyone make a Facebook event?
Emerges. With a sore throat. Botheration.
I think I’d better go to bed while I can. It’s after 11pm now. [exit]
“Twisted Wire” podcast includes Senator @KateLundy on Senate’s draft report to abandon NBN http://bit.ly/bd9M7R
@wolfcat I am always out of context. Always.
Back at the hotel. What happens at the pool hall stays at the pool hall. #twctour
Those with real jobs at Microsoft have gone home. Media and PR remain, a strange symbiotic coupling. Get a cloth. #twctour
I just saw that my last tweet got auto-corrected to include the word “fanny”, which is wrong. In several ways.
@wolfcat No, for some reason I’m getting free booze even in places without free booze. It’s the fanny Illuminati, I swear. #twctour
A private pool room, with free booze. #twctour http://post.ly/hVTR
Oh. Too many tweets to reply to. Apparently I have to do play pool and drink beer now. I have to.
“Maga [Sucker] No Need Pay”: Nigerian song to help stop advance-fee fraud, a Microsoft initiative http://youtu.be/EGCnl6O6… #twctour
Curious linguistic tic: so many presenters, when asked a question, always start their answer with “So…” #twctour
The indoctrination continues. We are filling with knowledge. http://tweetphoto.com/24… HT @ruudj #twctour
Mobile: Down to the hotel foyer again; bus to Redmond; breakfast at Microsoft conference centre.
@ApostrophePong Thaksin plays the “It’s complex, you don’t understand” card a few times, against Tony Jones and even the Red Shirts.
Thaksin Shinawatra speaks to ABC TV’s Lateline (video of phone interview) http://bit.ly/cmbtUG Ping @ApostrophePong
The theme for Day 2 of Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Tour is security response and fighting cybercrime, starts in 75 mins or so #twctour
@iain_chalmers Yeah I have kinda noticed the high-calorie aspect to US food, even though Microsoft’s catering has lots of fruit too.
RT @Lyall: America is a dangerous place @stilgherrian and I intend to eat it http://bit.ly/9wZJup [This is truly scary.]
@daev Hmmm… There may be satellite radio on the hotel entertainment system. But I don’t want any sound at the moment. Will explore later.
@Serrels “At this hour”? It’s just clocked 0645 here in Seattle… That seems quite reasonable to me. ;)
@daev Yeah this time zone thing is annoying. Sleep well!
Emerges.
OK, bedtime for me. Another long day ahead tomorrow. Please try to control yourselves.
@dobes I am exhausted, so even half-scary is scary.
@jdub If I look up “walla walla onion rings” I’m not going to discover some bizarre new sexual technique, am I?
Back at the hotel, full of cow and chocolate and only the gods know what else. America is a dangerous place.
@bck Joey’s is on the ground floor. Or at least this one is. Great sirloin.
*bloat*
According to the TV above the urinal, LAL vs PHX tied on 83 in the 3rd quarter.
“Blue cheese fries”? Sure. Also, this Sonoma County cab sav is most acceptable.
Nah @bck @rorybaust not the Hyatt’s. Joey’s Restaurant, Bellevue, across the road. Apparently. Anyway I’m off.
Hmmm… Out of pre-paid credit on the #telstradesire thanks to roaming data yesterday. I shall tweet from my N96, but not be tweeted at.
Oh. That link to Bing Maps didn’t retain the selected restaurant. Fail. And I tried especially. Sulking. And going to dinner.
Apparently this is where we’re having dinner, in just a few minutes. http://bit.ly/aYYVqX
Wow @dizzystuff they are SERIOUSLY heavy-duty butt plugs! http://twitpic.com/1r3a3q
How I travelled to America http://post.ly/hMxv
Waiting in the bus http://post.ly/hMxZ
The Seattle Times has a headline, “Microsoft chills on China” #twctour
@bigjsl Huh? I left you in LA yesterday. How did you lose 24 hours?
@damonism Um, that story says the AFP has people in Washington DC, the other end of the country. ;) http://bit.ly/aI190c
The Microsoft Company Store has Microsoft-branded Snuggies! We’re through the looking-glass here, people! #twctour
Off to visit the Microsoft House of the Future. I hope it has personal helicopters. #twctour
@renailemay What’s the world coming to, man? Australia full of Australians? And I tell you what, America is full of Americans!
A longer look at PhotoDNA http://youtu.be/RoGV-4te… #twctour
Microsoft PhotoDNA: fingerprinting & identifying child abuse images even when modified along the way http://youtu.be/y2MeyoUS… class=”hashtag” rel=”search” href=”http://twitter.com/search?q=%23twctour”>#twctourtour
@jdub We were shuttled direct to the conference centre, so I haven’t see the Wandering Zombies of Redmond yet.
This is the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Campus Tour #twctour
@shammie1 Yes, the full catered breakfast at Microsoft has Starbucks coffee. With compostable everything.
I think the auto-correct in my last tweet was a tad ambitious.
Finding the Microsoft group is easy. Løk for the confluence of middle-aged geeks.
Mobile: Hyatt Regency Bellevue foyer; some form of transport to Redmond; breakfast at Microsoft.
@ireckon You’ve missed the press. :) My Seattle visit is the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Campus Tour. http://bit.ly/cI9pSv
@ireckon As long as it’s completely clichéd then that’s OK. [nods] Also, the forecast is for showers but it’s just cloudy atm@duncanrileyy
Isn’t mentoning the rain a bit clichéd?@ireckonn@duncanrileyy ;)
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonsoir. Il est un peu moins de deux heures avant que je sois enlevé les mines de sel. Je suis prêt.
@middleclassgirl “Bizarre”? No, I am up in Seattle. A little early, perhaps, it’s 0615, but we’re being collected at 0800.
Emerges.
Going off-grid I think. Rather tired.
@jmacmullin You don’t have any other Safari plug-ins, by any chance?
@jmacmullin Even download and play-in-Safari works fine for me. Odd. Very odd.
@rudolfwag The flights were good, thanks. Still stuffed tho. :) I think I’ll be having an early one.
@jmacmullin It works just fine in Safari for me. Hmmm. Safari 4.0.5, Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45, QuickTime Plug-in 7.6.6 … weird.
Freshening up. Sadly, not a euphemism.
@ncb This tour is all about security, so questions about the future of Flash are kinda off-topic. Won’t be answered. ;)
Flash auto-update will be turned on when they’re happy it’ll work and dialog turning it on won’t scare people @daveoflynn #twctour
RT @daveoflynn: Ask him when Flash is going to auto-update for security fixes. #twctour
RT @bondles9: One point for every time you can get the Adobe guy to say “open” [Hah! That’s not a security question. Good but.] #twctour
Afternoon coffee. After which I have 1-on-1 interviews with Mr Adobe [many questions!] and one of Microsoft’s SDL guys #twctour
@SnarkyPlatypus Il ya beaucoup, beaucoup de gens chez Microsoft. Les parties seront très faibles.
@SnarkyPlatypus Je suis rempli de la connaissance. Aussi, les choses faites de poulet, bacon, du fromage et de pommes de terre. Et vous?
Mr Arkin is spending quite a lot of words stressing how important security is at Adobe, “From the CEO down”. Well, yes. #twctour
Now speaking, Brad Arkin, Dir Product Security & Privacy, Adobe. I think we have questions, Sir…#twctourtour
Starvation is not an option http://post.ly/hLgG
Lunch.
BTW, SDL is Microsoft’s own methodology for incorporating security processes into software development. #twctour
Dave Ladd confirms SDL methodology is platform-independent, but may be harder to find tools for Linux or OS X #twctour
I find it quite bizarre that I’m tweeting about Visual Studio development stuff, but I live in a strange, strange world. And so do you.
If you use Visual Studio 2010 and MSF-Agile, here’s a new template http://bit.ly/cfyhqc #twctour
17-page guide on using Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle in any dev team. http://bit.ly/cxSp1D #twctour
Here’s @ruudj’s pic of the room we’re in, with us actually looking interested http://tweetphoto.com/23… #twctour
Continually astounded by the scale of Microsoft’s engineering teams. 3000 people in the Office division, f’rinstance. #twctour
Every organisation needs to consider secure programming, as xkcd reminds us http://xkcd.com/327/ #twctour