Awwww… You poor thing @WarWraith being upset by pop song lyrics. You poor poor thing.
Well @EliseAckerman they’d be lyrics from this song, apparently. http://youtu.be/kYSl9vrw…
“Make the balls bounce / Like a game of ping pong / Konichiwa bitches / From Beijing to Saigon”? Classy!
Mobile: Enmore Rd; King St; local errands; late lunch, perhaps; quiet afternoon working spot, warm.
The sad fact is @StuartLivesey that it’s almost impossible to make people think for themselves. They’re not equipped for it.
China “guarantees freedom of speech” by telling other nations to keep quiet http://bit.ly/d4DAVa HT @yewenyi
Drinking tea and seriously questioning someone’s sanity. And not for the first time.
Indeed @glengyron we ain’t seen the last of Conroy’s battles with Google any anyone else who has a different worldview.
True @glengyron, Senator Conroy has been going on about Google and privacy, so I could’ve added that to the mix. Ah, length, deadlines…
The Good Senator has already had a go at me by name, @trib, so I’m not too worried http://bit.ly/8RLPbl
Just noticing that an awful lot of my articles’ titles end in a question mark. http://bit.ly/fTcQ1
Me at ABC Unleashed: “How evil is Google, exactly?” http://bit.ly/9c3NXC
Sadly @gabfran When the Navy refers to a “platform” they don’t mean shoes. Sailors and “exquisite platforms” is a whole ‘nuther fantasy.
Well @paulwallbank the Crikey/UTS “Spinning the Media” study found 77% of tech news was PR-driven, the highest. http://bit.ly/dAvsbX
Thu plan: A day of writing, mostly, AM at my desk and perhaps PM at some other desk, for variety, with lunch between; evening TBA.
Yes, “freelance” does kinda cover the situation, @GreenJ. But if someone wants to make me exclusively theirs I’m open to offers.
@SnarkyPlatypus Oui, je suis une personnalité, n’est plus une personne. Je suis Adriana renaître.
Awwww… Cute Aussie tourism advert spotted in Beijing Subway http://post.ly/iwiQ HT @DavidFeng
Ido not understand these cats.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je suis en regrettant l’organisation d’une entrevue téléphonique pendant sept heures trente. Et vous?
Emerges with prejudice.
That’s probably enough then… Ciao! [exit]
@adslgeek Huh? What? I tweet whatever happens to be my focus at the time. Colonoscopy just happened to, erm, pop up. It’s random. Maybe.
RT @stefanau: I still think this one takes the cake though: Lou Rawls Colonoscopy Exam http://youtu.be/QI1go72c…
Given it’s bowel cancer awareness week, @infoholic, here’s “Colonoscopy of a Rectal Cancer with Hemorrhoids” http://youtu.be/nGyzZyxM…
RT @mabster: It really gives the name “YouTube” a whole new meaning.
Oh, my statement about no colonoscopy on YouTube? Completely wrong. http://youtu.be/6kg5wZQf…
RT @wolfcat: And Twiggy Forest is worth 4 billion dollars and Gambia’s GDP $800m. Do the maths. :-)
How come no-one ever puts their colonoscopy on YouTube?
2 tons of cocaine seized in Gambia, value $1 billion. Gambia’s GDP: $800 million. Do the maths. http://bit.ly/8YH2oG
Honestly, some people!
Home, and tending to the felines.
The “Razor’s” name in Enmore is clearer. The Razor’s Edge restaurant is closed, says they’ve moved the the Queen Victoria Hotel.
Mind you, Antony Green lifted his shirt to show me his torso the other day, so I’m not sure if you should trust him.
Antony Green posits a federal election in August. http://bit.ly/cpJVxV
@Davidramli Well, KPMG would be avoiding conflict perhaps if their key points were the same to both clients. Still, well done to them.
Finally I understand world economics! http://bit.ly/d9C085
Oh glorious! KPMG modeled RSPT for both government and miners. Conflict of interest much? http://bit.ly/acNctq
RT @mifblip: Someone should mash up Steve Jobs & Fantasia. [No, someone should mash up Jobs and coleslaw.]
So can the iPad or iPhone 4 filter out bacteria from a village water supply? No? Why not? Aren’t they “magical”?
@stewyrep “Mortgage”? Hah! A ratbag like me can barely pay the rent, let alone get a… what’s it called? “Mortgage”
Unedited video of comments which led to Helen Thomas “retiring” http://bit.ly/bMVeuR
Well there goes that bottle.
@thetowncrier @GreenJ Who needs an excuse to slut around? Do you want me to upload some pics?
When journalists are paid about the same as a one-hour in-call, the “love” does have to be spread pretty thin…
Oh dear @thetowncrier @GreenJ maybe we need to organise a different kind of jelly wrestling tournament. THIS IS TEH NEW MEDIAZ!
@GreenJ Don’t worry, you’re not paranoid.
@acursoryglance Nah I’m sure that none of my commissioning editors are on Twitter, eh @sophblack @thetowncrier @GreenJ @rod3000 @engochick?
Hmmm… Some of the answers I’ve received suggest that I should perhaps rethink my pitching strategy.
How long should you let elapse between emailing a story pitch to an editor and then phoning them to call them a cunt?
@fivewalls “Lair” is a word that is much under-used.
@BernardKeane “Nietzsche”? Isn’t there some way to blame Tony Abbott?
@JohnBirmingham My advice about drinking in Mosman is to pay a cab driver money to take you somewhere else. Fast.
@Telstra Cheers Yoshi, it’s all cool. I reconnected and it picked up the next data pack. But amusing that the SMS notification doesn’t. :)
Hah! Telstra Next G SMSs me to say “Your BrowsePlus Pack has expired” and cuts me off even though there’s another one queued up.
@BernardKeane Clearly we need to explore Aristotle’s view on home furnishings in more detail. How can we have this gap in History?
@sophblack Unless we get Courtenay and Carey in a nude jelly wrestling match, it’s all a fraud. http://bit.ly/bDxD9p
Yes @fivewalls the motorised blinds do have a remote control. So I guess that’s all OK. Ah, Planet Earth, I love you!
I know they’re a client’s product, but “Motorised blinds represent the epitome of style and the good life”? Really?
Ah yes, emails headed “SUSPENSION NOTICE” tend to shake the dollars out of clients. [nods]