Pavlov was right, by the way.
How to follow the Ecuador coup on Twitter. Includes Twitter-aggrandising hyperbole. http://arseh.at/hc #smeg
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Inévitablement, il est le vendredi. Je ne peux pas l’empêcher. Et vous?
There!
Gone.
@Guernsey_Boy It’s probably not worth retweeting that drinks invitation seeing it was last night and it’s been done and dusted.
Home.
@newmediajude Ah no, not the Beiber. It is, apparently, Serge Negus, teen twink son of respected Australian journalist George Negus.
“Cheap meat bombshell!” And Tracey Grimshaw! Is there a connection? Find out on The Footy Show.
Who is that fetus on the television?
Mobile, again: Enmore Rd; King St; annoyance; gym; dinner. Attention limited.
This is most unfair.
@edgiles Looking forward to being on the panel with you in Newcastle this Saturday. http://arseh.at/fw #tina
@theburgerman Actually the problem is that when I’m being a boss I’m actually a bit too easy on staff. I’m a softie. Awww…!
@theburgerman Whether the Japanese guy is still mopping the floor would depend on how naughty he’s been, surely?
OH, grandmotherly relationship advice to teenage lad: “Darl, you’d better get your story straight before you get her on the phone.”
En route home.
How they make television in a restaurant http://post.ly/10m74
@RichardGiles The issue becomes one of how people make new things work outside the device- and app-defined garden.
@RichardGiles Decline rather than lose relevance entirely, I’d say. Unless the world becomes solely vertically integrated devices.
@RichardGiles Trivial example, I tell people to set their email client to mail.example.com, don’t need to change if server moves.
@RichardGiles By app, I mean “a use of the internet” rather than “packaged job- and device-specific software”.
@RichardGiles Well in any app you refer to its service by name. It means you can relocate the service without changing the app.
@RichardGiles Domain names pre-date the web, and have utility far beyond that surface feature. Though maybe their use as branding will fall.
@RichardGiles Domain names will last, even in a world of apps, ‘cos it’s still very handy to couple logical and physical locations.
Mobile: Enmore Rd; Newtown station; Circular Quay station; 1215 Aria restaurant for AVG media briefing. May reply to #nbn tweets en route.
@TurnbullMalcolm BTW, I’m impressed by how you engage about policy on Twitter without lame sniping. It’s more worthy than certain others.
@TurnbullMalcolm I’ll respond more to that point in my next ABC Unleased piece. It reflects a key policy difference, worth exploring. #nbn
@TurnbullMalcolm Yep, bandwidth’s value is about apps for user. But, if a network can’t support an app at all, NO user gets that app. #nbn
Not just that, @bernietb. There’s also giving away “taxpayers money” as subsidies for existing telcos, in some undefined way. #nbn
RT @bernietb Isn’t it pretty much what we’ve got now? Good service in areas where it’s financially viable, fuck all for the rest of us? #nbn
@TurnbullMalcolm @purserj @NewtonMark I’d like to see some articulation of the Coalition’s vision for the future, actually. #nbn
@NewtonMark @TurnbullMalcolm @purserj Well to Conroy everything is a club to hit people with. I agree re differences of importance. #nbn
RT @joshgnosis: Turnbull looking bored in Parliament today, on his iPad again. [He’s tweeting broadband with @purserj and others.]
@TurnbullMalcolm @purserj I’m happy with different results, but IMO it needs to be put clearer. Not just “taxpayers money” politics. #nbn
@TurnbullMalcolm @purserj But isn’t “focussed on results” still misleading if it’s not made clear that results would be very different? #nbn
@TurnbullMalcolm @purserj Part of the problem is that most political journalists have NFI about the technology issues. #nbn
@TurnbullMalcolm @purserj Technical questions are avoided by both sides. Hand-waving “super-fast”? Bah! That’s treating us as dummies. #nbn
@wolfcat How does one form the plural of a noun in English? Hmmm?
Re-plug: I’m on the war reporting panel at National Youth Writers Festival in Newcastle at 2.30pm tomorrow. http://arseh.at/fw #NYWF2010
@GreenJ I am sorry, I used the word “emetic” incorrectly. I should have said “Laxative”, shouldn’t I?
Inviting clients to pay their bills.
@adavid @SnarkyPlatypus “Quand je vois les yeux de Julie Bishop, je ressens une petite mort moi-même” results. MOAR SATISFACTIONS!
@adavid @SnarkyPlatypus I usually force Google Translate’s hand by entering “the eyes of Julie Bishop” rather than “Julie Bishop’s eyes”.
No dateline on the story is inexcusable, I agree @dsturnbull, but the coup in Ecuador is current news it seems. http://arseh.at/hf
@SnarkyPlatypus Quand je vois les yeux de Julie Bishop’s, je ressens la petite mort moi-même. http://arseh.at/he
Rather that get water from the tap, he prefers to lick the freshly-used bathtub.
Fri plan: Slow start; plod thru everything in the inbox, hoping there’s no surprises, with break for lunch; evening reading for tomorrow.
New blog post: “Talking war reporting, in Newcastle this Saturday” http://arseh.at/fw #tina
RT me: Sydney folk interested in catching up with @cward1e? We’re having drinks at the Nippon Club from 6pm tonight. 229 Macquarie St.
Well @dananimal Wikipedia says Arktika class icebreakers need to stay in cold water http://arseh.at/fv but perhaps others are OK?
Mr Toad is still having trouble with non-white folks that don’t speak English, it seems. Thanks @harleyd http://arseh.at/fu
Floating Russian nuclear power stations in the Arctic Sea? Well nothing could possibly go wrong there. http://arseh.at/ft
Actually I may rearrange that schedule a bit as I go, but that’s the gist of it.
Mobile: Enmore Rd; quick bite and some writing; Newtown station; Wynyard station; minor CBD errand; 1800 Nippon Club with @cward1e.
It seems it’s not only the gym-goers who have difficulties with arithmetic, @SnarkyPlatypus http://arseh.at/fq
@phildobbie There was war journalism in Newcastle the other day, if Rising Tide members count as enemy combatants? http://arseh.at/fo
I’m on the National Young Writers Festival panel on war journalism in Newcastle this Sat, replacing Patrick Gray. http://arseh.at/e0
I would like to thank @thetowncrier for complaining about my usage of “IANAL” but still leaving it in the article.
Me at Crikey: “How America could censor the internet … or not” http://arseh.at/fn [Paywall’d, free trial#nocleanfeeded
Sydney folk interested in catching up with @cward1e? We’re having drinks at the Nippon Club from 6pm tonight. 229 Macquarie St.
@lucasrichter Actually, Victoria is now more a case of “Who polices the police-policers?”
@JonoH Yes, English IS evolving. The OED has “learnt” dated very, very recently: 1798, used by noted illiterate Thomas Jefferson.
@JonoH Actually, the Macquarie Dictionary notes “learnt” as an alternative to “learned”. That peeve is your pet, it would seem.
Victoria really doesn’t have its head around this concept of “anti-corruption”, does it. http://arseh.at/fm
@jasonlangenauer Unfortunately I couldn’t include a Venn diagram in my article. Obviously I feel a certain sense of failure.
Crikey story filed!
@SnarkyPlatypus Je suis diplômé de LiveJournal à la Twitters, vous ne savez pas?
Trying to explain the subtleties of global DNS replication in a single paragraph.
@purserj I think @TurnbullMalcolm’s strategy is to avoid direct technical comparisons and repeat “Taxpayer’s money! Taxpayer’s money!” #nbn
Last night’s Lateline broadband debate ‘tween Senator Conroy and @TurnbullMalcolm http://arseh.at/gc #nbn
Thu plan: Plan client projects for October; 1215 lunch briefing at Aria courtesy AVG; writing, somewhere; gym & dinner w@SnarkyPlatypusypus.
@sydneyfireworks Your Twitter feed says there were fireworks last night, yes I notices, but it doesn’t say why. Why? And also, why?
@SnarkyPlatypus “Ah, le plaisir de les tentacules!” C’est l’une des phrases les plus belles du monde! Je humidifier!
Does anyone know what Sydney’s excuse was for MOAR FIREWORKS ON THE HARBOUR last night? Apart from, you know, it being Wednesday?
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. J’espère que vous êtes conscient des complications du monde. En outre, les Japonais. Et vous?
To blame: @cward1e @peterjblack @theburgerman @jkerrison @danielstone @oberonsghost @pinglo that woman whose name I forget and Japan.
Ahem.
Home.
Lies, lies I tell you.
In position.
Mobile: Somewhere along Enmore Rd or similar for dinner, and then home again.
@michaelmeloni Ramen would be nice. So would teleportation. One is more likely than the other. I feel like fish though, I think.
It appears that I shall be in Newcastle on the weekend. I will explain why in due course.
Still pondering dinner plans.
I have received a media release from a PR person that says their client’s “offering” is “unique”. Sigh.
@NanoPunk There is no such thing as a “fish taco”. Or, if there is, there shouldn’t be.
If I have any more soup this week I shall fart all the way to Christmas.
Yes @jasonlangenauer I appreciate your concept for dinner. http://arseh.at/ex
Pondering dinner plans.
Gosh, what a busy afternoon that turned out to be! A solid block of sysadmin and webby stuff since midday.
@juhasaarinen I don’t know that Apache configuration makes you a geek. More of a sucker, really.
@DanielOCnr I agree with includes in Apache. Indeed, this CentOS / cPanel?WHM box has a sensible includes structure set up already. Win.
@athempel Oh you’re WRITING a mod_auth_*? I suspect that is a very special kind of hell? Or is Apache we’ll written?
I am pleased that my brief struggle with Apache’s mod_auth_mysql is at an end. The client is also pleased.
OK, heads down now as I descend into Apache Configuration Land. This’ll be interesting…
Tea is served, thanks to HTC http://post.ly/10IE3
Home.
@TheMonkeyBoy Personally I would find the HTC Aria’s screen too small, but I am both older and prefer maximum screen real estate
I will skip my CBD errands. En route home now. There, I shall debug an Apache mod_auth_mysql problem. Not an “issue”. A problem.
The HTC Aria, which is a compact 600MHz Android, will debut on Optus. “Free” on $49 plan with 1GB data. Nice little design. But… #badoptus
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je suis très impressionné par jour jusqu’à présent. Je crois que je vais écrire une plainte. Et vous?
Wed plan: Write for Crikey, somehow; lunch & local errands; an afternoon of desk things, details T@cward1erd1e at the Nippon Club.
It appears that my weekend of work-with-little-sleep has caught up with me.
Er.
Dead.
Home.
You mean there are people watching this shit of their own free will?
Goats! And who said Channel Nine had lost it?
“Fabio”? WTF?
It is remarkable what that woman can do with bamboo.
But a TV program that’s just the politician repeating the soundbites from his/her media release earlier in the day is of no value to me.
OK, it’s not all Kerry’s fault. Politicians endlessly repeating their “talking points” should be shot. Or ignored. But he let them do it.
By the way, am I the only one thinking “Kerry O’Brien leaving ‘The 7.30 Report’? About time!”? Packaged ritual politics FTL.
Not fair.
@franksting People pay for Foxtel?
Folded napkin.
“Queensland: Where Australia shines.” Wow. Someone was actually paid to come up with that slogan.
Billy Connolly replaced by a talking ape. Spot the difference. http://arseh.at/f7
Given the production budget for “Survivor”, how come none of the young men seem to be able to afford shirts?
RT @wolfcat: “I work in the public service and I tweet” - the t-shirt http://bit.ly/aKoB5N #grogsgate
That was funny. I was about to do the same, but by the time I hit the “edit” button it had already been fixed. Pedants.
Hey! Who just corrected the problem apostrophe on Wikipedia article about Bravo November? http://arseh.at/f4
Annoyed with people who take their dog to be tied up outside the pub, and then shout at it when it’s just pointing out it’s lonely. Cunts.
@theflightyzeus I must admit I’ve found the Art House Hotel to be a bit sphincters-clenched for my liking. Relax, drink, yarn, eat is it.
Oops. I’m fairly sure you’re not meant to do this with an MH-60. http://arseh.at/f3
None of you care, do you? This spring weather has turned your brains to mush. You people disgust me.
Where should @cward1e and I and random people foregather for drinks and food tomorrow night? CBD or near? Tempted to suggest Nippon Club.
I have unsubscribed from your blog because every post has three links to your goddam bloody book in it, with the title as the link text.
Cow. I am eating it.
Asking a client for the third time to tell me what the error message says.
All skins are fast. It is part of their skink nature.
@jdub [smirks] Yes, the NASA error was… amusing. I didn’t spot it at recording time but I figured I’d better say something. #PatchMonday
New “Patch Monday” podcast at @zdnetaustralia: “Opening up the cloud” with @jdub, @R_Chirgwin on fibre http://arseh.at/dn
@jdub Ta for the correction. @engochick is on holidays but I have notified @lukehopewell. He will be wonderful, I am sure.
And for anyone wanting to play platform zealotry, like I give a fuck. I chose the least-change path through Red Hat then Fedora years ago.
I did all this yesterday, but for those who seem to care it’s a hosting server for clients. CentOS and cPanel/WHM.
@purserj No, I do not use Gentoo.
@trib Donwload module / unpack module / recompile to include module is a damnsight faster than reading shit documentation.
@trib You’re assuming there’s a vast universe of binaries with the precise options one needs, clearly labelled and trustworthy.
Recompiling Apache. Sigh.
“Patch Monday” podcast filed! That was unnecessarily painful this week. I demand a refund.
Mobile: Enmore Rd; Newtown station; Town Hall station; QVB.
No really, the fact that you’ve installed new software on your computer or phone is quite interesting for everyone.
It is important that you express your individuality by choosing a new theme for your web browser. God will think better of you.
Dreading how The Media will report parliament today. “Chaos!” “Uproar!” “Revolution!” As everything proceeds normally.
+5 RT @SnarkyPlatypus: I dislike it when people confuse “personality” with “loud, obnoxious extrovert”.
@SnarkyPlatypus @helenperris You just don’t understand! A credit card is MOAR FREE MONEY!
Tue plan: Deep breath; 1000 HTC Aria Launch, QVB; quick CBD errands; desk afternoon catching up on many many comms; quiet evening, I hope.
@middleclassgirl If you eat too much baklava then you end up dribbling honey-scented juices from every orifice. I should know.
@SnarkyPlatypus Je pense que baklava peut être un peu trop la Méditerranée pour des événements de ce matin. J’espère que vous allez bien.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Il est fort possible que d’aujourd’hui peut être un genre très différent de la journée. Au moins je peux espérer.
Amused at what the world looks like when the email spam filters are not operating at full strength.
Aha.
“Oysters? They do breed, don’t they. I cannot think but the whole bed of the ocean is one solid mass of oysters.”
Pleased that Mungo MacCallum has noticed that “paradigm” is an anagram of “pig drama”.
@AshGhebranious Indeed, though TweetDeck can use any shortening service, you just add the URL to the preferences.
@AshGhebranious I’m currently using arseh.at for most of my URL shortening.
@AshGhebranious There’s something non-American about wire coathangers? [baffled]
Marketing fail #310: Think of the symbolism, people! http://arseh.at/e3
Hampshire LI, bans phone towers within 1500ft of children. There goes 4G/WiMaX, @TurnbullMalcolm! http://arseh.at/e2 #nbn
What do you mean I’d have to be at the “Elderly Citizen’s Centre”? What, exactly, are you suggesting here?
@SnarkyPlatypus Maybe the causes of the eyerolliness could be given some of that chemical goodness? That’d be amusing.
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: My eyes are rolling so far back, they’ve circumnavigated the globe several times by now. [On the nod again! Sigh.]
1952 filmclips “Snowy Hydro - The Snowy Mountains Scheme” http://arseh.at/dz #nbn
Senator Conroy’s rebuttal of @TurnbullMalcolm on the NBN. http://arseh.at/ds
The inevitable truth about vampires. http://arseh.at/dp
Oh. Wrong again.
I mis-typed “skins”. I’m not sure if that made things funny or sad.
I should not be awake, no. Nor should I be eating any more of this soup.
Mon plan: Complete “Patch Monday” podcast; lingering loose ends on this server migration; whatever else I have energy for.
Ah, a client’s clever IT Manager is out of the office until 11 October, but doesn’t give details of who’s in his place. Silly man.
“Yay”, he says weakly. “That’s the second batch of server migration work done. There’s more, but it’s less intense over the next two days.”
There shall now be coffee, codeine, and further work on the “Patch Monday” podcast.
Many thanks to @servepath, @BobcaresTweets and @linode for their fine work so far. But yes, there shall be further tinkering.
And @GrogsGamut responds to his outing by The Australian’s @jamesmassola http://arseh.at/dd Ping @jayrosen_nyu
News Ltd lashing out at critics is nothing new, @thewinchesterau. It’s Standard Operating Procedure these days. All a bit childish IMO.
Thank you @jdub! Unless @TurnbullMalcolm has a spare 10 mins at the airport, the “Patch Monday” podcast is about some FLOSS stuffs.
Journalist at The Australian @jamesmassola outs blogger @GrogsGamut as public servant. http://bit.ly/cQ5NR6 Ping @jayrosen_nyu
@jdub I should indeed have that chat with you about various FLOSS things for “Patch Monday”. I have various times available. See a DM.
Tonight’s server migration is ahead of schedule now. Annoyingly, I’ve had to get a support guy onto one bit of software.
Annoying GUI arsehattery #204: “Your login was successful. Click here to proceed.” JUST GIVE ME THE INTERFACE! Bloody TPP Internet!
Tonight’s batch of migrations is easier, just 5 large accounts which’ll take ages each, not all the fiddly little ones But I must write too.
@wraptinweb Webby “business hours” is a flexible concept, yes, but all these clients are Australian businesses serving Australians.
@wraptinweb I’m doing a server migration this weekend. Must needs be done outside business hours. Batches from midnight to 6am.
Awakens, slowly,
@peterjblack I suspect that watching Masterchef and Glee have drained all the creativity from your soul. Hence a dead blog.
Now there’s a phrase you don’t hear every day.
Lazily being lazy with a drink, before a slothful wait until I prep for my midnight start. Another 0000-0600 session tonight, and beyond.
RT @peterjblack: Stephen Colbert grills Google’s Eric Schmidt http://bit.ly/bsaF0f [FFS haven’t we got enough cooking shows already?]
23 images from “How to Photograph an Atomic Bomb”, a book which has many more. http://arseh.at/d2
@GeordieGuy What’s so odd about compressing a file before downloading it? [puzzled]
Thinking I probably should hove compressed this ginormous file before downloading it. The stripey bar gets longer all too slowly.
@jdub I haven’t touched upon that local-peering angle of the NBN, no. Definitely one for me to explore.
@jeamland Hah! An episode on DNS horror stories is perhaps too geeky. Or too marrow a kind of geeky anyway.
@jdub Your idea of a natter about sysadmin stuff could work, yes. New tools to make your life easier. I shall ponder for a bit.
In amongst all the sysadmin work this weekend, there hasn’t been must thought given to “Patch Monday”. This’ll be interesting. Sigh.
Sun plan: Easy day tidying up the server; afternoon or evening nap; another 6-hour migration session starting midnight. And “Patch Monday”?