@SnarkyPlatypus Je suis accablé par des exemples, mais je ne manquerai pas de raconter quelques détails au cours de la journée.
“Patch Monday” podcast filed!
No, the Senate online privacy inquiry is NOT still hearing evidence today, but they are talking ABC Directors this afternoon.
Mon plan: Complete “Patch Monday” podcast; a morning of writing; lunch; an afternoon of client webby stuff, probably, but really it’s TBA.
Today’s Senate Committee schedule still lists Friday’s hearing on online privacy. http://arseh.at/1bm Is it continuing today?
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: Lotus Notes? It is the source of about 29% of evil in the world. [This calls for a pie chart, you know…]
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je soutiens pleinement le concept de visqueux allongée gastéropodes terrestres qui n’ont pas de coquille. Et vous?
No, Apollo, the router is not an electric warming pad for sleeping cats.
Missed this! Greens would extend journo shield law to cover bloggers, citizen journalists, documentary filmmakers. http://arseh.at/1bk
I assume that “sluggish” means “full of slugs”.
ISOC asks: “What Will The Internet Look Like In 10 Years?” Videos of 4 potential scenarios. http://arseh.at/1bj
Altogether far too much information about Wieners. http://arseh.at/1bi #notaeuphemism
RT me: “Data retention by ISPs: your comments?” Audio comments for “Patch Monday” close 0830 AEDT. http://arseh.at/1b1 #ozlog
There’s a @cuntoftheweek? Cool. Even better than my “Cnut of the Week” from when I did “Stilgherrian Live”. http://arseh.at/1bh
Somebody called Blake Hounshell asks: “Has David Broder lost his mind?” http://arseh.at/1bg Ping @jayrosen_nyu
Somebody called David Broder reckons a war with Iran would save the Obama presidency. http://arseh.at/1bf HT @jayrosen_nyu
Oh.
Done. Finito. Gone.
@chrisjrn Yes, the whole episode is on iView. iView is always* whole episodes. *”Always” as far as I know.
That quote was from the first episode of “Rake”, currently on ABC iView at http://arseh.at/1bc
OH: “I am not a killer! I am an economist!” [OK, it was a role being played by Hugo Weaving. Of course.]
Thank you, @SnarkyPlatypus, for AKB48 It explains everything. http://youtu.be/yNg3mcjh…
“SMEG”? What is this? http://post.ly/18Z2z
OK, retweeting that is a bit lame. But I want your comments yet I’mm deep in the editing of “Patch Monday” and I want to stay in the zone.
RT me: New blog post: “Data retention by ISPs: your comments?” http://arseh.at/1b1 #ozlog
Thunder.
New blog post: “Data retention by ISPs: your comments?” http://arseh.at/1b1 #ozlog
HLMenckenBot Running the newspaper letters column, I always let in anyone who denounced me violently, because I believe people like to read abuse
Spending Sunday afternoon listening to a Senate Inquiry from Friday is somewhat brightened by the Senators’ dry jokes.
Switching into studio mode. Yes, work.
“A NASA Logo Makes Anything Look Space Age” http://arseh.at/1ae
I’m not sure why people are asking me questions instead of just clicking through to read the story.
“506 [sic] people were arrested as a result of the 101,248 searches and none of these arrests had anything to do with terrorism.”
“Just 504 people out of 101,248 searches under counter-terror powers last year were held for any offence.” @robcorr
Actually @robcorr I’ve got it slightly wrong ‘cos the story mentions figures from two different data sets. Stand by.
UK police searches under anti-terrorism powers: 101,248. Arrests: 504. Convictions: 237. Awaiting trial: 14. http://arseh.at/1ab
He is not to be confused with PM Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark. A: http://arseh.at/1a9 B: http://arseh.at/1aa
@SnarkyPlatypus J’ai appris de source sûre que la vodka a des pouvoirs de justice réparatrice au-delà de l’imagination.
Lars Rasmussen, co-creator of Google Maps and [cough] Wave hss gone to Facebook. I think I am worried. I’m not linking to TechCrunch though.
Thanks @RossPoulton, I had good feedback on my cloud security feature, and it was interesting to research. http://arseh.at/zd
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je suis plein de pensées introspective ce matin. Il doit être guérie. Et vous?
So good I’ll repeat it. Future of the computer industry? Try this @jstogdill post. http://arseh.at/1a8
Big-picture stuff: How points of control and rent-seeking work in the computer industry, by @jstogdill http://arseh.at/1a8
I am not going to tell you the name of the thing, because then you will only go and use it and it’s lame.
Sun plan: Produce “Patch Monday” podcast; maybe a bit of writing; somewhere in there, a walk, especially if there is a thunderstorm.
Thank you for your “support”, @jstogdill @ERN_Malleyscrub @kcarruthers @j4jonathan @facibus I love you too.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je suis très heureux avec l’intelligence et la générosité de la race humaine. Comme toujours. Et vous?
People of America, this is my Second Warning. I shall be in San Francisco from 6 to 12 December. Precautions should be taken.
Lenore Skenazy of “Free-Range Kids” fame on idiot Halloween paranoia. http://arseh.at/1au
“Yard Sign With Candidate’s Name On It Electrifies Congressional Race” http://arseh.at/1as
God Hates Figs (Mark 11:12-14) http://arseh.at/1ar HT @jasonlangenauer
I return. Je reviens. Ich zurückkomme. Vuelvo. ฉันà¸à¸¥à¸±à¸š. Palaan. 戒回æ¥ã€‚
Gone, mostly, except for people who know the secrets.
Because Stephanie Rice can swim fast, we must respect her opinion on all other matters.
Rugby isn’t so much a game as a repressed memory.
Home.
So, the lean young man with perfect ringlet hair, accompanied by the fat chick with rainbow angel wings… odds of heterosexuality?
Wading home through a sea of Halloween bullshit.
Evidence of same http://post.ly/18Klf
At midnight, there’s a band on King St that will be performing the entirety of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon”.
The universe explained http://post.ly/18Kgi
@drowner1979 No. No typo. I did not mean gin. I meant gun. A Browning 9mm is what I’m trained in and that would suffice.
OH: “It’s ok, I just got caught in the vagina backwash.”
Oh God, they are snogging. That happens when Australia is just one try ahead?
For reasons which I prefer not to disclose at this moment, I wish I had a gun right now.
@deptofinternets My life is rather special, I think.
Two big blokes fondle each other on the lawn in Hong Kong as entirely heterosexual men cheer them on in a dozen countries globally.
He sits transfixed by the Sport. She sits bored, poking at her iPhone. His hand slips inside the waist of her skirt as the crowd roars.
At the other table, the Japanese hipster chicks play with a camera that pretends to be a cheap 1960s disposable, but cost a month’s salary.
That is not a euphemism.
The stew having been much reduced, he starts on her leftover pasta.
She reaches for the champagne and downs half a glass. He shouts approval at the skilled tackle.
The entire time, his eyes have never left the tv screen showing the rugby. And yet his hand continues to move up along her thigh.
She has eaten maybe a third of the pasta and pushes it away in disgust. He fondles her thigh while scooping another faceful of stew.
Her: Black blouse, floral print skirt, white thongs, long black hair tied back, penne carbonara, cheap champagne.
Him: Cheap sky-blue shirt, old jeans with torn knees, sneakers, blond crewcut, beef stew, beer.
There are so many social rules! How can anyone keep track of them all?
If you are a sportsman, it is essential to sing the national anthem at least half a bar behind the random B-grade celebrity.
Wearing vinyl pants on King St, Newtown, means I am an individual. I have not succumbed to conformity.
If I buy a 2011 wall calendar containing cheap reproductions of famous artwork that’s out of copyright, I myself am more creative.
Innovation happens when smart people are left alone to invent new stuff. Every other word said on the subject is self-serving bullshit.
They have a 4-litre cask of white, a slab of Tooheys Extra Dry and sombreros. Their night has been planned perfectly.
@Jay_GW_Ng Well if you see me again, say hello. I am re-tracing my path back down King St right now. I am alone, in a grey t-shirt.
Please let me run my life using advice from cheap cushions http://post.ly/18Jip
Hey Preppie Boy? Label clothes you’d normally wear on Saturday, splashed with red dye to indicate blood, does not a Halloween costume make.
Wind chimes? WIND CHIMES! There should be planning permission before you’re allowed to install those things!
OH: “Shave my head, I’m Brittle! Give me peanut butter and I’m happy!”
@ApostrophePong Hah! I only leave SFO on 12 Dec. It’ll be 13 or maybe even 14 before I’m back, given time zones.
Mobile: Enmore Rd; King St; gym, apparently; some sort of social recreation, apparently. Attention limited.
@paris_david Thank you. I seem to have found the audio through a colleague, though, and Monday is a tad late. I file Monday morning.
I did a “Patch Monday” podcast on the data retention scheme back in July, if you want background. http://arseh.at/1af #ozlog
RT @D_Keating: *insert witty comment about retaining data from data retention debate here* [Yes, well… shoosh you.]
I don’t suppose anyone happened to record the audio stream from yesterday’s #ozlog data retention debate in the Senate committee?
RT @ViciousPotato I’ll just sit here, listening to the teddy bear’s picnic song on loop… [First sensible idea I’ve seen all day.]
They choose to read mX. All of them. No-one is forcing them.
@SnarkyPlatypus Interesting, but the extensive and expensive wine bar must wait until another time.
To the disappointment of cheese lovers and fans of accidental drownings everywhere, I have decided to go home, thus avoiding stabbiness.
I am slowly getting closer to the Harbour…
Architectural marvels, Sydney CBD http://post.ly/180cb
OH, man on phone, leaving voicemail: “I’ve decided to get pissed today, so why don’t you give me a call.”
RT @alexkidman: Invent a new type of cheese, using only the implements you can beg, borrow or steal. [Now THAT’s a challenge! Plus, cheese.]
The appeal of going into the new Westfield thing is minimal, @teknetia @Jay_GW_Ng. Yet another cluster of the same brand-name shops? Yawn.
I know it’s IT industry jargon, but whenever I see “vendor” I think of old blokes selling stale vegetables from ill-maintained wooden carts.
My 1830 meeting has been postponed. I am in the Sydney CBD. Do I go home? Run amok here? Throw myself into the Harbour? Other suggestions?
@JonoH Do you know when the OTA Android 2.2 upgrade for Telstra’s HTC Desire will happen, for those of us not on Windows? ;)
I’m talking NBN [pre-recorded] with @synmedia at 4.30pm AEDT, streamed from http://syn.org.au/
Ben Pobjie’s Guide To Twitter. Because there’s a worldwide shortage of Guides to Twitter. http://bit.ly/96VKPA
Transition complete.
The Transition is proceeding quite painlessly.
RT @meadea The Woman’s Weekly has Christmas on its cover… [Ta, I’d have missed that. Christmas is getting very silly.]
Dear QVB, putting up your Christmas tree in October smacks of desperation.
@inanaj Feel free to email me something, I’ll be able to look after my errands. Market growth stories tend to bore me though.
RT @ChasLicc Scary & overprotective parents just got a lot more scary & overprotective http://bit.ly/acniBi [This truly disgusts me.]
@franksting My Virgin Mobile contract is expiring so I’m porting my number to Telstra Next G immediately. #badoptus
@dfg77 The “why” might be interesting, maybe, but the research couldn’t be knocked off on an afternoon. Too many people to chase.
@dfg77 Vendors and their staff not using their own products sounds more like a written list than a conversation, but yes.
Mobile: Enmore Rd; Newtown station; Town Hall station; 1200 Telstra T[life] store, 400 George St; remainder TBA.
Pondering what I should do for the “Patch Monday” podcast this week. You are permitted to make suggestions.
@Tamarajawad Embrace chaos. And demand free airline tickets. ;)
Stephen Bartholomeusz reckons NBN Co got Telstra’s network at a bargain price, with provisos. http://arseh.at/1a7
My “Weekly Wrap 21” was posted last night, because I’m organised. http://arseh.at/19l
New blog post: “Return of the Hallucinating Goldfish: Help!” http://arseh.at/1a6 Ping @stubbornmule
@stubbornmule I don’t suppose you’ve ever updated your graph of Australia’s historical debt-to-GDP ratio? http://arseh.at/1a4
Yeah.
Yeah well bye.
Adam Curtis pays tribute to the Lada, via a 1977 film etc. http://arseh.at/19u
Polite society is easy to find, @lelak @Nickhodge, it’s the thing where you don’t have a bum in your face.
While “journalists” were busy reporting “politics”, here’s what Parliament actually did. http://arseh.at/19t HT @timdunlop
Look, I don’t care what species you are, I don’t wish to examine your vagina that closely right now.
DFAT holding info sessions on ACTA in CBR, SYD, MEL. http://arseh.at/19q HT various.
I often ask myself that question.
Dear Media, “Holiday Cliché Lockdown is now in force”, says@johnemcintyree. And rightly so. http://arseh.at/19n
New blog post: “Weekly Wrap 21” http://arseh.at/19l A bit early, maybe, but now I get to sleep in tomorrow.
@kristinmoore2 @SnarkyPlatypus One glass of wine per hour seems a bit… torpid.
@MishoBaranovic I suspect there’s a certain amount of tribalism involved here. I was just stirring a mate.
@SnarkyPlatypus Can you further explain the work-to-red-wine equation? Do you have a newsletter?
@MishoBaranovic I’d have thought it was rather obvious I was talking about technical rather than creative aspects of the photographs.
@helendickenson Surely you’re not suggesting that unless Murdoch gives you a few pages of tabloid tripe you can’t think of anything to do?
Maybe I should update the Hallucinating Goldfish post with more recent examples. Seems dated now. http://arseh.at/19h
@SnarkyPlatypus I think I should mention “debt”, “great big tax” and “Hansonism” [whatever the fuck that’s mean to mean]. And get a cloth.
So @franksting this Instagram thing is some hipster toy that hides the fact that the camera in your phone takes really shitty pictures?
Agreed, @natecochrane, what debt is used for makes a BIG difference. #multipliereffect But now we stray a LONG way from my knowledge. ;)
Oh, you like the Hallucinating Goldfish thing? Here’s my original blog post ‘pon same. http://arseh.at/19h
Uhoh! Combinatorial explosion of people to @reply to. And I wasn’t going to get into politics this afternoon. Oopsie!
My preferred term is that we’re governed by Hallucinating Goldfish. No long-term memory, and a world of imagined horrors.
I do remember, @aqualung. But politicians and their co-dependent media live in what @BernardKeane calls the Perpetual Present.
RT @aqualung: Do you remember a few years back Costello was very proud to get DOWN to 6% debt:GDP … now Libs complain of 6% after stimulus
In that context, to use the customary example, 6% of GDP debt is like a household with $100k income taking out a $6k loan. Dearie me.
Debt is not automatically bad, @skaye. People borrow money to buy a home, for example, and it’s considered quite normal.
Australia worries about “debt” at 6% of GDP, when US is 60%. Or is it really 14x that? US bankrupt? http://arseh.at/19e
How to explain the internet to a 19th century street urchin, a flowchart. http://arseh.at/19d
Fellow Media People, may I suggest you run media releases and speeches thru this Gobbledygook Grader. http://arseh.at/19c
“Latest Newspoll has NSW Labor back to 1904 Levels”, says @AntonyGreenABC. Contains graphs. http://arseh.at/19b
@spandaslui “Jealous”? Home doesn’t mean I’ve stopped work. Far from it.
Home.
@piawaugh @nambor Oh, that was kinda meant to be a DM. Seems it’s not only email that I can’t operate today.
“Poodles”?
@piawaugh Heya, I don’t suppose you have a number for Rob Manson @nambor, by any chance? We’re meant to be meeting tomorrow.
@jg_rat What do you mean? I always look good!
Shout, shout, let it all out, these are the things I can do without / Come on, I’m talking to you, come on.
RT @NewtonMark: OH at work: “That looks even more stupid as time goes by. It’s like it was sent back to us in a retardis.”
Yes @NewtonMark I also believe that Twitter’s compulsory link shortener will kill our use of arseh.at. Monocultural imperialism FTL.
I seem to have forgotten how to use email.
Hah! @daev @stufromoz Yes, I’ve been warned to pack a jumper. It’ll be my first time to San Francisco. I will explain My Purpose later.
San Francisco? Early December? Oh, alright then.
Media Rangalert! The Prime MInister is about to be be on ABC News 24.
Yes. Yes of course.
Yes. Yes of course.
The laundry owner apologises profusely. Prices will rise. By 30c. It’s the first price rise in 5 years.
Mobile: Enmore Rd for lunch, then back again. Très excitement.
“Greens set for Significant Gains at Victorian Election”, says @AntonyGreenABC http://arseh.at/183
“Free broadband will help the NBN’s case”, reckons @phildobbie in “Twisted Wire” podcast. http://arseh.at/182 #nbn
Me at Crikey: “Turnbull v Conroy: how Coalition broadband plan stacks up” http://arseh.at/181 #nbn
Rational, consistent views on online publishing from @overingtonc, as spotted by Jason Wilson. http://arseh.at/180
@NickEvershed No, I haven’t used Gephi myself. I’m not really up to speed on that kind of dataset analysis.
@jasonlangenauer Yes, people do just give their password when asked by an installer. It’s the “make the confusing thing go away” reflex.
New trojan attacks OS X: trojan.osx.boonana.a http://arseh.at/17y
This software Gephi http://gephi.org/ is a tool for “exploratory data analysis” http://arseh.at/17x Ping @stubbornmule
Je suis très fatigué.
Crikey story filed, no thanks to two bored cats deciding that they can amuse themselves with the objects on my desk.
@Tamarajawad Yes, I meant when the MediaConnect team is chosen to be on-site at KickStart. I know all else is probably chaos. ;)
@nambor Eek, project! Hope it went well. As I mentioned to @ApostrophePong, you guys sort the details and I’ll turn up.
@Tamarajawad When does the final team get selected for KickStart? I assume relatively late in the production process?
RT @benhider: [I]t’s always the people who say loudest they hate drama who create most of it. [Oh ain’t that the truth!]
@SnarkyPlatypus I believe that I am an entire category of biodiversity just on my own. Have you seen my special gland?
I have just booked myself into KickStart 2011. People of Queensland, beware! http://arseh.at/18y
Have you ever noticed how for some people every little day-to-day activity is such a massive source of drama and OMFGness?
Dear America, I shall be in San Francisco from 6 to 12 December. That is all.
Fri plan: Start new client project; 1200 Sydney CBD change telephony; plan “Patch Monday” podcast; evening meeting @nambor @ApostrophePong
@SnarkyPlatypus Vous savez la transition! Il implique les vierges et les lapins chinois et le robot que les boissons Kool-Aid.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Aujourd’hui est Le Jour de la Grande Transition. Il y aura des améliorations! Et vous?
Stratfor: “WikiLeaks and the Culture of Classification” http://arseh.at/18x
@RantRotAndRuin Where is there “hate” in anything that was just said? There’s a lot of steps before one gets to “hate”.
Photos of people who became nouns, e.g. Hooker, Jacuzzi, Leotard, Mae West. http://arseh.at/18w
@jasonlangenauer Presentation is an important part of professionalism, don’t you think?
RT @jdub: There must be a government department responsible for slapping libertarians… there must be! I’ll find it yet.
Blip.
Home.
OH: “I’m not sure what they were… Scorpions or Serbian or something…”