“There is actually a word for that squiggly line. It’s a tilde.” “It sounds like half of a national anthem.” #optrial
Optus: How much of this debate can you put on a billboard? … One cannot buy the product from the billboard. #optrial
Optus’ barrister making some interesting analogies, which I shall detail in my article. Too fast to tweet. #optrial
ACCC’s barrister considers Optus’ PowerPoint decks to be “training in misrepresentation”. #optrial
Sadly this courtroom exhibits a distinct lack of whiskey of any kind.
Apparently there are two versions of one document, with different page numbers. This could get messy. #optrial
ACCC’s barrister running thru minor typo-corrections and other fixes in their written evidence. Très exceitement. #optrial
During the break, the judge viewed the online versions of Optus’ adverts. #optrial
Android 2.2 Froyo is finally available for Telstra’s HTC Desire customers, it seems. http://arseh.at/16p
@brisvegas1 Good God, what’s the similarity between me and @natecochrane? Does he want to be tarred with that brush?
@oberonsghost Nye Perram was appointed Judge in Federal Court in August 2008. http://arseh.at/16n #optrial
RT me: Background to ACCC v Singtel Optus: it’s all about whether “unlimited” is misleading advertising. http://arseh.at/16f #optrial
Court has resumed. #optrial
Thank you, Seymour Hersh, for a cyberwar article that isn’t exploding oil refinery arsehattery. http://arseh.at/16m
@ApostrophePong @nambor I’ll go wherever you guys say. I am a puppet.
@jonoabroad Years go, audio and video recording gear was big and had operators, so it would have disrupted the court, affected its dignity.
ZDNet story number one filed! Ping @joshgnosis and where the hell is my lunch, you bastards? #optrial
Court is adjourned until 2.15pm. Justice Nye Perram has both lunch and a judges’ meeting. #optrial
Optus’ TV ads being shown in court. Judge says he’ll try to watch them as if a “casual and inattentive TV viewer”. #optrial
ACCC’s barrister explaining intricacies of on-peak versus off-peak and when throttling happens, according to Optus’ plans. #optrial
ACCC’s barrister is now talking the court through one of the Optus flyers highlighting big and little print, what is or isn’t said. #optrial
Recording of any form, audio or video, is not permitted in the Federal Court. @jonoabroad #optrial
As the discussion descends to detailed interpretation-of-documents issues, the media folks tap away at their stories. #optrial
This hearing will not consider penalties, corrective advertising etc. Will await judge’s decisions on “misleading”, “deceptive”. #optrial
Judge will not grant access to those documents for now, but wants Optus to justify why this should be kept secret. #optrial
Optus is trying to prevent certain website traffic info being placed in evidence, as it might give competitors confidential info. #optrial
Silly thing is, when I was working for ABC Radio in the late 1980s, “by satellite” was just another button on the mixing desk. Idiots.
Mind you, when The 7.30 Report interviewed the PM “by satellite” the other day, it was if they’d discovered fire or the wheel or something.
So when the ABC says they’ll “fast track” a TV program, it means “not leave languish in bureaucracy”? Satellites, right? Like, easy.
RT @jonoabroad: You have a government for each state and you question ONE person saying “Yeah, play what they said” ? [Well, yes, indeed.]
Apparently @peterjblack is at a Sling Bar. I don’t know what that means. Really I don’t. But the word “Crisco” just came to mind.
RT @renailemay: Seriously, the LINK mailing list always discusses the most random crap. [Yeah, it’s like 4chan for pensioners.]
@expectproblems You have spurs? Really? Um … [shuffles feet] … You have my number.
Did I just @reply to the wrong person? Probably. You’re clever people. You can join the dots.
Sorry @riskybusiness explain to me again why the ABC, our NATIONAL broadcaster, is pandering to parochialism? ;)
I agree @samthebridge different cities have different musical tastes. Doesn’t mean you need all those people to keep track of that.
I should probably mention that I did an orientation session for Michael Tunn when he joined the ABC in 1990. There is history. As always.
@andrew_hedge I think Tunny’s pet peeve right now would be that I’m arguing against him having a job! ;)
Just think! For each ABC Radio local music director scrapped that one more episode of Spicks & Specks! Oh. As you were.
I get your point about regional variation @riskybusiness but I reckon for ABC it’s still a luxury item. Playlists, computers etc.
RT @benpobjie: So now he directs music, when once he directed our hearts. [Sir, go get yourself a cloth! Immediately!]
Well @riskybusiness I’d have thought one music director for all ABC Local Radio network would been enough. Given it’s a talk network.
@ghostwhowrites “Quick”? If one hasn’t filed one’s story within 30 minutes of the court session finishing, questions are asked!
Why ABC Radio needs a separate music director in each major city is one of those curious questions, eh @abcmarkscott?
It says here @screelman that Michael Tunn is ABC Radio’s music director in Darwin. http://arseh.at/16y
And @rycrozier’s coverage of ACCC v Singtel Optus? Morning http://arseh.at/16w Afternoon http://arseh.at/16x
Re-pimp: My coverage of ACCC v Singtel Optus, alleging misleading advertising. Morning http://arseh.at/16r Afternoon http://arseh.at/16u
I think I typo’d the name, but I copied someone else’s tweet. Blame them.
Hey ABC, you’ve got great people in addition to @annabelcrabb. No need to squeeze one lemon dry. Remember what you did to Michael Tunn?
“The train on platform 1 goes to Hurstville via Banksia.” Well there’s a sales pitch, eh?
Well OK then, I’ll go back to the village. See if I care.
Wrestling has been replaced with rodeo bull-riding. The world is wonderful.
@DigitalMediaBoy I’m at the Nippon Club on Macquarie St, a curious Sydney phenomenon. I will explain another time.
The M Principle, @jonoabroad, is that wherever you are someone will be the most attractive man in the room. Both liberating and depressing.
@DigitalMediaBoy But I AM out of the house, and have been since 0900. Do pay attention.
It is a sad fact, but the most attractive men currently on offer are the wrestlers on One HD. Kill me.
Trying to apply The M Principle to this room’s RI and ending up befuddled and disappointed.
@expectproblems Don’t pick on the courtroom comments, lawyers are of course trying to win a case. Sometimes it turns into farce.
So, I’m in the Sydney CBD and I haven’t had dinner yet…
Well in that case @joshgnosis I will thank @engochick for the editing goodness. Still, “The internet is not a bottle of shampoo”… #optrial
Pleasingly, @joshgnosis has left my little jokes in the story. Well, Justice Perram’s jokes. #optrial
Me at @zdnetaustralia: “ACCC says Optus pitch is misleading”, the afternoon wrap http://arseh.at/16u #optrial
So, ABC Radio piece done, ZDNet stories filed, paying work locked in for tomorrow… I believe that I’ve succeeded admirably for the day.
@mtats I like making them cry.
@mtats Hah! I think the “fact” that “nobody” uses Limewire any more is one of the key points!
“Dear Libs: let the NBN fall on its own”, says David Braue (@zyzzyvamedia) http://arseh.at/16t
At 5.40pm, in 20 mins, I’m doing a spot on ABC Radio Statewide NSW (Regionals) on Limewire and whatever else. No stream, alas.
@GumbyRoffo I’m not sure if my story goes live tonight or in the morning. I am but a minion, typing for food. #optrial
@jonoabroad Yes, only one day of courtroom hearings, ‘cos most of it was in the written submissions and evidence beforehand. #optrial
ZDNet story number two filed! Ping @joshgnosis and where the hell is my beer you bastards? Oh. Here. Thank you, Nippon Club. #optrial
I am now busily finishing my story. Shoosh. #optrial
Wow! Court is adjourned. The hearing is over. Judgement is expected 2.15pm this Friday. #optrial
@expectproblems I can reassure you that every quote I am tweeting has been said aloud in this courtroom. There are witnesses. #optrial
Optus’s lawyer: [Points out where information was given in a TV advert.] Judge: “I missed that. I was distracted by the fish.” #optrial
Me at @zdnetaustralia, summary of this morning: “You know super-fast ain’t so super: Optus” http://arseh.at/16r #optrial
Justice Perram: “There is a class of person that does read all that fine print. Most of them have been appointed to this court.” #optrial
And @TurnbullMalcolm’s speech to Parliament about the Bill, from Tuesday. http://arseh.at/17l #nbn
Here’s @TurnbullMalcolm’s National Broadband Network Financial Transparency Bill [8pp PDF] http://arseh.at/17k #nbn
Writing mode. Quiet please.
Thu plan: Write for Crikey; various interesting plannings punctuated by lunch; in theory, gym and dinner with @SnarkyPlatypus, in theory.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bien sûr! Je suis toujours stimulé! S’il vous plaît examiner la preuve vidéo. http://youtu.be/L4U3Maj2…
Re-pimp: My coverage of ACCC v Singtel Optus, alleging misleading advertising. Morning http://arseh.at/16r Afternoon http://arseh.at/16u
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je suis confus par les images de Sylvester Stallone en bas résilles. Et vous?
“Whales like the attention”, @owenmcleod? Really? Well, as long as it’s all for the sake of the whales…
You should leave the poor whales alone. Whale-harassment should not be a tourism industry.
So, there’s a gene for liberalism? Blogosphere, media, you know what to do! http://arseh.at/178 HT @jayrosen_nyu
I suppose I should see what people said to me late last night, but that’d mean reliving that other stupidity. Maybe after more drugs.
There!
I’m going now. I will read and agree with your tweets about this stupidity in the morning.
Maybe it’s a dream. Maybe if I go to bed, in the morning I’ll discover that “Sure, it’s 2010 but it’s still Windows-only” was a nightmare.
@kedgie I know what I know from official HTC/Telstra documentation. http://arseh.at/171 If that’s not right then they’re double-arsehats.
Dear HTC and Telstra, this is wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
RT @RobertCandelori: The funny thing is that Windows Phone 7 has a Mac sync client.
I also heard all the cool htcsense.com stuff I mentioned yesterday will only work on Vodafone/3, screw the folks already on Telstra. True?
But @Xavier_Ho setting up a Windows VM and trashing it still means significant time sysadminning another machine just to upgrade the phone.
Well, yes, that sounds like “committed to providing customers with the best possible mobile experience” to me!
RT @bondles9: I have Windows. Doesn’t help. 5 hour download, and when it finishes it deletes all your contacts, messages, files and settings
“As always, HTC is committed to providing customers with the best possible mobile experience,” they lie. http://arseh.at/171
So, Telstra and HTC, I have to buy a PC and install Windows to upgrade my HTC Desire to Android 2.2? You fuckwits! http://arseh.at/171
@NewtonMark What’s “BitTorrent”?