Gone.
The entire plot of that stupid vampire series explained in one photo. http://arseh.at/2be
Home. Horizontal.
A certain restaurant owner has just accused me of being out past my bedtime. She’s right. She may also have been drinking. Ah, my village!
Great band name, @KingLeonard: Permanent Barge.
My opinion has dropped.
I assume tonight’s excuse for Sydney fireworks is the Ranga-in-Chief launching World AIDS Day at the Opera House? If so, crass.
OH: “My friend, right? She’s got a Facebook and she’s got like 2500 friends. She flashes her tits but you have to be her friend to see ‘em.”
OH, reply: “Fucking Facebook. Mate, if I haven’t seen someone in the last two weeks I don’t want to fucking know them.”
OH: “I got my first computer last year and within three months I had two email addresses and an iPhone. And now I’m on Facebook.”
@PennySharpemlc I’m glad that the mermaid is working for you. She’s pretty special.
RT @cjjosh @stilgherrian I think you’re showing a lot of patience. [See? Someone realises. Thank you.]
Wow. So this is what “workers” look like.
Mobile from Pyrmont: Bridge; Town Hall station; Newtown station; yay, back in my village.
So a quiet drink with @anthonybaxter and @coljac… what could possibly go wrong?
The iappANZ conference is ending, so I must now potter off to find a new place to connect to the internets. Stand by.
Said focus on “journalists” also gives a [false?] impression that @jonaholmesMW thinks Twitter is “journalism” not “just” “publication”.
I’d query the focus on the participants being “journalists”. It affects journalists’ work, sure, but it affects everyone else the same.
Having now read @jonaholmesMW piece on The @australian v @julieposetti http://arseh.at/2at I find little to disagree with.
@thewetmale You’d be after my “Why Twitter is useless for covering conferences” http://arseh.at/2av #twitdef
Thanks @robcorr, I was relying on my in-head lay memories of defamation, gained some time ago at the ABC and updated as needed.
RT @robcorr: The matter is “published” when you click “post” and somebody subsequently downloads the text.
RT @robcorr: Actually a tweet is “matter”, ie “any…thing by means of which something may be communicated to a person”. [Thanks, lawyer man.]
The demands for “exhaustive lists” are most amusing. What fool would hard-code a fast-changing list into a law?
Laughing at how agitated people get when they discover that a law doesn’t actually work they way they imagined it did, or they want it to.
Yes, @mpesce, you finally seem to be understanding what the law is. Medium, location etc does not matter. I am not defending this.
I agree that defamation law is “a cudgel the rich use to shut the poor up”, @mpesce, but I’m just describing what the law IS, now.
You’ve missed the point, @mpesce. Medium is irrelevant. Australian defamation law: making something known to someone else is publishing.
However @mpesce @jonaholmesMW I reckon that’s now how most Twitter users would want it. The law may be “wrong”.
Thing is, @mpesce, as Australian law currently stands Twitter IS publication. ANY comms medium is publication. Ping @jonaholmesMW
The @australian v @julieposetti thingo as seen by @jonaholmesMW http://arseh.at/2at and which I am currently reading.
@wjpepperell Indeed, there was a comment at this event about government restrictions forcing cloud usage underground.
But I’m not having a go at @geoffelliott, I’m simply taking an idea for a walk. What does “general knowledge” mean with media fragmentation?
The Australian’s previous pieces mentioning the Chambers Twitter case. http://bit.ly/b2Ypbo http://bit.ly/avCqwF HT @JonathonOake
@PointZeroOne I have no idea what you’re talking about. I’ve destroyed the evidence and that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
@geoffelliott There’s an interesting question, I think, about how widely-known something has to be before it’s “general knowledge”.
Just to clarify your piece, @geoffelliott, were you across the Chambers case before Powles’ Friday tweet? http://arseh.at/2aj
Ben Sandilands (Crikey Blogs’ @PlaneTalking) reminisces on 50 years of aviation reporting. http://arseh.at/2ai
Met at @zdnetaustralia: Cloud could be ‘privacy enhancing’, says Privacy Commissioner. http://arseh.at/2ah
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: Damn antlers clogging up my drawer.
@peterjblack It’s very much in the interests of lawyers not to know about collaboration tools that’d involve their clients: hourly rates.
Mobile: Enmore Rd; Newtown station; Town Hall station; walk to Darling Harbour; Harbours Edge conference thingorama.
“I didn’t want to sound stupid. I’m not stupid.” http://arseh.at/2a4
@peterjblack “There is no point pushing students to use social media if they are not already.” No use pushing to learn anything at all?
Tue plan: iappANZ cloud / privacy conference http://arseh.at/2a0 Darling Harbour; gym [?] & dinner w@SnarkyPlatypusypus.
US federal magistrate orders CIA to release docs on MKULTRA LSD mind-control experiments, pursues more. http://arseh.at/2a1
In theory I’m at iappANZ’s “Silver Lining: The Privacy Umbrella of Cloud Computing” conference all day today. http://arseh.at/2a0
I probably needed to be awake about an hour or two ago, but not awake for the six to eight hours before that. Grrr.
Brilllbt.
Struggling to stay awake.
I seem to be having vowel problems.
Somoene in the crowd at the cricket is playing “The Final Countdown” on trumpet. It is the End Time.
@jayrosen_nyu In the context of #twitdef you may want to look at what @JonPowles has just been tweeting. Curiouser and curiouser.
Also, I do not wish to follow up ANY of your tweets related to “sphincter competence”. The entire concept is wrong. Just wrong.
I think I might start a national newspaper just so I can sue the lot of you unruly cunts.
I could sit here and watch this all day. We have some odd tribes in this village.
Watching the signals of tribalism emerging.
I really didn’t need to know that there is such a thing as “sphincter competence”.
@paininthenet NOOOOOO! That was a joke! I am not in Crikey’s Melbourne office! DO NOT TRUST ME!
@paininthenet Alternatively you can just send me your credit card details and I promise trooly rooly not to go buy new furniture.
@crikey_news I think someone needs to see this. @paininthenet is possibly unhappy. http://arseh.at/29h
Alas I have no direct link to the Crikey free trial process, @ericscheid, but I’m told that subs@crikey.com.au people are helpful.
Guy Rundle’s Crikey piece on WikiLeaks is free to read though. http://arseh.at/29g Does that make me MOAR SPESHUL?
Me at Crikey: “WikiLeaks slammed by Wikipedia co-founder, disrupted by hacker” http://arseh.at/29f [Paywall’d, free trial]
@angelavoipierre I should mention that most organisations are “doing it wrong” ‘cos their disaster recovery plan doesn’t exist.
@angelavoipierre Amazon has stable, secure infrastructure. Whether this is permanent depends on paying the bills and Amazon’s T&Cs.
Whether WikiLeaks is on ACMA’s blacklist or not is unknown, @sexenheimer, unless someone uses a product that uses it?
@angelavoipierre “Quick”? If you can’t move your hosting in under four hours then you’re doing it wrong.
WikiLeaks’ #cablegate stuff is hosted on a separate domain http://cablegate.wikilea… out of Amazon and octopuce.fr.
It appears that WikiLeaks is back up and running, hosted out of Amazon’s cloudy bits.
That snarky FT article on Australia’s parliament is quite amusing, I agree. And snarky. http://arseh.at/29c
RT @JohnBirmingham: Why is my master Steve Jobs allowing Rupert Murdoch to wear his turtlenecks? [To hide the electric collar?]
Mobile: Enmore Rd; lunch; errands; back to my desk because there’s things to be done this afternoon, unfortunately.
New “Patch Monday” podcast at @zdnetaustralia: “Cybercrime: the FBI’s worldview” http://arseh.at/295
Personally, I’d have thought that if you’re citing a report as evidence, you’d at least mention its title. [grumble] #nbn #badfairfax
I’ll start watching everyone doing the selective-quote thing a bit later. Meanwhile I reckon it’s time for lunch or brunch or some meal.
And here is the report! “Superfast: Is It Really Worth a Subsidy?” http://arseh.at/293 #nbn
Here’s @JohnQuiggin’s take on said report. http://arseh.at/292 Still looking for said report. #nbn
@purserj I’ve no idea. The report isn’t even named in that Fairfax/AAP story, let alone linked to. It’s not on tghe agency’s website.
“Labor downplays critical report on NBN”: evidence supporting fibre claims “surprisingly weak” http://arseh.at/290
Crikey story filed!
New “A Series of Tubes” podcast with @R_Chirgwin and me talking NBN business plans, product roadmaps, POIs, politics. http://arseh.at/28v
I’m glad you added search to your website, @franksting, that’ll great for people whose internets don’t have Google or Bing.
RT @deptofinternets: Slacktivism has reached its final, perfect state; http://arseh.at/28r [I agree. This is glorious. Can we all go now?]
@kwyjibo79 You missed the following tweet, maybe? Where I point out that’s only amongst the docs published by The Guardian thus far.
@Wyld I have yet to decide my pornoscan versus gropesearch strategy for the US. Maybe a little from column A, a little…
Mon plan: Write for Crikey; lunch & errands; review two new client projects; planning for US trip (a week away!); quiet evening.
Ah yes, @th3j35t3r has taken responsibility for the DoS attack on WikiLeaks. Background at http://arseh.at/28q Thanks, @ikostar
cuntoftheweek Sarah Palin is Cunt of the Week for being a media whore, being perennially fucking stupid and for demeaning US politics. http://bit.ly/M6tBk
RT @mjec: DDoS traffic looks slightly different to popularity. Not to say @wikileaks necessarily knows that. [Also, economical with truth.]
WikiLeaks claims it’s under DDoS attack. http://arseh.at/28p Or just overloaded? Or just awash in its own sense of self-righteousness?
@SnarkyPlatypus Je crois que la «Passion Pop» fera l’objet du ridicule au Daghestan.
I think that might be my new catch-phrase. “It’s practically the same thing.” It’s so… practical.
Well, that’s one of the documents read. 249,999 to go.
“[Drunk FSB colonel] highly insulted … we would not allow him to add ‘cognac’ to our wine. “It’s practically the same thing,” he insisted.
“The Dagestani milieu appears to be one in which the highly educated and the gun-toting can mix easily — often in the same person.”
“The alcohol consumption before, during and after this Muslim wedding was stupendous… thousands of bottles of Beluga Export vodka.”
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je dois remercier les gens puissants du Daghestan pour inspirer mon prochain dîner. Et vous?
“Main activity of the day was eating and drinking”, “sodden with drink”, “bout of jet skiing in the Caspian”, “a couple of Azeri pop stars”.
North Caucusus oil-power relationships revealed at rowdy Dagestani wedding. http://arseh.at/28o #wikileaks
NYT’s coverage of WikiLeaks’ “The US Embassy Cables”, again only a small selection published: http://arseh.at/28n
Correction. That’s only the limited subset of documents that The Guardian has put online. 58 of 250,000-odd cables.
The Guardian’s well-structured site on WikiLeaks’ “The US Embassy Cables”: nothing directly on Australia. http://arseh.at/28m
“Oh you naughty tweeters - you’ve upset the establishment”, says @jjn1. About UK, but explains The Australian. http://arseh.at/28l
Cannes Gold Palm-nominated short “Truth in Advertising” from 2001, worth re-visiting. http://arseh.at/28k HT @JuzMcMuz
StatSheet’s “robot army” writes college basketball news using statistics. http://arseh.at/28j Ping @SnarkyPlatypus
Students? “You can smell the self-interest and grubby ambition lurking beneath the veneer of unworkable ideals.” http://arseh.at/28i
Oh. The WikiLeaks thing. I suppose I’d better get up to speed on that. That means getting out of bed. Coffee. Maybe event pants.
NYT feature explains how an arsehole uses customer complaints to boost his Googlejuice. http://arseh.at/28h
That’s outrageous.
Oh I get it. Monday. Right.
Evaporating.
For those interested, “Patch Monday” will be the edited highlights of an FBI presentation on cybercrime. #ecrime
After I make the podcast, @GumbyRoffo, @zdnetaustralia puts the words into the CMS and otherwise prepares it. It’ll appear tomorrow.
Has anyone playing #telstrawp7 got the kind of personal abuse that #telstradesire participants got yet? Or have the #smeg folk grown up?
“Patch Monday” podcast filed!
@SnarkyPlatypus You know, watching that many episodes of “Peep Show” in a row is like mainlining chocolate mud cake for a week.
But it’s true, @middleclassgirl. In fact, @Nickhodge sold me my very first Mac in 1985, when he was working for Random Access in Adelaide.
You know, @Nickhodge, anyone who relies on ME to vouch for them is pretty much fucked before they start, eh @middleclassgirl?
Disgruntled. It’s a beautiful spring evening, but I have to close the doors and windows so I can record the podcast. Sigh.
@SnarkyPlatypus Excellent. You’re up to a Difficult Conversation Wine. Not long to go now!
That’s all about catching up after insomnia and maybe the weather, I think.
Instead of audio editing, I fell asleep from 1330 to 1730. That needed to happen. But it means my audio editing will happen this evening.
@citizen_cam Press the close button on it. Allow the site to set a cookie to say you pressed the close button. Problem solved.
Stephen Mayne’s balance of power chances according to @AntonyGreenABC: possible, but not most likely result. http://arseh.at/287
@littlemissscifi @citizen_cam Any reason you’re unable to press the close button on the Jimmy Wales message and just not see it again?
Press Council notices internet, takes on quaintly archaic “fear of blggers” worldview. It’s 2005 again! http://arseh.at/286
Crikey founder Stephen Mayne could hold balance of power in Victoria’s LC? Gawd. http://arseh.at/285
“Of course. Brings the insufferable music then goes. He’s like the 1980s.”
OH, in the street outside: “Mum! You can put the poo in the bin here! Look! There’s a bin! Put the poo here!”
New blog post: “Weekly Wrap 25” http://arseh.at/27z
Smirks.
“Orwellian nightmare becomes reality”, says @howespaul of the Ark Tribe case. http://arseh.at/27y
Wondering is there’s enough new material in the cyber crime presentation by the FBI guy to use as the core of “Patch Monday”. #ecrime
Sun plan (eventually): Produce “Patch Monday” podcast; end of plan; remainder subject to Brownian Motion.
Another journalists tests US TSA gropesearches, repeatedly, and finds them lacking. http://arseh.at/27x HT @NewtonMark
Congealing into existence. Throopht!
Fflarrpt. [gone]
Home.
No matter how much you spend on designer clothing, it will never hide the fact that you’re shallow, stupid and ugly.
My current whereabouts are subject to a D Notice. #peacocks
There’s only three things I can do well in this world, and selecting the wine is one of them.
These iron men are appalling role models, leaping out of their kayaks and leaving them, expecting minions to tidy up after them.
I have passed into a new layer of Hell. And it is full of Eurotrash.
Not waiting. There shall be a Rescheduling. I must hamsterfy my afternoon now.
@Reemski I am always everything I appear to be.
Waiting.
Mobile: Enmore Rd; Newtown Sq quick errand; King St; gym; “something Greek”, apparently, though we shall see.
@mpesce You could have, but you’d have missed out on vital film culture. I have brought you up to speed. With education. You’re welcome.
Speaking of Sharon Stone, has everyone seen the original version of “Basic Instinct”? http://youtu.be/vFE-ctHw…
@mpesce @hollingsworth Does that mean Sharon Stone saves the web? http://arseh.at/27o
@ApostrophePong This chirpy song should get your enthusiasm flowing! http://youtu.be/7-NOZU2i…
@paris_david @BernardKeane Scary. Now I will end up looking at Hansard and finding the jokes. THIS IS NOT HELPING MY CLEAR MY OFFICE!
@paris_david I just re-read my 1 July piece on why the calls for Conroy’s sacking were daft. I stand by it. http://arseh.at/27k
@paris_david Some folks do seem to have trouble accepting that, despite their own views, Senator Conroy has actually accomplished stuff.
AFR’s profile of Senator Conroy is online, free: “NBN Bro” http://arseh.at/27i HT @peterjblack
RT @deptofinternets: Traveling salesmen rejoice! “Baby, I didn’t get VD from a hooker in Atlanta; it was the TSA!”
TSA agents often don’t change gloves between patting down passengers. http://arseh.at/27h
Do garage sales actually work?
@stufromoz Those booklets are probably the only printed material that will be given away.
@stufromoz I have nothing on Active Directory, no. There may be some computer-related books during the week.
No @Wyld there is NO chance that wine of any kind, nice or otherwise, will be offered. However there will be some books. #scleanup
@Nickhodge Social media is THE key transformational technology of the first half of the 21st Century.
Lot 3 gone to @GumbyRoffo. Please email me [see website] your snail mail address and I’ll post them Monday. #scleanup
“For Dummies” infosec booklets: “Network Access Control” and “Data Leakage”, will post free to first punter. [lot 3] #scleanup
Lot 1 gone to @greymatter78. Since you live locally, we can arrange to hand it over. I’ll message suggestions.
Norton Anti-Virus 2010 with Antispyware for PC not-for-resale sample unopened. Will post free to first who wants it. [lot 2] #scleanup
Norton 360 All-in-One Security v4.0 for PC, not-for-resale sample. Unopened. Will post free to first person who wants it. [lot 1] #scleanup
Over coming weeks, as I clear out my accumulated stuff, I will tweet stuff for sale and to give away. All will be hashtagged @scleanup
Reminder: @ApostrophePong’s “Piss off, I’m leaving” party is next Sat 4 Dec from 2pm. http://arseh.at/26i
WordPress plug-in for live A/B testing of headlines. http://arseh.at/27f Ping @crikey_news
Lowy Institute paper on e-Diplomacy [ugh!]: “A digital DFAT: joining the 21st century” http://arseh.at/27e #gov2au HT @Jester_Jeff
Stupid journalism cliché #267: Whenever anything is popular, people are “addicted”. God you are people pathetic!
Not just population, @Wyld Indonesia tops world Twitter usage per capita. http://arseh.at/27d
Animated mapping of Twitter: one day’s geotagged tweets. Note Jakarta. http://arseh.at/27c
War Tard: “How would an actual shooting war on the Korean Peninsula play out?” http://arseh.at/27b Ping @expectproblems
Michael Blastland on how “news values” distort reality. http://arseh.at/279 Much like my Hallucinating Goldfish. http://arseh.at/27a
The Guardian’s “Journalist blogging and commenting guidelines” are quite sensible, I think. http://arseh.at/278
OpenAustralia’s continuing attempts to have their site unblocked by Customs’ internet filters. http://arseh.at/277
It is rather inconvenient that the Parliament House website is currently geb0rken. Are those annoying kiddies at it again?
Sat plan: Potter in my office, aiming to make my desk look less like a dumpster exploded; gym & something Greek w@SnarkyPlatypusypus.
RT @AOCarr: Fox News takes to posting stories from The Onion to attack Obama : http://bit.ly/eOwjJt
“Adventurous” IS relative. Some people’s Twitter streams seem to indicate that merely catching the train to work is a harsh adventure.
RT @tonybarrell: Speaking as an older person it does get easier to define quite mundane activities as ‘too adventurous’. Like bending down .
Is it possible to be too old for adventures? I think not.
Ungone.
Gone, mostly.
What we need right now is more blog posts saying how wonderful the internet is. Especially “social” stuff. Whatever that is.
“36 pages, on all of which were printed the words ‘THE NBN IS THE GOOD SHIT’ in bold red letters…” http://arseh.at/26x
@caldron_baidu You’re thinking of the Chicago estate agent that sued a renter over supposedly defamatory tweets. http://arseh.at/26w
NYT’s glorious Civil War blog explains how Abraham Lincoln’s beard was 1860 media manipulation. http://arseh.at/26u
Of course, there was once a time when people would have money in their wallets to survive beyond the next 2 hours… JIT finance FTL.
RT @NAB: Any customers that require immediate access to funds can attend one of the 117 additional branches open tomorrow - Sat 27 Nov. ^HK
Well, @jdub, I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…
Huh? There’s people saying #posettigate is the first defamation-Twitter intersection? Well aren’t they ignorant #smeg arsehats!
So it’s kangaroo, but on a stick. Nice.
Dear Friends and Strangers in Victoria, please enjoy your Adventures in Democracy tomorrow. May you receive the Government you deserve.
Moderately respectable lesbians tell me that the jugs of sangria at Cucina Soprano’s [sic] are more than acceptable. Ping @SnarkyPlatypus