Back at the hotel and reminding myself to tell you the story about “Ice Ice Baby”, eh @mkotadia?
Uhoh battery warning.
If I don’t hashtag it maybe I won’t be found out.
Well, #neworder, technically but, like, cleanse it with fire.
Told you it was a dungeon http://post.ly/1gKHD
[Three observations that I can’t tweet ‘cos they’re still in the room. There is no sexual impropriety.] #ks11
There is a mountain of cheese and a DJ who sounds like he’s aching to work for a 1990s FM station. Still in a dungeon. #ks11
@ApostrophePong You’re thinking of livestream.com I think.
I’m in a dungeon. #ks11
Oh dear. #ks11
Don’t ask me why we’re doing Hallowe’en in February. Nor what that’s got to do with a roller coaster. I am but a puppet. #ks11
30 minutes until we leave for the Hallowe’en-themed dinner at the Spooky Castle at Movie World. It gets ever more bizarre. #ks11
Connivation was successful.
Conniving.
@RealNickHodge Organiser Phil Sim admits that he’s really a big kid. I shall watch from a respectful and respectable distance. #ks11
“Soft”, @Tamarajawad? Goodness me. #ks11
Certain people are trying to enthuse me into tonight’s roller coaster ride. Fools. #ks11
Full [low qualty] audio of Optus CEO Paul O’Sullivan talking NBN at Kickstart Forum yesterday. http://arseh.at/4k7 #ks11
O NOES! MOAR FEWD! [bloats] #ks11
Me at Crikey: “Build the NBN, but be careful of the detail: Optus boss” http://arseh.at/4k4 [Paywall’d, free trial] #ks11
@jasonlangenauer Bourbon.
@EnsignR Sure, NICTA Techfest is a display-and-meet rather than conference. Perhaps hit the NICTA site and get on their mailing list.
@EnsignR The gigabit Wi-Fi is in sample chip production now, will be in real commercial products late next year.
New Patch Monday podcast: “Bionic eyes, gigabit Wi-Fi and the NBN” http://arseh.at/4k1
@norton_tim On that point, there’s a reason I’ve started each day with 1+ tweets linking the hashag to the event name and its website.
Cranky man sitting immediately to my right is cranky. Also, typing very loudly. #ks11
@norton_tim No, hashtags are just unique identifiers. I find overly-long tags annoying. In any event there’s sites that track hashtags.
Things that shit me to tears #83: Event tweets that simply say who is on stage. What value is that? #ks11
Noticing how many people are moving slowly this morning, and speaking slowly with deep gravelly voices. #ks11
Crikey story filed. Yay.
I’m on this week’s Business21C Weekly podcast from Radio 2SER, talking internet filtering. http://arseh.at/4jx #openinternet
No, brie, mushrooms and smoked salmon for breakfast is not decadent. It’s not. #ks11
Mon plan: Kickstart Forum http://arseh.at/4j0 all day, plus an op-ed on what Optus’ CEO said about NBN yesterday http://arseh.at/4jf #ks11
“Patch Monday” podcast filed! I reckon the interview with Dr Terry Percival is kinda fascinating, but hey you’ll see later this morning.
We are such responsible people, @natecochrane @CapricaStar, we should be praised by all who stand nearby. #ks11
“Well, there’s no manly way to say this…” http://arseh.at/4jq
@ZaraBaxter Thank you, though he is not new nor, strictly, mine.
Hmmm. 150 IT industry folks slowly wake at Sanctuary Cove and log in. Telstra Next G flows like molasses. Coincidence? I think not. #ks11
For those paying attention to such things, I’m still at Kickstart on the Gold Coast. http://arseh.at/4j0 #ks11
Hello, Monday, you warm, snuggly, furry little thing, you!
OK, that’s enough from me tonight. I have a story to file in the morning, and I intend it to be not completely crap. For a change. Gone.
@brisvegas1 There’s a lot we can learn from Chatroulette.
More reportage of Optus CEO’s comments on NBN, from iTnews http://arseh.at/4jl iTWire http://arseh.at/4jm ARN http://arseh.at/4jo #ks11
What happens at Kickstart stays at Kickstart. For a price. #ks11
@RealNickHodge I don’t know that I do “professional”. What I do know is that I’ve recovering from a fever and don’t need a relapse.
I was right. My phone did die. But I’m back at my room and planning to have a sensibly early night. Unlike most others. #ks11
OH: “So I’ve got a laptop but no clothes…”
If I tweet for a while and then fall mysteriously silent, it’s because my phone battery died. Honestly. Would I lie about that? #ks11
Coming up now: pre-dinner drinks with @borrett from AVG, then “Dinner: MyNetFone Roaring 20s Casino”. May the gods have mercy… #ks11
Optus CEO’s comments on NBN reported at ZDNet http://arseh.at/4jf Business Spectator http://arseh.at/4jg #ks11
@seamus Yes, Munir and I are next door, though I’m not sure how close we are to starting.
About to be on a panel on audio and video reporting and how PRs and vendors can best assist. #ks11
The peaches are gorgeous. #ks11 #notaeuphemism
Aitch. #ks11
There’s a piñata here? Cool!#ks111
@CapricaStar I never complain. I am the very model of patience and tolerance.
Can someone focus the projector please? #ks11
Damn! I forgot that I was going to be making buzzword bingo cards. I hang my head in shame. #ks11
We are all special snowflakes, apparently. #ks11
I won’t repeat what Optus CEO Paul O’Sullivan says. Follow #ks11 for details. Key theme is fear of NBN being a non-transparent monopoly.
What is it with every corporate type giving a keynote these days, imagining they have to start with some video? #ks11
Arrived and checked in at so-called Sanctuary Cove. Please insert my comments on the Gold Coast generally from last year. #ks11
Touchdown Gold Coast.
Lights out. See you next from the Gold Coast.
Boarding the A320 cattle truck. Some fool nearby imagines he’ll be able to spread out a broadsheet newspaper. #ks11
Airport. Security cleared. Already there are signs of journalists. #ks11
Mobile.
OK. The data backups are done. Everything is re-packed into my suitcase, my temporary home. I suppose I’d better do this. #ks11
Google’s algorithm changes adversely affect Demand Media? Oh, can you imagine just how much my heart is bleeding now?
That mammoth 1996 article by Neal Stephenson on international cables remains one of my favourites, @jstogdill http://bit.ly/i6IUT1
“New era in schools transparency”? Gawd. My School 2.0 goes live Fri 4 Mar, says Peter Garrett’s office.
Sun plan: 0920 AEDT JQ404 SYD-OOL; Kickstart Forum http://arseh.at/4j0 until late Tuesday afternoon. The hashtag to filter out is #ks11
A strange sense of foreboding permeates the morning.
I have reason to believe that it is Sunday. It’s not so bad, at least so far.
Perhaps someone at Skype can explain why the new Mac version wastes 3x the screen real estate on the user list with no new value. Arsehats.
@thepatus Thanks for fixing arseh.at so quickly. Much appreciated. My world has returned to normal. Well, as normal as it gets.
My SEKRIT lunch with @BernardKeane is over, and I’ve checked in to my SEKRIT overnight Sydney accommodation. Relax, then finish the podcast.
OH: “The Wiggles? Oh I’m sick of them. I used the like them, but that dinosaur! Yuck!” [This woman is long past child-bearing age…]
OH, Blue Mountains matron: “Television? Oh never! Some people watch ‘Days of Our Lives’ forever and ever and they end up like zombies!”
However this one was, for me, the best one ever. “In a properly run state…” http://bit.ly/fOA3WR
“Lawyers and civil servants are particularly addicted to the practice. I suppose we could sew them in a sack and drop them in the sea…”
I always like @johnemcintyre’s proposals dealing with problems, such as people who write using unknown abbreviations. http://bit.ly/i3rEkH
New blog post: “Sydney, Gold Coast for Kickstart, Sydney” http://bit.ly/fAEPab Essentially my movements for the next week explained.
Crossing the Nepean. Not quite the Rubicon, but it’ll do.
I have decided. Thank you everyone for your suggestions and dice-rolling.
@life42 Haven’t been to The Rose of Australia for ages. I see over-primped wash-ins infesting the footpath tables and avoid.
@purserj Oddly enough, I didn’t bring dice of any kind on this journey, let alone 12-sided ones. Still a decision has been made, thanks.
Technology Park Hotel looks good too, @alanjlee. Now, to decide. I suspect some coin-tossing will happen shortly. Anyone got a 3-sided coin?
The Alexandria Hotel, you say @domknight @F_Dewar? The kid/pet friendly isn’t important today but food looks OK. http://bit.ly/blk576 Ta.
I haven’t been to the Erko for ages, though I remember it as a good, friendly working-class pub. Ta for that suggestion, @life42
Can anyone recommend a good 2pm pub lunch in, say, Alexandria through to Mascot or Botany? I’m not precious about this sort of thing.
@jstogdill Agreed, voice was a major change. I find the history of those Atlantic cables fascinating.
@jstogdill Erm, the first transatlantic cable was laid in 1858. The one in 1956 was the first voice phone, tho there was radio before that.
Mobile: Starting back to Sydney, mainly ‘cos it’s an early flight to Gold Coast tomorrow. A shame. It’s nice in the Blue Mountains today.
@thepatus Houston, we have a problem. It appears that arseh.at is down. At least it’s unreachable from where I am.
@franksting I should be in Sydney Wed thru Fri, accommodation prices permitting. Digital Directions 2011 on Thu certainly. Stand by.
@kim_weatherall I’m guessing #iitrial will end up in the High Court ‘cos AFACT has shown no signs of backing down.
I’m at Kickstart Forum on the Gold Coast Sun-Mon http://www.kickstartforu… I assume #ks11 is the hashtag, since it was #ks10 last year?
Sat plan, unordered: Complete “Patch Monday” podcast; return to Sydney; SEKRIT lunch with @BernardKeane; writing; prepare for Gold Coast.
Visitors last evening were a crimson rosella http://bit.ly/pNFIx random gawkers from another cottage and an Antechinus http://bit.ly/grWrvV
And here’s Saturday already. You people have no idea.
Bugger it. Enough work for today. I’m working both days on this supposed “weekend” anyway. And half of that’s on the goddam Gold Coast. Bah.
Back at the cottage. Sweaty. Feverish again. Disgruntled. Fatigued. Stressed. At least the back pain subsided as the day progressed. Bah.
Returning to the cottage. Mobile data reception is just too dodgy in Wentworth Falls itself.
Perhaps we are suffering a coincidental series of unavoidable setbacks. http://arseh.at/4i5
@expectproblems Nah that’s fine. It was enough seeing that it started with Jones haranguing the PM for being late. Arrogant cunt.
@perissology Agreed. There’s a reason I prefer to leave everything until when the transcripts arrive.
The PM’s office has just emailed the transcript of the Alan Jones interview. Can I face reading the damn thing?
@clairemarieking Apparently I have several dopplegangers around. But I’m most definitely not in Newtown today. I’m a good 95km away.
Me at Crikey: “AFACT versus iiNet appeal decision resolves nothing” http://arseh.at/4i0 [Paywall’d, free trial] #iitrial
Mobile: Walk into Wentworth Falls; lunch; shopping; walk back to the cottage for the afternoon’s work.
Let me get this right. You don’t listen to Alan Jones because you don’t like him, then you listened, and found you didn’t like him? Smart.
Crikey story, such that it is, filed.
Now, I have an hour and a half to turn all these jumbled thoughts into something approaching a coherent article. #iitrial
@kim_weatherall Indeed, the appeal resolves nothing, as far as I can tell. Off we go to the High Court! #iitrial
I’ve already recorded the coming week’s “Patch Monday” podcast, but maybe the next one should look at #iitrial and media distribution.
Gawd, the MEAA’s response to AFACT v iiNet is a bleat on “the internet kills copyright kittens”. http://arseh.at/4hm #iitrial
@joshgnosis I just like reading these docs because the Golden Girls feature so heavily. The internet depends on them! #iitrial
@joshgnosis I’m still not sure what I can say about #iitrial until I read the whole thing. I already have the inappropriate pain levels.
Of course, the complete appeals decision in AFACT vs iiNet is only 807 paragraphs of joyous reading. http://arseh.at/4gw #iitrial
I suppose I ought to get into thinking and writing mode now. This’ll be fun. Thank you for your forbearance thus far today.
Does Cisco really have a product called a “media experience engine”? Who thinks up these names?
Fri plan: Write something about AFACT v iiNet; Wentworth Falls for lunch; various plannings; edit “Patch Monday” podcast; quiet night.
Ah, the joys of tweeting about current issues. One tweet generates a dozen replies. Then it takes off. You just want to crawl away and die.
@bigjsl Well, perhaps the carbon tax need to be ten times what it is then. Or twenty times. Are you with me on that?
So, this carbon tax. Isn’t the whole point that prices go up, so we use less carbon fuels? If they didn’t, it wouldn’t work, no?
This isn’t the worst pain I have experienced, not by a fair distance, but it’s still way beyond being fun. Happy Friday.
This’d be Friday then, eh? Well, it hurts.
AFACT appeal against iiNet dismissed. Full judgment at http://arseh.at/4gw #iitrial
Sorry for not @replying to much today. I’m feeling crap and being quite slothful.
I have arrived at Banksia Cottage and can has internets enabled. It’s very quiet here in the bush. http://arseh.at/4gr
If I wanted it toasted, I wouldn’t have said “Please don’t toast it.” Why do they insist on destroying perfectly good fresh bread?
This train is infested with giggly Japanese schoolgirls. I hope they are not here for the entire two hours.
@CrikeyWeekender Will he / she also be doing linocuts of Michelle Grattan and Mungo McCallum? Kerry O’Brien?
The Duke Hotel, Enmore, is for sale.
Feverish. Sweating. Annoyed by stupid people.
Mobile: Errands to Enmore and Newtown; Central station, eventually; Wentworth Falls station; Bunjaree Cottages. This will be slow.
The appeal decision in the AFACT vs iiNet copyright infringement case is handed down this afternoon. http://arseh.at/4g7 #iitrial
Goodness. I’d missed that @saasu has added automate feeds of bank transactions into their system. Handy. http://arseh.at/4g6
Thu plan, revised: Errands and email loose ends; head to Wentworth Falls; plan client webby work; moar email loose ends; quiet night.
Thu plan, probably: Write for Crikey, maybe; head to Wentworth Falls; plan some client webby work; email loose ends; quiet night.
Pondering whether the nasty lower back pain will trigger a change of plans for the day. We shall see.
Erk. This is not good. Too. Much. Back. Pain.
Gone.
Tweets, not sweets. Congratulations, Android Automangle.
Wondering why people bother RTing my sweets that just say where I’m going. Are they really that interesting?
I have departed Australian Technology Park. The next hour consists of finding food and returning to the Camperdown apartment.
Pleased that I recorded some great interviews for the “Patch Monday” podcast though. It’ll edit together well.
Uhoh. Now it’s scientists with free alcohol and the food has run out.
The Wi-Fi at NICTA Techfest is fast and efficient. Mind you, it’d be seriously embarrassing if it wasn’t!
@benmcginnes I’d be happy if the “cyber” prefix vanished entirely. I did that whinge in a previous episode though. Should I repeat it?
As it happens, there’s quite adequate RI amongst all these young scientists and engineers.
You’re right, @Wyld, never stand between a scientist and free food.
My God. Arrive 30 mins after door opening and these scientists have devastated the lunch. Cheese platter is like Hiroshima.
OH: “I think Dubai is just a place you go to for a few years for money and then leave.”
Mobile: Central station; Redfern station: Australian Technology Park for NICTA Techfest 2011 http://arseh.at/4fc
@PointZeroOne Surely “common knowledge” is an oxymoron?
@elisedavidson No, no new angles to Teh Filterz right now. It’s all off in the review of the content classification system now.
The recording was 2SER 107.3 FM’s “Business21C Weekly”, broadcast Monday 0900, podcast http://arseh.at/4fk Subject: internet filtering.
Lots of reaction to my comments on cyclists earlier. I must do a blog post about that. Meanwhile, the NSW laws are http://arseh.at/4fi
Recording done. I’ll post details of when the program is broadcast / podcast posted later.
Here we go… quiet please.
Loose inside the offices of Radio 2SER, alone. I trust that eventually the journalist will arrive and find me. Meanwhile…
Cyclists whinging that the major roads are dangerous should consider the existence of other, parallel, roads. Far more pleasant. Fools.
Dear Cyclists, if you must ride illegally on the footpath, use your fucking bell to warn people you’re approaching, or use a quiet street.
Mobile: Delivering my dirty clothes to the laundry, then strolling down Broadway to Radio 2SER.
Now HERE’S an anti-smoking advertisement! http://arseh.at/4ff
“Sarkozy admits French language a hoax after Wikileaks exposé” http://arseh.at/4fe
Slightly annoyed that I didn’t schedule in the Broadband & Beyond 2011 conference yesterday and today. http://arseh.at/
Wed plan: 0930 record interview at Radio 2SER; brunch; 1230 NICTA Techfest http://arseh.at/4fc Redfern; evening TBA.
My planned movements: Now until Thu PM Camperdown, Sydney; Thu-Sat Wentworth Falls; Sat-Sun Sydney somewhere; Sun-Tue Gold Coast.
Thanks for the fault reporting form http://bit.ly/g8iGX7 @Tarale. “We aim to respond within two business days,” they say. Premium service?
@TunaCrust Have you successfully gotten a response from a BigPond postmaster@ address? I know that’s RFC-compliant, but…
My experience is that Telstra won’t take a fault report without a customer number, so it’s up to their customer to file the report.
Telstra BigPond’s mail servers are rejecting email relayed through my server. Not listed on any blacklists. How do you even report that?
Oh hello, Wednesday. I’ll be good to you if you’re good to me.
Back at the apartment in Camperdown. Slothing.
HISS!
Disgruntled.
@trib I don’t know where to start with that. It’s probably safer if I don’t.
I am back already, yes @EmperorNorton. Arrived back in Sydney this morning, Sydney time.
Oh please. Can someone just shove Klout up their quoit? Enough with the meaningless #smeg metrics!
@SnarkyPlatypus Exactly. I will obviously take advice from someone who can’t even copy and paste from the web page in front of them.
No, CeBIT, I don’t want to write a random unpaid “featured” article for your website.
I’m rather unimpressed with the first two comments on this week’s “Patch Monday” podcast. I doubt they even listened. http://arseh.at/4ev
Well this helps. http://arseh.at/4et
I never imagined Toilet Duck could be so erotic.
Mobile: Errands to Enmore Rd; lunch on King St, Newtown; somewhere pleasant to do the afternoon’s work.
Thanks for your assistance @Daniel2384 @adm_76 @KristianStupid @DanielOCnr I think it was accidental starting of the sticky keys thingo.
Whatever just happened, it went away after a reboot. Sigh.
More info: Keyboard works “properly” in MS Word 2007 but not Outlook, where stickiness to the shift-lock remains. Remote user is restarting.
Quick Windows Vista / Windows 7 question: Keyboard in outlook stuck in shift, i.e. “2” gets you a “@”. Accessibility? Turn off how?
Tue plan: Client support; Enmore errands; set up client Flickr account, email newsletter templates; comms & planning catch-up; quiet night.
@SnarkyPlatypus @adm_76 “Infernal weather machine”? I knew I shouldn’t have been talking to those guys from the NSA…