Whatever you may be thinking, cheap red wine is neither the answer nor the explanation. Now go to bed.
The crew to design a new pokie machine: 1 x mathematician to make it profitable, 2 x psychologists to make it addictive. Nasty stuff.
That said, pokie machines seem to work reliably. Is that a reflection of the club and pub industry’s priorities, I wonder?
Yeah forget I spoke. Those arsehats who claim they can’t survive unless they prey on people’s addictive tendencies can’t get a poll working.
It’s true @ahcayley @DanielOCnr @crazyjane13 that poll seems to be geb0rken. Stand by.
RT @arwon: I trust everyone is spamming the “Do you support a licence to punt?” push poll at http://its-unaustralian…. with yes votes?
RT @BronwynHinz: Oh look! An exclusively male panel on The Drum talking about mistreatment, underrepresentation of women. How appropriate.
Kyle Sandilands to host a late-night talk show on Seven? Who the hell needs that? http://arseh.at/601
@cjjosh Yes, we’re talking Android here.
Thank you @sylmobile for doing something special in a fountain. http://twitpic.com/4jjver #SylmobileTrevi
Thanks for the tip re Seesmic for Android, @CarboniteAU, I’ll give it a go tomorrow. /cc @BobGrrl
@juhasaarinen @smperris No zombies, Juha. At least not yet. And clearing scrubland to get good 3G reception seems… overkill.
Wondering why TweetDeck for Android still posts notifications about new DMs when I’ve selected “quit” from the menu. Quit means quit, guys.
Investigative journalist Paul Barry, now with Crikey, is now also on Twitter as @TheRealPBarry
@PointZeroOne Sometimes you have very good suggestions, Sir.
@D_Keating Unless your auntie happens to live down the very same dirt track as I do right now, I don’t think you’ll be seeing me. Low risk.
@smperris Sadly the chain saw isn’t an option in someone else’s scrubland. I’ll have to live with it for a couple weeks.
That’s why I feel so cold at 5pm. Forecast is 5C overnight, max 14C tomorrow. That is slightly irritating.
Yep @smperris @Wyld I’d say we’re punching through more trees from this cottage. I’ll play with antenna location tomorrow.
@crowleywilson Photoshopping a scene from somewhere else into the windows in real estate photos? Do you still have a reference to that?
“10 New Twitter Tools That Will Make Your Life Easier”, forgets the off switch. http://arseh.at/5zx
I changed cottages at Bunjaree today and now my internets are quite slow. I wonder if it’s terrain or some other dodginess.
Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commissioner, to review ADF/ADFA, says Defence Minister Stephen Smith’s office.
New quarterly Australian bankruptcies stats at http://arseh.at/5zw Lowest level since 2005, says the Minister.
@sylmobile There are some things even the Fontana di Trevi cannot do. I can compile a list, perhaps.
@brown_note The arseh.at URL shortener is the work of @thepatus, and there’s instructions for TweetDeck at http://arseh.at/help.php
@sylmobile I would have asked for Personal Secret Wish #1, but I don’t think the Trevi does that sort of thing. #SylmobileTrevi
@sylmobile Personal Secret Wish #2 #SylmobileTrevi
Winners list for the Lizzies, the Australian IT Journalism Awards. http://arseh.at/5zr
@jonrussell And I think that for some media operations a paying audience and smaller circulation is ideal.
@jonrussell Yeah there’s not much value in journalists “interacting” if they’re just wading through comment after comment of idiocy.
@jonrussell Business models are horses for courses, I think. “Paywalls are always bad” sounds more like religion, not business logic to me.
@jonrussell Crikey feels no different. Words to a deadline. Email subs / paywall is business, not my dept. You’re the first comment in ages.
NBN Co’s tender process dump and resignations are “understandable” teething problems, says @paulbudde http://arseh.at/5zn
Ken Phillips blames NBN Co’s inability to get the construction prices it wants on… industrial relations laws. http://arseh.at/5zm
RT @PointZeroOne: only a free trial if you haven’t used the free trial previously…. :( [Yeah, I guess that’s how free trials work.]
Me at Crikey: “The ‘hysteria’ around NBN cost blowouts” http://arseh.at/5zl [Paywall’d, free trial available]
Tidying Tea Tree Cottage before the honeymooners arrive. Who knows WHAT they might get up to.
Crikey story filed. Whew.
Switching into writing mode. It’s about time you got on with some work too.
RT @darrenpauli: What do pro golfers do when they retire? [Sell haemorrhoid cream on TV?]
@benbarberhays As a complete aside, of all the sports I have never understood the appeal of golf. Never. Playing it, maybe. But watching it?
@benbarberhays I did try using tags a while back, but I found that if I filtered for “wanted topics” I didn’t get to see unexpected things.
Oh. I am writing for Crikey today after all. Well there you go.
@benbarberhays Heh! Hi, Ben. Hey, I’d never deny anyone the enjoyment of their pastimes, but… well, you know…
New “Patch Monday” podcast: “Don’t get caught in NBN ‘hysteria’: Conroy”, and why Wi-Fi will fail NBN. http://arseh.at/5yx
And sitting on your arse while someone else loses a game is “agony”, @abcnews? WTF? Maybe I should pop round and show you some REAL agony!
FFS, @abcnews! Another day when you reckon THE most important photo to help me understand my world is a man holding a ball? Arsehats!
@tradrmum Nope, “reverse racism” only seems to be applied to affirmative action strategies by opponents of same. Have a quick search.
I should probably think up a better strategy for getting rid of this headache than reading news. I did mention that gin bottle earlier…
Indeed @melissapierce @LeeroysGoneMAD “reverse racism” presupposes an existing category of lesser races to be racist about. Sheesh!
To imply that rape is “a women’s thing” denigrates male victims. To imply “male rape” is somehow “special” denigrates female victims.
Am I the only one who has a problem with the term “male rape”? Rape is rape FFS! Why flag it as a different thing based on victim’s gender?
Bob Woodward [Watergate] reckons we’re in a “news bubble” developing at expense of authentic journalism. http://arseh.at/5ys
@BobGrrl If they are shagging, then they’re doing it over a very large distance up there. And yes, I know the males die straight afterwards.
The antechinus in the ceiling are being very, very noisy this morning. I demand to know what they’re doing up there. With diagrams.
“Patch Monday” podcast filed. It contains Senator Conroy on the NBN, amongst other things, so look out for that before lunchtime.
Mon plan: File podcast; not have a headache; cook brunch for 14C day; change cottages; invoicing; research & story planning; quiet night.
I really should have used a bottle of champagne for that. I suppose gin will have to do.
I declare this day Monday. May God bless it, and all who sail in it.