@belindafarrelly But thank you, of course. I’m slothing now, staying warm.
@belindafarrelly I have two articles and a podcast to complete before 1000 Monday, and lost today. Discipline comes with the territory.
BernardKeane what @firstdogonmoon? no one, but NO ONE ON THE PLANET, is “worse than Leunig”. in any sense.
Muting @AntonyGreenABC for 24 hours. Love his work, just don’t need to watch an evening of faux suspense.
@johncarneyau @michaelneale I balk at using “correct”, for I am a descriptivist. But I do commend “octothorpetags”, obviously.
@belindafarrelly Wine might help, true, but I have none. I decided not to get any. Rest is what I need after two demanding mornings.
djspratt Says it all: NSW govt to ditch UN sea level rise #climate projections after local council decisions reduced coastal property values
Oh. That’s right. Well, there’s only one was to deal with this. #addingallthehashtags
@ozdj And the only downside is that we’d all think you’d had a stroke.
@lewellyn @mpesce So you’re saying Douglas Adams faked his own death and actually became Clive Palmer? That would explain a lot.
Oh. I thought a nap would make me feel better. I was wrong. Disappoint.
@kcarruthers I’ve had trouble over the years finding a word with the same taboo impact. Suggestions welcome.
Double Bay on Hill instagr.am/p/PTSmVeCFpT/
What your child looks like when… 1. You’re on drugs? 2. They’re on drugs? 3. We’re all on drugs? instagr.am/p/PTRauqiFop/
Truth in labelling yeah like corduroy instagr.am/p/PTQ2WdCFoI/
I so love the 1840s what even instagr.am/p/PTQrAQCFn9/
Yum cha? Ha ha ha! instagr.am/p/PTQgXQiFn0/
Today’s brilliant suggestion instagr.am/p/PTQQhKiFnn/
Station with Distant Chasm instagr.am/p/PTPqdGCFnQ/
Rail garden instagr.am/p/PTPgPBCFnG/
Angles at the Alex instagr.am/p/PTPYJGCFnB/
Mobile: Shopping in Leura for tonight though to Monday morning; return to @bunjaree; sloth.
@lewellyn Yeah so next time I give birth to a 2RU Linux box I’ll give you a call.
@lewellyn Yeah but why would I want to visit my server? I know what a 1RU or 2RU box looks like.
@Pamela_November Well there’s clearly no reason to doubt her word!
I did check, yes, and the barmaid has assured me this contains no fat or calories instagr.am/p/PTNFyuCFlv/
I’m sure there’s a word for a political candidate who doesn’t disclose a party affiliation. Ah yes. It starts with a “c”, ends with a “unt”.
It may have looked bright outside, but it’s a 12C day. Hence… instagr.am/p/PTMd63CFk8/
RT @newswithnipples: That is the wrong expression for a kids’ ride. #pornstarsteveirwin pic.twitter.com/LxnX6wIa [Saved to my avatars folder.]
paulwallbank Sorry, but when I see the term “community independent” in a local council election, I think “Liberal who won’t ‘fess up”.
@lewellyn @SnarkyPlatypus Black Berries sounds nasty, curable only with amputation I assume?
Oh thanks, @ruokday, promoting an adequate cause by shitting in the sky? Please, NEVER do skyspam again, you vandals!
RT @lewellyn: I … feels so naked and useless. :(
NewtonMark Ms. Gillard’s Cessna 172. pic.twitter.com/3levUsaG
Arrangements have been made instagr.am/p/PTHmAOiFgi/
Arrival! instagr.am/p/PTGIkgCFvX/
En route to lunch instagr.am/p/PTF7rdiFvQ/
So it turns out it’s rather nice out here instagr.am/p/PTEvqVCFuA/
Yah, my server is back online, thanks to the fine work of Josh and Juan at @servepath. I’m off to Leura to document it over lunch.
@dead_aeroplane That’s an archive copy from the National Library of Australia because my website is geb0rken right now.
@dead_aeroplane I know Common Ground from the Royal Easter Show. I shan’t be visiting them because this. pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/80809/2012…
firstdogonmoon What sort of person doesn’t have a slotted spoon?
“Asylum Seeker Processing Centre” sounds like the sort of thing Steggles Chicken would name their slaughterhouse.
Well, not immediately. But closer to a more sensible lunchtime.
Well, the data centre engineer indicates that it’ll take a couple more hours to fsck the server, so I might head to Katoomba for lunch.
You really should listen to Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcasts. But perhaps not at work. comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richa…
@miss_shiny @kofeyh This is from Richard Herring’s podcast. I’ll post linkage later.
Ah excellent. There’s another explosion I haven’t caused.
RT @BernardKeane: About to join ABC News 24 at 10.30. From, um, Ten Studios. [We’re all friends here.]
OH: “You can’t have rape in the animal kingdom, that’s always been my excuse.”
@McDermie I’m not one for idle speculation about counterfactuals. For now, Julie Bishop is where she is and that’s what we should consider.
Sat plan: Get this shared hosting server back online; read recent cybercrime reports; late lunch or dinner somewhere nice.
@lewellyn I’d love to be back in San Francisco, obviously, but your burnt waffles don’t do it. #notaeuphemism #atleastihopenot
Julie Bishop and I are as one.
RT @latikambourke: Shadow Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says she finds the proposal to store Austn’s internet data for 2 years ‘disturbing.’
@SnarkyPlatypus Oui, j’ai de bons ingénieurs qui travaillent sur le problème, et je vois une nette pire voie du rétablissement.
@SnarkyPlatypus Hah! That just translated as “Is @stilgherrian manageable?” To THAT question the answer is probably “No”.
@SnarkyPlatypus J’espère que votre ménage est en mesure de trouver un peu de temps pour se détendre aujourd’hui.
@SnarkyPlatypus e vous suivez @PrussiaNet? Un lecteur de disque dur a échoué, et l’erreur dégénéré La cause est inconnue.
@lewellyn “Would you like to come up and see my overly-brown waffles?” Stop it. Stop it now.
@lewellyn Worst. Euphemism. Ever.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Mon monde est plein de tous les échecs de ce matin. Je pleure. Et vous?
@PacketNetworks RAID rebuilt OK, but it seems the file system switched to read-only for some reason. Handballed back to support engineer.
@caseyjohnellis You’re confusing absentee voting with postal voting.
@jplonie Yes, Dear, let’s deal with one unpleasant discovery at a time.
4. (To follow once my personal website is back online later this morning.) #NatSecInquiry
3. “Julian Burnside on surveillance laws”, a @phildobbie “Twisted Wire” podcast from 6 Sep. zdnet.com/au/julian-burn… #NatSecInquiry
2. “The Australian Govt’s rush to snoop”, a @phildobbie “Twisted Wire” podcast from 30 Aug. zdnet.com/au/the-austral… #NatSecInquiry
1. “The politics of data retention”, a “Patch Monday” podcast from 30 Jul. zdnet.com/the-politics-o… #NatSecInquiry
While I’m waiting for the RAID to rebuild, I shall tweet some links to recent podcasts about the #NatSecInquiry that’ll help you understand.
On the dying server front, the dead HDD has been replaced and the RAID is rebuilding.
@sroc Well the practicalities are that the financial impact of a Sydney trip when I have work to do is that the fine is the cheaper option.
@sroc Indeed. And given that with a sore leg getting to the city and back is ~$40 direct costs plus far more indirect, logic dictates… ;)
@sroc Thanks. So I’m still on the electoral roll and “must” vote in Marrickville, or have reasonable excuse, or pay the $55 fine.
@sroc To quote “Lowdown” S02e01, “Just the one excuse would have been enough, mate.”
@en_gy Minions are dealing with it, I’m eating a yummy breakfast and listening to interesting podcasts. Having fun?
@en_gy See! That’s how that interface has sucked you in. You think you’re in some high-tech wonderland when you’re just hamsterwheeling.
Meanwhile, on the dying server front, the data centre engineer confirms a dead HDD in the RAID, which for some reason threw kernel errors.
RT @willemrt: If you move court jurisdictions you no have to jury. But you still got to vote. [That matches previous hearsay, thanks.]
@lewellyn Voting is seen as a responsibility as well as a right. I know Americans balk at the idea of HAVING to do something. ;)
Does anyone know if a change of address reported to NSW Sheriff that drops you from the jury duty roll also drops you from electoral roll?
So NSW Electoral Commission didn’t even check the form validation code against its own dataset. I’ll be having words with them.
Arsehat NSW Electoral Commission website won’t let me look up my registration ‘cos it requires two names in a query. roll.elections.nsw.gov.au/NSWLookUp/clos…
Mind you, “The penalty for not voting is $55.” That could be less hassle than a five-hour round trip to Sydney. Unless someone wants lunch.
@lewellyn We have postal votes, but I missed the deadline. Federal and state have absentee i.e. vote in a different place. Local doesn’t.
Oops. I just realised that in local government elections there’s no absentee voting. Looks like I’ve got a day trip to Sydney later today.
@glengyron Ah this ain’t too bad. Looks like a RAID controller or SCSI controller died, and the quite competent data centre team is onto it.
@michaelneale Oh yeah all that. I know what you mean, and agree. Machines fail. Massive machines fail massively. Yawn.
@en_gy It’s something you’ll be looking at for hundreds of hours. You should consider the psychological effect of that level of bullshit.
@en_gy That is the most faggotty user interface I’ve seen so far this year. Hilarious.
Things I am otherwise happy with #2: I immediately understood the import of a Linux kernel message I’d never seen before.
@michaelneale You seem to be referring to a specific incident? I’m not getting the reference.
@michaelneale HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Engineer: “Does it have RAID?” Me: “Should do. But it’s 6am here and the uptime is over 500 days, so, um…” Engineer: [Sympathetic laugh]
Things I am otherwise happy with #1: 06:01:23 up 583 days, 22:59, 0 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
So, server hardware failure. This is where we test for real a configuration I did two years ago. Gulp. I await news from the data centre.
Hello Saturday. Hello message from some time last night indicating a problem. Hello really nasty error message. Hello emergency escalation.