Gone.
@absalomedia Fucked if I know. Not my department.
@chrisjrn @jdub @Asher_Wolf I think it’s a bit more complicated than that.
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: Where’s your twibbon for the campaign? [I’ll make a badge. Of Stephen Fry being strangled by a Nazi dominatrix.]
I assume that if I whinge loudly enough that Python-iView will magically become an OS X package file by the weekend? ;)
Anyway, here’s Python-iView on GitHub, and the Streisand Effect can do the rest. github.com/akent/python-i…
iView app’s small buffer is a bug, @abcmarkscott, that stops it working on slow links. So Python-iView is a systems patch to fix that bug.
It’d be in SPAA’s interest for programs the ABC has already paid for to receive a wider audience, encouraging DVD sales and syndication.
R_Chirgwin @stilgherrian Great heavens. The Whirlpool page for the iView downloader I used has also been removed (presumably by demand). Dumb…
I never could work out the acronym for SPAA. Shouldn’t there be a “C” in there somewhere?
I do hope that everyone responding to my tweets there READS THE LINKED BLOG POST FIRST LEST THEY LOOK LIKE AN ARSEHAT.
I can’t use iView NOW, @abcmarkscott, in Sydney CBD, because hotel bandwidth lacks. Python-iView would solve it AT NO COST TO THE ABC.
Yes, @abcmarkscott, the takedown notice against Python-iView is wrong-headed. Please make it stop. mibus.org/2012/09/18/let…
RT @NewtonMark: I don’t think I’d get upset at ibises stealing babies from the park. It’d be just like The Stork, only backwards. Symmetry.
@NewtonMark Ibises. Ibises kidnapping babies left in Hyde Park by carelessly lunching office workers.
Sulking.
Wet.
People who occupy the entire under-verandah footpath on rainy nights WHEN THEY HAVE UMBRELLAS. #IceMoonPrison
Five times as healthy instagr.am/p/PtlCX-iFvb/
Boat noodle fixes all the things (mostly).
Resisting one temptation, replacing it with another.
RT @a7ndrew @stokely @stilgherrian who loses? [Not the cybercriminals with easy entry to the databases, that’s for sure. We all lose.]
‘Fern instagr.am/p/PtfhOhiFuC/
Some people tweet the most unlikely suggestions.
Train.
@caseyjohnellis @franksting Look, I have a good memory. What can I say? #patchmonday
@SnarkyPlatypus I was going to suggest that but I’M RESPONSIBLE.
No families! instagr.am/p/PteLT_CFt5/
Lightning!
Raindrops sighted in the inner west. Time to retreat to the CBD.
RT @leslienassar: @stilgherrian Software development is the new barn raising or some shit. Donkeys are the package managers.
@lexiphanic @GeordieGuy @pressdarling Also who is not-present. Planning a weekend BBQ can wait. Evolving work drama needs some focus.
@pressdarling @lexiphanic I’ve misread the intent of your language, oops.
@pressdarling @lexiphanic Why not let it evolve naturally? Why do you want, as your language seems to imply, to manipulate a change?
@lexiphanic @GeordieGuy @pressdarling But if I’m having a casual lunch with a mate, I won’t worry if they do a few other things too.
@lexiphanic @GeordieGuy @pressdarling If I’ve taken time for an “important” meeting, I’ll be angry if the other party doesn’t pay attention.
@lexiphanic @GeordieGuy @pressdarling Why single out this one factor, presence? Surely social context, power/status issues etc dominate?
@pressdarling @lexiphanic No, it’s not a simple yes/no answer. Never was.
@lexiphanic @pressdarling Dunno. Your life. Run it how you want. Though I note we interrupt dinner at home to answer landline phones.
@pressdarling @lexiphanic That is to say, frowns, stiff posture, punch in the face etc.
@pressdarling @lexiphanic You guys are asking, essentially, “What are the social cues that I’ve done wrong?” So, same as everything else.
Oh good. PMO has emailed me the draft Hansard of Question Time. That’ll make me happy ‘cos no-one will have said anything arsehattish.
johnb78 Awesome “Obama agents… are plotting a major ‘Reichstag’ event to generate racial riots and martial law” bit.ly/MhUFiw
jason_a_w #OhMax RT @maxkeiser Ben Bernanke has dropped interest to zero. This is exactly what the Quran and Sharia Law prescribe. #AyatollahBernanke
@RealNickHodge Thank you. That managementspeak needs a translator is an indictment on the entire “profession”. @piawaugh @R_Chirgwin
@piawaugh So, when you’re back I think we can have a lovely discussion for the podcast. ;) @rubenspeculis @R_Chirgwin @viveka
@viveka @R_Chirgwin The lightbulb only comes on if you have a sufficiently high Klout score. Only the Beautiful People are Illuminated.
@piawaugh @R_Chirgwin I have no idea what “BAU” is.
firstdogonmoon wooo! RT @AuSenate: Senate is now returning to the Declared Commercial Fishing Activities Bill
@spandaslui Someone seems to have hacked your Twitter account and they’re posting insane things. @dobes
@triplejHack Any evidence for this “growing gun culture” (what even is it?) as opposed to more guns? Gun numbers per population up or down?
@piawaugh Bah! It’s become a copycat promotional gimmick for lazy event managers, and it promotes bad programming habits.
Oh Christ, not ANOTHER “Let’s make all the apps in 48 hours” thing? HOW ABOUT SOFTWARE BUILT PROPERLY FOR A FUCKING CHANGE?
@dobes “Wrinkle injections 1 area (20 units) $99 (normally $350 per treatment).” NO THEY DID NOT CHANGE THE SCALE SHUT UP THEY DID NOT.
I HAVE ALSO JUST RECEIVED AN EMAIL OFFERING DISCOUNT LIPOSUCTION AND “WRINKLE INJECTIONS” WOW I HAVE NEVER HAD MY WRINKLE INJECTED BONUS.
I think I will start drinking gin and not stop until the world makes some goddam sense.
Meanwhile another vendor’s PR firm sends unexpected emails with no body text, just an attachment to click on. Sure. WTF?
Sometimes I wish nice people would let me live in their handbag and secretly feed me special treats when no-one is looking.
No, <vendor>, customisable parental controls are not a “new revolutionary security measure”. Nor should parents “set and forget”, FFS!
@dobes I saw a dog in a handbag this afternoon. On Day St, Haymarket. AND IT WAS ENJOYING IT. NO SELF-RESPECT WHATSOEVER.
Has anyone in Canberra, apart from the usual handful, bothered to gain even a superficial understanding of the issue? #NatSecInquiry
To call the Australian parliament spineless is an insult to tapeworms. #NatSecInquiry
I am judging you by the dog you are walking, and the manner in which you are walking it.
Je suis mécontent.
A PR firm uses a 10cm deep box to post me 3 sheets of paper, a CD and a USB key? To my postbox, so I get it a week late? What a waste.
@ForsakenDAemon I doubt that I’d actually be going to see Mr Astley. Apart from a one-song joke, there’s little for me in 2012.
Hahahaha who wants to go with me? instagr.am/p/PtMLQaCFo2/
Hygiene instagr.am/p/PtL3L5iFox/
A sign of things to come instagr.am/p/PtLPPGiFon/
@mukimu It should’ve been a nuke, but those goddam NIMBY hippies complained.
Trackside instagr.am/p/PtKiF6CFob/
@BundyB @PointZeroOne Yes, showers and a possible thunderstorm are forecast.
Where they plug in the monorail instagr.am/p/PtIZWzCFny/
I’ll interview the guy tomorrow, after he’s had to sleep on the street.
The Genius has made it all better.
It all makes so much sense. . instagr.am/p/PtGhomCFm6/
Apple Store Sydney, Tuesday, 1505 AEST. Yes, there’s a queue, but it’s a promotion. instagr.am/p/PtFQQbiFmc/
4, but a different one instagr.am/p/PtDZdLCFl0/
Harbour Views instagr.am/p/PtC7fdiFlk/
I’ll move on then instagr.am/p/PtCwWaCFlZ/
“Although that is kind of working for me…”
Colvinius Weirdest thing of the week. RT @GreatDismal Jehovah’s Witnesses Telling Deaf People Not To Masturbate youtube.com/watch?v=NZ2U6y…
@decryption A photograph has been posted. I’ll confirm its veracity at 1510 AEST.
The city smells of incipient rain.
Mobile.
Look, @jplonie, you can never have enough atomic bombs. I should know.
Jobs for the Careless #67: Refurbishing 50-year-old B61 nuclear weapons that are past their use-by date. washingtonpost.com/world/national…
@NetPresident Erm, I have some sort of training in various military weapons that I choose not to detail at this point, so yes. Why?
I think it might be appropriate for me to interview said person sitting outside the Apple Store. I can do it without mocking him, I’m sure.
I see someone has posted a photo of the queue forming outside Apple Store Sydney three days out. Facebook, tho, so I won’t link.
Tue plan, updated: 1400 lunch; 1515 Apple Store Sydney; errand Enmore/Newtown; tackle comms & planning backlog; evening TBA.
Hang on. What if the Nazis get upset that we’ve made a parody video?
dpfdpf Prince Charles is being sent to Palmerston North on his birthday. Who did he piss off?
So now there’s “元首Rap：江南Style Gangnam Style from Hitler” youtube.com/watch?v=_tILqd… and we must therefore shut down the internet. HT @PointZeroOne
Graemeinnes Security guards at 400 George St just refused access to the building for my “pet. Made no (cont) tl.gd/jb1msq
@j_hutch @carolduncan Apple caused me to spend $1200 on a beer that I didn’t even finish. The least they can do is provide lunch.
Why I’m going to the Apple Store instagr.am/p/Ps3JE7CFta/
Recording done. Consider my lunch and afternoon options given that I have a 1515 appointment at Apple Store Sydney.
All the buzzwords.
Preparing for my 1230 recording for @phildobbie’s Balls Radio by spreading out the towels.
@K1LL3M When trying to manoeuvre heavy luggage and arsehats barge in front, yes, a PITA. It’s also a proxy test for “selfish prick”.
MY INTERNETS ARE FULL OF SPEED!
“Enhancing Guest Experience.”
Oooh! I’ve been renovated!
Station staff support my call for them to be issued with guns, to shoot the aforementioned people. That’s their Senate vote secured.
People who insist on using the wide ticket gate when they don’t need it. #IceMoonPrison
You can tell this was my train, right? instagr.am/p/Psr279CFjm/
Changing.
@lukeayresryan @_spock @feed_the_chooks I’d always assumed Socialist Alternative was an ASIO child-minding operation to prevent rebellion.
lpintak #MuslimRage Islamophobia goes mainstream in “last gasp” cover of once-great mag. Risked life for Newsweek in ’70s. Now wudnt risk papercut.
@RatbagsDotCom I’m not sure that this counts as “all these pictures”. flickr.com/photos/stilghe…
@ZaraBaxter @PolarBearFarm I’ve been wondering… How does a polar bear’s fur get so yellow?
@Prohairetic @indigoid I’ll pass on your best wishes when we alight.
Well that @ABSStats tweet proves that Australians are doing it so, so tough right now. “The economy is rooted! I’ll buy a car!”
ABSStats Get outta my dreams & into my car…ABS data shows Aug 2012 trend figures for new vehicle sales are at the highest point on record with 92701!
Four NSW police, closely bunched, walk through the peaceful, half-empty train. “Safety in numbers eh,” snarks a white-haired old woman.
Crossing the Nepean instagr.am/p/PslXktiFuV/
Apparently rugby players are our ultimate line of defence against electrocriminals. We are so screwed.
Hang on. I forgot that I’ve upgraded my language to even more future. I’ll redo that tweet.
Apparently rugby players are our ultimate line of defence against cybercriminals. We are so screwed.
Well I’m so glad the Occupy movement managed to get rid of that dreadful liberal western democracy capitalism thing.
Curve instagr.am/p/Psfg_9CFpX/
Yellow instagr.am/p/PsewaXCFo7/
Mobile: Six minutes until taxi; taxi to Wentworth Falls; pie time; 0931 train to Sydney Central; train to Town Hall; walk to hotel.
RT @expectproblems: Hrm. I suppose my suburb is pretty leafy. It also has overpriced beer. Maybe I should riot about that? [Well der! Yes!]
@JackLScanlan if you are Ripley, kill it. Kirk, mate with it.
@Andrew_Zammit Ah, well that makes far more sense to me. And it fits with what I know about other protest groups. Thank you.
@markparton Sure, but I was talking quite specifically about last night’s @abc730 piece. And my opinion, not anyone else’s.
Tue plan: Client webby work; 0931 train to Sydney; 1230 record for Balls Radio; 1515 Apple Store; write stuff in between; evening TBA. #adn
How dare all those terrible people have freedom of speech and their own opinions just like us in the leafy suburbs. It’s not right.
“I just don’t see the need to include ‘balance’ when reporting on protests,” comments deanne_jackson at Gawker. gawker.com/5943828/?post=…
ramuh410 Oh my God! They killed Kenny!!! #MuslimRage
“#MuslimRage: How a Cynical Social-Media Play Became an Awesome Meme,” writed @megangarber theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
@SnarkyPlatypus Je ne sais pas, mais je ne pouvais vraiment gérer un kebab en ce moment.
I have been reliably informed that I should be following the #MuslimRage hashtag because Newsweek. Yeah maybe.
ozdj As the sign was erected, the reason for adding a moustache to the logo became clear. twitpic.com/avr7pz
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je suis tremblant de peur. J’ai peur de l’insurrection musulmane mondiale, en suivant les instructions. Et vous?
@JamilaRizvi Personally I’d like to have heard more about what you saw, your narrative, less of @abc730 telling me to be alarmed.
@JamilaRizvi … and there’s nothing in the story that says you’d have expertise in that. Great soundbite, bad journalism? 2/2 @abc730
@JamilaRizvi True, but you were also quoted giving analysis, about disenfranchisement and “that’s incredibly dangerous”… 1/2 @abc730
So this “Muslim uprising”, @abc730… How many shots fired? Petrol bombs thrown? Buildings razed? Women raped? People killed? Oh.
@markparton Erm, I’m referring quite specifically and only to last night’s @abc730 item. That’s not clear?
@fiona_greens @markparton @TaraMacca The nation’s flagship current affairs program should give me level-headed analysis, @abc730. I weep.
@oberonsghost I have no idea what CPTED is, but if a policeman does it it must be OK. Or a fetish and Refused Classification.
RT @markparton: I’d like to think thats what we’ve done here [Really? That actually horrifies me. There’s so little concrete in the script.]
“Chaos and violence on the streets of Sydney”? Let’s get a map of Sydney and colour in all the violent streets. Got a magnifying glass?
RT @oberonsghost: The ex-cop who gave us a lecture on CPTED earlier this year said that the police’d like to ban hoodies for our own safety.
No, @markparton, we report the facts, and logical inferences from the facts, without screeching tabloid scare-words. It’s called journalism.
RT @markparton: So should the media just ignore this story? [Um, wild exaggeration or ignore the story are the only choices? WTF?]
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: Mamamia is the new Stratfor, obviously.
MUSLIM UPRISING! MUSLIM UPRISING! MUSLIM UPRISING! MUSLIM UPRISING! MUSLIM UPRISING! FFS, @abc730, you’re part of the problem!
Ah. Here we go. @JamilaRizvi. Managing editor at @Mamamia. Yes, @abc730, always my first source for analysis of international terrorism.
The “online editor and journalist” Jamila Rizvi you cite as “‘stunned by its ferocity”, @abc730, files for which national security masthead?
BTW, “protestors were smashing up police cars”, @abc730? Vision was ONE police car with a broken windscreen. THAT, folks, is exaggeration.
Here’s a better version of the @abc730 piece. “Better” because there’s a transcript. It’s the same exaggerated piece. abc.net.au/7.30/content/2…
If these are “alarming” links, @abc730, how come NONE of the police interviewed seem alarmed, or said they were alarmed? Were YOU alarmed?
And then some slow-motion footage of an unidentified man in a hoodie being shuffled through a police station. Hoodie equals fear, @abc730!
“Some of those involved in the protest have connections to several terrorism-related cases in the past,” says @abc730. CONNECTIONS! OMFG!
Watching last night’s @abc730 piece on the “Muslim uprising”. Compare the language in the script to that of the police. abc.net.au/news/2012-09-1…
@michaelneale Beer?
I can’t find my noodles. I appear to have lost my noodles.
Tue plan, draft: Tackle comms backlog; train to Sydney; write 1+ article(s); 1515 Apple Store; transcribe interviews; evening TBA. #adn
@michaelneale Timezones are a fascist construct, I’ve realised, designed to oppress the traveller. I denounce timezones.
Everybody dance now.
So I just spend 20 minutes investigating a bug which didn’t exist because I can’t read properly. I AM AN INTERNET HERO.
Oh this is wrong.