@mpesce @ApostrophePong If they stop selling triangular cushions they only need 4500 stalls.
Chatuchak on Pitt St? Wonder what the mark-up will be. Ping @ApostrophePong instagr.am/p/SpAk59CFtY/
Suddenly considering the relative flexibility of different parliamentarians.
@Drag0nista @btckr Sorry, are we talking about parliament again?
I am about to wander out into a humid Sydney afternoon in search of a late lunch.
RT @Drag0nista: How about one of these instead bit.ly/11n605H [Elegant, but I’ve found that cats ignore what YOU want them to use.]
RT @Drag0nista: We asked ourselves: why does a cat scratcher have to look like a cat scratcher? bit.ly/uPplwH [$395? Hahahaha sure!]
Excellent. I’m covering next Friday’s “Privacy in the 21st Century” conference at UTS. Looks fascinating. http://t.co/qBxZD3Yr
Fri plan, updated: Re-work client email templates (now, urgent); consider “Patch Monday” podcast options; 1730 TGIF-related activities.
RT @walkleys: @BernardKeane: citizen journalism is a myth of pajama-clad bloggers #walkleys [Smirks]
“‘I Am A Brand,’ Pathetic Man Says” http://t.co/il2jUwG5 HT Brand @leslienassar
QPSmedia Police Media is still having email issues. Journos, please call through your requests today. Or send them via carrier pigeon. Either/or.
@traagsmahal Except, of course, that a postie is an employee of a common carrier and is protected against such things.
“Tor operator charged for child porn transmitted over his servers” http://t.co/sCauzhgc
“Online Service Offers Bank Robbers for Hire,” and why not? http://t.co/nEqaj8LW
@rycrozier @R_Chirgwin @joshgnosis Thank you. It was a rather lovely time watching those ducks. There’s plenty of critters by the river.
@R_Chirgwin @rycrozier @joshgnosis Parramatta ducks! These ducks! http://t.co/LMKYyS0x http://t.co/7U94LhRg http://t.co/YRwqw6ue
Fri plan, draft: Writing (for who?); lunch (where?); organise “Patch Monday” podcast; 1730 TGIF; evening TBA.
RT @R_Chirgwin: @stilgherrian twitpic.com/bhlcf0 ping @NewtonMark [If you think I’d copy-paste a response to this sign you’re dreaming.]
RT @jeamland: @stilgherrian http://t.co/h5ZEFqLO [This is also a good sign, and one that may match my mood later today. Thank you.]
RT @NewtonMark: @stilgherrian pic.twitter.com/XgwvqN8G [This is a good sign, and one that matches my mood today. Thank you.]
Awaiting signs.
Friday. Uhuh.
Too tired and sweaty to be around people. Heading to a hidey-hole.
Thanks to the IIA for a pleasant cruise. Sorry I was a bit quiet.
We are back at the wharf.
Seeya instagr.am/p/SmnqvZiFhc/
Rush hour instagr.am/p/SmkvowiFgR/
The two things instagr.am/p/SmkacdiFgI/
The Inner Harbour instagr.am/p/SmkRFJCFgE/
We seem to be approaching some sort of bridge… instagr.am/p/SmjpbTCFvv/
Darling Harbour instagr.am/p/SmjctaCFvk/
Barangaroo also goes here instagr.am/p/SmjPXciFvd/
Barangaroo goes here instagr.am/p/SmjB8niFvY/
Bullshit instagr.am/p/Smi9n5CFvV/
The cruise begins instagr.am/p/Smi3TVCFvN/
Inflatable Santa Crab! instagr.am/p/SmhUNZCFue/
OH: “I’m going to drink this beer as fast as I can.”
Approaching the Love Boat instagr.am/p/SmfIRACFtX/
Yeah we’ll see about that instagr.am/p/SmeTX5CFs-/
I hope it’s cooled off a bit out there.
OK, I need to brave the heat again and head to the wharf and board the boat for the Internet Industry Association’s Habour Policy Party.
RT @Bowenchris: Today I signed a Work and Holiday Agreement with Uruguay bit.ly/SuJweX [So will you be fruit-picking or bartending?]
RT @Pollytics: 13 minutes to the Clivetastic presser too [Less that 10 minutes now.]
RT @dobes: Let’s dig up Menzies and see what group of assholes he identifies with most. [Yes. And then eat him. #digemup]
Apparently we should be patting and stroking @theburgerman now.
RT @Pollytics: Alfred Deakin - to demonstrate that he really has rolled in his grave over all the arsehats that do things evoking his name
RT @jeamland: Harold Holt. Because I like futile endeavours. [Also nominated by @RatbagsDotCom. #digemup]
He thinks he’s a bit special.
RT @darrenpauli: Hawke because http://t.co/os0TwBhS [Yeah, look, I didn’t think I needed to spell out that they had to be dead… #digemup]
So which former political leader do YOU think should be dug up and re-examined, and why? #digemup
@darrenpauli Yeah thought you might.
@darrenpauli You are just ruining the internet for people. You do know that, don’t you?
OH: “Woooooooo!”
Just checking, you’re still not allowed to shoot these people, right? Asking for a friend.
You don’t have to be brain-dead to get a job at King St Wharf. No, really. FFS.
RT @firstdogonmoon Tony has wild and dark moments! #qt [I would like to see them.]
jason_a_w “TED Talks are designed to make people feel good about themselves; to flatter them and make them feel clever” bit.ly/Vfh7Os
Inevitability instagr.am/p/SmTE82iFkg/
Oh yes, @Prohairetic, don’t study journalism to get on TV. Become a chef. Preferably from an acceptable ethnic minority.
Wandering over to the @Uber_Sydney launch. It’s at Establishment, but it isn’t besuited bogans and hope-to-be trophy wives at this hour.
Oh. So our national broadcaster’s limited funds will continue to be pissed away on fucking game shows? Not happy.
“We’re very sorry to hear that, ma’am. Thank you for your time.” http://t.co/wXzuNf2N
@ssharwood It wouldn’t be the first time someone’s been found face down in the dessert. So I’m told.
City of Emeralds instagr.am/p/Sl45CyCFs9/
At this time I choose to make certain arrangement, and then slowly make way way into the CBD.
@SnarkyPlatypus Il ya servantes pour de telles tâches. Je ne me mêle avec les détails.
SquigglyRick Strewth gold: “… Martin Ferguson, speaking reassuringly in sentences that appeared to have been reassembled by air-crash investigators.”
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Nous sommes tous barbouiller nos excréments sur le mur aujourd’hui. Et vous?
@NewtonMark Now don’t pick on poor Grant Arnott, he had to face all those unpredictable peaks and troughs.
“Silicon Valley entrepreneurs discovered a simple natural phenomenon: the internet is more powerful around gays.” http://t.co/mfei4KCB
“The Onion’s Extremely Accurate History of the Internet, Part 1” http://t.co/IctS3uXw
@andrew_hedge Oh you cynic! I’m sure that @Rumplestatskin had exactly the same thought and happened to express it in exactly the same words.
Final plug: Me at @crikey_news on @OpenAustralia’s Freedom of Information site @RightToKnowAu: http://t.co/ykB48APn
Pollytics Couldn’t make it up if you tried. David Campese says his sexist remarks make him the victim. Because Gillard bit.ly/UbhdlA
I’m sorry I’ve already performed my morning ablutions, otherwise I could smear some of my own political journalism over the walls.
I mean, there are several dozen journalists in Canberra, so thanks to Media Diversity there should be stories on several dozen topics?
Can someone point me to the story where a senior political reporter tells me what legislation has been passed this week and what it means?
Watch out, folks. Shocking news. Apparently some people set up organisations for the benefit of their members.
RT @YesYoureRacist: Some totally-not-racist reactions to the new Red Dawn remake: ow.ly/1PL9j1 [I love your planet, Earthlings.]
Thu plan: A little writing; 1200 @Uber_Sydney launch; 1630 IIA “Nautical Policy” Party; 1830+ “The Indies” Xmas party; liver transplant.
Good morning. http://t.co/UfKAPEru
I’m very tempted to just hide in the hotel room forever.
The internet is making me nauseous.
bastardsheep Does this mean we’ll soon have a sarong-off between @mpesce @stilgherrian? Remind me to not attend. [cough] :P
@mpesce I can’t answer that just yet, I’m still dealing with the trauma.
So @mpesce now has zero moral right to criticise anything I post online ever.
Trapped instagr.am/p/SjuM9uCFhW/
Lunch, it has ended instagr.am/p/SjtskViFgx/
OH: “They used to say that Australia rode on the sheep’s back. Now we ride on Gina Rinehart’s back.”
They want head from @chrisberg wtf?
Chook instagr.am/p/Sjk5CtCFpG/
That figure on Aust retail includes, say, cars but not a book bought on Amazon ‘cos that’s not an Australian sale.
Consensus over lunch is that Australian retailers are Luddites. Years behind.
Me At @crikey_news on @RightToKnowAu: http://t.co/ykB48APn
@BXGD Not required to take notes, but I choose to.
Online counts for 5 to 6% of Aust retail spend, compared with 8 to 9% in US, says Frost & Sullivan.
Today is about retail technology. Buzzword du jour is “omnichannel”.
Prepared instagr.am/p/Sje3kiiFjX/
It is about to begin instagr.am/p/SjecF2iFjA/
RT @eventbrite @stilgherrian @trib We don’t spam. Ever. :) [Good to hear, will chat with the client.]
Grey harbour instagr.am/p/SjbxZjCFgK/
Now I know we’re all having fun n’all, but I have to go to Wildfire Restaurant now.
RT @tweetingtechno: My big data nerds at work use Meet-Up, and they’re pretty savvy and concerned about security. [Ta, will take a look.]
I am currently being incited to commit arson.
@trib Well, these guys have read Eventbrite’s T&Cs and they don’t like ‘em. Yes, WordPress options will probably be it, but there’s so many!
I like this client. They respect and value their relationship with their customers. They are not fodder to be tracked.
Eventbrite is out, @trib. Client’s requirement spec is that a third party doesn’t get to spam their customers. They’d rather pay money.
Has anyone done a recent survey of event bookings software, either SaaS or perhaps a WordPress plug-in? Asking for a friend. Well, client.
@franksting “Pikies”? Gawd, it’s been a while since I’ve heard that word! And you’re right, it might have been pikies stealing the copper.
RT @s_bridges: “maths is hard†http://t.co/JXUD5gL5
GreenJ Unencumbered by their inadequacies as suburban solicitors, government figures manage to produce legislation to drive change in education.
Why we definitely don’t need the NBN, Circular Quay edition instagr.am/p/SjU2_BCFqE/
SnarkyPlatypus I like how my bank prevents me from having a more secure password.
Changing trains. But I didn’t break it.
Looks like @RightToKnowAu has coverage in Fairfax. http://t.co/6vGqzBsI
I should mention that @RightToKnowAu is an @OpenAustralia project, full of democracy-hacking goodness and some pixels. righttoknow.org.au
Hey Freedom of Information Fans! @RightToKnowAu launches today. Site at http://t.co/mPUmA1Jw Explanatory video at http://t.co/OWzdUpb8
Story filed for @crikey_news. Train at Strathfield. The morning is back on track. (Ha!) Now, to look at the email… Yeah that’s jinxed it.
Crossing the Nepean instagr.am/p/SjMy6yiFjA/
OK. Writing now. You should probably be getting on with your work too.
Do not… instagr.am/p/SjGiXzCFtN/
This one instagr.am/p/SjGCH2iFsz/
HLMenckenBot Immorality is the morality of those who are having a better time.
Passenger instagr.am/p/SjE4jbiFry/
Parallels (Not this one, it goes the wrong way) instagr.am/p/SjEZIUCFrL/
Certainty instagr.am/p/SjEEbiiFq0/
From whence it shall come instagr.am/p/SjD11tCFql/
Into the mist instagr.am/p/SjDuhfCFqc/
Mobile: Waiting; taxi to Wentworth Falls; 0837 train to Sydney Central; unexplained gap; 1145 for 1200 Wildfire Restaurant, Circular Quay.
@juhasaarinen Look, I can send you a short video if you like?
zackster Tomorrow on #abc730: an in-depth interview with one of the key pens Gillard used to sign a document in the early 1990’s. Don’t miss it!
Wed plan: 0837 train to Sydney; write for @crikey_news en route; 1200 Retail Tech Forum, Wildfire; afternoon TBA; Securus Global Xmas Party.
Fuck. Behind schedule.
@bastardsheep @JulieBishopMP Thank you. My work here is done.
BernardKeane Social media take on the netball result controversy: both Press Gallery and MPs are lying, here’s a link to a kitten to prove it.
@johnb78 I wonder how @eVent_cinemas would cope in the event of a fire. How often are emergency drills held? @mumbrella
@johnb78 After all, @eVent_cinemas only has to do two things: Put images on screen. Sell overpriced confectionary. So a 50% fail. @mumbrella
@johnb78 Possibly, but @eVent_cinemas seems piss-poor if a movie can look shit for half an hour without anyone noticing. @mumbrella
What I find most amusing are the comments on the @mumbrella yarns that are so obviously @eVent_cinemas sock puppets. Welcome to 1993.
Oh. Apparently the orthography is @eVent_cinemas, because random bullshit capitalisation makes you cool. Or something.
Looks like @rosieryan and @snurb_dot_info have been bitten by the same bad thing.
Ha! Event Cinemas says @mumbrella was “screaming”, “carrying on like a lunatic”. But he was recording it… http://t.co/r3tYKyRk
Speaking of which, it’s been a while since I told you that the #1 Google result for “neo-con sex kitten” is… http://t.co/DwD0kdPr
Breaking my rule on not RTing animated GIFs: Why won’t Julie Bishop stop? i.imgur.com/3xPTk.gif HT @flashman
@typendlebury @thornae Good. Except now I need the gin. And @expectproblems needs to wake up a bit and try that “joke” again.
Is it too early for gin?
@R_Chirgwin Generator has been started ~0630. Battery was at 43.2V. I did hear it run last night though, but I don’t know for how long.
The sheer delight you feel when the hot shower stops because there’s no longer any electricity for the water pumps. That. Ping @R_Chirgwin
“CyberCity allows government hackers to train for attacks” http://t.co/Po2zGJGL #scadageddon
etherealmind 80% of forum spam on the Packet Pushers Forum comes from Amazon IP addresses. Big win for cloud computing.
Wed plan, draft: Write for @crikey_news; 0837 train to Sydney; 1200 Retail Tech Forum; afternoon TBA; Securus Global Xmas Party.
Hello, Wednesday.
@semiboganman So many do. Sigh. Also, yes, missed #hackshackerssyd again. Also, sigh.
@R_Chirgwin @jplonie It would be interesting to see if Alex would actually explode. But we’d then have to kill his whole family.
RT @cstross: Software development explained in terms of cats: http://t.co/c7jUl1Os
@markatextor Oh I think I probably agree. I’m too tired to think clearly tonight.
@R_Chirgwin I don’t think you’re allowed to burn Alex to make electricity.
@R_Chirgwin Ah. And I’m on the 0847 to Sydney tomorrow, back up on Saturday. The forecast is not promising.
@markatextor I’m not quite sure what you mean. Is this the “Android is less well-integrated than iOS” thing?
SpaceKidette If you can’t accurately articulate the facts of a situation in context so readers understand can you call yourself ‘journalist’? #mediafail
So I wonder if Samsung puts a “hard-coded management account” into their smartphones? That’d be sweet.
“Samsung printers contain hidden, hard-coded management account,” ‘cos that’s always such a good idea. #headdesk http://t.co/PztwnuxN
RT @dead_aeroplane: @stilgherrian That one of the Kray twins? [No, but in a way you’re thinking in the right directions. There were clues.]
Well that was all much more complicated that it needed to be. Please send copious quantities of bourbon and ketamine.
@shiftkey My planning has been atrocious lately, sorry.
@shiftkey Alas, three fingers of scotch would require heading out into that storm and making my way to the village.
It’s true, [redacted], this is the solution. I do quite agree. http://t.co/gGCulrds
Oh yeah. This. http://t.co/6R3gzQqo
It has started raining. Solidly. And the thunder is increasingly ominous.
Adjusting my expectations. Downwards. More sulky now.
There’s rather a lot of thunder happening out there.
Sulking.
@buckleup @buckleup @Colvinius @ablaze Um, the Trkulja case was decided 30 Sep. http://t.co/0vUL2GDW
“Why Sailors Go Wrong” http://t.co/pTGpSgOf
“Let’s connect global industrial operations to the internet,” says GE. Sure, that’d be safe. http://t.co/6pwFBwiw
Twitter feature “automatically … follow back users without logging in”… leads to “abuse”. Gosh. Who’d have thought? http://t.co/beWipfOw
I did not have sexual relations with that crane.
Oh. Or maybe not. Oh dear.
I AM NOW GOING TO EAT ALL OF THE THINGS I BOUGHT AND I DON’T EVEN CARE IF IT MAKES ME SICK.
RT @joshgnosis: This really just feels like Godwin Grech all over again. [How did he feel the first time? I never had the pleasure.]
The media covers Julie Bishop because 1. important things said? 2. rootability? 3. habit?
It’d be helpful if @ZDNet’s / @zdnetaustralia’s RSS feed mentioned the author’s name and which effing country a story was about.
Disgruntled.
Has Abbott given up drinking?
I am in a vehicle and it is not a police paddy wagon.
I just heard his friend call him Sam. His name is Sam. I am not a stalker.
His shopping basket is filled mostly with ice-cream and ginger beer, and now he’s getting sliced ham.
Mermaid Boy is wearing a Linkin Park tour t-shirt.
OH: “We need salt. I’m like a mermaid.” Male, early 20s.
Anyone who publishes a “Best of 2012” list before Christmas is a fraud.
Thank fuck, they’ve finally harpooned the annoying twat! instagr.am/p/ShO1CqiFrz/
Damn. There was one thing I really needed to get and I’ve forgotten what it was. What was it…?
The Valley instagr.am/p/ShNHhkCFqm/
Oh. This is the bit where I have to goto a supermarket.
@robcorr @andrewjcrook My internals are quite firm, thank you.
OH EVEN MOAR BETTEROR THERE ARE BOOKS BY THIS MAN ABOUT MANY MANY TECHNICALISH THINGS! michaelmaardt.dk/ebooks/