Gorn.
@ApostrophePong Are you making a bad music video to go with it?
It was agreed with @chrisjrn that @mpesce needs to get into infosec so we can fight the hypercybers.
@pseudomorph Why thank you, that’s most kind.
RT @deanemorrow: Dinner under the dome, Mt Stromlo #lca2013 pic.twitter.com/zE4xPMQ4 [Yep, this was the atmosphere.]
RT @michaelneale: @jonoabroad @stilgherrian wasn’t there an S Club 7 song about that? [Confused now.]
@elronxenu Investigator, not inspector. More like a detective than a rubber-gloved minion.
@feesable Once tomorrow is done, anything and everything is possible, yes.
Exploding into the hotel room.
The bus driver from Transborder was fifteen kinds of excellent. And was formerly an investigator with AQIS.
RT @jonoabroad you leave your public keys in a bowl? [No, private keys. And on github.]
RT @cjlambert @stilgherrian oh ok I’ll look at some baby hedgie-ma-hogs on tumblr now. [Excellent plan.]
@cjlambert This is not what you’d really call a hipster event.
Key-signing parties sound wrong. Especially with those guys involved.
@snerdish I’m over David Attenborough. He never returns my calls and didn’t even acknowledge the jellyfish.
Fri plan, previewed: 0900 @timberners_lee keynote #lca2013; report on same; find & write another story; TGIF, loose in Canberra, TBA.
Descending into Canberra.
RT: Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Some of that ol’ NBN religion” http://t.co/T3aX2ZE7
RT @snerdish I saw @stilgherrian but we didn’t kiss. [Well you should have asked.]
Science! instagr.am/p/VJTASSCFkH/
So we’re being driven into a pine forest…
We have just passed the corner of Steve Irwin Avenue. Those on the bus express some dismay.
We have buses, wave two.
There are more people than bus capacity. The buses will return in 45 minutes. There is no gin cart. Appalling.
And now we’re being herded into buses and being taken to dinner at Mt Stromlo. Or the delousing station.
MT @snerdish: @stilgherrian [is] like a motile cyber Pringle. [There’s one for the CV.]
Just finished the interview with @timberners_lee and @simonhackettÂ@bobbylleww for@iiNett… Went well. It’ll be online… dunno.
Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Some of that ol’ NBN religion” http://t.co/T3aX2ZE7
The Magic of Television… nearly instagr.am/p/VIqJg0CFvt/
Ironing a t-shirt. This is what my life has become.
Op-ed filed for @zdnetaustralia! Time to grab clean pants, have a quick shower and head in to prepare for the @timberners_lee recording.
@joshgnosis This is a fair point. I have fixed the Twitters. Sigh.
Oh. “Australian Election 2013: Where will the NBN and data retention be?”, writes @joshgnosis http://t.co/ONZ5879C
This timing is getting tight.
“Thwap!”
Re-discovering my use of the phrase “the ping-pong show of politics”. I shall have to use that again soon.
RT @monkeytypist: One fraud charge for every member of the House of Representatives. [Oh if only…]
“Prime Minister Alexander Downer”? Yes, that does sound rather pleasant.
RT @MarkWBurrows: Detectives arriving at Craig Thomson’s electorate office. pic.twitter.com/WfIH3Sob [Always such a attractive look.]
Is there a special collective term for a trio of wombs? #npc
Hiding away at a Canberra restaurant to clarify my op-ed for @zdnetaustralia and then our questions for @timberners_lee at 1700. Also, eat.
benpobjie “Under an Abbott government, the economy will be fired directly into your houses with powerful catapults”
jdub Perl hipster asks Ruby hipster if Puppet (very hipster) can be scripted with Perl. We have reached peak hipster. #lca2013
@linuxconfau Thank you. The new badge has been collected, and I can confirm that it is shiny.
@DJBentley With universities everywhere in “cost recovery” mode, it’s a long way from the “free university” of 1970s to 1980s Australia.
ANU students a key advertising target? instagr.am/p/VIIK_xiFq-/
RT @joshgnosis Oh god, they’re still on the same patent they were discussing back in October. #applesamsung [Your own new plane of Hell.]
tpope @telemachus @jcoglan Q: How do you keep a secret from the Ruby community? A: Make it a standard part of UNIX.
Smirking.
As is psychosis, to pick another example #lca2013 instagr.am/p/VIDvoWCFl0/
Posted without comment or reference to stereotypes #lca2013 instagr.am/p/VIDTnrCFlQ/
OH: “You’re wearing a different shirt.” “Well you can only wear it so many days in a row.” They were joshing. I think. #lca2013
@thornae @SnarkyPlatypus Hence my use of quote marks and “sic”.
@SnarkyPlatypus Well it would be against conference policy to actually shoot them.
Isn’t it obvious that the “rogue” ESSID is our friends and sponsors from DSD? #lca2013
@LCANetworks I merely observe the human behaviour… :)
@SnarkyPlatypus (I flagged that “sic” because PG13 is not a thing in the Australian content classification system.)
@SnarkyPlatypus No. There’s an attempt on to locate the “culprit”, to be “outed and shamed”. Anything not “PG13” [sic] is hit hard here.
bunnie gets a round of applause for his hack of HDCP video encryption and “dead reckoning” which pixles to swap from timing info. #lca2013
So these are the wireless networks I can see… #lca2013 twitpic.com/bzlzx8
I’m learning heaps about Linux on embedded hardware from bunnie, but nothing that is “news” that an editor will buy. #lca2013
OH: “bunnie hacked the original Xbox. ‘Hacked’ is perhaps the wrong word. ‘Made more open’.” HEY GUYS, I MADE THE BANK MORE OPEN! #lca2013
@SisterMorphine @gusworldau You people are confusing and should be prevented.
They gather… #lca2013 instagr.am/p/VH6-jgiFs1/
Post-GPS technology #lca2013 instagr.am/p/VH6VuZCFsB/
Amused that all #lca2013 delegates are being issued with soap. Making my way to the delousing station.
Uhoh experiencing sudden flashback to 1982, repressed memories returning. #lca2013
Wow those grey #lca2013 caps don’t look like the Hitler Youth one bit, no Sir!
Navigating using a combination of GPS, spurious advice and sulphur-crested cockatoos.
Higher Education instagr.am/p/VH3ffICFoe/
@SisterMorphine Thanks, but I choose @gusworldau’s reality. #lca2013
Progress #lca2013 instagr.am/p/VH2-x6iFn1/
Walking to ANU. Which building is the registration desk in? #lca2013
semibogan Oh noez! RT @Slate: Ron Jeremy apparently in critical condition and #prayforRonJeremy is now a hashtag: ow.ly/hh57P
@techAU Most consumers aren’t confortable changing the oil in their car, either, so they get it done by someone who knows how.
@NewtonMark Either that or we’ve moved into a realm beyond cow-tipping.
RT @NewtonMark: @stilgherrian I see from your avatar that you slant to the left when you aren’t turned on. [Quite true.]
Thu plan: Write for @zdnetaustralia; morning at #lca2013; errands (inc haircut?); prep then 1700 interview @timberners_lee; conf dinner.
I suppose I should wander over to ANU and check in to #lca2013, even though my writing priorities today are about other things.
Fact-checking @newswithnipples, a distinct exaggeration is revealed. instagr.am/p/VHzRv_iFjg/
newswithnipples Good news everyone: the SMH has devoted HALF of page 3 to what people said on twitter about the PM’s glasses. Phew.
“Surprised Scientists Find Lifeforms Six Miles Above Earth’s Surface” http://t.co/6fbRt5h6 Also, new solar system. http://t.co/T3JCV0lW
Dear Everyone in Infosec PR: RSA Conference is weeks away. Either send me plane tickets or eff off and leave me to do THIS week’s work.
@linuxconfau Not yet. I haven’t even arrived at the conference yet. But I’ll certainly pimp things to you as they emerge.
I still don’t get how anyone ever imagined that UPnP was a good idea.
Noticing some remarkably shoddy typing earlier. I probably didn’t have any pants on.
@ozdj Same thing can be achieved with an AK-47 and 60 rounds.
As part of my research for today, I rediscovered my first internet-connected computer, the Apple Macintosh SE/30. http://t.co/gpnhRCjd
Joining all the dots, and laughing.
In honour of the newly-announced federal election, I’m having bacon for breakfast. #buffetbuffethippo
Trying very hard not to make a snarky comment about little princesses.
@SnarkyPlatypus So this is Operation Coronet… http://t.co/3cwDub1n
@SnarkyPlatypus Il ya en fait deux possibilités. Un, une retraite confortable tôt conduit à l’impuissance. Deux, la dépendance à l’héroïne.
Canberra is hilarious. 13C overnight, 32C today. The coty’s name means, oin the local Aboriginal language, “City of Trolls”. Probably.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je suis tout à fait prêt à toute éventualité. Et vous?
“Agreed.” http://t.co/GKH4RY3i
RT @mikko: Seems legit. http://t.co/gZcja7SU [Must be legit. Skills-required includes “cryptography”. That’s a Good-Guy thing.]
Our Creamy One instagr.am/p/VHl8vjiFmA/
@watermelon_man Good morning, but I don’t think that word means whatever it is you think it means.
Thu plan, draft: Write for @zdnetaustralia; morning at #lca2013; errands inc haircut; prep then 1700 interview @timberners_lee; conf dinner.
For those who were not sufficiently warned, I am in Canberra today and through to Saturday. And I haven’t had enough sleep.
BennettArron Saw the word RIM trending. Had a look and I’ll be honest I was a tad disappointed…..
@triple5adam @TheTodayShow I don’t even know what that means.
Errrrrrrrrrrrr…
Well, I’m going to bed now, ‘cos I need to be up at 0500 to have an Opinion about something. Whatever it is. I am the Media. Kill me.
No wonder this city has Australia’s top per capita heroin consumption.
Finally, some human companionship instagr.am/p/VG7u3xCFkf/
Canberra parties through the night instagr.am/p/VG7bkCCFkS/
Canberra explained instagr.am/p/VG7QBziFkP/
Canberra’s cosmopolitan nightlife instagr.am/p/VG66KfiFkF/
Canberra, the only city in Australia where a university bar is indistinguishable from an office instagr.am/p/VG6sa0CFj9/
Thank Christ for sat nav.
Oh. Yeah. That probably should have been a DM.
@NanoPunk On the other hand, it’s Canberra and I’m desperate, so I’ll SMS you my hotel room number to pass on.
@NanoPunk It’s probably best if you don’t tell your brother about any of this.
4 to 1 against.
Consensus running 2 to 1 against.
So is “like Chevy Chase in his 20s” a description of rootability or not?
Some of these people have been drinking.
Why Linux is more secure than Windows, Part 527. #lca2013 instagr.am/p/VGyuGdiFvJ/
@NanoPunk You have a bro? Um, how can I ask this…? Well, the question is obvious.
Journalism explained instagr.am/p/VGxBMkiFuU/
Hipsters squeal? How, exactly?
RT @jethrocarr Being deafened by @stilgherrian at the back of the wig and pen pub. [I’m just warming up.]
Canberra dusk instagr.am/p/VGkyPcCFoq/
@chrisjrn @cheshireb @gusworldau I have dealt with the email backlog. Is the Wig and Pen still the venue?
@cheshireb @chrisjrn @gusworldau I suspect it’ll be a while before I can seek food. I haven’t looked at email in hours and predict chaos.
Wed plan, remainder: Check in; clear annoying work backlog; dinner, possibly with fellow humans, depending on the time.
Delightful Canberra evening instagr.am/p/VGapcbCFk6/
In some cities they advertise burgers, cars, cheap home loans… but this is Canberra instagr.am/p/VGZ8hjiFks/
Touchdown, Canberra.
Transmitters off. See you in Canberra.
@SnarkyPlatypus Gee thanks. [pouts]
VH-FVM, powered by… ducts! instagr.am/p/VGPxJgCFvm/
Boarding.
The #RI on this flight is going to be dismal, and all I have for pleasure is half a packet of sour gummy bears.
Whichever moron started using “pumped” for “excited” clearly never worked on a farm or an emergency ward.
BernardKeane One assumes the last 4 hours of stupid is merely a taste of what we’ve all got to look forward to between now and… well, forever, eh?
We shall be flying to Canberra in this ATR 72, it seems instagr.am/p/VGMrjQCFuA/
And… there goes the MacBook Pro’s #batterylife. Today is, in general, not in my favour.
No, bumped to Gate 31, once this Melbourne-bound piece of shit gets out of the way instagr.am/p/VGKwDjCFsg/
Ready for flight at Gate 38, mostly instagr.am/p/VGIkifiFrL/
@ScottRhodie @joshgnosis Wait. It was 34k emails before, now only 31k. What happened to the other 3k? WHAT ARE YOU HIDING?
And now I am inside an airport.
Parallel processing? #lca2013 instagr.am/p/VGEx3ICFod/
It’d be like getting off at Redfern for the Mile High Club instagr.am/p/VGEScoiFoJ/
James_Jeffrey FIngers crossed Tony Abbott responds to the PM’s “hipster glasses” with a monocle. Nothing says focus like a monocle.
Airport bound! (Incorporating the Glamour of Flight) instagr.am/p/VGDiJGCFno/
Arriving at Sydney Central instagr.am/p/VGC8ipCFnJ/
@ScottRhodie @joshgnosis I’ll just label every eighth email “cabcharge” or “hookers”, that should sort it.
@ApostrophePong Hey, I still wouldn’t mind a visit to Napyithaw. ;)
@NickHodgeMSFT @SenatorLudlam I’m still not seeing a problem here.
RT @ScottRhodie: Delete 24,000 emails? sure… [That’s what happens when they announce an election? I thought only when government changes.]
@SenatorLudlam On day 1 you have 1 gin. On day 2, 4. On day 3, 8. On day 4, 16. And so it goes. You know it’s the only way to cope.
For the next couple of hours. as I travel, I’ll be pondering what to ask @timberners_lee that hasn’t already been asked this week.
Crossing the Nepean instagr.am/p/VF8i0LiFhe/
@chrisbrownie I don’t “love” it, I just use it.
RT @0x1C: @stilgherrian Hey I learned something today. “Wet lease.” http://t.co/pTKILBb3 [That’s my wet work for the day. No wait.]
Agreed, @snerdish @damonism, the ATR 72 is a comfy aircraft, though I can’t recall the noise level relative to a Dash 8 / Q400.
joshgnosis The election is also being held on the day Patrick Swayze died. #derp
Oh excellent, I’ll be flying an ATR 72. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATR_72 With luck, I’ll see something other than clouds.
And, finally, I seem to be booked onto an aeroplane that will go to Canberra. @VirginAustralia VA662 SYD-CBR departing 1735 AEDT. Ta, guys.
All my spurious card auth transactions from the @VirginAustralia website have now been reversed. Thanks, guys, I get to eat tonight.
“FINAL GIRAFFE ARRIVES IN AUSTRALIA”, says a media release from Minister Clare. At least SOMEONE is making sense this afternoon.
BREAKING: Postal and early voting abolished in Wentworth. Just Wentworth.
Pollytics Well this all got pretty stupid, pretty quickly.
Oh yes, @juhasaarinen, Senator Stilgherrian will be the plan for 2016. ;)
RT @NewtonMark: It’s still legal to abort the campaign during the first trimester, isn’t it?
Transport of de-something instagr.am/p/VF1757iFq4/
@SnarkyPlatypus @dobes @WarWraith Shoosh. I’m having a private little fantasy moment after a stressful morning.
Waiting PATIENTLY for the next stage of the journey instagr.am/p/VF1HawiFqD/
My measure of politicians etc these next 228 days will be whether they show signs of thought rather than being tedious robot-parrots.
In a moment of sheer optimism, I bought a train ticket from Wentworth Falls to Domestic Airport. And a pie.
Wed plan, v3: 1331 train to Sydney; reading, scripting for @timberners_lee video en route; fly to Canberra (TBA); evening TBA, with gin.
Great. @ApostrophePong gets an extended trip to Burma. I get three days in Canberra. IT’S NOT FAIR.
My brain is fried.
RT @NormanSec: China lost US$46B to #cybercrime in 2012, reports @ZDNet: ow.ly/he48I [And how much did they make?]
@VirginAustralia Thanks. I know you’re having a hectic day. I still feel hesitant pressing the website button; let’s hope the bug’s killed.
RT @mpesce: “Why do Americans Hate Android and Love Apple” - http://t.co/OQCBCn9J [Oh I know, Sir! Is it ‘Freedom’? ‘Freedom’, Sir?”]
My immediate goal is to make sure I have everything I need for the journey before I leave @bunjaree for Sydney. Focus needed.
Just got a call from @VirginAustralia with apology (lovely), progress on reversing charges (good), flight credits (lovely). Details later.
NPsteve “Buzzfeed: Ten numbers before the number eleven that you HAVE to know”
Who the fuck decided that dumping a pile of embedded tweets into a web page, along with all their UI cruft, was “journalism”?
@rbbrown @SnarkyPlatypus #iamaluditebecause I don’t have an iPhone.
Laughing in despair.
nprmonkeysee At the end of an angry-making day, at least there’s justice on Judge Judy.
@bastardsheep I think you’re being remarkably generous re the amount of thought involved. @rbbrown @monkeytypist @SnarkyPlatypus @damonism
RT @rbbrown: “Ludite” [sic] techies? That is one seriously niche “tribe” [Constantly neglected. @monkeytypist @SnarkyPlatypus @damonism]
@jonoabroad PR people also read it, and attention-whores. “Representative families” are usually anything but.
Hey kids, want to be stereotyped? Here’s your chance! Anthropologists, ethnographers, look away now. http://t.co/0jMri5pW
GreenJ If Today Tonight folds into Seven News, that says quite a bit about the network’s concept of “news”.
SnarkyPlatypus Pyne to reform parliament to become an endless sequence of attempts to suspend standing orders.
Yes, a long hot shower helps.
Now I really do need that long hot shower.
“Amongst my Twitter followers”. How pure #SMEG does that sound? But rolling the numbers, it doesn’t seem good for @VirginAustralia.
So far @VirginAustralia doesn’t have a number for how many people have been affected, but two amongst my Twitter followers last night.
I just got a call from Matt Dixon, @VirginAustralia’s Guest Relations Team Manager. Everyone affected by this problem will be contacted.
Well, I suppose I should shower and pack and at least head to Sydney. With luck I’ll figure out en route how to progress further.
clementine_ford Chris Brown - JUST LIKE JESUS. pic.twitter.com/LMBfJQFQ