Back at the SEKRIT location, bathed in sweat.
Unreasonably long fuse.
RT @iain_chalmers How about the “402 Payment Required” response? [How about we just strangle the entitled fucktards?]
OH: “… my favourite tofu and tomato sauce dish…” Because the world needs more than one?
Being trolled on a tram. Where it’s done with style.
Resorting to T-pop ballads. Yes, the situation is that desperate.
Oh well, I’ve thrown the hand grenade now. It has long fuse. The suspense is unbelievable.
Being machine-gunned with bullets of irony.
RT @shiftkey: hahaha making people read RFCs is an easy way to win a debate [It’s Friday. It’s not worth expending any more energy.]
May I recommend that everyone follow @missamanda for her insights into human nature. She really is quite clever.
@missamanda Right. Your deployment of logic is to say that I’m stupid. Well done, arsehat. Brav-fucking-o!
RT @chrisjrn timbl should be able to help on Friday. [Well, I’m interviewing Sir Tim Berners-Lee with @simonhackett for @iiNet on Thursday.]
Because “It wasn’t what I expected” is the logical fallacy of argument by personal ignorance.
Maybe someone could point out the bit in the HTTP protocol specification that says that links go things that are free.
@missamanda Being “surprised” by something. Goodness. Did you consider calling the police?
The odd thing is, I’ve been using the internet a decade or more longer than the Instant Fucking Experts telling me how it’s “meant” to work.
Maybe someone can explain why it is SO FUCKING TERRIBLE to be told something costs money. Sense of entitlement much?
@jonkudelka Yes, well I have a way of dealing with people who might object. http://t.co/mIgzFWvl
@missamanda Yes, I can imagine how your entire day might be ruined by that terrible happenstance.
@MongrelNews Fucked if I know. I’m just a contributor to @crikey_news, emailing in my stories. They don’t trust is with access.
I still think it’s bullshit to warn people that a link might be paywalled. You recommend books, films and music you have to pay for.
Me at @crikey_news: “Why you SHOULD worry about cybercrime (but it’s no war)” http://t.co/ia35RriB (Paywalled, free trial.)
For those not already well into the traditional Australia Day process of getting shitfaced drunk for three days, I shall tweet a link.
@BernardKeane Oh no, it is paywalled from here too. I just didn’t look properly earlier, it seems.
@MongrelNews Thank you, I guess, even though that’s a bit cruel.
@stevemcilhatton Fucked if I know.
@joannejacobs I’d recommend seeking urgent medical attention.
Oh. I was paywalled?
Early, but let’s revisit @ApostrophePong’s excellent Australia Day photo http://t.co/qmpklIy8 and a new national anthem http://t.co/H3mljzzR
@JenBrockie @markatextor Oh dear. This is getting very close to “FOOD IS NOT THE SAME AS WHEN I WAS A CHILD MAKE IT STOP”. ;)
@markatextor Are you flirting? You’re flirting, aren’t you!
MT @markatextor: The modern, stacked sandwich is the pretentious food equivalent of a war crime [True. Thank God for meetings at the pub.]
The meeting is over, and I have moved to the corner window. Should anyone care.
A good business meeting is a business meeting with free prawns.
RT @dannolan: @GeordieGuy @stilgherrian I yield to the calendar gods [Wot? Pope Gregory? Julius Caesar? The Mayans?]
One more meeting to go. And I’m two minutes away from the pub where it is being held.
This afternoon has included a very successful conversation about a certain production project next week and rather too much sweating.
So .ics files are the work of the devil. No, you cannot just email things into my schedule.
@BrendonWalker Yes, that’s right.
Typical. The only decent #RI on the train alights at the first stop.
chrisberg i only support cyberhuman rights
@seamus The Pun Gmomes are going to eviscerate you, you know that.
Suspicion breeds confidence.
“Freedom protects hate,” @BernardKeane, so we’d better get rid of all that hate-riddled Freedom.
@posty @mpesce @hyper_mpesce “The cyber prefix seems to be used non-ironically only by policymakers and the mentally feeble,” I wrote today.
@PointZeroOne @dawnstarau @Idealaw You are of course forgetting the worst of all, CYBERPOX!
@GreenJ Pity. Break a leg.
GreenJ i think we need to pace ourselves on the Katter candidate outrage people. 150 seats. several months. etc.
@dobes I suspect that No Doz makes the intended meaning clearer, though doling out gov-speed to building sites has a certain absurdity.
@GreenJ Dear Sir, is your breakfastifying of a holiday-only nature, or have done something with that other woman?
Oh that’s right. I remember now. @dobes took my amphetamines.
WHERE ARE MY TICKETS TO PONYCON AU?
RT @dobes: @stilgherrian problematic communicating utilising infrequent verbiage exclusively [Capacious commiserations substantiate.]
Words can be very dangerous, you know. http://t.co/7zKzLPuy
OMFG, @dobes, I just realised… I WRITE WORDS. I AM PART OF THE PROBLEM.
Beware of words. Especially popular words, because the more popular the words the more dangerous they fnord are. The. The. The. The. The.
RT @dobes: Trending cyber-hype! RT @runoutoftweets: stay safe friends twitpic.com/bxzn7i [I resign. All security advice is now written.]
AdrianChen A dystopian future where millions are imprisoned for pirating “Downton Abbey” + a prison hierarchy emerges based on what season you pirated.
@dannolan It’s true. @leslienassar died for our sins. No wait.
Me at @crikey_news: “Why you SHOULD worry about cybercrime (but it’s no war)” http://t.co/ia35RriB It’s a response to http://t.co/DUmDoouH
RT @suffert: Italian-language page at MSN redirects to Cool Exploit Kit, serves ransomware http://t.co/zzqUEWwS [Bonus functionality!]
When someone tweets two sentences, and the second one is “Just ask @dannolan”, does it really matter what the first one is?
@ozdj @RealNickHodge @bernietb It’s hard work, but someone’s got to do it.
“Martial partners”? So, like NATO?
RT @darrenpauli: xkcd.com/899/ [Yes, these are very good numbers indeed.]
Now playing at the SEKRIT location: Irene Cara’s “Flashdance”. http://t.co/0rHuMUKI
It’s so sad to see a former client’s new website with stuff done in ways that you would’ve killed in early production, let alone go live.
Not as difficult as a barbed wire enema, matey.
Strong evidence has just been tendered which suggests that I can’t count beyond single-digit numbers.
dobes We need to change the flag in order to provide stimulus to the tattoo industry.
erkpod It’s Day 5 of Social Media Awareness Week? So why am I finding out about this now? Furthermore, do I care? LOL #smeg
Story filed for @crikey_news. Story for @zdnetaustralia dropped because things change. Time to find my pants.
SnarkyPlatypus Anybody wearing the flag as a hijab?
StephenAtHome I believe Ayn Rand’s first love poem went: Roses are red/ violets are blue/ finish this poem yourself / you dependent parasite
Fri plan: Write for @crikey_news (now); write for @zdnetaustralia; errand Enmore; plan next week inc Canberra; 1630 meeting Haymarket; TGIF.
Intel launches a smartphone for Africa. And calls it Yolo. Sigh. http://t.co/s7ySe02d HT @dahowlett
@yinettesys That said, is there any chance you could point me to any other similar search strings that you’ve seen?
RT @sylmobile: Australia has the opportunity to be the first country with a QR code flag.
@yinettesys Indeed. But I mean a search of Twitter so I can find who posted it first, so I can trace back to whoever first did the hack.
OK, time to write my response to @BernardKeane’s “Eleven reasons to be sceptical of warnings of cyber warfare” http://t.co/DUmDoouH
@jeamland Yeah just think about that question for a while, and then think about whether you needed to ask it. Ever. @thornae
@shiftkey Ta. Sounds like it’s going to be hard to figure out where it started. Unless I think of a magic set of search terms.
@shiftkey Is this something you discovered, or something you found out from elsewhere?
@thornae I have a number of ideas gurgling in my head, potentially involving @jeamland and a variety of other interesting folks.
RT @shiftkey: oh come on https://t.co/y89oC4W1 [Hey everyone! Programmers are the most intelligent people in the world!]
@SnarkyPlatypus If tennis players suffer a legitimate injury then they have ways of shutting these things down during the match.
@thornae Thank you. As you presumably saw, it was a straight-up commercial decision by @zdnetaustralia tat I couldn’t argue against.
“‘Backdoor’ root logins found in Barracuda security, networking gear”, writes @zackwhittaker http://t.co/cijsrOak
RT:”Blog post: “Goodbye ‘Patch Monday’, introducing ‘The Full Tilt’” http://t.co/yw6f4K3n
Final RT: Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Australia’s National Security Strategy? Or Labor’s election-year cyber gimmick?” http://t.co/LITqNNwa
@gusworldau Are you suggesting that I would have to plan ahead to include alcohol in my day?
@SnarkyPlatypus Il n’est pas nécessaire d’entrer dans les détails spécifiques à ce stade, ou alors mon avocat m’a conseillé de dire.
@SnarkyPlatypus J’ai été livré avec un médicament spécial. Tout est maintenant parfait.
Fri plan, draft: Write for @crikey_news; plan next week, including Canberra; 1630 meeting Haymarket; remainder TBA.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Aujourd’hui, tout le chaos et la confusion cesse. Je suis le maître de l’univers. Et vous?
Hello, Friday. Today’s tweets are dedicated to Robert Boyle FRS, born today in 1627. http://t.co/MZNuWw8n