Here is/was @SenatorLudlam’s Ask Me Anything in Reddit. reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment…
Wed plan, draft: Blog post(s); NetSuite SuiteWorld, Day 2; SUITEcelebration with Cake and DJ Dojah; writing for the money. #nsw13

RT @AnnabelAstbury: And lolwat ping @stilgherrian pic.twitter.com/aFH8WZgoLl [Oh what the actual fuck? That is a bit wrong.]
RT @kcarruthers: Yes @katedoak it is now time for people to suggest alternatives to tequila for @stilgherrian [“Now… time” being 6am.]
RT @katedoak: @kcarruthers @stilgherrian Pffft…. Tequila…. Try some of this, Still..thecorridor.fishvision.com/product_images…UIzVql [OH YES HERE WE GO.]
RT @chrisjrn: Tequila Mockingbird? Sounds tasty: drinksmixer.com/drink2334.html [Oh Jesus wept, that looks… creme de menthe? WTF?]
It’s because I’m a currawong, isn’t it. You’re using tequila to mock a bird.
What do you mean? There is no such thing as “tequila”. You just made that up to mock me.
Oh. I am awake. It is now Wednesday in The America. Hello. Why does it hurts?
RT @TerrorBite: Magpies are cool and currawongs are the essence of evil [You mean like this? flickr.com/photos/stilghe… Ping @firstdogonmoon.]
RT @cheshireb @stilgherrian @firstdogonmoon I was tempted by the “I’m having feelings” dog [How could you not be?]

Consider yourself told instagram.com/p/ZUmrrXiFpf/
People who can’t tell the difference between currawongs and magpies. #IceMoonPrison
It’s a currawong, arsehat.
I have stolen a @firstdogonmoon thing. I am shameless.
HOW COME YOU HAVE WASABE PEAS WHY DON’T I HAVE ANY WASABE PEAS THIS IS AN OUTRAGE.
So we were told @ZachNelson had invited us back for drinks, and there were drinks, but no @ZachNelson. Is he really a fraud? #nsw13
@jonoabroad No, that’s not what “open bar” means.
So @SenatorLudlam is doing an Ask Me Anything on Reddit at 1930 AEST tonight. Ask him about his special burlesque shows.
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“Bring me the world’s media, serve them wine and food and have them make merry.”
To paint an accurate picture, this is a bus of wine-filled journalists from around the planet being summoned to MOAR DRINKZ. Nothing cou …
Yeah all the San Jose jokes have already been done so get over it people.

This will not end well instagram.com/p/ZUWSmLCFsq/
Oh. They’ve given us a takeaway bottle each, but now @ZachNelson has summoned us back to San Jose for MOAR DRINKZ.
So all these other people have denuded the cheese platter before I could try. WTF? #denudedcheeseplatter
Current key words: ‘Californian wine’, ‘experiential learning’.
“Who Owns the Future? Not the Middle Class”, writes @ginasue in response to Jaron Lanier. freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/gneff/who…
It’s just gone 1700 PDT. In 30 mins we’re off to the press dinner at Testarossa Winery, Los Gatos. testarossa.com #nsw13
@SnarkyPlatypus It is a certain pathetic kind of liberation…
So @crikey_news has too much Budget today, and I need not file a news cycle yarn for anyone else. So I can Think for a while. Yay.
Goodness.

SciencePorn A 25 year old man was struck by lightning and it left this design on his arm.. pic.twitter.com/dPwGEJQ1Wc
“NetSuite aims for SAP’s manufacturing heart”, writes @ldignan in a not-at-all-bad summary of the strategy. zdnet.com/netsuite-aims-… #nsw13
Oh maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to tweet that.
Look, “budget black hole” is just politically incorrect. Please refer to a “value-for-money sex worker of colour”.
“Budget 2013: Canning the internet filter saves AU$4.5m”, writes @joshgnosis zdnet.com/au/australian-…
“Budget 2013: IT system tweaks, expansions and new centres”, writes @joshgnosis zdnet.com/au/australian-…
“Budget 2013: Human Services, Centrelink to lead IT spending”, writes @charispalmer itnews.com.au/News/343229,bu…
@richardtuffin So is cutting the chestnut R&D levy a good thing or a bad thing for them? I am so conflicted.
Awaiting the Wisdom of the Editors from various parts of The Australia
Great headline, EFF! “Stop the Porn Troll Shakedown Scheme” eff.org/press/releases…
xor Homeland Security has shut down the payment service for Mt. Gox, the bitcoin trading platform betabeat.com/2013/05/depart…
I hadn’t realised that Australia’s chestnut research and development levy had been cut from $50 to $45 per tonne of chestnuts.
DrMobs WTF? RT @TIME: Woman removed from plane after refusing to stop singing Whitney Houston song | ti.me/18ICc87
@SnarkyPlatypus C’est une aubaine parfaite, dit Le Diable.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. J’ai besoin de plus de sommeil. Mais à la place, je me donne la nourriture, du vin et de l’information. Et vous?
Tue plan, 1330 PDT update: Write story pitches; write for @crikey_news; write whatever else is needed today; hope dinner can still be done.

Adobe, with turboprop instagram.com/p/ZTj4z9CFqu/
Chilp Eat local produce. Eat your neighbors.
@jeamland You need a cloud. A cloud would have fixed that for you.
RT @fscavo: Zach attempting to out-Benioff Benioff “Salesforce-com is not CRM” #nsw13 [Nice way of putting it. For some value of “nice”.]
@jeamland Is a thing broken? DID YOU BREAK A THING?
RT @BrentLeary: Nelson: we’re the only CRM system that has customer data in it, it’s called orders. #nsw13 [Practical worldview, IMHO.]
FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) releases “2012 Internet Crime Report” fbi.gov/news/news_blog… #cyber
Great question from @benkepes on social stuff in NetSuite… @ZachNelson says social is important, just not a standalone business. #nsw13

NetSuite CEO @ZachNelson introduces the panel in the press/analyst briefing #nsw13 instagram.com/p/ZTWqvUiFof/
Keynote ends. #nsw13
Memjet on stage now, talking about their use of NetSuite and Autodesk PLM 360. They have engineers in Australia, apparently. #nsw13
@AutodeskPLM360 Not that you’re biased. ;) Sure, I’ll get back to you once my editors in Sydney have woken up and confirmed interest.
Autodesk guy claims they’re never had a PLM system take longer than four days to implement. #nsw13
Autodesk PLM (product lifecycle management) will integrate with NetSuite for Manufacturers. Is this as cool as I think it sounds? #nsw13
“It turns out the cloud is perfect for heavy-duty applications like engineering,” says the Autodesk guy. So that’s that then. #nsw13
@jeamland Hey, I’ve heard worse business models.
Watching another corporate video. Deciding that polygons are now way, way too cheap. #nsw13
NetSuite announces partnership with Autodesk. #nsw13
CORRECTION: NetSuite for Manufacturers. Planning, supply, WIP etc #nsw13
NetSuite for Manufacturing announced, after two years in stealth development, to fix the “hairball on steroids”. #nsw13
BrianSSommer NS’s unified billing for hardware/software firms - this is actually a real problem - nice to see someone going after this #NSW13
ATechcom and the obligatory stab at SAP from Nelson “While SAP is talking about databases, we’re helping build businesses” #NSW13
RT @dahowlett: “Of course there’s a database underneath [in NetSuite] but who cares?” #nsw13 [My edit.]
Constant little pokes at SAP from @ZachNelson for having “databases in the cloud” now. #nsw13
Calling wholesale distributors “heroes” is a serious debasement of the concept of hero, particularly when at war in Central Asia. :( #nsw13
And now @ZachNelson is about to explain “the next transformation”, which is Suite for Industry. #nsw13
@jeamland No. “Wailing”.
Williams-Sonoma saying SuiteCloud enabled them to give Bondi Junction, Australia, customers the same 3-channel experience. #nsw13
John Strain, CIO of Williams-Sonoma, a $4 billion retailer, explaining their SuiteCommerce deployment. #nsw13
Did @ZachNelson just claim SuiteCommerce is the ONLY ecommerce system that’s omni-channel? [Note to self: check recording.] #nsw13
For SuiteCommerce, during Q1 2012 they got 70% new business growth. #nsw13
We now have the “Built for NetSuite” standards so that third-party mods will work together in NetSuite. #nsw13
Yeah this slogan. “SuiteCloud: the last mile comes standard”. I had a crash blossom on that sentence. I think I’ve got it now. Maybe. #nsw13
NetSuite announces new partnership with Capgemini. #nsw13
“Winning and scaling” is a slogan here. #nsw13
So we have a chat between @ZachNelson and Norm Fjeldheim, CIO of Qualcomm. We’re learning that cloud really is a thing now. Gosh. #nsw13
The term “last mile” is being redefined here somehow to mean part of a business model. Stand by for the unravelling. #nsw13
A big new thing this year will be NetSuite for Manufacturing, but we’ll get to that. #nsw13
Cf NetSuite’s 49% growth, @ZachNelson says: “They shouldn’t call [it] Microsoft Dynamic, they should call it Microsoft Static.” Ouch. #nsw13
NetSuite’s 2003 revenue was USD 8.3M. Forward projections for FY2013 is USD 408M. #nsw13
Why doesn’t every business use NetSuite, asks @ZachNelson. Because not all companies are “entrepreneurial”, he says. #nsw13 #codeword
And @ZachNelson begins his part of the ritual by name-checking successful customers. #nsw13
Something about butter in 1924. #nsw13
Lots of fast-moving vendor- and sponsor-related images on a screen half the length of the Mississippi. As these things are done. #nsw13
Oh FFS yes, there is loud music and a logo. Get on with it. #nsw13
Waiting for @ZachNelson’s keynote to start. The audio is at daft rave levels. Audio recorder at 16% to prevent overload. #nsw13

I have been advised by NetSuite PR that fruit cancels out bacon. #nsw13 instagram.com/p/ZS93KHiFsj/
Heading to the press lounge for breakfast. I’ve lots to absorb and write, so not sure how the tweet levels will go. #nsw13
@smperris When’s your birthday? It’s not only @Cmdr_Hadfield who can make music videos, you know.
bobbyllew I thought it would be a game changer, but not this fast. Tesla Model S, outsells Mercedes. Audi and BMW in USA. cnnmon.ie/15ECL46