Well, SID Volume One episode 1 was quite interesting. @franksting @ScottRhodie and guest @boneycross. https://t.co/JNzmMhjPuc
@franksting @ScottRhodie Actually, there’s a couple things you were talking about in episode 1 that relate to some project ideas… #sidpod
@franksting @ScottRhodie “Mentioned”, was I? I shall be calling my lawyers first thing in the morning! #sidpod
I think someone needs to do something with this image and Mr Rabbit. http://t.co/ljgNY5c4Sa
“NSA Surveillance Extends The Threat Hierarchy”, writes Richard Stiennon (@cyberwar) http://t.co/mQ6Bpbe4kj
“Android tablet gives rare glimpse at North Korean tech”, writes @martyn_williams http://t.co/xFM1ivbJvN
I am listening to SID Volume 1 Ep 1 with @franksting @ScottRhodie and some bloke. Because I have no life. https://t.co/JNzmMhjPuc
ABC RN’s Law Report episode on “Feeding the patent trolls” is a good accessible update on Australia’s status. http://t.co/X3qnvY1Y62
Thanks, @R_Chirgwin @vealmince @DatsunInsult, I have indeed beenn impressed with the Lumia 925’s camera these last 48 hours. #LumiaWP8trial
Ah, these people just don’t understand Art… http://t.co/2B3GwZ1Ujw HT @iain_chalmers
Ta @robcorr @R_Chirgwin @purserj, I’ll play with the SoundCloud app for a bit.
@MetaMikeBiggs You leave my straw man alone!
By “normal RSS”, for SoundCloud, I mean I see a podcast that looks interesting, and I copy and paste the URL into anything I like.
Seriously, guys, “one app per website” is like when they tried “one radio per radio station”. It didn’t last. Everyone loses musical chairs.
So does SoundCloud use normal, open-standards RSS, or is it another of those closed systems where you have to use their app?
I’ve uploaded the full 3552 x 2000-pixel images to Flickr, just as they came from the Lumia 925’s camera. Enjoy. #LumiaWP8trial
New blog post: “Nokia Lumia 925 and Windows Phone 8 trial: Day 2” http://t.co/pEgGgXskzT and 24 photos http://t.co/1qZTervuWx #LumiaWP8trial
Dear PR and Everyone, if you want me in August for any reason, this would be a good time to tell me.
Rearranging the schedule again, with particular attention to tomorrow.
StilCyber cyber-“Security cyber-experts cyber-caution cyber-against cyber-a cyber-thing
I have no idea what I’m talking about.
RT @jpwarren: Surely we should be asking why Sydney *doesn’t* have one? [Fair point. Why doesn’t Sydney have a giant glass butt-plug?]
Why does London have a giant glass butt-plug?
Being presented with an offer I could easily refuse.
Working on my people skills.
I just took 24 photos at @bunjaree after the rain, starting with this one. http://t.co/1qZTervuWx #LumiaWP8trial
New photo: “Wattle blooming at @Bunjaree Cottages”. I’m ever more impressed with Lumia 925’s camera. http://t.co/Qr8jrTi49r #LumiaWP8trial
RT @fakeedbutler: “CLSA plotted executive pay of Australia’s top 200 companies vs shareholder return. Here’s the rather amusing result” htt…
newswithnipples @stilgherrian and “gone viral” to describe a video seen by 1000 people. Actually, any journo who writes a news story about a funny video.
“My bus crashed on the way to work this morning.” “OMFG! Are you OK?” “Oh, did I say ‘crashed’? I meant ‘really full’.”
When I finish my time machine, I intend to track down the first journalist who ever wrote “crashed” for a website that was merely over-busy.
@bastardsheep Yep, @purserj drew my attention to the The Verge’s version of that story. http://t.co/1OFQHyCq7g
RT @Elmo_Keep: 15 Over-Used Movie Poster Clichés:imgur.com/gallery/jrmWjg [And how much do they charge to “design” these? Demand a refund!]
Windows Phone app Instance couldn’t upload my photos to Instagram because arseholes. http://t.co/1OFQHyCq7g #LumiaWP8trial HT @purserj
@purserj I did see that link, thank you, and I’ve just incorporated it into my post.
New blog post: “Nokia Lumia 925 and Windows Phone 8 trial: Day 1” http://t.co/gNFiJCVnXX #LumiaWP8trial
@ChrissieM @QJernalisms Why are you telling me this?
“Security experts caution against corporate hack-backs”, wrote @j_hutch yesterday. http://t.co/qyA6cOxjP0
RT @zdnetaustralia: Vodafone caps global roaming to NZ, US and UK at $5 per day. zd.net/15uiwCY [About time someone did this!]
RT @joshgnosis: Hard hats on at the Prince Albert hospital, it seems. [Ah, this story just gives and gives…]
@SnarkyPlatypus Combien de fois t’ai-je dit? Ne jamais aller à Kings Cross!
Wed plan, draft 4: Client database fix; #LumiaWP8trial post; plan August; finish corruptednerds.com podcast; @zdnetaustralia topic; cry.
joshgnosis Former NBN Co chairman Harrison Young is now one of those LinkedIn spammers promoting his erotic fiction novel. bit.ly/16i0l4G
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je célèbre les joies de chaos, parce que cela semble être le thème de la journée. Et vous?
RT @edyong209: These beautiful spheres are a non-stick coating that comes out of an insect’s bum. http://t.co/26Q346WUWL http://t.co/C8ojIb…
Uhoh. Everything I’ve tweeted about in the last hour has just merged into one coherent scenario in my head.
Maybe I should make an instructional video for @NewtonMark, using source footage from certain internet sites.
My plans for Wednesday are pretty much like that octopus. I’ll be back in a moment with soy sauce.
RT @settostun: Holy crap. Pour soy sauce on dead octopus & it dances. @Sci_Phile says it’s because of ion gradients and unused ATP. http://…
Wed plan, draft 3A: Same as draft 3, but first add upward-pointing nails to the table.
Wed plan, draft 3: Bang own forehead repeatedly against a wooden table until the world starts making sense.
@dobes Gun crime is a growing problem… (well, except for the fact that it isn’t).
Mind you, if there were a specialist Prince Albert hospital, Camperdown would indeed be the place for it. [Boom-tish.] I thank you.
RT @glengyron: Which one in the media team has the piercing do you think? [PMO press release needed! The public has a right to know!]
Clearly there’s a Australian Republican Movement mole in PMO, undermining Kevin Rudd’s credibility.
Prime Minister’s media alert refers to Sydney’s “Royal Prince Albert Hospital “. It’s the Royal Prince ALFRED Hospital, guys.
jjprojects In this age of commercial mass surveillance, appealing to ethical and moral responsibility does not seem to come in to it.
Breakfast.
Australians, living in the world’s richest and safest country, reminded once more that they have SUCH a miserable existence.
Of course that report by Australian Crime Commission (ACC) yesterday was yet another platform for Labor to re-bleat “we’re tough” bleats.
Mind you, politicians are more worried about losing their seat in an election than, oh, children suffering in a concentration camp in PNG.
So that’s just like UK politicians being more worried about online crime (losing money) that a nuclear war? http://t.co/3oWWa9OVKL
“Many criminals are more afraid of losing their money than they are of going to jail,” says home affairs minister Jason Clare. So…
Watch for that sleight-of-hand whenever someone says “[activity X[ costs ‘the economy’” some ludicrous amount. Like copying a movie.
Which is bullshit, because the money is still part of “the economy”, and gets spent in “the economy” no matter who’s holding it initially.
“ACC: organised crime rips $15 billion from economy each year”, reports @abcnews http://t.co/QVaEiXNQWW HT @michaelfieldcom …
Wed plan, draft 2: Write for @technologyspec; #LumiaWP8trial post; plan August schedule and budget; decide topic for @zdnetaustralia column.
Nah, that’s not going to work.
We’d plan, draft: 0759 train to Sydney; write fo@technologyspecec en route; 1030 Vodafone presser; lunch; train back; write en route; TGIW.
Wednesday. And I’m starting slightly later than planned. This will be fun.
Thud.
I’ve got an early start tomorrow, so I’ll leave my first-day blog until then. #LumiaWP8trial
New photo: “Katoomba railway station”, with Lumia 925’s default settings. http://t.co/YIFE4LPAbU #LumiaWP8trial
Why is a network configuration setting on something other than the machine I’m holding in my hand? #LumiaWP8trial
It seems I cannot change the Lumia 925’s Bluetooth name from “Windows Phone” without a Windows computer. Sigh. #LumiaWP8trial
@GTRoberts Thanks for that. It’s looking like the lack of various stable apps is the main roadblock with WP8 for me. #LumiaWP8trial
“Java(TM) needs your permission to run.” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. No.
Informative visualisation: “World’s Biggest Data Breaches”, that is, hacks where data was stolen. http://t.co/K5Yo1zoUMb
@GTRoberts That’s what I used this afternoon. It tweeted the links, and previews showed up in Janetter, but Instagram links then 404ed.
“An up-to-date repository of rates paid [to freelance writers] by Australian publications.” heypayup.tumblr.com HT @bronwen
codemastermm Gas prices don’t seem so bad once you realize you’re buying explosive liquid dinosaurs
UK Home Affairs Committee’s inquiry into e-crime report is downloadable from here, actually. http://t.co/BV8mDGe8wW
Hang on, the Brits have some broken links there. Stand by.
Well, at least that loopy commentary from the British MP gives me a highly topical peg ‘pon which to hang my @technologyspec yarn.
“The PM was right this week to highlight the responsibility of the Internet Service Providers, search engines and social media sites.”
Committee Chair Keith Vaz MP: “The threat of a cyber attack to the UK is so serious it is marked as a higher threat than a nuclear attack.”
Here’s the UK parliamentary report in question: “UK failing to win the war on e-crime” http://t.co/B8kyt95341
“Cybercrime ‘bigger threat than nuclear war’, UK lawmakers say”, writes @ZDNetCharlie http://t.co/3oWWa9OVKL Please send me tequila.
And yet the Instagram preview images show up in Janetter, the Twitter client I use. Oh well, no time to figure that out now. #LumiaWP8trial
Ta, @rashasman @purserj @RatbagsDotCom @garystark, I can confirm that those pics aren’t appearing at Instagram. #LumiaWP8trial fail.
Just posted a photo instagram.com/p/cYQ5DViFtb/
Katoomba, looking up, which is downhill #LumiaWP8trial instagram.com/p/cYQyT6CFtW/
Katoomba station, default settings #LumiaWP8trial instagram.com/p/cYQgpWCFtC/
Wondering about #LumiaWP8trial? I’m trialling a Nokia Lumia 925 / Windows Phone 8 for a week, starting today. http://t.co/hvn6U3z6i0
New photo: “Katoomba station subway” http://t.co/EBLyaW9eoy #LumiaWP8trial
Comms including tweets are intermittent this afternoon because I haven’t got that set up as I’d like yet. #LumiaWP8trial
“@scottcarson1957: A black highlighted SOG “get out of jail free card.” pic.twitter.com/fJZiFH0UOp” Looks rather handy.
There seems to be a distinct dearth of Google apps for Windows Phone 8. I can’t imagine why that might be. #LumiaWP8trial
@expectproblems @nickmaher Yes, Rohan, you need a life.
Odd. @Westpac has a Windows Phone app for St George, BankSA and Bank of Melbourne, but not Westpac itself. #LumiaWP8trial
@nickmaher My pleasure. It’s one of my most heavily-used apps, and I’ll happily buy it for all of my devices.
@expectproblems @nickmaher That is cute, but I find the other displays more useful. I’ve been using it on Android for yonks. iOS also soon.
I say, @nickmaher’s TripView for Sydney looks rather rather schmick on Windows Phone 8. No real-time data yet though. #LumiaWP8trial
New photo: “Walking to Wentworth Falls” http://t.co/Q4c9HIAotj #LumiaWP8trial
Mobile: Walk the dirt track then Railway Pde to Wentworth Falls; 1200 train to Katoomba; errands; light lunch; remainder TBA.
“Flickr needs to know your location to work correctly”? No, it just requested that data. Talking users out of privacy. Bah! #LumiaWP8trial
There’s no Dropbox for Windows Phone 8, only 3rd-party clients. Not sure I want to extend that trust relationship. #LumiaWP8trial
Right, I have Twitter and Instagram at least. Looking quickly through the Windows Phone store, I see… gaps. #LumiaWP8trial
This tweet is being sent from Twitter for Windows Phone 8. Doesn’t hurt a bit. #LumiaWP8trial
Thanks, @crazyfun_nicol, setting up Instance for Instagram now, tho a password-reset loop is needed because memory loss. #LumiaWP8trial
Microsoft wants an email address, a date of birth and a postcode. They’re not secrets, but explanations are… sparse. #LumiaWP8trial
Ah of course. I can’t download apps until I’ve created a Microsoft account. Here we go then… #LumiaWP8trial
If anyone has suggestions for the best Windows Phone 8 apps… but see my blog post for what I do. http://t.co/hvn6U3z6i0 #LumiaWP8trial
OK, I’ve got an hour until I have to walk to the station. Let’s see how much I can get set up in that time. #LumiaWP8trial
While all the “send us your data” options were pre-checked, they were clearly marked and I’ve turned them all off. #LumiaWP8trial
Other than that, getting the Lumia 925 powered up, online and working as a Wi-Fi hotspot was quick and straightforward. #LumiaWP8trial
The SIM tray feels fragile, and the “Welcome” guide needs a bigger drawing to it’s more obvious which way things go. #LumiaWP8trial
Lumia 925’s power button turns it on too easily. Expect in-purse phones to hit something, turn on, disrupt theatre. #LumiaWP8trial
And… I’m back online. #LumiaWP8trial
I must now go offline as I move the SIM I’m connecting with from the Galaxy S III to the Lumia 925. Let’s see how I go. #LumiaWP8trial
Initial observations as last week: Lumia 925 heavier than Samsung Galaxy S III, but feels good in the hand. #LumiaWP8trial
@DuncanMcNab @MikeCarlton01 Um, no, “carriage service” is legal-speak. It means a telco and such. See the Telecommunications Act, etc.
So I’m about to start my Nokia Lumia 925 / Windows Phone 8 trial. This blog explains how it’ll work. http://t.co/hvn6U3z6i0 #LumiaWP8trial
@olyamilovska Erm, I was using hyperbole.
@HarrisonPolites It’s for tomorrow. While playing down the cyberwar screechies, it’ll note that “We’re all in it together.”
NSW Police charge Catholic priest with using carriage service for child pornography. http://t.co/soRJKa3P4W
Tue plan, draft: Start Nokia Lumia 925 / WP8 trial; errand Katoomba; write for @technologyspec; maybe finish corruptednerds.com podcast.
katecrawford View over MIT looking a trifle apocalyptic today. #nofilter pic.twitter.com/Xq9pMPHPeD
@Asher_Wolf I’m also assuming there’s a few who haven’t actually clocked off. Disrupting and discrediting protest movements is an old game.
@FruzsE @Asher_Wolf I’m genuinely surprised that people are reading that into what I wrote. I guess I wasn’t as clear as I’d hoped.
@FruzsE The comment added to the post itself, 16th down. But the point has emerged better in conversation with @Asher_Wolf just now.
@Asher_Wolf I saw some distinct “Oh, you sheep, you only just figured this out?” (paraphrase) sneering, which I found… uncharitable.
@Asher_Wolf I agree there’s two distinct cultures there (and with much else), but I also saw the sneering coming from the older group. YMMV.
@Asher_Wolf But I AM saying that those who dress up as hacktivists as a way to continue their rebellion are indeed puerile, yes.
@Asher_Wolf Yes, some such folk call themselves “hacktivists”. I did NOT say that hacktivists are all puerile. THAT is the imagined part.
It’s looking like I’ll have to write a clarification to the clarification, ad infinitum.
@FruzsE Bother. It seems you, too, have inserted a piece of logic that isn’t in what I wrote or even think. Have you also read my comment?
@Asher_Wolf You, and indeed most privacy and anti-surveillance folks, are not being attacked here, not even criticised.
@Asher_Wolf @apiary I think this is precisely the false reverse logic I wrote about in my comment to the post.
I’ve added a comment to my @zdnetaustralia yarn to clarify what I thought would’ve been obvious to anyone with critical-reading skil… oh.
@apiary @Asher_Wolf Neither do I, and I never wrote anything remotely like that. Please cut down on the hallucinogens.
I do laugh when people get all het up and argue against imagined slights that I haven’t actually written.
Me at @zdnetaustralia: “So you call yourself a geek?”, with fewer derp-comments than feared. http://t.co/4Yo29MS5AZ
Tuesday, and there shall be showers later, maybe even a thunderstorm, which is nice.
I can’t be arsed migrating to Windows Phone 8 tonight. I’m knackered. It can wait until tomorrow. It’s not like it’ll generate revenue.
RT @dobes: Meanwhile, at the world’s largest company by market cap: https://t.co/TteCw4yfrh
Rorschach test FTW.
Denial is always an easier strategy, right? Laughing.
Me at @zdnetaustralia: “So you call yourself a geek?” http://t.co/4Yo29MS5AZ
RT @NewtonMark: So they won’t ever need to steal @bengrubb’s iPad again. RT @delimiterau: Qld Police buys 400 Apple iPad minis: http://t.co…
@cristinamarras Yeah, life can be so frustrating.
Blacklisting all the nouns.
Hahahahahafuckingha.
RT @PollBludger: Morgan: ALP 38.5 (-3) L-NP 41.5 (+0.5) GRN 10.5 (+1.5) http://t.co/0j9mVdk8Yk
Yeah like, fuck “context”.
franksting Bob Ellis should be the Chief Justice
This does not bode well… instagram.com/p/cVw0QuCFhZ/
Conspiring with sub-editors.
ScanBC Coast Guard has located two males floating down the Fraser River in a bathtub near Steveston. Hovercraft has retrieved them from the water
“Editors’ Note: Photos of two women police would like to speak to is available via email from the Police Media Unit.” I love my email.
Arsehats.
Public transport is such a difficulty.
drearyclocks Having wet pants makes me want to pee.
That’s really quite funny, coming from a government that was adamant that we need “filters” to prevent us seeing certain adult content.
“Government inquiry urges Australians to bypass online geo-blocks that can double prices for IT products” http://t.co/u91HKxiUAs HAHAHAHA!
Oh, I hadn’t realised there were feelings about public transport tickets.
@SnarkyPlatypus Sorry, where is this?
Shut up, @juhasaarinen, the entire and only point to this is annoying @ScottRhodie. So let’s stick with that.
RT @BruceBillsonMP: Cxvv [I’ve never heard of you, but hey, mocking strangers’ mistakes on the internet is how it goes. Welcome.]
nathvalvo The new Big Brother twist is that evicted housemates are sent directly to PNG.
@ScottRhodie @juhasaarinen So your whinge is that you have to use the internet? What the actual fuck?
RT @R_Chirgwin: Me at El Reg, on high performance computing, weather forecasts, and misguided climate deniers. http://t.co/B3ZgMOmuM7 Thank…
I HAVE FILED!
RT @dobes: *reaches for facial rat cage* [Can you get them from the Ponds Institute?]
OH: “Lithgow, huh? How exciting’s that?”
RT @vealmince: People still do that? [Of course. Editors are wonderful. #iloveyoubigbrother #room101]
Implementing the editor’s suggestions.
snurb_dot_info “Spike in bizarre behaviour blamed on dirty ecstasy batch in Adelaide.” Or it could just be that it’s, you know, _Adelaide_….
Also, @R_Chirgwin, you can’t have “platoons” of hipsters, because that would imply some sort of coherent organisation of body and thought.
@R_Chirgwin Why so?
What even is “@lukehopewell”?
In this recent cartoon, xkcd explains why “the media is dying”. xkcd.com/1239/
BernardKeane Atlantic has pulled its Murdoch article (tks @alankerlin), Gawker still up.
@CosmicRami @bunjaree I have decide that the slender-billed cuckoo-dove is an arsehole bird.
Final plug: Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Will McAfee’s hacking hyperbole hatchet job kill the trillion-dollar myth?” http://t.co/TL5mowbnZA
Smirks.
franksting I hear St Bernard of Being Correct is right again.
@ApostrophePong Yeah, I’ve been thinking it’s long overdue for a change, that avatar, but then I’m pleased with the Six Pigeons image.
@bunjaree @CosmicRami You’d be thinking of the slender-billed cuckoo-dove. http://t.co/zNqt9fOvKN
RT @Manic_Henry: Close-up of the flock. Budgies are so cool! #parrots #birds pic.twitter.com/YDMtTbVoPs [Ping @ApostrophePong]
Yeah OK, so Monday is getting completely out of hand.
Wondering why the barmaid was telling me about her problems with Grindr. I now realise she meant the coffee grinder. As you were.
RT @jeamland: Rough Trade Agreement? [Where do I sign?]
So in the USFTA, the “F” does stand for “fisting”, right?
@dobes @NewtonMark @joshgnosis Well, we already have CHOICE educating about geoblock avoidance.
@benpobjie I suspect you’re right.
“The ‘Australia tax’ is real, geo-blocking to stop”, writes @dobes. http://t.co/La7zUPO8xC Parliamentary report at http://t.co/tPD6tmuZWD
OK, back to the writing…