That is all at this time.
Finally, a plug that I’ll be in Newcastle from Wednesday evening for the inaugural DiG Festival & Conference. http://t.co/lGtasCzSSq
There’s also a new Corrupted Nerds podcast with @TenableSecurity’s Dick Boussiere. Lots of interesting stuff. corruptednerds.com/pod/c00005/
Me at @CSO_Australia: “Upping the pace to face the infosec ‘Cold War’” http://t.co/KLPm2oNBpm
Me at @zdnetaustralia: “The digital revolution’s lingering literacy problem”, with thanks to @bigmac for the idea. http://t.co/LSUarhLuSS
Just a few quick tweets now to plug some stuff, and then to bed. Interaction will have to wait until tomorrow or so.
That’ll do. Everything else is covered by Rule 34. No wait.
New “Corrupted Nerds” podcast: “Vulnerability scanning to the rescue” with @TenableSecurity’s Dick Boussiere. corruptednerds.com/pod/c00005/
New blog post: “Visiting Newcastle for DiG Festival” http://t.co/lGtasCzSSq
Here’s a few links to stuff. No correspondence will be entered into.
OH: “Who said ‘We the rock stars, and I’m the biggest of all of them’?” “Kevin Rudd?” “Oh well played.”
Fursday.
Hello, Wednesday.
And the radio is done.
On hold for @abcgoldcoast, talking NBN momentarily. Live stream at abc.net.au/goldcoast/
I love how people read a single tweet, jump to conclusions, and respond with some daft tribal-zealout sound bite. Arsehats.
Me at @crikey_news earlier: “NBN Co board refuses to drink the poisoned chalice” http://t.co/OwljIOzST3
@chockings @abcgoldcoast Thanks. I must visit again soon. I could use a bit of warmth.
I’ll be talking about the NBN on @abcgoldcoast at 1715 AEST, so in about 20 mins. Live stream at abc.net.au/goldcoast/
Well, I feel sort of a bit better after that nap. Sort of. A bit.
GrogsGamut The first job of the commander of Operation Sovereign Borders is not to laugh when saying the name.
theprojecttv Abolishing the Climate Commission and ending carbon pricing hasn’t impressed Prof. David Suzuki - we’ll talk to him on #theprojecttv tonight
OK, it seems only a few know the old euphemism “getting off at Redfern”, so that’s not going to work.
@dobes Christian Kerr alleges I’m the person who introduced Micaleff and him to Supernaut’s “I Like It Both Ways”. http://t.co/YkEbCmn7Vm
@dobes Well, if it’s good enough for Micallef…
I wonder, if I describe a FTTN NBN as “getting off at Redfern”, whether people will understand. I’m fairly sure Tony Abbott would.
“[Telco analyst] Paul Budde says appointing a new board could delay the National Broadband Network by several years.” http://t.co/7TKX5BYwao
I’ll be talking about the NBN on @abcgoldcoast at 1715 AEST. Live stream at abc.net.au/goldcoast/
@AlisterAir Oh dear.
Yeah, the typo has been flagged for correction, thanks folks.
@abctech @GrogsGamut Dunno. We send refugees to foreign concentration camps to make an example, and they’re actual people. Too cynical?
@aidanpbh Ta, I’ll pass that on. I seem to typo that at least once in every article about broadband. Sigh.
Me at @crikey_news: “NBN Co board refuses to drink the poisoned chalice” http://t.co/OwljIOzST3
Elmo_Keep Please, do not worry, something has happened and The Age is ON IT: pic.twitter.com/Cmn1zAj6A5
Story filed for @crikey_news. Explosive diarrhoea strikes. Coincidence?
Hoffm Four uniformed NYPD officers were at my subway stop tonight asking me to upgrade to iOS 7. Not a joke! pic.twitter.com/CGdR2RqtKJ
Mon plan, draft: Write for @crikey_news; administrivia; cook some pig; further writing, or at least the beginnings thereof; quiet evening.
RT @frogworth: People have no respect for Sean Connery these days :( [Exactly! Bah to @dikkii @GreenJ and the other Philistines.]
RT @dikkii: You have to do something about that disturbing avatar. [Why? What’s wrong with it?]
“The NBN board has run away. Why?”, writes @AlanKohler, getting it spot on. http://t.co/zbtxWQoZPs
@halans Excellent.
\RT @halans: Pretty quiet out there, even for a school holiday pic.twitter.com/Vf3HWV2uyT [The end times have begun…]
Clicking on link after link that take me down into the pure Randian rabbit hole.
Apparently China has massively increased its uranium enrichment program in recent years. http://t.co/oAyh39k5F2
@glengyron @SnarkyPlatypus @jeamland Agreed, far from it.
Resisting an urge to make a Nairobi mall joke such as “Oh we ALL feel like doing that some days” because I suspect it’s too early.
chris_griffith I’ve been using superglue today with a tad now dried on fingertips … enough for fingerprint recognition on the iPhone 5S to stop working!
That’s where I’ll stop any interest in the Nairobi thing. Admiring fine photojournalism is one thing. Recreational disaster porn is another.
Further photos from Nairobi mall attack from Reuters photographers. http://t.co/4R8kjtRDFx HT @michaelmeloni
I suppose I should do the shopping at some point.
crazyfun_nicol None of you are prostitute robots from the future so stop it.
@glengyron @jeamland @SnarkyPlatypus In hindsight, I realise how many kinds of wrong I put into a single tweet.
The photos of the Nairobi mall attack by NYT’s @TylerHicksPhoto are astounding. Also, confronting. Go full-screen. http://t.co/Yxu7eCmJAq
@thegrugq @homakov @ApostrophePong Yes, “civilised chaos” is exactly the word(s) for it. It’s interesting which groups of people get that.
@glengyron @jeamland @SnarkyPlatypus Wot?
@R_Chirgwin Yeah, you’re not some special snowflake there. Deal with it.
@thegrugq @homakov @ApostrophePong Hah! Possibly extreme, but I do love Bangkok, and my times there have been all too brief. Soon, I hope.
@thegrugq @homakov @ApostrophePong Nice work all round, gentlemen. Now remind me to go to none of any of those countries ever again.
It’s not often we hear the unmistakeable whiney accent of the Bangkok gay scene queen in the Blue Mountain, but today we are blessed.
@FruzsE Thank you. It’s a favourite random avatar I return to from time to time.
@SnarkyPlatypus @glengyron @jeamland I’m not sure I do. Can you draw a diagram?
RT @thegrugq: â@homakovov: Is “fisted to death” an encouraging name for boxing club?â€< you’re in pattaya already? [P@ApostrophePongPong]
Yeah maybe if you kept your Twitter usage down to posting cat videos, rather than straying into politics, you’d not look such an arsehat.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je suis d’humeur à la moitié de l’abattage des personnes qui utilisent Twitter. C’est un jour heureux! Et vous?
Biting my tongue.
RT @R_Chirgwin: @stilgherrian @jeamland Only if you can make the reindeer fit as well, I say. [Should be a standard condition for marriage.]
RT @jeamland: Insert photoshop of you into this photo here. http://t.co/6Ep5uutwlm [Yes, that was the logic I was employing. Good logic.]
About the “Sun plan” tweet, I haven’t achieve a result, but look it’s nearly 1700 and we can’t over-think this, so “Mission Accomplished”.
RT @jeamland: This is for @glengyron: http://t.co/xmbVKuW8pH [It’s such a shame he’s straight. Obviously. Ping @SnarkyPlatypus]
MeddlesomPriest The new Member for Fairfax responds to qns about his Waratah Coal mine seeking Federal environment approval pic.twitter.com/1t5KUg0ACg
@chrisjrn Thank you. And to you. Indeed, I’ll be doing a little Equinox ritual. Tomorrow morning at 0644 AEST.
It’s a Christmas Miracle! The kitchen was still open at 1450 so I can have a proper Sunday Lunch after all! Bless all the little children!
@derekbradley Bbeer is fine, but if “kilojoules and carbs” was the only factor we’d be eating Space Mush. Sunday Lunch is a cultural event.
@derekbradley The frustrating part is that it’ll only miss the timing by 10 mins. And I even thought of uploading it from the pub. Sigh.
@derekbradley The file is being uploaded to a place that has its own Ajax interface., and nought else. Good thinking though.
@derekbradley For certain reasons that are not important right now, pizza does not count as a meal for me, let alone Sunday Lunch.
I badly misjudged the upload time for a 155MB file. In the Mountains, pub kitchens close at 1430. Sunday lunch plans are ruined.
@ApostrophePong @jeffsonstein Oi! You’ll keep! Though now I’m tempted to find a similar clothing item for me to wear to “special” events.
@jeffsonstein I’m sure Mr Connery would be upset by that comparison.
Monsters! Monsters from the id!
@SarahwntsanewMG What is that prevents us human from connecting two facts we know very, very clearly?
@gamoamike I think that’s about the politest way that’s ever been put to me.
Apparently the real world isn’t just something I write about, it actually exists.
Wait. I don’t have to go into supermarkets. Online shopping, home delivery. Yeah, the internet. That. What do I do for a living again?
RT @sylmobile: The Internet: pic.twitter.com/cS9lvn5TDf [That’s where it should’ve been kept. But no, now it’s everywhere, look what happened.]
@Loquacities @zdnetaustralia Thank you. I’ve had quite a few comments about this week’s column, I’m not sure what the key is.
Or, for that matter @oberonsghost, back hair. http://t.co/X6jjaGMSiz
oberonsghost Thanks @stilgherrian for reminding me that, once upon a time, men were not ashamed to be photographed with chest hair.
I’m working under the assumption that @zdnetaustralia won’t count my comment as a troll, because it’s my goddam story.
@franksting Oh, sorry, I misunderstood which one you meant. The internet marketing one is the Truther one. I responded to the curse.”
Mind you, @franksting, the comment from the Truther was also a bit special.
Curse ME to rot in Hell, will you? We’ll see about that, sunshine!
@franksting Yes, it’s to that comment that I have written a personal reply.
Done.
I shall write a comment in reply, asking several questions for clarification.
“Sickhole..hope you are cursed and rot in hell..” I like the double stops as well. That’s a PROFESSIONAL curse.
My @zdnetaustralia column “Pay heed to the internet’s Third Wave Cows of Disruption” http://t.co/iSYipGzWB9 has scored an excellent comment.
Oh I like this.
@Andrew_Zammit I believe this is how it’s done. http://t.co/dIO4AdRTSw
@Andrew_Zammit I mean, random strangers, some military background, some not, just work as a team because they shouted “Yeah!”
@Andrew_Zammit I suspect it’s that most have zero actual knowledge of how a military works. They never plan or train in the action movies.
RT @hollybrocks: “The teachers at my high school do this to the graffiti in the bathroom” pic.twitter.com/EEMsdDADeT [Glorious! HY @il_beavo]
Sun plan, draft: Tidy client’s web server; Sunday lunch, Katoomba; finish mapping out next 3 weeks; shopping; gap TBA; blog post; sloth.
RT @jthommo101: A pendulous visitor to Government House pic.twitter.com/A9J2axKNod [This is how a REAL democracy works, people.]
@yinettesys That means you should also be able to log in to your Kinect using the dance moves from Bananarama or Steps music videos. Win.
Sunday! Let’s rock’n’roll, people!
I have made good use of this (relatively) quiet train journey to Hatch some Plans. These Plans will be Communicated on Monday.
(Soon to be) Crossing the Nepean instagram.com/p/ehFq7_CFs_/
“Housewives! Please finish travelling by 4 o’clock.” http://t.co/I6OY2wOJOp http://t.co/VRzXnkLNhz
@SnarkyPlatypus La nature exacte de l’étrangeté doit encore se révéler, mais la nuit est jeune.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Le soleil se couche et l’étrangeté va bientôt commencer. Et vous ?
Wait. How did that tweet even do that?
@yinettesys @chrisjrn I don’t think “kinky” @stilgherrian means what you think it means.
Preparing for departure instagram.com/p/eg8-UiCFln/
All language is euphemism, @chrisjrn, for “I will kill you and everyone in your village.”
I have misjudged the sake.
RT @DomSequitur Just saw a couple in matching mustard jeans. Ping @Rob_Stott [Therefore why shotguns with double barrels.]
RT @umairh: Fucking trust fund kids. [Well I suppose that’s one way to spend your weekend…]
“Modern Australian Contract Law, 2013 Edition”, or something instagram.com/p/egwK—CFrG/
RT @jeamland: I have found what @stilgherrian is missing. pic.twitter.com/a2lJIjYk4T [You can’t fit much in that little cup.]
@oberonsghost Your life is shackled by its adherence to tradition.
Sat plan: Much laziness (done); 1630 check out; 1700 dinner part A; 1818 train to Wentworth Falls; 2015 dinner part B; wine; reading; sleep.
Well I suppose that’s one way to begin the day’s tweets.
RT @dobes: This nexus 7 is so crisp [he said, using only good words to describe his mother, Reaction time is a factor in this.]
@SnarkyPlatypus If the #TrollVerse were any good, it’d come in rhyming couplets.
@carimachet I know what you’re getting act, but some of these had the potential to change tomorrow morning’s plan. I am opening beer, tho.
RT @tonestie: Would have to be a big dog. [Canis major, in fact.]
RT @carimachet: turn your back and walk away [Alas, that just lets the damn thing stab you in the back the following day.]
Someone should shove a dog up that universe.
This plan to have a relaxing end to Friday afternoon has been foiled by the universe enthusiastically thinking up new rounds of changes.
@Cloud_Herd @zdnetaustralia Thank you, I’ll definitely be in touch to find out more about you guys at some point.
There are cows on the front of the carousel. #notaeuphemism
@dobes Please don’t start. It’s too early in the day, in the government, to start that.
Word is David Braue has been opining again.
I’m late to this, but @nswpolice discovered an ATM card skimmer in Five Dock. http://t.co/bjwFbz5GCe
@jodiem Yes, I’ve had a good few appreciative comments about the final line in this week’s column. I was in a mood.
@zackwhittaker Why thank you, Zach. I was very much in The Zone when I wrote that yesterday morning.
Fri plan, draft: Deal with email backlog; plan next three weeks’ work; enjoy a lazy Friday afternoon. There’s more in there than it sounds.
Me at @zdnetaustralia yesterday: “Pay heed to the internet’s Third Wave Cows of Disruption” http://t.co/iSYipGzWB9
Hello, Friday.
@jonoabroad Tapirs are much neglected.
“Cows?” Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Pay heed to the internet’s Third Wave Cows of Disruption” http://t.co/iSYipGzWB9
Oh I see you liked the cows. Lovely.
Looking at the internet again after an evening of reading. For a little bit, anyway.
This pollen is getting to me. Time for antihistamines and laziness.
@R_Chirgwin Yes, @dobes and I discussed “cow” vs “steer”, and also “farmer” vs “grazier”. Honest Beef is laissez-faire about it. I asked.
RT @latingle: A public servant? Confused about your role in the new Government? This gem passed on by a friend may help http://t.co/GYOaHM…
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Le printemps est arrivé avec une vengeance, et le pollen. Pendant ce temps, les vaches ont pris sur Internet.
RT @paulwallbank: ooh, an invite to an ‘Adventures in Gamification’ seminar — I’ll go i@stilgherrianan goes. [Email me the details. Maybe.]
Updated updated blog post: “Adventures in Identity: ASIC Connect”: @ASIC_Connect has implemented a workaround! http://t.co/t9R9HMhqaX
@carimachet @Asher_Wolf Well, on my good days perhaps. That happened to be a fun piece to write.
@darrenpauli @Asher_Wolf Thanks. $10/kg for ANY cut is way cheap, especially at the premium end of quality. Coles adequate mince is $6/kg.
@carimachet @Asher_Wolf Thanks.
@blackplans @Asher_Wolf @DethVeggie @CowCult Wow, that’s crossover hit potential! ;)
@Asher_Wolf Why thank you. I was sort of in the zone this morning, and had a head full of pollen. Antihistamines have since been obtained.
Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Pay heed to the internet’s Third Wave Cows of Disruption” http://t.co/iSYipGzWB9
@ericscheid Yep, the old ‘Which drawer of the filing cabinet?’ issue. I’ll do an article on this at some point.
@ericscheid I have seen [where?] a “Name” field, then fields for “preferred name” and “sort under” or somesuch. But it’s a real problem.
@ericscheid Malaysian immigration entry form has one big long text field, “Name”. [shrugs] No, there’s too many variations to parse.
I agree with @BernardKeane. The column by @Wyatt_Roy_MP in the @Australian today is a good read. http://t.co/N05K8n4ZJy
Updated blog post: “Adventures in Identity: ASIC Connect”, with @ASIC_Connect’s response. Good result. http://t.co/t9R9HMhqaX
@PrivacyMatters @adm_76 Oh you poor bastards. Apple was traditionally better than to fuck up on stuff like that.
RT @PrivacyMatters: Dear Apple, next time you plan a major OS update please test it on people who are colourblind #uxfail #uifail [Lulwut?]
Please listen to this now, and sing along. http://t.co/WF18sCZMwB
Column filed for @zdnetaustralia. It contains cows. And the future. And too many metaphors.
My column is very long today. #notaeuphemism
Fuck. I just started a sentence “Nearly half a century ago, I witnessed…” I think I’d better make a pot of tea.
@jonoabroad Scroll back, my son, scroll back. ;)
@scott_thewspot @ASIC_Connect I do that with conference registrations, to see if it ends up on my name tag.
Thu plan: Write for @zdnetaustralia; plan writing for next three weeks; enjoy the late sunny afternoon; evening TBA, with Full Moon howling.
@dikkii That’s a very good idea. The country’s key corporate compliance databases need to reflect our cultural diversity.
The cow has a green light. I repeat, the cow has a green light.
New blog post: “Adventures in Identity: ASIC Connect” http://t.co/t9R9HMhqaX Ping @ASIC_Connect @Steve_Lockstep
@scott_thewspot @ASIC_Connect Don’t start. :P
Lulwut? An interesting UX adventure from @ASIC_Connect. Read carefully. twitpic.com/de364y
@dikkii @ASIC_Connect I’ve just decided to launch a new blog series, “Adventures in Identity”, where I ask every organisation to fix it.
@BundyB @ASIC_Connect Hah! They’ve imported legacy state-based business name registration and ABN data into one system. It’s “soiled”.
And, @ASIC_Connect, the business name register has me as “_____ Stilgherrian” in one place! What’s the best way to sort this mess?
Whacko, @ASIC_Connect, ASIC has me as “Stilgherrian Stilgherrian” in some places, “Mr Stilgherrian” in some, “Stilgherrian” in others. Fun!
That said, the remainder of the @ASIC_Connect sign-up process is smooth. I’ll follow up the name issue formally. I’m doing a blog series.
SIGH. @ASIC_Connect has two mandatory name fields, meaning I cannot match business name records to my legal name. asicconnect.asic.gov.au
@CheekyGhostApps Yes, Google and Apple have different ideas about whether “John” and “John” with different emails are one or two people.
@CheekyGhostApps Oh dear God! I guess we do assume how “easy” it is for us to pour data from iOS to Google to WP8 to whatever.
@CheekyGhostApps Oh delightful! Mind you, with them ALL gone you can just port them ALL back in. Even so…
Thu plan, draft: Plan writing for next three weeks; write for @zdnetaustralia; enjoy the late sunny afternoon; evening TBA, with howling.
@CheekyGhostApps Aweird sync error between Apple Contacts, Cobook and whatever else that duplicates people I’ve only had sex with once.
@konstantinia132 @mikko I’m sketching out some ideas for travel plans in 2014, based on media projects. It’s certainly on my list.
RT @konstantinia132: @stilgherrian @mikko actually that’s not true, they serve from 9am in Finland… [So civilised. I must visit one day.]
@drowner1979 Friesian dairy cow.
I’ve already sent off three story pitches and a photograph of a cow to editors. Productivity!
@charispalmer I don’t use hairspray, but I’ve found good value in huffing butane from the canisters for those tabletop gas stoves.
OH NO WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.
@mikko It’s a little early to be hitting the vodka, isn’t it Mikko?
RT @Captainturtle: @jeffsonstein @stilgherrian Siri with Snowden’s voice. Would you listen to the alerts more closely? [Joanna Lumley…]
Oh FFS! instagram.com/p/eagr9LCFgg/
@Colgo WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU WHY HAVEN’T YOU GOT PICTURES OF THE TAPIR THAT IS DESTROYING AUSTRALIAN WORKING FAMILIES.
THEY ARE USING NERVE GAS IN SYRIA BUT THAT’S OK BECAUSE IOS VERSION 7 AND CHEAP PASTEL CRAYONS THAT WE CAN SNIFF.
Suddenly remembering the thought that I should have my own breakfast television program. With Bloody Marys. To begin with.