Gorn.
@JonoH Thanks. It was a curious event.
Me at @zdnetaustralia today: “Broadband innovation needs cooperation, not endless fibre talk” http://t.co/CMiWuVuFxf
This week’s @onthemedia lead item, on Experian selling personal data to criminals etc, is excellent. http://t.co/M0xeuxevql
@aDB Indeed, @bigmac was an excellent host in Melbourne last week. I’ll be handing his address to my doctor tomorrow.
New blog post, much delayed: “Weekly Wrap 177: Fire, travel, hacking and alcohol” http://t.co/90ltFnHLmU
@quinnnorton My curiosity is piqued, If there’s linkage, do pass it on… though I won’t have time to read anything tonight.
You can go to jail for many things in New Jersey, @quinnnorton, or so I understand.
@SnarkyPlatypus Vous êtes heureux d’être en lisant ces nouvelles. http://t.co/NUVy5fXZBs http://t.co/VdLH0CcRe1
The Happy Princess Observes All the Things instagram.com/p/gH1bIZCFr0/
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. L’Australie est à la traîne lui-même avec son propre système électoral. Les jours heureux! Et vous?
Should anyone wish to read actual documents, here’s ASIO’s new annual report. http://t.co/4asZog1dbl (PDF)
RT @seanparnell: “@couriermail: Clive Palmer wins Fairfax. Story to come.†Understatement of the day, surely …
dobes Do you need a hand with your social medias? pic.twitter.com/zuSAleASmm
I am told, @CinemaAustralia @australiascreen, that the robotic boar from Razorback ended up as someone’s coffee table.
CinemaAustralia Halloween Horrors #1: RAZORBACK Fact: Total box office haul of $150,140. pic.twitter.com/q64mPSBr3s
csoghoian “NSA really needs a rebrand” says @20committee. Perhaps they could change their name to Blackwater. I don’t think it is being used anymore.
Dear Canberra, I am in you next week from Wed afternoon to Fri afternoon. Should you wish to catch up, do let me know.
Story filed for @CSO_Australia. And thus ends the must-do activities for this Thursday.
Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Broadband innovation needs cooperation, not endless fibre talk” http://t.co/CMiWuVuFxf
kcarruthers hey anyone got recommendations for best online Linux primer (especially for high performance clusters)?
bunjaree The Blue Mountains - and @bunjaree Cottages - are open for business. Nov 2013 weekends in couples cottages, $300; family cottages $350.
RT @jeamland: A QR code in your email sig? Seriously? [AHAHAHHAHHHAHHA11!!!1!!!!!!1 NAME NAMES!]
RT @mjec: AEC is required by the Act to declare the result. Only the court can declare invalid; AEC may ask them to though. [Oh, fair enuf.]
In a vote where 14 ballots mattered and 1375 went missing, to declare it valid seems… unwise. But fuck it, I learned arithmetic.
I would suggest to the AEC’s Phil Diak that that’s not the best decision he’s ever made.
latikambourke AEC’s Phil Diak tells @ABCNews24 they will go ahead and declare the poll despite 1375 WA Senate Votes going missing in the recount.
Does Western Australia have a couch?
RT @AntonyGreenABC: What a fascinating day to be at a conference of electoral law specialists [Do you need to tell Keelty something…?]
Former federal police commissioner Mick Keelty to head inquiry into 1375 “lost” WA senate ballots. http://t.co/NUVy5fXZBs
oberonsghost The IT boy is here. I may have to give him lollies ….
@jennifer_lacey @ABCNSW @huwdrury Oh ta, I’ll remember to ask next time, and give sufficient time for an answer.
@BXGD Oh that’s a bit embarrassing. I can’t be arsed emailing @crikey_news to fix it though.
Just got a spam, subject line “tips to getting pregnant”. Gawd, even I know how that works.
Column filed for @zdnetaustralia. Radio spot done. Canberra flights locked in. Now to wrap the day with a yarn for @CSO_Australia.
And the @ABCNSW spot is done. Further reading: my “How to keep the NSA out of your email” from June. http://t.co/sV6FWipj1Y
On hold for @ABCNSW to talk NSA and privacy and OPSEC, but there’s no live stream. Local radio frequencies at http://t.co/gNms5yfpfD
RT [REDACTED]: Point of order… MT @stilgherrian: “Asbestos [compensation] levels will always be lower under a Coalition government.”
“Asbestos levels will always be lower under a Coalition government.”
zdnetaustralia NBN rollout stalled on asbestos issue not Turnbull, according to NBN Co. zd.net/1cnFYo8
Is there way of streaming @ABCNSW, given that the ABC has no official stream?
I’m talking NSA and privacy and OPSEC on @ABCNSW Statewide Afternoons at 1410 AEDT, not sure whether that’s streamed anywhere.
The Future, Compulsory Depiction #1 in a series instagram.com/p/gHT6J6iFrs/
@joshgnosis I couldn’t possibly comment.
Using the word “fibretard” in a sentence.
Oh I’m not retweeting that one.
franksting Cyber.
gattaca BUAWHAHAHA
Rumours to the effect that I have hacked @dobes Twitter account should be disregarded.
Thank you, @JennaPrice @trentyarwood @ABCnewsIntern, though yes @reselsnark you’re obviously right there. Probably.
@AshKyd I’ll work up to that. I’m feeing bit tired and lazy today.
chriseng Admit it, you’re just pissed because the NSA is way better at pwnage than you are.
Thu plan: Write for @zdnetaustralia, @CSO_Australia; arrange Canberra trip; 1700 sysadmin tasks; 1930 CBSi Hallowe’en Party, perhaps.
RT @arstechnica: Silent Circle and Lavabit launch “DarkMail Alliance†to thwart e-mail spying http://t.co/gvRFFOBhV7 by @cfarivar
… but as I wrote in July, we should actually be glad that people are showing a interest and learning stuff. http://t.co/4Yo29MS5AZ
Ah, I see another batch of smug know-it-alls putting down people showing an interest in what for them is new info about Australian spying…
OK, so I am an arsehat. “North America’s Trusted Source of News” shoud’ve been a giveaway. @R_Chirgwin @chris23 @yinettesys
chris23 Cmdr. Chris Hadfield ejected from movie theatre for loudly heckling Gravity shar.es/IYbhl [master of space, master of media]
@SnarkyPlatypus CBSi’s (in)famous Christmas Party was getting earlier and earlier, so I think the rebranding is sensible.
Thu plan, draft: Write for @zdnetaustralia, @CSO_Australia; 1700 sysadmin tasks; 1930 CBSi Hallowe’en Party, Potts Point.
Thursday, more or less. Yesterday’s fever seems to have declined. I’m glad I slept in.
Back at the hotel. Lovely to catch up with various people, but it feels like my fever is rising. I shall collapse now.
Southwards… instagram.com/p/gFaQrsiFii/
An incident of Long Question Without The Microphone Fail just took place. As always. Sigh. #NgConnect
Excellent, Rachel Dixon from Viocorp cited “TED talks are lying to you”. #NgConnect
@gnoll110 The tomato figure may or may not have had its source cited. I was facing the wrong way.
The disruptor seems not to realise it’s “restaurateur” not “restauranteur”, so there’s disruption right there. #NgConnect
The average tomato travels 1600km, apparently. #NgConnect
Next up, James Nathan from Food Orbit, who says he’s disrupting the food industry. He looks too thin. #NgConnect
@0xAli Nope, in my view the anti Comic Sans brigade only highlight their own ignorance of typography’s rich history of novelty typefaces.
Dror Ben-Naim, Smart Sparrow, is telling us that the future of learning is direct brain interfaces? #ngconnect
Note to self: Idea for a listicle, “10 Things to do in Your Presentation which Brand you an Arsehat”.
HURRAH SOMEONE HAS SAID THEY’RE DISRUPTING AN ESTABLISHED INDUSTRY WE CAN ALL GO HOME NOW. #NgConnect
Nick Ross is helping. #NgConnect
Cormick says to read Scott Anthony, “The new corporate garage”, Harvard Business Review. #ngconnect
Cornick currently plugging The Parkville Precinct in Melbourne. #NgConnect
Innovation precursors: infrastructure, research community, angel investor community, supportive business community. #NgConnect
Kate Cornick, Uni of Melbourne, on the drivers of innovation. #ngconnect instagram.com/p/gFJcaVCFoj/
Chorus is picking a NZ town for the Gigatown project, rolling out 1Gb/s for the price of regular broadband. #ngconnect
Describes concept of the “connected service van” with all sorts of workforce automation tools, just 3 days to build. #NgConnect
Bloke from NZ’s Chorus says NZ is world’s 7th best in broadband, 17th in making economic advantage from it. #ngconnect
Collins cited the experience of the city of Chattanooga, which rolled out 1Gb/s to the entire city. #NgConnect
For example… Sigh. #ngconnect instagram.com/p/gFHSPDiFmi/
Collins had a really good one-sentence explanation just then, can’t find it in the brochure. They’re all much longer. #NgConnect
Collins says many of the startups at Tech23 yesterday had only started in April. Pace is increasing. #NgConnect
Jason Collins Alcatel-Lucent, says business model innovation is the key to success. #NgConnect
Sean O’Halloran, MD Alcatel-Lucent Australia, stresses it’s about being ubiquitous, not the technology used. #ngconnect
Anne Hurley’s welcome included the phrase “ubiquitous high speed broadband” more than once. #ngconnect
At the launch of ng Connect, which is insecure and wants two hashtags, #ngconnectÂ#innovationn
Yes, today’s @firstdogonmoon cartoon is full of approve. And sphincters. http://t.co/cVKbhVrenk
BernardKeane DFAT response to my queries re TPP - too late for Crikey email ping @joshgnosis & @j_hutch pic.twitter.com/eJu1PMatpQ
RT @suziam: This 3D printed hat happening right now @makenai graciously modeling it http://t.co/8CCwgOM2Kp [BEWARE, THIS COULD BE YOU!]
“IBM gives up fight to build CIA’s $600m secret cloud, hands deal to Amazon” http://t.co/glxFcRPrrc HT @BlogsofWarTech
@smartbrain I suspect vendors hold off releasing new models so telcos can get rid of old stock first. Happy to be proved wrong on that.
@adm_76 Can organisations get away with that?
GoToMeeting. Java. Suicidal tendencies. #twothingsthatcauseathirdthing
RT @kloussikian: Inner West OH: “Is North Sydney the station across that river?â€
“Samsung announces the Galaxy S4 Zoom for Australia” http://t.co/sVbHyzQvLp
Wed plan: Tidy many loose ends (continuing); 1130 Salesforce.com phone briefing; 1600 ng Connect launch, North Sydney; quiet night.
RT @jeamland: So, @stilgherrian, are you going to crowdfund a trip to Linux.conf.au in January? [Possibly. Probably.]
Crowdfunding will be one of the items on this week’s @DownloadABC, I’m sure @marcfennell won’t mind me revealing that.
So @Pozible now accepts pledges in Bitcoin. http://t.co/yISArWHN2z
New blog post: “Talking crowdfunded journalism on ABC @RNmediareport”, with 10 mins of audio from last week. http://t.co/yBOta7dvmC
“‘Hexacopter’ makes BBC News debut”, yet another drone breakthrough. http://t.co/PQHdq5OTM8
@jperlow @ApostrophePong That reminds me of my late friend Toby’s recipe, “Mr Wong’s Authentic Malaysian Duck Pizza”.
RT @jperlow: Mexican Roll @ Bluefin Sushi & Thai Grill instagram.com/p/gEcLDGSSbg/ [Because obviously. Ping @ApostrophePong #verythai]
joshgnosis I’ve not heard back from DFAT yet on why the sudden change to make a “public” #TPP briefing exclude me for being a journalist.
@ElishaPearce Well, backgrounders and explainers are journalism, certainly, but traditionally they may or may not be front-of-the-book news.
ashadihopper Google Glass - it’s like a Segway for your face.
It’s certainly an informative article for anyone new to the field but there’s nothing in it that’s news as such that I could see pre-coffee.
“Spy expert: Australia operating as ‘listening post’ for US agencies inc NSA” writes @abcnews (@abchistory?) tinyurl.com/lxky8ms
@MetaMikeBiggs @SilkCharm Not me. There’s not anything to say beyond “LinkedIn does a privacy over-reach again”.
@jonoabroad There are indeed others, as @nphair has written. http://t.co/Or6DmRWBnY I think @briankrebs has posted a walk-through.
@jonoabroad Demonstrating Silk Road will be tough, since the FBI closed it down, but I haven’t been into those markets personally.
“Travel warnings as UK braced for severe storm and rain” http://t.co/zDJGY7fRjR
Wed plan, draft: Tidy many planning & comms loose ends, 1130 Salesforce.com phone; briefing; 1600 ng Connect Launch; remainder TBA.
Hello, Wednesday. I certainly needed that sleep-in.
Gorn.
RT @josephfcox: Black Flag, a #silkroad alternative, shutting down and its moderator running away with customers’ #bitcoin http://t.co/wYtm…
@SnarkyPlatypus Il semble être le cas.
New blog post: “Talking family data disaster planning on ABC @702sydney”, 15 mins of audio from last week. http://t.co/VsN9fXQFY4
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Aujourd’hui a été une journée de contrastes. Et vous?
This is a lovely salty vegetable soup, which will replace what has been lost. But it also looks like what caused the need.
Oh dear. ABC @RNFutureTense is about the idea of having ideas festivals and what the point of this idea is. Much fun. http://t.co/j4uPKC4qum
Type 7 on the Bristol Stool Chart, and plenty of it. Excellent*. (*Not excellent at all.)
@TelestreamAV Of course that happened immediately after I flew out this morning.
@garthk it’s the HERO3 White Edition. I’m not complaining. http://t.co/x3QCUAnHVv
@TelestreamAV The weather is indeed fierce right now.
Sudden fatigue. I think the lack of sleep is catching up with me. Quick errand, then a lazy catch-up on all the communication.
@TelestreamAV So the weather forecast was accurate then? Our pilot this morning did warn of a “southerly buster”.
@jonoabroad Certainly a gnome’s eye view of the world would be different.
Was that thunder?
@vealmince Can’t argue with that as a strategy, from their point of view.
@vealmince Indeed, I was just thinking, “Now all I need is the drone to go with it.”
Lulwut? New toy for everyone from NetSuite. instagram.com/p/gCR8D0iFnY/
@pin_payments @jdub Indeed, different markets. eWAY’s Matt Bullock just now: “I’m not afraid of Pin Payments,” with a grin.
@jdub I’m at NetSuite’s annual media l(a)unch with CEO @ZachNelson, at Aria.
eWAY’s target is to approve merchant accounts within 4 days, next year down to 4 hours. $25 per month, then 30c + 2% per transaction.
NetSuite has a new partnership with eWAY, the payment gateway. eWAY is now launching merchant accounts dirctly. Live end of this week.
“Magneto isn’t e-commerce, it’s just e-display… What’s their point of sale solution? They don’t have one,” says @ZachNelson.
Interesting point from @ZachNelson that with Salesforce.com’s Force.com any ERP is a layer abstracted and far slower.
NetSuite doesn’t use other cloud services because they have agreements with some customers that all data stays on hardware they own.
Products now being sold as services, like razor blades. Acne cream was @ZachNelson’s example [!]. I know airlines get engines as a service.
“I really think the next big push for NetSuite is not recurring billing but unified billing,” says @ZachNelson.
Says @ZachNelson, “If any company could have built a NetSuite competitor it would have been SAP.”
They’re putting a lot of effort into helping companies migrate off SAP.
NetSuite had 166% growth in AsiaPac over the past 3 years, Gartner says they’re still fastest-growing financials software company.
Currently plugging all the stuff they did last week, but is moving to the customer stories they’re about to run through today.
Speaking first is of course NetSuite CEO @ZachNelson. They did $410 million in revenue this year.
The NetSuite l(a)unch is about to begin instagram.com/p/gCENxtCFim/
Canoe, or something instagram.com/p/gCEJKRiFig/
Touchdown Sydney.
Transmitters off. See you in Sydney.
“Should you need to operate the emergency exit, you will receive instructions from the cabin crew, such as ‘Get out!’” Seems clear.
@AEConstant The Charles Dickens was precisely what I was after. Perfect for a quiet conversation.
@garthk They’re blog posts, “No media file” is correct. You’re using the top-level feed rather than one of the others?
The view from 14A instagram.com/p/gBtmfrCFgH/
I’m boarding now, @feed_the_chooks.
This one instagram.com/p/gBswn_iFuy/
I’ve just decided that, yes, I will go to Canberra on 7 Nov to hear Eugene Kaspersky at the National Press Club. http://t.co/I9Xex17QJ3
Melbourne weather, today’s version instagram.com/p/gBrdP4CFsX/
I’ve ordered a regular flat white and an apple juice, @feed_the_chooks.
False advertising instagram.com/p/gBoZ49iFoA/
@AnnabelAstbury True enough. But once you’ve herded cows into a milking shed you expect humans to do a better job.
I’m checked in and have now dropped off my suitcase, @feed_the_chooks.
Long queue of stupid people is long, and the people are stupid.
@feed_the_chooks Don’t worry, you’ll be the first to know.
Ah. Moved to an exit row.
Hmmm… Can’t check in on mobile or at the kiosk. Now in line at the service desk.
Oh handy. Someone else had booked the SkyBus for our hotel at the same time I happened to be leaving. We’re rolling.
Mobile: Check out; cab to Southern Cross station; SkyBus to Melbourne airport; breakfast and stuff.
Tue plan, draft: Send many postcards; 0900 VA827 MEL-SYD; 1200 NetSuite media lunch, Circular Quay; administrivia; early night, probably.
HELLO, TUESDAY.
Thud.
@smperris You’re over-thinking it.
Everything explained instagram.com/p/gAmz6BiFvN/
Oh, what’s wrong with you? instagram.com/p/gAmg5pCFu6/
Shut up. Don’t ask.
Reality instagram.com/p/gAjAsXiFro/
@franksting Wot?
RT @SnarkyPlatypus Anybody for antlers? (ping @stilgherrian) instagram.com/p/gATOkZC2q5/ [That’s a few too many antlers for a Monday.]
Oh bugger, I Instagrammed that two hours ago. That probably explains why only @Rui_deLemos turned up. But we’re still here.
So, here for the next couple of hours, at least, should you care to join me instagram.com/p/gAX0YsiFkM/
OK, @AEConstantÂ@vanderajj@Rui_deLemosos, Charles Dickens was the first to be mentioned twice, I’ll be there in 5 minutes.
@jodiem Yeah I agree with your assessment, Jodie. I’m obviously pretty tolerant but there are limits.
Or bar. The food can be a separate concept.
Well, @Rui_deLemos and anyone else, a relaxed pub in the zone from Flinders St station to Chinatown would be?
@eldonnn I’m sceptical of “technology über alles”, certainly, but I look at it thru the numbers, trying to avoid yearning for simpler times.
@Rui_deLemos It’s possible I may be. I’m waiting for a message from an old friend to see if an almost-plan can work. Will know by 1800.
Predictably Melbourne instagram.com/p/gAF-U6CFpV/
On the loose near Flinders St station.
Arriving at @crikey_news…
RT @KathAlbury I’m thinking it’s a Fellini movie. Probably La Dolce Vita. [Yep, just confirmed by staff. Nicely spotted, thanks.]
RT @ericscheid A Sofia Loren movie set in Rome? Can’t be too many of those [Exactly!]
Those saying it is Sophia Loren are less wrong than those who think it is Roman Holiday with Audrey Hepburn.
Further clue, this seems to be set in Rome.