Two stations to go.
RT @purserj: @NewtonMark it’s millions not billions, headline was wrong [Millions, billions, whatever.]
@SnarkyPlatypus Wednesday would be the better of the two. I have a lunch on North Sydney finishing at around 1400.
@SnarkyPlatypus Could we do that in person on Wed or Thu? I’m in Sydney both days, and you can choose the spot.
MrMichaelSpicer Dear 19 year-old me. No you’ll not put your degree to any use or make sensible life choices but you will have ‘followers’. Let me explain.
nancybaym Heterosexist bathroom propaganda. instagram.com/p/k9KEZasCQd/
@SnarkyPlatypus Make sure you book it with Jamie and he’ll throw in some food. Or shall I do that?
RT @purserj: Mtgox has 63 BILLION DOLLARS of outstanding debt? [Yes, that is essentially people’s gripe.]
Crossing the Nepean instagram.com/p/k9LKrwCFh3/
@joshrowe Thanks, Josh. They make it easy, though. @theprojecttv is well-oiled production machine.
@ChrissieM It may be a bit pathetic.
@R_Chirgwin Well us South Australians had attribute blocks, and hoops to make Venn diagrams from. I guess my headline won’t work.
@timfdavis @R_Chirgwin Are they the brass rod things they used to heat up and use to cure syphilis?
Actually, it’s the 2018 to Lithgow, but something something trackwork something buses.
caseyjohnellis caution: stabby
The 2018 to Mount Victoria has just departed Sydney Central station, and I am on it.
@R_Chirgwin Do you think so? I don’t know what those things are.
So who here remembers or knows what “attribute blocks” are? I’m wondering whether I can allude to them in a dreadful headline pun.
RT @NewtonMark: @stilgherrian #qfwtf [Oh that’s much better. Even without a “-gate” at the end.]
mumbrella Saturday Paper launch: Malcolm Turnbull refers to “some demented plutocrat pouring millions into a loss making venture” who can he mean?
I do believe that we need a hashtag for this, @NewtonMark! http://t.co/ANSsUj0YWq #qantaspranggate
Eighteen minutes until blastoff.
@gplama @DamianM You guys have just given me an idea: to record some of the oral history of those days before you/we all go senile.
@gplama Yeah the audience figures show that most viewers only catch one or two episodes a week. People don’t watch TV religiously today.
@Jamie_Rojas @techAU @theprojecttv Sorry to disappoint you.
@gplama That’s actually my sixth time on @theprojecttv, and they’ve all been solid topics. http://t.co/wuurdu3elq
I see that it’s going to be raining hard tomorrow, @R_Chirgwin, so I might hide in Tea Tree Cottage once it empties out and enjoy isolation.
@gplama Well thank @theprojecttv for that, I’m glad they put the resources into it. #itsec
tactical_intel I’ve been masturbating mercilessly in front of my webcam for the past year expressly because I thought the NSA *was* watching. #FairIsFair
@gplama @theprojecttv #itsec Hah, you expect much of a 4-minute segment for a non-technical audience.
RT @LexPlans @stilgherrian not the cyber security hero we need, but the one we deserve. [Exactly.]
So coming up shortly on @theprojecttv is a thing on cyber RATs and hacking webcams and there’s a bit of me in it.
Cybering. Cybering as hard as I can.
@halans You’re right, though that’s not on my current list of question. Will check with the producer.
RT @SnarkyPlatypus @stilgherrian @theprojecttv ‘Cyber security commentator’? [Yeah, I’m gonna get so much grief for that.]
@burgotastic Yes. My phone number is also on my website. It’s been public for years. I’m not fussed.
In the Palace of Television.
Négociations des Cabcharge.
“Corporate Sponsor for Sexuality and Gender Diversity, Superintendent Tony Crandell” is a thing, apparently.
“@nswpolice launch Operation Tacoma for Mardi Gras 2014” http://t.co/tu6RTcrz2P
RT @TheAVClub Paramount shuts down Twitter account that tweets all of Top Gun one frame at a time avc.lu/NApxh4 [Arsehats.]
@jonoabroad So do you know what “greyscale” is?
RT @Brocklesnitch: In honour of Kyle Sandilands’ ‘Don’t Be a Dickhead’ campaign, i am starting a campaign called ‘Don’t Be a Fat Lesbian’
RT @NickEvershed: Manus Island riot timeline - filter by “official” or “eyewitness” to compare accounts of events: http://t.co/PWYhS7ttqY
AusElectoralCom The WA Senate election has been announced for 5 April 2014. Rolls close at 8pm AWST 7 March. Enrol or update here - aec.gov.au
@theprojecttv Someone just suggested I should have joined the program via webcam. #theprojecttv
@theprojecttv Ta for confirming that. Seems Mr Sambora’s fans are keen to see him. Well, he is a legend.
Just to be clear, I am not on a pub crawl to Channel TEN.
RT @PollHereford February in Sydney. Diurnal range 20 - 21 degrees, 100 % humidity. [Correct.]
@jeamland None. That’s the amazing thing.
@mogadeet You are too kind.
@darrenpauli Why’s that? The LSD wears off?
Grey ships and grey buildings and grey water and grey sky, they are all grey. pic.twitter.com/C2px65tK6v
joshgnosis In case you missed it on Monday, Austrac tracks every AUD conversion into Bitcoin. zd.net/1e9d1Q9
@faithbragg @teripp Yeah I’m pretty sure someone will YouTube it for you. Just don’t tell @theprojecttv.
@jperlow Usually it’s the horny people who pay you the money, isn’t it?
RT @TatteredRemnant @stilgherrian @jeamland Yes but ‘less beards’ is not really the answer is it? [No, it’d be “fewer beards”.]
@teripp @faithbragg Ah, perhaps @theprojecttv’s videos are only available here in Australia? Or do you run web content filtering?
RT @jperlow 30 Most Annoying Questions To Ask A Jew - RantLifestyle po.st/1z3sgV via @Po_st [Writing these down to annoy friends.]
So the barber and I just pretty much solved the Qantas thing too, @jeamland.
@michaelneale No worries. The post the full episodes on the website, and I’ll extract my segment.
@michaelneale Nah, the program is done in Melbourne. I’ll be beaming in from a cupboard in Pyrmont.
@michaelneale Hah! I’ve produced thousands of hours of live radio, presented hundreds. It doesn’t raise the pulse that much any more.
@faithbragg @theprojecttv Hmm… That lonk works fine for me. I guess you’ll have to ask your local geeks why it won’t work for you.
RT @garystark: @stilgherrian @BXGD @theprojecttv Are the NSA and Yahoo also involved? [You might think that. I couldn’t possibly comment.]
RT @jeffsonstein: @stilgherrian take a cue from The Shirtless King, go with the ‘naked oiled chest’ look [Um, no. Not at 1830.]
@sylmobile @BXGD @theprojecttv I dunno whether a whole bottle is needed. It’s only one segment. It’s not like I’m on the panel.
@BXGD @theprojecttv Well, the “fun” involves webcams. Does that help?
@faithbragg @theprojecttv Here’s the video from last night’s episode. http://t.co/XH1ebTOIh5
RT @ApostrophePong: World Bank Delays $90 Million Loan To Uganda As Bank President Blasts Anti-Gay Laws http://t.co/mPorjEDHgv
@faithbragg The good people at @theprojecttv put the full episodes on the web. I generally link to any segments I’m on, because shameless.
I’m told that guitarist Richie Sambora (of Bon Jovi fame) is on @theprojecttv’s panel again tonight. Interesting.
Fri plan, updated: Shower & shave; lunch; haircut; ensure that I have a TV-friendly shirt; Channel TEN, Pyrmont; return to Wentworth Falls.
So yeah I’ll be on @theprojecttv tonight, talking about some “fun” internet things. Not sure if I should reveal their exact nature yet.
Awaiting instructions.
@HWAevents @prestontowers That is interesting, yes. I saw a great article on Walmart’s business model recently. I’ll tell you if I find it.
Frack all the things.
@HWAevents @prestontowers What am I meant to be looking at?
@TatteredRemnant @mogadeet Mine looks like becoming television shaped.
jturner_ibrs “between 3% and 11% of the Yahoo webcam imagery … contains “undesirable nudity”
The rest was desirable.
goo.gl/wi5jnu
Well it looks might my afternoon is taking a different shape.
@BXGD @Prohairetic So far the electricity, or rather the lack thereof, is winning.
Arguing with the electricity.
Yes, that’s right.
@SnarkyPlatypus Toutes les choses que vous mentionnez sont mauvais.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. J’ai été très productive ce matin. Il est l’estomac de la victoire! Et vous?
@sofie_bird @manaz_d I’d just reword entirely: “Your bike, your risk”.
@manaz_d @sofie_bird Or “Bicycles parked at owners’ risk”, but the final plural apostrophe alway looks awkward, I reckon.
@manaz_d I agree with @sofie_bird about the implied “each”. But you could also go “Bicycles parked at [their] owner’s risk”. One owner each.
Fri plan: Write for @walkleys (in progress); maybe more writing; do a @5at5daily because eek where did it go?; return to Wentworth Falls.
Pleased that I’ve just gotten quite a bit of writing done.
Writing.
Fri plan, draft: Write for @walkleys; maybe more writing; do a @5at5daily because eek where did it go; return to Wentworth Falls.
Friday. The planets spin, but never quite in a way that makes sense. The words flow, or not. It is impossible to tell. Friday.
Text editor feels. #icemoonprison
Moustache moustache moustache moustache moustache moustache moustache moustache.
Any Twitter account with “amazing” in its name isn’t.
Moustache moustache moustache moustache.
Sausages, arranged in sets of six, set to harpsichord music.
A pig, any kind of pig.
An app for finding the latest Korean hip-hop that just laughs and laughs and laughs.
A white rhinoceros made entirely of bitterness and cocaine.
Man loudly explaining to an uninterested colleague all of the features of his chosen telephone, with extravagant hand gestures.
Touchdown Sydney.
Transmitters off. See you in Sydney.
Thank you, Melbourne, and I hope the stains wash out OK. The goat should recover soon enough.
RT @WarWraith @stilgherrian that’s an incredibly lascivious looking snake you got there. [Worst. Euphemism. Ever.]
Snakes on a plane instagram.com/p/k5-ihsiFjc/
The view from 42A instagram.com/p/k5-ZFOiFjU/
@jodiem I see no need to explore the more disgusting parts of your psyche, young woman.
@jodiem Any one of them would be worthy of bringing on the asteroid, but all three really does take the biscuit.
Today’s QF444 is brought to you by the letters VH-OGS. pic.twitter.com/v48dH0mc8J
Airport best-seller. This is your fault, people! pic.twitter.com/JLbKOeyxA2
Just imagine what Alan Joyce would be capable of if he worked the whole week!
I mean, to earn what the average worker gets in a year, Alan Joyce has to work nearly three and a half whole days.
I don’t know why people are calling for Alan Joyce to be sacked. That won’t save 5000 jobs. He’s only paid 80x the average worker income.
The arse end of Qantas. pic.twitter.com/E70MkoGVhU
@MisterNistal @platesofperth I’ll keep my eyes open then.
@MisterNistal @platesofperth Sure, though it’s Melbourne.
@jonoabroad I’ve no idea. I am kept in isolation. I am not allowed near the production process.
Panda! pic.twitter.com/jMUzgu8A3L
RT @heldavidson: Media diversity? #optimism RT @pettybooshwah: “@Gawker: â€Stay objective, my friends“ http://t.co/qL1qNN6Ns1 http://t.co/g4…
@jonoabroad No, but they need to weed out the defamatory and the outrageously weird.
En route to the airport.
@jonoabroad If you think the published comments are bad, you should see the ones that get canned.
@expectproblems If I’m not Apple CEO by the end of June then something is seriously wrong with the their corporate governance.
@SnarkyPlatypus Dunno his name. Some sort of animatronic thing as far as I could tell.
So isn’t the health minister an exciting man.
RT @joshgnosis: We’re hiring again: ZDNet is looking for a junior journalist. bit.ly/Nyg4Hd [They ate all of the last one already.]
Wait. Ken Russell was running Optus? Explains a few things.
“Psychological side-effects of anti-depressants worse than thought”, reports @sciencedaily http://t.co/MO6c8PldUy HT @duncanriley
johnb78 I would definitely subscribe to a literary mag edited by German terrorists.
Me from Sunday: “May Reza Berati be the last, Mr Abbott”, where I discuss the PM’s character. http://t.co/jDHVpsV2vQ
Me at @zdnetaustralia yesterday, helping: “Apple’s goto fail needs a massive culture change to fix” http://t.co/LiQs9Hurm0
OK, a couple quick items of pimpage, and then I might watch @madashelltv before heading to the airport.
RT @franksting: If Qantas accepted dogecoin there’d be much better numbers
RT @OaaSvc: @jturner_ibrs is this seminar on resilience against people using the prefix “cyber” on everything? [One can only hope.]
Despite what I said earlier, resilience is a cyberimportant cyberconcept, and there’s a fair chance @jturner_ibrs won’t fuck it all up.
RT @jturner_ibrs: I’m doing a webinar on cyber resilience with @ComputerworldAU & @SymantecANZ https://t.co/4X9vycETZF
Guaranteed not to ru…
I do hope @GovBrewer has a sense of humour and understands the ironic use of “chick”. ‘Cos like, I bet they have guns and shit there.
When I saw “AZ @GovBrewer” I thought, “Wow! Arizona has a government brewery? That’s awesome!” But it’s just some chick.
GovBrewer Moments ago, I vetoed #SB1062. pic.twitter.com/gdQn0dG2vB
“Fire and Rescue NSW has 339 desktops running Chrome OS and may add more”, writes @WatchAdam http://t.co/zQkdM5uHF4
crikey_news Yes to murdering sex workers, no to anal probes: the Australian Classification Board’s video game track record ow.ly/u0r0L
@jturner_ibrs Cyberhackers.
I would retweet your interesting news if it didn’t say “breaking”.
Anyway, @jturner_ibrs, all you need for “cyber resilience” is some desensitising lubricant and an AOL account.
A vendor suggests I listen to @jturner_ibrs crapping on about the cybers. No, I think I’m busy sticking forks into my eyes that day.
@mattdasilva It is. It’s essentially a permanent gallery of his work. You can book tours with the curator. I’ll do that next time in MEL.
@mattdasilva I was upgraded to one of the “signature” rooms, “Blek le Rat’s Room”, hence his stencil work and a book about him too.
@mattdasilva Sad indeed. There’s four books of his work here in the room too. I’ve been flicking through them.
Blek le Rat’s rat is lovely instagram.com/p/k5j_yiiFiC/
@mattdasilva I hadn’t heard of him before, but I do like the works in the room. I do like the concept of these hotels.
@SnarkyPlatypus No, it tends to be a case of them looking at the charges afterwards, assuming they recorded who got which tickets.
@mattdasilva Yes. I’m staying at The Cullen, and it’s full of his work. artserieshotels.com.au/cullen/
@matthewlandauer Oh yes, I am indeed interested in that. I shall read and digest over the next couple of days.
@SnarkyPlatypus The manual ones, you’d just write the journey details on them before giving them out, and “Not to exceed $60” or whatever.
@SnarkyPlatypus There must be some way to limit them. I’ve never dealt with the issuing side of these newer “Taxi eTicket” things though.
Lady Luck instagram.com/p/k5iAWIiFvG/
An orse instagram.com/p/k5h19fCFu3/
Colgo INBOX: This… pic.twitter.com/nYjPkx589b
This is how all hotels should do their do not disturb signs instagram.com/p/k5hYZsiFt9/
Noticing that the Cabcharge vouchers came with a note asking me not to rort them. Yeah, well, we’ll see about that.
@leslienassar @j_hutch I shall use that line.
@leslienassar @j_hutch I think they ALL blog, it’s part of the course. They also have a Twitter backchannel during lectures.
@garystark @jeamland @franksting You keep SAYING that, but there’s never any follow-through.
@j_hutch @leslienassar Hah! Last year was fun. But yeah this year I need to give them even more of the paranoids.
@Drag0nista @sylmobile Glad to be of service. [bows]
In further news, UTS has asked me to lecture to their journalism students again this year.
RT @j_hutch: Melbourne IT buys NetRegistry - http://t.co/JyGLVOy4NQ [Well there goes the neighbourhood.]
@bernietb Precisely.
Also @bernietb.
@jeamland Exactly. I think that @garystark and @franksting are just entitled arsehats. First, wall, revolution etc.
It’s true. @jeamland and I did solve those things. And there was bourbon. Significant amounts of bourbon. And solutions to all the things.
jeamland So last night @stilgherrian and I declared ourselves Instant Fucking Experts and fixed Apple, Australian immigration policy and the ALP.
RT @sspencer_63: According to the Tele, the bloke on the left is Lt Gen Angus Campbell. pic.twitter.com/Pk39U3q5IC [Erm, yeah kinda close.]
RT @theretronaut: c. 1946: The Northrop “Flying Wing” (more: buff.ly/1hxD5TS) pic.twitter.com/uyACTIJdn8 [Still a beautiful photo.]
@bigjsl @dannolan Indeed. Sudden, massive changes of direction would tend to imply a lack of forward vision.
RT @AlanJoyceCEO: SHUT UP I’M JUST ARRANGING THE POZIBLE CAMPAIGN NOW #QFresults
bitcoin_txt Lost coins only make everyone else’s coins worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation to everyone.
LOUDBOT WELL IF IDIOCY IS AN UNLIMITED RESOURCE I AM ALL FOR BURNING IDIOTS FOR FUEL
“Conroy right to highlight lack of transparency”, writes @JohnBirmingham, who hasn’t gone soft after all. http://t.co/5hjHesqJD0
Downloading a flat white, no matter what @dannolan thinks.
@derekbradley Yeah look I’ve moved on from that conversation now.
RT @expectproblems: My favourite part about the new google maps interface is how slick it looks. I notice because it’s so slow I have no ch…
dannolan Fuck I had no idea everyone on twitter knew how to run a massive airline
RT @firstdogonmoon: Today’s cartoon will be the boot of the twitterati stomping on The Australian’s face - forever [May we lick the boot?]
The book “It’s Complicated: the social lives of networked teens” by danah boyd (@zephoria) is a free download. danah.org/itscomplicated/
@derekbradley Well, either way, I AM a better man. And will be ever more better once I have been filled with eggs.
No, @derekbradley, “going downstairs for breakfast” is not some sort of perverted euphemism.
I am better man because I am going downstairs for breakfast.
So Mercury comes out of Retrograde tomorrow, but my money is on Labor still being utterly useless at communication.
shanebazzi Talk about burying a story @dailytelegraph. Page 17, really? Not even a rat cartoon this time #slipper #ashby pic.twitter.com/mBFphwHo
firstdogonmoon Oh my god I love The Australian. WHO IS THE BETTER MAN? pic.twitter.com/OJ1tyf7L1c
@dannolan Well this is the point.
There’s already an app for people too fucking special to wait three minutes for a coffee. It’s called instant coffee.
I just had an epiphany under the shower.