ssharwood In which I encounter deep desert driver dramas and a feral camel theregister.co.uk/2014/04/03/dri… #xpocalypse
@yewenyi @Ausflatfish I suspect the Indonesians already knew.
“Who’s you’re lawyer?” “George Brandis.” “Anthony you’re in enough trouble already without involving Brandis.” youtube.com/watch?v=pByZkm…
@jonoabroad @michaelneale Yeah, true. Wait until we get over there with some cameras.
@mrgrumpystephen What?
@mrgrumpystephen What exactly do you mean by “exactly”?
WHAT IS IT WITH YOU PEOPLE AND GOATS?
Biting my tongue.
I am not that scary.
@trentyarwood Noted for later, thank you.
MT @mpesce: And of course Sir Paul McCartney should never be allowed. [There, fixed it for you.]
@trentyarwood Thanks. That said, I know the story more from data visualisation and cartography, but they’re more my things.
@trentyarwood We’re talking water pumps in a certain large city, yeah?
RT @OreoSpeedwagon_: Couples who look like siblings are scarier than clowns and fat-free cheesecake. [Ping @SnarkyPlatypus]
@trentyarwood True. Great party question. “Who’s your favourite epidemiologist?”
“Renown epidemiologist Victoria Judge.”
@jonoabroad @michaelneale I agree that your dog is manic, but she can fend for herself when literacy, indeed, CIVILISATION is at stake.
@ChrissieM @SnarkyPlatypus @glengyron I am discovering far too many things this evening.
Pay no attention to him. He still hasn’t seen a doctor about the weeping from his “cave”.
@SnarkyPlatypus I predict a cock crowing thrice some time real soon now. #ponydenier
@SnarkyPlatypus Why do you know so much about My Little Pony?
After reading @gabriellechan’s yarn this evening, we should call him “‘Sparkles’ Sinodinos” theguardian.com/world/2014/apr…
@michaelneale @jonoabroad Then, of course, there’s the anal bleaching option.
RT @kcarruthers: Telnet? Really? Optus why? [Partying like it’s 1989.]
@jonoabroad Just look at your tweet, mister, and then take a good long look at yourself and your life choices.
@elronxenu @mikko Perhaps, but AdBlock Plus now allows through domains that pay or adhere to a code or somesuch. (Late, I’m lazy.)
RT @Darcy1968 “Moving to the Cloud? What should you consider?” via @lucacept feedly.com/e/Wf4BS6_u [A magic carpet, definitely. Or stairs.]
There’s @ChrissieM, talking some real talk about Pizza Shapes and the like.
mikko Half of the sites your browser accesses every day are not providing any content. Instead they do ads and tracking. safeandsavvy.f-secure.com/2014/04/03/new…
That was possibly a bit strong. But NO-ONE sits down of an evening and thinks, “You know, I might consume some content tonight”.
Every time someone talks about “consuming” “content”, God asks a priest to sodomise another young child.
“Scott Ludlam garners strength to counter Clive Palmer dollars”, writes @olliemilman theguardian.com/world/2014/apr…
MT @swearyanthony: I’m sure AG George “Freedom” Brandis won’t just roll over for the secret police, right? [Not first video, maybe sequel.]
@manaz_d @troyhunt Indeed. Netgear’s comment in @bengrubb’s yarn is dodgy too. Why not a different random default password for each unit?
@swearyanthony @bunjaree No no, the sheep’s better dead, trust me. More… obliging.
The first wave of tonight’s rainstorm looks like it’ll pass either side of @bunjaree. The second wave coming in from the west later may not.
troyhunt Call me crazy, but is Optus setting the admin password for their remotely administered routers to “admin” a bit nuts? smh.com.au/it-pro/securit…
I have metadata but I didn’t write down its phone number. (No, you’re right, it need work.)
Finally @BernardKeane is talking some sense.
BernardKeane What we really need is a system where there’s free speech for middle-aged white men and their companies, and everyone else has to STFU.
“Attorney-General’s moves fast on new telco security arrangements”, writes @BernardKeane crikey.com.au/2014/04/03/att…
@posty Indeed. And if @mpesce doesn’t actually use that title, I shall denounce him as the utter fraud that he is.
@bunjaree Thanks, but it’ll air out quickly now that I’m back. And I want to keep an eye on it with this storm coming in tonight.
RT @mpesce: @stilgherrian @posty THE INTERNET FROM GOATSE TO GOATSIM [This is actually a good title.]
So basically, there’s my erotic entertainment for the evening sorted.
Back at @bunjaree, and The Studio (the building where I usually lurk) smells like there’s a dead sheep inside.
RT @mpesce: @stilgherrian hush now @posty and I are having a #troll-off [Second-worst. Euphemism. Ever.]
JackDAshby When you said “stick this Pale Field Rat down on the record sheet” is this what you meant? #mammalwatching #wildoz pic.twitter.com/9YsV1hfGzu
@mpesce @posty @hugepedlar Who even are you people?
@NewtonMark @purserj You’re starting to understand Sydney.
Patrickavenell Imagine if they found the wreckage but the Black Box just contained recordings of Ride On Time and Fantasy…
Inbound! instagram.com/p/mUbDSsCFth/
paulwallbank Here’s another example of what not to do. #speaking #12point #powerpointhell ping @Yvonne_Adele @..instagram.com/p/mUar9jRELW/Mw
paulwallbank Kids, this is how not to do a PowerPoint slide. @ National Innovation Centre instagram.com/p/mUaOzExELC/
@SnarkyPlatypus There’s been some high grade bullshit from Soapy the Ankle QC in recent days.
@purserj By the looks of the radar, you are going to be dumped upon big time.
I see that @paulwallbank is at the thing I couldn’t make it to tonight. I look forward to his reasoned commentary. #digleaders14
@tofu_product Yes, but what about @CyberPrefixerAU?
RT @posty: @mpesce @stilgherrian @hugepedlar DO YOU REQUIRE REMOTE ASSISTANCE [Worst. Euphemism. Ever.]
I see what you mean, @monsieurpotts @tofu_product.
tofu_product @stilgherrian Yep, Shop is out. Botnet appear that Guy. I do tabloid. Respect. to ask a cabbage or a Senator.
@monsieurpotts @tofu_product I see! Well, I’ll have to do a search later, I think.
@SnarkyPlatypus Je ne sais pas. Vous devrez demander au sénateur. Bonne chance.
@monsieurpotts @tofu_product Um, no. Have I missed something?
That’s an effing big storm brewing down Wollongong way. #icanreadclouds
“Andrew Bolt Is Powered By Your Tears”, writes @TheIdiotTax idiottax.net/2014/04/andrew… HT @benpobjie
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Aujourd’hui, nous sommes tous ne rappelant les circonstances. Et vous?
@johnthelutheran Why have you bought a phone for your squid?
Hoping that charging the phone off the laptop gets its power back up to 5% in the next few minutes so certain rituals may be observed.
jonkudelka Good on Arthur for remembering to turn up to ICAC today and in fact finding the place.
RT @trib: @stilgherrian *cyber*enamoured [Oh true. Like with the refrigerator earlier.]
I am becoming embarrassingly enamoured of @CyberPrefixerAU.
CyberPrefixerAU Japan cancels Antarctic cyberwhale hunt after cybercourt ruling
@jasonlangenauer I don’t answer the phone on the train anyway, for much that reason.
@TatteredRemnant And a tunnel, if memory serves. Nice work. #operationmarketgardeninthebluemountains
I suppose I could take photographs with the iPad mini instead, but I refused to be That Guy. I do have some self-respect, you know.
There’s some magnificent clouds over the west of Sydney at the moment. Can’t photograph them though, ‘cos the phone’s almost out of power.
5at5daily Just published: “5at5 number 27 | 3 April 2014” tinyletter.com/5at5/letters/5… Subscribe at tinyletter.com/5at5/
mipearson OH “playing keyboards for a band is almost like actually being in a band, right?” #applycoldwatertoburnedarea
RT @CabbagePatchCat: Unless you fall asleep. [True. But I have a @5at5daily to write, and Mistress Insomnia doesn’t permit me to sleep.]
Bracing myself. The 1651 to Mt Victoria is about to depart Sydney Central, and I’m on it. I shan’t go all the way to Mt Victoria, of course.
eleanorbloom “You deny knowing the company of which you were deputy chairman was donating to the party of which you were the treasurer?” Sinodinos: yes.
CyberPrefixerAU Australian cyberairports ‘not good enough’, Sydney the worst says ACCC
@scottcarson1957 @jonoabroad Yep, they’re pretty much the daily tasks. Tough life.
@miss_shiny Oh, I didn’t realise it was a Cultural Reference.
Our Society instagram.com/p/mUNufxCFk9/
@scottcarson1957 @jonoabroad They are, Sir. It’s hard work, and my sense of “chores must be done” dates from then.
@jpoh @michaelneale Indeed, it’s on my list of potential places for when I return to Sydney.
@jonoabroad @scottcarson1957 (I’m not going to acknowledge your pun because basically you should be ashamed of yourself.)
@jonoabroad @scottcarson1957 I grew up on a dairy farm, remember. No steers, the male calves all become veal pretty quick.
Ausflatfish Australian Govt wins legal battle to suppress secret papers on East #Timor ‘for fear of upsetting #Indonesia’ smh.com.au/federal-politi… #auspol
@chrisjrn I haven’t said anything in relation to the ICAC hearing, except for the peyote and GHB thing.
@chrisjrn I’m just reminiscing about what must have been happier times for the Senator. He was much respected as Howard’s chief of staff.
Also, @cnnbrk, your Twitter bio fibs, I think. You don’t have 16 million people on your news team. No lens is that wide, anyway.
I’ve met Senator Sinodinos, before he was a Senator. We were live on UK radio together. Seemed sharp, recalled many facts.
RT @wolfcat: Australia couldn’t even find its own PM after he went for a swim. Is it best to lead a search for a lost plane? [Ping @cnnbrk]
@jpoh @michaelneale You’re a bit unkind, Mr Poh. It’s a lovely place, where you can buy excellent rabbits for the cooking pot.
Yes, @cnnbrk @leslienassar, but the Australian PM is an idiot. If you’re asking about this sort of issue, just ask a cabbage or a flatworm.
@scottcarson1957 Makes sense. Though you’d want serious air-warning radar while you were loitering on the surface pfaffing with the Regulus.
Supertramp. Jesus wept.
@michaelneale You could have always thrown yourselves off the train while it was travelling at high speed.
Meanwhile, behind me, two real estate agents have arrived to discuss business. They actually said “G’day maaaaaate” non-ironically. FFS.
@scottcarson1957 What’s that on the upper rear of the sail? (Assuming the hangar is on the bow.) Radar or sonar housing?
@expectproblems [A tweet replacing one which included a question that was, in and of itself, defamatory.]
You know, @michaelneale, “Parismatta” is just as stupid as “Radelaide”. All users of those words should be stabbed. Multiple times.
@chris23 I’ll add you to the list for contacting in regard to Certain Future Projects.
He is using this prediction as the basis for convincing his tablemate to invest serious money, by the sounds, in a real estate project.
A chap here at the [REDACTED] Hotel loudly speculates that gentrification of Newtown will soon drive Sydney’s gay nightlife to Parramatta.
MT @mattdasilva: Anyone who quotes Hunter S Thompson is guaranteed a place in Paradise. [Well obviously.]
@mattdasilva No, your tweet. That was a reference to “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”?
@mattdasilva Gotta love a literary reference.
I probably could, but I’d also probably end up spending most of the day trying to have sex with the courtroom furniture.
Wondering if I could crowdfund doing some peyote and GHB driven coverage of the ICAC hearing.
RT @HelenObjecting: Malcolm Gladwell! [There’s something we can agree on.]
According to @crikey_news, Clive Palmer MP says he gets called “WTF” behind his back, for “Worse than [Malcolm] Fraser”. Of course.
RT @scottcarson1957 USS Grayback at Pearl, one of the ugliest boats to ever take to sea pic.twitter.com/1v5fF4eBvI [Manoeuvred like a dead cow?]
@jasonlaird @Telstra @gusworldau @joshgnosis Thanks. There are glitches that ideally shouldn’t happen, but staff are working around them OK.
@Gleena @NewtonMark Thanks, but it’s all good. @Telstra faces processes that aren’t conducive to rapidity, but no-one is dodging the issue.
20 Martin Place instagram.com/p/mT7ZjQCFhC/
@franksting Well in an ideal world, yes, obviously people would just have to queue up in-store.
@NewtonMark That said, yes, I did buy it from @Telstra with a Telstra logo, so, without checking ACL, it’s meant to be their problem.
@snerdish @NewtonMark @Telstra The TPA is long gone, Sir. It’s the ACL now, Australian Consumer Law.
@NewtonMark Ah, but @Telstra need the RA to be able to hand me stock direct, rather than wait two weeks for Sierra to send one out to me.
Waratah in glass, Strand Arcade instagram.com/p/mT4M3aCFtq/
Yep, @Telstra Shop is grabbing stock from another CBD store. I’ll be grabbing some lunch and popping back to collect the replacement unit.
@NewtonMark @Telstra That is to say, the usual shit service provided by Australian tech distributors.
@NewtonMark @Telstra Just over an hour now. The delay was getting an RA number from Sierra Wireless’ distributor.
I should say that the @Telstra Shop is providing good service in terms of intelligently working around any glitches.
Hah! @Telstra Shop I’m in has run out of stock of Sierra Wireless devices. They’re checking if they can transfer one from another CBD store.
RT @mongrel43 :-) pic.twitter.com/Ps3a1KwwlB [Heh. Hence Microsoft funding an awareness campaign in Nigeria featuring local rappers.]
Boeufblogginon #icac Sinodinos: I deny knowing that the co of which I was the Dep Chair and Board Party was making donations to the Liberal Party.
Exxon Nigeria has just emailed me about a sum of money they’ve until now forgotten to send me. There’s a bonus.
@jasonlaird @Telstra @gusworldau @joshgnosis Yep, all good. A bit slow getting an RA number out of Sierra Wireless vendor, but that’s them.
Actually, @marshontap, I won’t be on @1395FIVEaa after all. False alarm.
I’m talking wireless internet crunch theaustralian.com.au/technology/wir… on @1395FIVEaa Adelaide at 1335 AEDT / 1305 AEDT, stream fiveaa.com.au
I in in ur @Telstra Shop, following ur procedurez. All goes well.
@evilsnoofy @Telstra Well if that happens, I’ll just pop down the road to a Vodafone dealer. They’ve got some great deals right now.
“Mr Trainer, can you help me? I think this Gender Stereotyper 2000 needs adjusting.” instagram.com/p/mTs-QWiFt_/
Two people ahead of me, 20 minute wait, awaiting an SMS of Service.
@joshgnosis @gusworldau You media people are so cynical. @Telstra
My task at @Telstra Shop is to replace the (hard to see here) slow motion explosion of this battery. instagram.com/p/mTrpSRiFsG/
The @Telstra Shop on George St has moved across the road, presumably so management at 400 can get a clear line of fire on arsehat customers.
@RaniaG @stevenpoole Thanks for the tip.
“That’s interesting, Brian, but clearly what we need more of right now is continuing baseless speculation about what happened at Fort Hood.”
“See, a dream is much like an elephant…” “Why, thank you, doctor!” instagram.com/p/mTn2BkiFnd/
Pro Tip: Don’t try to cut open a WWII bomb with an oxy-acetylene torch. It ends badly. Mai pen rai krub. ab.co/1s6PWmR
“Malaysian PM arrives in Perth to visit MH370 search headquarters”, so relax, folks, all under control now. ab.co/PjVyuP
RT @ozjimbob: @stilgherrian sign of an empire in terminal decline. [Exactly.]
To think that Australia has become a society where macarons are even a thing, let alone written about in newspapers… Sigh.
@scottcarson1957 @jonoabroad Yes, in recent years I’ve become more aware of the Navy’s politics of sulkage around Polaris.
Byron Hall, Potts Point instagram.com/p/mTjUm6CFg8/
Thu plan: Brunch; fix mobile internets; writing for @zdnetaustralia; return to Wentworth Falls; work on SEKRIT project; sleep, with luck.
@scottcarson1957 @jonoabroad As a kid, I though Regulus looked so cool… until I read a big fat book about Polaris the library sent me.
Imperva’s 2014 DDoS Threat Landscape report is out. Botnet activity up 240% from last year. incapsula.com/blog/ddos-thre…
@YingHaoLi @jtwyman I should say, scunties were also just doing a B Bus or similar so they could go back to a job in their family company.
@YingHaoLi @jtwyman If they speak only to friends, in Cantonese, then a Singaporean friend coined a word for them: scunties.
It would appear that @ResignInShame’s Twitter has been pwned.
@YingHaoLi @jtwyman I suspects students are nowhere near as bolshie as when I was at uni back in the sixteenth century.
“Irish bomber blew himself up after device went off too soon ‘because he forgot to put his watch forward’” telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews… HT many.
The Websense 2014 Threat Report just dropped. Interesting stuff. I have interviews that’ll emerge soonish. websense.com/content/websen… [Regwall]
I do see all you at-replies, but there’s usually too many to respond to all of them. Well, I don’t scroll back much after an overnight gap.
RT @dannolan: dying pic.twitter.com/bbym1ag2uM [We’ll have to ask Harrison Ford. #slashinthemaking]
@YingHaoLi An Australian university out of touch with current market conditions? Surely you jest!
mitchellh Pair programming. We’re doing it all wrong. (Original image found via @ztellman) pic.twitter.com/yeVQuD0nCD
@Loquacities @VirginAustralia It just happened automatically. Arrived in the post yesterday.
@YingHaoLi They what? Yes, that’s a bit poor, University of Sydney.
RT @YingHaoLi: @stilgherrian but that’s exactly what #Qantas did [Perhaps they did, but I’m not a member of Qantas’ thing.]
Five points to @VirginAustralia for making the new Velocity frequent flyer membership card also (optionally) a reloadable Visa Prepaid card.
RT @purserj: Why do people still listen to richo? [To check that they haven’t, finally, been named.]
@jturner_ibrs So, both in-calls and out-calls, you’re saying?
@SnarkyPlatypus @sylmobile I am constantly amazed at the quite phenomenal salaries aid for what are quite straightforward jobs.
Something something farcical aquatic ceremony…
phbarratt Was Dame Quentin Bryce really a dame when Tony Abbott said she was? Obviously these are “on water” matters. theage.com.au/federal-politi…
RT @sylmobile: Poll results: Who should be Freedom Commissioner? twitpic.com/e04zyh [Lulwut?]
@matthewsteen @paulmckeon Perhaps, but designers are also sentient beings capable of saying “No” (unless actual slaves).
RT @feed_the_chooks: precisely how many Marxism conferences are there each year [As many as ASIO needs to keep proto-lefties occupied.]
Sometimes you really do need to ask government agencies straight out whether they’re doing drugs.
Also @CybersmartACMA, “a quick peak”? You mean “peek”, right? Or have you plugged a few craft eccies on a Thursday morning? Nice day for it.
RT @traagsmahal: @stilgherrian cybersynergy?! pic.twitter.com/X8FovxnV6m [CYBERSYNERGY!]
Why are all these effing so-called “infographics” nothing but a few random numbers mixed with cornflake-packet level design? Arsehats.
“19 New Cybercrime Infographics: March 2014”, and feel your soul dehydrate and shrivel! hacksurfer.com/posts/19-new-c… HT @BlogsofWar
@myrcurial @dobes I am humbled, Mr Arlen. How could I forget to cyber the refrigerator? So to speak.
MikeCarlton01 ASIC hopeless at catching corporate crooks, but strikes terror into 16yr old schoolgirls. Pathetic. smh.com.au/business/marke…
scottcarson1957 1st carrier take-off of a plane with a nuclear bomb. PV2 (JATO assisted). USS Coral Sea, Mk1 bomb, April, 1950. pic.twitter.com/ucERt8GNNj
@myrcurial @dobes Credit where credit is due, always. ;) Now, did you ever see my thing about refrigergeddon…? zdnet.com/our-hackers-wh…
CyberPrefixerAU 4.2 cybermetre croc caught near Townsville
@oberonsghost Indeed.
@SnarkyPlatypus I think your assessment there is correct. Not a good match, either geographically or culturally.
lukehopewell SF tech protestors reportedly blockaded a Yahoo! bus only to climb atop it and vomit on it. valleywag.gawker.com/youll-probably…
@myrcurial Not that I would ever put any kind of public pressure on @dobes, you must understand. That would be inappropriate.
@myrcurial Well, I do love the term “homeopathic cryptography”. I will see if I can get @dobes to bite on that.
“ICAC: Moses Obeid admits to ‘little white lie’ about buying shares”, or, as we might call it, ‘document fraud’. abc.net.au/news/2014-04-0…
Thu plan, unordered: Fix mobile internets; write for @zdnetaustralia; lunch in Sydney, anyone?; return to Wentworth Falls; try to sleep.
RT @semibogan: @stilgherrian @derekbradley the world needs a Breakfast Alcohol Appreciation Society. [I’m willing to be secretary…]
@firstdogonmoon Hi back to Pete. #whiskytour
RT @derekbradley: @stilgherrian @semibogan God invented oatmeal breakfast stouts for a reason [Also, Bloody Marys.]
RT @semibogan: Too early for drinking, right? [Wrong.]
@CosmicRami @drspacejunk Oh thanks. Well, corupptednerds.com will get a defibrillator jolt next week.
@myrcurial Indeed. I’m trying to think how to write about it without being, as @dobes put it, “that guy” who slams the little guys.
@gusworldau Thank you. I think.
@drspacejunk @CosmicRami I completely understand, Dr Gorman. I shall email you next week to see where our schedules might meet.
@SnarkyPlatypus Whereas USAF was based in Thailand, soldiers did R&R there, and Australia is of course local(-ish).
@SnarkyPlatypus I suspect not. I think most of the modern Thai diaspora was during and after the Vietnam War, which the UK wasn’t in.
@ashryn_ That’s rather a good literary reference, of sorts.
@SnarkyPlatypus I imagine that Thai food is not particularly a thing in London?
@SnarkyPlatypus Yes.
Laurie_Garrett BritCol. Canada in “worst #measles epidemic EVER recorded in province” thanks to unvax’ed kids blogs.theprovince.com/2014/04/01/let… pic.twitter.com/vgwcQH9mnu
itsnotgonewell Magazine Editor
#ItsNotGoneWell pic.twitter.com/IweDi8NJR6
Fursday. Fatigued. Frustrated. Fursday.