I don’t think this week is going to work.
Oh. @JuliaGillard started this Game of Thrones comparison arsehattery? Oh FFS. What is wrong with her? (That’s rhetorical, partisan morons.)
Sneezing.
RT @theretronaut: 1932: Home made Zeppelin (bit.ly/1spRGb6) pic.twitter.com/sv6IswMcJa [Clearly better than the factory-made rubbish.]
Sulking.
@GordyPls @R_Chirgwin So, I am a bit better than the worst glue-huffing C-graders? That’s good, I suppose. Thank you?
@marcfennell @GordyPls @R_Chirgwin I look forward to receiving appropriate instruction.
I was on The Drum TV once, @GordyPls @R_Chirgwin, but I didn’t get any glue to sniff.
@SnarkyPlatypus That’s a thing in The America, supposedly, getting them to check photo ID and not just the signature. Valid? Dunno.
@RealNickHodge I think this shows her without the glasses. bbc.com/news/technolog…
Thank you, @scott_thewspot @TatteredRemnant @ericscheid, much appreciated.
Crossing the Nepean, almost instagram.com/p/me0OqTCFo2/
Or is that only if you give birth to the Captain? I’m a bit confused.
Am I correct in assuming that if you kill someone on a train it doesn’t count? Like getting married or giving birth on a ship?
CyberPrefixerAU Abbott greeted with full cyberpomp and cyberceremony in Tokyo
@distantcam @shiftkey @troyhunt Today we are all cyber-hacktivists.
I do wish more people would post pictures like this. It’d help my cash flow problems. pic.twitter.com/TFNCwzCpzp
thegrugq “@jaezona: Idk why people are trying to see the back, I didn’t even sign it pic.twitter.com/os4f9SpHtd” << too late to the party, as usual. :(
@SnarkyPlatypus Je voudrais qu’il soit un trou de lapin réel. Au moins, nous pouvions espérer une casserole.
I am sure I’ve mentioned “I’m an Instant Fucking Expert” more times than a Twitter search reveals. I must check my own archive.
I so need to turn “I’m an Instant Fucking Expert” into an actual program. But who to play Dwayne Arsehat?
“Tonight, and every night this year, on ‘I’m an Instant Fucking Expert’, everything to do with aviation safety ever! I’m Dwayne Arsehat.”
@newsbanks Why’d you want to increase power consumption and reduce range by modulating the signal? There’s no plague of the damn things.
@SnarkyPlatypus Lundi a bien commencé, mais au début. Il était bon dans le milieu. La queue est dégoûtant. Je boude.
Departure instagram.com/p/meuk2MCFkh/
The 1721 to Lithgow stands ready. pic.twitter.com/ILcTKDgz9s
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Cette ville est la merde. Je me dirige vers l’ouest, où je boude parce que tout c’est de la foutaise. Et vous?
@GreenJ Oh. Yes I do. Yes.
@GreenJ I have no idea what that means.
It looks like @dannolan is suffering a stroke, so at least something positive has happened today.
@GreenJ You do realise you’re part of the problem?
RT @ssharwood: Click your ruby slipper together and wish really hard [Oh, so you’ve seen my morning routine?]
BernardKeane Cost of meeting Campbell Newman in crypto-currencies:
Bitcoin 10.1
Litecoin 401.6
Peercoin 2513.5
Dogecoin 10,108,695.7
Nxt 160,344.8
RT @mattjpwns: @stilgherrian @ssharwood that’s a lot of piss. [It is, but I am willing to drink the necessary quantity of ale. Patriotism.]
Unless anyone can quickly present a different plan, it is my intention to catch the 1721 train back to Wentworth Falls.
RT @ssharwood: What if a million people stole a game of AFL? [I’d personally urinate on each one until I understood what that even means.]
Note to Journalists: If, say, a million Australians have seen Game of Thrones, it means 22 million haven’t, and have no idea what you mean.
Anyone in the media who compares Game of Thrones to any contemporary happening at all. #PatheticLazyJournalism #IceMoonPrison
RT @VMMoncrieff: This is just a caption contest waiting to happen. pic.twitter.com/q8QffxQWvN [True. It is. HT @EnsignR]
GreenJ George Brandis reviews season three of Love Thy Neighbour.
Thanks, @bacco007 @terencehuynh @PointZeroOne and others, that little brain fart has now been dealt with. I am an arsehat.
RT @eacrook: “Records management principles apply to social media content as to other records created in the agency” naa.gov.au/records-manage…
5at5daily Just published: “5at5 number 29 | 7 April 2014”: IBM mainframes, Snapchat, tech sexism, cyber experts and a warning. tinyletter.com/5at5/letters/5…
I stand corrected, thank you @werdhan. I saw a few tweets claiming tweets were deleted. Sorry, @DIBPAustralia. My tweets are now gone.
phbarratt Memories of an earlier royal visit: HRH Princess Alexandra arrives at Tamworth Airport, 12 September 1959 pic.twitter.com/s72qEdZ6Ky
@glendturner Oh agreed!
@kcarruthers Male partners of knighted females (“dames”) get no protocol recognition.
@glendturner Oh good point, Glen, thank you.
@deconverter Forgive my bluntness. It’s certainly a key part of the IBM story, but I’m after a thing I can link to in @5at5daily today.
@pastcompute Thanks very much, that’s one behind a paywall, so I’ll loom for it on JSTOR when I get home.
@deconverter Sure, I’ve read Irwin Black’s book, but what sense does that answer my actual question?
I would be grateful if someone could quickly find me a decent 50th anniversary story about the IBM System/360, or a good backgrounder.
@infinite8horizo I used exactly those machines in 1977, though after an upgrade the CDC6400 was a Cyber-173. And we had a few 029s too.
Wow, the HP-67 was $450 in 1976. That’s $2500 today. I must’ve saved for ages and ages. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-67 rba.gov.au/calculator/ann…
Behold, @mattdasilva, the HP-67 magnetic card-programmable calculator! A program memory of 224 eight-bit words! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-67
Finally found it, @mattdasilva. There was a reason that the TI calculators weren’t looking right to me. It’s because I had something else…
@scottcarson1957 @RealNickHodge (Though I hardly need to explain any of this shit to you, Sir. Just trying to appear informed here.)
@scottcarson1957 @RealNickHodge No argument there. That’s why we’re seeing Certain Navies building fresh boomers.
I take that back, @mattdasilva. System/370 was first for me, BASIC on optical mark reader (OMR) cards, then TI-5x was a year or two later.
No, @mattdasilva, I think this was it. Either the Ti-59 or the TI-58. Turing complete! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-59_/_T…
RT @mattdasilva: Didn’t you start with TI calculators? [Oh, sorry, I stand corrected. Yes, was it the TI-67 with the magnetic card reader?]
The first machine I programmed was the successor, the IBM System/370, at the Angle Park Computing Centre. davidnewall.com/angle-park.html
The BBC is reporting that today, 7 April, is the 50th birthday of the IBM mainframe, specifically the System/360. bbc.com/news/technolog…
@scottcarson1957 @RealNickHodge Davy Crockett launchers for every National Guard unit, that would have sorted things out. I am a sick man.
There is evidence to suggest that the May edition of the Walkley Magazine has been mailed, and that I may have some sort of article therein.
@scottcarson1957 @RealNickHodge With the US defence budget the same? So, the funds instead spend on, presumably, conventional forces?
Thanks to @BeMiddleweek for coffees and yet another opportunity to poison the minds of UTS students. My lecture to be posted late this week.
denny Friend just emailed me this. In his words: “I’m not a train expert, but I’m pretty sure this isn’t going to work…” pic.twitter.com/L0RF30WabM
@scottcarson1957 @RealNickHodge I wonder how well I/we can put ourselves into the minds of the guys who fought WWII then Cold War.
@RealNickHodge @scottcarson1957 Eric Schlosser’s “Command and Control” have me a more nuanced view of LeMay. Nevertheless… yeah, blame.
@CNETAustralia Can I suggest you check the date that Festo uploaded that video to YouTube? I have… suspicions.
@scottcarson1957 I find it disturbing that I am familiar with the Wit and Wisdom of General Curtis LeMay. My life has been mis-spent. ;)
@scottcarson1957 Is that quote originally from Curtis LeMay, or someone previous?
@scottcarson1957 Indeed. Didn’t someone once say something about land wars in central Asia? Sigh.
@scottcarson1957 Rant, Sir, and rant ye well. This stuff needs to be said. I’m appalled every time I hear how veterans get “forgotten”.
@scottcarson1957 Mind you, The America is far from the first nation to boast about the importance of its military, only to dump them.
ssharwood WHAT? Windows XP support ends tomorrow? Why didn’t anyone tell me? This is an outrage.
@scottcarson1957 Sorry to hear about your mate. That’s not how anyone’s life should end, let alone one who’s served his nation well.
@scottcarson1957 I was speaking to a former Staff Sergeant with two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, begging in SFO, who said the same.
Lurking in a SEKRIT location near Sydney Central station that has Coopers Ale and 240V electricity in proximity to each other.
@iain_chalmers I would love to know why I am seeing this tweet from you repeated so many times. Actually, no, I just wish it’d stop. ;)
jonathonio tim wilson claims to support “”“freedom”“” yet he wont come to my house to play Magic: The Gathering with me
hypocrasy
@dananimal CBF =Couldn’t be fucked
In which @firstdogonmoon introduces Arthur the Bilby, who has some memory issues. trib.al/Ts79K7i pic.twitter.com/Owxces3f8z
@dananimal I may well be after such intel when I return to residing in Sydney. Or somewhere. In the Mountains, CBF dominates.
@MsLods @JennaPrice Yes, great to catch up. Have a great Remainder of Monday.
@jpwarren @expectproblems My memory doesn’t go back that far, and I wasn’t recording that bit.
At Mecca, Ultimo, awaiting my 1230 lunch companion.
@expectproblems I was introduced as a cyber guru, I think. I’ve had words.
Being introduced at UTS instagram.com/p/md8nBZiFmi/
@scott_thewspot “Real job”? Me? HAHAHA!
River of Misery pic.twitter.com/bJUQbjP81e
@scott_thewspot True. I should’ve worn a onesie so I’d garner some respect.
All these commuters look so miserable.
@AUSFestivus Broadly speaking, Blue Mountains trains have been the same speed for 80 years, but the grades and curves mandate that.
Forensics instagram.com/p/mdyTtJCFln/
Approaching Redfern, and the train window is scratched like bulk heaps instagram.com/p/mdxaN3iFkF/
@bernietb @NewtonMark @jplonie @bigjsl I concur with @dobes. A/B testing has shown that 5 items generally gets the most clicks-through.
@dobes @NewtonMark @jplonie @bigjsl As the grammar of that sentence proves?
@jplonie @bigjsl @NewtonMark Oh hell no, I’m a “guest lecturer”. No marking. I even have minions deal with the HR systems for me.
RT @NewtonMark: @stilgherrian @jplonie @bigjsl Pay it forward: Tell them that “cyber” makes them look like simpletons. [Noted, will do.]
RT @ssharwood: A week at my desk. Mostly. wouldn’t mind another week in the desert [Pitch: “Fear and Laptops in Las Vegas”?]
Hurtling* through Sydney’s inner west instagram.com/p/mdvtV-CFhX/
Just think, @jplonie @bigjsl @NewtonMark, they let me say whatever I like to first-year journalism students, with implied authority. Neat.
RT @bigjsl: next you’ll be wearing a suit and it’s all down hill to a pay cheque from there. [Easy there, Tiger! Let’s not get too crazy.]
RT @NewtonMark: If it was a real job you’d be editing the presso in PowerPoint. [That’s true.]
Editing a presentation in Keynote while catching a commuter train to the Sydney CBD. This is kinda like having a real job.
Crossing the Nepean instagram.com/p/mdqY4QiFmh/
I do appreciate these new limited stop trains down from the Blue Mountains.
Right, that’s probably enough gazing out of the train window at the sunrise. Time to get some work done. Attention is now intermittent.
@kjmci It’s sometimes just quicker to stab them.
The journey to Sydney begins instagram.com/p/mdk7VRiFq9/
Being screeched at by many, many sulphur-crested cockatoos, the smartest things currently at this railway station.
Solving people’s problems. Their problems, in this case, being an inability to read the blue-lit instruction on the ticket machine, etc.
Dawn from Railway Parade, Wentworth Falls pic.twitter.com/ge6QeCmae5
Mobile: Walk to Wentworth Falls, photographing sunrise at 0614 AEST en route; 0636 train to Sydney, arriving Central 0817; breakfast.
CyberPrefixerAU Australian Fashion Week celebrates cybersurvival of the fittest
RT @shoerust: shouldn’t discount the possibility of a gun just out of frame [True, there is that.]
Just think, the guy in this Shutterstock image allowed himself to be photographed thusly, knowing it’d be published. pic.twitter.com/fxawtF8iMp
@kjmci @joshgnosis “I had a damn good pringle on the Picadilly line this morning. Exhausted!”
RT @kjmci: @joshgnosis Hah. “Pringle” isn’t local slang for train or anything :P [Maybe it’s slang for some sort of sexual practice.]
Mon plan, redraft: 0600-ish walk to 0636 train to Sydney, work en route; breakfast; 0900 meeting, 1000 lecture, UTS; remainder & return TBA.
@Nedra Then again, I suppose no-one would need to travel for that. I should probably stop now, and have another coffee.
@Nedra “Young-tech-health fun”? That’s code for “teledildonics”, right?
Mmmm… Even with the shift back to AEST, my walk to the railway station will still begin before sunrise. This actually pleases me.
RT @koefoed: @BiellaColeman …the many faces of Anonymous? [“The many mysterious faces”, I just eureka’d under the shower.]
TumblrTXT dei/deis/deiself (ONLY USE IF YOU ARE GOD/DEITY BASED OTHERKIN)
@BiellaColeman That said, the main title is gorgeous.
@BiellaColeman Surely the subtitle has to summarise the book’s thesis or narrative? Therefore, we’d need to know that first.
Wow, it’s not even a year since I write “iPhone, therefore I am … a selfish disruptor” zdnet.com/iphone-therefo…
Says @schlaf: “I’m super bullish on the road that lies ahead and I believe there are still plenty of untapped opportunities.”
RT @bethaltringer: Uberification of US service economy - nice research by @schlaf bit.ly/1e336Od [A list with libertarian gushing.]
Sneezing.
@johnthelutheran Why do you hate Freedom?
RT @standupkid: One World Trade as seen from Red Hook. instagram.com/p/mdV8nKpstN/ [Those buses say more about America than the tower, IMO.]
@SnarkyPlatypus Je vais leur montrer la vérité. Qu’ils seront corrompus ou pas, cela dépend de leur intelligence.
RT @thegrugq: Thailand pic.twitter.com/OrDAE4y0Wm [Also correct.]
RT @thegrugq: Thailand. pic.twitter.com/yWyueR8MT5 [Correct.]
@SnarkyPlatypus Et vous?
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Ce n’est pas aussi mauvais que je le craignais. Je suis heureux d’apporter la sagesse pour les générations futures.
Mon plan, draft: Administrivia; 0636 train to Sydney, work en route; breakfast; 0900 meeting then 1000 lecture UTS; remainder & return TBA.
Hello, Monday. I know it’s barely 0400 AEST, but this was a deliberate strategy.