Stilgherrian (@stilgherrian)

Sydney NSW AU until Mon arvo

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November 11th, 2014

RT @diginomica: Microsoft CEO’s keynote was of note, but hardly key to the futurdlvr.it/7TpGTHisca [Oh dear.]

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Still another 25 minutes on his train. This is way past when I should be struggling to get to sleep.

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“The 9pm Words, what even are they?”, being a podcast, on my website. https://t.co/AtHUdXsvLO Or on SoundCloud. http://t.co/ebgOLznheh

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@semibogan Part of me wants to click through and see what they next stage of the con is, but maybe it’s just one step to Blackhole.

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“Change your blood, change your life.” pic.twitter.com/LWgxo1rWEG

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@semibogan @zdnetaustralia I think it’s my job. Or a side effect of my job.

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@semibogan @zdnetaustralia And it’s in the cloud, so that’s even better.

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@semibogan @zdnetaustralia How can it be ugly? Drupal is written in PHP, which means it’s web scale.

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@monsieurpotts Hmmm. I haven’t been to the theatre in ages.

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@kcarruthers @chieftech That’s just weird. He was at the same lunch as I was today. I wrote about it too.

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@kcarruthers @chieftech “Strikes deal”? The thing went live yesterday! Julian must be on drugs.

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Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Australian government Drupal-based CMS goes live” http://t.co/8Kubx7uZMy it’s called govCMS. http://t.co/sP6ksLh1Rf

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MissPotkin Broken Britain. pic.twitter.com/PQ731v5sAD

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RT @paulwallbank The beauty of attending media events with @stilgherrian is you can blame him for all the bacchanalian excesses. [Bah.]

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RT @MsCastan: This important chart was via @profsarahj “References to goats vs. Llamas on social media http://t.co/3we2NJ1iUB http://t.co/O…

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The 2218 Lithgow service will arrive at Wentworth Falls at 0007. Wonderful.

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I won’t name names, but they know who they are.

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Certain people have been at the tequila, and the phrase “party on” was mentioned. No, I’m out of here.

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@katie18O @stufromoz No really. In my case, well, I watch very little TV and zero sport, so no clue.

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@katie18O @stufromoz It probably says more about the table of tech journos I was at, but none of us had any idea..

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Who is this Erin person we have as MC? Is there a Shazam for B-list celebrities? instagram.com/p/vQNmdpiFnN/

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@CaseyBriggs Yep, their research says up to 150 times per day.

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The @Huawei Mate 7 will be available in Australia on 17 Nov, rrp $699 for gold colour, 32GB.

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This is the man who made that claim. instagram.com/p/vQMtYyCFkp/

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The chap is telling us that we spend 30 hours per year unlocking our phones.

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@expectproblems In theory I’m going straight from the @Huawei launch to the @audible_com launch.

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It’ll need the 4100mAh battery to power the 8+1 cores. instagram.com/p/vQMMnMCFjc/

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For some reason Instagram is removing the @ from my tweets. I feel soiled.

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The huawei Mate 7 beams in from the outer regions… loudly. instagram.com/p/vQLsOTCFh7/

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Listening to the managing director. instagram.com/p/vQLJ37CFv7/

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Making it possible, apparently. instagram.com/p/vQKSy8iFtQ/

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At the huawei launch at The Star. instagram.com/p/vQG5PICFi9/

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Thinking about “Logan’s Run” for the second time today. instagram.com/p/vQDCQ5CFmV/

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Right. Time to walk to The Star.

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RT @cjjosh: “No, no, don’t tell me. Your name will come to me.” #APEC http://t.co/a1v0amfp3S

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The word you are looking for is “punkah wallah”.

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Can someone just slap @drearyclocks to see if that will make it stop.

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Now, will I last both the @Huawei launch and the @audible_com launch, as well as the journey back up the hill? This will be interesting.

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saladinahmed Pumpkin Spice Long Pig

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@AGFchairman Sounds… dreadful*. Keep up the good work.

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@johnb78 @SnarkyPlatypus I can’t tell you that. You are not the correct public.

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@SnarkyPlatypus It is. The recent development is called “summer”.

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_youhadonejob I’d love to know the story behind this sign. pic.twitter.com/Dapj7Y6rbr

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captainbrown Best typo ever “@ANUasiapacific: Launching tonight; new Centre of Gravity report warns of real treat of nuclear war in North Asia…

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RT @jturner_ibrs: Oh come on, Australia. No wait! pic.twitter.com/UyUd5Sa6HZ [So is it containerised, or do they use a bulk carrier?]

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@marcuskelson @SenatorLudlam I think that’s an excellent beginning, yes.

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Jugs of sangria, $18. This has been a public service announcement.

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Maybe, @marcuskelson, we should all send @SenatorLudlam suggestions for images he can use in his Tindr profile.

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marcuskelson the reinvention of @SenatorLudlam pic.twitter.com/c11f6JdA4h

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@dobes Do let me know when the hate mail starts.

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@NewtonMark It hadn’t actually left the ground yet, is my understanding.

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@dobes Oh, no, I was just using its name ’cos it wasn’t in the headline. I hadn’t even thought about capital letters.

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Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Australian government Drupal-based CMS goes live” http://t.co/8Kubx7uZMy it’s called govCMS. http://t.co/sP6ksLh1Rf

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SenatorLudlam twitter stahp i’m trying to concentrate

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bairdjulia Tonight counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen joins to explain how he thinks we should fight IS - and how we stuffed up in 2003.

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RT @5at5daily: 5at5 number 106: Kiwi grief, Mars grief, hipsters, the N-word, and the gay-led tight pants conspiracy revealed. http://t.co/…

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@jturner_ibrs Wherever you are right now, don’t let me near the place, or I will set fire to it to save our species.

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“Net discrimination horse has already bolted”, writes @joshgnosis on Net Neutrality. http://t.co/T4iXGeKux8

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Need a commute listen? “The 9pm Words, what even are they?”, on my website. https://t.co/AtHUdXsvLO Or on SoundCloud. http://t.co/ebgOLznheh

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Story filed for @zdnetaustralia. Now to wrap up @5at5daily.

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@rashasman @grivvr I haven’t looked at that sort of thing in quite a while, sorry.

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The Acquia / @AusGovCTO lunch is about to begin. instagram.com/p/vPbck-CFh-/

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@LexiMetherell As you may have guessed, that’s a “No” for today, sorry.

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@chrisjrn @__get__ Oh that reminds me, I haven’t posted this semester’s updated version yet. Maybe on the weekend. This week is insane.

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En route to a lunch briefing with @AusGovCTO.

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The minute of silence will be more like the minute of roaring crane engines. instagram.com/p/vPKtpdiFqJ/

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paulkidd In the event of a nuclear strike, everyone go to Bondi Junction. pic.twitter.com/eci7SAGAWC

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paulkidd We’re all going to die! pic.twitter.com/ei9pB7aBHz

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Considering the subtleties of lava.

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ClickHole You think differently about stuff now. Because of her eyes. clickhole.com/r/1360tsd pic.twitter.com/d1hH0NnB6q

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Oh well, I’ve deleted my tweet, though that doesn’t delete the image.

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I wonder whose phone number that is at the top of that screenshot frm @KetanJ0.

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@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je résous tous les problèmes du monde. Et vous?

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leslienassar Like a kidnapper waving a gun at your friends, ‘welcoming’ you to join him MT @BuzzFeedOz: Facebook welcomed 500,000,000th user to Messenger

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Here is the original Kaspersky Lab report on that DarkHotel operation. (PDF) https://t.co/XYPAK7dMP3

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Ah no, it’s OK now. It was as I thought, a network glitch because physics. Everything is perfectly safe now. Hahahaha. No it’s not.

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Oh, yeah, and if you don’t know what that means, you probably shouldn’t click on that link just yet.

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In that Ars Technica story I just tweeted, the link to the Kaspersky report at securelist.com yielded a bad-certificate error. You?

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This “DarkHotel” hacking operation looks both big and scary. Also, probably just one of many. http://t.co/wuqSUevz6l

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RT @NewtonMark: There is nothing in this article that isn’t bullshit. I hope NSW police spend hundreds of millions on a trial. http://t.co/…

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That photo from APEC I posted earlier seems to have been a Rorschach test. All manner of feels are being projected. You special people, you.

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“You Are Not So Smart” has a whole podcast episode on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, with an actual David Dunning. http://t.co/r2kKQD0F46

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“The 9pm Words, what even are they?”, on my website now. https://t.co/AtHUdXsvLO Or on SoundCloud. http://t.co/ebgOLznheh

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@SpaceKidette I shall leave that as an exercise for the reader. It’s an easy question, though, so only worth two marks.

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I see that @mearesy is helping* with the narrative again. pic.twitter.com/VLOtYkczir

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OH, older woman: “Are you doing your Christmas shopping?” Another woman, NY accent: “No. There are some benefits to being Jewish.”

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RT @glengyron: Last night’s suit… “@pmharper: Breakfast meeting with the Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott. #cdnpoli http://t.co/pVM…

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Tue plan: 0755 train to Sydney; 11/11; 1200 @AusGovCTO lunch; write for @zdnetaustralia; @Huawei, @audible_com launches; late train back.

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This stuff is basically a free gift to comedians globally. APEC, or Arsehats Pictured for Extensive Comedy.

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I assume the colour coding is “goodies” versus “baddies”, so Crusader Rabbit can keep track of what’s going on.

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This is like a Reverse Logan’s Run. The elderly lizard people have killed all signs of Youthpic.twitter.com/iohlvGjsKGKG

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Oh dear God, what fresh hell is this? Earth, the self-trolling planet. pic.twitter.com/zC4MaQQFNO

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RT @paulwallbank: The nightmare on telco street: Obama seeks to declare the Internet a utility whitehouse.gov/net-neutrality [HAHAHAHAHAHA!]

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rooreynolds “rage quilt”

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It appears that Sydney’s hotels are pretty heavily booked, which would be down to the fact that Sydney is a fucked-up city.

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“The 9pm Words, what even are they?” is also on SoundCloud, like all the others. https://t.co/1IIQpGfPkk

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Last night this podcast happened: “The 9pm Words, what even are they?stilgherrian.com/edict/00032/spic.twitter.com/iMadML9tXv9tXv

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Tue plan, draft: Train to Sydney; 11/11; 1200 @AusGovCTO lunch; write for @zdnetaustralia; @Huawei launch; @audible_com launch; return/stay.

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Tuesday. Every single misery that you endured yesterday will now be repeated, and you will still get it wrong. Tuesday.

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