I am going away now.
@corduroy Nothing surprises me any more. Or rather, everything does, because I have lost all long=term memory.
@corduroy So this is about you, rather than me. I see.
@corduroy That’s 100km from where I am right now.
@skwashd I do. I do know that guy.
@Garth_P_Newton That would’ve been my second choice.
@Garth_P_Newton There’s a word for people like you.
@R_Chirgwin I met this farmer in central Zanzibar who’d love to hear about your problems.
I’ve run out of wine.
@caseyjohnellis @thegrugq @AndreaBarisani I have no idea what you mean. Obviously.
@AndreaBarisani @thegrugq “It would be proper for #hackingteam…” Yeah look, I see your problem here.
Reasons to love SoundCloud number 48. pic.twitter.com/xQ4ehPfVS3
@jasemurphy … And conversely, I’ve done work for editors I’ve never even seen. YMMV, of course.
@jasemurphy And I’m a freelancer and 90% of my work comes from people who know my work. [Shrugs.] I can work from anywhere…
@jasemurphy And if you ignore the fact that the internet exists.
So yeah, @phbarratt, if the question starts “Wonder if Tone knows”… twitter.com/phbarratt/stat…
@jasemurphy Yeah but… no, I won’t say it out of respect for the people who still live there.
@jasemurphy @GrogsGamut Obviously I’m not thinking big picture but looking at my own circumstances, but is AU really worth the cost?
@jasemurphy @GrogsGamut The latter, more or less. Been out of Sydney 4 years, look at prices, can’t see why I’d waste money / effort.
@bigjsl @NewtonMark OH HEAVEN FORFEND.
@jasemurphy @GrogsGamut Too steep for who? I just look at it and think, well, maybe other places are in my future.
NewtonMark Can jet fuel melt Bronwyn Bishop’s career?
Credit to @TheFeedSBS for retweeting that.
@dave_shephard Oh I couldn’t possibly start saying what I think. There are laws.
Look, @TheFeedSBS, who cares if #tourdefrance cyclists are “doping”? LET’S SEE HOW FAST THEY CAN GO. #meththemup twitter.com/TheFeedSBS/sta…
The El Niño 2012 Merlot from Western Victoria is really quite good, but FFS let it breathe for an hour to avoid the nasties.
@_midofo_ Well yes. Russian software engineers are practical about these things.
@thomasrdotorg Oh. Fair point.
@_midofo_ Sure. But radians?
Spoonyman Can you get a me a beer from the fridge hon?
Sure babe, I’ll just take the chopper.
@_midofo_ Wait. What the fuck were you doing, exactly?
SwiftOnSecurity I was quoted as a “security commentator.” Somehow they left out “/international pop star.” I’m tired of InfoSec overshadowing my music. 😔
Ah. Loaner replacement computer now arrives Friday. THAT’S ANOTHER WHOLE DAY OF UNPRODUCTIVE DRINKING.
@SnarkyPlatypus @ProfBrianCox Look, we all have our bad days.
Meh. You were in D:Ream, @ProfBrianCox. How could any pseudo-planet top that? twitter.com/ProfBrianCox/s…
@CaPtAiN_dAnGeR_ Damn! There’s SO MANY of these little coves along the Australian coast!
@gpdawson Wait. Was it a helicopter? I’ve seen different versions of this story.
@CaPtAiN_dAnGeR_ It just occurred to me. Your Twitter header image. Is that Petrel Cove?
@_midofo_ The thing about reading error logs is that you wonder how any of this shit even works at all.
0x1C Yes, that seems perfectly reasonable for a critical infrastructure KVM. pic.twitter.com/DOECVmEn43
Bronwyn Bishop is so full of shit.
@crgentle @OaaSvc Indeed. Again, thanks for the offer. I should’ve asked around first, before wasting a week struggling on.
NZCharlieGates Google search: Journalists are… pic.twitter.com/sCuEGXujap
@_midofo_ Yeah, I’m learning a lot watching the logs and seeing the failure modes and recovery. But it’s pointless, really.
@_midofo_ Oh, I know that. Not by that name. But this is different. Me wanting to fiddle when I know a replace machine will arrive tomorrow.
@charliepic I’ve been really quite enjoying what you’ve been doing with @theweeklytv, so thank you.
@_midofo_ I have no idea what that means.
@Linksastrology @ABCnewsIntern Antiques Roadshow? Or Bronies?
I’ve been committing the classic mistake of trying to understand the errors and fix things, when I already know it’s bad hardware.
I should really give up trying to do anything useful with this computer, and accept being unproductive for the week.
“15/07/2015 19:02:25.507 Safari[536]: Bad cursor rect event, flags = 256”, eh? Yep, world is rect.
ABCnewsIntern In 100 years, Antiques Roadshow will be 99.9% about Bronies.
@GrogsGamut @NewtonMark Yay. Things are better* every day!
@NewtonMark @GrogsGamut You can only inflate a bubble so far.
@cafuego Ah yes. I have seen @CyberTaters before. I was amused.
Pouring more wine due to my concern for the country.
Aiannucci All 8 of ‘The Armando Iannucci Shows’ are all up, free to watch, on 4All. Here’s the link channel4.com/programmes/the…
troyhunt Go home @BritishGasHelp, you’re drunk! twitter.com/BritishGasHelp…
@SnarkyPlatypus Something like that.
I’m opening the wine. At least that will be something to have been accomplished today.
Disgruntled.
GrogsGamut Key graph in the RBA’s submission to the Inquiry into Home Ownership pic.twitter.com/AQSyMkNoPq
GrogsGamut Balance achieved! pic.twitter.com/5x0RyRZaNf
ParkerMolloy “Lick all their spoons, so you can understand their appetite.”
ParkerMolloy “Sift through their laundry so that you may smell what they smell.”
ParkerMolloy Airbnb’s tweets from today sound like instructions an ax murderer would write himself. pic.twitter.com/OL33URTibV
NOT THE MINI…twitter.com/mashable/statu…hp
@Mark_Heydon Indeed. It’s an odd priority, in my view
GreenJ you had to be there i guess. twitter.com/jessmcguire/st…
Oh, I misread that, @GreenJ. I thought you were saying that you were a Mary Poppins drunk.
Yes, I can see this, @GreenJ… twitter.com/GreenJ/status/…
“Bubble”? No, no-one said “bubble”. Not around here. (Thank you, @Mick_Peel.) twitter.com/Mick_Peel/stat…
Well, @liquidparanoia, at least this is something to look forward to. twitter.com/liquidparanoia…
@anthonycole @jdub I don’t know the song, well, I don’t know it beyond the title. I’ll look it up later.
Yay, the backup has finally finished.
Oh well, Dotcom Bubble v2 will burst soon enough.
@jdub You hopeless romantic, you.
And from @jdub, some related thoughts. twitter.com/jdub/status/62…
Startupland doesn’t give a flying fuck about the future or about technology. It’s simply who can amass cash the fastest.
Where “best executing” is defined solely in terms of speed of growth of market capitalisation. twitter.com/cdixon/status/…
@rashasman I’m disappointed. I’d like to watch the whole thing unfold in their minds.
Australia’s continuing cocaine scourge. twitter.com/drearyclocks/s…
jeffsonstein ok, my vote for thread-of-the-day @juhasaarinen @stilgherrian pic.twitter.com/NkADtoYGzB
Is anyone live blogging Jade Helm?
@juhasaarinen I haven’t been there, but it seems like a nice place.
@juhasaarinen You could go with “one-third as popular as Hitler”.
@juhasaarinen Pretty much. I will say that he has three entries, while you only have the one.
@AndySHastings I’m not going there.
@juhasaarinen Before I answer that question, are you sure that “Neater than Hitler” is your chosen goal?
It looks like this backup will be finished in about two hours.
@juhasaarinen Hitler also has a tag there.
I hope they never stop letting Americans read the internet. Never. twitter.com/calestous/stat…
@virag064 Now there’s a thought!
@sophblack Oh sorry! What was the cover story again? Something to do with the Russian Mafia?
@virag064 I agree that your troubleshooting steps are sensible, though. I had a different path, but have reached a clear conclusion.
@virag064 I’ll be posting pics of the impact dents on this machine soon. It’s a battered late-2011, so time for the long green sleep.
@virag064 Hah! Like I have money to pay you anything… :P
@virag064 Done all that. Pressing to reseat components changes things to a new set of exciting error scenarios! :)
@virag064 I know you’re trying to help, and thanks, but we have a broken machine here, and a loaner replacement arrives tomorrow.
@virag064 Sigh. I am way beyond that stage. The machine is physically broken. See bottom of stilgherrian.com/edict/00045b/
@virag064 Yosemite 10.10.4, but this instance is directly related to the faults.
@virag064 Yes. You’re across the hardware faults that are affecting everything?
Well good luck, @sophblack, and won’t tell anyone about you heading to Syria to become an ISIS bride. twitter.com/sophblack/stat…
What the strange creature with the red hat says is true. twitter.com/jeamland/statu…
@purserj My vegetables are always open to inspection by international observers.
Actually, the Iranians accepted that deal? Thank goodness we had that Grocery Code of Conduct on our side.
So why would anyone care what noted foreign policy expert Tony Abbott thinks of the Iran nuclear deal? twitter.com/murpharoo/stat…
Yay! Three hours after requesting this backup, the event scan finishes and the actual backup begins.
James_Jeffrey Still no mention of the Grocery Code of Conduct today. #GroceryCodeOfConductWatch
The other thing I dreamed about last night was that there was a TV program that @marcfennell didn’t present, but that can’t be right.
@ivovic Ah. I hadn’t thought of that. As you were.
@0x1C Yeah, but too much caring and sharing there. Just put them in the stocks for a few days, that’ll sort them.
There’s far too many unnecessarily redundant unneeded words in this tweet, @ivovic. twitter.com/ivovic/status/…
@0x1C Who would ever admit to that, though?
guymosel Any sub editor who thinks “Winter warmers” is a super headline should never work again.
@scottcarson1957 Exactly.
@scottcarson1957 Well this is my point. I’ve been doing it wrong.
Actually, I don’t think it means that at all, but fuck it. If I want to be a successful opinion writer it’s time I started ignoring facts.
This means that we could afford to send 474 annoying politicians to Pluto. twitter.com/paulkidd/statu…
paulkidd Bronwyn Bishop’s plane ride to Geelong cost *474* times as much as the #NASANewHorizons trip to #Pluto. (corrected) pic.twitter.com/4Zuze6x7JP
@0x1C “New”? That depends. How behind the pace can you be and yet something is still “new”?
Can’t think of a better outcome, @jturner_ibrs … twitter.com/jturner_ibrs/s…
TheNTNews IF TV SHOW TITLES WERE HONEST bit.ly/1HK4JIv pic.twitter.com/rE9olS2MGr
@0x1C I love∗ it when Crusader Rabbit wanders into foreign policy. He’s so sharp∗ on the issues.
@skwashd True.
Good work, Tony.
GiovanniTorre So, Tony Abbott thinks it would be really bad “if any country in the Middle East got nuclear weapons”.
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Given that it’ll be hard to do real work for another two days I should just drink.
“Netflix now watched by 1.42m Australians across 559,000 households, claims Roy Morgan”, reports @mumbrella mumbrella.com.au/netflix-now-wa…
RT @Tim_Coronel RT @ABCnewsIntern A reminder that Australia is the only OECD nation without a space agency. [Ludicrous given our geography.]
@christopherneal Yes, every decision seems to have “Can we thump Labor with this?” as a KPI.
See, boys and girls, spend the night drinking with me and next day this could happen. youtube.com/watch?v=zwtpCl…
@OaaSvc The screenshots I’ve posted so far don’t show the full range of fascinatingly baroque error events.
@ChristineEwing7 GET OUT OF MY DREAMS.
@OaaSvc Well, this disc isn’t encrypted. But yeah, it just doesn’t feel like a hard drive problem.
@OaaSvc I’m pretty sure it’s the motherboard. File permissions are OK, for example but occasionally get misreported to running programs.
@OaaSvc I don’t think it’s the drive, but I’ll run a diagnostic once this backup finishes.
RT @glengyron RT @hughstephens Brilliant. So many news sites could use this. pic.twitter.com/XNnOBOWETJ [Oh this IS good.]
Does Crusader Rabbit’s government know it’s meant to be running the nation, not an election campaign? I shouldn’t have to ask, but…
Last night I dreamed of possums.
Damn. Last time this had to be done it took nearly three hours. (3/3)
15/07/2015 10:15:44.293 com.apple.backupd[3073]: Deep event scan at path:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db| (2/3)
15/07/2015 10:15:37.623 com.apple.backupd[3073]: Event store UUIDs don’t match for volume: spandauHD (1/3)
@jeffsonstein Thanks to @OaaSvc, I have a loaner machine arriving tomorrow, and I’ll be crowdfunding a new machine starting the week after.
@jeffsonstein And it goes mitigate the problems to some extent.
@jeffsonstein I’ve already been doing that for a week or so. And moving the machine gently. And cold rebooting after each move.
@kenhess None of those. Hess(e) is a geographical place?
@cefiar Well it’s definitely hardware, and I’d started to suspect it was temperature-related. I’ll run a backup and try that diagnostic.
@staticsan Give that some of the “faults” are could be power-related, I figures I’d give it a go. See bottom of stilgherrian.com/edict/00045b/
@elronxenu “Working”, you say?
This is why you can’t have nice things, people, at least not from @expectproblems’ little games outfit. twitter.com/expectproblems…
@kenhess All of my computers, since at least the late-1990s, have been named after locations in Germany.
Finally, proof that @drearyclocks is more of a danger to other people than to himself. twitter.com/drearyclocks/s…
Those wondering about the content of my plan might also see yesterday’s blog post. stilgherrian.com/edict/00045c/ pic.twitter.com/RAufQIzweO
@staticsan Well, there was no such sound. Though I thought I could hear a slight click, as if something were trying to make a sound.
poopcutie Minion memes are stealing from my Hitler quotes attributed to Taylor Swift except they don’t know it’s Hitler quotes pic.twitter.com/iGDVlUDBYj
Dear Lazy Twitter, does a late-2011 MacBook Pro give any indication that you’ve successfully resent the SMC?
@paulkidd Do you think that I should have used the word stakeholders? It doesn’t say stakeholders.
Oh dear God, @davpope, what have you done? pic.twitter.com/SN3dF8joFi
@paulkidd Thank you. I feel that this plan does have good feel to it.
Wed plan, draft: Sleep in (done); review the plan in the clear light of day; make the necessary arrangements; advise those affected; wine.
Was that too cryptic? Did I cross the streams?
Real leadership starts today.
Wednesday. They peer down at you with some confusion. The experiment is working, but not as they expected. Wednesday.