Gorn.
@Manic_Henry @_crispinb @bunjaree Wow. Now I’m feeling special. It was strolling along the verandah in broad daylight! [Preens.]
@Manic_Henry @_crispinb @bunjaree Hah! I am slowly becoming more thrilled with the sighting than I was at the time. Beautiful critter, too.
@ResignInShame Thanks. That’s the best image I could squeeze out of a distant phone shot.
murpharoo Does not get any better than this @cpyne #politicslive twitter.com/mpbowers/statu…
@eldonnn @bunjaree That’s feasible. Though getting run over by a car would be more common, I suspect.
@ResignInShame In between. Cattish. That’s a garden chain leaning against a table on the right of the photo, so there’s a scale.
@evcricket Probably easier if you use a computer or a phone or something.
@evcricket WTF?
Quolls are bigger than I realised.
@_crispinb @bunjaree Yes. @Manic_Henry has reminded me how little evidence there is of them living up here.
It took me a moment to grab my phone, and by then the quoll had strolled from the verandah to the bottom of the garden. (2/2)
My crappy quoll photo is up on @bunjaree’s website. First time I’d seen one in the wild, and it was 2m away. bunjareecottages.com.au/2015/12/01/bun… (1/2)
TalkingPicsABC Keeping the home fires burning- David Pope @davpope from the @canberratimes pic.twitter.com/HmqoNHgWaE
“VTech hack gets worse: Chat logs, kids’ photos taken in breach”, writes @zackwhittaker zdnet.com/article/vtech-…
New blog post: “Talking the VTech hack on ABC @612brisbane”, 6 min audio from just now. stilgherrian.com/conversations/…
The radio spot is done. I’m just checking my recording to see if it’s good for posting. Stand by.
@SnarkyPlatypus Well, another journalist and I were discussing scrounging from a certain Shenzhen-based firm.
On hold to talk with ABC @612brisbane. You may listen at abc.net.au/brisbane/ or on ABC apps. Or on 612kHz in Brisbane, obviously.
That reminds me. I was meant to try to organise a China trip.
@Pollytics Replace ” - ” with “, “.
@Pollytics Fewer*
tepingchen Lunchtime view from the Beijing bureau, with sun almost wholly blotted out #airpocalypse pic.twitter.com/9KKikzaspC
chinadailyshow Beijing is breathtaking in winter pic.twitter.com/b7gPACdLVT
@jturner_ibrs @SwiftOnSecurity “Server mouse”.
SwiftOnSecurity Anyone who can cut and paste can be a Linux admin. Windows requires real skill.
“[US] Air Force hires civilian drone pilots for combat patrols; critics question legality” latimes.com/nation/la-fg-d…
@GreenJ @catvandermark Will you be tweeting Carol Burnett or Carole Beyer Sager?
@drearyclocks Cool, I can live with that.
“Your Personal Brand is Probably Bullshit”, writes @katja_ghost medium.com/@katja_ghost/y… HT @johnallsopp
@drearyclocks How would we understand them?
Here’s the original @motherboard post on the VTech hack. motherboard.vice.com/read/one-of-th… Talking on @612brisbane in about 35 mins.
Sigh.
THE RAILWAY STATION WAS ALREADY ON FIRE WHEN I GOT THERE, @reselsnark @michaelneale @PointZeroOne
I’ll be talking about the VTech hack wired.com/2015/11/vtech-… on ABC @612brisbane at 1720 AEST / 1820 AEDT abc.net.au/brisbane/
CNETAustralia ABC TV now live-streaming through the iView catch-up service cnet.com/au/news/abc-tv… pic.twitter.com/pxRTv09hqD
Well this is a bit frightening. pic.twitter.com/CVgC6b6yNb
@bunjaree Well, “a” quoll.
Well, here’s a question. twitter.com/mscott/status/…
@AndyDW_ @BuzzFeedOz
5. Shoelaces.
@voltagex True. Though this happened on 22 November. #thejoyofcache
Maybe @BuzzFeedOz needs to list “10 Things That Will Ruin Petter Dutton’s Christmas”.
@PollHereford Yeah I dunno. Wombats are certainly dumb and grumpy, but they have a certain honest competence about them.
At this point I should remind you that “The 9pm Edict” will now be recorded live this Friday at 2100 AEDT. And it seems to write itself.
“Peter Dutton, Cabbage-Warrior Defender of Christmas!”
Dutton #2: Unions ruining Christmas. twitter.com/joshgnosis/sta…
Dutton #1: Asylum seekers ruining Christmas. twitter.com/astudentnow/st…
lyndalcurtis Taylor Swift yesterday. Pacman today. The Treasurer ranges across the cultural landscape. #qt
corybernardi Here’s a tweet just to make sure you can’t say I deleted them all.
JoeWSJ Our world at the end of 2015. pic.twitter.com/xM9Lfb3Mfr
shustry Bumped into Angela Merkel grocery shopping this weekend. The Chancellor bags her own produce. #Germany #whynot pic.twitter.com/iKF2HruOBH
ValaAfshar How it feels to watch a user test your product for the first time. -@DesignUXUII#UXX#UIIpic.twitter.com/Bzq8osridTT
nigelcameron Must be really good! MT @Autumnsan1: Hillary wanted not 1 but 2 printouts of this column: washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-1… pic.twitter.com/AAS7e0AKoD
@jasemurphy @craigthomler It’d work for longer-cycle features, but yeah, for daily news cycle 24 minutes is more what we need.
@craigthomler @jasemurphy While rev.com may be good, you underestimate our working pace and overestimate what we’re paid.
Pandamoanimum I’ve come to the conclusion that at least 1 in 5 people on social media are the reason silica gel packets need to have ‘Do Not Eat’ on them.
@jasemurphy Heh. I used to record phone calls with a speakerphone and a cardioid mic on a sort boom pointing down into it. Did the job.
@will_ock This is pretty much @R_Chirgwin’s suggestion. Oh well, I’ve got a working Android set-up for the moment.
@dobes @will_ock Well it works. I’ve been using Total Recall on an unrooted Android device quite successfully. Apart from one glitch.
@R_Chirgwin @franksting Ah that would work, yes. Assuming I had the Mac with me. In which case I’d just use Skype and Ecomm’s Call Recorder.
@will_ock Yeah, that’s always classy.
@will_ock This explains why there’s apps that want to charge me for a 3-way call to record it their end and send me the MP3.
@franksting NSW Surveillance Devices Act 2007 is the relevant legislation here, and any sensible journalist knows it well.
@franksting Not if you ask first. And even then, if you’re a party, only if you cause or allow the recording to be heard by anyone else.
@_crispinb Yes, yes, very good. [Pats gently.]
@franksting I mean for recording the phone call. (Yes, I have all manner of gear for the rest of things.)
Sorry, I should have been specific, @will_ock. I did indeed mean recording the phone call.
I’d been using Total Recall on Android. Very good, except when it failed to record a call yesterday for some random reason.
Hey Journalists, what’s the best tool for recording conversations on an iPhone?
Tue plan: Write for @zdnetaustralia; make progress on certain geek work; lunch and shopping, Katoomba; plan the Public House Forum (19 Dec).
Right. Side effects subsiding. Time to start work.
@dobes Perhaps not too subtle after all.
@michaelneale Yes, but New Order is just Joy Division without the dead guy.
@Kimota [Bows.]
Too subtle?
Love will do that… twitter.com/Kimota/status/…
OrkneyLibrary Secret? We’d be tweeting about it approximately every 9 seconds pic.twitter.com/TsEbF5DviI
intelwire “I’ve never come across an occasion where Mr. Trump remembered something that was not accurate.” @jaketapper: [long pause] “Seriously?”
themooks So these are being handed out to women on the tube today. pic.twitter.com/RW1alXHsO0
Hey guys, has this been dealt with yet? twitter.com/cthagod/status…
Excellent investment advice. twitter.com/dobes/status/6…
fanfiction_txt IF YOU CAN’T GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT ABOUT THE ANGRY BIRDS THEN DON’T SAY NOTHING OR WRITE ABOUT THEM AT ALL
WTF ?
fanfiction_txt 4. LAID MORE THEN ENOUGH EGGS TO REPLACE THEM ?! WHO DO THE HELL YOU THINK YOU ARE HUH
5. THE ANGRY BIRD HAVE NAMES YOU DUMBASS
fanfiction_txt 3. WHEN THEY HIT THEIR HEADS THEIR BRAIN DON’T GET SMALLER YOU FUCKING STUPID IDIOT
fanfiction_txt 1. THERE ANGRY BECAUSE PIGS TRY TO STEAL THEIR EGGS
2. THE BIRDS DON’T HAVE A SCREW LOOSE YOUR MAMA DOES
fanfiction_txt ARE YOU REALLY STUPID OR REALLY HIGH RIGH NOW BECAUSE I LOVE ANGRY BIRDS HOW DARE YOU MOCK THIS GREAT GAME YOU GOT EVERYTHING WRONG
@jodiem Oh it won’t be a buying decision thing. It’s a big-picture history thing. Like the early radios that only played one station.
@jodiem I’ll have to explain my point some other time. I know I’m not putting it well. But it’s time for me to do Certain Things.
@jodiem It’s not about having other sources. It’s about “speakers” not just playing whatever audio is around.
Yes, this is what spies are supposed to do. It’s the whole point of having them. twitter.com/wikileaks/stat…
@theharryshearer You’re in fine form this episode, Sir. Were you, as they say, in a mood? There’s an energy about it.
@SnarkyPlatypus @dobes Well that’s one part of it.
@dobes Is this another instalment in your Daddy Turnbull bondage fantasy?
“Moo you cow” is a sentence that deserves more widespread use in Australian politics.
joshgnosis A year later, still laughing at this contribution to the online copyright infringement debate. pic.twitter.com/PUIYmq6Di8
“President Trump”. Yeah, I’m definitely getting used to the sound of that now.
Listening to the latest episode of @theharryshearer’s Le Show, which opens very strong. harryshearer.com/le-shows/novem…
Now here’s something I can support. twitter.com/chris23/status…
Improving the morning with pork sausages.
@ataraxite You know perfectly well what I mean.
Speakers that only play sounds from a certain selection of audio sources? What sort of stupid world are we building? twitter.com/ForbesTech/sta…
Tue plan, draft: Write for @zdnetaustralia; make progress on certain geek work; lunch and shopping, Katoomba; plan the Public House Forum.
Right. The Weekly Wrap’s “The Week Ahead” has been updated to reflect my new schedule. stilgherrian.com/weekly-wrap/28…
@Evuflow This is true.
@derekbradley You are a better person than me.
cnntech You only hear about small hacks, like stolen credit cards.
But big ones stay secret forever.
money.cnn.com/2015/11/30/tec… pic.twitter.com/yGdqgE0lK1
@NicholasFryer Thanks. I’ve chosen one, but have to confirm things with the manager before promoting it, and I want that in the podcast.
So where are the huma…? Oh. So THAT’S your solution. Drastic. But fair@helpnetsecurityt@BrianHonanatwitter.com/helpnetsecurit…xQ
@leslienassar I’m guessing the lower frame rates stay at 15fps or whatever, or close enough to it to make the point.
@derekbradley Damn! Those bastards!
The 15th month must be a mainframe thing. Like Y2K. twitter.com/CAmainframe/st…
@BrettArends @oberonsghost “To gift” has been a verb in English for 400+ years, drifting in and out of fashion. See also “recency illusion”.
@NicholasFryer I am bumping it to Fri. I want to lock on the Forum venue, and I have some other tasks coming in.
@leslienassar I was just thinking I should’ve deconstructed the GIF before retweeting. Bah. #teamarsehole #fuckyou
True. I am a failure. twitter.com/BundyB/status/…
TheOnion “God, the nearest one isn’t even in this state.” onion.com/1lqrtK3 pic.twitter.com/5j0TOYOyUU
Hmmm. An email means I’ll have to reschedule today somewhat. This calls for a coffee. Well, it calls for gin, but I don’t have any gin.
@kjmci Seems perfectly straightforward to me.
Wow, I just don’t understand why we all don’t just buy one of these. pic.twitter.com/AkoH1KD35o
Tuesday. The side effects will not be enjoyable, but They insist you take the pills. All of them. The twitching begins. Tuesday.