October 2011

Daily Twitter Posts - 05/10/2011

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23:19 vale Graham Dilley 1959-2011. Stunning loss. One of the heroes of the 1981 Ashes. #cricket #
22:07 Loved this week's At Home With J... oh wait. #hamster #
19:34 Ha. RT @media140au: If Google's management doesn't use Google+, why should you? http://t.co/3dhpcXjJ #media140 #Googleplus #
18:50 Today's big unanswered question: does the world NEED a new version of the iPhone? #
17:38 Another 2004 blog post by me about #baseball featuring Steve Waugh, a Tolkien character, and the Puppetry of the Penis: http://t.co/Lk8ff3Kc #
16:51 From August 2004 and happier days for Australian #baseball, my bloggage of the Athens gold medal game http://t.co/QRjYJGe4 #
16:43 It's only seven years since Australia won the silver medal for #baseball at the Athens Olympics. #
16:40 Australia loses again in the #Baseball World Cup, 8-0 to S.Korea. 3 games 3 losses 0 runs scored. A major flop unfolding here :( #
11:56 Irony alert. The Victorian #cricket team's new naming right sponsors. RT @bushrangers: Commonwealth Bank Bushrangers http://t.co/zbbKLq43 #

Daily Twitter Posts - 04/10/2011

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23:26 The Washington Post fact-checks Michelle Bachmann’s claim that China ‘blinded’ U.S. satellites - http://t.co/fmrQTJZz #
23:08 And 7, 9 and 10 led their late news with... oh wait. RT @SDBrook: So Australian wins Nobel Prize, Lateline leads on ... tax. :-( #
22:23 Tomorrow's headlines: Dissatisfaction with ABC up 50% MT @GhostWhoVotes: #Newspoll How valuable is the #ABC: .... Not at all 3 (+1) #
21:59 Congratulations to @cosmicpinot and all the winners of the #nobelprize in #physics. Details from @Nobelprize_org: http://t.co/b447h7r6 #
19:28 Opinions expressed in the aforementioned review are mine alone and not necessarily those of my daughter. (Quite the opposite in fact.) #
19:25 #filmreview "Smurfs 3D" (2011) Take some classic fantasy characters remove all the whimsy add a loud violent story and ruin everything. 4/10 #
18:28 Sacking the coach while he's attending the tournament season launch. Newcastle Jets have truly become a club of innovation. #aleague #
16:31 Is it that time of week again? RT @newcastleherald: Laman Street figs decision tonight: http://t.co/jKyiVNLe #
10:15 Coincidence that the #taxforum is being held straight after the end of the footy seasons? Surely not! #footytax #
10:07 Australia 0 Italy 7 in #Baseball World Cup in Panama. We've failed to score in our first two games. Not good. #
07:03 Speaking of slow news days, since when is the sale of redundant rural church properties a newsworthy item? @breakfastnews #
06:50 Actually, dear oh dear Daily Telegraph. But why is @sunriseon7 giving oxygen to a Daily Telegraph beat-up? #sun7 #asylumseekers #
06:45 Dear oh dear channel 7. #fail RT @sunriseon7: SOAPBOX: Are you bothered by asylum seekers smoking $4000 worth of cigarettes per day? #sun7 #

Daily Twitter Posts - 03/10/2011

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22:23 Can someone at the ABC commission Slavoj Zizek for his own weekly series... At Home With Slavoj, Slavoj's Kitchen... anything! #qanda #
21:52 I think I need to turn the volume up when Kate Adie speaks and mute the rest of #qanda #
21:27 Oh. The wontworkwillhurt URL was superimposed on the screen. That's a bit more than just Rabs and Gus mouthing off. #mediawatch #ch9 #pokies #
19:12 William Shatner's Weird Or What? I think he's pretty weird these days... #sbs1 #
17:59 National emergency in #Tuvalu as fresh #water supplies run low. NZ providing emergency supplies. - http://t.co/agVGQbGK via @nzherald #
17:39 CNN.com profiled Havana Times blogger Circles Robinson in 2009 without seeking an explanation of his first name - http://t.co/1w1dgpAt #
17:35 Cuba bt Australia 14-0 on the mercy rule in the #Baseball World Cup today. Havana Times' Circles Robinson (!) reports - http://t.co/mPNzamS7 #
17:13 Geelong #madmonday #fail RT @CatsInsider: The Cats boys having some Monday fun! http://t.co/j6dtKqLS #
14:34 Time for another Sydney [pick a random word out of the dictionary] Festival. This week's word is: "rides". http://t.co/ORCUmbG7 #
13:15 Memo #afl, Geelong FC and others: get rid of this childish "Mad Monday" nonsense at once. (same goes for you, #nrl) #
11:20 So what two games will George Rose miss? R1 & 2 of #NRL 2012 or the Indigenous All Stars and World Club Challenge? #
11:13 my updated, and succinct, position statement on Facebook - http://t.co/BYgB3RHi #
11:04 Yesterday's @abclandline is repeating on #abc1 now. "Return to Lake Eyre". #
09:47 It's a public holiday. That means I have time to write a status update on my otherwise quiet blog - http://t.co/jYIdRHaK #
09:18 and the Daily Twitter module of my blog has finally come to life overnight - http://t.co/cU3dcW5w #
09:02 I don't normally give The Bolt Report the time of day, but his interview with @AlboMP yesterday is almost lucid - http://t.co/1vcYCmMg #

Updated position statement on Facebook

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In short, Facebook has become, for me, a glorified RSS reader, and little else.

This updates my previous position statement on Facebook posted in June 2010. All the insidious tinkering since then by the House of Zuckerburg makes little difference to the fact that I regard a Facebook profile as a necessary evil to maintain a reluctant frontier.

Will Goog le plus take over its mantle? Don't be evil.

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Borking the geborken

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Things have been a glorious blend of quiet and shambolic on my website these past couple of months.

Quiet because Twitter has become my primary means of short on-line communication; quiet because I have not had the energy to compose longer on-line communications with any lucidity; and quiet because my upgrade from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 has not gone as well as I would have liked.

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Daily Twitter Posts - 02/10/2011

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23:00 Since when has it been the business of serious #cricket websites to report on the proposed nuptials of retired players? #
21:43 I'm not familiar with Leaping Larry's oeuvre but his take on the #AFLGF entertainment for the Sunday Age is hilarious - http://t.co/zqkOkDHe #
19:29 Rex will be smiling. At the very least. #nrlgf #
19:15 Done deal. Congratulations @manlyseaeagles. #nrlgf #
18:57 And now, to resurrect that other Rex Mossopism, "the scoreline diminishes". #nrlgf #
18:53 On the bright side, Junior Masterchef is on in 40 minutes. #nrlgf #
18:50 As the dearly departed Rex Mossop would say, "Shut the gate! The horse has bolted!" #nrlgf #
18:40 Call the footy Rabs not the betting markets! #nrlgf #ch9 #
18:34 @samanthamaiden page 21 of the #nrlgf edition of Big League http://t.co/KaakQW52 #
18:26 @samanthamaiden yes and I love the whole patriotic green and gold colour scheme of the ad too. #
18:25 Looking like Manly have this under control. Sigh. #nrlgf #
17:54 No George that is not a nice thing to do. #nrlgf #
17:47 Why are we getting ad breaks in the grand final? Oh sorry, it's a TAB Sportsbet community service announcement. #ch9 #nrlgf #
17:24 The performance of the New Zealand anthem at the #nrl grand final. A wonderful, historic moment. #nrlgf #
17:16 Best #haka ever. #nrlgf #
17:09 Speaking as I wasn't about commercials, the Toyota Hi-lux "Baby Come Back" ad is one of my favourites in a while. #
17:05 Sorry NRL, I'm seriously underwhelmed if Eskimo Joe is the best the record company could supply to you. #nrlgf #
17:00 So, NRL, do you really think Kelly Clarkson was worth it? #nrlgf #culturalcringe #

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