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Notices by Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au), page 28

  1. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 16:39:45 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Well that was weird. Leaving #work, tired after early-early-early shift, thinking "Why are all the shops shut?" They haven't opened yet.
    In conversation Friday, 22-Dec-2017 16:39:45 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°49'0"S 151°10'0"E permalink
  2. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 00:33:10 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    in reply to
    • kat
    @kat However, GPs will now finally be free to prescribe NHS exorcisms as their individual consciences see fit, thus expanding the range of treatment regimes on offer. Choice is always an unalloyed good. As long as the consumer is sovereign and the expert is merely a product, we shall want for nothing. #neoliberalism
    In conversation Friday, 22-Dec-2017 00:33:10 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°53'38"S 151°9'51"E permalink
  3. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2017 02:54:20 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    • Ruben
    @tregeagle If you need to develop a more positive frame of mind, why not visit one of #Coffs Harbour's many quality resort hotels for a relaxing, reinvigorating ear-pork-chopping? http://phil-are-go.blogspot.com.au/2017/08/ear-pork-chopping.html
    In conversation Wednesday, 20-Dec-2017 02:54:20 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°53'38"S 151°9'51"E permalink

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      Ear Pork Chopping
  4. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2017 19:11:16 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Growing to dislike the last hour of uncertainty before it becomes too late to be called in for an afternoon shift. #work
    In conversation Tuesday, 19-Dec-2017 19:11:16 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°53'38"S 151°9'51"E permalink
  5. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2017 00:14:42 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    in reply to
    • Eugen
    • kat
    @kat @gargron Goodhart's Law: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
    In conversation Tuesday, 19-Dec-2017 00:14:42 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°53'38"S 151°9'51"E permalink
  6. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2017 20:09:25 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Started earning enough to hit the effective marginal tax rate ouch. Don't leave me, #Centrelink! I take back everything I said. I can change. I can be unemployable again, just like in the old days! #work
    In conversation Monday, 18-Dec-2017 20:09:25 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°53'38"S 151°9'51"E permalink
  7. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2017 17:30:29 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Ah, school holidays in the suburbs. The screaming obscenities (parents) and howling in despair (children) have started for the festive season.
    In conversation Monday, 18-Dec-2017 17:30:29 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°53'38"S 151°9'51"E permalink
  8. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2017 00:38:11 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    in reply to
    • Matthew Davidson
    Wynyard's wooden escalators as they were when I rode them in my misspent youth, swaying from side to side (just me, not the escalators which were perfectly stable). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5oR9e1YCNE #Sydney
    In conversation Monday, 18-Dec-2017 00:38:11 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'7"S 151°12'1"E permalink

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      Wynyard's 90 Year Old Escalators
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  9. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2017 00:34:41 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Oh no! They ripped out the wooden escalators at Wynyard station. Is nothing sacred? http://chrisfox.com.au/interloop/ #Sydney
    In conversation Monday, 18-Dec-2017 00:34:41 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'7"S 151°12'1"E permalink

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      Interloop
      from CHRIS FOX
      2017 Wynyard Station, Sydney Interloop, by artist Chris Fox, hangs from Wynyard station ceiling, hovering above the escalators that travel underground from York Street. The vast twisting accordion-shaped sculpture reconfigures the heritage escalators that once stood there in a stitched form. Suspend
  10. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2017 03:58:08 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    in reply to
    • Matthew Davidson
    3-days-ago server upgrade news: Today I can not only send, but _receive_ mail as well. Did I ever mention that, on the strength of some blog posts, a recruiter once tried to solicit me to #work as a #Google engineer? In retrospect, I wish I had inflicted my 31337 #sysadmin skills upon them, such sabotage probably being the most good I could ever hope to achieve.
    In conversation Sunday, 17-Dec-2017 03:58:08 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'7"S 151°12'1"E permalink
  11. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2017 20:50:08 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Dr Strangelove lives. Dan Ellsberg on the still largely unaltered cold war nuclear planning: https://www.democracynow.org/2017/12/6/doomsday_machine_daniel_ellsberg_reveals_he
    In conversation Saturday, 16-Dec-2017 20:50:08 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'7"S 151°12'1"E permalink

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      Daniel Ellsberg Reveals He was a Nuclear War Planner, Warns of Nuclear Winter & Global Starvation
      from Democracy Now!
      Could tension between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un bring us to the brink of nuclear war? As tensions ramp up, we discuss what nuclear war would look like with a former nuclear war planner and one of the world’s most famous whistleblowers—Daniel Ellsberg. In 1971, Ellsberg was a high-level defense analyst when he leaked a top-secret report on U.S. involvement in Vietnam to The New York Times and other publications, which came to be known as the Pentagon Papers. He played a key role in ending the Vietnam War. Few know Ellsberg was also a Pentagon and White House consultant who drafted plans for nuclear war. His new book, published Tuesday, is titled “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner.” We speak with Ellsberg about his top-secret nuclear studies, his front row seat to the Cuban missile crisis, whether Trump could start a nuclear war and how contemporary whistleblowers Chelsea Manning and Ed Snowden are his heroes.
  12. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2017 04:10:52 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    "Y'wanna stop harassment before it starts? One simple rule: pearls, girls. Pearls. Bill Clinton himself would think twice before sidling up to these babies." https://boingboing.net/2017/12/13/democratic-lawmaker-says-women.html
    In conversation Saturday, 16-Dec-2017 04:10:52 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'7"S 151°12'1"E permalink

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      Democratic lawmaker says women invite sexual harassment with the way they dress
      By Carla Sinclair from Boing Boing
      Democratic lawmaker says women invite sexual harassment with the way they dress
  13. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2017 07:32:30 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    in reply to
    • Matthew Davidson
    Who can forget that "Enterprise Social Software is OPEN for Business"? Whatever happened to that dynamic young startup? https://web.archive.org/web/20120330060410/http://status.net:80/ #schadenfreude #toldyouso
    In conversation Friday, 15-Dec-2017 07:32:30 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'7"S 151°12'1"E permalink
  14. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2017 07:26:53 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
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    • Matthew Davidson
    Interesting recent annotation to this piece by #JWZ, who in my mind is still sporting the silly haircut he wore at #Netscape 20 years ago, and I refuse to look at any recent photos lest they shatter my illusions. https://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
    In conversation Friday, 15-Dec-2017 07:26:53 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'7"S 151°12'1"E permalink
  15. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2017 07:22:39 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    in reply to
    • kat
    Never heard of it. Wow, people keep reinventing Lotus Notes. Nobody wants Lotus Notes, but everybody's boss wants them to want Lotus Notes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Teams #groupware
    In conversation Friday, 15-Dec-2017 07:22:39 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'7"S 151°12'1"E permalink
  16. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 22:41:09 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    in reply to
    • Matthew Davidson
    Mail operational again. #Cyrus in #Debian stretch appears to expect that if a service is configured, it should be able to run it, regardless of whether it's even installed, and will terminate at the first failure. After much commenting out, we're back up. #sysadmin
    In conversation Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 22:41:09 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'7"S 151°12'1"E permalink
  17. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 17:16:57 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Why does Santa Claus have an #AU accent? Bloody unprofessional hacks. You think they'd bother to do _some_ prep for the role. Where's the back story? They think they can just phone it in with some tedious audience participation around the subject of presents and bits of business like the odd hearty chuckle.
    In conversation Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 17:16:57 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'7"S 151°12'1"E permalink
  18. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 02:47:25 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    • Ruben
    Have the other nurse of the household take your pulse, ask you to count fingers, shine a little torch in your eyes, or whatever else you chaps do these days. Even comical blows to the head can do damage.
    In conversation Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 02:47:25 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'7"S 151°12'1"E permalink
  19. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2017 20:09:44 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    in reply to
    • Matthew Davidson
    Ah, there you go. Mail not working. Glad that's settled. Can't stand the suspense.
    In conversation Wednesday, 13-Dec-2017 20:09:44 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°50'3"S 151°13'36"E permalink
  20. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2017 18:24:07 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    in reply to
    • Matthew Davidson
    Okay. Now does it reboot? Ah… You know what? That might be a stressful task for another day. (Worst. #Sysadmin. Ever.)
    In conversation Wednesday, 13-Dec-2017 18:24:07 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°50'3"S 151°13'36"E permalink
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