Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-19
- Footscray and Maribyrnong residents, that noise you can hear is Top Gear Live at the Showgrounds. #Melbourne #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-12
- Is Oak flavoured milk trying to make their product appeal to psychos who wander the streets mumbling to themselves? #
- Surprised people with a trolley full of stuff use the self-service checkout. Even with a queue, human checkouts much quicker. #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-05
- @esurientes @injerarufus Web site working again now; try it again. in reply to esurientes #
- More fuss in the HS today about speeding fines. I have still *never* got one. Thanks to all the leadfoots for subsidising me. #
- I'm still hanging out for the Samsung television ABC iView app… due Q1/2011 apparently http://j.mp/ga5ypV #
- @kiwiguy72 Won't do me much good without an iPhone! in reply to kiwiguy72 #
- @bok_ Some local councils will come and pick up hard rubbish on demand. Worth checking. in reply to bok_ #
- @bok_ Nup, it's scheduled collection. http://www.stonnington.vic.gov.au/residents-and-services/waste-and-recycling/hard-waste-and-garden-pruning/ in reply to bok_ #
- Great quote just seen: "Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live." -Mark Twain #
- @veedub3057 When do they start paying you extra interest? in reply to veedub3057 #
- Uncooked chicken left at room temperature for 3.5 hours last night (not cold, but heating not on). Still OK? #Paranoid #
- Re: chicken "you're taking a risk if you leave it outside the refrigerator for more than two hours." http://j.mp/gKWmQg #
- http://www.commbank.com.au/ "Server is too busy" #CommBank #Fail #
- @ZucchiniBikini Frog more interesting that Oscars? in reply to ZucchiniBikini #
- @ZucchiniBikini I think so too. And I can't even see/hear the frog. in reply to ZucchiniBikini #
- Booked a bloke to come on Thursday to tell me about attic ladders http://www.atticgroup.com.au #Domesticity #
- Clearly I'm in the wrong business. RT @josietaylor Desal plant contract revealed: will cost us 654 mill in first year even if no water used #
- The plentiful chocolate biscuits in this office are evil. EVIL. #
- A big thumbs up to @Hertz, who without fuss have refunded the full amount charged due to Citylink's stuff-up http://j.mp/hJVX50 #
- @Chelsworthgale @TomTheCub @Condog412 Yep, the colours match. See http://flic.kr/p/9kDyd8 in reply to Chelsworthgale #
- @Chelsworthgale Sorry, that is the colours on Tom's map match the original map colours, plus the monitors in the Loop station concourses. in reply to Chelsworthgale #
- @heidimur Are you stuck in a time warp Heidi, or are some of your tweets coming through delayed by 8ish hours? in reply to heidimur #
- Bentleigh station Smartbus sign: train departure times still not working. Will report to Metlink and see what happens. #
- Vagaries of train timetables: in last 5 mins, three trains in counter-peak direction, zero in peak direction #MetroTrains #
- Couldn't help overhearing lady on train telling her friend about her birthday – same day as me. #Coincidence #
- Just my luck to have to go out when it was raining. Now soggy. #
- How is at that there are grown adults unfamiliar with the concept of opening a sliding door by pulling the handle? #
- @kennethU94 Hard to say if what I saw yesterday (brief web site outage) is related, but certainly might be. in reply to kennethU94 #
- @coliwilso Ta. in reply to coliwilso #
- @Chelsworthgale A day later in the year :-) in reply to Chelsworthgale #
- @TomTheCub What, you mean a safety vest doesn't render you impervious to death or injury? in reply to TomTheCub #
- No matter how worthy the cause, if your Facebook group has no activity in it other than spam, I'm leaving. #
- @TomTheCub Bravo. in reply to TomTheCub #
- Oh. Herald Sun new logo and motto: "Stories start here". http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ #
- Looks like El Kiddo the younger has the Family Stomach Bug Of The Week :-( #
- No wonder petrol prices are rising: Disruption to Libyan oil supplies is the 8th biggest ever http://flic.kr/p/9n1Jw7 #
- @Jfreegard :-P in reply to Jfreegard #
- @keatyong Metro trains only, yes, but you need to use #Myki or get an Earlybird ticket from a staffed station. in reply to keatyong #
- @keatyong http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/fares-tickets/metropolitan-fares-and-tickets/metcard/metcard-types/#17 :-) in reply to keatyong #
- Things I've learnt today: Hansard is named after Thomas Hansard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansard #
- XLD880. 1.Turned left from wrong lane. 2.Failed to indicated. 3.Didn't give way to pedestrian turning right. #RoadMorons #TripleFail #
- @griffyoung Yep. Laws of physics beat the laws of the road :-( in reply to griffyoung #
- Quiz: Who said it: Charlie Sheen or Muamar Gaddafi? http://j.mp/hK4rL0 #
- @balkandishlex 1983. in reply to balkandishlex #
- Whichever of my friends was pondering getting a graphics tablet, check the one on Zazz today for $59. http://zazz.com.au/ #
- #Myki #039;s not fully working yet, but London's moving on to payment via contactless credit/debit cards http://j.mp/gGWxVU #
- @themykiuser Time to cut Monthly/Yearly fares to get most people onto a periodical then! http://www.ptua.org.au/?p=1855 :-) in reply to themykiuser #
- LOL. From someone's blog About page: "I has aspirations to become a quality journalist" Ummm, whoops. #
- @bentyers Evidently not. in reply to bentyers #
- I think I'm more excited at Garageband being released for the iPad than I am about the iPad 2. #
- Wait a sec, is this a pic of Steve Jobs looking at his own medical records? http://j.mp/fz3xDd #iPad #
- @themykiuser Ah yes, but Lara and Little River are not yet in Zone 2. Ditto Wallan. Zone B isn't Zone 2! in reply to themykiuser #
- Yesterday spotted Yarra Trams Operations car in Bentleigh heading south. Mystified as to what tram route it was going to. #
- @kinglerman "in Bentleigh heading south". in reply to kinglerman #
- Front section of today's Age is 26 pages, of which 5 are full-page ads for booze. Hmmm. #
- RAAF have brilliant media people. Promote AirForce for women by giving female journos jet fighter rides. Coverage on 7/9/10 so far. #
- Age headline: "Borders to close 38 shops". Actually 1 is a Borders, the other 37 are Angus+Robertson. http://t.co/geZ9GK9 #
- Yep, and there's Ch2's RAAF jetfighter story promoting recruitment of women. #
- iPod Shuffle Songs is on its third Paul Kelly song in a row. Not working properly, or reflection of song collection? #
- iPod on shuffle just went to 4th Paul Kelly song in a row. Tease Me/ Give In To My Love/ Randwick Bells/ Cities of Texas. #
- @miagreves Looked like a lot of fun! in reply to miagreves #
- iPod on shuffle breaks Paul Kelly kick with some Blur. #SeeItWasOnShuffleAfterAll #
- Glad I didn't hurry for the 8:30 train. It evidently didn't run, despite no advice from @MetroTrains #
- @TomTheCub Very nice. So it's real is it? The first picture looks like an artist's impression. in reply to TomTheCub #
- @awmalloy And yet you Tweeted before going to check? :-) in reply to awmalloy #
- Was having lunch in Little Collins St when Ted B stopped past and said hello. #
- @mick_cala Tall. in reply to mick_cala #
- @iamtheoracle Suit and tie. in reply to iamtheoracle #
- @Chelsworthgale They use the database to rule out non-eligible claimants; they should use it to automatically compensate. in reply to Chelsworthgale #
- Who is Hannah Whiting? #Myki #
- @Condog412 Your pic, with credit http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/04/3155449.htm #
- @balkandishlex Backup. http://ptua.org.au/team in reply to balkandishlex #
- Hannah Whiting is gone. So long Hannah, it was nice knowing you. #Myki For those who missed her: http://flic.kr/p/9nCXvX #
- @balkandishlex Hmm yes, Secretary != President. in reply to balkandishlex #
- So conflicted: "6:09pm Frankston bound train has been cancelled.
The 6:09pm Frankston train from the city will now run." #MetroTrains # - @keatyong Journo got it wrong. in reply to keatyong #
- @TomTheCub Down at the moment, but check http://www.greenelectricitywatch.org.au in reply to TomTheCub #
- There's a different Daniel from Bentleigh in the comments for this article who's way crankier than I am. http://j.mp/fyEyUc #
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Twitter highlights part 4
This post in a continuing series covers the first half of 2009. (Why?)
January 2009
noted a lot of joggers about. New year’s resolutions? There’s a few people out on the roads who should resolve to indicate. 5:28 PM Jan 1st from txt
watching Marita beat up virtual people in Wii boxing. 12:23 PM Jan 3rd from web
is not the new Doctor Who. 7:59 PM Jan 5th from web
barrelled over to Bunnings on the bus to replace a blown bathroom bulb. 4:55 PM Jan 8th from web
wishing wasn’t using the Sandy line today: delays earlier due to equipment failure, and now “police operations” at Balaclava. Wish me luck. 4:46 PM Jan 13th from web
With other Sandy line refugees on packed sweaty tram. 5:10 PM Jan 13th from txt
Girl on tram fainted, she’s ok now though, her fellow commuters came to her aid with water and first aid advice. 5:29 PM Jan 13th from txt
is seeing which clowns are quoted in this morning’s Age editorial http://tinyurl.com/7o8jzs 7:32 AM Jan 15th from web
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Local goss via Twitter
Twitter allows one to search, and provides RSS for search results, so you can feed it into RSS readers like Google Reader to keep track of Twitter references to your preferred keyword.
So I thought I’d set up one for Bentleigh, which tells me what’s going on in my neighbourhood.
Happily I don’t live in Springfield or somewhere with a name that’s very common, and most of the Tweets I see are about Bentleigh.
With one major exception: There’s a lady out there in cyberspace (in Charlotte, North Carolina, to be precise) who owns a dog called Bentleigh, and she loves Tweeting about him.
So amongst the updates discussing the pros and cons of the neighbourhood, or highlighting the presence of jobs, property, traffic snarls due to tow trucks, speed cameras, and really important FourSquare posts, there’ll be something like:
“I love bentleigh! His furry ass keeps me entertained!”
and
“Throwin on my uggs! Puttin bentleigh in his jacket! Quick walk before the snow sticks! :/ brrrrrr”
Yup.
Fortunately I’ve found that as with a Google Search, you can include a minus sign and a word you want to exclude from your results, so I’ve been able to filter out most of the dog references.
No offence to the dog, of course.
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Myki newsflash
This was my favourite Twitter post of the week, which I’m repeating here while it’s still timely:
NEWSFLASH: Govt to change state to the Assyrian Calendar, giving 3 more months to get #Myki right “by the end of the year”
(W00t — Retweets!)
And yes if you’re wondering, I had done some research before posting it. Perhaps appropriately, the end of the Assyrian calendar year is the “Month of evil spirits”, or ܐܕܪ.
(Your computer will need to be configured to display non-Western alphabets to display that properly.)
There is speculation of an imminent launch for Myki in Melbourne, but there’s been those kinds of rumours flying around for the last month or so.
Meanwhile it appears there are still a lot of evil spirits in the system, with scanners responding slowly or not at all, and on Wednesday for the second time I saw a Myki vending machine doing its weirdo update thing in the middle of the evening rush hour.
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Who are these clowns whose Twitter posts get into the paper?
From last Saturday’s Herald Sun Weekend section:
It was sent when we were passing through Kangaroo Flat on the way to Bendigo the other week.
(Thanks for spotting it, onegirlinmelb)
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Twitter highlights part 3
Here, in the interests of data preservation, is the third instalment of my best Twitter posts.
July 2008
What’s this? From the man who brought you Myki (Peter Batchelor) comes a new coal-fired power station, the day before Garnaut reports?! 10:09 AM Jul 2nd, 2008 from web
Umbrella self-destructed, top flew off. At least the trains aren’t crowded, thanks to school holidays. 8:23 AM Jul 8th, 2008 from txt
Did a press conference with a bunch of other transport bods to some media in an otherwise empty room. 11:08 AM Jul 8th, 2008 from txt
At Sidetracked entertainment. While the kids all play laser force, the adults are all over Galaga and air hockey. 11:41 AM Jul 10th, 2008 from txt
They’re here! On the streets and in the shops! PILGRIMS! Being nice! 6:57 PM Jul 13th, 2008 from web — this was ahead of World Youth Day/week
Eddington submission in, with seconds to spare. 5:05 PM Jul 15th, 2008 from web
Getting utterly massacred by my sister in Scrabulous. 8:59 PM Jul 15th, 2008 from web
Two grown women on train discussing how they have no idea if Ireland is connected to the rest of Britain. 9:13 AM Jul 17th, 2008 from txt
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