Notices by Matthew Davidson (mjd)
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Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2019 02:16:50 UTC 
Matthew Davidson
@tregeagle Well, they are early adopters. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2019 00:46:13 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Bought an expensive USB #WiFi dongle from #Jaycar, foolishly thinking it was still the golden age of devices supporting free operating systems, and that it would Just Work™. Then tried various drivers found on Github, then tried NDISwrapper, then was about to give up when it occurred to me to compile the (non-free, presumably) kernel module on the driver CD. Works perfectly. #facepalm -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2019 00:37:43 UTC
Matthew Davidson
I also love the fact that #Ringo played the same very basic kit his whole career, and never once felt tempted to do the Phil Collins array of twenty-seven toms. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2019 00:34:15 UTC
Matthew Davidson
@andyc I think that attitude originated in the prog rock era, where the mark of a virtuoso was sounding exactly like everyone else and playing really, really fast. Taste and individuality were considered defects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NCczct2ZIM -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2019 11:59:22 UTC
Matthew Davidson
#OMGA This is horrifying, and explains a lot. Rock and roll was killed by the coming of the technological anti-Ringo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFaRIW-wZlw (via #BoingBoing) -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2019 07:46:09 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Belated yay for #OpenStreetMap and Deb Nicholson. https://www.fsf.org/news/openstreetmap-and-deborah-nicholson-win-2018-fsf-awards #FSF #Conservancy -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2019 23:43:40 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Charming little rainforest grotto fail: https://microblog.mjd.id.au/attachment/26616 -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2019 05:50:28 UTC
Matthew Davidson
In #Coffs, having a drink at the Greenhouse Tavern. $4.90 schooners, in the squat glasses I haven't seen in years. And the taste! Recycled drip tray, no question about it. I haven't known a pub that tried to pull that one since the Menzies bars in Sydney in the 90s. Ah, nostalgia. Time to wince at another one, I think. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2019 08:23:56 UTC
Matthew Davidson
"It's these little things, they can pull you under
Live your life filled with joy and thunder
Yeah, yeah we were altogether
Lost in our little lives
Oh, but sweetness follows
Oh, but sweetness follows"
#q REM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsEJdjfHjD8 -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2019 07:43:03 UTC
Matthew Davidson
@clacke I beg to differ. I'm not going to get any sleep knowing I'm without Internet. Bed definitely second, though. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2019 05:36:13 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Internet at the new house! -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2019 10:14:58 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Lovely little tribute to Brian Epstein on the Great Lives #podcast. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0792ddv #Beatles -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2019 04:45:06 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Oh! ADSL cable splitters, RJ11 cables! Out! Out! -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2019 04:24:26 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Sorting through my tech junk prior to #moving. If I can't recognise what sort of cable it is I keep it. That means it's new enough to be potentially useful. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2019 10:46:20 UTC
Matthew Davidson
#Listening to the Sundays. Heavenly. Makes me glad to be alive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzyUmndPOh4 -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2019 01:32:42 UTC
Matthew Davidson
'Conway said the president was fixated on John Bolton’s prominent mustache — and that it was a reason not to pick him as secretary of state. […] “He didn’t like the mustache,” Conway said. “He just went on and on about the mustache.”' Well, #Trump eventually got over it, unfortunately for global peace and justice. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/26246 -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2019 12:53:38 UTC
Matthew Davidson
#q Janet Street-Porter "I once lived with a Jamaican boyfriend for five years, but get called racist regularly – infuriating to say the least." Is that the litmus test for anti-racism, then? Well I'm in a bit of a bind, Jamaicans being few and far between round our way. Plus I'm not as pretty as I once was, so I could well be out of luck even if I found one. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/26238 -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2019 08:06:16 UTC
Matthew Davidson
@tregeagle #AU comedian Anthony Morgan. Made a lot of money one year, then it went off the rails. Very funny, but pre-Internet, so nobody knows him apart from old farts like me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z97zo8FKJ_8 https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/26231
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