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1. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2020 05:16:07 EST Matthew Davidson

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   • Ruben
   #RIP MES; your work-shy demise made the world is much less dark, sadly. Shane Patrick Lysaght #MacGowan hasn't written so much as a shopping list for twenty years, and his thrice-broken hip plus the passing of the indispensable Philip Chevron has put an end to #Pogues nostalgia gigs. For all I know, Nick Cave is playing Las Vegas.
2. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2020 05:14:22 EST Matthew Davidson

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   • Ruben
   I still swear Shane contributed a two-word cameo to #MES's "German song" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXcI7YROuHE "the windowsill!"), released not long before this interview. "You can't just go into a hotel and write your name, you've got to fuck around on a bloody computer," is another plug for the #Fall (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5zav2yrC7M "Computers infest the hotels")
3. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2020 05:13:04 EST Matthew Davidson

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   • Ruben
   @tregeagle That #NME interview is a classic. I read it in print after the standard fortnight delay getting it via air-freight in the #Sydney record shops (high-latency connections in those days). https://thequietus.com/articles/09277-mark-e-smith-nick-cave-shane-macgowan-nme-interview
4. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2020 02:22:45 EST Matthew Davidson

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   Say what you like about #Boris; he's a hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is. It's on sale for £12. #Brexit means dry dishes. http://www.progressivepulse.org/brexit/at-least-there-is-the-tea-towel #H2G2
5. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2020 01:45:06 EST Matthew Davidson

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   • Ruben
   @tregeagle One bout of stomach-churning anxiety per day. That's how I'll crawl my way back from #webdev PTSD.
6. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2020 19:25:20 EST Matthew Davidson

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   Right. That's the #Debian upgrade done.
7. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2020 06:10:45 EST Matthew Davidson

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   #Satire isn't dead while Chris Morris lives. https://theintercept.com/2019/09/28/film-review-day-shall-come-fbi/
8. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2020 05:04:21 EST Matthew Davidson

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   @andyc Not your fault. How the hell is #PHP still a moving target? It's half as old as me! I'm still watching 1970s #DrWho and listening to the #Beatles and thinking it's great!
9. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2020 18:37:58 EST Matthew Davidson

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   Okay, I see from error messages that #StatusNet 2.0 requires the funky new features of #PHP > 7.0. That means a #Debian upgrade, which will almost certainly break some stuff. I'm already running PHP 5.6 and 7.0 side by side (can't remember how I got that to work). To be continued another day…
10. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2020 04:39:07 EST Matthew Davidson

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    #RIP Nicholas Parsons. A surprisingly capable actor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7-hqO2LHic #DrWho Now I'll never get to take him out. I'll raise a glass of barmy fluid regardless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtUPJZfHmz8 #ComicStrip #MrJolly
11. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2020 04:00:31 EST Matthew Davidson

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    • Roman Totale XVII
    @andyc The North Will Rise Again is all I know. I heard it from that businessman Tony at the factory.
12. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2020 03:55:07 EST Matthew Davidson

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    • Andy Cowling
    @andyc Actually, the old upgrade documentation is just gone, not updated. However the upgrade script is still there. How well it works… Oh, the old web developer PTSD! Nurse! A large gin and tonic, if you would be so kind.
13. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2020 03:51:20 EST Matthew Davidson

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    @andyc For months I've been cowering in a corner of the room, knees under my chin, looking at the upgrade from a safe distance. Any day now…
14. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2020 21:38:41 EST Matthew Davidson

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    "You might assume that those who use the phrase “evidence-based practice” (EBP) are offering a testable claim, asserting that the practices in question are supported by good data. In reality, the phrase is more of an all-purpose honorific, wielded to silence dissent, intimidate critics, and imply that anyone who criticizes what they’re doing is rejecting science itself.…
15. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2020 21:31:08 EST Matthew Davidson

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    • Ruben
    @tregeagle That's virtually identical to my ex-girlfriend's house in Guildford. Jerry-built during the depression, a single tap dispensing brown water from rusty pipes, no hot water, electric cables hanging from the ceiling, bathroom an asbestos outhouse, mortar trickling out from behind the wallpaper, etc. It took her over a decade to get permission to knock it down, because…
16. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2020 02:25:27 EST Matthew Davidson

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    • Ruben
    @tregeagle Saw Roger at work today, looking much more sprightly than when last I bumped into him. He's off to Sydney tomorrow for more medical appointments, but seemed in pretty good spirits about it. He's still accumulating IT problems I can't help him with, which is actually quite a relief. When he runs out of intractable technical questions, I'll know to worry.
17. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2020 23:07:01 EST Matthew Davidson

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    Here I am, brain the size of a planet… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0pin1kiIB4
18. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2020 03:38:24 EST Matthew Davidson

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    #RIP Terry Jones, writer, performer, director, raconteur, spam server, pepperpot, and parrot. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/33732 #python
19. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2020 22:41:26 EST Matthew Davidson

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    The wind is tearing through the wine cave this afternoon. About 60km/h according to bom.gov.au. Any loose bits of paper have ended up in the kitchen sink. If I had a skateboard and a kite, I could be in Port Macquarie in a matter of hours.
20. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2020 21:51:38 EST Matthew Davidson

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    Third drink in a pub: all my cares have slipped away, and I am suffused with a warmly benign regard for all of humanity. Third drink at home: I'm a bit sleepy. Drinking at home is barbaric. Pubs should be government subsidised. Beer and house wine should require nothing more than photo ID and fifty cents.

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