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1. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2019 06:34:06 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   #MySQL - pardon me, I mean #MariaDB - has been crashing for the last few days. Too lazy to work out why, so I just rebooted the server. Hear that, MCSEs? For the first time in at least a year _I manually rebooted my server_. Can you imagine such a thing? #FreetardierThanThou
2. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2019 21:42:15 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   That's it. Humanity is finished. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/29921 #Apple #Nike #JustUndoIt
3. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2019 05:08:34 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   #RIP the ubiquitous Glyn Houston, who gave us a couple of memorable #DrWho appearances as well as… Good grief, it might be quicker to list the shows he wasn't in. http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2019/07/glyn-houston-1925-2019.html
4. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2019 22:14:17 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   Now _this_ is what the 21st century is supposed to look like: https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/29872?videoId=590331081&videoChannel=6&channelName=Technology
5. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2019 21:23:42 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   @tregeagle Within a year or two all for-profit media will be focused on home renovation: https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/29846
6. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2019 21:21:51 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   @tregeagle Purely insurance during the lean months. I can get it fee-free through my employer who dabbles in consumer finance because, as we all recall, the #GFC never happened. Two months interest free on retail purchases, which covers most foreseeable crises in the low hundreds with no penalty.
7. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2019 21:27:12 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   Unexpected bills on Monday rattled me. Realised that if Kitty needs a vet before #work picks up in the spring, I'll be borked. Applied for poor man's insurance, aka credit card, for the first time in my life. Will. Not. Use.
8. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2019 20:52:55 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   So optimists live longer, apparently. Why would anybody want more time to be wrong? https://boingboing.net/2019/08/26/optimists-live-longer.html
9. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2019 03:38:45 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   How did I miss this when it happened? Ladies and gentlemen, the Democratic #2020 front runner: "Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids." #q Joe Biden https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/10/biden-poor-kids-bright-white-kids-1456296 #US
10. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2019 02:56:26 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    In Greg Mankiw's 800-page "Principles of Economics", heir to Samuelson as the current undergraduate bible, the Great Depression and the GFC are together covered in a mere three pages. Thus are the spectacular failures of conventional wisdom shunted to the sidings. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/29766
11. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2019 02:06:54 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    The power to define the conventional wisdom is awesome and terrible. "I don’t care who writes the nation’s laws — or crafts its advanced treaties — if I can write its economic textbooks." #q Paul Samuelson https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/29766 #economics #notetoself
12. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2019 06:11:51 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    The bloody Dutch get everywhere. https://mirrorsydney.wordpress.com/2019/06/24/holland-house/ I briefly volunteered at the Smithfield Museum in the 90s, transcribing oral history recordings from cassette onto floppy disks on a monochrome Apple Mac, thus forging another link into the chain of obsolescence. Lovely pub up the road, by which I mean seediness which stopped just short of intimidating (for a 6'2" Anglo male, YMMV).
13. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2019 03:29:11 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    "American Drone Was Invaded By Iranian Airspace, US Inquiry Finds" https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/29734
14. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2019 21:03:14 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    "The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of wine grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." #q #Galileo https://drunkard.com/june-22/
15. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2019 20:53:05 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    #KnockMeDownWithAFeather: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/458401-sarah-huckabee-sanders-becomes-fox-news-contributor
16. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2019 22:47:40 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    • Andy C
    @andyc No, but I certainly wish I'd done that with the Arctic Monkeys.
17. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2019 00:59:56 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    #Facepalm. The #NSW #gov provides "digital licenses" which depend on a proprietary app you can only install via the #Apple or #Google stores. https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/get-started-digital-licences
18. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2019 09:35:55 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    #RIP #Totnes pound. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/29519
19. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2019 08:47:14 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/185544960898
20. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2019 08:04:59 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    I hate being the last person to leave at #work, knowing that everything has to be just so for the person who is the first to arrive at 5:30am and all the people who depend on them. It's "Oh my god, I left the oven on!" anxiety times ten.

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