Software developer and wry observationist. Also available @evmcl@aus.social AKA https://xitter.cf/t.co/xeXGb3PLgw

Melbourne, Australia
Joined March 2008
Well my Twitter client has not worked for a few weeks, and using the web page for this site is a big yeah, nuh. Feel free to follow me at aus.social/@evmcl if you do the Mastodon thing.
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Hope everyone has a happy and safe holiday break.
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In the 1920s, new car sales were falling, so the industry promoted the term ‘jaywalking’ to blame accidents on pedestrians, rather than aggressive drivers. cdn1.vox-cdn.com/uploads/cho… via medium.com/magnetic/52-thing…
RT @itisiboller@infosec.exchange: Shared by my Daughter “I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are” In response to “if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear”
Brilliant little story highlighting the importance of disaster recovery planning. "I recently had to implement my disaster recovery plan" old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/co…
If you want a question answered on the Internet, post a wrong answer first.
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I had about 3 hours at home with no other humans. Echos of those halcyon days when I worked from home, the kids were at school and herself to her workplace. I should have been revelling in it but instead I was wandering around like someone had moved my food bowl. Weird morning.
RT @xrobau@wig.gl: Did you know that the four seasons in #Australia are called “Autumn", “Fuck it’s cold", “Magpie Bastards” and “Tropical Strength Aerogard"?
RT @ginnyhogan@mstdn.jp: Huge fan of the Reverse Pomodoro (five minutes of work, 25 minutes of lying on my back in existential despair)
RT @TheAndrewNadeau: Everything happening on Twitter now is a lot easier to understand if you've ever had a younger sibling that invented a game and added a new rule every time they started losing.
How have I never seen this before? youtu.be/FfBQ3bNNwHs
Distressingly accurate.
If you’re at #vala2022, go see my awesome wife in #s23 at 2:10pm (Eureka room). She’s talking about thriving with technology projects during lockdown. Ask her how she single-handedly orchestrated digital service roll-outs from our dining room table in 2020. Tell her I sent you.
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