21:42 The South African soccer team thought they'd qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations. Oops. RT @mailandguardian: http://t.co/1iKk3UTQ #
20:23 The @Kookaburras remain World no.1 in men's #hockey after beating New Zealand 6-1 today in Hobart. - http://t.co/j4DLQF7Q #fieldhockey #
20:12 Erm, a bit late? RT @CricketMirror: Marcus Trescothick backs his Somerset boys for World T20 glory: http://t.co/60pfhLVa #
18:45 "Commonwealth Bank Bushrangers". I'm sorry but that name cracks me up every time I see it. #cricket #
18:22 Oh, did the Wallabies win Mount Panorama while I was out? #
13:26 @Micky_Jay I like the idea of one feature T20 game every Friday night to replace Friday Night Footy. Oh and no T20 on other days :) #cricket #
13:14 #baseball The scoreline's a bit WTF, but Australia beat Venezuela 15-0 this morning! We're 3-3. Germany is next. #baseballworldcup #
09:30 @SaintFrankly @TeamAustralia11 paid streaming apparently. I think baseball.com.au has the details #
09:22 Great start against Venezuela. #baseball RT @TeamAustralia11: Mitch Dening continues to CRUSH the ball! 2 RUN HOME RUN! 2-0 Australia! #
08:55 Remember Usman Khawaja's heroic 37 at the SCG? He reached 44 for Randwick-Petersham yesterday. Sun-Herald - http://t.co/NW2TSRdz #cricket #
08:36 @soueaster NSW unfortunately #
08:32 Ooh. RT @coalseamgasnews: Nick Greiner pockets a million bucks to let AGL into Hunter vineyards http://t.co/hWwQ8y5h #CSG #nswpol #auspol #
08:29 Not that I'd give #Cricket Australia free marketing advice by suggesting state-of-origin T20s, mind you... #
08:27 Congratulations to @cricketnswblues on reaching the semis of the #CLT20. Will we ever see a unified NSW T20 team again? #cricket #

20:22 Jonny Wilkinson! Martin Johnson! Clive Woodward! Your boys took one hell of a beating! #rwc2011 #
19:05 gendarme cela l'Angleterre! #rwc2011 #
18:33 Why does ch9 never acknowledge who their #rwc2011 commentators are? #
18:22 Sarah Palin said WHAT about Steve Jobs? - http://t.co/xgmkihxd #
16:05 Ramiz Alia, Albania's second and last communist dictator, died Friday aged 85. RT @NYTObits http://t.co/9BBlrUXG #
13:33 Apparently a horse just galloped faster than some other horses. #
11:08 Australia beats Dominican Republic 11-9 (10 innings) in #Baseball World Cup. We're now 2-3, still to play Venezuela and Germany. #
09:56 Superbowl XX winners Chicago Bears finally get to visit the White House 25 years late - http://t.co/aHPkWYFB #
09:00 The term "it's not #cricket" is so misused and over-done, but it seems perfect for a T20 game where more than 400 runs are scored. #

21:35 Can I just say that today's online coverage of the Laman St #figs conflict by both @newcastleherald and @1233newcastle has been exceptional. #
20:56 Reaction in Liberia to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's #nobelpeaceprize is ambivalent as @howden_africa of the Independent is tweeting #
20:35 Two of the three names I don't know, but judging from the citations all three women are great choices. #nobelpeaceprize #
18:39 Happy 80th birthday to Archbishop Desmond Tutu. #
18:27 Hmmmmmmmm. RT @nxthompson: Who was Steve Jobs most like? Miles Davis. Here's how. @newyorker http://t.co/GMKUqhNa #
10:56 Taking my daughter to NSW Parliament House where they are holding a kiddies' fun day. Insert your own punchline here. #
10:49 @ryanginard mmm, it might be a start :) #
10:39 Match report from the IBAF. #baseball RT @SydneyBlueSox: Read more about the @TeamAustralia11 victory here: http://t.co/X1COU1n6 #
09:15 Finally a win! Australia 4 Nicaragua 3. #baseball #baseballworldcup #
09:04 Excellent report. RT @carolduncan: My @1233newcastle blog on this morning's #Newcastle #figs #Laman Street protest: http://t.co/w3s4b5Rz #
08:37 Richo is part of the problem. #auspol RT @latikambourke: Michelle Grattan: Richo just building his own media career: http://t.co/6jhHqcrg #
08:26 #Newcastle's iconic Laman St #figs to be felled today. Protestors blocking. Live tweeting with pics by @bensmee of the @newcastleherald #
06:58 Australia playing Nicaragua in the #Baseball World Cup and WE'VE SCORED A RUN! Follow @teamaustralia11 for updates. #

22:37 My reflection on Steve Jobs probably won't make everyone happy, but there you have it - http://t.co/psc5IJbg #
22:29 @theslaptv thank you. I'll be watching. #
22:28 Thomas Transformer? #
22:10 So who started that silly Bob Dylan rumour anyway? #nobelprize #literature #
21:53 On the subject of #cricket, I missed ep1 of #TheSlap tonight :( #
21:36 follow @Cricketer_RDJ for live tweets from the Pakistani #cricket spot-fixing trial in London #
20:06 In case a bit of Aussie patriotism is in order tonight, the Waratah is the subject of Wikipedia's article of the day http://t.co/f5NsQOgh #
19:45 Interesting comparison on #abc730 by Jobs' biographer to Howard Hughes. #
19:35 Now where did I pack my copy of John Sculley's "Odyssey: From Pepsi to Apple"? #
19:16 #Cricket Tasmania have deleted this morning's tweet in which they twice mis-spelt the name of Bellerive Oval's new sponsor as "Blunstone". #
18:17 Heh. @stevewoz's Twitter feed is nothing more than a log of his Foursquare checkins. #
16:46 @peterkonnecke I find that they have a good hit rate for announcing big news stories before I see them on Twitter. But not this time. #
16:35 France24 has emailed me a breaking news alert at 4.09pm (25 mins ago) to tell me that Steve Jobs has died. #
12:04 October 16 is Blog Action Day. This year's topic is "Food". Register at blogactionday.org Official hashtag: #bad11 #
11:00 vale Steve Jobs. We don't have historical perspective yet but I believe his place alongside Edison, Ford and perhaps Carnegie is assured #
09:59 Just realised that Barry O'Farrell's pre-election "Contract with NSW" is still online: http://t.co/Fbm31r8t #nswpol #
09:41 There's something amusing about seeing a sports marketing dept spell the new sponsor's name wrong twice in the same tweet. #
09:31 You mean Blundstone? (see pic) #cricket MT @crickettas: Bellerive Oval will now be known as Blunstone Arena. http://t.co/G9tJ82n1 #

"RIP Steve Jobs. You left your mark on our desks, on our ears & in our hands."
- Darren Rovell, CNBC sports business reporter, Twitter, 5.10.11

I loathe Apple Inc. Never owned an Apple II, Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, iPad (let alone Lisa or Newton). Uninstalled iTunes after a few months because I considered it malware. I loathe Apple's monopolistic practices, their aggressive litigiousness, their Chinese labour exploitations. But for all that, there is no doubt that Steve Jobs was a truly great man whose influence will be missed following his death, following multiple battles with cancer, on Wednesday aged 56.

23:19 vale Graham Dilley 1959-2011. Stunning loss. One of the heroes of the 1981 Ashes. #cricket #
22:07 Loved this week's At Home With J... oh wait. #hamster #
19:34 Ha. RT @media140au: If Google's management doesn't use Google+, why should you? http://t.co/3dhpcXjJ #media140 #Googleplus #
18:50 Today's big unanswered question: does the world NEED a new version of the iPhone? #
17:38 Another 2004 blog post by me about #baseball featuring Steve Waugh, a Tolkien character, and the Puppetry of the Penis: http://t.co/Lk8ff3Kc #
16:51 From August 2004 and happier days for Australian #baseball, my bloggage of the Athens gold medal game http://t.co/QRjYJGe4 #
16:43 It's only seven years since Australia won the silver medal for #baseball at the Athens Olympics. #
16:40 Australia loses again in the #Baseball World Cup, 8-0 to S.Korea. 3 games 3 losses 0 runs scored. A major flop unfolding here :( #
11:56 Irony alert. The Victorian #cricket team's new naming right sponsors. RT @bushrangers: Commonwealth Bank Bushrangers http://t.co/zbbKLq43 #

23:26 The Washington Post fact-checks Michelle Bachmann’s claim that China ‘blinded’ U.S. satellites - http://t.co/fmrQTJZz #
23:08 And 7, 9 and 10 led their late news with... oh wait. RT @SDBrook: So Australian wins Nobel Prize, Lateline leads on ... tax. :-( #
22:23 Tomorrow's headlines: Dissatisfaction with ABC up 50% MT @GhostWhoVotes: #Newspoll How valuable is the #ABC: .... Not at all 3 (+1) #
21:59 Congratulations to @cosmicpinot and all the winners of the #nobelprize in #physics. Details from @Nobelprize_org: http://t.co/b447h7r6 #
19:28 Opinions expressed in the aforementioned review are mine alone and not necessarily those of my daughter. (Quite the opposite in fact.) #
19:25 #filmreview "Smurfs 3D" (2011) Take some classic fantasy characters remove all the whimsy add a loud violent story and ruin everything. 4/10 #
18:28 Sacking the coach while he's attending the tournament season launch. Newcastle Jets have truly become a club of innovation. #aleague #
16:31 Is it that time of week again? RT @newcastleherald: Laman Street figs decision tonight: http://t.co/jKyiVNLe #
10:15 Coincidence that the #taxforum is being held straight after the end of the footy seasons? Surely not! #footytax #
10:07 Australia 0 Italy 7 in #Baseball World Cup in Panama. We've failed to score in our first two games. Not good. #
07:03 Speaking of slow news days, since when is the sale of redundant rural church properties a newsworthy item? @breakfastnews #
06:50 Actually, dear oh dear Daily Telegraph. But why is @sunriseon7 giving oxygen to a Daily Telegraph beat-up? #sun7 #asylumseekers #
06:45 Dear oh dear channel 7. #fail RT @sunriseon7: SOAPBOX: Are you bothered by asylum seekers smoking $4000 worth of cigarettes per day? #sun7 #

22:23 Can someone at the ABC commission Slavoj Zizek for his own weekly series... At Home With Slavoj, Slavoj's Kitchen... anything! #qanda #
21:52 I think I need to turn the volume up when Kate Adie speaks and mute the rest of #qanda #
21:27 Oh. The wontworkwillhurt URL was superimposed on the screen. That's a bit more than just Rabs and Gus mouthing off. #mediawatch #ch9 #pokies #
19:12 William Shatner's Weird Or What? I think he's pretty weird these days... #sbs1 #
17:59 National emergency in #Tuvalu as fresh #water supplies run low. NZ providing emergency supplies. - http://t.co/agVGQbGK via @nzherald #
17:39 CNN.com profiled Havana Times blogger Circles Robinson in 2009 without seeking an explanation of his first name - http://t.co/1w1dgpAt #
17:35 Cuba bt Australia 14-0 on the mercy rule in the #Baseball World Cup today. Havana Times' Circles Robinson (!) reports - http://t.co/mPNzamS7 #
17:13 Geelong #madmonday #fail RT @CatsInsider: The Cats boys having some Monday fun! http://t.co/j6dtKqLS #
14:34 Time for another Sydney [pick a random word out of the dictionary] Festival. This week's word is: "rides". http://t.co/ORCUmbG7 #
13:15 Memo #afl, Geelong FC and others: get rid of this childish "Mad Monday" nonsense at once. (same goes for you, #nrl) #
11:20 So what two games will George Rose miss? R1 & 2 of #NRL 2012 or the Indigenous All Stars and World Club Challenge? #
11:13 my updated, and succinct, position statement on Facebook - http://t.co/BYgB3RHi #
11:04 Yesterday's @abclandline is repeating on #abc1 now. "Return to Lake Eyre". #
09:47 It's a public holiday. That means I have time to write a status update on my otherwise quiet blog - http://t.co/jYIdRHaK #
09:18 and the Daily Twitter module of my blog has finally come to life overnight - http://t.co/cU3dcW5w #
09:02 I don't normally give The Bolt Report the time of day, but his interview with @AlboMP yesterday is almost lucid - http://t.co/1vcYCmMg #

In short, Facebook has become, for me, a glorified RSS reader, and little else.

This updates my previous position statement on Facebook posted in June 2010. All the insidious tinkering since then by the House of Zuckerburg makes little difference to the fact that I regard a Facebook profile as a necessary evil to maintain a reluctant frontier.

Will Goog le plus take over its mantle? Don't be evil.

Things have been a glorious blend of quiet and shambolic on my website these past couple of months.

Quiet because Twitter has become my primary means of short on-line communication; quiet because I have not had the energy to compose longer on-line communications with any lucidity; and quiet because my upgrade from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 has not gone as well as I would have liked.