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23:34 Richie Benaud's speech to the WSC squad was heaps better than that effort from Jules. #assange #howzat #
23:07 Has Julian Assange issued his denouncement of Ecuador's repression of the free press yet? #
23:04 Just noticed that Michael Moore's "Capitalism A Love Story" is on #SBS1 (and has been for an hour and a half) #
22:41 Hoping there's a third part of a Kerry Packer trilogy based on his stoush with Bronwyn Bishop #
22:35 well #Howzat ep1 was certainly better than I expected. Some dramatic licence but no major facts distorted. Good drama #
22:32 I don't recall the sightscreen falling over. #howzat #
22:23 Maybe they couldn't portray Bradman in #howzat because Gary Sweet was busy filming Househusbands. #bodyline #
22:21 So they didn't get a actor to play Mike Procter in the remade WSC opening titles. #howzat #
22:13 Brendon Cowell IS Rodney Marsh. #howzat #
22:05 Things I learned while watching #howzat: @JaneCaro is the daughter of Andrew Caro, WSC boss in its second year. #
21:50 The Sydney Showground. There is @ourSCG's contribution to the birth of WSC - by making them play next door! #howzat #
21:47 I find it hard to believe that KFBP had never heard of Brian Morelli. But that's dramatic licence I suppose. #howzat #
21:42 So is Braddles not actually depicted in #Howzat, but referred to off-screen? #
21:40 KFBP at Lord's pre-dating Allen Stanford by 31 years. #howzat #
21:29 great re-creation of the David Frost interview with KFBP and Robin Marlar. #howzat #
21:04 Yes let's plonk some 1979 music on the middle of 1977, hey? #howzat #
21:01 Brendon Julian as the channel 9 newsreader !?! #howzat #
21:01 Lachy Hulme as KFBP is brilliant so far. #howzat #
20:59 except for Rick McCosker sporting a mo in the dressing room when he didn't have one on the field when his jaw got busted. #howzat #
20:58 Must say the blend of actual Centenary Test footage with actors from the series is clever. #howzat #
20:53 @wombatlyons no but there's enough people who'll think it is #
20:51 Pity #Howzat didn't start with Packer missing out on the tennis TV rights, without which none of this would have happened. #
20:48 The actor playing Ian Chappell is the spitting image of Trevor Chappell. #howzat #
20:45 Five minutes in and I'm already giving up on any pretence of historical accuracy. #howzat #
20:43 Dunno how Hoges and Strop are watching live cricket from Old Trafford in Australia in broad daylight. #howzat #
18:40 Meanwhile here's some useful pre-reading from Reporters Without Borders on press freedom in Ecuador - http://t.co/IcEq1QFB #
18:33 Prominent international media tart to speak to media. Meanwhile let's have live rolling coverage of this empty London street. #

21:48 goodnight Australia. #bledisloe #
21:16 never mind the rugby. VVS Laxman has just announced his retirement #
21:02 wow. A rugby telecast has the anti-ipad as a sponsor. #bledisloe #ch9 #
20:56 Sam Kekovich doing ads for Maccas lamb burgers? This isn't just for the #bledisloe I hope #
20:51 Ooh nasty! RT @AFL: Izzy serious? @AFL_JD questions Folau's future in footy: http://t.co/2vBOSDIs #
20:44 when do we play Argentina? #bledisloe #ausvnzl #
20:09 Meanwhile, Rugby Union. #bledisloe #meh #
20:07 Pathetic #haka. 4/10. #bledisloe #
20:06 why is the demilitarised zone between the teams so wide? #haka #
20:05 home ground anthem bias there. #bledisloe #
20:05 and the google tells me that the Australian anthemer was in Australian Idol in 2004 #
20:03 footnote to prev tweet: I had to google "Laura Bunting" #
20:03 another Voice alumnus doing the NZ anthem? (and not all that well) #bledisloe #
19:59 Oh. The former New South Wales Under-17 rugby league player is out there tonight. #bledisloe #sbw #traitor #
19:53 aaargh Waterhouse alert! #bledisloe #
19:46 How is the #Bledisloe Cup carbon neutral? http://t.co/n3zyWs96 #rugby #ausvnzl #carbontrading #
18:18 hey Essendon beat GWS by one point! #afl #
17:27 As if Twitter doesn't have enough AFL nuts... RT @MalcolmFraser12: Carlton, how is that Essendon? #
16:40 Coca-Cola apologises after its world map on display at London Olympic Park omits Greece and Turkey. (take a look) - http://t.co/iAXk8p5B #
14:00 According to this LA Times report, Israel is experiencing a sperm crisis and no one can understand why - http://t.co/ngBxley1 #
13:54 Opportunism, thine name is Richard Torbay. #nswpol #auspol #
13:39 So, to recap: RT @everyword: recap #
09:30 The website for the partnership between ARU and CFX is http://t.co/O6lzuMeh and on Twitter @CTXGreenRugby. #rugby #bledisloe #carbontrading #
09:26 Australian #RugbyUnion hires Carbon Trade Exchange to trade #carbon offsets on tonight's #Bledisloe Cup game - http://t.co/vTOi7aqL #
09:10 Human Rights Watch's file on Ecuador. Julian who? http://t.co/v53e2qE4 #
09:04 just realised that I still list my Jabber address on my website. I wonder if anyone's tried to contact me there in the last six years? #
09:01 @MayneReport considering that boys play netball and girls play basketball, how is what you call "highball spending" sexist? #
08:39 as @KeirRadnedge points out, #PussyRiot are due for release in the same year as Russia's first Olympics since Moscow - http://t.co/xPgy61ku #
07:43 Thoughtful post-Olympic op-ed by Basketball Aus CEO @KKeneally (though the cheap shot at Fairfax is uncalled for) http://t.co/YGJ4E5rc #
07:02 Through to the semis! RT @IBAF_Baseball: (17 Aug 2012, 20:50) Women’s BWC: Australia clinches 4th Place in 1st Round http://t.co/OyRkHAWz #

22:04 Incredible. I've been listening to Hadley for 13 minutes and haven't had the urge to mute the volume yet. #nrl #ch9 #
21:41 the Tigers blew that. Doggies 23-22 in the, what, 89th minute? #nrlcbywst #
21:36 Wrong. It's Lisa Sthalekar. RT @an_news: Gurinder Sandhu has become the first player of Indian origin to represent Australia at cricket #
21:28 golden point time. #nrl #nrlcbywst #
20:53 Just catching up with the horrifying news of the shootout at the #Lonmin mine in South Africa http://t.co/R8TthioN #
18:46 C.S.Lewis has a verified Twitter account. Which is quite an achievement for someone who has been dead since 1963. #
18:25 This looks good! MT @RTCCnewswire: We're putting together the ultimate Climate Change A-Z, give us your feedback! http://t.co/ZSzlrdyn #
16:15 Karate is "ready" for inclusion on Olympic programme in 2020, claims President | The Big Read | http://t.co/7N73knEh http://t.co/SyJtFYLl #
12:20 "Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter" Best. Presidential. Biopic. Ever. #
10:26 Ok we have a trailer for "The Hobbit Part 1Of 56". See you after "Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter" #
10:24 apparently someone had to go and find the projectionist to tell him his movie wasn't being projected #
10:20 first time in a cinema for ages without child in tow and the digital 3D projector has broken down #
09:17 A reminder that the real Godwin Grech is even loopier than the fake Twitter account - http://t.co/TBmfeZ6P #
07:44 I'm sorry but @breakfastnews is becoming truly awful these days. Stick to reporting the news or get professional comics to host the show. #
07:40 Ok "obligate" is a verb. I humbly withdraw. #
07:33 "obligated"? What ever happened to "obliged"? @breakfastnews #
07:26 So my month-old laptop took 20 minutes to start up while configuring its first Windows software upgrade #

20:46 Just watched Tony Windsor's SSO speech from this afternoon. I have a ton of respect for that man. #auspol #
19:09 "sharper content in better timeslots" - @abcmarkscott sounds like an NBC executive when he says that. #wleague #wnbl #
18:20 Everyone had to walk through it. MT @OlympicsWatch: Westfield Stratford City attracted 5.5m visits during #London2012 http://t.co/p5Enjxph #
17:36 So the #WLeague won't be shown live because the ABC and FFA say they'll get more viewers on delay. Where have I heard this before? #NBCfail #
17:27 Impossible to celebrate the anniversaries of all your lies, Tony. MT @TonyAbbottMHR: It's the 2nd anniversary of the PM's lie. #
13:07 So we can have "emergency rallies" for Julian Assange, but where are the emergency rallies for the asylum seekers? #
11:32 And if your council elections are run by a private company or in-house, well... dunno #
11:28 If the NSWEC is running your council's election, the polling places are up on their website now: RT @NSWelections: http://t.co/lUdkGtDu #
09:39 Mark Latham in today's AFR on what *should* be obvious to all about Tony Abbott - http://t.co/Sb7spfQA #
09:09 All right. Despite being told that System Restore was unsuccesful it appears that System Restore was successful. I think. #
08:51 Rather emphatic win that. #baseball RT @IBAF_Baseball: (16 Aug 2012, 00:45) Women’s BWC: Australia crushes Venezuela http://t.co/F1ulhgGr #
08:49 Waiting for Startup Repair to run on a one terabyte hard drive. I'm sure Samuel Beckett wrote a play about this. #
07:28 What is the world's most active city for Twitter usage? You guessed it: Jakarta. - http://t.co/xppX5Biv #
07:23 Following @Klout's updated methodology, @JuliaGillard has a score of 87, @TonyAbbottMHR only 71. @KRuddMP 86, @TurnbullMalcolm 72. #auspol #
06:51 Happy August 16 to all #London2012 athletes who can promote their own sponsors again from today, as the provisions of IOC's Rule 40 expire. #
00:29 new blog post from me - "London 2012: 85 who did, 119 who didn't" http://t.co/8Q7Gljwt via @rickeyre #london2012 #

20:47 There's a Dan Quayle Vice Presidential Learning Center? http://t.co/LciecEEk #potatoe #
20:10 No thank you Twitter, I can happily live without following the Premier of Queensland. #cantdo #
19:14 Bizarre goings on in Ryde Council weeks before the Local Govt elections - http://t.co/HzvGGllP #
18:25 There were no attacks by Somali pirates in July. The ROI is, it seems, no longer worth it: http://t.co/LR5m26PJ #
18:04 Yes. RT @FionaKatauskas: Great drum piece by @grogsgamut today http://t.co/fpm2MJly #
17:16 event managers for Will and Kate's wedding to manage opening and closing ceremonies for Glasgow Commonwealth Games http://t.co/l6KuIjFq #
17:08 "News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising." Lord Northcliffe (1865-1922) http://t.co/zVJPanCk #
17:04 apart from mis-attributing a famous quote to George Orwell this is a fine article on journalism by @glover702 - http://t.co/TEyXA2m4 #
17:01 I just read "new restrictions on drinking in #kingscross" as "new restrictions on drinking #kangaroos". And I'm wearing my glasses. #
17:00 "Spice Girls break Twitter record" sounds like an anachronism. But it happened Sunday. http://t.co/ISiYyB73 (warning: Infographic overkill) #
16:44 @rglover702 good article, but wasn't that quote you attribute to Orwell actually made by Lord Northcliffe? #
14:29 My old school :) RT @JillHallMP: Great meeting students from Marks Point Public School in parliament today @1233newcastle @newcastleherald #
14:27 on the other hand, @klout has bumped Justin B**ber down from a perfect 100 to a mere 92. #
14:26 Klout announces a tweaking of its algorithm, which bumps my score from 40 to 54. Oh, I'm influential about libraries, Greece and smartphones #
13:51 not a day to be proud to be Australian :( #
13:32 English cricket is in the throes of a scandal over a fake player Twitter account. Meanwhile, an injured Australian racehorse is tweeting. #
10:18 sounds like Federal Parliament is going to be one long farce today. #auspol #
10:12 That's still a huge amount for one subject. RT @darrenrovell NBC says less than 0.5% of the 150 million Olympic tweets had #NBCFail in them. #
07:59 which leaves Boom Boom Washington and Vinnie Barbarino as the last two surviving Sweathogs #
07:57 vale Ron Palillo. Arnold Horshack to you. (via @TV_Rev) http://t.co/4GV5s27U #

Twenty-six sports, 302 medal events, about ten and a half thousand competitors. A total of 204 National Olympic Committees represented at the Games of the XXX Olympiad, plus the "Independent" athletes. Medals were won by 85 NOCs, one less than the total at Beijing. That's 41 per cent of competing teams coming away from London with at least one medal, with Bahrain, Botswana, Cyprus, Gabon, Grenada, Guatemala and Montenegro each taking a medal for the first time. One hundred and nineteen NOCs missed out on an Olympic medal in London.

15:42 well Australia we're really having a good week for human rights, aren't we? #asylumseekers #righttosilence #
14:34 That was a wonderful oration by @TurnbullMalcolm about Robert Hughes in the House of Reps. #QT #
12:16 though surprisingly, Stephanie Rice didn't contribute to that achievement #
12:14 A Kobe Bryant slam dunk was the single most tweeted moment of #london2012. The mind boggles. http://t.co/PR5SFfFP #
12:10 why would someone put a QR code on their web site captioned "scan with a smartphone and find us on the web"? #
11:39 Some interesting facts and figures on the Opposition's non-performance in #QT raised by @AlboMP at @ABCthedrum http://t.co/pUKP0qxe #auspol #
11:21 my latest blog post, where I get bored with the #london2012 closing ceremony and start reading the papers from 1948 - http://t.co/WFVrY5C3 #
11:11 All right. Julia Gillard got on the phone to the President of Nauru this morning. Happy now, Tony? Waiting for his reply: Nooooooooooo #
10:47 (and no it's not #paris1900) #
10:47 writing another Olympic blog post and including a cricket match report, cause that's how I do things #
10:20 Australia now 2-2. RT @IBAF_Baseball: (14 Aug 2012, 02:11) Women’s BWC: Aussies avoid Dutch Upset http://t.co/7DlJx8ir #
08:33 Pecuniary interests in Nauru. I want to know who has them? #auspol #
08:28 aargh why is there a Tony Abbott Says at this time of morning? #

The Olympic Games are over. Now let's take some deep breaths, and take some time to get the euphoria out of our systems before reflecting on what it all means.

22:09 Watching the #london2012 #closingceremony on delay, one word springs to mind: Wha? #
21:20 My daily (and often twice daily) #london2012 Olympic Games blog is here: http://t.co/0eVtM5Cy #
20:44 looks like a retrospective gold medal to New Zealand in the womens #shotput with the winner from Belarus DQed. #london2012 #
19:54 and that's two hashtags on mute for the same program #
19:43 thank you Echofon :) #
19:40 Bit awkward for Albo to be celebrating his preselection on the day his party cacks its refugee policy again. #
19:31 when was the last time a Federal Govt accepted the findings of a report it commissioned, let alone on the same day of its release? #auspol #
19:26 This is probably the time when I should download a Twitter app that allows hashtag muting. #
17:05 Has Gillard said "we will decide who comes to Australia and the circumstances in which they come" yet? #auspol #
16:52 So who stands to benefit financially from the construction and operation of a processing centre in Nauru? #asylumseekers #auspol #
13:10 I can't believe the #houstonreport is suggesting towbacks are a good idea in *any* circumstance. #
12:52 Seeing as Abbott and Morrison were always going to ignore the #houstonreport I'd expect there will be no comment from them today. #
12:49 And what if it's never practical to open a processing centre in Nauru? #asylumseekers #houstonreport #
09:49 Australia now 1-2. RT @IBAF_Baseball: (13 Aug 2012, 01:43) Women’s BWC: Canada edges out Australia for 3rd Win http://t.co/TsQAsH4J #
09:45 My last daily #london2012 blog post, though not my final word just yet - http://t.co/paL7I5yG #
09:09 At least they won't stage a golf grand slam against #rio2016. RT @Deadspin: Rory McIlroy is your 2012 PGA champion http://t.co/lnganLDP #
08:43 Why didn't Lord Coe do a Michael Knight and thank his family? #london2012 #sydney2000 #
07:55 So did Keith Moon turn up? #closingceremony #london2012 #
07:45 I'm not watching the #closingceremony. Have I made the right decision? #london2012 #
04:39 TV off. Rolling back to sleep. Closing ceremony? I'll watch it on replay tonight, thank you :) #london2012 #

My last recollection of live action at the London Olympics was at around 1am Monday, falling asleep as the Washington Generals of the men's basketball final, Spain, were just maintaining their grip in was a surprisingly close tussle.