The short-form week of 7–13 Jan 2008
14 Jan 2008; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 32 messages in 32 conversations.
This document was created automatically from my archive of my Twitter stream. Due to limitations in the Twitter API and occasional glitches in my archiving system, it may not be 100% complete.
Tuesday at 10:49am
Reduced to running NetBeans under Windows for some mobility ... stuff—@ndw
Tuesday at 12:49pm
Tuesday at 06:54pm
Tuesday at 06:55pm
A bunch of bright sparks follow me on twitter (why?): Mac OS X, firefox, Apple-T (new tab), focus not on address bar. WTF!—@ndw
Tuesday at 06:56pm
If that doesn't get me an answer, then a lazy web blog post it will have to be.—@ndw
Tuesday at 06:56pm
Tuesday at 07:05pm
I suppose I should find a better twitter monitor than "ruby ~/Squawk.rb", which needs to be restarted periodically, too...—@ndw
Tuesday at 07:14pm
Bah. Squawk.rb doesn't work anymore since I rebuilt my Mac. What happened to xmlsimple, I wonder?—@ndw
Wednesday at 06:11pm
Testing twitterific—@ndw
Wednesday at 06:16pm
Wondering why twitterific is getting "bad request" errors for me—@ndw
Thursday at 07:47am
Discovering from the Twitterific backlog that I'd missed a bunch of at-me messages over the past few weeks.—@ndw
Thursday at 08:03am
Impressed by NetNewsWire's ability to show diffs, including my transposition of voilaÃÅ into voilaÃÄ—@ndw
Thursday at 08:31am
OS X widgets are nice enough, but I want one that I can float on my desktop all the time, not just when I activate the dashboard—@ndw
Thursday at 11:03am
Wondering what knob to turn to get my Mac to sync with an NNTP server—@ndw
Thursday at 07:04pm
Looking for dirty pictures in Dan's photo stream—@ndw
Thursday at 10:13pm
Zzzzz—@ndw
Friday at 07:40am
Rain. Wind. Dog walking. You do the math.—@ndw
Friday at 08:48am
Confused by the flickr API why does findByUsername seem not to work?—@ndw
Friday at 12:42pm
Trying to follow my nose through the OASIS TC process to get DocBook V5.0 made official.—@ndw
Friday at 01:01pm
Pushing the reset button on our oil furnace...again. That's three attempts to fix it without success. Time to call again...—@ndw
Friday at 01:05pm
Ah, we've had "brown out" electrical conditions here most of the day, service tells me that might be the problem. Maybe all is well...—@ndw
Friday at 01:24pm
Friday at 03:13pm
Friday at 04:00pm
Cursing. Updated Ubuntu guest in VMare: lost networking. Even after reinstalling tools. Thank goodness for snapshots!—@ndw
Friday at 04:36pm
Running four rsyncs across the net to a single ZFS pool on another box. Network saturation. Wheee!!!—@ndw
Friday at 04:46pm
Dressing to go out to dinner—@ndw
Saturday at 02:08pm
Installing skype to see if video calls will work. Userid: normanwalsh—@ndw
Saturday at 03:23pm
Trying to work out how hard it is to extract useful data from someone's FOAF file—@ndw
Saturday at 03:27pm
There clearly aren't enough different ways to encode a graph in RDF/XML. Quick! Someone invent a new one!—@ndw
Saturday at 03:29pm
Nevermind. FOAF invented foaf:Document, *now* there's enough variability! :-/—@ndw
Sunday at 03:20pm
Contemplating the value of pre-decimalized UK currency. Specifically a guinea.—@ndw
Sunday at 04:52pm
Has wondered several times over the last few days if the reason the SemWeb hasn't taken off is because it's so damned hard to use.—@ndw