The short-form week of 21–27 Jan 2008
28 Jan 2008; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 94 messages in 90 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.
Monday at 08:08am
Monday at 08:08am
Monday at 08:23am
New CD. /me looks for "rip to flac" tool. Will then convert to mp3 for iTunes. Sigh.—@ndw
Monday at 08:45am
Installing updated X. Rebooting momentarily :-)—@ndw
Monday at 08:48am
Wondering why Quicksilver no longer finds my shell scripts; begins digging through preferences—@ndw
Monday at 08:51am
Found it—@ndw
Monday at 08:58am
Doesn't grok Pixelmator; installing GIMP again—@ndw
Monday at 01:11pm
'nuff with bits. Off to buy some lumber and maybe take some pics—@ndw
Monday at 04:06pm
If the bits you soldered together get hot, you probably did it wrong, right?—@ndw
Monday at 04:07pm
Hot when you apply power to them I mean, not from the hot, you know, soldering iron—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 04:56pm
Eating a deep-dried jam sandwich with plum chutney and butterscotch ice cream. A paragon of subtlety.—@mattb
Monday at 05:03pm
Got wiring advice by email, guess it's time to get out the soldering iron again. Looks at wine glass. Wonders if maybe tomorrow's better.—@ndw
Monday at 08:57pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 07:48am
anyone else seeing the new Google mail "super clean" interface beta? white blue and far more crisp—@monkchips
Tuesday at 09:40am
"Unable to verify the specified OpenID: OP is not authorized to make an assertion regarding the identity." Huh.—@ndw
Tuesday at 09:43am
Plaxo doesn't like norman.walsh.name as my OpenID anymore. I guess I'm locked out. I'm not sure I care.—@ndw
Tuesday at 10:38am
Stock ticker widget: red. All red.—@ndw
Tuesday at 11:18am
still banging my head against an appserver install—@ndw
Tuesday at 12:02pm
wondering if I'll ever managed to get my mixed feelings about HTML5 unmixed enough to put them on paper—@ndw
Tuesday at 01:09pm
eating pita and hommus for lunch—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 01:20pm
thinking the end of the world may well begin with the message "[STOP] Device Removal"—@psd
Tuesday at 01:26pm
Revert to Snapshot. Yes. Looking for a debug message on the screen. All good, but not in that order.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:29pm
Wonder how I went from three separate offers of a lift back to my walking home in the rain *sigh*—@psd
Tuesday at 02:59pm
Tuesday at 03:09pm
wondering why apt-get upgrade in my Linux VM breaks neworking. Bleh.—@ndw
Tuesday at 03:09pm
Revert to Snapshot is my friend—@ndw
Tuesday at 06:06pm
Party like it's 1999: shortref and datatag, baby!—@ndw
Tuesday at 06:08pm
*pout* Pasta for dinner + hacking = overcooked pasta...—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:23pm
Someone please tell me that the default Leopard wallpaper has a subtle animation and that I'm not going crazy—@ndw
Tuesday at 08:47pm
giggling over the disparity between ISO/IEC JTC1/WG5 N1955 and the dictionary definition of "corrigendum"—@ndw
Tuesday at 10:18pm
Boston tomorrow. ZZZZ now.—@ndw
Wednesday at 10:32am
fixing comments on his weblog. Grrrr.—@ndw
Wednesday at 10:59am
taking advantage of being in the Burlington office to...print the HTML5 spec—@ndw
Wednesday at 11:25am
eying the vending machine wishing I hadn't given my last singles to Dunkin' Donuts on the ride in.—@ndw
Wednesday at 11:38am
downtime between meetings...I smell TAG action items to work on—@ndw
Wednesday at 01:32pm
Wednesday at 04:25pm
looking at the stack of pages that is the HTML 5 spec. Thank goodness for duplex printing. Maybe 4up would have been kinder to the trees.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 05:41pm
I'll blog later, but here's the first batch of photos from the journey: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mollyeh11/sets/72157603785663759/—@mollydotcom
@mollydotcom nice pics!—@ndw
Wednesday at 08:44pm
wondering how to get Firefox to display multiple rows of tabs now that I'm not using TabMixPlus ... various userChrome.css hacks not working—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:33pm
Shampoo breath - the price of hanging out online when I should've been packing my bags more carefully. It smells better than it tastes.—@danbri
Wednesday at 09:36pm
enjoying Buckaroo Banzai. It's flawed, sure, but it's also perfect.—@ndw
Wednesday at 09:45pm
giggling "Evil, pure and simple, from the eighth dimension! Grab them! Lectroids! Grab them!"—@ndw
Thursday at 09:01am
Overslept. Ran out of soap in shower. Tripped on stairs, spilled coffee. Having cookie for breakfast as consolation.—@ndw
Thursday at 11:58am
resolved firefox/TMP/SeatBelt multi-row tabs, address bar issues: http://tinyurl.com/yr5bdq Whew!—@ndw
Thursday at 01:29pm
editing XProc spec. At last.—@ndw
Thursday at 04:40pm
Making new VMware machines—@ndw
Thursday at 05:38pm
Thursday at 05:38pm
hoping no one asks about the carbon footprint of corn-on-the-cob in New England in winter—@ndw
Thursday at 09:24pm
watching Twin Peaks, episodes 1 & 2—@ndw
Thursday at 09:45pm
donuts, I had forgotten about the donuts—@ndw
Friday at 07:13am
xkcd to Google to Portal to wondering if a FPS would run well enough in Windoze under VMWare—@ndw
Friday at 07:57am
working around VMWare/Ubuntu 7.10 networking bug—@ndw
Friday at 09:57am
VMWare/Ubuntu workaround: http://tinyurl.com/2cowol—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 12:52pm
birthday present for my 91-yr-old dad: book deciphering text message abbreviations (he's very curious about this)—@annbass
Friday at 01:37pm
finished editing. I'm finished, I mean, not the editing, alas.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 02:08pm
In a conversation that started on Friday at 02:39pm
Library of Congress, Microsoft whore: http://tinyurl.com/2xjus4—@timbray
Friday at 03:03pm
grumbling. Installed S10 in VM, rebooted guest, no bootable disk. Borked it, obviously.—@ndw
Friday at 04:36pm
Friday at 04:46pm
finally got the wireless print server to work again!—@ndw
Friday at 04:53pm
dashing off to Home Depot to pick up some custom molding and bits and pieces to finish my desktop mod. The physical desk, baby!—@ndw
Saturday at 10:50am
learning to my misfortune that not all those little six pin power cables are wired the same way—@ndw
Saturday at 11:04am
mortified to discover that I didn't fry the enclosure, I fried the drives. Drives. Plural. Anyone need a 1/2Tb paperweight?—@ndw
Saturday at 11:07am
staggering under the realization that there was significant video data on that fried drive—@ndw
Saturday at 11:08am
crawling into a hole to die.—@ndw
Saturday at 12:19pm
Go retrieve offsite backups, find video on offsite backups? No. Crawl back to hole, resume dieing.—@ndw
Saturday at 12:32pm
Install new drive in enclosure. Power on. No smoke. Quit while I'm ahead?—@ndw
Saturday at 12:32pm
Find original video tapes. Begin reimporting video. Death will not have to be literal. Maybe. We'll find out in a few hours.—@ndw
Saturday at 12:56pm
mourning the loss of all photographs from 15 Jan 2008. Not many or important I expect. I hope.—@ndw
Saturday at 01:01pm
discovered from Lightroom database that there were no pictures on 15 Jan. Whew.—@ndw
Saturday at 03:26pm
video data restored of MiniDV tapes. May yet live.—@ndw
Saturday at 03:26pm
making a backup copy of the video data just ripped—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 04:32pm
reporting danbri.org [http://danbri.orgg] downtime to Dreamhost—@danbri
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 05:46pm
poking at the edges of the HTML/meta tag versioning story.—@ndw
@ndw : To be accurate, that would be the Microsoft meta tag versioning story. This isn't about HTML proper. An important distinction.—@mollydotcom
@mollydotcom Yes, I was relieved when a bit of searching through the HTML5 WD didn't find anything that seemed relevant—@ndw
Saturday at 06:11pm
backing slowly away from the MS/HTML/meta tag versioning story. I didn't see it, I don't have to comment.—@ndw
Saturday at 07:19pm
wondering if anyone would like to review a bit of perhaps-too-inflamatory weblog text before I maybe (or maybe not) post it—@ndw
Saturday at 07:57pm
wondering why Deb hasn't called yet; flight landed 2 hours ago. Rough traffic getting to her sister's I suppose—@ndw
Saturday at 08:14pm
donning asbestos underwear. Pushing button. Going away from desk in search of stiff drink—@ndw
Sunday at 10:56am
hacking playfully, resting—@ndw
Sunday at 12:05pm
bit-twiddling with comment moderation form—@ndw
Sunday at 12:15pm
Sunday at 12:16pm
gratuitous twitter-related ajax hack. norman.walsh.name now shows my most recent tweet.—@ndw
Sunday at 12:40pm
wondering how I get /tmp to turn up in the Finder. Dagnabit, I know what I'm doing, show me everything.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 02:16pm
buying lhr/sfo/bos tickets—@danbri
Sunday at 02:47pm
Sunday at 02:59pm
sending dopplr feature request: monitor more than one locale. I don't live in BOS, but I might be willing to go there for the right meet up—@ndw
Sunday at 05:50pm
patching images in old essays to use new Flickr-based system—@ndw
Sunday at 07:19pm
dragging data up hill. Ugh.—@ndw
Sunday at 07:28pm
everytime my flickr download tool pauses with the message "patching escaped markup", I die a little—@ndw
Sunday at 07:29pm
observing that the actual message is "Patching $#?@%!ing escaped markup..."—@ndw