The short-form week of 24–30 Mar 2008
31 Mar 2008; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 86 messages in 77 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 06:54am
FeedBurner about page twigs the bogometer and fails to provide any actual information.
FAIL—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:00am
GMail down for more than an hour; man, I'm glad I'm not part of *that* fire drill—@ndw
Monday at 02:44pm
wasting 5 minutes trying to figure out why "perl -a script" didn't do what "perl script
-a" does.—@ndw
Monday at 02:47pm
note to self, 192.168.16.51 isn't the same as 192.168.15.51 no matter how hard you
hit the enter key—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 03:52pm
phew ok that was wonderful - twine is just amazing—@charlvn
In a conversation that started on Monday at 04:02pm
Another day of FAIL in the salt mines. Off in search of booze.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 06:45pm
New episode of Big Bang Theory tonight-The "Loobenfeld Decay" (#10). Pour me a juice (ice please) and I'll pop the organic popcorn!—@mollydotcom
@mollydotcom looking forward to it!—@ndw
Monday at 07:02pm
letting the DVR get a little ahead of Big Bang Theory; advertisers, bite me.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 05:54am
Insanely cool Dojo Calendar widget: http://tinyurl.com/2wb5xt—@trieloff
Tuesday at 06:53am
I wonder where I report Lightroom bugs. Option-Delete often shows me the deleted photos
and says "no photos marked to delete" or some such—@ndw
Tuesday at 07:17am
There's also some really annoying bug with the Lightroom image metadata UI—@ndw
Tuesday at 07:23am
Ahh. I've sussed the UI bug. When you enter a metadata field, some "updating" message
causes the scrolling region to move down...then up—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 07:35am
the daily bio. could bios, like avatars, become more conversational and updated more
often? any value in that. what's your Daily Bio today?—@monkchips
Tuesday at 07:45am
Is it just me, or would it be nice if Lightroom showed you the dimensions of your
crop while you were, you know, cropping—@ndw
Tuesday at 07:53am
uploading a new batch of Project365 snaps. Flickr account expires in April. Renew
or move?—@ndw
Tuesday at 08:03am
still hacking an installer. New installer, old bits. Maybe better?—@ndw
Tuesday at 08:32am
San Diego, @mollydotcom, no w there's a nice spot for a WG meeting—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:39am
Tuesday at 11:00am
The $#%@#!ing installer runs again. kill -SIGSTOPBEATINGHEADONWALL $$—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 11:01am
blog post with further details to follow. thanks for your support. chin chin!—@chinposin
Tuesday at 02:28pm
Suffering ETOOMUCHMULTITASK—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 03:21pm
"shepherd's pie" - another gaping hole in the general theory of pieness. pies and
puddings are understood in geographies. is fish pie a pie?—@monkchips
Tuesday at 03:29pm
Dang it, now I'm hungry—@ndw
Tuesday at 04:11pm
Fixing some geotags in Flickr photos with perl. Love the GPS data in EXIF!—@ndw
Tuesday at 05:44pm
tinkering with some AJAX...creativity at last—@ndw
Tuesday at 06:12pm
emacs JavaScript mode goes non-linear while quote matching. FAIL—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:07am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:58am
about to ski down "Face", a black piste at 2294m! Wish me luck...—@therealmaxf
@therealmaxf I hope you aren't about to find out how much abuse an iPhone can take!—@ndw
Wednesday at 11:35am
Spam subject du jour: playmate bears all—@ndw
Wednesday at 12:05pm
trying out MondoMouse. FocusFollowsMouse as $DEITY intended—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:41pm
Wednesday at 02:43pm
unreasonably pleased with myself http://tinyurl.com/ypvf2l—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:32pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:38pm
I have three new wine projects I'm working on. All still in stealth mode.—@gapingvoid
@gapingvoid all my wine projects are in stealth mode too, on dark shelves in the cellar :-)—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:19pm
Perfect, quiet evening in #alpinetexas—@gapingvoid
@gapingvoid You keep talking it up and some of us complete strangers is gonna come visit ya :-)—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 07:23am
I'd like to try SocialThing next, if anyone knows someone there.—@davewiner
Thursday at 07:42am
FocusFollowsMouse certainly makes it obvious how often my palm brushes the trackpad,
pushing the mouse around. Where's the pointing stick :(—@ndw
Thursday at 08:14am
Eliminating colinear points in a GPS track sounds like a good idea; but beware, if
you walk E-W-E, removing the "middle" point is wrong—@ndw
Thursday at 08:15am
So given A,B,C, B is colinear only if it's on the line A-C and B and C are in the
same direction from A? By what metric?—@ndw
Thursday at 09:26am
I wonder if it's time I move my domains to a hosting company that'll just give me
a whole virtual machine? Recommedations?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:52am
So. EC2, eh? Might be fun to try. Anyone got a guestimate on how many "instance hours"
it takes to run a web server for a C-list blogger?—@ndw
@ndw Before using it I priced up single instance, finding it similar to hosted (around
$40 pm or so), but definitely not as cheap as shared.—@markbirbeck
@markbirbeck How did you estimate compute units?—@ndw
@ndw I took the number of hours in a day, and multiplied by the number of days in a month.
;)—@markbirbeck
Thursday at 11:02am
Thursday at 11:03am
Memory seems to be the expensive commodity in virtual hosting. Time to build a VMWare
image with 150M of memory and see how it performs—@ndw
Thursday at 11:17am
Plans with 4G of disk!? I hope that's *after* the OS install!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 11:20am
Thursday at 11:42am
Spotlight doesn't search the whole disk? What's the point of that? Why'd it ignore
180000 files in ~/Mail ?—@ndw
Thursday at 12:04pm
getProject().setProperty sets a property in an Ant Task. Now, how do I UNset a property?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 12:08pm
nice: cheney shorting the dollar via @waterkulahttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13851.htm—@monkchips
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 12:31pm
Can't find my wedding ring. I'm screwed. Farewell cruel world.—@bmanley
Thursday at 02:03pm
I'm with @codinghorror on 'performant' but 'conformant' suggests we're going to lose—@ndw
Thursday at 03:18pm
FocusFollowsMouse + FocusAutomaticallyComesToTop (or whatever that's called) isn't
without its detraactions—@ndw
Thursday at 03:30pm
chuckle @codinghorror, the MS company store has nothing I want—@ndw
Thursday at 03:40pm
is there a batch delete on Flickr, I wonder?—@ndw
Thursday at 03:42pm
I uploaded a bunch of pics to print them, they printed too dark, I've imagemagick'd
them better, but before I upload, I want to delete these—@ndw
Thursday at 03:43pm
Found it. Batch organize. Select set. Select all. Edit Photos. Delete. Confirm.—@ndw
Thursday at 03:44pm
Pardon me. Confirm, then confirm again, because you have to be really, really sure—@ndw
Thursday at 04:05pm
why has it been so quiet? Because I muted my speakers for a call and forgot to unmute
them.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 06:08pm
I can’t remove red-eye from your photos. Can’t figure out how to get SSL working with
your IMAP account. Can’t make Spotlight any faster.—@brentsimmons
Thursday at 06:16pm
considering taking AIR for a spin—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 07:18pm
LANSA middle-ware integration builds on MapForce http://tinyurl.com/yrm79t—@afalk
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:54pm
boy, do I hate doing tax returns.—@xmlgrrl
@xmlgrrl GALMI - get a little man in. I haven't done one in a decade, and I've hardly ever
missed it. Like getting poked with a stick.—@ndw
@ndw: GALMI?? that's a new acronym on me! as it is, I don't even do the heavy lifting
on this stuff (@eliasisrael and TurboTax do) but I ...—@xmlgrrl
Thursday at 10:04pm
Where's the Atom feed of my public Twine? FAIL?—@ndw
Thursday at 10:06pm
Found the feeds. FTW!—@ndw
Thursday at 10:06pm
Zzzzz—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:33am
very happy to announce that Greenmonk Associates has its first associate. Please step
forward social craftsman and energy maven @tomraftery—@monkchips
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:52am
reverse engineering the Twine bookmarklet. Where's the API dagnabit?—@ndw
Friday at 07:26am
chuckle @ twine.com cookies: i-think-i-am and what-the-bender-statue-said—@ndw
Friday at 07:26am
I wonder which ones I have to hack to make a random curl POST seem logged in—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:02am
looking for someone who is among my flickr contacts and has a geotagged photo I can
see—@ndw
Friday at 09:08am
twine.com pwned! I can curl my bookmarks to ya!—@ndw
Friday at 12:03pm
lunchtime hack: my maps mashup now includes my Flickr contacts photos. Whee!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:00pm
Why wasn't Lost on last night?—@davewiner
Friday at 01:26pm
cursing softly. Lazily saved state in Emacs *scratch* then lost Emacs due to the JavaScript
mode brokenness. Grrrr.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:28pm
saved by Terminal scrollback buffer. FTW!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 02:50pm
A digital camera designed for bloggers? http://tinyurl.com/3yq2xv—@davewiner
Saturday at 03:41pm
extending my mapping hacks to group pictures by closest city.—@ndw
Saturday at 04:07pm
that was fun, now how do I fit it onto the pages?—@ndw