The short-form week of 31 Mar–6 Apr 2008
07 Apr 2008; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 83 messages in 79 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 02:33pm
more map hacking: http://tinyurl.com/39hrbs—@ndw
Monday at 03:07pm
Does TiVo still have a "30 second skip" button. Our Charter DVR does not. But it has
four FFW speeds, so the flip book would be interesting—@ndw
Monday at 03:30pm
Post DVR, I don't think I've watched any commercials except movie trailers and the
occasional TV show spot. I wonder if that's true.—@ndw
Monday at 03:36pm
request for a draft from 8 Feb. All praise revision control!—@ndw
Monday at 03:45pm
skipping out to the corner store for five minutes to buy milk.—@ndw
Monday at 03:57pm
Now I can haz tea.—@ndw
Monday at 03:58pm
Monday at 03:58pm
Sometimes think it might be time, but so far common sense has prevailed.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 06:11pm
deciding it's a Ladytron kind of evening: "Everything you touch you don't feel
Do not know what you steal "http://tinyurl.com/3xmfjc #music—@amyvdh
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:03pm
Tuesday at 07:22am
Insert disk. Burn. Disk busy. FAIL. Minimize apps looking for dialog. None. Open apps
to quit to reboot. Dialog appears. Grrr....—@ndw
Tuesday at 07:28am
Apparently you can only check the ink levels on the HP 5610 from some bit of software,
not on the actual device. FAIL.—@ndw
Tuesday at 08:55am
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:56am
@ndw no TiVo doesn't have that skip button any longer :-(—@christo4ferris
Tuesday at 10:41am
Pre-meeting lunch. Banging on Flickr API for *all* my contacts geocoded photos.—@ndw
Tuesday at 11:02am
meeting moved to 4p. Bleh.—@ndw
Tuesday at 12:40pm
enjoying open windows. Sixty five degrees (18C), baby!—@ndw
Tuesday at 12:53pm
dating a new working draft 2 April because, you know...—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 01:04pm
Can anyone tell me, in 140 characters or less, what is "THE BIG IDEA" behind MSFT
Silverlight?—@gapingvoid
@gapingvoid replace HTML, CSS, and open technologies with something MSFT controls. Or is that
just too cynical?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 01:31pm
office seems grey today - gonna go to the "Eye" and work there with a cup o' joe—@dcm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 01:33pm
Tuesday at 02:30pm
Ubuntu 7.10. Grip. Insert a new CD. The whole app goes "gray" for a few seconds then
comes back. It's a neat effect, but what does it mean?—@ndw
Wednesday at 07:23am
why in the name of all things sane does IE report array.length differently than FF/Safari?—@ndw
Wednesday at 07:59am
My bug. Always is, ain't it? x=[1,2,]; x.length=2 in FF/Safari; 3 in IE. Fair enough.—@ndw
Wednesday at 10:07am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:50pm
searching my own tweets for a link. I dunno what that means.—@ndw
@ndw lol... open windows? isn't that an oxymoron?—@christo4ferris
@christo4ferris chuckle. I meant the wood and glass things on my house!—@ndw
Wednesday at 12:58pm
Reports suggest that my mapping hackery has bugs in IE6. As Windows update has removed
my copy of IE6...anyone who feels like debugging...—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:05pm
First crash with Firefox 3 beta 5. Wow, that was quick.—@ebruchez
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:06pm
If someone sends me a patch, I'll apply it, but I'm not going to spend any time trying
to fix it myself—@ndw
Wednesday at 01:15pm
I don't believe I've been using MondoMouse for 30 days. Long enough to fork over the
cash though. So long enough, I guess.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:51pm
Thought experiment... think of the name of something/someone/someplace, put @ in front
of it, ask your self "Should that exist"?—@timbray
Wednesday at 02:55pm
This PC from Deb's office appears to have SATA and PATA cables. Can the two coexist?—@ndw
Wednesday at 02:59pm
anxiety meter pegged waiting for a callback for a call to which I am really not looking
forward. No prepositions at the end of that sentence—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:49pm
Phone call over. Anxiety meter falling rapidly.—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:54pm
I just quit my job. That feels really weird. Time for a drink. (Oh, and yes, I do
have another one lined up; I'm crazy, not stupid :-)—@ndw
Wednesday at 04:00pm
I didn't mean to be coy. Starting in May, I'll be working at Mark Logic.—@ndw
Wednesday at 04:57pm
thinking maybe Bombay Blue Sapphire does may a better martini than Tanqueray after
all—@ndw
Wednesday at 05:16pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 05:30pm
On reading http://tinyurl.com/34fe2p , I'm amused that every delegated auth model is now assumed to be OAuth.—@Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life I thought that OAuth was based heavily on Flickrs work?—@DaveO
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 07:12am
Finding that it's really hard to convince my boss that remote work (aka telecommuting)
is a good thing. Time to move on?—@obruchez
Thursday at 08:35am
Cobbled together feed to twitter gateway, just because it occurred to me—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 08:40am
major frigging props to Microsoft and Google. those guys understand identity. Yahoo-
not so much.—@monkchips
Thursday at 11:49am
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:02pm
Booting Parallels causes the OS X UI to become quite unresponsive (no Cmd-Tab, etc.).
What does that tell us about OS X?—@ebruchez
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 02:20pm
And now I have a case where Safari 3.1 takes 8.5s, and IE 6 5s only (in Parallels).
My world is falling apart!—@ebruchez
@ebruchez Fusion may address that instability you're having with Parallels and Mac OS X: http://tinyurl.com/2pzrj4—@vmwarefusion
@vmwarefusion No, not resuming, going back to a snapshot. Brings the machine to its knees for a
minute or two, other apps don't respond—@ndw
Thursday at 03:32pm
School busses. There are no "quick errands" between 3:00p and 4:00p—@ndw
Thursday at 03:59pm
You know that little bag of SATA cables that came with the drive lo these months ago.
The one I tossed because I'd never need?—@ndw
Thursday at 03:59pm
Guess what I need today?—@ndw
Thursday at 04:05pm
Had I kept them, I'd know right where they were. It was the, I'm putting this in an
enclosure, I don't need know stinking cables: stupid me—@ndw
Thursday at 04:13pm
Lightroom 2.0 beta. There's at least this evening wasted, er, consumed anyway—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:14pm
Ah! I see I missed some replies. @TwitterPOET: I meant the bar up top.—@Tricon
@Tricon slacker!—@jasonrohwedder
@jasonrohwedder Bummer. Last.fm installed on Mac or in the VM?—@vmwarefusion
@vmwarefusion I wasn't really complaining, FWIW, just observing. Fusion performs wonderfully. And
kudos for noticing and asking!—@ndw
Thursday at 04:18pm
Backing up the backups of my Lightroom catalog.—@ndw
Thursday at 04:19pm
The drive icon is labelled "RetailEnglish" Ain't beta's fun?—@ndw
Thursday at 04:54pm
Lightroom 2: Localized Corrections. FTW!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 05:12pm
Note to new marketing types: Nobody likes you, either. Everybody wants to beat you
up, as well.—@gapingvoid
@gapingvoid :-)—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 08:59pm
reading minutes of this week TAG telcon: http://tinyurl.com/2l5t6w—@sideshowbarker
@sideshowbarker I bet the scribe really made a pig's breakfast of it—@ndw
Thursday at 09:10pm
Finishing my feed-to-twitter gateway because I hate to leave even useless code half
written—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:19pm
oops. pig grease making fingers slippery... ignore previous twitter—@sideshowbarker
@sideshowbarker Oh, man, breakfast is 8 hours away, just stop!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:31am
its about time. today's first Blues Brothers reference for chinposin in Shades. @kevinchuhttp://twitter.com/kevinchu/statuses/782834591—@chinposin
Friday at 10:46am
Friday at 11:08am
I don't think the shades do much for me. Then again, I"m not sure authority is what
I crave.—@ndw
Friday at 12:03pm
Friday at 02:29pm
muxtape + firefox = FAIL?—@ndw
Friday at 09:00pm
Friday at 09:02pm
What's the pattern for I have a whole bunch of object that need access to a common
object, but that object can't be static?—@ndw
Saturday at 11:10am
exploring IntelliJ—@ndw
Saturday at 12:11pm
Anyone know the name of the config trick that allows "ndw+randomstuff" to be delivered
to ndw?—@ndw
Saturday at 12:11pm
email config trick, I mean. exim4 in particular, but the name will get me to google,
I think.—@ndw
Saturday at 12:19pm
Found it. local_part_suffix is the magic. Now. Do it, or just setup different real
accounts. Hmmm...—@ndw
Saturday at 12:26pm
You know what, I think /etc/aliases tricks will do the job more simply.—@ndw
Saturday at 02:49pm
whipping up a quick review of LR2's *awesome* local corrections feature—@ndw
Saturday at 02:52pm
So in three weeks I know if I'm switching from Flickr to SmugMug, I guess.—@ndw
Saturday at 04:13pm
dining out!—@ndw
Saturday at 04:19pm
whole system backups while I'm out dining, mmmmm good!—@ndw
Sunday at 01:41pm
relieved to discover that JavaDocs work right again in Firefox 3.0b5—@ndw
Sunday at 04:22pm
Anyone got pics on SmugMug, especially geotagged pictures?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 05:13pm
I'm trying out twhirl, but I strongly prefer the damn web interface - its a "pull"
modality. Too many push channels.—@gwachob
Sunday at 06:30pm
The thing where getdropbox.com has a home page that consists essentially of a big
Flash animation...dangerously close to FAIL—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 07:17pm
formsPlayer's been open source for a while, but now ready to make public (http://snurl.com/23n24)). Lots more news to come in next 2 months!—@markbirbeck
@markbirbeck Congratulations, and welcome to the club of open source XForms implementations!—@ebruchez