The short-form week of 7–13 Apr 2008
14 Apr 2008; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 75 messages in 67 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.
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:06pm
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
In a conversation that started on Monday at 08:12am
busted valve under kitchen sink flooded kitchen last night, no hot water until its
fixed—@louspringer
@louspringer Ugh! Good luck! Our old dishwasher sprang a leak years ago, I still remember the
mess—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 08:25am
bmanley: Working on a reflector service for Twitter.—@BoSForum
Monday at 08:41am
Ah. Cool. I was also thinking of doing exactly that for the "project" accounts—@ndw
Monday at 09:31am
How does one dispose of 12 boxes of financial records? I can't seem to find a local
secure recycling company—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:32am
finishing slides for presentation tomorrow—@ldodds
In a conversation that started on Monday at 11:24am
Bah! Forgot to take a picture yesterday. /me FAIL—@ndw
Monday at 04:24pm
I wonder if the GPS coordinates of US train tracks are available anywhere—@ndw
Monday at 04:50pm
poked at TIGER/Line data, concluded "not an evenings hacking"—@ndw
Monday at 05:01pm
Monday at 06:17pm
Monday at 07:05pm
reflecting tweets, a good idea?—@ndw
Tuesday at 08:15am
hg commit should default to "." not the whole damn repository—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:01am
vmware fusion saves my life (again) by allowing me to process data on my mac using
a process running in a linux vm (shared folders are ace)—@mmmmmrob
@mmmmmrob Yay virtual machines for dev, test, and sustaining engineering!—@vmwarefusion
@vmwarefusion is Ubuntu 7.10 fully supported now? Or is my memory that it wasn't at some point
faulty?—@ndw
Tuesday at 02:26pm
FF 3b5 crash. Restart. While "Would you like to restore" dialog is up, click a link.
Browser opens. Your prior state is toast. [censored]!—@ndw
Tuesday at 02:26pm
I want a "save my tab state in a file that I can restore later" feature. Wonder if
it exists.—@ndw
Tuesday at 02:27pm
The things I had sitting in tabs to tickle me to blog, review, consider, whatever.
Gone. Feck! Arse! Feck!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:30pm
ready for a beer after collating dajobe links—@danja
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:12pm
a timeline for avatars is essential for adventures in time and face- that's active
avatars!—@monkchips
Tuesday at 06:39pm
Getting into the superhero theme. Spoon!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:17pm
"Here," said Microsoft, "are the specs to our protocols. For all the good it will
do you." http://tinyurl.com/5kz27c—@eliasisrael
@eliasisrael 14,000 pages. FAIL.—@ndw
@ndw Not just that. Notice the bit where it says "use the spec and we'll sue."—@eliasisrael
@eliasisrael No, I have to admit, I missed that part. Good grief.—@ndw
Tuesday at 09:28pm
Spoon!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:29pm
S'really not as funny if you have to explain it. Not that it was ever *that* funny.—@ndw
@ndw Microsoft's practice of hiding their naughty bits behind an open source fig leaf
is getting tiresome.—@eliasisrael
@eliasisrael I'm pretty tired of all of it, really. Have been for *ages*.—@ndw
Tuesday at 09:37pm
Tell me that you want me, quack like a duck. http://tinyurl.com/5vs9tq—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:51pm
@designswarm, you should trying trading in dollars, pffft. :(—@edd
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:49pm
Big thanks to @ratsonparade for an evernote invite. Thanks!—@kplawver
Wednesday at 02:42pm
Flickr video in FF3b5, she is no go.—@ndw
Wednesday at 02:46pm
Oh. No. That would be user FAIL. Nevermind. Stupid little "loading" note on top of
the "play" button (Flashblock, baby!) tricked me.—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:10pm
Evernote's text-from-images support may be the thing that drives me to get a new mobile
phone, one with a modern mobile phone camera—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:11pm
Why doesn't QuickSilver find Presario.term? It finds other .terms in that directory.
Grrr.—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:28pm
Oh Oh Ex Em El Go To H-E-double hockey sticks. http://tinyurl.com/56hj6b—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:29pm
makes mental not to buy Steve a beer next time I see him—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:39pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:41pm
olympic torch now going by *boat*?—@robertbrook
@robertbrook It's SSH with tramp, I think, which is just marvelous.—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:48pm
libc6-dev wasn't installed? No wonder CPAN went all pear shaped—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:49pm
Thursday at 08:45am
MP3 ID3v2 tags support cover art. And so does CoverSutra. How cool is that?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:30am
I can haz command-line status updates?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:40am
outlining a docbook moodle course—@coreyopenmls
@coreyopenmls Cool. Lemme know if you'd like a review.—@ndw
Thursday at 11:58am
Scads of albums but no cover art. What's the shortest distance from here to there?
Where "there" is I haz cover art for them all.—@ndw
Thursday at 12:03pm
p daveo scribing TAG?—@ndw
Thursday at 12:19pm
realizing I attempted to send a direct message with "p ..." instead of "d ..." /me
FAIL—@ndw
Thursday at 01:18pm
learning to like Leopard "Spaces"—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:41pm
Orbeon will be at JavaOne 2008 (http://tinyurl.com/5upk3d)).—@ebruchez
Thursday at 01:42pm
Rebuilding gobs of MP3s with embedded cover art because, well, it doesn't require
any thought and I'm on a telcon anyway—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 02:50pm
USB/serial adapter + Garmin GPS adapter=8ft of cable where 2 would do. Cut and splice?
Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?—@ndw
@ndw the best mp3 tagging program I've ever found is the godfather. Don't get absorbed
into Itunes drm hell.—@DaveO
@DaveO I don't do DRM. http://norman.walsh.name/2005/07/08/drm Mostly what I want is an automaticc over art grabber. Tagging I've got.—@ndw
Thursday at 03:53pm
attic fan came on for the first time this year. pro: it's warm. con: I have to listen
to that damn fan.—@ndw
Friday at 06:26am
Friday at 06:38am
Why doesn't the "Minefield Start Page" actually point, you know, to where the #@$#
daily builds are stored?—@ndw
Friday at 06:41am
FF3b5 sucks. But the Minefield from yesterday sucks more. Sigh.—@ndw
Friday at 06:42am
FF3b4 with broken frames support (and consequently broken JavaDoc) or FF3b5 which
is just plain broken. Choose.—@ndw
Friday at 07:51am
What's the OpenID provider of choice these days?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:42am
astonished how easy it was to make a "get cover art from amazon.com" script—@ndw
@ndw care to share that script (I've wanted something like that for a while) or shall
I just consider it 'an exercise for the reader' :-) ?—@jurjanpaul
@jurjanpaul Sure. As soon as I recover from accidentally posting my Amazon key. /me FAIL—@ndw
Friday at 11:39am
Leaving early this afternoon to go see Kooza: http://tinyurl.com/4pjkaz—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 09:13pm
crazy warm weather in vancouver. Set up the kids slide, table, & house in the backyard.
Rain tomorrow tho :-(—@DaveO
Saturday at 09:43pm
Start importing photos in Lightroom. Minimize Lightroom. Guess what Lightroom does
after it finishes importing the next photograph...—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 11:20am
Police find 'presenter's body': A body found at Paddington railway station is believed
to be that of missing chi.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news—@bbcbreaking
@bbcbreaking pointing to the BBC News homepage instead of a page for the specific story you're
tweeting is irritating.—@ndw
Sunday at 11:55am
looking for a reasonably priced two-line analog phone compatible with the Plantronics
HL10 lifter. All the cradles are so shallow...—@ndw
Sunday at 12:21pm
iCal is ignoring the UNTIL phrase in my generated .ics file. Sigh.—@ndw
Sunday at 12:27pm
iCal will only let me delete "this event" or "this event and following"? WTF? I want
to delete *them all*—@ndw
Sunday at 12:36pm
iCal won't let me start an event in the past? And here I was thinking it might be
a useful application. Bah.—@ndw
Sunday at 12:58pm
iCal sucks. Google calendar has weird fixed limits. Any descent calendars out there?
Maybe Sunbird...—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 01:05pm
Sunbird ignores my attempts to type in input fields. I think it's time for me to give
up on online calendaring. Anyone got a pencil?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 02:24pm
LinkedIn suggests that "adding a position" will increase my profile completeness.
Isn't that a bit personal?—@mollydotcom
@mollydotcom *chuckle*—@ndw
Sunday at 02:43pm
MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update. Hmm. Do I feel lucky?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 03:11pm
Forgot my iPhone charging cable. Oh, well. Off to the Apple Store.—@eliasisrael
@eliasisrael Knew you'd think up some reason to go to the Apple Store! It's always somethin'...—@xmlgrrl