The short-form week of 14–20 Apr 2008
21 Apr 2008; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 55 messages in 49 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 Monday at 04:43am
Front runner: "Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. - Mahatma Gandhi"—@jurjanpaul
Monday at 07:17am
Get down to debugging iCal this morning...and suddenly it works correctly. Bah.—@ndw
Monday at 07:55am
It seems to be refreshing a subscribed calendar that's broken in iCal—@ndw
Monday at 08:07am
I guess United's "Springtime in Europe" promotion ended at 9a today. The ticket price
just went up by 30% between two searches.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:26am
http://tinyurl.com/636x4d .. PPK on "event delegation"—@sideshowbarker
@sideshowbarker Am I the only one who *hates* drop down menus that appear magically on mouse-over?—@ndw
Monday at 09:45am
Are there *any* good banking websites? Sometimes I want the web of 1998 back, damnit!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 11:01am
Helpful Hints from Ask Heloise. Do not set Skype Video to Auto-Answer if you frequently
take your laptop into the bathroom.—@nazgul
In a conversation that started on Monday at 11:31am
Having (almost) finished my taxes last night I bought myself a presy for having done
it.—@hallam007
Monday at 12:37pm
Selling your twitter handle. That's...something, I guess.—@ndw
Monday at 05:21pm
refactoring a Saxon 6 pattern matcher to use s9api—@ndw
Monday at 05:25pm
Waiting for FF3b6. FF3b4 gets frames wrong so JavaDoc fails. FF3b5 just fails.—@ndw
Monday at 05:31pm
figuring out how to get my Linux virtual machines under VMWare Fusion to have static
IP addresses—@ndw
Monday at 08:49pm
I just freecycled the parts of a broken electric lawn more. Not sending engineered
components to the dump, FTW!—@ndw
Monday at 08:59pm
VMWare Fusion full-screen and Spaces seem to play nice together. Sweet.—@ndw
Monday at 09:20pm
Downloading yesterday's daily build of FF—@ndw
Monday at 09:22pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:02am
trying the 13 Apr daily build of FF3—@ndw
Tuesday at 08:22am
Whee! Amazon telephone customer service has no clue how to answer questions about
the web services API.—@ndw
Tuesday at 08:25am
Trying to contact webservices at amazon.com again. You'd think they'd care that I've
let my access key become public, right? Sigh.—@ndw
Tuesday at 09:15am
Is there a Mac native 'pinentry' for gpg-agent?—@ndw
Tuesday at 11:18am
Considering writing a wrapper for source code control to run svn, hg, or cvs as appropriate...—@ndw
Tuesday at 05:31pm
watching Deb work hard to get me the cheapest hotel—@ndw
Tuesday at 05:32pm
<3 your travel agent!—@ndw
Tuesday at 06:59pm
so far, Minefield (Firefox b3 daily build from 13 Apr) has been solid—@ndw
Tuesday at 09:19pm
@gapingvoid isn't it a tad redundant to tweet that you've blogged that you're back on twitter?
:-)—@ndw
Tuesday at 09:32pm
Thought I'd try jott. Registered my phone number. Attempt to login: says "phone number
must contain 10 digits". FAIL—@ndw
Wednesday at 06:19am
Image Magick includes SVG to raster conversion. Sweet!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:51am
Perl+SVG+ImageMagick+Photoshop = cheap and dirty custom calendar—@ndw
Wednesday at 12:00pm
I can haz tickets to UK for TAG f2f—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:11pm
Yes, I have contacted @comcastcares, and Frank, the guy behind it, does truly appear to care. Give them a lot of points
for that.—@davewiner
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:13pm
wondering when TAG f2f is, and potential for BRS beers—@ldodds
Wednesday at 01:28pm
I think it's interesting that Twitter sometimes, but not always, makes its own tinyurl
URLs.—@ndw
Wednesday at 02:29pm
My Apple power brick just went "pop" and stopped delivering power. I may be going
offline in an hour or two ... :-/—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:04pm
One battery dead, working on 2 of 2—@ndw
Wednesday at 04:58pm
goodness gracious, what *do* you have to search for to find a new power cord on the
Apple site?—@ndw
Wednesday at 05:01pm
"MagSafe Power Adapter" and it's eighty bucks—@ndw
Thursday at 03:37pm
Install XP sp2 under VMware, archive the install: 0.8G. Run Windows Update, compress
again: 1.8G. But I'll never have to install again!—@ndw
Thursday at 05:39pm
considering unfollowing a few of y'all. Nothing personal, but apparently we don't
have that much in common after all.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 05:42pm
Facebook beacon lawsuit against blockbuster. http://tinyurl.com/4pyja5—@roessler
Thursday at 06:53pm
Heh. I said considering. Jeez.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 10:03am
what do people like best for serverside SVG -> PNG rendering these days? it's been
a while... is Batik still the state of the art?—@mattb
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:41am
I'm gonna hafta buy my own 1920x1600 LCD display. Reasonably priced suggestions, anyone?—@ndw
@ndw If you do not need hdmi, you can get this with 2 yr warranty for under $1000 if you
contact a sales rep. http://tinyurl.com/37r2mm—@terrisCA
In a conversation that started on Friday at 12:58pm
in the window of the campus bookstore: internet explorer 3 reference. wtf?—@kasei
Friday at 03:03pm
weekly backups. Y'all have weekly backups, right?—@ndw
Friday at 03:06pm
off to buy charcoal for the grill. Lovely weather dampens my envy for my China bound
friends and colleagues. But only just.—@ndw
Saturday at 08:04am
"Summer Preview Catalog" That'd be "Spring" right? It just wouldn't sound as cool.
Or something.—@ndw
Saturday at 03:38pm
outside on the deck with newly assembled patio furniture—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 01:05pm
Hmmmrm, tbray.org is off the air. Server's up & looks healthy... why no httpd?—@timbray
Sunday at 05:15pm
Flickr account expires in five days. Renew? What's the status of the MS ultimatum?—@ndw