The short-form week of 21–27 Apr 2008
28 Apr 2008; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 78 messages in 66 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 06:43am
Have PDF. Has ToC with page numbers, but no hot text. Individual pages have no page
numbers. FAIL.—@ndw
Monday at 06:20pm
the T-Mobile web site exhibits so much suckage that it's actually *easier* to type
the data into my *phone*—@ndw
Monday at 06:29pm
I guess it's actually the Danger, Inc. website. And in fairness, the phone's got a
full keyboard.—@ndw
Monday at 09:25pm
my s9api implementation of "process matching nodes" runs!—@ndw
Monday at 09:34pm
Norwich to Bristol Temple Meads by way of Sheffield?—@ndw
Monday at 09:36pm
Have been poking about with Hiveminder. Now trying Remember the Milk. GMail "plugin"
looks like a win.—@ndw
Tuesday at 06:29am
who let the spam out?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:35am
@Wrestlevania click & see :)—@danbri
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 07:03am
the dopplr carbon calculator is now available to all travellers. and i honestly did
not know it was earth day today when we planned it. yay!—@mattb
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 07:15am
about to write a blog post to explain better, but our "edit trip" form now includes
a train/plane/automobile setting so you can get it right—@mattb
Tuesday at 07:32am
wondering how I could better automate the "discard all bogus mail to such and such
a SF list" without all the clicking by hand.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:31am
Tuesday at 12:56pm
puzzling over the occasional random "friend request" from one social site or another.
Who *are* you and why do you want to be my friend?—@ndw
Tuesday at 12:57pm
Heh. This one describes himself as an "SEO engineer". Can you spell B L O C K? I knew
you could.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 01:54pm
support.apple.com login page: super slow, incorrect error messages, asks to create
a new account. FAIL.—@ebruchez
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:51pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 03:53pm
Just got my new monitor. Wow, 30" is HUGE. And you won't need a lightbulb in your
room now.—@ebruchez
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 05:02pm
woohoo! 4th edition of Michael Kay's XSLT programmer's reference is coming: http://tinyurl.com/5ps6wg—@iTod
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 05:48pm
okay, it's the global virtual margarita party! Who's gonna DJ? Volunteers?—@mollydotcom
@mollydotcom What Tequilla are you using?—@jesterxl
@jesterxl: Cuervo gold. Nothing fancy but absolutely nice in a refreshing Margarita. Fresh
lime juice/limes, one secret molly ingredient.—@mollydotcom
@mollydotcom I'd go for salt, but I'm makin' Pina Coladas instead :-p—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:03pm
what browser *does* muxtape.com work in? IE? FAIL—@ndw
Tuesday at 06:13pm
Tuesday at 06:20pm
Weird. muxtape works as a Fluid app. Oh well, that's fine by me, I guess.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:25pm
We're going to soon have very nice Twitter clients for the iPhone: http://tinyurl.com/6r96dj—@avernet
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 05:13am
Is there anything more annoying than someone interrupting you in the middle of a job
so that they can nag you to get that job done?—@ceri
Wednesday at 08:19am
Am I overlooking the search functionality on muxtape, or does it really not have one?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 10:57am
With Skype Unlimited plans, "unlimited" means max 10,000 min/month. That's not unlimited
in my book. But OK, it's a lot; fair enough.—@avernet
Wednesday at 11:08am
Finally banged out a "print an envelope to this contact" stylesheet in the background—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:19pm
Have been refamiliarizing myself with "The Design of Everyday Things" -- it' all still
holds true today...—@xmlgrrl
Wednesday at 12:33pm
Ah, closer inspection reveals that it's a "Book of the Month Club" edition.—@ndw
Wednesday at 02:18pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:21pm
These people (http://us.cision.com//) just called me and asked me how I use my blog at PeopleOverProcess.com. Are these
some data overlords?—@cote
Wednesday at 02:29pm
Wednesday at 02:55pm
Good grief. Repeat after me: DRM is evil. http://tinyurl.com/4pkz67—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:21pm
the ambient temperature goes up a few degrees and even my AL cooling rack isn't keeping
'traytable' cool to the touch.—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:22pm
anyone fancy a fried egg?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 08:19am
Hmm. The Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press torrent vanished before it finished.
Drat.—@ndw
Thursday at 08:59am
Today is my 8 year anniversary at Sun and coincidentally 8 days before my termination
date. That's just a little weird.—@ndw
Thursday at 09:01am
I wonder if apt-get dist-upgrade will do the right thing on a Gutsy Gibbon box. Let's
find out!—@ndw
Thursday at 09:12am
Gutsy to Hardy update instructions seem to require the GUI update-manager. VNC FTW!—@ndw
Thursday at 09:13am
Bah. The update manager notices I'm running it over SSH and warns against it. Time
to walk down to the closet and use the console, I guess.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:41am
I've been laptop-based since 2005; maybe time to switch to POP mail habits?—@danbri
@danbri Why even POP? Why not just leave email in the cloud on Google? Their UI is better
than desktop mail, & you can get it from anywhere.—@markbirbeck
@markbirbeck can't get it on a plane or anywhere else off the net.—@ndw
@ndw I always thought that too. So I ran Mail on my Mac, & sync'd Google. But after never
needing an email in flight, I dropped even that.—@markbirbeck
@markbirbeck I rely on email on almost every flight. It's the only time I get a chance to catch
up :-)—@ndw
Thursday at 01:37pm
demolished a closet over lunch. Drywall patching this weekend.—@ndw
Thursday at 05:40pm
@markbirbek I combat the last mail problem by bcc:'ing my gmail address—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:24am
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:39am
home finally - now to pack things up and move to Brisbane. Interesting week ahead.—@footloosemoose
Friday at 06:44am
we're so close to a new public working draft of XProc, I can taste it.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:20am
What do my followers think of the semantics of Iterator.hasNext()? It should be idempotent,
right? I don't find the JavaDoc deeply clear.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:25am
In particular, I"m looking at some code where hasNext() consumes an event and I think
that's a bug.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:26am
Hrm, sounds like they need more, or just more active ones? Columbus ppl are spoiled.—@pandamonial
@pandamonial Heartland is a big place for so feww people.—@mikewo
@mikewo Oop! Disregard my tweet! Thought you meant VPC for Mac! VPC for Windows is a virtualization
product. Sorry!—@vmwarefusion
@vmwarefusion That was an unexpected reply. Interesting PR tactics. Cheers though =)—@exmosis
@exmosis We're just here to answer questions and make helpful suggestions ; ) Enjoy the software.—@vmwarefusion
@vmwarefusion How about that Parallels trade in rebate in the UK?—@daveverwer
@daveverwer I wish Dave. Sadly only US and Canada now. Legal stuff. Sorry to disappoint.—@vmwarefusion
@vmwarefusion vmware-config0/vmmemctl-only/compat_wait.h:55:5: warning: "VMW_HAVE_EPOLL" is not
defined ?—@ndw
Friday at 10:27am
I can haz Hardy Heron. Took a while to upgrade though!—@ndw
Friday at 10:55am
Ordered kit from Solarbotics yesterday with shipping guaranteed for 6 May. It arrived
today. Sweet.—@ndw
Friday at 11:00am
I wonder what the TSA is going to say about a robotics kit. Better put that in my
checked luggage, eh?—@ndw
Friday at 12:08pm
Flickr: "Hey Norm Walsh... Your Pro Account is going to expire on 26th of Apr. That's
today!" I guess today is the 26th *somewhere*.—@ndw
Friday at 12:13pm
forking over another $25 to Flickr. I'm going to feel like that was wasted if they
get bought out by MS—@ndw
Friday at 01:34pm
Anyone managed to get vmware tools built under Hardy Heron?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:40pm
lunch at Miracle of Science—@laughingsquid
@laughingsquid: how far is that from moscone west?—@Viss
@kevinmarks only 1 day 21 hours ... if you can *average* 68.78mph!—@ndw
Friday at 02:35pm
Calling my XProc implementation "xproc" is boring and will eventually cause confusion.
I need a better name.—@ndw
Friday at 02:49pm
Several days in, Remember the Milk is still winning—@ndw
Friday at 03:56pm
OH in the liquor store "but will we have enough money for food"—@ndw
Saturday at 03:02pm
finished closet demo, re-framed corners, cut and installed sheet rock, taped, and
applied the first coat of mud. Finished. Now haz beer.—@ndw
Sunday at 04:06pm
I really do need a "save tabs to a file" extension for FF—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:08pm
interested by the talk of Current Cost electricity meters, but bemused that their
site doesn't tell you where to buy them, or cost. anybody?—@mattb
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:38pm
Personal blog: Norwegian Music: Sitting in the hotel (right next to Herr Nielsen's
Jazz Clu.. http://tinyurl.com/5lwxmg—@webmink
Sunday at 04:41pm
bashed thumb with hammer. Ow! Ow! Ow!—@ndw
Sunday at 04:45pm
Some loose dog ripped the vinyl siding corner off the house, probably trying to get
a chipmunk or something. Color me furious.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 08:39pm
approaching Logan airport, we'll be landing in Boston soon, tail winds of 60mph made
this a very fast trip across the country—@afalk