The short-form week of 5–11 May 2008

12 May 2008; last modified 13 Mar 2011

The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 19 messages in 18 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 07:35am

Fixing wiki spam. DIE SPAMMERS DIE!—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:35am

Fluid 0.9.1.2 is out with fix for mouse event tracking issues and also improvement to the Growl Icon JS API. http://fluidapp.com—@iTod

@iTod in Fluid 'Advanced prefs', I allow browsing to a particular URL. Can I force it to go in a tab instead of a new window?—@ndw

Wednesday at 09:21am

Message from yahoo.com. Unable to deliver message... Cannot open /usr/lib/libc.so.4 WTF? I smell a fire drill!—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 04:01pm

The syntactic constraints of "let" in XQuery are just *BIZARRE*—@ndw

@ndw: in what sense? I find them... usable, taking into account that it's a functional language.—@ruidlopes

@ruidlopes the fact that its part of a FLWOR so you have to have a "return" even if you don't have an F W or O.—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:04pm

installing Adobe CS3 requires safari to be closed. wtf?—@ruidlopes

@ruidlopes Sure, that works, but I wanted to store a partial result in a variable :-)—@ndw

Wednesday at 06:24pm

What's the JS lib of choice for "show me a drop down of relevant entries for the input field I'm typing into"—@ndw

Thursday at 08:04am

missing XTech :-(—@ndw

Thursday at 08:16am

startssl.com home page FAIL: this._writeFile(...) too much recursion—@ndw

Thursday at 11:45am

UPS! Yay! I can haz 24" monitor again!—@ndw

Thursday at 11:50am

Oh, that's nice.—@ndw

Thursday at 11:57am

I can haz two screens again, UPS delivered my 24" monitor!—@ndw

Friday at 07:05am

Bah. How long has my precommit hook not been running? /me FAIL—@ndw

Friday at 04:06pm

Going to dinner to celebrate our anniversary.—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Saturday at 07:59am

Ultrasound confirmed we are having a son. Wife's already gone cute T-shirts shopping; "Chick Magnet" and "Me & My Teddy Bear, We're Tight".—@Carnage4Life

@Carnage4Life Congratulations!—@ndw

Sunday at 08:11am

Speed racer or iron man?—@ndw

Sunday at 03:21pm

Left before y'all twittered back, but opted for Iron Man. A little predictable, as these things usually are, but RDJr was excellent. Fun++—@ndw

Sunday at 03:24pm

What will iTunes think of my ExpanDrive archive of music. Will it let me sync it to my iPod. (Freaking better!)—@ndw

Sunday at 03:25pm

Dark rum + coconut rum + Paula's Texas Orange + pineapple juice = delicious!—@ndw