The short-form week of 12–18 May 2008
19 May 2008; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 41 messages in 38 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 08:42am
@nokhari ICUH8N—@codinghorror
@codinghorror is so right. Just turn the big XML switch in the sky off. Anything that was used
to invent SOAP has to go: http://is.gd/fmS—@timbray
In a conversation that started on Monday at 10:04am
Wondering whether to sigh or rant over Jeff Atwood's anti-XML post: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001114.html—@JeniT
Monday at 02:37pm
Four hours without power or network. Productivity, what productivity?—@ndw
Tuesday at 06:28am
Packing for UK. Realize I never firmed up a TAG/Bristol area/sem web/dinner/pub crawl.
Drat. I'll send another email.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 07:54am
...and like all great geeks, she ignores her bodily needs while at the computer. Time
for another set of pants...—@JeniT
Tuesday at 09:29am
Final packing checklists; soon to BDL for departure to IAD and connection to LHR—@ndw
Tuesday at 09:31am
I can't remember, do UK trains have power, generally? I suppose I'll find out soon
enough.—@ndw
Tuesday at 11:13am
l:BDL—@ndw
Tuesday at 11:19am
Thanks for the train info. My details are at http://is.gd/fXH FWIW, but it doesn't really matter. Work or sleep. Either will probably work!—@ndw
Tuesday at 12:42pm
Is there time for lunch before I board? Hmm. "Maybe"—@ndw
Tuesday at 03:31pm
l:IAD—@ndw
Tuesday at 03:49pm
The linksys wireless router interface is *totally* unusable in a text-only browser.
FAIL—@ndw
Tuesday at 03:56pm
I couldn't leave it alone. Defending the "tax" http://is.gd/g6Y—@ndw
Tuesday at 03:57pm
Posting something controversial then dropping off the net for five days. Recipe for
FAIL? Probably.—@ndw
Tuesday at 04:11pm
falling off the grid...—@ndw
Wednesday at 12:43am
l:LHR—@ndw
Wednesday at 01:39am
l:Paddington—@ndw
Wednesday at 02:13am
l:Liverpool Street—@ndw
Wednesday at 02:49am
It runs! My rebuilt XProc impl runs p:identity again!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:55am
I have become a great uncle—@al3xbrown
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:12am
To me, @ndw sounds a bit like Dr Frankenstein shouting "LLLLive!" in this tweet - http://is.gd/gk8—@philhawksworth
@philhawksworth that was the image I had in mind—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:26am
Ooh! It ran a simple XSLT step too! FTW!—@ndw
Wednesday at 07:43am
Hmm. No wifi in the local pubs. I guess I am out in the sticks.—@ndw
Friday at 11:31am
XProc impl coming along: opts, vars, params, half a dozen steps—@ndw
Sunday at 09:00am
l:Sheffield, Bristol bound—@ndw
Sunday at 09:00am
Sucking from the mains until 15:15...—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 10:48am
Sunday at 11:03am
Sheffield to Bristol: I can haz power! Woot!—@ndw
Sunday at 12:44pm
l:Bristol—@ndw
Sunday at 01:43pm
Mackerel pate. I chose wisely. Nom nom nom—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:03pm
fucking about with svn because this hotel's proxy sucks. Need bits committed!—@ndw
@ndw *that* is why you should switch to Git—@listen_to_pius
@listen_to_pius Fair enough. Subversion was easy to install on dreamhost. I've subsequently installed
Mercurial too, but not publicly.—@ndw
@ndw yup, I hear ya. what are you working on these days, btw?—@listen_to_pius
@listen_to_pius At the moment, my XProc impl which is actually in pretty good shape now. Core-functionality-wise—@ndw
Sunday at 04:33pm
Stupid %#@$# hotel proxy is caching a page that I've changed. How the frick do I make
it forget?—@ndw
Sunday at 04:34pm
I should be able to fix this with an ssh tunnel, right? make localhost:8001 a tunnel
to remotehost:8001. Right? Drat. I used to know how...—@ndw
Sunday at 04:36pm
Sweet! SSH ROCKS!—@ndw
Sunday at 04:46pm
Soaking up the hotel's upstream bandwidth with scp—@ndw
Sunday at 04:59pm
Who knew the demo data for this project was 30Mb? Who thought it'd take more than
a couple of seconds to upload 30Mb?—@ndw
Sunday at 05:02pm
Who remembers 10Mb hard drives and thinks I'm bandwidth-spoiled at home?—@ndw
Sunday at 05:14pm
#@$%#! I can't VPN through this proxy either. Here's hoping the access at HP tomorrow
is cleaner. He says with his fingers crossed.—@ndw