The short-form week of 19–25 May 2008
26 May 2008; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 53 messages in 47 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 10:31am
hello darkness my old friend. We are again talking about the definition of language,
accept set, & information for versioning.—@DaveO
Monday at 10:57am
The number of references to brightkite has crossed some sort of mental threshold.
Anyone got an invite?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 12:15pm
Despairing over the slow encroachment of XML Schema into XProc.—@JeniT
Monday at 12:51pm
Going to dinner.—@ndw
Monday at 01:56pm
l:Hope & Anchor, Bristol, GB—@ndw
Monday at 05:26pm
l:Rodney Hotel, Bristol, GB. Zzzzzz.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 07:53am
Poring through XRI specs and shaking my head. How is the base XRI set so that relative
XRIs can be XRI normalized then converted to URIs?—@DaveO
@DaveO don't waste your time. XRIs were developed to solve a problem with URIs which didn't/doesn't
exist. Nothing to see here.—@distobj
@christo4ferris ROFL? Leaves me wanting to cry most times.—@ndw
Tuesday at 08:38am
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:31am
More morning reading: Now having mind blown by "Hauser's Law" of tax revenues http://is.gd/j6W - huge implications - need more coffee...—@xmlgrrl
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:32am
Via @xmlgrrl: RDDL redux, http://is.gd/j6F - one of my favorite ideas that previously never went anywhere. Elegant even if
useless.—@timbray
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:56am
Setting up netvibes. Now I can demo 15 different social network features without showing
one social network twice.—@trieloff
Tuesday at 10:28am
scribe scribe scribe brain melting—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:46am
is twitter IM dead?—@libbymiller
@libbymiller Apparently, AFAICT—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:21am
17/3400 documents invalid after transformation... Time for a bug hunt.—@JeniT
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:32am
doing a little happy dance at http://icanhaz.com/xri shame it's too late to save OpenID 2.0 http://tinyurl.com/6cayde—@psd
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:31am
Does writing about Women in IT actually help women in IT, or just (further) ghettoise
us?—@JeniT
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:09am
MS zOMG http://tinyurl.com/5qywrt—@al3xbrown
Wednesday at 10:39am
Packing up for the cab to the train. /TAG f2f—@ndw
Wednesday at 11:28pm
l:LHR en route to IAD—@ndw
Thursday at 09:39am
l:IAD en route to BDL—@ndw
Thursday at 10:07am
Off the plane, immigration, bag recheck, security in less than 10 min. FTW—@ndw
Thursday at 12:23pm
l:IAD no luck standby on an earlier flight—@ndw
Thursday at 12:25pm
Thursday at 12:49pm
OH: I can't help you, I'm at the airport and I can only tell you those numbers over
a secure line.—@ndw
Thursday at 01:11pm
Now boarding IAD->BDL. Home is but a couple of tantalizing hours away.—@ndw
Thursday at 01:24pm
I can't even tell who makes the little CRJ700 aircraft. Mesa airlines?—@ndw
Thursday at 01:25pm
When seat 3D is in coach, you know it's gonna be small.—@ndw
Thursday at 02:55pm
BDL. Almost home.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:01pm
off for another tennis match—@christo4ferris
@christo4ferris I'd sure like to know!!! No connection in IAD, I'd guess.—@ndw
Thursday at 04:39pm
H.o.m.e. S.c.o.t.c.h. D.o.n.e.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 04:30am
Friday at 07:44am
I let Minefield (ne Firefox 3 b x) do an "auto update—@ndw
Friday at 07:44am
" this morning. FAIL.—@ndw
Friday at 08:04am
Downgrading/backgrading/sidegrading/upgrading to Firefox 3 RC1—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:28am
Why are all amateur soapers named Sue, and why do all these Sues send their shitty
shaving soaps to me for review? Please Sue Nation, stop.—@shaveblog
In a conversation that started on Friday at 10:26am
I want to talk to a sendmail clone that will talk MS Exchange to an Exchange server.
I can't be the only one. Lazyweb?—@ndw
@ndw Not clear, but perhaps CommuniGate Pro will do it? www.stalker.com—@eliasisrael
@eliasisrael Yikes. I don't want to buy an enterprise communications portal. I want a 100 line
perl script that talks the exchange protocol.—@ndw
@ndw You mean, an SMTP<->MAPI translator?—@eliasisrael
@eliasisrael Yeah, that'd do the trick.—@ndw
Friday at 12:00pm
Maybe I just need to install exim4 and configure it. Looks like I can talk SMTP but
it won't relay, so I need to split messages. MTA can?—@ndw
Friday at 12:54pm
Friday at 03:32pm
Bah. Part way through configuring exim. Failing. Giving up for the long weekend.—@ndw
Saturday at 12:41pm
Taking my nephew to Iron Man, maybe Indy tomorrow—@ndw
Sunday at 07:57am
Watching my newphew play MLB 08—@ndw
Sunday at 08:37am
I want to buy a set of four or six hurricane glasses. I'm very surprised how hard
they are to find.—@ndw
Sunday at 08:57am
How I missed them on Amazon, I'll never know. /me FAIL—@ndw
Sunday at 03:52pm
PTO margaritas and clams on the deck. Does life get any better?—@ndw
Sunday at 05:18pm
Karma: lobster dinner and a nasty steam burn on my wrist—@ndw
Sunday at 06:53pm
burns $#@!%ing hurt!—@ndw
Sunday at 06:53pm
lobster is delicious—@ndw