The short-form week of 2–8 Jun 2008
09 Jun 2008; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 38 messages in 31 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 09:45am
You may be going to hell if.. http://tinyurl.com/6952jr—@dhmspector
@dhmspector Sweet. With a little stretch, I can make it into double digits.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:34pm
It was a good computing day - I only had to reboot Vista 2 times - Vista keep up the
good work!!! Linux 3 years since reboot!!—@harveybetty
@harveybetty 0.000457 times as good! :-)—@ndw
Monday at 09:41pm
Monday at 09:41pm
... is killer" I would have added had I not hit enter by mistake—@ndw
Monday at 09:46pm
Zzzzz—@ndw
Tuesday at 10:02am
Trying to finish my demo for the Mark Logic User Conference—@ndw
Tuesday at 02:01pm
XQuery doesn't have format-number. Jeeze Louise!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 03:25pm
What's the OSX VNC *Server* of choice? Does the one supposedly built into the Mac
work reasonably well?—@ndw
Tuesday at 03:32pm
I'll just assume something else was wrong—@ndw
Tuesday at 03:54pm
Waiting for a daily build to install on a somewhat underpowered box—@ndw
Tuesday at 03:56pm
Remembering not to tinker with the router config while I've got open connections to
the box through the router.—@ndw
Tuesday at 08:49pm
Wednesday at 09:29am
XML with great big wholloping hunks of base64 encoded pict-data. Someone thought this
was a *good* idea?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:15pm
"Tumour turns out to be 25-year-old towel" http://tinyurl.com/6cdu6y—@timbray
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:59am
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:14am
IE is not a web browser. its a Microsoft browser. there is a difference. IE makes
very me unhappy. 20 languages supported, but not the W3C.—@monkchips
Friday at 06:35am
rm -rf wiki.xproc.org. F*cking spammers!—@ndw
Friday at 07:26am
FF3RC2 ... good or bad? I'll find out...—@ndw
Friday at 07:55am
Friday at 09:14am
XQuery really got the default namespace stuff wrong—@ndw
Friday at 03:35pm
Friday at 03:36pm
Powerpoint. Sigh. I held out as long as I could.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:38pm
Signing up with twitter—@richardhamilton
@richardhamilton Welcome aboard :-)—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:40pm
Amazon is down for an hour. That must be why Twitter was down. Just too many people
twitting about it!—@avernet
In a conversation that started on Friday at 04:09pm
I keep tripping over it when I've made the HTML namespace the default and then want
to find names from the source document in no namespace.—@ndw
@harveybetty Oh, I can't go that far. A bit awkward around the edges perhaps, but not genuinely
evil.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 03:22pm
Geocaching FAIL. Sigh. No sign of trail at all and just wasn't prepared to hack my
way cross country with a little dog in tow.—@ndw
Saturday at 04:26pm
Want to wrap a bookcase around a corner. Wondering about the best design—@ndw
Saturday at 04:26pm
(an inside corner)—@ndw
Saturday at 08:48pm
Mojito: perfected. G'night.—@ndw
Sunday at 04:12pm
The last step of the reno (hah! haven't I said that before?): a new TV. Goodbye CRT.
Hello plasma.—@ndw
Sunday at 06:36pm
Just about sick of the cable company's remote. Wondering what the state of the art
in programmable remotes is.—@ndw