The short-form week of 16–22 Jun 2008
23 Jun 2008; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 42 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.
Monday at 09:20am
Exploring webthumbnail tools for a little spec-search-magic I have in mind—@ndw
Monday at 10:24am
@eliasisreal Gee, thanks. It's not like I didn't already want an RC plane!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 01:54pm
Announcement: Twitterrific on the iPhone won an award! Photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/talosman/2576590268/in/photostream/—@Twitterrific
@twitterrific Love the beta, but if new tweets arrive whie you're reading, the display scrolls
back to where you started. Not loving that.—@ndw
Monday at 02:37pm
PS3 shows me the eyedropper results in *decimal* WTF?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 07:41am
TwitterPoll: True or False - men are more uncomfortable than women with conversations
regarding "defining" relationships.—@mollydotcom
@mollydotcom I couldn't even begin to guess—@ndw
Tuesday at 11:07am
Slurping HTML from www.w3.org/TR/ I wonder if I'm about to get banned for 72 hours
:-)—@ndw
Tuesday at 12:09pm
Anyone got anything good or bad to say about the GT Ultra Express 3G card for the
Mac?—@ndw
Tuesday at 12:54pm
@eliasisreal So?—@ndw
Tuesday at 01:05pm
@eliasisreal the fact that lots of folks want to do it is not the only criterion I'd want to use
for deciding if it should be done.—@ndw
Tuesday at 01:28pm
Ah, broadband. A 7Mb update? Sure, get it now.—@ndw
Tuesday at 01:30pm
Almost never rebooting encourages use of /tmp for ... temporary stuff. Then one of
those rare reboots occurs and you wonder...where'd it go?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 01:36pm
getting frustrated at the state of namespaced XML parsing in the browser universe—@psd
Tuesday at 02:21pm
Bah. VMWare Fusion 1.1.3 doesn't support Ubuntu 8.04 out of the box either? Dang it.
Where'd I put those instructions...—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:27pm
FYI: VMWare Fusion + Hardy Heron = http://is.gd/zCR or maybe the equality runs the other way.—@ndw
Tuesday at 08:58pm
Am I the only one who regularly finger-fumbles an extra "-" into XQuery close comment
delimiters?—@ndw
Tuesday at 10:09pm
I have a page with 100 parts. I could return the whole thing slowly or return quickly
and generate 100 AJAX requests. Rules of thumb?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 11:46am
"Our email system discards any emails with .zip attachments. [...rename to .zip2
or .zipped or something else"—@roessler
Wednesday at 02:08pm
Thursday at 03:49pm
All these javascript libraries are clearly great, but do any of them actually work
as documented? Which presupposes that they're documented.—@ndw
Thursday at 03:50pm
Dojo seems to do the ajaxy thing ok, but I can't get tabs working with dijit. Livepipe
seems to do tabs on prototype, but isn't documented—@ndw
Thursday at 03:51pm
Remind me again, what was wrong with web 1.0?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:57pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:01pm
j/k. I really do want some web 2.0 AJAX/UI goodness in this little app—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 05:55pm
pondering how to write xmldiff using only xquery—@peteaven
Thursday at 08:51pm
Bah, jQuery does not get along well with XML. Bite my hairy ...—@ndw
Thursday at 09:04pm
Oh, maybe it's me after all. $("div",response).text() seems to work. How or why I
can't (yet) begin to guess.—@ndw
Thursday at 09:06pm
I take that back, .text() is apparently only going to work if I send back escaped
markup. No. NO. NO! NO! NOT EVER!—@ndw
Thursday at 09:07pm
Ah, but .html() does work. Again, beats me why.—@ndw
Friday at 07:20am
{ "Generating JavaScript with XQuery" {{ Whee! }} "." }—@ndw
Friday at 08:19am
JQuery AJAX + UI stuff werkin. A little idiosyncratic, but I'm getting used to that—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:06pm
'The Love Guru' is so bad that Canada is considering declaring Mike Meyers to have
been born in the United States.—@whump
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:27pm
Doing half an implementation then deciding you chose the wrong JavaScript library.
FAIL.—@ndw
Friday at 03:48pm
No, jQuery is what I think I should have chosen. At the moment, I'm frustrated by
(perceived, I could be missing things) issues w/Dojo—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:02pm
wishing that the URI and IRI specs were even remotely close to the real world when
it comes to what browsers do with URLs...—@Hixie
Saturday at 12:16pm
How odd. New digital alarm clock doesn't keep anything approaching accurate time.—@ndw
Saturday at 12:54pm
Or, odder, there's an area of warped spacetime in the bedroom where time runs faster.—@ndw
Saturday at 12:56pm
Had to trade in DVR for HD model before seeing recorded Dr. Who. :-( Hope for rebroadcast.—@ndw
Sunday at 12:05pm
Mowed lawn. Put away mower. Rain started. Timing. FTW!—@ndw