The short-form week of 14–20 Jul 2008
21 Jul 2008; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 71 messages in 57 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 12:50pm
not liking the <step1/>, <step2/>, <step3/> design. much prefer #docbook's <step/>'s—@coreyopenmls
@coreyopenmls Does #s1000d have change-page requirements? That seriously constrains your output format.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 01:03pm
Perhaps users like to shop for apps on the App Store more than they like browsing
the web? What does that tell us about the web itself?—@robc2
@robc2 Mostly, I think, it tells us that the web doesn't have a uniform directory of web
applications grouped by category, price, etc.—@ndw
@ndw #s1000d figures and page breaks: There must be no manual attempt to
move the figure to another page due to an automatic page break.—@coreyopenmls
@coreyopenmls One of the aerospace schemas does require the ability to generate change pages, but
maybe it wasn't s1000d.—@ndw
Monday at 03:46pm
Clouds blew away: lamb on the barbi is a "go"—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 11:05pm
My colleagues in pizza have very boring taste.—@plasticbagUK
Tuesday at 08:52am
Keeriest! The Office 2007 application UI is *ugly* and confusing—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 11:07am
Tuesday at 01:50pm
I am managing *page breaks* around section headings *by hand* Word=FAIL—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 04:03pm
Taking Aquamacs for another spin—@ndw
Wednesday at 07:56am
XProc + Saxon 9.1 = working attribute match patterns!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:20am
Learning about optimizing pages for the iPhone—@liza
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 10:21am
I have a PNG, I want a tool that will let me eyedropper colors off of them in #hhhhhh notation. Pointers?—@ndw
@ndw I use Paintshop Pro - I can't live without the eyedropper capability..—@harveybetty
@harveybetty Yeah. I'm just *astonished* that AFAICT, Photoshop's eyedropper only reports the
values in decimal.—@ndw
Wednesday at 12:03pm
Wednesday at 01:45pm
Any exim4 experts out there?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:52pm
Burning question - where do old technical books go to die? Is it sacrilegious to
put them in the 'circular file'?—@harveybetty
@harveybetty Yep.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:29pm
TwitterPoll: name the song/singers: "Maybe I'm a stupid fool / chasing butterflies
like you"—@mollydotcom
@mollydotcom What do you call... "Molly" is my first guess :-)—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:44pm
OS X puts desktop icons down the right side. Can I change that?—@ndw
Wednesday at 06:45pm
Spam subject: Pope killed by assassin in Vatican City. Huh?—@ndw
Wednesday at 06:46pm
Dear GMail: If the mail is in an eastern European or Asian encoding, it's spam.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:22pm
Wednesday at 09:31pm
So I've got some jQuery JS that updates the page based on time-of-day. I'd like it
to run a function every 5 minutes. Is this a solved prob?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 12:57am
Fluid MobileMe Window Style coming soon (for the record I know this is fugly.. but
it *is* kinda fun...) http://skitch.com/t/f11—@iTod
Thursday at 07:01am
I wonder how long I have to wait for the #freerunner to be a reasonable platform.—@ndw
Thursday at 07:21am
You know, I feel bad about considering a closed, DRM-encrusted, walled garden of an
iPhone, but if the alternative is windows mobile...—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:14am
Losing will to live reading the "Observatory" posts on planet.opensolaris.org. Get
a room guys! [this one isn't it imho]—@timfoster
Thursday at 09:48am
Everytime I look at "mind mapping" tools I think they should be really cool and useful,
yet, I never find any actual use for them. Just me?—@ndw
Thursday at 10:57am
I wonder if Pandora can be taught to talk to Last.fm?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 11:22am
Dang it! The repair folks returned my printer, but not the power cord. I only sent
it because I was have a problem with power!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 12:46pm
Stay tuned for details, but it'll be in Santa Cruz, sometime in next 8 weeks. Must
be OK w/ dogs, dirt, and horses. Can camp here, too.—@KathySierra
@KathySierra There are days when building physical stuff is more appealing than coding.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:34pm
Most annoying Firefox bug on the Mac: cmd-back in an input field does a browser back
instead of taking you to the beginning of the field.—@ebruchez
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:01pm
Half of me is excited at hell, the other half is convinced they're gonna █████ it
up: http://tinyurl.com/5zyklh—@b3gl
In a conversation that started on Friday at 07:24am
I've stumbled into a "happening": http://tinyurl.com/pradipta-rolodex—@kplawver
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:21am
By what miracle of pronunciation can "phreadz" be pronounced "threads"? Heh.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:49am
Just heard a new term 'backscatter'. Now for the Google search to see if I can resolve
my issue.—@harveybetty
@harveybetty Backscatter as in spam? Yeah, I got a deluge too, someone forged my email for p0rn
spam.—@ndw
Friday at 09:01am
No disrespect intended to the folks at phreadz.com, either, btw. :-)—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:51am
I would say that the iPhone OS is crashing way too often.—@ebruchez
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:50am
enjoying getting things done on macbook pro. Fusion + multiple macs is awesome.
Lots of apps on Mac now as well.—@DaveO
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:53am
picking up the pieces after some <expletives deleted> who managed to remove roots
crontab 5 hours ago and not tell anyone. *SIGH*—@quasi42
@timbray Not I, though I'm more and more confident that I've made my Mac unstable, http://is.gd/RUF—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:56am
Friday at 03:34pm
Finished *all* my XProc action items; new editor's draft ready for WG review. I can
haz weekend now?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:34pm
Finished all of Alex's actions too, come to think of it.—@ndw
Friday at 03:53pm
Starting to try to get a handle on what's installed to be as ready as possible for
when I scrape my Mac back to spinning rust & reinstall—@ndw
Friday at 03:55pm
Hmm. I'm getting too many repeat plays on Pandora. Small song list, or my narrow preferences?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 05:54pm
If I don't want an iPhone under the current terms, and I don't want a Windows Mobile
phone, and I want a GSM phone, what are the best opts?—@ndw
Friday at 06:36pm
N95 looks nice, but no keyboard would be a drag. Blackberry has a keyboard, but doesn't
seem to do much interesting.—@ndw
Friday at 06:39pm
I guess I"m going to lease my soul to Apple for two years after all.—@ndw
Friday at 06:49pm
The blackberry website is so f*cking loaded with flash, I can't tell if I'd want their
damn products. FAIL.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:51pm
Cool. Now that identi.ca supports the twitter API, I could use twitteriffic with identi.ca.
That might reduce my presence on twitter though.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:59pm
Catching up on Facebook email..—@hfrench
@hfrench, sounds good. i am off to the cottage for a week and back next monday. mail me vallee@pythian.com to set up a call that wk.—@paulvallee
@paulvallee Buy me (another) beer and I'll tell you some insane RIM stories from my brief stint
there as Web 2.0-guy. RIM-=clue—@distobj
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 06:42am
question - do you currently follow chinposin out of inertia, for the timeline tracker
at chinposin.com/home/username or for the game itself?—@chinposin
Saturday at 07:34am
Off to Lyman Plant House to see the Titan Arum in bloom then over to the Scottish
festival at Look Park.—@ndw
Saturday at 03:21pm
The printer works better if you plug in the USB hub. I'm just saying.—@ndw
Saturday at 03:26pm
Fuck. Printer just came back from repair. Now it turns on, but it won't print. That's
not really an improvement, is it?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 03:31pm
What's the OSX equivalent of lsusb?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 08:15pm
TwitterPoll: If you follow, who leads you and why?—@mollydotcom
@mollydotcom I follow lots of folks I wouldn't necessarily let lead me anywhere. Friends, casual
acquaintances, interesting people.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 12:32am
Eddie Izzard was wonderfuly strange. Having coffee, dessert, and port at Absinthe.—@whump
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 11:43am
Anyone else find that choosing SMS recipients (from the contacts list) in the iPhone
2.0 firmware is a bit laggy sometimes?—@mattgemmell
@mattgemmell with > 500 contacts all of the addr book functions on my 3G are bursty. Scrolling,
selection, everything.—@dhmspector
@dhmspector Ugh. I'll have several thousand. Anyone else seeing this behavior?—@ndw