The short-form week of 21–27 Jul 2008
28 Jul 2008; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 42 messages in 37 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 12:22am
Sir Anthony Hopkins is f'ing brilliant!!!—@Genuine
@swhitley I'm not using *any* service that asks me for a password for another service - never
mind any 'we don't store it' promises—@marjoleink
@marjoleink Amen on other services passwords.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 01:47am
I've had this song stuck in my head for about 3 years now. http://is.gd/YH5—@iTod
Monday at 06:50am
Less than 3G free on my laptop. What have I done with 157G? Letting Disk Inventory
figure it out—@ndw
Monday at 06:57am
15G in the Trash? Stupid apps trying to be helpful putting things there instead of
f*cking deleting them like I asked.—@ndw
Monday at 06:59am
The LightRoom previews catalog is 6.2G? I wonder what happens if I delete that?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 08:37am
in case you missed it i'm *loving* dangermouse production on Beck's latest. bass is
clipped, jointed, solid http://tinyurl.com/BeckOnEmusic—@monkchips
Monday at 08:40am
Let's see if rsync runs faster than SuperDuper—@ndw
Monday at 10:42am
Twhirly!—@ndw
Monday at 10:43am
But I'll probably go back to #twitterific as soon as it supports identi.ca.—@ndw
Monday at 10:46am
That is, as soon as I can see both services at the same time. I'm not (quite) ready
to turn my back on twitter forever—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 10:48am
Gah. Twhirl causes Firefox to open a new window (not just a new tab) for links? FAIL—@ndw
Monday at 12:04pm
I want a Mac app that will popup at a specified time containing a message of my choice.
Programmable with multiple reminders. I can haz?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 12:05pm
Not a dashboard/widget sort of thing, not a modal thing, just an ordinary window like
the stickies app. I wonder if I can program that?—@ndw
Monday at 03:41pm
Had to drive to Logon, lost receipt out window, locked keys in the car, parked almost
‚àû far from my terminal, ah travel: http://is.gd/Zoa—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 04:32pm
OK'd comment ending "You're an offensive creep, Mr. Bray" but bounced "Stick to the
shit you know and wallow in your fucking worthlessness".—@timbray
Monday at 04:40pm
Boarding BOS to SFO—@ndw
Tuesday at 12:30am
Arrived SFO. Tired, hungry, thirsty. I can haz beer?—@ndw
Tuesday at 12:31am
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:08am
today's message: spaces in filenames and directorynames are evil. (see windoze bad
habits manual)—@coreyopenmls
@coreyopenmls Amen. Unfortunately, they're common on OS X as well. I've mostly learned to shrug
about it.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:48am
I feel guilty for using Pandora on my laptop and not even looking at the browser tab
occasionally to look at the ads.—@Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life,@pandora_radio I don't feel guilty, but I'd probably subscribe if they wanted to sell it to me.
Ads suck.—@ndw
Tuesday at 08:51am
Ack! FTW! http://petdance.com/ack/—@ndw
Tuesday at 08:54am
Is it just me or does java.net.URI.relativize ... not—@ndw
Tuesday at 09:02am
Oh, maybe it does work, it just doesn't do what I want. Fooey.—@ndw
Tuesday at 09:19am
Hotel internet: like sucking ketchup through a cocktail straw.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:30am
limbering up for Thursday—@silverbackapp
@silverbackapp AFAICT, your website says almost nothing about what Silverback actually *is*—@ndw
Tuesday at 03:13pm
Wednesday at 08:36am
Re-tweeting from someone. Hysterical. http://tinyurl.com/57l6w3—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:51pm
Wednesday at 02:24pm
Large hunks of falling ice: EPIC HAIL—@ndw
Wednesday at 02:25pm
A million dollar bond: EPIC BAIL—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:27pm
Pam and Tommy on YouTube - EPIC NAIL.—@wendyabc
Wednesday at 02:57pm
Dang it. Uploaded some Flickr pics with embedded EXIF geoloc, but forgot to put the
geoloc in the tags.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:02pm
Ruination IPA: EPIC ALE—@ndw
Thursday at 12:33pm
I had a very explicit "Aha" moment wrt functional programming back in the days when
I was learning DSSSL.—@ndw
Friday at 02:36pm
18th in line for an upgrade. I smell economy class for SFO to BOS—@ndw
Friday at 08:19pm
Arrived BOS, home in 2hrs, give or take—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:18pm
Enjoying using my new XSLT/BDD framework (XSpec)—@JeniT