The short-form week of 4–10 Aug 2008
11 Aug 2008; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 33 messages in 28 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 12:44am
Just noticed @zacwhite has re-labeled his CopyPaste project as TouchClipboard… The TouchCode stable expands?—@schwa
@kdbdallas I'm doing a bad job of marketing it. But just google for "TouchCode" and then explore
the wiki.—@schwa
@schwa Nah, no need to stop @rtmfd's drinking. Just need to do like we do with @ejacqui and tell him it's time to turn off Twitteriffic.—@Arclite
@iTod Great features! Liked to see the shortcuts, but from what I tested, you can't set
one just with an url, without the parameter?—@muitocomplicado
@muitocomplicado that's correct. That is a shortcomming that will be corrected in the next release—@iTod
@ndw I built my own vcard/vcal parsing stuff, but http://vobject.skyhouseconsulting.com/ looks pretty good—@dckc
Monday at 06:11am
My train to NY is a ... bus. Thankfully, only as far as Hartford. But I feel good.
At least they're repairing the track, right?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 06:48am
This CSS minute brought to you by someone who has her head too far engaged in CSS
tonight. Must. Take. Break.—@mollydotcom
@mollydotcom Luke Warm?—@ndw
Monday at 08:50am
Need to parse vcard/ical files. Try to work out how someone else's library works,
or craft my own special purpose library?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 11:52am
So, is XML 2008 actually going to happen? Shouldn't there have been a CFP by now?—@ndw
@abdelazer Well. Dunno. Depends on the focus, on what sort of papers get submitted, etc. But
if there are no papers, then certainly not :-)—@ndw
Monday at 05:36pm
Hmm. A couple of hours of Pandora on the iPhone beats on the battery pretty good—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:50pm
@terrigeluso Im just repeating what Mat and Adam said! Don't kill the messenger!!—@junsten
@junsten I suggest we meet under cover of darkness, preferably at a construction site or wharf.
Or, starbucks on Gage. 1hr from now?—@bmanley
@bmanley @junsten aha! Now that I know where you will be meeting, I can kill you both and walk away
with $75, an iPhone and a frappacino!—@adambrault
Tuesday at 06:36pm
If you're not following @KathySierra, her presentation advice today is "kick ass"—@ndw
Tuesday at 06:42pm
Poison ivy on one's wrist plus a warm laptop results in a sensory experience that
is not at all sublime.—@ndw
Tuesday at 07:19pm
Trying to think of a good topic for a paper for O'Reilly's TOC.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:41pm
Wednesday at 01:53pm
F*cking HP. All I want to install are some print drivers and it *insists* on installing
hundreds of megs of bloat-crap!—@ndw
Wednesday at 08:31pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 02:54pm
Anyway, done with iTerm now and using Terminal.—@ebruchez
Thursday at 03:17pm
Hah! Ctrl-W does it, now how do I map that to Apple-Delete?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:48am
Friends don't let friends use DB2.—@rasputnik
Friday at 01:25pm
My almost brand new wireless router periodically stops providing wifi. Rebooting it
doesn't help, but it does eventually recover. WTF?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:35pm
Have I mentioned already how great a tool HTTPScoop is? http://www.tuffcode.com/ Highly recommended.—@avernet
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 01:14pm
I fall instantly asleep the moment anyone on TV says “Dalai Lama.”—@brentsimmons
@brentsimmons A Sex Pistols station, that's an interesting idea!—@ndw
Saturday at 04:35pm
Grill + steaks + Cabernet = dinner!—@ndw
Saturday at 04:35pm
Ok, I know I'm going to regret this. Since I changed phones, dm's don't seem to be
arriving as SMSs. Please think of a number btw 1 and 10.—@ndw
Saturday at 04:36pm
If the number you thought of was > 5 and it's still Saturday where you are, please
send me a dm. :-)—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 08:47pm
I spoke with some people today about "fitting in" - they wanted advice from me. What
would you say?—@mollydotcom
@mollydotcom I'd say more trouble than it's worth.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 09:12pm
TwitterPoll: (on the outrageous level) Who is NOT lonely?—@mollydotcom
@mollydotcom Not I. Not usually, anyway.—@ndw
Sunday at 02:44pm
More than a week later and my poison ivy is still the worst I've ever had. And from
a very small exposure, I thought. Ugh.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 03:23pm
Sunday at 04:30pm
Feh. The iPhone address book doesn't display *all* the fields you can put in the desktop
address book, only a subset. FAIL.—@ndw