The short-form week of 29 Dec 2008–4 Jan 2009

05 Jan 2009; last modified 13 Mar 2011

The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 18 messages in 17 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 Tuesday at 05:02pm

I hoarsely cried ♫ http://blip.fm/~1cx31—@terrisCA

@terrisca You sent me links about VMWare network issues, right? Any progress on your end?—@ndw

Wednesday at 08:16am

Anyone got a pointer to how to get httpclient to read a multipart response?—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 08:25am

I seem to get only the last part on the inputstream, but maybe I'm bungling how I handle the input stream. Hmm....—@ndw

@ndw have you ever seen a nicer docbook output? http://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/Publican/—@olea

@olea Nicely done, no question.—@ndw

Wednesday at 03:35pm

Working with someone else's code. I wonder if mine seems this ugly to others?—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 04:19pm

Trying to come up with my own little xsl-based pipeline; making my head spin.—@ashooner

@ashooner Might I nudge you in the direction of XProc?—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 04:53pm

Here's a real idiotic thought: Peace on Earth. Goodwill to humankind. That ought to leave some folk rolling in the aisles.—@shelisrael

@shelisrael Yeah, good luck with that Shel. ;)—@bmanley

@bmanley Kids think my code is ugly too? Feh. What do they know. #oldgeezer—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 05:18pm

Anyone know of a FOAF schema expressed in turtle rather than XML/RDF?—@bmanley

@bmanley The little dogs are delightful and that's as close to parenthood as I ever plan to come—@ndw

Wednesday at 05:20pm

Happy New Year everyone. I'm off to find the Champagne, make dinner, and settle in for the night.—@ndw

Thursday at 10:03pm

New Year, new avatar. How pathetically self-centered.—@ndw

Thursday at 10:13pm

You can't add music from a shared server to an iTunes playlist? Really? Have I said recently how much I think iTunes sucks?—@ndw

Thursday at 10:16pm

Maybe I have to create the playlists on the server? Hmmm...—@ndw

Friday at 08:26am

Latest mt-daapd stores playlists in the songs database. Blech.—@ndw

Friday at 12:48pm

Snow+cold=finches consuming about a foot of niger seed a day—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:14pm

I never ever label stuff in the Finder. Am I missing out on some organizational technique everyone else uses?—@brentsimmons

@brentsimmons I never use the Finder at all.—@ndw

Friday at 01:40pm

Firefox+IE+CSS+layout=Oh fer cryin' out loud, just do the damn layout with tables—@ndw

Friday at 05:00pm

Code complete on a big project being demo'd next week. Happy weekend!—@ndw

Sunday at 03:50pm

Toying with implementing AtomPub in Mark Logic Server—@ndw