The short-form week of 16–22 Feb 2009

23 Feb 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.

Tuesday at 01:32pm

I hate case-insensitive file systems. Die. Die. Die.—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:31pm

Retweeting @tobrien: RT @jessefulton: screw DRM—@andrewsavikas

Tuesday at 09:37pm

The hacker's password, visible only momentarily, on this week's Numb3rs was "leonardsheldon4a". Hahaha—@ndw

Tuesday at 10:20pm

Ten minutes of battery left. I'm willing to work from bed, but not plugged in. Night all.—@ndw

Wednesday at 04:23pm

The status of my Apple repair (to fix the wrong resolution panel the installed the first time) is "cancelled". Warm fuzzy feelings. NOT—@ndw

Friday at 09:13am

Tried to install a simple Perl module with 'port install' and it's rebuilding half my Perl system. I have a bad feeling about this.—@ndw

Friday at 10:32am

Yay! "traytable" is back with the right sized panel.—@ndw

Friday at 10:33am

But running s-l-o-w-l-y as Time Machine chugs along for the first time in two weeks...—@ndw

Friday at 11:16am

Fiddling with RGB to CMYK conversions.—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Friday at 07:19pm

What freaking lame brain decided to change 'site_perl' to 'vendor_perl' in @INC. For the love of fricking...—@ndw
@ndw The two actually fill different roles.—@rjray
@rjray So how do I get site_perl back into @INC?—@ndw

Friday at 07:26pm

Can I just move all of site_perl/* to vendor_perl/*. I'm going to find out...—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Friday at 07:28pm

@ndw You do woodworking, right? Ever used a ShopSmith Mark V?—@bmanley
@bmanley No, but it looks nice. I haven't bought myself a tablesaw yet. Just use a circular saw and jigs. A bit tedious, but cheap :)—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Friday at 07:36pm

oh great, I'm in garlic hell, I have hiccups and I've seen this episode of Medium before (and no other episdes of Medium!)—@libbymiller
@libbymiller There must be a name for the phenomenon where your second viewing of a show, years after the first, is the same episode.—@ndw

Saturday at 07:05am

Put second bat in laptop last night to charge while making backup. Forgot to plug in power. Dead bat and no backup. [expletives del -ed]—@ndw

Saturday at 10:05am

At BDL bound for AUS by way of IAD. XQuery WG meeting here I come.—@ndw

Saturday at 11:01pm

Viva Las Vegas, Austin, TX http://twitpic.com/1mihz—@ndw

Saturday at 11:16pm

Paula's dinner party. Viva Las Vegas, Austin, TX http://twitpic.com/1miuc—@ndw