The short-form week of 11–17 May 2009
18 May 2009; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 51 messages in 48 conversations. (With 1 favorite.)
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.
Monday at 08:26am
Monday at 08:45am
Coffee and a breakfast sandwich: $4.25. Al fresco on a bench in the sun, bloody marvelous.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:00am
Signing the 9 year old up for Space Camp at KSC this summer.—@davidjhinson
@davidjhinson Lucky 9 year old! I always wanted to go when I was a kid. Heck, I still do :-)—@ndw
Monday at 09:38am
‚ô∫@xproc The editor has posted a "technically complete" revised XProc draft. http://tinyurl.com/qezujl—@ndw
Monday at 10:37am
In a conversation that started on Monday at 10:43am
Snap poll: "Hello, world", "Hello world", "hello world", "Hello, World" or something
else?—@simonw
Tuesday at 10:32am
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:37am
Tuesday at 11:54am
The wisdom crowds != consensus.—@ndw
Tuesday at 04:39pm
Tuesday at 07:07pm
Tuesday at 07:14pm
Tuesday at 11:10pm
Wednesday at 10:46am
Wednesday at 10:55am
Sigh. I don't want video. But I'm weird.—@ndw
Wednesday at 11:14am
Wednesday at 12:01pm
Wednesday at 12:16pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:38pm
MarkLogic Application Builder looks pretty cool. May need to rethink Drupal and Docbook.
Want 4.1 now.—@harveybetty
Wednesday at 12:52pm
Wednesday at 01:25pm
Thursday at 01:20pm
Thursday at 06:37pm
Great, exhausting conference. Homeward bound on the red eye tonight. Failed to connect
with some friends, alas.—@ndw
Thursday at 10:35pm
Thursday at 10:50pm
Thursday at 11:19pm
Surely I'm not the first to tweet this. It's *awsome*. Bravo! Tracy Eiler et al! #mluc09http://tinyurl.com/pusbb7—@ndw
Friday at 01:32am
public int Random() { return 9; } // that's the problem with randomness: you can
never be sure—@codinghorror
In a conversation that started on Friday at 04:10am
'to protect the quality of our coffee, we ask you not to smoke' -- could care less
to smoke but what a load of infantile incorrect rubbish—@cutlass
In a conversation that started on Friday at 05:11am
In a conversation that started on Friday at 05:35am
Tandem jump tomorrow (birthday gift for my wife). First time for both. Just in case:
all my bugs resolved, everything checked in, good-bye!—@vojtechtoman
@vojtechtoman Dude! Not before we get to REC, man!—@ndw
@ndw Hmm... Do you want me to check in the 300 XProc tests I've been sitting on first?
:)—@vojtechtoman
@vojtechtoman Heck, yeah!—@ndw
Friday at 06:27am
Friday at 07:03am
Friday at 08:36am
Arrived BDL. One more leg 'till home. Wish there was public transport for that one
too.—@ndw
Friday at 02:23pm
My Mac is reporting heatsink temps of -128 degrees. That can't be good.—@ndw
Friday at 02:29pm
Oh, joy. The right shift and "fn" modifier keys don't work either.—@ndw
Friday at 02:37pm
‚ô∫@livetechdocs Who wants to nominate DocBook for SourceForge's Community Choice Award? We do! http://bit.ly/OFgf9—@ndw
Saturday at 04:25pm
Windows bitrot has claimed another victim; reinstalling from scratch on Deb's box.
F-ing heck.—@ndw
Saturday at 05:03pm
It's just fricking rediculous that installing Acrobat Reader requires a reboot.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 06:51pm
Asked WF about DITA, SAML and DocBook. No intelligent answers provided. #oasisopen—@fiberartisan
@fiberartisan What's WF?—@ndw
Sunday at 10:48am
Firefox is starting to border on unusable. Almost every action raises the spinning
beachball of death for tens of seconds...—@ndw
Sunday at 01:22pm
Jet. Lag. Zzzzzz—@ndw
Sunday at 02:04pm
I think I'll AppZap FF and just start over.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 02:27pm
Pondering a NAS for shared storage/backup across Deb's Windows boxes and my Mac and
Linux boxes—@ndw
@ndw Just putting together my own home low power NAZ based on ZFS - hope to blog on it
soon—@adamretter
@adamretter Yeah, maybe I should roll my own. I'd like a better in-house server anyway.—@ndw
Sunday at 03:58pm
Firefox, meet AppZapper. AppZapper, do your thing...—@ndw
Sunday at 04:06pm
FF: Adblock Plus, Flashblock, Download statusbar, Firebug, Greasemonkey, Nosquint,
Resizable textarea, Tab Mix Plus...fingers crossed—@ndw
Sunday at 04:18pm
Lost a couple of bookmarks (oops), but can restore them. Firefox seems to be sucking
less now.—@ndw
Sunday at 04:21pm
Enjoying a Paula's G&T with Lemon (and Tanqueray) http://tinyurl.com/r7344r—@ndw
Sunday at 04:46pm
I am convinced that XProc is the most significant specification from the W3C since
XSL--Alex Brown. Yeah, baby! http://tinyurl.com/o3szp6—@ndw