The short-form week of 1–7 Jun 2009
08 Jun 2009; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 52 messages in 47 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.
Monday at 08:17am
Dreamhost says I'm exceeding my disk quota because apparently 6.5 > 681. Frick.—@ndw
Monday at 08:19am
I guess I'm not releasing Calabash 0.9.10 today (until or unless Dreamhost fixes whatever's broken about my disk quota).—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:21am
Dreamhost quota in question: 512,000 files not disk space. Grumble.—@ndw
@ndw Funny sort of number anyway, 2^9 * 10^3.—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay Inconveniently small sort of number, anyway. Not that archiving a few hundred thousand XProc traces won't fix it.—@ndw
Monday at 09:27am
Loading ~200k files into MarkLogic server with XProc. Whee!—@ndw
Monday at 09:32am
Holy moly! XProc phoned home more than 100,000 times in May—@ndw
Monday at 10:46am
http://twitpic.com/6em96 - Time Machine fall down and go boom.—@ndw
Monday at 06:17pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 01:56am
@vojtechtoman FYI: my implementation is no more "the" reference implementation than yours. It's just an implementation.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:09am
Woohoo! My first iPhone/iPod Touch app is now available in iTunes. Try it! Buy it! Tell your friends about it! http://bit.ly/cYxJx—@ronhitchens
@ronhitchens Congratulations, Ron!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 04:32am
<grins/> New PC parts starting to arrive. So far, case, mb, cpu, psu, memory, DVD. Just graphics card missing.—@dpawson
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 05:12am
What is your home backup solution? External hard drives, on-line backup services, ...? Trying to think of something simple for my home use.—@vojtechtoman
@vojtechtoman USB drives at the moment, manually mirrored. And a third offsite that's updated...periodically. Want to build a RAID box...—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 07:19am
Changing checking accounts (better interest) + scheduled online bill pay =/= good things. Fixable things, though, luckily.—@ndw
@ndw You get interest on a checking account? We can only get about 0.001% on a savings account these days!—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay Yep; a single digit to the left of the decimal point, but as long as the $$$ is just sitting there...—@ndw
Tuesday at 07:22am
JavaScript expressions in CSS properties. Does that really sound like a good idea? http://tinyurl.com/95jazb—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:51am
Green Party: tell the reflexologists and homeopaths to fuck off. Science-minded people care about the environment too!—@tommorris
Tuesday at 11:19am
Succumbing to the temptation to request access to Google Wave—@ndw
Tuesday at 12:35pm
Corp America: If you advertise on a mobile billboard truck, I will never buy your product. Ever. Kthxbai—@ndw
Tuesday at 04:01pm
Whoo hoo! Mark Logic is officially sponsering Balisage 2009. Good on us!—@ndw
Wednesday at 09:35am
@burningbird I believe it's suff to send to the list used for comments on the spec in question a note saying that you formally object to X—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:41am
delete-001.xml not passing because my p:compare step thinks whitespace is significant ... I think I agree with that conclusion—@xquery
@xquery I am not using deep-equals() for testing the pipeline result (and I think nor does Norm). We are more forgiving about the whitespace—@vojtechtoman
@vojtechtoman @xquery I do use deep-equals, but I normalize a bit first with XSLT to avoid whitespace issues. Not sure this is kosher...—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:32pm
I know I go on, but Tom Taylor's Clarke is just great: http://bit.ly/y05xD I'd really like it if I could persuade a few of you to try it.—@plasticbagUK
@plasticbagUK Uhm, authorizing Clarke blares "Warning: don't do it" at me. Not...encouraging.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:10pm
Exalted company: http://bit.ly/1rH9UW—@timbray
Thursday at 05:22am
Up at 4a. #imonthetrain but if it has a number, I have no idea what it's number is. I can haz NYC? Not for a few hours yet.—@ndw
Thursday at 05:43am
@libbymiller Yes, I'm sure it has a number, I just didn't notice it. I'll try to remember to look when I arrive NYP.—@ndw
Thursday at 05:59am
When my 3G modem card loses signal it becomes hopelessly confused. Requires system reboot. Great big ball of suck.—@ndw
Thursday at 06:06am
Emacs is the bomb\! (Note to NSA: no, I don't mean that kind. kthxbai) http://tinyurl.com/4gnstl—@ndw
Thursday at 06:59am
‚ô∫@alphajuliet Dear Chinese government, you can try and ignore it if you want, but we know what you did.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 08:00am
@michaelhkay @martin_probst - Who actually uses the "//foo" syntax though? Not sure I've ever seen a real life use.—@jpcs
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 08:05am
has a doubt : do we say "more than" something or "more then" something ?—@innovimax
Thursday at 08:44am
Found cookie in sport coat pocket. I last wore this coat...when exactly?—@ndw
Thursday at 02:04pm
Disk 95% full...again. Dear Apple, can I please have a bigger HD in my next laptop? kthxbai.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 02:23pm
@ndw You should be playing Pocoman while waiting for the train. http://ronsoft.com/pocoman/—@ronhitchens
@ronhitchens I did that too! A version of that game was my favorite game on the Sidekick.—@ndw
Thursday at 04:27pm
Thursday at 05:43pm
@libbymiller #imonthetrain again too. Watching The Ribos Operation on #netflix. Up at 4am and now pushing in the clutch on my brain.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 05:46pm
@ndw I will not be critical of snoring in the quiet carriage ;-) (what's the number?)—@libbymiller
@libbymiller 44723, I believe.—@ndw
Friday at 06:49am
Pocoman Primo: must have more levels. Sending some fraction of $1.99 to @ronhitchens via iTunes. #iphone—@ndw
Friday at 07:54am
Hmm. I thought Twine made it easy to get data out. Was I wrong, am I missing it, or did it disappear?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:13am
The only files I would ever care to have Spotlight index are named [0-9]+ and spotlight...doesn't index them. Can this be fixed?—@ndw
@ndw use locate(1) :)—@robinberjon
@robinberjon How does locate help? It's not the filenames that are interesting.—@ndw
@ndw oh, sorry, you were talking of file names so I thought that's what you wanted!—@robinberjon
@robinberjon No, the problem is 10's of K of files with numeric names (1, 2, 7391, etc.) which Spotlight doesn't think it should index.—@ndw
Friday at 09:04am
Contemplating telling Spotlight that files of type 'public.data' are email. I wonder what else reports a type of public.data?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:22am
In Praise of Draconian Error Handling, Part 2 http://bit.ly/V9xGm—@elharo
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:03am
What does it say about me that I secretly hope the big wheel breaks loose and squashes the guy? http://bit.ly/7EQiT—@shaveblog
Friday at 01:54pm
Waiting for new element range index to be built on honking big database—@ndw
Saturday at 06:55am
Ran full backup last night. Letting "Software Update..." do its thing this morning.—@ndw
Saturday at 06:58am
WolframAlpha reports my age as years, months, and days "ago". Ago?—@ndw
Saturday at 07:03am
Time for the 10.5.7 restart. Wish me luck tweeps.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 12:07pm
Eating cherries straight from the tree is a sublime experience. Feijoa petals aren't bad either. Harvest time begins.—@timoreilly
@timoreilly Lived in Corvallis as a child. Ate myself sick on cherries most days during cherry season. Still miss the sublime taste...—@ndw
Saturday at 03:46pm
Holy alternate realities, Batman! I just saw the new Star Trek movie.—@ndw
Sunday at 04:08pm
Successfully fixed tipout on kitchen sink today. Every other project not so much.—@ndw