The short-form week of 15–21 Jun 2009
22 Jun 2009; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 59 messages in 52 conversations. (With 3 favorites.)
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 03:05am
Monday at 08:00am
Reverse-engineered my way out of twine.com.—@ndw
Monday at 08:21am
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:46am
In a conversation that started on Monday at 10:52am
getting setup for my attack run. travellin through powerpointspace ain't like dustin
crops boy!—@peteaven
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 01:29am
Tuesday at 07:25am
Hmm. The MacPorts update dance seems to have given me a version of subversion that
IntelliJ doesn't understand. Feck.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:27am
Being branded a member of "The anti Flash Mob" after a bit of a @psd style rant about Flash v Web. Thinking of getting t-shirts made!—@philhawksworth
@philhawksworth You can probably sell me one!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:16am
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:23pm
Ugly bug having to do with p:variables inside p:for-each loops. Workaround: add a
p:group.—@xmlcalabash
Would be nice to have a test so I can see how we deal with that. @xmlcalabash Ugly bug having to do with p:variables inside p:for-each loops—@vojtechtoman
@vojtechtoman I added required/for-each-005.xml to the test suite. Let me know what Calumet does
:-)—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:38pm
Ah, no it's fine on twitter's Web site -- it's @Twitterrific getting the i18n wrong.—@mnot
Wednesday at 08:18am
You can't put music hosted on a media server into an iTunes playlist? Really? I mean
#$@&%!? really? iTunes remains the suck.—@ndw
Wednesday at 11:33am
The Nikon 35mm f/1.8 AF-S DX lens is *still* out of stock.—@ndw
Wednesday at 11:41am
For my birthday, I asked Deb for a couple of things off my Amazon wishlist...instead,
she bought my entire wishlist. How sweet is that?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:14pm
Wrecklessly downloading iPhone v3.0—@ndw
@ndw Was the download wreck-less?—@david_megginson
@david_megginson I'm happy to report that my phone seems to be working fine. It passes the power-on
test, anyway.—@ndw
Wednesday at 12:14pm
Recklessly downloading iPhone v3.0—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:15pm
@dnovatchev It's not extra functionality, it's an incompatibility! The expression "&" means
different things in #xquery and #xpath 2.0.—@jpcs
@jpcs Yes, they're different. XPath does it the right way for embedding. It's v. hard to
embed XQuery in say XProc or XSD.—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay You said it. We ended up with a whole p:data system more-or-less just to support
XQuery.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:10pm
Wrote a password for a client system on a little scrap of paper. Where is that %#$@!
piece of paper?—@ndw
@ndw That's what Keychain Access secure notes are for. Not that it helps at this point.
Just sayin'.—@ronhitchens
@ronhitchens Yeah. I've got several better places to store notes. If only the damned pencil didn't
have such a remarkably efficient UI.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:20pm
Tried to explain computers as big as rooms to the eldest recently. Maybe a trip to
Bletchley Park would be a good idea. http://bit.ly/qodrA—@JeniT
Wednesday at 05:38pm
You know what smells bad? When you cut a desiccated bull penis in half with a hacksaw,
that smells bad.—@ndw
Wednesday at 06:08pm
You must be FUCKING kidding me! I can't upgrade the Photoshop component of Adobe CS3
Design Premium to Photoshop CS4?—@ndw
Wednesday at 06:14pm
Thursday at 10:04am
Anyone know the magic invocation to get the Songbird daap plugin working?—@ndw
Thursday at 10:43am
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- http://helpiranelection.com/—@ndw
Thursday at 11:19am
@vojtechtoman I'm not sure. iTunes is useless with a media server; I'm hoping Songbird is usable.
If only it could *see* the media server...—@ndw
Thursday at 11:46am
Worked out how to configure the mt-daapd media server to setup playlists there. So
less burned by iTunes suckage now.—@ndw
Thursday at 12:16pm
Thursday at 01:14pm
Thursday at 01:16pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:26pm
Is it a good idea to try this iPhone tethering hack, or am I just asking for trouble?
http://bit.ly/wXLce #iphone #tethering—@ronhitchens
@ronhitchens Let me know if it works. I've got 18mo left on my wifi modem, so I'm not that anxious
to test it :-)—@ndw
Thursday at 01:34pm
I'm still steaming about the CS4 upgrade. My own fault for not checking more carefully,
sure, but $#@%!-me I'd still like a workaround.—@ndw
Thursday at 06:40pm
IntelliJ 8.1.3: pro: Subversion 1.6. con: crashes every five minutes—@ndw
Thursday at 07:00pm
Bah. Now IntelliJ IDEA 8.1.2 is crashing regularly. Didn't someone say there was a
new NetBeans on offer...—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 08:45pm
So does anyone know *where* notes on iPhone get synced to on the Mac? Can't find them
to save my life. Just entirely broken?...—@xmlgrrl
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:12am
Now, I found #xproc parameter ports a bit tricky. It turns-out that a mixture of p:error and p:choose
takes a bit of figuring-out too!—@philipfennell
@philipfennell I think we improved that a little bit by adding an output port to p:error—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:15am
Make sure you declare your output ports, especially for the subpipelines with p:error
in. Go look at <http://tinyurl.com/l368qa - Example 7.—@philipfennell
@philipfennell Ack. That example is now out-of-date. Damned useless editor, we should fire him.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:52am
Pointing twonky media server at a ripped DVD produces a list of TS* files. That's
not very satisfying. What should I do instead?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:15am
Building a beta release of Saxon-EE 9.2—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay Just seen your announcement. Sounds exiting! Hope you'll keep the same policy regarding
oXygen ;-)—@fgeorges
@fgeorges There's a lot of change, but the idea of a beta is that integrators like Stylus Studio
and oXygen get a chance to see the impact—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay Did the "I want the base URI to persist through validation" feature I requested make
the cut? I guess I'll find out :-)—@ndw
@ndw Base URIs through validation: yes, it's in, I've just run the unit test to make sure.—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay Sweet!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 10:23am
Free the iPhone? http://www.freepress.net/FreeMyPhone—@billtrippe
@billtrippe Sounds like a good idea to me. Shame that the "Sign the Petition" link is totally
broken.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:10am
Of course, another #oharefail (thunderstorms, delays). I think something like 80% of all my flights to/from ORD
have been delayed/canceled.—@abdelazer
Friday at 04:02pm
I don’t gamble. I don’t drink. My one vice is buying a new iPhone every summer.
Well, that and lying about drinking and gambling.—@gruber
Saturday at 09:46am
“The reality is: ‘Given enough eyeballs, all bug reports are shallow.’” —Damian Conway—@apag
Saturday at 09:54am
Restocked beer making supplies. One ale coming up.—@ndw
Saturday at 03:37pm
Length of *my* Scrabble winning streak vs. Deb: 1.—@ndw
Sunday at 09:46am
Grains steeping. All-American Cream Ale in T-minus a couple of hours plus a few weeks.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 12:28pm
found in yard this morning http://bit.ly/2mkkH5 No, it didn't ask me if I'd like to save money on car insurance. about: http://bit.ly/8w4XY—@chucka_nc
Sunday at 12:52pm
2 gal boiling wort + 3 gal cold water = 70-85 deg mixture? Maybe if you start with
three gal of *ice* water.—@ndw
Sunday at 01:57pm
Updated my Ubuntu 9.04 VM and now shared drives have stoppedw orking. But VMWare tools
reinstall seems to have worked. Odd. And annoying.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 02:14pm
Collective gut check: is using the word "cunt" in a gender non-specific manner beyond
the pale for a *camp session?—@tommorris
Sunday at 02:32pm
Chuckling at the Joan Jett cover of Dirty Deeds on @pandora_radio—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 05:55pm
This large Scientology exposé is going to cause a stir. I wonder if the cult will
get an injunction to stop it? http://bit.ly/12ynnS—@webmink
Via @webmink journos discovers Scientology is sleazy, abusive, and larcenous. Also, there was
a Tuesday in last week. http://is.gd/18MlP—@timbray
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 09:11pm
Discussing how much better hospital rooms should be for the per-night cost—@hexmode