The short-form week of 3–9 Aug 2009
10 Aug 2009; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 65 messages in 55 conversations. (With 2 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 Wednesday at 06:34am
I am annotating the #XProc Relax NG schemas to add documentation that will be presented by oXygen next to the
content completion proposals.—@georgebina
@georgebina Feel free to contribute those back to the WG :-)—@ndw
@ndw Re #XProc schemas: I finally managed to annotate them :). They are available from our website,
see my message on the dev list.—@georgebina
@georgebina Fantastic. Thanks, George! My plate's overflowing until after #Balisage2009, but I'll take a look after that.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 01:34pm
Just out of curiosity, who is attending Balisage? #balisageConference09—@fgeorges
@fgeorges Moi, for one. :-) I hear registration is up, so if you haven't, now would be the
time! #balisageConference09—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 01:40pm
So I pull out a spare wifi keyboard from supply closet, go to replace batteries, and
now my hands are covered in battery acid. Not fun. :)—@kendall
Monday at 02:53pm
Obfuscated Python is an oxymoron. Obfuscated Perl is redundant.—@elharo
Monday at 05:19pm
Leaving MSY. Home by ... 1am-ish. Ugh. And a mountain of work this week so no sleeping
in for me!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 06:01pm
Please, tell me there are 50 episodes of Twin Peaks I am not aware of, just to explain
the questions raised in the last episode...—@fgeorges
In a conversation that started on Monday at 10:08pm
What to do whilst IDEA reindexes? Start Netbeans thats what! Heh.—@talios
Tuesday at 03:09pm
Simply unacceptable. RT @burningbird: thread demonst. the sexism that exists in the HTML WG. http://tinyurl.com/m9rbqe ...women ignored.—@ndw
Tuesday at 03:50pm
There may be lots of things wrong with Time Machine, but it just saved my sorry butt.
Time Machine FTW!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 04:24pm
Brilliant, that dickhead that plants himself in the wilds and has to eat maggots is
on. Feeling superior.—@danja
Wednesday at 09:18am
First, do no harm? Evil bastards. RT @elharo: RT @dangillmor: NYT details pharma-industry ghosting of med sci papers http://is.gd/22WJd—@ndw
Wednesday at 09:21am
Wednesday at 09:57am
@burningbird I've definitely noticed that using satnav to get somewhere means I have no idea where
I am.—@ndw
Wednesday at 10:01am
Generating 8.5x11 covers (front, back, spine) at 600dpi is p-ah-ain-ful.—@ndw
Wednesday at 10:02am
Wednesday at 11:34am
Wow. Very, very legitimate looking comment but from an online casino. I'm calling
it spam.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 11:48am
Saxon 9.2 build now complete. Next stage is release formalities, web site updates,
etc.—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay Congratulations! Looking forward to it, though with some trepidation as far as updating
XML Calabash goes.—@ndw
Wednesday at 12:43pm
RT @MarkLogic: will [be] at Balisage next week. Will be hosting a "Beer and Demo Jam" evening there.
http://bit.ly/DttGM #Balisage2009—@ndw
Wednesday at 01:35pm
Public speaking, even over webex still gives me butterflies.—@ndw
Wednesday at 02:27pm
Q and A is somehow simultaneously more exciting and less stressful. Go figure.—@ndw
Wednesday at 02:48pm
Presentation done. Questions answered. Stick a fork in me, I'm done.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:51pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:08pm
If you follow me but your tweets are protected, what am I to do? Ignore you? Block
you? Those are my choices, right?—@ndw
@ndw actually, i believe you can subscribe to their rss. it's true for when you block
someone, they can still read your rss feed.—@peteaven
@ndw Do you stop people reading your blog if the only blog you know for them is private?
What's the difference?—@ed_davies
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:39pm
You don't want to look at this photo: http://bit.ly/ccVaO—@abcoates
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 04:39pm
Lazyweb: I want a USB TV tuner (mostly) to move some old VHS stuff into the modern
era. Mac OS X. I should get...what?—@ndw
@eliasisrael Thanks!—@ndw
Wednesday at 06:58pm
Trying to find XNI schema validation examples w/multiple schemas, hint processing,
caching, etc.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 08:47pm
my google voice business cards are here. the coloured numbers logo reminds me of
something...—@dajobe
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 10:10pm
Sorry to those who saw only half the convo yesterday! The part you may have missed:
I'm joining PayPal next week. Exciting times.—@xmlgrrl
Thursday at 12:13am
RT @junecohen: "The Internet is actually made of words and enthusiasm" - Erin McKean (@EMcKean) http://z.pe/fW4 #TED (via @lucasvb)—@timoreilly
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 12:44am
tinkering with the idea of going to http://www.xmlsummerschool.com/ to refresh my semantic web knowledge—@xquery
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 02:33am
@ndw There's a broken link on http://xmlcalabash.com/download/ for Overview, it points to http://xmlcalabash.com/implementations/—@georgebina
@georgebina Thanks, on both counts.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:33am
as far as I can tell, the "XML security flaw" is just a flaw in certain implementations
and absolutely nothing to do with the spec itself—@jtauber
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 05:49am
10 recommendations around ebook readers - http://bit.ly/1Kk1I
(pdf)—@karlpro
Thursday at 06:28am
Finding that saving my ass has given me new tolerance for the CPU hog that is Time
Machine.—@ndw
Thursday at 11:23am
I seem to recall that Firefox 3.5 had some security issues when it came out. All resolved
in 3.5.2? I should upgrade?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 12:12pm
doing experiments with panorama stitching (lightroom + photoshop)—@zaphgod
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:06pm
Moo, you just lost my respect. Ads on "free" cards, fine. Not telling me about them
until the end of the process, fsck you.—@ndw
@ndwhttp://tr.im/vLyv They seem to tell you about the "wathermark" and the discount code at the beginning.
Have they just changed the site?—@tug
Thursday at 03:16pm
is wondering if there's more than one wasp nest in the back yard. I can confirm one.
Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch...—@ndw
Thursday at 04:43pm
@shelleypowers no, the same nasty little ground dwellers that got me last time http://norman.walsh.name/2005/08/21/wasps—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 07:55am
is starting to peek at the Android phone market for when this contract expires.—@ndw
@ndw I was already on T-Mobile and liked their service. Now with the myTouch android phone,
I LOVE it!—@shudson310
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:12am
Wrote a simple but nasty recursive #xproc test pipeline for parameters. I think who passes it has got it 99% right (...I am
still debugging)—@vojtechtoman
@vojtechtoman I'm afraid. Very afraid. :-)—@ndw
Friday at 10:58am
♺@DALDEI "/. Microsoft patents the #XML Document http://tinyurl.com/kln7dp" Oh you [expletive deleted -ed]! [expletive deleted -ed] you!—@ndw
Friday at 11:22am
@shelleypowers Yes, it's ridiculous. Asshats.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:32am
truth be told, the G1/#android pales in comparison to the sidekick as a PIM. I've gone back to paper for all but
calendar.—@dckc
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:47pm
The Schema WG accepted a last-minute change to XSD 1.1 requested by one of my clients:
the process sometimes works! Thanks @abcoates.—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay Actually, I wouldn't have discovered the XML Schema 1.1 issue if it weren't for Saxon
giving me the opportunity to try XSD 1.1.—@abcoates
@abcoates Yes: I made the point strongly to the WG that user reaction to early implementations
was input we had to consider.—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay I'm vaguely looking forward to XSD 1.1. Man, that's an odd feeling.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 04:08pm
Someone says the link http://twitter.com/michaelhkay doesn't work. Any ideas what might be wrong?—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay DDoS attack on Twitter is what I suspect.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:29pm
Completed slides for my main #balisage talk. Nice not to have to do it on the plane.—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay and here's me wishing my plane ride was longer :-(—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 09:59am
going to Bristol baloon fiesta to see the red arrows—@libbymiller
Saturday at 05:00pm
couldn't get the coding part of my brain working. Worked on photo editing instead.
Uploading soon.—@ndw
Saturday at 06:36pm
Crud. Forgot to extract EXIF GPS data into Flickr machine tags. Wonder if Flickr can
read the EXIF?—@ndw
Sunday at 09:23am
(Carelessly) entering flights into your calendar when you're in the "wrong" timezone
can be stressful and expensive. Trust me on this one.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 09:28am
No, it's subtler than that. The times *were* right in iCal but not on my iPhone. Odd,
but I'm no less fsck'd.—@ndw
Sunday at 12:32pm
United Red Carpet Club membership gets me into USAir Club on a USAir itinerary. There's
some win in the day after all.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 12:36pm
Wow! RT @pkedrosky: This is absolutely insane water slide footage, like something from a cartoon http://bit.ly/E6SMo (via @terrycojones) #fb—@abcoates
Sunday at 02:55pm
Boarding in PHL, next stop YUL and #Balisage2009!—@ndw