The short-form week of 10–16 Aug 2009
17 Aug 2009; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 31 messages in 27 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.
Monday at 02:34pm
"As my mom explained to me, when two companies love each other very much, they form
a structured investment vehicle..."—@psd
In a conversation that started on Monday at 03:33pm
Playing Dominion again—@StephDavis
In a conversation that started on Monday at 04:03pm
So, lots of stuff about Facebook buying Friendfeed. One centralized service absorbing
another. Cloud looking a little dark about now?—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers It's always darkest before it goes pitch black. No, no, wait, that's not right is
it?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:26pm
XProc streaming: @ndw concludes maybe 50% of XProc steps would benefit from streaming. #balisage2009—@jpcs
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:06pm
@ndw Will the slides from your #xproc presentation be available anywhere? #balisage2009—@vojtechtoman
@vojtechtoman Yes, the slides will go up on the #balisage2009 website and I'll attempt to write my adlib verbage into a post of some sort—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:19pm
#xquery and #xslt categorized as non-streamable by @ndw - not a good assumption. Certainly subsets can be. #balisage2009—@jpcs
@jpcs Yes, they are sometimes streamable. But most implementations don't (yet) try so it
seemed a reasonable starting point. #balisage2009—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:16pm
Yes, yet... One of the things I want to look at when #calumet is ripe enough RT @ndw most implementations don't (yet) try [#xproc streaming]—@vojtechtoman
@vojtechtoman I said I didn't, but as @michaelkay went over his plans for more streamability in Saxon, I became more interested.—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:19pm
For the record, and as I said at the start of my talk, my analysis for streaming XProc
at #balisage2009 was pretty cheap and cheerful.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:24pm
Streaming #xslt (@michaelhkay) provides rules to determine streamability. If implementation can extend, I don't
see the point! #balisage2009—@jpcs
Wednesday at 04:34pm
IP means you think "Oh, it's mine". It's not. Your ideas belong to everyone. You are
just borrowing exclusivity on them temporarily.—@tommorris
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 05:03pm
I wish the US Postal Service would be shut down permanently. It's at best a relic.—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 10:24pm
#balisage2009 Sushi and Saki with HL7 and MarkLogic folks. Ended the evening playing Flashball
on the terrace. Nice end to day!—@harveybetty
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:05am
@jpcs for most fundamental take on my hostility to XSD XQuery, see http://ur1.ca/90k9 [http://ur1.ca/90k99] (its short :) )#balisage2009—@uogbuji
@uogbuji I see the hostility to XSD, and share it, mostly, to be honest, but I don't see any
mention of XQuery in http://ur1.ca/90kj—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:35pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:00pm
I'm a farmer's child married to another, & increasingly worried that the Big Ag Biz
might just accidentally kill us all: http://is.gd/2fBac—@timbray
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:51pm
Just lost two liters of water presenting at #balisage2009 ;-)—@fgeorges
Friday at 08:21am
Migrating a production app from CA to NJ by way of a hotel room in Montreal. Amazing.
And more than a little insane.—@ndw
Friday at 12:51pm
Au revoir, Montreal. #Balisage2009 was wonderful. See you next year!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:56pm
It's been niggling me all week. Why would a hotel choose submarine decor for a room
called Mont Blanc? #balisage—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay The whole hotel used to have an undersea/Atlantis flavor. Why they chose Mont Blanc
as a room name, though...—@ndw
Friday at 04:13pm
Friday at 04:38pm
I think I'm beginning to relax. It's an odd feeling, but I think that's what it is.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 04:43pm
Amazon import/export looks very interesting. Saves moving 500Mb over the 'net: http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:42pm
Conversation in cab to airport w/ @ndw about Mom and Netscape 3.0. No more stalling Mom will get upgraded to new browswer/email
client.—@harveybetty
@fiberartisan I fear you overestimate my sphere of influence, Mary.—@ndw
@ndw @fiberartisan OK, so 1st: world peace, 2nd: cure all disease, and then after that see if anything
can be done about IE6.—@abcoates
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:57pm
@fiberartisan not really. And I'd have to drive.—@ndw
Saturday at 07:11am
I changed an address book entry on my phone. Synced with my laptop. Laptop unchanged.
Confidence in syncing shattered.—@ndw
Sunday at 02:31pm
Going to NYC tomorrow. No rest for the wicked.—@ndw
Sunday at 02:50pm
Crud. Twitter backup app just blew past my rate limit.—@ndw