The short-form week of 24–30 Aug 2009
31 Aug 2009; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 49 messages in 50 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.
Monday at 06:21am
Hmm. Identica seems not to have page limits on "friends timeline". Will I get to the
end before I run out of stack frames?—@ndw
Monday at 02:00pm
Hmph. I didn't mean to say yes to 10.5.8 on the day it was released. Too late now.—@ndw
Monday at 06:38pm
Ordered 500Gb drive for my laptop. Breathing room I going to feel good.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 07:16am
Disturbing! RT @raduboncea: No female A-level computing students by 2014 http://bit.ly/131cR8http://bit.ly/hhFbo—@abcoates
Tuesday at 08:10am
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 11:58am
Unforgivable. Sweet. That's me off the hook once and for all. http://bit.ly/13a3tJ—@ndw
Tuesday at 12:16pm
#atheism #ftw RT @ndw:Unforgivable. Sweet. That's me off the hook once and for all. http://bit.ly/13a3tJ—@ruidlopes
Wednesday at 07:17am
Maybe it's time we joined the civilized world and stopped executing people. Especially
the innocent http://bit.ly/cdI0C but also the guilty.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:28pm
How to compare directories on two machines? Like rsync -n -var but w/o checking time
stamps?—@ndw
@ndw possibly: diff -u <(find /some/dir |sort) <(ssh -C otherhost find /some/dir |sort)—@happygiraffe
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:39pm
If I surrender to the OS X GUI and change "⌘ + v" to "paste" in Emacs, what do I use
for page up? Fn+page-up is *way* to inconvenient.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:46pm
In Docbook, why is the attribution always before the text being referred to, even
though in print it's almost always the opposite?—@dauwhe
Wednesday at 05:42pm
Yep, that's beautiful: http://www.nikkigraziano.com/foundfunctions/index.html (via @BWJones)—@timbray
Wednesday at 06:43pm
Hacking my twitter tool. Mult. svcs, oodles of docs, idxes, faceted search, web apis,
URI rewrites, conv. threads...something for everyone!—@ndw
Thursday at 01:36am
RT @ndw: It's time we join the civilized world and stop executing people. Especially the
innocent http://bit.ly/cdI0C but also the guilty.—@avernet
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:28am
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:55am
I know why def dirs for 'Pictures', 'Documents' etc. I don't like it. I want an OS-level
switch: 'no default dirs, always make me choose'—@ndw
@ndw +1 do not assume what folders I want my files to be stored in.—@fiberartisan
Thursday at 09:56am
Because I think your defaults suck, that's why. ~/Library/VirtualBox/HardDisks/ my
*ss.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:26pm
After several days of JavaScript/AJAX/Forms hell, I think I can see the end...—@ndw
@ndw Does it involve a nice wooden platform with a rope and trap door?—@david_megginson
@david_megginson Not so dramatic, happily. A whole set of AJAX'd pulldowns where each is contingent
on the preceding selection is a bitch.—@ndw
@AlainCouthures If only. I need to be *finished* with this project. Ideally before the billable hours
run out :-)—@ndw
Thursday at 02:47pm
Pretend I tweeted a bon mot. Got it? Okay. Now pretend it was funny.—@pfhawkins
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 02:49pm
Input fields with autocomplete, select options dep on other select values, input field
and select options mutually depend. My. Brain. Hurts.—@ndw
Thursday at 03:30pm
[ http://is.gd/2CiMs ] @ndw on Mark Logic's community license: "you now have the most powerful XML chainsaw imaginable
at your fingertips"—@peteaven
Thursday at 04:13pm
Reliability is measured in 9's. You can pay more to get more 9's, but it's always
9's. :)—@merlyn
Thursday at 05:39pm
Moving Steve's Scottish Brown into the secondary fermenter. Specific gravity ~1.019.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:55am
The power of referrals from friends. I just risked .18 on pinboard.in on the basis
of @edd's casual remark.—@ndw
@ndw this is how our devilish bacterial marketing strategy plays out!—@PinboardIN
Friday at 07:02am
Bah. $5.18 that is.—@ndw
Friday at 08:27am
RT @OReillyMedia: Augmenting Reality with the iPhone http://bit.ly/10DvPX Very cool! Maybe a reason to get an iPhone 3GS.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:58am
Thank goodness there isn't (yet?) an API for Google Voice. Would have been irresistable,
and I've no time to lose fiddling with *that*.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:34am
I thought I was out of JavaScript hell. And then there was IE. Fscking IE.—@ndw
@ndw, I guess you mean IE6 - reminds me of a conversation I had recently with @JeniT - http://twitter.com/jenit/status/2584521813—@frumioj
In a conversation that started on Friday at 10:15am
IE7 segfaults on almost every page I point it at. I guess that's an improvement over
IE6. A pretty dramatic improvement, in fact.—@ndw
@ndw Why aren't you using IE8? I forgot when I last used IE7. IE8 is really much better.—@dnovatchev
@dnovatchev I expect I'll have to make it work all the way down to IE6. Kill me now.—@ndw
Friday at 10:20am
I have other reasons to go to the mall tonight. I wonder if there will be any Snow
Leopard left.—@ndw
Friday at 10:21am
Ack. IE7 brought down DrWatson. Let's try the first line of Windows defense: reboot.—@ndw
Friday at 10:48am
Bah. Windows crashed hard. Time to discard that VM and start over, methinks. Good
thing I had so much free time today. Not.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 10:55am
All I know is that two plugins that made my computer a lot more useful no longer work.
Thanks, Apple.—@tommorris
Friday at 12:02pm
Norm Walsh (@ndw) uses the most powerful XML chainsaw on the planet to start archiving his personal
microblogging history http://bit.ly/ ...—@iansmall
Friday at 12:03pm
Norm Walsh (@ndw) uses the most powerful XML chainsaw on the planet to start archiving his personal
microblogs http://bit.ly/GRtZn—@iansmall
Friday at 04:07pm
Even after a clean install of XP from original media, IE6 (and 7, I wonder) still
segfault. With dev toolbar and script debugging. Fsck me.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 05:11pm
Friday at 06:09pm
Friday at 06:14pm
iTunes not seeing music server means I've just about reached my limit on #pandora_radio. Time to give them money, I think.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 07:20pm
Quicksilver b56a7 seems to work better on Snow Leopard: http://bit.ly/F52pz—@dsifry
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 08:31am
erm, what kind of hard drive connector is this? some new standard thing? -- http://bit.ly/3wtjhD (I just dismantled broken casing)—@danbri
Saturday at 09:19am
Grrr. This month ImageMagick's -density setting doesn't work. Becuase I did a 'port
upgrade' recently?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 03:50pm
I know using tables for layout in CSS is evil. I also know that life is too fucking
short.—@ndw
@ndw you're forgiven, at least by me. the apparent nondeterminism of CSS is also an evil
and we do well to spare ourselves!—@edd
@ndw And I suppose these two are related?—@JohnPelhamBlack
Saturday at 03:50pm
s/ in / instead of /—@ndw
Saturday at 05:01pm
@ndw I couldn't agree with you more about CSS formatting without using tables. It is
sooo hard!—@harveybetty
Saturday at 07:12pm
Sunday at 04:48am
#standards vs #pragmatism RT @ndw: I know using tables for layout in CSS is evil. I also know that life is too fscking
short.—@innovimax
Sunday at 08:57am
Holy moly: port install inkscape sure is building half the universe.—@ndw
Sunday at 10:16am
Thx twitter:@ndw twitter:@jdwcornell identica:@dajobe re SATA. I'm glad it's something standard, I have a few files stuck on it. No biggie.—@danbri
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:44pm
What the hell? Snow Leopard has somehow rewired my machine so emacs is now my default
editor. WTF?—@tommorris