The short-form week of 31 Aug–6 Sep 2009
07 Sep 2009; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 44 messages in 46 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 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
Monday at 06:15am
Monday at 08:46am
Automated dialing and SMS through Google Voice from the command line. Thank you Scott
Hillman! http://tinyurl.com/nyu69m—@ndw
Monday at 08:57am
Must not play with Google voice API tools to build my own dialer. Must. Not. Hack.—@ndw
Monday at 11:45am
It always surprises me when I see my name on the front page of subjects I'm searching
for. Does me no good. He's as clueless as I am.—@duck1123
Monday at 01:45pm
Clients have found my Twitter stream. I am therefore, unquestionabl, working on nothing
else. Ever. Even now. My dog is typing this for me.—@ndw
Monday at 01:52pm
"Copying '...' to 'Desktop'. 16.9 MB of 1.93 GB - About 6 hours". Ugh.—@ndw
Monday at 01:56pm
RT: @ndw: Clients have found my Twitter stream. I am therefore, unquestionabl, working on
nothing else. Ever. My dog is typing this for me.—@anthonyallen
Monday at 05:04pm
Closet clothes rod restored. Pride, not so much. And I own way too many shoes.—@ndw
Monday at 06:24pm
"I read about this. This is armageddon. This is the oral history of the zombie wars."
-- Jason Stackhouse—@ndw
Monday at 06:32pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:25am
Toyota is going to buy back my truck (frame rust recall). And you know what, I'm not
going to replace it. Reducing my carbon footprint, FTW!—@ndw
@ndw Good for you! How will you get around?—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers We'll still have Deb's car. Things are a little too rural here to go totally public
transport. But I think we don't need two—@ndw
@ndw Just think of what you'll save: upkeep, insurance, etc. Put the money away for a
special holiday—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers Yep. That's the plan! I can feel the South Pacific sand between my toes already.—@ndw
Tuesday at 09:46am
XML+XQuery+Google Voice+Python=WIN http://norman.walsh.name/2009/09/01/gvcall—@ndw
Tuesday at 09:59am
Moving my Vista VM to a USB disk because I didn't have room for it on my HD has not
turned out to be a performance win. Who'd a thunk?—@ndw
Tuesday at 03:18pm
32 pints (well ½ liters) of Steve's Scottish Brown in bottles.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 03:44pm
Dear Ars Technica, thanks for a thorough review of Snow Leopard. Now how about putting
it on one, long page so I can read it easily?—@ndw
Tuesday at 03:46pm
Oddly, I've never even considered that my MacBook Pro *has* a 64 bit processor. And
I probably still won't until VMWare supports K64.—@ndw
Tuesday at 05:50pm
Yes, I know XML Calabash dev has been languishing. Top of my stack again real soon
now, I promise.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 05:52pm
I'm looking for a model web UI for access to a stream of data by date, date range,
and search (possibly constrained to date range)—@ndw
@ndw Not exactly what you want, but kayak.com has some of that—@robinberjon
Tuesday at 05:57pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:42pm
Watching Inspector Lewis thinking: I'll be there in 10 days. Then recording became
garbled. Thinking dark, evil things now.—@ndw
Wednesday at 08:23am
Next stop, New Yawk City.—@ndw
Wednesday at 08:23am
Well, now, Stanford, probably. But *my* next stop is NYC!—@ndw
Wednesday at 08:24am
Well, no, Stanford, probably. But *my* next stop is NYC!—@ndw
Thursday at 11:10am
67Tb for <k, http://bit.ly/MXNAQ—@ndw
Thursday at 11:14am
Thursday at 03:19pm
Dilemma: I can barely keep my eyes open, but if I don't, I might sleep through my
stop. I'll have to stay awake as far as NHV, I guess.—@ndw
Thursday at 05:48pm
iTunes, you suck. Why did you delete all the songs of my phone again? You fscking
basterd.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 10:13am
HTML5 Disasters in Making #1: "So SVG/MathML in HTML doesn't have to be well-formed XML?" http://bit.ly/13TVNl—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers It's ok though, because "most common well-formed xml svg will be parsed correctly".
Most. Really? Ugh. What a train wreck.—@ndw
@ndw If you don't want more treats like this, I really suggest not reading the whatwg
IRC logs the last few days...eye opening, mind numbing—@shelleypowers
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:12am
Friday at 11:15am
Friday at 11:19am
Friday at 11:28am
Friday at 11:32am
Driscoll is really smart & I only care about content (where XML is the clear winner),
but RT @ndw: Bravo @kurt_cagle, http://bit.ly/10Ix6q—@abdelazer
In a conversation that started on Friday at 02:28pm
You can't add Kindle books to your Amazon wish list. How odd.—@ndw
@ndw That's because someone else can't buy you Kindle books.—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers Huh. I guess that makes sense. I use tit as a convenience, I don't expect others
to buy from it. But maybe that's just me.—@ndw
@ndw I use mine for convenience too, but I'm always hopeful. I always put the new computer
at the top....—@shelleypowers
Friday at 03:18pm
From H/W IDs in VirtualBox: DEV_BEEF and DEV_CAFE. *chuckle*—@ndw
Saturday at 12:34am
Or MP3s, Norm. It's a sad story. RT @ndw: You can't add Kindle books to your Amazon wish list. How odd.—@geoffarnold
Saturday at 01:20am
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 06:31am
Saturday at 10:09am
I wouldn't do JavaScript without a framework these days, why am I doing CSS without
one?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 10:10am
jQuery + Baseline, FTW?—@ndw
Saturday at 05:16pm
Instead of nukes on alert, the current cold war will have backhoes staged at failsafe
points.—@whump
Saturday at 09:10pm
Sunday at 02:02am
Thanks for the RTs and discussion! @vincereardon @Lonjho @OneInchMan @Adam_______ @AnnaMVos @mauriciovieira @ndw @afronumfriedli @r3dracer—@denyreligion
Sunday at 01:20pm
Does six degrees of separation extend through animals? I have J Lo's chihuahua in
my lap.—@ndw
Sunday at 01:23pm
Lu Lu http://twitpic.com/gqli8—@ndw