The short-form week of 14–20 Sep 2009
21 Sep 2009; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 38 messages in 36 conversations. (With 1 favorite.)
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 Sunday at 04:00pm
Things I learned today: Snow Leopard disk won't boot if laptop HD isn't formatted.
SL won't install on a blank, formatted HD. Upgrade only.—@ndw
Monday at 10:40am
If upgrading installed MacPorts is possible, it's too hard for me. Giving up. Blowing
it all away. Starting over.—@ndw
Monday at 11:16am
Do I want to know why installing mercurial requires X11? No, probably not.—@ndw
Monday at 01:23pm
Anyone managed to get MacPorts (1.8.0) to install exim under Snow Leopard? https://trac.macports.org/ticket/21369—@ndw
Monday at 02:20pm
Anyone know what "TLS cache read failed" means or how to fix it? (Exim trying to send
mail with TLS)—@ndw
Monday at 02:35pm
WTF!? MS Exchange calendars don't support floating events?—@ndw
Tuesday at 08:47am
Drat. Amara 1.1.6 won't work with Python 2.6 on SL. And 4Suite won't build with python2.5
on SL. Fsck!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:01am
The HTML5 Silly Season http://burningbird.net/node/71—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers Popularity seems to have brought burningbird.net down?—@ndw
Tuesday at 10:41am
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:49am
I've put up my other @barcampbrighton talk - how to become a command-line superdork. http://is.gd/3iQ7O—@tommorris
Tuesday at 02:25pm
Wow. Installing Java Update on a windows box offers the Bing! toolbar. Do. Not. Want.—@ndw
Wednesday at 06:42am
I managed to build exim from sources only marginally faster than MacPorts got it fixed.
Bravo! https://trac.macports.org/ticket/21369—@ndw
Wednesday at 07:35am
Pelham Auto Service in Pelham, MA (in addition to being an excellent repair shop)
provide free wifi. I love these guys.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 10:45am
Hacking a large, complex #marklogic install in CQ. It doesn't feel exactly like juggling chainsaws, but I really don't
want to FU, either.—@ndw
@ndw I agree CQ has it's limitations, maybe a job for oXygen? or has someone @MarkLogic come up with an eclipse plugin yet?—@migueldemelo
@migueldemelo CQ was more-or-less just what I wanted. But it's a sharp knife, that's all. You can
do a lot of damage if you're careless...—@ndw
Wednesday at 12:46pm
Wednesday at 03:34pm
webkit2png requires pyobjc. What are the odds that that's just gonna work on Snow
Leopard?—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:38pm
Whatever the odds, I seem to have beaten them. Sweet. Now why doesn't my AppleScript
to change the desktop background work?—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:39pm
Because I renamed my laptop's hard disk. Works now. TYVM.—@ndw
Thursday at 07:39am
Thursday at 07:49am
Thursday at 01:10pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:32pm
I accidentally configured an app not to appear in the dock or the menu bar. Uh. Now
how do I get to it to fix that?—@ndw
Thursday at 01:56pm
Thursday at 01:58pm
Er. Oops. I didn't mean to say that twice.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:06pm
"If you can get past the first 27 seconds of anime weirdness, you'll get to the *real*
weirdness. http://tinyurl.com/nnh65h—@ndw
@ndw plz to be passing the brain bleach kthx—@TheRepoRat
Friday at 07:03am
@ndw glad you like identica-mode. Let me know if you have any suggestions/bug reports
:)—@gabrielsaldana
In a conversation that started on Friday at 07:04am
"Dog bath" is invariably followed shortly thereafter by "wet dog in lap".—@ndw
Friday at 10:42am
@ndw I've been working names completion, hopefully I'll get it done soon—@gabrielsaldana
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:47am
How on this small blue marble do you change group membership in Snow Leopard. Can't
find a cmd. Editing /etc/group doesn't do it.—@ndw
@ndw Open "System Preferences", underneath "My Account" you have a "Other Accounts" list,
click triangle to collapse it...—@PauloGaspar7
@PauloGaspar7 There's no black triangle for me on Snow Leopard. Nor any Groups list.—@ndw
@ndw Are you using an account with admin privileges?—@PauloGaspar7
@PauloGaspar7 yep—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 02:38pm
Saturday at 04:41pm
Beginning my journey to #xmlsummerschool. Still hacking slides. Still not sure how best to approach the last half-hour of
my sessions.—@ndw
Saturday at 05:43pm
Sierra USBConnect USB modem just locked up my laptop. Oh, joy.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 07:52pm
Saturday at 08:16pm
RT @ndw Beginning my journey to #xmlsummerschool. Still hacking slides. Still not sure how best to approach the last 1/2-hour of my
sessions—@innovimax
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:23am
Arrived LHR. Departing momentarily for Oxford.—@ndw
Sunday at 08:14am
The tenth cup of coffee at Caffé Nero is free. Do I get a special prize if I drink
ten in one sitting?—@ndw