The short-form week of 21–27 Sep 2009
28 Sep 2009; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 43 messages in 51 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 07:20pm
When somebody cuts you up in Sebastopol, the word they're mouthing is "sorry"—@edd
Monday at 01:41am
port install imagemagick +rsvg is installing DocBook V4.2 and V4.3 and V4.4 and ...
I don't know whether to smile or cry.—@ndw
Monday at 01:41am
And V5.0. I guess I'll smile.—@ndw
Monday at 02:00am
The +rsvg variant of ImageMagick really needs gtk2 and xorg-randr? Really? Maybe this
isn't going to be finished before breakfast.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 06:19am
Have decided to stop editing the slides for my presentation for this afternoon.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 08:27am
Welcome to Oxford #xmlss09! Good to see tweets from @michaelhkay, @ndw, @adamretter, @JeniT etc. Is there a chance to catch up after hours?—@jpcs
@jpcs Probably best time would be tomorrow, pub crawl night. Or maybe come along to unconference
on Wednesday. #xmlss09—@JeniT
@jpcs John would love to meet up, not sure when is good though - I have no concept of the
timetable yet, perhaps the others can suggest?—@adamretter
@jpcs Yes, will do :-)—@adamretter
Monday at 08:33am
Monday at 09:17am
Monday at 09:58am
Presentation over. I can haz beer now?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 10:00am
Monday at 10:28am
cool day of FOSS talk: @webmink on licensing and ecosystems, MSMQ on tools, @ndw on techniques, now enjoying @neil_cowles on biz #xmlss09—@psd
Monday at 11:49pm
Absolutely wide awake at 4:30a. I thought eastbound jet lag was supposed to make me
sleepy in the morning.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 12:04am
No Pandora on this side of the pond. But no Spotify on the other. Anyone got a Spotify
invite they're anxious to burn?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 12:33am
Trying out Inconsolata. Nice and narrow, but perhaps a little too generous in line
height? http://tinyurl.com/2xcmmx—@ndw
Tuesday at 12:48am
@marjoleink Yep. "..such as the subtle curves in ..." but it doesn't seem so subtle on the lower-case
"t".—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 01:07am
alias ..='cd ..' Why did I never think of that?—@ndw
Tuesday at 01:38am
I wonder if inbound calls to my US mobile here in the UK are cheaper than outbound
calls.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 03:33am
Note to self: PowerPoint. Avoid whenever possible.—@ndw
Tuesday at 03:58am
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 04:00am
@bobdc "...adding RDFa to DocBook was easy and maybe worthwhile." Something to think about
#xmlss09—@ndw
Tuesday at 04:25am
RT @ndw alias ..='cd ..' Why did I never think of that?—@robinberjon
Tuesday at 06:40am
Thanks to @ndw not all monospace fonts suck. I got to try some of these http://tinyurl.com/r5yo5v—@DALDEI
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 11:09am
Google Wave: You need to pay attention to this. - Jason Kolb re: the Future of the
Internet http://bit.ly/3HPfQ3—@ramblingman
@ramblingman I'll pay more attention when I can actually try it out :-)—@ndw
Tuesday at 11:27am
Tuesday at 12:18pm
Tuesday at 06:44pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 05:17am
@ndw We need some fixes and I am wondering if the Calabash sources are up to date on svn.xmlcalabash.com/calabash,
can you confirm?—@georgebina
@georgebina svn status says they're up-to-date. I hope to get back to Calabash next week. Have
you bug reported the things you need fixed?—@ndw
@ndw I reported a NPE on the XProc list and another one with a patch here: http://bit.ly/MwVdV—@georgebina
Wednesday at 07:13am
My Chill Pills just arrived. Wildly good travel speakers for their size, thanks @ndwhttp://bit.ly/4BHs5A—@webmink
Wednesday at 08:00am
Wednesday at 08:05am
Wednesday at 09:20am
Wednesday at 09:29am
Wednesday at 09:58am
Staying up late with @adamretter and @ndw last night certainly didn't help my cold feel any better today.—@jpcs
Wednesday at 10:33am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 11:56am
Thinking that if I added an input box and sorted tweets in descending order by default,
I could turn my twitter archive tool into a client.—@ndw
@ndw Combo Twitter/archiving tool would be a big win! Shared the current version yet?—@jschneider
Wednesday at 04:16pm
Someone's unplugged the ethernet from the wifi AP. I can send bits, they just don't
go very far.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 02:59am
@ndw Any plans to update Calabash to use Saxon 9.2?—@georgebina
@georgebina Yes, 9.2 is next on my list. Perhaps this weekend :-)—@ndw
@georgebina Any interest in supporting #calumet #xproc in #oXygen? I could help with that.—@vojtechtoman
@vojtechtoman We plan to create an API to allow plugging in XProc engines, see my reply on the
oxygen-user list http://bit.ly/N0Hdl—@georgebina
@georgebina Thanks for that, I am looking forward to it!—@vojtechtoman
Thursday at 04:38am
@ndw mentions CSS frameworks. You what now?!? How did I miss these previously - CSS hates
me, I will be checking out Blueprint #xmlss09—@adamretter
Thursday at 05:45am
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 05:57am
@ndw What we need for XRX (based on ML of course) is a similar level of declarative links
between URLs/content types/code etc. #xmlss09—@JeniT
@JeniT We had something similar for writting SOAP Services in eXist using XQuery, expect
to see REST in the near future.—@adamretter
@adamretter Yeah. Seems like a good idea.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 06:01am
Marc Hadley on JAX-RS at #xmlss09 *almost* makes me want to build web applications with Java. But not really.—@JeniT
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:19am
Macbook owners, I am where some of you also were: deciding between a Linux laptop
and MB. Now that you own MB, could you live without it?—@vojtechtoman
@vojtechtoman I find mac works for stuff I dont wont to be IT support for e.g. what real users
use computers for (videos, radio, pix, etc .)—@cutlass
@vojtechtoman Stuff just works in Macs, stuff you need when travelling. Run your Linux apps in
VMware on a Mac.—@abcoates
@vojtechtoman I could live without it, but I couldn't run Photoshop or Lightroom.—@ndw
@vojtechtoman also mac osx being a direct descendant of bsd tips the scales for me currently—@cutlass
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 10:06am
@ndw #xforms, and #xslt (via JavaScript) makes are very good. In Firefox you can generate new #xforms on-the-fly. I wish for xf:transform—@philipfennell
Thursday at 10:50am
Thursday at 11:03am
Thursday at 12:00pm
Thursday at 12:34pm
if you rearrange all the letters in a dan brown novel, you can discover a better novel
hidden inside—@ldodds
Friday at 04:48am
Friday at 10:18am
Thank you #btopenzone for screwing up almost every one of my tabs. Again.—@ndw
Friday at 10:21am
Sunday at 05:49pm
With the folks just outside Norwich. No connectivity to speak of.—@ndw