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The short-form week of 28 Sep–4 Oct 2009

05 Oct 2009; last modified 13 Mar 2011

The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 22 messages in 18 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 02:55am

Dear #osx #spotlight please don't index when I'm on %$&?! battery! kthxbai—@ndw

Tuesday at 12:15am

Homeward bound. 6:21 service to Norwich expected at 6:24, 6:26, 6:30, 6:32... #offtoagoodstart—@ndw

Tuesday at 05:17am

Dear #samsung branded power outlets (at #LHR) that don't provide any power are very bad advertising.—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:14pm

Arrived IAD. With half the population of a moderate-sized city, apparently.—@ndw
@ndw Where is IAD ?—@MafiaDeadMan
@MafiaDeadMan IAD = Washington Dulles International Airport—@ndw

Tuesday at 07:10pm

Home.—@ndw

Wednesday at 08:15am

keming. (kém'-îng) n. The result of improper kerning. (spotted on http://www.ironicsans.comm)—@philhawksworth

In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:42am

@ndw Any chance to get Calabash issue 79 fixed in the next few days? That is a major issue for the integration in oXygen 11.—@georgebina
@georgebina Yes. Given that you provided a patch :-), I'll try to get a release out with that fix *before* I rip it to bits for Saxon 9.2—@ndw
@georgebina I'll try. Not before the weekend, but I'll try. Are you using Saxon 9.2 now?—@ndw
@ndw Yes, but we load Calabash with a different classloader to be able to have Saxon 9.1 without conflicting with Saxon 9.2 from oXygen.—@georgebina

In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:39pm

Vacation hacking: sqltoxml, turning SQLite3 databases into...something useful :-) http://tinyurl.com/y9qemow—@ndw
@ndw But xml to sql is more complicated http://bit.ly/mv09g—@MafiaDeadMan
@MafiaDeadMan Yeah, but I've never wanted to do that. :-)—@ndw

Wednesday at 05:44pm

Mac Snow Leopard symlinks Java 1.5 to Java 1.6. A**holes. Sorry I missed that.—@ndw

Wednesday at 07:02pm

Bah. Got Java 1.5 back, but something about my IntelliJ config is borked. No compiles tonight.—@ndw

Friday at 02:30am

Subway map of the best movies of all time http://bit.ly/X4Z89http://ff.im/-95LOq—@trieloff

Friday at 05:07am

BDL-MIA-PUJ. See you next week.—@ndw

Saturday at 01:27pm

Distracted by cool idea: GPS+Address Book+Mark Logic Server geospatial searches = Exif Coverage computed automagically. Sweet.—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Saturday at 02:31pm

Furthermore, you can't stomp a snake with both feet in the bucket.—@xmlgrrl
@xmlgrrl Hey! Be nice to the snakes.—@ndw
@xmlgrrl You can't stand with one leg on either side of a barbed wire fence.—@abcoates
@abcoates oh, you *can*, you just don't want to.—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Saturday at 07:11pm

Likely I'll have to abort using a fancy word processor and go back to Emacs editing Perl POD again. Ironic for a Smalltalk article. :)—@merlyn
Editing with #emacs is never ironic, @merlyn—@ndw

Saturday at 11:34pm

Almost all tests pass. With luck, new #xmlcalabash release tomorrow. Likely last before #saxon 9.2 (he) required.—@ndw

Sunday at 10:17am

Me: that change couldn't possibly have caused a bug. Test suite: wanna bet? Test suite FTW!—@ndw

Sunday at 04:03pm

♺@xmlcalabash XML Calabash 0.9.15 released.—@ndw