The short-form week of 5–11 Oct 2009
12 Oct 2009; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 41 messages in 31 conversations. (With 7 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 04:32pm
SJU Admiral's Club doorbell button is clearly labelled 'Please pull'. Huh?—@ndw
Tuesday at 06:58am
@ndw At long last, officially back in the XML Processing WG again ;-)—@vojtechtoman
Tuesday at 01:40pm
Frustration is; Googling for an error produced by some open source software, and only
finding it in the source code 8-(—@distobj
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:38pm
Today I learned that some people are *still* arguing in favor of draconian error handling.
Let it go, people. You lost, and rightly so.—@diveintomark
Wondering what @diveintomark will do when the last Draconian shuffles off. Man needs a hobby.—@timbray
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:46am
Yet another user finding that the Sun JDK 1.6 version of Xerces reports incorrect
data to the application. Have Sun no shame at all?—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay makes me wonder if I should feel like I need to defend Sun now that my employer's
made a bid for the company. NOT!—@SheltieJim
@SheltieJim Heh. And I feel bad because it was my bailiwick. But then, I left in part because
they wouldn't let me fix it.—@ndw
Wednesday at 06:59am
Two cars on this train. Both occupied by clutches of mothers bonding over the virtues
of their children. Loudly. Like I f'ing care.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:06am
There's a Wave client for Emacs (naturally) http://bit.ly/TJF4F—@windley
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:22am
Oh, goodie! A screaming baby is drowning out the nattering mothers. Happy happy, joy
joy.—@ndw
Wednesday at 08:00am
Connecting train has quiet+table. FTW.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 08:38am
What's another phrase for 'variable binding' that doesn't use the word 'binding'?—@ndw
@ndw "variable S&M"?—@SheltieJim
@SheltieJim Priceless!—@ndw
@ndw I hate "binding" too. Variable definition works for me.—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay I ended up changing the term for input/output "bindings" to "connections". http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/docs/alternate/—@ndw
Wednesday at 08:39am
Wednesday at 09:12am
In XProc there are input/output bindings, var and opt bindings, and namespace bindings.
Sometimes I think that's one 'binding' too many.—@ndw
Wednesday at 04:11pm
Every time I see a CVS Pharmacy sign I wish they’d upgrade. Then I remember I’m a
geek, and wonder if they have a pill for that.—@brentsimmons
Wednesday at 04:13pm
The 'Miracle of Luciano' desc. as 'patently goofy'. That's...generous. Filed under
You Must be F'ing Kidding. http://tinyurl.com/yeootg4—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 05:10pm
Wednesday at 05:13pm
Another XProc interim CR draft technically completed. Can we please be done now? #threemonthheartbeat—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 08:30am
@ndw s/s/u?—@SheltieJim
@SheltieJim Yeah, basically.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:46am
A sad news miniblog http://j.mp/2rIyJf Don't all burst into tears at once. The watertables of the world couldn't take it.—@stephenfry
@stephenfry Boo Hoo! And we just ordered the first season on DVD too, being on the wrong side
of the pond as we are.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:35am
Advice:If you go to a lovely dinner where you talk a lot and wine is being refilled
and you don't notice...don't drink so much wine. #myhead—@feliciaday
@feliciaday Heh. Been there, had the headache to prove it.—@ndw
Friday at 01:13pm
Piles of receipts collated, scanned, and stapled. Expense reports finished. 90 minutes
of my life I'll never get back.—@ndw
Friday at 01:40pm
Quelle surprise? RT @denyreligion Supreme Court Justice Scalia is a supremely clueless jerk #atheismhttp://bit.ly/vBDfU—@ndw
Friday at 01:48pm
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:17pm
Friday at 05:50pm
Coffee in 12oz bags for the price of a pound. Bastards.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 06:00am
Why does food in airports have to be so obscenely expensive? $9/sandwich at JFK and
Geneva. $3 drinks. I'd rather starve.—@terrycojones
@terrycojones All the traffic will bear. It was the $8 Coronas at SJU that astonished me.—@ndw
Saturday at 10:10am
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” Voltaire
(1694-1778)—@Crispian_Jago
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 12:48pm
Just about ready to buy all the bits to build my first desktop from scratch. Wondering
what brackets, cables, misc., I don't know I need.—@ndw
Sunday at 01:36pm
Trying to get SaxonHE 9.2.0.2j to compile...—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 01:46pm
Dear Firefox, please don't ever go into "Work offline" mode unless I put you there.
kthxbai.—@ndw
Sunday at 08:55pm
Goodbye, Mr. Guru Marketer who I've never heard of before. You're the new Mayor of
Blockville.—@davidjhinson
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 10:02pm
Making a video? Skip the ads, skip the introductions. Please get to the point. The
reason I prefer text: I know how to skim.—@jschneider
@jschneider Amen. You can have several minutes of my undivided attention *after* you've convinced
me I care, not before.—@ndw