The short-form week of 12–18 Oct 2009
19 Oct 2009; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 54 messages in 53 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 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
In a conversation that started on Monday at 10:48am
XProc test suite now covers more than 90% of the spec. Almost there. Almost.—@ndw
@ndw Have you documented the process you use to measure test coverage? I'd be interested.—@robinberjon
@robinberjon Not terribly scientific. For all elements in the language, count occurrences of those
elements in the test suite.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 01:53pm
I trust(ed) Sun to Do The Right Thing with VirtualBox. Do I trust Oracle?—@ndw
@ndw I worry about that, too. VirtualBox is a really nice product. I'd hate to see it
falter.—@eliasisrael
Monday at 04:00pm
Installing iPhone SDK...time remaining 49 minutes. Forty-nine *minutes*? Egad!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 05:38pm
Love raw carrots; loathe cooked carrots. Weird?—@bsletten
Monday at 06:50pm
In a conversation that started on Monday at 08:34pm
Thought Masterpiece Mystery! was a 2hr prog. DVR disagreed. Believed DVR. More fool
me. #howdiditend—@ndw
Tuesday at 08:32am
Tuesday at 08:34am
Now a tiny bit more :) RT @innovimax: @ndw: XProc test suite now covers more than 90% of the spec. Almost there. Almost. #xproc—@vojtechtoman
Tuesday at 12:32pm
Armored SUV with "whale penis leather interior". WTF? I repeat, W. T. F?! http://tinyurl.com/ygf2yar—@ndw
Tuesday at 02:44pm
I agree, @ndw -- WTF? Not sure I'd choose to advertise that fact, either! Only a real d**k would
buy such a vehicle!!—@SheltieJim
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:45pm
Trying to figure out who to contact in my company's email group to get ACM.org whitelisted
so I don't lose so much business email!—@SheltieJim
@SheltieJim Yeah, a real whale of a...no, nevermind.—@ndw
Tuesday at 03:59pm
I keep thinking Evernote is a cool idea. But I keep not using it. Like so many other
cool ideas.—@ndw
Tuesday at 04:18pm
The XClio WindTunnel case is certainly...capacious.—@ndw
Tuesday at 05:58pm
According to UPS, the route from LA to my house goes through Portland, OR; Spokane,
WA; Dallas, TX; and Philadelphia, PA (so far)—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:02am
Fuck the Dyson fans are astonishing. Is that a serious thing? http://www.dyson.com/fans/—@plasticbagUK
@plasticbagUK Have you seen one of those? It definitely looks interesting.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:00am
Offline for a week. Laparoscopic panproctocolectomy. Due 2009-10-09T30Z. Fingers crossed
please! TMI?—@dpawson
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 11:07am
tried out http://www.politicalcompass.org//; my results less than surprising ;-)—@laurendw
Wednesday at 11:47am
So, a universe indifferent to pain and suffering is bleak, but a god who demonstrates
his love with pain and suffering is comforting. Huh.—@CcSteff
Wednesday at 01:51pm
Will. Not. Play. Before. Work. Day. Is. Done. Will. Not. Play. Before. ... http://twitpic.com/liofl—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:52pm
Will. Not. Play. Before. Work. Day. Is. Done. Will. Not. Play. Before. ... http://twitpic.com/liogy—@ndw
@MafiaDeadMan Yeah. What are you testing? And who are you again?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:47pm
Some people put gold or diamonds in their safe deposit box. Mine has hard drives.
Lots of hard drives.—@duncan
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:10pm
Phone, wallet, keys, camera...y'all gonna laugh at me if I start carrying a man-purse?—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:46pm
Wednesday at 03:55pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:22pm
@robinberjon @shelleypowers that can't roundtrip between XHTML 5 and HTML 5. Maybe not a design goal but can't
help but think it should be.—@kurt_cagle
@kurt_cagle It was never possible to roundtrip between all DOMs and XML — nothing changes, people
just notice now.—@robinberjon
@kurt_cagle @robinberjon That's already come up, with the RDF/XML included in SVG that then gets copied and
pasted into HTML—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers XML was never composable, and yet we lived. I doubt being a bit less composable will
make a huge difference.—@robinberjon
@robinberjon Actually it will. If a person copies/pastes SVG into page, and page throws hundreds
of bogus warnings and errs, SVG is out—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers In the real world that's already the case. You have to remove DOCTYPE, copy internal
subset entities, etc. XHTML doesn't help—@robinberjon
@robinberjon That's trivial. You're removing one line that may, or may not, be part of the SVG
file. Everything else can copied over as is—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers And speaking of things that always confuse users, DOCTYPE is a very good candidate.—@robinberjon
@robinberjon But that's not an issue when you're copying SVG and pasting it into HTML—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers Wrong. You need to move over the internal subset, which tools like Illustrator will
almost always create.—@robinberjon
@robinberjon In other words, you have to copy and paste the SVG. But it's not a complex task.
Select all, copy, paste.—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers Not sure what you mean. Typical Illustrator example, how do you cut'n'paste without
changes? http://bit.ly/2Wja0—@robinberjon
@robinberjon I don't use Illustrator, and can't read what it does. I use Inkscape, it incorporates
namespaced elems that copy/paste—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers Illustrator outputs SVG, you can read it (see the link). And it's used *a lot* by
designers, *far* more than Inkscape.—@robinberjon
@robinberjon But what will end up, realistically, on the web for use in copy and paste? Much Inkscape,
very little Illustrator.—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers Massive amounts of web content are made with Illustrator in the production pipeline.
Inkscape is tiny in comparison.—@robinberjon
@robinberjon But none of that ends up on the web. I'm not going to worry about what doesn't end
up on the web—@shelleypowers
@robinberjon Puzzling though: I've seen SVG on the web that has Illustrator markup. It's all valid
XML, copy and paste no problem—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers WF XML, yes; copy and paste, not so trivial with an internal subset. It's a well-known
XML issue.—@robinberjon
@robinberjon SVG is a part of HTML5. SVG contains, legally, metadata which can have RDF/XML. Legally.
HTML has to deal with this.—@shelleypowers
@robinberjon If we look hard enough, we can find things that break. What we need to look at is
typical and usual for the web—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers Precisely. Illustrator is typical. HTML is typical. Inkscape and RDF aren't (no matter
whether I'd like them to be or not)—@robinberjon
@robinberjon But Inkscape and RDF are more typical _on the web_ than Illustrator generated SVG
files—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers You have numbers? All SVG projects I've worked on over the past 10y were with Illustrator
or hand-made SVG. No Inkscape.—@robinberjon
@robinberjon But were they meant to be uploaded and used, as is, on the web? As SVG?—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers Yeah, interactive maps, user interfaces, that sort of thing. Real web content and
web apps :)—@robinberjon
@robinberjon I don't look at the universe of potential uses. I look at one specific use: the web.
Changes everything.—@shelleypowers
@robinberjon Your typical is my exceptional, and vice-versa. The web's a *big* place.—@ndw
@ndw @karlpro I sort of get that the Web is big, but I still think that when a decision has to
be made, it should break the smaller part.—@robinberjon
@robinberjon In practice, maybe. In principle, I'm not sure. Your perception of what is smaller
and mine may differ. We may both be wrong.—@ndw
@ndw In principle, of course! In this case, I'm reasonably certain that Illustrator has
greater reach than Inkscape — despite how cool it is—@robinberjon
@robinberjon Most of the open source and free SVG files about are annotated with CC licenses,
which need to be maint with the SVG—@shelleypowers
@robinberjon I think of it this way: we're going to copy paste what already exists as a viable
SVG file on the web.—@shelleypowers
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 06:36am
@NDW Gefeliciteerd met Computable Award! 3e plaats voor Overheidstransactiepoort: http://gbo.overheid.nl/nieuws/artikel/285/—@Logius_minbzk
@Logius_minbzk Huh?—@ndw
Thursday at 09:49am
Hmm. Lightroom is hanging on startup. That can't be good.—@ndw
Thursday at 02:09pm
New machine up and running. Pics tonight. Motherboard RAID was fakeraid, so went with
software raid. 2TB on 3 disks. Plus 1TB boot disk.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:06pm
@ndw In the XProc versioning proposal, example K is only statically invalid for a 1.0
processor that doesn't understand p:unknown, right?—@JeniT
Thursday at 03:38pm
Trying to decide if I want to go to the trouble of building a chroot jail for Apache
on my new box.—@ndw
Thursday at 05:04pm
Dear studios, the Blu-Ray commercial you make me watch at the start of a Blu-Ray disk
makes me not want to watch them.—@ndw
Thursday at 09:41pm
Oh, come on, I know I wrote the recursive directory list pipeline. Why can't I find
it now?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:03am
people outraged by #janmoir and The Daily Mail might like to carry the card: http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/1551396503/—@psd
Friday at 08:53am
UMEKit is cool, but do I want the iPhone UI on my desktop apps? And if I do, remind
me why? http://parsekit.com/umekit/—@ndw
Friday at 11:57am
The MLB commerials on @pandora_radio are *really* annoying. Time to pay up or move along, I think.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:38pm
"This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself"
http://is.gd/4mU18 (via http://is.gd/4mU2pp)—@timbray
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 03:21am
Will be 21st century century of frameworks? Listening to CSS Framework talk at #webexpo—@jirkakosek
@jirkakosek is there a clear winner? I'm still trying to pick one.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 03:26am
One year older today again... listening to You're Still a Young Man from Tower of
Power.—@vojtechtoman
@vojtechtoman For such ocassions I prefer "Too Old to Rock'n'Roll Too Young to Die" from Jethro
Tull. Happy Birthday, btw—@jirkakosek
@vojtechtoman Happy birthday!—@ndw
Saturday at 10:30am
Saturday at 03:40pm
Working my way through the Saxon 9.2 upgrade for XML Calabash. Most of the way there...—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 07:18am
Motorola Droid is whipping my I-want-an-open-iphone hormones into a frenzy: http://bit.ly/1S9wKQ—@dweinberger
@dweinberger And iDon't want to be on Verizon's stupid CDMA network. Sigh.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 07:51am
Listening to Victoria Vox – Chameleon (my favourite of her albums): http://open.spotify.com/album/5HKbxBnLk4u8NCmLuWt3y5http://bit.ly/Y1Kca—@abcoates
Sunday at 08:35am
@expandrive is the bomb. Worth every penny. I'm just sayin'—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 08:37am
Microblogging backup story; implement one last bit of functionality, or write weblog
post. Eenee, meenee, implement.—@ndw
Sunday at 08:50am
Tweets appear to be growing geolocation information. Very cool.—@ndw
Sunday at 09:36am
This is a test. Probably one of several. Apologies in advance.—@ndw
Sunday at 09:38am
This is a test. One of several. Just ignore me for a bit.—@ndw
Sunday at 10:54am
"relather" #playedallmyscrabbletiles—@ndw
Sunday at 12:54pm
One last(?) test.—@ndw
Sunday at 01:01pm
Really, maybe the last test.—@ndw
Sunday at 01:51pm
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:15pm
HTML guaranteed to make every old web geek smile: http://home.flash.net/~evt/rapture.htm BTW, Flee From The Wrath To Come.—@timbray