The short-form week of 26 Oct–1 Nov 2009
02 Nov 2009; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 60 messages in 60 conversations. (With 3 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.
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 01:02pm
@GeorgeBina can I tell oXygen not to indent lines and to insert a newline between end and start
tags in element-only content?—@ndw
@ndw I just sent you an email trying to show some possibilities also depending whether
you want that for pretty-print or during editing.—@georgebina
@georgebina thanks. I'll take a look momentarily.—@ndw
@ndw Have you solved the formatting issue? If not please send over a sample that can be
used to reproduce that.—@georgebina
@georgebina No, sorry, George. It's drifted a little further down the stack. I'll get back to
it eventually.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 03:36am
Monday at 04:39am
Monday at 05:24am
I'm really enjoying the CameraBag app. Perhaps too much. http://tinyurl.com/yzzfsnt—@ndw
Monday at 05:33am
Monday at 07:03am
SOA manifesto - if there's one thing worse than PR people attempting tech, its tech
people attempting PR—@al3xbrown
Monday at 07:46am
Helping someone on IRC with some DTD syntax issues. internal subset, external subset,
document content, entity declarations, % and &, oh my!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 05:25pm
In a conversation that started on Monday at 05:30pm
Being annoyed by noisy wankers on the train.—@ndw
Monday at 05:31pm
RT @ndw: ♺@docbook DocBook V5.0 has enough votes to become an OASIS Standard! http://bit.ly/1iOLJi—@abcoates
In a conversation that started on Monday at 05:35pm
They made XML with pointy brackets so they'd stick in your throat as they went down—@edd
Monday at 05:46pm
Rebuilding DocBook: TDG for DocBook V5.0 with "compact" synopses for possible use
in the print version.—@ndw
Monday at 06:17pm
RT @ndw: ♺@docbook DocBook V5.0 has enough votes to become an OASIS Standard! <- and that's before tomorrow's
reminder notice! #oasisopen—@fiberartisan
In a conversation that started on Monday at 06:50pm
Is use heavy in certain industries? RT @fiberartisan @ndw @docbook DocBook V5.0 has enough votes to become an OASIS Standard!—@cherimullins
@cherimullins Technical documentation mostly, though not exclusively. Particular computer hardware
and software documentation.—@ndw
Monday at 08:16pm
Left home in the dark. Almost home now in the dark. But almost home!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 03:46am
past me has punished current me by booking a 5:25 AM flight—@walmsleyph
@walmsleyph Past me is such a callous jerk.—@ndw
@ndw @walmsleyph Sounds like you mustboth be mellowing & improving with age. (I make no such claims
for myself)—@abcoates
@walmsleyph Can you remember now what you were punishing yourself for?—@abcoates
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 01:28pm
@hunterhacker Nice!—@ndw
Tuesday at 02:58pm
@abcoates @ndw mellowing - probably. improving - questionable. becoming kinder to myself re travel
- starting now.—@walmsleyph
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 04:53pm
HTML5 enters Last Call: http://bit.ly/BJUOh—@diveintomark
@diveintomark Do we all get ponies?—@timbray
@timbray no, we get <pony>s. duh.—@diveintomark
@diveintomark I'd laugh, if it wasn't so sad. What a fucking crock.—@ndw
@ndw I always knew you were a man of good sense—@shelleypowers
@ndw We tried it your way. Didn't work out. Bygones.—@diveintomark
@diveintomark Did you? I must not have been paying attention. Well, good luck.—@ndw
Tuesday at 06:12pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 08:41am
Laptop sounds like a jet engine taking off. I really do need to get this looked at.
But not before #TPAC09 I guess.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 10:43am
Only 10% of the people who take this test get all 12 answers right? #education #failhttp://bit.ly/3tEAtJ—@ndw
@ndw must be a 10%er like me; hard to believe that more people got fewer than half of
the questions right!—@SheltieJim
@ndw Those questions were so basic I think you would know the answers before primary school!
http://twitpic.com/n9ues—@ebruchez
Wednesday at 10:47am
WTH? only 10% got all 12 simple science q's right? #education #failhttp://bit.ly/3tEAtJ (via @ndw)—@benosteen
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:22pm
RT @ndw: Only 10% of the people who take this test get all 12 answers right? #education #failhttp://bit.ly/3tEAtJ—@DALDEI
@DALDEI Not an impressive piece of science, since they've decided all respondents are American
without actually asking. http://bit.ly/3tEAtJ—@michaelhkay
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:20pm
If I want to reinstall Ubuntu w/o losing my software RAID config, I wonder what I
need to save and how careful I need to be.—@ndw
@ndw Normally, Ubuntu is pretty careful about preserving any config files you've changed,
but maybe back up /etc to be safe.—@david_megginson
Wednesday at 01:51pm
11 on 12 ..laser.. RT @ndw: Only 10% of the people who take this test get all 12 answers right? #education #failhttp://bit.ly/3tEAtJ—@innovimax
Wednesday at 01:56pm
I'm in 10% ;-) RT @ndw: Only 10% of the people who take this test get all 12 answers right? #education #failhttp://bit.ly/3tEAtJ—@jirkakosek
Wednesday at 02:37pm
♺@nickbilton : If Net Neutrality disappears, this is what the web will look like: http://j.mp/2UYL2H—@ndw
Wednesday at 02:54pm
Internet in five, ten years? RT @ndw: ♺@nickbilton : If Net Neutrality disappears, this is what the web will look like: http://j.mp/2UYL2H—@jirkakosek
Wednesday at 03:00pm
♺@feliciaday RT: @lilithsaintcrow Science Geeks - sliding scale model of coffee bean to carbon atom http://tinyurl.com/mac6zv—@ndw
Wednesday at 04:01pm
I live life fully saturated. Playing with Evernote backup and DB TDG last night means
I didn't work on XML Calabash or...—@ndw
Wednesday at 04:05pm
...and tinkering with my NYMUG pres means I didn't tinker with my Digital Publ. Summit
pres. Slow the rot. of the earth by 50%? kthxbai.—@ndw
Wednesday at 05:03pm
♺@nickbilton : If Net Neutrality disappears, this is what the web will look like: http://j.mp/2UYL2H (via @ndw)—@Peropaal
Thursday at 07:20am
Now playing: Been Caught Stealing by Jane's Addiction. Now running around barking
madly: our dogs.—@ndw
Thursday at 12:19pm
Hmm. Installed CentOS 5 on VMWare Fusion with the quick, guided install. User account
not in /etc/sudoers. The root password is, what again?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 12:35pm
I love XMLSpy - give a manager a copy and two years later they'll need a whole boat-load
of consultancy :-)—@al3xbrown
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:02pm
@ndw - let me know how the virtualization goes. I tried getting Sun VirtualBox and VMM.
I got VB working but had net problems.—@harveybetty
@harveybetty I have VMware Fusion too, and happy with it. I struggled with Virtual Box one year
ago, but wasn't able to run it; dunno now.—@fgeorges
@harveybetty I've been using VMWare Fusion for a while now. VBox worked fine too, but since I'd
already bought a license for VMWare...—@ndw
Thursday at 01:21pm
Firefox 3.5.x has builtin support for the geolocation API. That sure confused me for
a while.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:45pm
Interesting, I seem to have lost Twitter Lists.—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers and now they're back...—@frumioj
@frumioj Not for me. Good thing Twitter is rolling this out in stages.—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers oh, how weird - me too!—@frumioj
@abcoates Good thing you only have to worry about 140 chars. Imagine what would happen if you
had, say, 280?—@shelleypowers
Thursday at 02:23pm
omg! I read that not changing out of pyjamas when working from home is a prime indicator
of failure. So I now have to sleep in my clothes.—@grorg
Thursday at 03:05pm
Geocoded 600 places with <gx:lat>{$long}</gx:lat><gx:long>{$long}</gx:long>. Yay me.
Not.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:10pm
Now 600 places geocoded with <gx:lat>{$long}</gx:lat><gx:long>{$lat}</gx:long>. Oh!
F! Me!—@ndw
@ndw You have to decide whether it's easier to fix the lat/long data, or to rotate the
earth by 90 degrees.—@abcoates
@ndw should just turn the earth on its side. Then lats are long and longs are, umm, lat.—@SheltieJim
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:15pm
These people are crazy, aren't they? http://bit.ly/301YW8—@zaphgod
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:44am
listening to Bela Lugosi's dead. It's part of my Halloween playlist—@Crispian_Jago
@Crispian_Jago So you got home safe after all and the hangover's not too bad? :-)—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:34am
EXPath Packaging support in Calabash (unofficial) now reuses the implem for Saxon
when appropriate, and supports Java extension functions.—@fgeorges
Friday at 11:36am
it's your computer, and it's none of [the web site owner's] business how you choose
to experience their web pages. http://bit.ly/1cwDD2—@windley
In a conversation that started on Friday at 02:07pm
Apparently I have lists. Now, why do I care?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:54pm
RT @windley it's your browser, and it's none of [the web site owner's] business how you choose
to use it. http://bit.ly/1cwDD2—@ndw
RT @ndw @windley it's your browser, and it's none of [the web site owner's] business how you choose
to use it. http://bit.ly/1cwDD2—@danja
In a conversation that started on Friday at 07:47pm
bum, late already but not sleepy. trying a youtube episode of Black Books—@danja
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 06:05am
MS Vista just shut my machine down, discarding 30mins work without warning, to install
a patch. Unbelievable. Why do I put up with this?—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay Can't you just disable auto-installation of patches? I always disable it; did so
in XP, have done so in Win7.—@abcoates
@michaelhkay you know there are alternatives, right? Annoying in there own ways, but not like
that!—@ndw
@ndw Yes, I know there are alternatives. I just needed a kick in the arse to make the
move. MS have just given me that kick.—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay Having used two of the alternatives (Linux on a Thinkpad and a Mac) for years, I
recommend them both highly.—@ndw
@michaelhkay I'd recommend Ubuntu (I had a year or two on a Mac which eased transition from MS
then, but the latest distros don't need that)—@danja
@michaelhkay The Mac is probably slightly less difficult to get working in corporate environments
these days, but neither is perfect.—@ndw
@michaelhkay what @ndw said - note #openoffice is a totally plausibe MS Office substitute (and works pretty well with MS formats)—@danja
@danja @michaelhkey @ndw You still need Windows, just to be able to see what your customers see, but you can
use a virtual machine for that.—@abcoates
@abcoates @michaelhkey @ndw "You still need Windows..." fair point, but you get a better class of customers without
it :)—@danja
@danja I hardly use MS Office. But I can't ditch MS entirely 'cos I ship a .NET product
(OK, there's mono, but need to test on .NET!)—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay fair enough. I do have 2 MS machines: 1 I never use, some visitors appreciate, 1
for music, had soundcard driver probs (both XP—@danja
@michaelhkay btw, still doing any writing? still doing much XML? (think I can guess the answer
to the latter :)—@danja
@ndw I still need to start VMware for some corporate internal apps (the horror!), other
than that no problems with a Mac at work.—@martin_probst
Saturday at 09:29am
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 11:15am
The fact that the Bible invites us to "multiply" and have "dominion over earth" is
not a rational argument for growth #battleofideas—@doctorow
Saturday at 06:05pm
Sunday at 05:41am
Followed @ndw's lead and bought a copy of Daisy Disk to show where all the disk space on my Mac
has gone: http://www.... http://bit.ly/43K27U—@abcoates
Sunday at 12:58pm
Sunday at 01:14pm
Upgrade? That'd be a "no" now please get in line with the rest of the cattle and
bend over for the TSA...—@ndw
Sunday at 03:22pm
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) where have you been all my life? !emacs—@ndw
Sunday at 03:50pm
Sunday at 09:36pm
Is it not the TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY? RT @denyreligion: Evil demons and curses live in Halloween candy. #atheismhttp://bit.ly/4u9xDf—@ndw