The short-form week of 2–8 Nov 2009
09 Nov 2009; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 49 messages in 59 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.
In a conversation that started on Monday at 02:32am
Emacs 23 has M-x butterfly. I'm going to bed now. Giggling. http://xkcd.com/378/—@ndw
Monday at 03:34am
:-p RT @ndw Emacs 23 has M-x butterfly. I'm going to bed now. Giggling. http://xkcd.com/378/—@fgeorges
Monday at 03:56am
RT @ndw Emacs 23 has M-x butterfly. I'm going to bed now. Giggling. http://xkcd.com/378/—@0xcafebabe
In a conversation that started on Monday at 03:57am
Shouldn't that be C-x M-c M-butterfly?—@0xcafebabe
@0xcafebabe I suppose it should, probably is, but I couldn't find the 'butterfly' key on this
keyboard to type M-butterfly.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 08:30am
Exploring the diff btw Carbon Emacs 22.3 and the OS X release of Emacs 23.1. So far
so good, but needed to install aspell and en dicts.—@ndw
Monday at 08:32am
@ndw Oh, I always thought that this was the key left to the space key on Macs. ;-)—@0xcafebabe
Monday at 08:53am
Saving money by providing only tepid showers is an odd choice for a hotel where the
A/C is set by default to "arctic".—@ndw
Monday at 11:24am
In a conversation that started on Monday at 01:22pm
The iPhone will automatically change the *time of day* when you travel, but not the
timezone. #fail—@ndw
@ndw I think that depends on what info it's getting from the network. Mine switched both
time and TZ here, but failed in at that Paraguay.—@robinberjon
In a conversation that started on Monday at 02:56pm
In a conversation that started on Monday at 06:22pm
Happiness is writing a test, running it, and discovering that you already implemented
that feature even though you don't remember doing so.—@ndw
@ndw ...and unhappiness is writing a test, running it, and discovering that a feature
I remember implementing quite vividly, never worked.—@vojtechtoman
Monday at 07:32pm
Started filling last gaps the #xproc test suite with @ndw today. Good: Coverage raising. Bad: Some hard #Calumet work ahead of me. #tpac09—@vojtechtoman
Monday at 07:45pm
In a conversation that started on Monday at 07:49pm
Ok. Off to Oakland for dinner with colleagues then NoSQL meetup. Catch y'all later.—@ndw
@ndw was going to NoSQL meeting, but I just completed SQL (standards) meeting. Guess who's
happier :)—@SheltieJim
Monday at 08:34pm
Tuesday at 01:55am
Tuesday at 04:34am
RT @ndw: Emacs 23 has M-x butterfly. I'm going to bed now. Giggling. http://xkcd.com/378/—@jirkakosek
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:31am
http://twitpic.com/o4l37 - Firefox has decided that this script font is the correct face for "Courier italic".
WTH?—@ndw
@ndw [Courier italic]. Well it might not be Courier, but it's a rather nice script. Where
can I get it?—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay [Courier Script] Should switch to mac first ! That's Zapfino (Innovimax logo use
it http://innovimax.fr ) http://is.gd/4MHB7—@innovimax
@michaelhkay The [Courier italic] in @ndw image is Zapfino, http://bit.ly/4dFwB2 comes with every Mac.—@gcarothers
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:54am
http://twitpic.com/o4naj - It's worse than I thought. Safari is borked too. Is that a reinstall I smell in
my future?—@ndw
@ndw Rebooting fixed it. Man, it's been a *looong* time since I had to do that. #notthewayitssupposedtobe—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:15pm
Wonder, again, why XProc hasn't been based on XDM...—@fgeorges
Tuesday at 07:53pm
♺@xproc XProc Test Suite reaches 100% coverage (3 untested errors but no tests are expected
for those) http://tinyurl.com/c65fjd—@ndw
Tuesday at 08:14pm
RT: @ndw: @xproc XProc Test Suite reaches 100% coverage (3 untested errors but no tests are expected
for those) http://tinyurl.com/c65fjd—@vojtechtoman
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:03pm
Tuesday at 09:34pm
RT @ndw ♺@docbook DocBook V5.0 has been approved as an OASIS Standard http://tinyurl.com/ylzb7xq—@peteaven
Tuesday at 09:39pm
RT @ndw, @docbook: DocBook V5.0 has been approved as an OASIS Standard http://tinyurl.com/ylzb7xq—@andrewsavikas
Tuesday at 09:43pm
ndw
RT @ndw ♺@xproc XProc Test Suite reaches 100% coverage (3 untested errors but no tests expected for
those) http://tinyurl.com/c65fjd—@peteaven
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:44pm
Wednesday at 01:52am
Well done! RT @ndw: ♺@docbook DocBook V5.0 has been approved as an OASIS Standard http://tinyurl.com/ylzb7xqhttp://bit.ly/IviE6—@abcoates
Wednesday at 08:15am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:27am
really like @hunterhacker slide deck from oakland nosql meetup http://bit.ly/1fOnhP here it is - concise and to the point - boom done!—@peteaven
@peteaven @hunterhacker Yeah, slide 3 is great and so was his talk. Oakland was a hike, but worth it!—@ndw
Wednesday at 10:16am
Inducing structure from a flat list of bullets from a .pptx file. Oh happy, happy,
joy, joy!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:09pm
Even when there's significant agreement on distributed extensibility (a great thing),
it depresses me deeply. #tpac09—@ndw
Wednesday at 05:14pm
I'll be speaking at the inaugural meeting of the New York Mark Logic User group next
Wed. Please stop by! http://tinyurl.com/y924orh—@ndw
Wednesday at 05:52pm
RT @ndw I'll be speaking at the inaugural meeting of the New York Mark Logic User group next
Wed. Please stop by! http://tinyurl.com/y924orh—@peteaven
Wednesday at 05:56pm
Wednesday at 09:50pm
Calling my mom (in GB) on my mobile: $1.49/min. Calling my mom on my mobile with Google
Voice: $0.02/min.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 10:48pm
I don't think I've seen this many commercials in a row in a long time. Live TV is
sort of painful.—@RussB
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 11:33pm
Thursday at 01:17am
Death toll so far: three villagers and the seer. Werewolves unscathed. Prospects for
the villagers: bloody awful.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:23am
@dontcallmedom is the best werewolves master ever—@amyvdh
In a conversation that started on Friday at 12:24pm
Fixed a bug. Went from passing 568 tests to passing 557 tests. Is it just me, or does
that seem wrong?—@ndw
@ndw I dipped even deeper today. But at 587 now.—@vojtechtoman
In a conversation that started on Friday at 04:26pm
The week has gone on too long when you think to yourself "I wonder what The Prisoner
would have been like with William Shatner as Number 6?"—@emacsen
Friday at 04:42pm
just got a preview of @ndw 's demo for next week's MarkLogic NY MUG http://developer.marklogic.com/ Sweet!—@peteaven
In a conversation that started on Friday at 04:48pm
In a conversation that started on Friday at 10:07pm
Friday at 10:10pm
Saturday at 12:26am
Saturday at 01:01am
Vintage Boeing 767. I guess there's some padding in these cushions, but it feels
like thin foam over bricks.—@ndw
Saturday at 10:58am
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 07:11pm
Very similar to what I saw tonight: http://www.overflite.com/—@alecmuffett
@alecmuffett I've always wanted to build one, but they look like such an irresponsible fire hazard.—@ndw
@ndw come to England, where it rains occasionally. Or moreso.—@alecmuffett
Sunday at 05:46am
Sunday at 03:43pm
Sunday at 03:50pm
Sunday at 04:05pm
♺@peteaven Video: The Golden Age of Video: AWESOME video mashup by Ricardo Autobahn! http://tumblr.com/xmi3ww0wg [ via @zadi ]—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:40pm
I had to shave myself but built in battery in my electric razor was completely exhausted.
http://pic.gd/4f3097http://pic.gd/f36929—@jirkakosek
@jirkakosek You know they make razors that don't require batteries, right? Not that I use those
very often either, as it turns out.—@ndw
@ndw It would be too close shave with ordinary razors for my beard ;-)—@jirkakosek
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:46pm
Snow Leopard & SSD: disabling now useless sudden motion sensor with sudo pmset -a
sms 0 via http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1934—@dajobe
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:49pm
Interesting fact: If your spouse drops her iPhone 3G in a "commode" you can get a
replacement for just $199 wo extending the contract.—@hunterhacker
@hunterhacker If my spouse drops her phone in a "commode" and I tweet about it, I'm going to lie
about how she wrecked it. :-)—@ndw
@ndw You might be able to infer my spouse is not yet on Twitter. :)—@hunterhacker
Sunday at 05:22pm
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 06:13pm
s/principal/principle/. Which is another indication that I should just go to bed.—@JeniT