The short-form week of 16–22 Nov 2009
23 Nov 2009; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 34 messages in 39 conversations.
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 08:09am
Receipts all over my desk. Finding other things to do, anything to do, instead of
the expense reports that need doing.—@ndw
Monday at 10:12am
Monday at 10:15am
Whoo-hoo! Go, Jason! And thx to Norm for helping spread the word. RT @ndw Congratulations @textfiles ! http://bit.ly/a7iFV—@xmlgrrl
In a conversation that started on Monday at 12:00pm
2009/11/16: Today's theme is red. Red hot? Red paint? Or something else? You decide.
Make your photo and then reply with a link!—@dailyshoot
Monday at 12:15pm
In a conversation that started on Monday at 01:05pm
In a conversation that started on Monday at 01:49pm
Does NASA stream video of the shuttle launch? If so, where. Poking about nasa.gov
reveals nothing obvious.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 01:51pm
The thing that looks like it might be a feed just displays the Quicktime logo with
a question mark on top of it. Safari doesn't do QT?—@ndw
Monday at 04:41pm
Impressed with jqtouch, but not useful if they don't fix issue 44. (jqtouch and Google
Maps don't play nice together)—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 04:19am
Whose bright idea was this? Our new gas cooker doesn't work in a power cut.—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay the folks who think you probably can't be relied upon to keep the pilot light lit
manually. I bet the range works.—@ndw
Tuesday at 10:08am
Enjoyed @stephenfry reading HHGTTG on the drive in. Now on the red line for the first time in ages.
#boston—@ndw
Tuesday at 11:14am
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 11:19am
@JeniT (Re XSLT errors in XProc) I logged an issue against Calabash at http://bit.ly/ouTJT and we have a patch to fix this in oXygen.—@georgebina
@georgebina I'll see what I can do. Need to get XML Calabash passing all (or at least most) of
the tests again.—@ndw
@ndw Thanks!—@georgebina
Tuesday at 11:28am
RT @ndw: ♺@trieloff The dystopian prospect of a web without URLs /by @factoryjoehttp://ff.im/-bAD26—@ashooner
Tuesday at 11:39am
RT: @ndw: ♺@trieloff The dystopian prospect of a web without URLs /by @factoryjoehttp://ff.im/-bAD26—@philipfennell
Tuesday at 09:53pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:19am
Oh, Apple! Reboot because you updated the browser? How 1990's of you. Applications:
you're doing it wrong.—@ndw
@ndw Rebooting? There's an app for that.—@robinberjon
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 08:06am
If SourceForge is trying to drive away users by making the site an unusable mess,
they're doing a really, really good job.—@ndw
@ndw [SourceForge] Hear hear. They are completely clueless about usability.—@michaelhkay
@ndw Google Code is a possible candidate for project hosting. I follow Source Forge and
Google Code projects - I agree with you about SForge—@MafiaDeadMan
@MafiaDeadMan @ndw I would have moved my own projects to Google code if I was not disturbed by Google
hegemony. At least, SF is independant!—@AlainCouthures
@AlainCouthures Yeah. code.google would be my temptation too, but I'm not yet motivated enough to
do that. lots of legacy on sf.net.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 10:06am
What the h*ll is wrong with these people? | RT @dhmspector Colbert++ http://tinyurl.com/yf2eqd5—@ndw
@ndw Fear of change? Personally, I blame their parents. My philospohy: "There isn't enough
time for love, what does that leave for hate?"—@dhmspector
Wednesday at 10:56am
RT @ndw @michaelhkay RE: [Sourceforge] Double++ ... every time they make an update the site is worse then
before! when and where do we go?—@DALDEI
Thursday at 10:41am
Going offline for a few days. Keep the intertubes running for me, 'k?—@ndw
Thursday at 11:42am
RT @ndw: Going offline for a few days. Keep the intertubes running for me, 'k? <<- breaking
out the Drano as you speak:)—@richardhamilton
Thursday at 12:08pm
Murphy's Law: on the rare occasion when I want to see someone's flash goo thing, I'm
surfing the web on my iPhone.—@ndw
Thursday at 12:41pm
Thursday at 01:26pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 02:48pm
I'm old. Skinny jeans r horrid, regardless of gender. Why must androgyny mean no curves?
Bring back phat pants! (re: http://bit.ly/3h4Qkoo)—@zephoria
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:32pm
@georgebina When will oXygen have support for "easy" DocBook->EPUB transformations?—@abdelazer
@abdelazer We have that planned for one of the version 11 maintenance releases.—@georgebina
@ndw We've had DocBook-XSL support for DocBook->EPUB since 1.74.0, 535 days ago http://bit.ly/3Gujie—@abdelazer
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:47pm
My dog has pneumonia and may also have cancer. I'm picking him up at the vet and taking
him to the hospital.—@zeldman
Thursday at 04:12pm
"I can see the light." That moment when I remember that I turned down the LCD brightness
when I was on battery and turn it back up to 100%—@ndw
Thursday at 04:32pm
Changed seats so elderly couple could sit together. Left an electrical outlet behind.
Hoping karma is transitive for my dad...—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:42pm
If you can upgrade me on UA 918 today, I would be most grateful—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:43pm
My UA number is 03029249988—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:53pm
To the extent that knowing my UA number allows you to fuck with me, please don't.—@ndw
Thursday at 05:50pm
Doors closing now. See you on the other side.—@ndw
Thursday at 05:57pm
RT @webmink: I'm sure the Apple fanboyz will be sneering but Paul Graham is spot on in this essay:
http://bit.ly/vnopn—@ndw
Thursday at 05:58pm
Departure delayed. You're stuck with me a few more minutes yet.—@ndw
Thursday at 06:15pm
RT @ndw: RT @webmink: I'm sure the Apple fanboyz will be sneering but Paul Graham is spot on in this essay:
http://bit.ly/vnopn—@fgeorges
Thursday at 06:42pm
Ground stop now. Probly no great loss; estimated arrival was 5:45a and it's pointless
to arrive LHR b/4 6a because of landing restrictions.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 10:13am
@abcoates @ndw @harveybetty in need of ubergeek help. how would set up a server and then a VPN server on my mac?
possible?—@fiberartisan
@fiberartisan What kind of Mac do you have? Macbook or a desk system? And what do you want to serve
from it?—@abcoates
@abcoates tried a virtualizer site, no luck. Trying to set up a VPN for her to connect to.—@fiberartisan
@fiberartisan What about finding her an anonymizer service to use, there are a number of those
around, I believe.—@abcoates
@abcoates tried a couple; no luck so far. will keep digging.—@fiberartisan
@fiberartisan I saw this recently; it might do the job: http://archetwist.com/en/opera/operator—@abcoates
@abcoates thanks!—@fiberartisan
@abcoates iMac 24". Thinking I should be able to install lightweight server in a Fusion virtual
machine ... a little knowledge is dangerous!—@fiberartisan
@abcoates daughter on boat in Gulf of Mex (MMO). Needs to access Lexis/Nexis site for other
job. Ship is based in Norway, so IP denied.—@fiberartisan
@fiberartisan I'm afraid I've never tried, I don't know.—@abcoates
@abcoates thx Tony. I'm guessing I should be able to run a server in Fusion... what we do for
our kids ;)—@fiberartisan