The short-form week of 7–13 Dec 2009
14 Dec 2009; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 53 messages in 45 conversations. (With 4 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 08:17am
Google Docs — putting everything that makes Word a pain to use right there on the
Web—@robinberjon
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:03am
XML Calabash passes 591/618 tests. Fix bug. Calabash passes 585/618 tests. -Progress.—@ndw
@ndw Wish you luck! Btw, did you have a chance to look at validxsd-009 and validxsd-010
whether the schema doc is correct? Don't think so.—@vojtechtoman
Monday at 10:12am
Monday at 10:17am
Monday at 10:18am
Monday at 10:18am
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Monday at 10:19am
Monday at 10:19am
Monday at 10:19am
@dailyshoot Patterns in bark http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndw/4154782985/in/set-72157622816219844/ #ds14—@ndw
Monday at 10:19am
Sorry for the flurry of dailyshoot tweets; just getting caught up.—@ndw
Monday at 10:25am
Will resist temptation to install IntelliJ 9.0RC1 instead of working. I will. I swear.
Honest. Would I lie? http://tinyurl.com/chfpph—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 01:00pm
"If brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough brute force." e.g. -Xmx16384M—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 01:09pm
for some reason I find microformats based on class="" overloads incredibly lame, hacky,
and generally utterly irritating—@codinghorror
@codinghorror Yep, that about sums it up.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 01:38pm
Disney officials have clearly never been to see the Magic Roundabout "in the flesh":
http://bit.ly/6PTGBF Always but always fact-check :-)—@webmink
Monday at 01:59pm
In a conversation that started on Monday at 02:21pm
Wondering about getting Mi-fi http://threestore.three.co.uk/broadband/?mifi=1&id=1183—@JeniT
Monday at 04:02pm
Speaking of brute force, I wonder if putting tens of thousands of files in a single
ext3/4 directory is a good idea.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 06:20pm
and now I'll never know :'( "The only thing I left out was -- I didn't explain about
the teeth" http://bit.ly/7MpF1c—@libbymiller
@libbymiller Alas, I don't recall any mention of teeth in the second Dirk Gently. Maybe it's time
to re-read them. The first is marvelous.—@ndw
Monday at 07:42pm
Myth Buster's deep sea pressure test was fantastically disgusting—@ndw
Tuesday at 08:29am
Tuesday at 09:46am
Updating Java means I need to reboot. WTF! Apple!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:06am
Great. Update Java and IntelliJ dumps core. Thanks, Apple. Fucktards.—@ndw
@ndw It doesn't sound like you and Apple are in a happy relationship. Maybe you should
see other OS's for a while. :)—@david_megginson
@david_megginson Heh. It's mostly nice, but I'm more captive than fan, really. Hey, Adobe, how about
Linux ports of Lightroom and Photoshop?—@ndw
@ndw there is a solution for crash after installing Apple Java Update 1: http://bit.ly/7c6hmU—@intellijidea
@intellijidea Thank you!—@ndw
@ndw Ubuntu 9.10 runs nicely on Macbook Pros. Even has a real readline library.—@gcarothers
@gcarothers Yeah, I'm sure it does. And a real readline would be nice. Maybe when I can run OSX
under VMWare for Lightroom & Photoshop...—@ndw
Tuesday at 11:28am
Wow. Google Maps suddenly finds a totally different road for my address. I wonder
if this bodes ill for any 911 call I might have to make.—@ndw
Tuesday at 11:54am
Bah. /proc/mdstat suggests I have RAID, but mdadm says nothing's configured. Can I
extricate myself with total rebuild, I wonder?—@ndw
Tuesday at 11:55am
s/with total/without total/—@ndw
Tuesday at 02:44pm
My server has no din inputs for a mouse and I have no USB mice. Can I reinstall Ubuntu
9.1 server w/o a mouse, I wonder.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:47pm
Tuesday at 03:16pm
If you have enough data, even rsync between two drives on the same box takes a while.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:33am
As he struggles to find CentOS-compatible drivers for the NIC in his desktop box,
Norm remembers why OS X doesn't totally suck.—@ndw
@ndw The lack of driver suck on Mac OS X doesn't come from Mac OS X, it comes from only
supporting Macs ;)—@gcarothers
@gcarothers Yeah, I know. And I don't actually mind the problem in general, but it seems odd
for a modern but not cutting edge motherboard.—@ndw
Wednesday at 12:29pm
Wednesday at 12:43pm
Heading to the train station. http://tinyurl.com/yzfabpz—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:52pm
Very very close to releasing a brand-new version of my docbook build chain for windows,
mac, and linux. Easy docbook to pdf for authors.—@bphogan
Wednesday at 02:27pm
Amtrak conductor tells me I'm forbidden from carrying my bag down to the cafe car
and working at a table. Nice.—@ndw
Wednesday at 06:16pm
VNC over an SSH tunnel over 3G. No, it doesn't really work.—@ndw
Wednesday at 06:33pm
Intense contraction of 3G bandwidth = we must be approaching New York—@ndw
Thursday at 11:32am
Breakfast and one networking break has blown my always unreliable cache of names/faces.
Looked in the mirror and couldn't remember my name.—@ndw
Friday at 11:30am
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 10:14am
Running 'sudo port upgrade outdated'. Wish me luck.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 03:26pm
so see her as the female buckaroo bonzai: super engineer, world renown scientist,
rockstar, & supermodel, saving us all from 4th dimension—@peteaven
Saturday at 03:30pm
Happily, on this occasion, upgrading macports seems to have worked just fine.—@ndw
Sunday at 10:53am
"We are tasked with convincing a myth-infatuated world that love and curiosity are
sufficient." -- Sam Harris—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 12:21pm
Sigh... there is internet in the hotel, but all email ports seem to be blocked. What
a drag...—@ivan_herman
@ivan_herman One of the nice things about mailhop from @dyndns is they listen on port 2525 which I've never seen blocked or hijacked.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 01:02pm
Dear England,
A second tiny ice cube in the bottom of a tall glass with a warm can of Coke does
not constitute "extra ice".—@ronhitchens
@ronhitchens Are you sure you know the definition of "extra"?—@ndw
Sunday at 03:29pm
Bah. The DocBook wiki is borked. Not sure why, but I suspect the right answer is to
upgrade/start over with a more recent moinmoin release.—@ndw