The short-form week of 14–20 Dec 2009
21 Dec 2009; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 31 messages in 35 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 02:12am
Maybe essentially what I want is a transformation language for RDF. (One that can
create things other than RDF.)—@JeniT
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:14am
Tuesday at 12:08pm
Tuesday at 03:10pm
I want the country my forefathers died for, not the country my current leaders kill
for.—@merlyn
Tuesday at 05:15pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:01pm
First 47 people of the "let me know when GET LAMP is ready" list now notified. Now
for the huger one on my old FreeBSD box.—@textfiles
Tuesday at 10:10pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 05:01am
Oh the meeting was supposed to start at 10:*30*! No wonder no one's here.—@JeniT
@JeniT I once drove 80 miles to a meeting to discover I had arrived a month early.—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay So did you wait around, or did you drive home? :-P—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 05:04am
CALS tables and XSLT - its going to be one of those days ...—@al3xbrown
Wednesday at 03:36pm
I think this is a RT of @stephenfry, but I'm not sure. A*maz*ing in any event. http://tinyurl.com/y858r4t—@ndw
Thursday at 07:28am
♺@MarkLogic Register now for the Mark Logic User Conference 2010 to get the early bird special!
#MLUC10http://bit.ly/521TjO—@ndw
Thursday at 10:59am
Because not encrypting video feeds from drones in a war zone seemed like such a good
idea. http://bit.ly/8FVPej (via @elharo)—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 12:16pm
Facebook Revenues Screaming Toward $1 Billion. I've never clicked a Facebook ad.
I wonder who does? http://bit.ly/7n8yRQ—@ramblingman
@ramblingman Certainly, but wouldn't you say the same about Google?—@avernet
@avernet indeed. once in a rare while I actually do click a Google ad, but thus far never
a Facebook.—@ramblingman
@ramblingman Possible reason: tech-savvy folks click on ads less often (http://bit.ly/7OdV4Y)). What'll happen as folks get more tech-savvy?—@avernet
@avernet @ramblingman I think tech-savvy folks run adblockplus and flashblock and never even *see* the
ads. Or is that just me?—@ndw
Thursday at 02:07pm
Thursday at 04:11pm
In Perl: =f(); =a; eq is true. g() fails, g() succeeds. What can be different about
two strings that are eq?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:11pm
In Perl: $x=f(); $y=a; $x eq $y is true. g($x) fails, g($y) succeeds. What can be
different about two strings that are eq?—@ndw
@ndw Tainting? Dualvars? It would be clearer with a bit more code.—@robinberjon
@ndw [What can be different about two strings that are eq?] cf XPath: $x=$y, $x instance
of xs:Name = true, $y instance of xs:Name = false.—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay Yeah, but pass either of those to a function expecting an xs:string argument and
they behave the same, right?—@ndw
@ndw [eq strings behave the same, right?] Not if the function does an "instance of" test.—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay [eq strings behave the same, right?] Also of course collations can make ("a" eq
"b") true if you want.—@michaelhkay
@ndw not necessarily, depending on what f() does.—@martin_probst
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:17pm
what? you're using bareword a? so $x is 'a'. and what is g() ? you mean f(). Anyway,
print 1 if undef eq q{} ..... re: http://ff.im/d3Utq—@terrisCA
Thursday at 04:29pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:29pm
Thursday at 04:41pm
For total, brain-melting weirdness, print MIME::Base64::encode() *fixes* so that
it works. WTF!?—@ndw
Thursday at 04:43pm
Thursday at 04:44pm
print MIME::Base64::encode($x), I meant—@ndw
Thursday at 04:52pm
Thursday at 04:56pm
use Encode; $x = decode("utf8", $x) removes the magic but appears to leave it in utf8.
And it still doesn't work.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 05:03pm
Thursday at 07:08pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 07:15pm
My mobile phone has a goddamn Unix shell, an integrated Jabber client and uses apt-get
to update it's software. So awesome.—@RussB
Thursday at 07:23pm
hueyPRO Calibration sucks. Calibrated 2 days ago, got 14 day warning this morning.
Recalibrated. Just got 14 day warning again.—@ndw
Friday at 05:46am
In Java, general problem with impl equals() properly. RT @michaelhkay @ndw [eq strings behave the same] Not if fn does "instance of" test.—@vojtechtoman
Friday at 06:28am
My most influential followers are : @ndw, @martin_probst, @jpcs, @gazdovsky, @tony_vipros. Go to http://analytics.ad.ly to see yours.—@adamretter
Friday at 08:38am
Refactoring error handling in XML Calabash. Oh, joy.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:31am
I don't normally check my junk mail these days. But I did today, and found an RFQ
for 8 Saxon licenses. Email is broken, how do we fix it?—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay Not using email, instead asking folks to fill out an online form; adding a captcha
if that form is getting spammed.—@avernet
@michaelhkay Maybe its time to move over to an order-entry system instead of emails for orders.
I can suggest one (personal plug)—@DALDEI
@DALDEI There will always be emails asking "can you tell me which product I need?". But perhaps
a web-based contact form would help.—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay A web based contact form is a very easy and useful tool. You can whitelist the "From"
so you dont miss emails. Thats critical—@DALDEI
Friday at 04:29pm
♺@fiberartisan RT @remarkablogger: Amazing video on Google Chrome - No, really: it's Amazing! http://post.ly/FTve—@ndw
Saturday at 01:36am
best walking-octopus-carrying-a-coconut-shell video I've seen all year (and it's December)!
http://is.gd/5tlKs—@shepazu
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 05:00pm
Trying to unify XProc errors and step errors into a single listener for apps like
oXygen. I wonder if I'm going about this the wrong way.—@ndw