The short-form week of 4–10 Jan 2010
11 Jan 2010; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 51 messages in 48 conversations. (With 5 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 Tuesday at 01:31pm
Is the real threat from terrorism just governments and their puppeteers keeping everyone
else in fear to increase control?—@PragueBob
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 01:59pm
Tuesday at 02:07pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:21pm
I've noticed that 125% is better than 100% in the Word font size drop down these days.
#oldfart #presbyopia—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:53pm
Now that Nexus One is out, no one's ever going to buy my new-in-box N900. I might
as well donate it to the Tor guys...—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 03:12pm
Why does every Mac app think it can use ^Space for some global hotkey function? Doesn't
everyone know Emacs already uses that key?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 03:29pm
Dear Internet: If you were writing a new library to handle web & email addresses,
would you call it a) "uri" or b) "url"—@blaine
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 03:52pm
have been srsly going back n forth btwn whether to get iphone or nexus, and i gotta
tell ya, reviews have me leanin toward the iphone—@peteaven
@peteaven It's a sweet device if you don't mind someone else telling you what you may and may
not run on it. I've decided I mind. A lot.—@ndw
Tuesday at 04:57pm
Tuesday at 06:34pm
In the annals of disgusting things I've seen, @donttrythis, ear wax candle may rank pretty high.—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:54am
RT @ndw: Shame there's no physical keyboard on the #nexus1 || Hear hear! We want physical keyboards, none of that silly screen stuff!—@robinberjon
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 05:14am
"Emacs outshines other editors the same way noonday sun does stars. It isn't just
bigger/brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish."—@vojtechtoman
@vojtechtoman This shows that whether Emacs outshines everything else, or another editor does,
depends on where you stand in the universe!—@avernet
@avernet There is plenty of room for everybody (and every editor) :)—@vojtechtoman
@vojtechtoman "Emacs and Windows are just alike, both are fine operating systems lacking a decent
editor."—@martin_probst
Wednesday at 07:10am
Wednesday at 08:37am
♺@michaelhkay Water droplets at 2,000 fps. Very cool.—@ndw
Wednesday at 08:40am
♺@vojtechtoman "Emacs outshines others like the noonday sun does stars. It isn't just bigger/brighter;
it makes everything else vanish."—@ndw
Wednesday at 08:45am
♺@peteaven OMG, what on earth is this seal thinking? ROFLMAO. http://bit.ly/7lyF2v (tx @juliandibbell) [ via @zephoria ]—@ndw
Wednesday at 08:50am
New quandry: that's cool, I'll save it: http://pinboard.in/u:ndw or Evernote? Bulletin board or scrap book?—@ndw
Wednesday at 09:08am
OMG, what on earth is this seal thinking? ROFLMAO. http://bit.ly/7lyF2v /via @zephoria @juliandibbell @peteaven @ndw—@ruidlopes
Wednesday at 09:46am
Weird. boot.efi can't be rm'd (even with sudo) but can be deleted by the Finder via
Option+Empty Trash. Not like.—@ndw
Wednesday at 01:34pm
Wednesday at 02:15pm
He who builds a complex system but fails to document it deserves the pain and suffering
he gets. Currently suffering painfully.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:22pm
Any web site which freezes loading "waiting for ad.yieldmanager.com" is Doing It Wrong.—@timbray
Wednesday at 03:27pm
Oh blast! I didn't even document the config settings that can't be gleaned from the
source. I am a useless waste of space.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 05:59pm
Fiji or the Cook Islands?—@ndw
@ndw for? Fiji more edgy, Raratonga rather tame—@kitwallace
@ndw Be more adventurous, say Pitcairn or Henderson Islands!—@robinberjon
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:12pm
Yay! My XML Prague paper was accepted. Oh, wait, that means I have to write it. #mixedblessings—@ndw
Wednesday at 07:55pm
He he, I thought the same ;-) RT @ndw: Yay! My XML Prague paper was accepted. Oh, wait, that means I have to write it.
#mixedblessings—@fgeorges
Thursday at 07:03am
Trying to decide if I'm curious enough about foursquare to do anything about it, or
just wait and see if it's a flash in the pan.—@ndw
Thursday at 08:17am
RT @ndw: Yay! My XML Prague paper was accepted. Oh, wait, that means I have to write it.
#mixedblessings #xmlprague—@innovimax
Thursday at 08:17am
Thursday at 09:39am
"Huh huh huh. Twitter is stupid." So sayeth a blog comment. Pot, meet kettle; do discuss
blackness.—@tommorris
Thursday at 10:00am
The Sonos reads .flac files. Sweet. Near instant access to all our music on some nice
high-end audio gear. The library's finished, I think.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 12:38pm
Googling around trying to find a philosophy book. Not much luck, but I did find "Teen
Anal Pounding". Truly delightful.—@tommorris
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:17pm
grep -v .cvs and grep -v .csv produce very different results. I'm just sayin'—@ndw
@ndw This is why some of us have switched to ack for most of our searching: http://betterthangrep.com/—@emacsen
Thursday at 01:37pm
@ndw Same with .xls and .xsl. Gave me hours of sheer joy and jubilation.—@0xcafebabe
Thursday at 03:22pm
In a conversation that started on Friday at 12:33pm
Friday at 02:36pm
RT @ndw: Most useful thing I've learned today: press ⌘+L when a pkg installer is running
and it'll show you a nice, verbose log. #osx—@robinberjon
Saturday at 05:14pm
Ripping "The Prisoner" to my iPhone for my travels next week.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 05:50pm
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 07:56pm
Make that a 2624-line .pl file. Don't hold with this newfangled "modularity" crap.—@timbray
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 09:00am
Renewed commitment to organization. Considering Things, Toodledo, OmniFocus ($80???),
2Do, RTM. I don't have A.D.D...Oh! Look! A chicken!—@ndw
Sunday at 11:31am
"Digital information lasts forever, or five years—whichever comes first''
—Jeff Rothenberg—@briansuda
Sunday at 04:03pm
The guy chanting from his religious text in the airport is probably harmless, but
he sure is annoying.—@ndw
Sunday at 04:22pm
Sunday at 07:26pm
Arrived early at ORD. Waiting in the penalty box for a gate.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 08:05pm
Me: I'd like to check on the status of my upgrade. Agent: That's never going to happen.
/me watches bubble of optimism pop around self.—@ndw
Sunday at 08:44pm
"We didn't have 1s and 0s - just the letter O. And we had to parse uphill BOTH ways!
In the snow! And we LIKED it!"—@xmlgrrl
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 09:27pm
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