The short-form week of 1–7 Feb 2010
08 Feb 2010; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 65 messages in 59 conversations. (With 20 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 02:40am
Amazon wants to dictate market prices, Apple wants to dictate software... What's next,
digital TVs where I can't turn off Fox News?—@RussB
Monday at 06:39am
RT @mikkohypponen: "I want privacy because I break the law" - good essay by @zachaysan: http://bit.ly/a4q8Yq—@roessler
Monday at 03:38pm
Tuesday at 12:15pm
C U? See me! http://www.aadivers.com/webcam/—@ndw
Tuesday at 02:08pm
Tuesday at 02:47pm
RT @areggiori: How to recognise a good programmer: http://bit.ly/caUjC2 (via @RandyTerbush)—@mortenf
Tuesday at 04:35pm
Whoever decided weather should be mutable was an idiot.—@freddrake
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:05am
Life's to short to worry about table-free CSS layouts, a <table> will do for now—@zaphgod
Wednesday at 09:05am
Good grief. RT @jirkakosek @robinberjon: One of the many reasons why you never, ever want to use anything from MPEG http://bit.ly/bAybiP—@ndw
Wednesday at 02:55pm
Good overview of ACTA, why you should worry and why it's time to hold Obama's feet
to the fire on transparency: http://bit.ly/ctWRJA—@webmink
Wednesday at 04:38pm
RT @loydcase Wakefields paper about autism and vaccines retracted by the Lancet. Finally. http://bit.ly/9q8Ljf—@ndw
Wednesday at 05:41pm
A corollary of Greenspun's law for the 2010s… any sufficiently complicated system
will contain an embedded Javascript interpreter—@edd
Thursday at 07:38am
Providing a visualisation of data is not the same thing as providing data. Excel spreadsheets
are visualisations.—@JeniT
Thursday at 09:55am
There are six guys in the water this morning with metal detectors. Someone lose a
Rolex or something?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 10:19am
Programmers! Remember magazines that had game code listings that if you typed it in
you could play it? Let's bring that back somehow!—@bphogan
Thursday at 10:19am
iPad is a consuming platform, not a creating/producing platform. http://ff.im/fo9hA—@dajobe
Thursday at 10:58am
good programmers appreciate the features you put in. expert programmers appreciate
the features you left out.—@KentBeck
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 11:12am
Oh yeah! RT @xquery: @james_clark dont waste your time with any other emacs, go directly here http://emacsformacosx.com/—@fgeorges
@fgeorges @xquery @james_clark yeah, I agree sorta. But Carbon Emacs has been a little more stable for me.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 11:59am
Thursday at 12:06pm
In IntelliJ IDEA, "Ctrl-Alt-Shift-/ -> Registry" takes you to some secret settings!—@ebruchez
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 12:17pm
since when is the circle line not a circle??—@libbymiller
@libbymiller for about two weeks as I recall the tube pamphlets. Just call it the spiral line,
I guess—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 02:29pm
Sea kayak+unexpected large wave+careless+high risk location = lost O'Reilly Author
cap. Saved paddle, kayak, camera, and self.—@ndw
@ndw is having 'way too much fun—@SheltieJim
@SheltieJim but he's not getting his action items done, damn him! :-)—@ndw
@ndw They have more. Heck I have more. Lemme know if you need one.—@hunterhacker
@hunterhacker no worries. I'm pretty sure I have at least one more at home.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:42pm
another day saved thanks to #gnu #emacs and its registers http://tinyurl.com/ykcbsmb—@gabrielsaldana
@gabrielsaldana clearly I need to improve my register-fu. I rarely use them.—@ndw
Thursday at 10:20pm
Finished my book (dead tree copy of Linked, excellent). Left Kindle at home, right?
Not in seat pocket, right?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:50am
from what i recall, ppl didn't try to explain what they were doing, or aspects of
the lang. more like, just type this sh#% in and have fun!—@peteaven
Friday at 03:07am
I don't burn bridges because it's personal. I burn bridges because man, that bridge
totally *sucked*.—@codinghorror
In a conversation that started on Friday at 05:50am
Typing my XML Prague paper as fast as I can so @jirkakosek can typeset it — fingers burning, I need a neural interface!—@robinberjon
@robinberjon Yay! I wasn't the last to submit then! Stop reading Twitter--you gotta keep typing!—@ndw
Friday at 08:50am
Amazing! RT @dpawsonhttp://j.mp/9eF6Vp Now you see him, now you don't! Photography with a difference.—@ndw
Friday at 11:15am
"Project manager is the person who believes nine women can deliver a baby in one month."—@Bertrpe
Friday at 11:27am
"In consequence, users who never migrated their old PDF eBooks (purchased prior to
September 2008) can now never migrate them." DRM sucks.—@gcarothers
Friday at 02:04pm
"Without words, without writing, and without books there would be no history, there
could be no concept of humanity." ~ Hermann Hesse—@daj42
Friday at 02:59pm
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:14pm
Thomson airlines want us to pay USD 45 for the privilege of sitting together on the
plane. Why are they treating customers like dirt?—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay because poking you in the eye with a sharp stick just causes so much paperwork.—@ndw
Friday at 04:39pm
Where's my GPS? Where'd I last have my GPS? In the kayak. Oh, crap!—@ndw
Friday at 04:42pm
Just re-read "Hey Crackhead", my favourite best of craigslist posting of all time
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/27499971.html—@simonw
Friday at 04:51pm
I think I'm going to post "favorited tweets" and "read later" links to my weblog on
weekly basis.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 04:51pm
Friday at 04:52pm
In other news, I'm now the mayor of Secret Harbour on @foursquare. Hell yeah!—@ndw
Friday at 09:18pm
RT @simonw "Hey Crackhead", my favourite best of craigslist posting of all time http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/27499971.html—@ndw
Friday at 09:25pm
How brain dumb stupid are you to imagine that I want your service, no matter how devastatingly
cool it is, tweeting on my behalf for you?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 10:00pm
Trusting in the authority of leading scientists is fine; we all need to do that sometimes.
But doing that isn't science -- it's faith.—@zooko
Friday at 10:19pm
Amazing space pictures taken from UK garden shed http://bit.ly/ayWiph (via @slashdot) #DIY #make—@timoreilly
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 08:51am
A-fucking-men RT @mikeloukides @sfermigier A must read: "Tinkerer's sunset" by Mark Pilgrim - http://bit.ly/9Jyhkc || Mark--great post—@ndw
@ndw I think the thing that provokes my ire is calling what we do with these hermetically-sealed
software-driven devices "ownership".—@doriantaylor
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 11:41am
innovative on MSFT's part? how many will think of 'upgrading' from *nix to windows.
is that even possible?—@peteaven
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 11:56am
Who has better (or any) technical support? Parallels or VMWare?—@elharo
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 12:18pm
Travel tip: those six-pack liquor boxes are only allowed to contain *5* liters of
booze, at least on AA. Pack only 750ml bottles or 5/box.—@ndw
Saturday at 12:22pm
OFFS. RT @PatParslow @gsiemens Microsoft patents "personal data mining" http://bit.ly/b8JOVo <- someone just fix the US patent system pls—@ndw
Saturday at 12:24pm
RT @peteaven if u've got mad JS skillz, this job's awesome for what u'll be workin on AND who
with http://bit.ly/ap4mwt #marklogic—@ndw
Saturday at 02:38pm
#bigbrother #surveillance #paranoia RT @justinvincent Police want backdoor to Web users' private data http://bit.ly/bQtlN5—@bblfish
Saturday at 07:34pm
Basically, it goes like this:
1. Geek says X.
2. Everyone ad hominems the geek.
3. Geek says "yeah, but still X. Fuck you, morons."—@tommorris
Sunday at 07:51am
Sunday at 05:26pm
Auto-levels may be bad for lots of reasons, but it sure improves underwater shots.
What's the right answer? Is there a LightRoom technique?—@ndw
Sunday at 05:38pm
The internet is made of glue and bits of string. Never forget this.—@pfhawkins
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 08:09pm
Sunday at 08:26pm
I despise artificial corks. If you can't use a real one, a screw cap more than suffices.—@happygiraffe
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 08:30pm
Football rules as explained to Josh today: "Squish the guy with the ball." He seems
satisfied with that.—@hunterhacker
@hunterhacker +1 One team tries to get the ball to the end of the field while the other team tries
to "squish the guy with the ball"—@abdelazer
.@hunterhacker A friend once expl football. We split a bottle of scotch over a game. I still don't
understand and I don't blame the scotch—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 09:39pm
macosx Spotlight should show me the title of html documents more than the filenames.—@karlpro
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 09:42pm
You need to join the OPDS list now if you care about an open catalog format for epublications
like ePub http://bit.ly/6lwoq #help—@abdelazer
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 10:00pm
And now back to _Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs_. #bedtimereading—@ndw