The short-form week of 15–21 Feb 2010
22 Feb 2010; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 46 messages in 39 conversations. (With 1 favorite.)
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 Sunday at 02:10am
Just installed Reeder on my iPhone. Finally an RSS reader app that makes me happy.—@hunterhacker
@hunterhacker right you are! Thanks for the pointer!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:16am
Getting quailty prints, even on a quality printer, is a damned black art. One I do
not have, apparently.—@ndw
@ndw Clearly, you need to spend more time in Defense Against the Dark Arts class... watch
out for those teachers though. They'll mess you up—@JeanKaplansky
@JeanKaplansky Printing isn't a Dark Art I want to defend against, it's a Dark Art I want to learn.—@ndw
@ndw yes, but what better way learn a dark art then how to defend yourself against it?—@JeanKaplansky
Tuesday at 07:38am
Modal popups are the suck.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 12:31pm
I really hope blu-ray will be the last standard of its kind. The mandatory previews,
menus, and waiting are even worse than DVD.—@siracusa
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:01pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:08pm
"In the brain of every religious person there is a god-shaped vacuum" Jeremy Konopka—@micknugent
@micknugent As insults go, people have said worse things about my brain.—@abcoates
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 04:22pm
How secure is @evernote? Do I want to store credit card information in it? A scan of my passport? Convenient
to, but...—@ndw
@ndw secure enough for work notes. There is a feature that lets you have an offline notebook
that doesn't sync to the world...—@JeanKaplansky
@JeanKaplansky Yeah, but if they're not synced then I won't be able to see them on my phone.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:18pm
Some of the music on my 'random shuffle' is definitely NSFW. I'm just sayin'—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:56am
The Garmin Forerunner 205 GPS doesn't have a time setting for UTC? WTF!?—@ndw
@ndw I remember that I also did not find a time zone setting on my GPS but it auto-updates
the time when I enter in a different time zone.—@georgebina
@georgebina That's *exactly* the problem. I don't want that because it makes geotagging photos
a PITA.—@ndw
@georgebina And it knows when you cross a politically-determined boundary how?—@SheltieJim
@SheltieJim It has the map and it knows where you are.—@georgebina
@georgebina Ah, but the boundary between timezones can change at any time by a simple act of
a legislative body...without consulting Garmin—@SheltieJim
@SheltieJim I guess that it depends on how much the maps are up to date to include that information.—@georgebina
@dpawson True, but people who travel, like @ndw, can run in many different timezones.—@david_megginson
@dpawson I suppose lots of folks want the time to be in their time zone, but I want it always
to be UTC, like my camera. Grumble.—@ndw
@ndw It seems that it will be easier not to travel then to properly set timezones both
on camera and GPS;-) Real technology break-through :(—@jirkakosek
@jirkakosek So you want me to withdraw from XML Prague, is that what you're saying?—@ndw
@ndw I think he's saying you should move to Prague so you could attend the coolest conference
ever without ever travelling. #xmlprague—@robinberjon
@ndw no, no, you have to come to Prague. But now I have only 3 weeks to hack Garmin's
firmware. Reminds me of idea of having only one tzone—@jirkakosek
@jirkakosek You're saved then, because I'm sending that one back and getting another one like
the one that's at the bottom of the Caribbean—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 10:32am
Downloading the XQuery test suite. I think I'm going to regret volunteering to write
two tests.—@ndw
@ndw we desperately need a tool to make the test suite more manageable.—@martin_probst
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 10:49am
What's the state of the art in debugging complex CSS interactions?—@ndw
@ndw: maybe Webkit Web Inspector (in Safari, Chrome, and Arora on Linux), if you've not
taken a look at it already..—@sideshowbarker
Thursday at 11:01am
designer friends: forwarding q. from @ndw: "What's the state of the art in debugging complex CSS interactions?"—@sideshowbarker
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 02:01pm
Thursday at 02:35pm
For a short week (in the U.S.), it sure feels like there have been an awful lot of
hours in it.—@ndw
Thursday at 02:44pm
Thursday at 02:47pm
@ndw - firefox has a web developer extension that is very helpful with css develoment,
and google's chrome browser has some helpful stuff.—@barefootliam
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:57am
In which it turns out GET LAMP has a coin and people who bought it will get one:
http://inventory.getlamp.com/2010/02/19/the-get-lamp-coin/—@textfiles
In a conversation that started on Friday at 12:09pm
JATS-Con. New conference on my calendar http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/jats-con/ Journal Article Tag Suite User Conference. Nov 1-2, 2010—@btusdin
In a conversation that started on Friday at 12:35pm
HTML5 Quote of the Day, from Michael Kay http://post.ly/OfrP—@edd
@edd Everytime I see srcdoc, I think I must be misunderstanding it. Surely it would be
an element child if it was a, you know, element.—@ndw
@ndw fwiw, a large part of srcdoc genesis came due to fairly cogent points brought up
by Michal Zalewski on the whatwg list in December—@sideshowbarker
@ndw not claiming it's necessary the right solution, but for background, see messages
at http://a.gd/43dfd7 from Michal and also Adam Barth—@sideshowbarker
@sideshowbarker Thanks for the pointer!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 12:50pm
Anyone read it? RT @sss4r I want to read: The Rhetorical Nature of XML by J.d. Applen - http://bit.ly/bnyeui—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:28pm
wondering if 4,294,967,296 is enough WOEIDs for everyone, forever ..—@psd
Friday at 02:42pm
Being busy is good. Being too busy to take any photographs is a little disappointing.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:05pm
Oh! All that's Good and True in The Universe, can this week please be over now?—@ndw
@ndw *poof* Magic Time Fairy has just fast forwarded you ... to Sunday night. Guess what!
You get to get up for work in five hours!—@shelleypowers
Friday at 03:55pm
They may be horrible clichés, but the artwork is better than average: www.101cliches.com—@ndw
Friday at 04:10pm
Friday at 05:02pm
Starting to dread that moment at 5p when OmniFocus sends out a Growl notice for each
item as it goes from 'due today' to 'overdue'. Sigh.—@ndw
Friday at 05:03pm
OTOH, it's 5p on Friday. Off to dinner. And drinks. Lots of drinks.—@ndw
Friday at 05:14pm
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:30pm
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:45pm
Watching Buckaroo Banzai. What ever happened to Peter Weller.—@MattioV
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:53pm
Fernando's the man! But for some reason, I can't think of him without remembering
that ABBA song. I know, i'm demented. He's awesome tho!—@peteaven
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:23pm
Since everyone else is piling on, ow.ly constitutes abuse of the Web. Don't use it.—@timbray
@ndw ow.ly alters the data on the page to insert its ickly little toolbar goober. Totally
unacceptable.—@timbray
@ndw @timbray AFAIK, no Canadian individual has ever been successfully sued/fined/jailed over pirated
files. http://is.gd/8P2Z5—@david_megginson
Saturday at 01:32pm
Saturday at 01:37pm
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 02:35pm
#iwant to find the original cartoon (Gary Larson?) that says "Hey, they're lighting their
arrows! Can they *do* that?" Anyone?—@xmlgrrl
@xmlgrrl I believe it's in the 1984 book maybe on p 108? Contact Info: http://bit.ly/baEJys—@JeanKaplansky
@JeanKaplansky Oh! I didn't see your note about the 1984 book on p 108! Will check it out. Thx again!—@xmlgrrl
@xmlgrrl Definitely Gary Larson. I have a few Larson books around, want me to thumb through
and send you a scan if I find it?—@ndw
@ndw Sure, if you're willing! I've got some Gary Larson compilations (Gallery 2 and Prehistory)
but have been unable to find it.—@xmlgrrl
@xmlgrrl Found it in an authorstream slideshow... http://bit.ly/dpPBdU (slide 109). I stand corrected. it was 1982—@JeanKaplansky
@JeanKaplansky Re http://bit.ly/dpPBdU (slide 109) Thx! (@ndw Check it out.) Now I just have to find it in printed form. :-)—@xmlgrrl
@xmlgrrl welcome. I was stunned to find that we don't have ANY Far Side books. Get Fuzzy,
Calvin & Hobbes, Doonesbury & Opus but no far side—@JeanKaplansky
@JeanKaplansky Get thee to a bookstore immediately! I actually bought Last Chapter and Worse recently
(final 6mo before retirement).—@xmlgrrl
@xmlgrrl Off to Amazon I go...—@JeanKaplansky
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 04:18pm
Pirated movies are better: http://is.gd/8ONwC (The same effect is achievable with an off-brand DVD player that skips when you say
skip.)—@timbray
Saturday at 08:35pm
SO TRUE !!! Pass this on ! RT @ndw
RT @lizfraley Customer or Pirate? http://su.pr/1m1tTD Pretty much says it all.—@DALDEI
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 02:23am
Now this is some serious cheese: $52 of Vacherin Fribourgeois, to be mixed with Gruyer
to make fondue. http://twitpic.com/14hwy1—@avernet
Sunday at 04:52pm
XML Calabash passes 559/567 tests. Between implementations, we have two passes for
669/682 tests.—@ndw