The short-form week of 8–14 Mar 2010
15 Mar 2010; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 66 messages in 74 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 09:06am
is officially an engineer. As of this morning, I've moved from the media team to the
application services team in #marklogic engineering.—@ndw
@ndw why am I not surprised? :)—@JeanKaplansky
@ndw Congrats—@shelleypowers
@ndw Congratulaions. Is that normal at ML, that you start people in media before moving
them to engineering?—@abcoates
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:21am
This site, http://www.stltoday.com/ demonstrates why people use ad blockers and turn off JavaScript Ars Technica http://bit.ly/coezTe—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers Yeah. I have no sympathy (well, maybe a little), but they did it to themselves with
garish, blinking, moving, annoying ads.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 10:18am
Engaging in a periodic musing about the best #OSX #IRC #client. I still seem to favor X-Chat Aqua.—@ndw
@ndw I found it to be less usable than Xchat Linux... Is there a way to have the default
treeview of channels w/ Aqua? Gets messy quick—@ircjunkieorg
@ircjunkieorg Don't think I've tried treeview, sorry.—@ndw
@ndw surely rcirc??—@nicferrier
@nicferrier Yeah, you'd think, but no. I suppose I should try it :-)—@ndw
Monday at 10:22am
@ndw did you try adium? maybe not the best IRC client, but has the benefit of having identi.ca,
IM, IRC and everything in same interface…—@olivierthereaux
Monday at 10:44am
Monday at 10:46am
@ndw I have it in Adium 1.4b17 - might be fairly recent - http://twitpic.com/17dbhg—@olivierthereaux
Monday at 12:56pm
Monday at 02:03pm
Huh? I quit Adium and a few minutes later it comes back to life. Who's doing that
(and how do I stop them)?—@ndw
Monday at 02:22pm
Oh. About Adium. Nevermind. It was me. If you use AppleScript to ask an app its status,
I guess OSX starts the app. Fair enough I suppose.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 02:42pm
What's the state of the art in whole disk encryption for Mac OS X?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 04:22pm
AT&T guarantees that no Android app developers will target their phones: http://is.gd/9Z7lZ—@timbray
Next phone: iPhone? No. Next phone: AT&T? No. RT @timbray AT&T guarantees that no Android devs will target their phones: http://is.gd/9Z7lZ—@ndw
Monday at 05:03pm
In a conversation that started on Monday at 06:17pm
LOL! RT @codinghorror suicide linux, where any unknown command is resolve as "rm -tf /" http://qntm.org/suicide—@ndw
@ed_davies @codinghorror Yeah, I blew all my cred by not fixing the typo. Honestly, I read right past it.—@ndw
Tuesday at 12:32pm
The data for BackgroundColor in OS X ".terminal" files is a 348 character base64ish
looking string. WTF!—@ndw
Tuesday at 12:45pm
Tuesday at 12:56pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:57pm
♺Whoo hoo! @xproc XProc: An XML Pipeline Language is a W3C Proposed Recommendation: http://www.w3.org/TR/xproc/—@ndw
@ndw Congratulations to you and the team. This has been a long time in the making.—@JeanKaplansky
Tuesday at 03:22pm
Tuesday at 03:28pm
Yes! RT @xproc @ndw: XProc: An XML Pipeline Language is a W3C Proposed Recommendation: http://www.w3.org/TR/xproc/—@vojtechtoman
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 07:08pm
Tuesday at 08:20pm
RT @vojtechtoman : Yes! RT @xproc @ndw: XProc: An XML Pipeline Language is a W3C Proposed Recommendation: http://www.w3.org/TR/xproc/—@peteaven
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:31am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 11:49am
@ndw is DocBook TC meeting today? I just use chatZilla in Firefox...—@shudson310
Wednesday at 03:44pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:35am
I'm using Apache HTTPClient 3.1. I should upgrade to 4.0.1 or 4.1? Yes or no?—@ndw
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In a conversation that started on Thursday at 10:27am
@ndw - not a drop in replacement by any means...since its a complete rewrite. but worth
the effort. Plz take a look at http://bit.ly/9GYPMB—@dims
Thursday at 12:53pm
First test of my automated location tracking as I begin my journey to #xmlprague, http://norman.walsh.name/2010/03/06/where—@ndw
Thursday at 12:57pm
RT @ndw: First test of my automated location tracking as I begin my journey to #xmlprague, http://norman.walsh.name/2010/03/06/where—@innovimax
Thursday at 04:42pm
Revisiting the 'Convert DocBook (and derived schemas) from RNG to DTD problem'. Ugh.
It's 2010 people, RELAX NG FTW ok?!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:43pm
Friday at 12:29pm
Armed with map and GPS coordinates, sets out for dinner. If I'm not there in 30 minutes,
don't wait for me :-)—@ndw
Friday at 12:30pm
I've got no mobile phone service. None at all. Anywhere. Which is weird because the
same phone worked fine last year.—@ndw
Saturday at 02:38am
Saturday at 04:25am
Saturday at 05:31am
Saturday at 05:38am
Saturday at 05:49am
After @ndw showing DocBook and XProc to assemble documents, @fgeorges on EXPath #xmlprague—@robinberjon
Saturday at 05:49am
@ndw Well done for not mentioning MarkLogic. But actually I think storing topics in a
database makes sense.... #xmlprague—@michaelhkay
Saturday at 05:49am
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 06:04am
Pet peeve: s/eXtensible/extensible/g.—@ndw
@ndw I'm not sure which is scarier... That you wrote this as a cmd, or that I immediately
got it without thinking!—@JeanKaplansky
Saturday at 06:30am
Saturday at 06:35am
Saturday at 08:43am
Great morning talks at #xmlprague, among others @ndw; more today and tomorrow. Follow it here: http://tinyurl.com/ykfb5r4 #xmlprague—@MarkLogic
Saturday at 08:52am
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 09:12am
@ndw re %ho, I probably should not take take part in this contest in order to play fair
play. #xmlprague—@jirkakosek
@ndw I'll tell you what a 'ho is for.—@robinberjon
@robinberjon Keep it clean, Robin. And keep your shirt on, please.—@ndw
@robinberjon You know, I knew that if anyone was likely to say that, it was going to be you!—@JeniT
@JeniT Could. Not. Resist <grin type='sheepish'/>. You're not here this year? :(—@robinberjon
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 09:56am
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Saturday at 10:29am
Saturday at 10:45am
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 11:06am
Uhm. FWIW, I can't see the connection between topic-based authoring and the semantic
web. #xmlprague—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 11:10am
@ndw is this some sort of zen question? You seem to be in quite the tweet mood today!
Squirrel!—@JeanKaplansky
Saturday at 11:12am
Saturday at 11:16am
Saturday at 12:52pm
Saturday at 05:27pm
Heh. I'll have a word with Jim about about that.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 10:52pm
Hey #xmlprague its 4.50am... So I win (loose) the late night beer drinking contest???—@adamretter
@ndw @adamretter pfew, they are still alive. Guys you are missing Liam -barefoot- 's presentation!
http://yfrog.com/4jqlcj—@dizzzz
@adamretter I think Mohamed won the late night contest by being chivalrous in the face of lots
of alcohol.—@robinberjon
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 05:02am
Name and shame those who didn't show up in the morning: @ndw, @fgeorges, @adamretter. Who else? #xmlprague—@robinberjon
@robinberjon lol. Gee, thanks, Robin.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 05:12am
Won a Marklogic t-shirt and wallet in the yesterday's Demo Jam. Thinking of a fitting
X-Hive/EMC present for @ndw in return :) #xmlprague—@vojtechtoman
Sunday at 05:33am
Sunday at 06:26am
Sunday at 06:31am
Sunday at 06:37am
RT @ndw: A RELAX NG validator that does type assignment is item 143 on my todo list. #xmlprague. Mine too.—@michaelhkay
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 10:32am
In 20 minutes I'll be talking live at http://www.xmlprague.cz/2010/twitterwall #xmlprague—@robinberjon
@robinberjon [In 20 minutes I'll be talking] Sorry I'll have to miss your talk - plane to catch.
#xmlprague—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay Shame! It's full of outrageously gratuitous uses of technology — I even make DocBook
look sexy #xmlprague—@robinberjon
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 10:40am
@ndw are you watching? See my new steps proposal for XProc 1.1 http://bit.ly/c3hTT1 #xmlprague—@jirkakosek
@jirkakosek Nice.—@ndw
Sunday at 10:47am
Would love to have p:fermenter or p:tap there :) RT @jirkakosek @ndw See my new steps proposal for XProc 1.1 http://bit.ly/c3hTT1 #xmlprague—@vojtechtoman
Sunday at 10:49am
Tweetie's giving me "bad request" errors. Twitter as a write-only medium?—@ndw
Sunday at 10:59am
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 11:02am
Making pages with CSS is like sex in a bathtub. If you don't know anything about sex,
it won't help to know a lot about bathtubs #xmlprague—@ndw
@ndw Can I quote you on this? I have to do a presentation on typography and page layout
in the near future... :)—@JeanKaplansky
@JeanKaplansky the quote is from @robinberjon's presentation, but I don't mind if you repeat it.—@ndw
@ndw Cool. I'll have to credit appropriately, then! This one was up there with "elephant
through a garden hose..." as far I'm concerned.—@JeanKaplansky
@ndw, @JeanKaplansky: the quote is actually older (about HTML, not CSS) but I could never find a clear
attribution, alas.—@robinberjon
@robinberjon, @ndw: Ahh. Then it's just become an old maxim of known lore. (Both of you get the credit
for bringing it to my attention.)—@JeanKaplansky
Sunday at 11:05am
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Sunday at 11:56am
Sunday at 12:09pm
Sunday at 01:10pm
@michaelhkay @ndw Re RELAX NG type assignment, shouldn't be really e.g. with MSV validator (we do it
in W3C Schema mode in XForms engine).—@ebruchez