The short-form week of 22–28 Mar 2010
29 Mar 2010; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 37 messages in 39 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 06:58am
Thinking of the story of sleeping beauty.—@JeniT
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:09am
also we need to remind ourselves ... mixing XSLT and XQuery is powerful but I don't
see many idioms or best practice type advice—@xquery
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:10am
XProc? :) RT @xquery: mixing XSLT and XQuery is powerful but I don't see many idioms or best practice
type advice—@vojtechtoman
@vojtechtoman in an 'all xml' world xproc is certainly a good approach, though I am pessimistic
about all this 'no sql' chat of late—@xquery
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:23am
Wish list for the MBP 17" refresh: more than 4Gb of memory. And a 500Gb drive, though
I'm willing to install my own if needs must.—@ndw
@ndw Weirdest Apple pricing: take a Mini, max out CPU/RAM/HDD, add mouse & keyboard (but
no display), and it costs as much as an iMac! WTF?—@geoffarnold
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:38am
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 03:41pm
3:2:1 Margarita - 3 Cazadores Reposado + 2 Triple Sec + 1 Lime salted glass edge.
Perfect after return from Oliver's Fish&Chips.—@alecmuffett
@alecmuffett For the truly perfect margarita, you want PTO, not 3Sec. Pity you can only get it
in TX. http://www.paulastexasorange.com/—@ndw
@ndw i'm intrigued; what's it like ?—@alecmuffett
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 04:32pm
@skwlilac Sorry this has taken so long, but, today's the day! http://reference.data.gov.uk/id/day/2010-03-23—@JeniT
@ndw Real use case is for government years like http://reference.data.gov.uk/id/government-year/2009-2010—@JeniT
@JeniT Why is some random property always the root element, with the "real" concept inside
it? N.B. "forth quarter"—@RichardOfSussex
@RichardOfSussex Because it's RDF and you shouldn't care? ;) @skwlilac: Sounds like it would be good to fix the RDF/XML root resource?—@JeniT
@JeniT Fair comment: only machines should be reading this. Just wondered, that's all—@RichardOfSussex
@JeniT Nice. Does it do B.C.?—@RichardOfSussex
@RichardOfSussex I don't think so. The UK government doesn't tend to have many statistics etc that
go back that far...—@JeniT
@JeniT Ah but U.K. museums do! Still, it does go back to 0001-01-01. Is there a SPARQL
end-point?—@RichardOfSussex
@RichardOfSussex Seriously, would it be helpful to go further back? @skwlilac and I did discuss it a bit.—@JeniT
@RichardOfSussex Afraid not: it's a service (RDF auto-generated). Scraping through the years wouldn't
be difficult though, to add to store?—@JeniT
@JeniT OK, this is exactly where as a developer I need an "RDF DOM". Load it, have the full
RDF graph available w. SPARQL if helpful. Poss?—@RichardOfSussex
@RichardOfSussex I support something like that in rdfQuery. But don't think that you'll get huge benefit
from just querying date/times?—@JeniT
@JeniT rdfQuery does indeed look like the chap I need. Why is all the talk of SPARQL? (It's
not just dates - it's any monolithic RDF chunk.)—@RichardOfSussex
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 10:29am
Wednesday at 11:13am
Starting to think about which of the apps I care about are available on Android. OmniFocus
isn't going to be one of them, is it?—@ndw
Wednesday at 12:10pm
Calling her 'dour' would be overstating the amount of honey and humor in her disposition.
#unnamedcrankapotamus—@bsletten
Wednesday at 12:22pm
A war dialer calls me up and spams my voice line with CC fud, I should trust that
pressing 8 will remove me from their lists? I think not.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:29pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:46pm
Wednesday at 02:27pm
Taking my first stab at recording vacation time in NetSuite. Because I'm a masochist,
that's why.—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:03pm
RT @mkhl “Have you accepted backup into your life as your personal savior?” http://www.crazyapplerumors.com/?p=1187 I do 1-4 & 7, of course—@ndw
Wednesday at 07:16pm
US broadcast of Life narrated by Oprah instead of Attenborough. #notthesame—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 10:32pm
Really impressed by this video of I hope Adobe CS5 http://bit.ly/bYS5aw whatch the end, it's amazing !—@projeturbain
@projeturbain That is astonishing.—@ndw
Wednesday at 11:50pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 11:51am
Thursday at 11:57am
Safari books online is a big wodge of Flash. That's disappointing.—@ndw
Thursday at 11:58am
Ah. There's an HTML view. Better. But still inconvenient to read one tiny section
at a time.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:21pm
Eclipse is running like a PIG on my new 4G SSD-powered MacBook Pro. Maybe I'm Doing
It Wrong.—@timbray
@timbray You like the SSD drive? I heard they run hot. I haven't decided what direction to
go for my next laptop.—@ndw
@timbray I had trouble with graphics performance in Eclipse as well, switch to the other
graphics chipset (slower is faster in E for me)—@martin_probst
Thursday at 02:27pm
♺@bblfish, @alecmuffet Certified Lies: Detecting and Defeating Government Interception Attacks Against SSL∗
http://bit.ly/c2KHhg—@ndw
Thursday at 02:30pm
RT @ndw ♺@bblfish, @alecmuffet Certified Lies: Detecting and Defeating Government Interception Attacks Against SSL∗
http://bit.ly/c2KHhg—@bsletten
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:49pm
How did I miss about 15 CDs when I thought I'd ripped everything in the house. How
did Journey's Greatest Hits get *into* the house?—@ndw
@ndw You don't want it? I'll take it! (Yes, I was/am a Journey fanboy.)—@SheltieJim
Thursday at 08:15pm
LOL! RT @grantimahara "Where's the car?" "...EVERYWHERE!!!"—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 10:50am
@michaelhkay Quick q. from XForms f2f: does XPath 2.0 or maybe 2.1 support an empty context item?
Saxon XPath supports it right? Thanks!—@ebruchez
@ebruchez Yes - it's not an"empty" context item, but "undefined": you can't test if it's undefined,
you just get an error if you use it.—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay So not a problem until context item is used. Thanks!—@ebruchez
Friday at 11:07am
Friday at 04:01pm
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 08:41am
Sunday at 10:48am
"Anyone who supports ID cards should be banned from having curtains" - http://bit.ly/cHZR0—@alecmuffett
Sunday at 11:29am
Sunday at 11:35am
Sunday at 11:48am
Russell King's brilliant compilation of U.S. "conservative" hypocrisy http://is.gd/b3GaR /via @dangillmor /via @bblfish—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:02pm
Yes, I'm really calling for Upstate (New York) secession. http://bit.ly/bSC6eL—@simonstl
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 08:39pm
Sunday at 08:51pm
Sunday at 08:52pm
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 09:06pm
a woman wrote on my FB fan page that I am "sick and wrong." not even anonymously,
like a real troll! should I ask her why she thinks this?—@violetblue
@violetblue good grief, no.—@ndw