The short-form week of 29 Mar–4 Apr 2010
05 Apr 2010; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 50 messages in 60 conversations. (With 6 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 Sunday at 08:39pm
Sunday at 11:03pm
Sunday at 11:25pm
RT @ndw: ♺@simonstl RT @gnat: The Onion nails TV news to the wall: http://onion.com/ccVoj9—@ebruchez
Monday at 02:34am
Monday at 02:52am
In a conversation that started on Monday at 06:52am
Thousands of people must use those little hotel room coffee makers every day. Is it
really impossible to design a pot that doesn't dribble?—@ndw
@ndw The "Teapot Effect" is a surprisingly difficult physics problem: http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3306—@david_megginson
In a conversation that started on Monday at 07:20am
@ndw - I would just vote for a design that lets coffee taste good out of those little
pots.—@harveybetty
@harveybetty that would require good coffee, not the floor sweepings they put in those little
packets. But beggars can't be choosers at 4am—@ndw
Monday at 08:12am
Half way through an attempt to describe p:http-request in terms an ordinary mortal
might understand. Time for breakfast.—@ndw
Monday at 08:17am
@ndw Good luck with that. [Half way through an attempt to describe p:http-request in terms
an ordinary mortal might understand.]—@vojtechtoman
Monday at 08:28am
Amazing. RT @benosteen 3d cube that fakes perspective http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89OoXyuxTLM (via @codepo8)—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 08:30am
I've been tempted to write svn/git/hg/cvs wrapper scripts that figure out what kind
of repo I'm in and auto-translate simple commands.—@ndw
@ndw I'd love you (even more) if you did that (a wrapper script for svn/git/cvs/etc).—@robinberjon
@robinberjon For your love, Robin, I'll move it up on my todo list.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 08:37am
I think the fans on my laptop just stopped running. On Monday. In California. Fuck
me.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:09am
On the plus side, that ear-splitting whine has stopped. Hopefully it'll limp along
until Friday if I don't push it too hard.—@ndw
Monday at 10:53am
Clearly my new colleagues were pulling my leg when they suggested an 8am start. Happily,
I've flown west and started comfortably at 4am.—@ndw
Monday at 04:13pm
Committed my first change to the server. I are officially a productive engineer.—@ndw
Tuesday at 04:41am
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:47am
Maybe I'll buy an iPad in support. No probably not. RT @RussB "Apple boycotts Fox News because of Glenn Beck" http://bit.ly/bPESYQ—@ndw
@ndw From the sound of your previous tweets, seems like you should be holding out for
a new silver surfboard.—@JeanKaplansky
@JeanKaplansky I'm buying one of those as soon as they refresh the line. I see 8+Gb of memory and
a big, possibly SSD, disk in my future.—@ndw
Tuesday at 07:48am
Well. That didn't take long. RT @dpawsonhttp://is.gd/b6Bjh Solaris 10 no longer free as in beer, now a 90-day trial—@ndw
Tuesday at 07:53am
RT @ndw: Well. That didn't take long. RT @dpawsonhttp://is.gd/b6Bjh Solaris 10 no longer free as in beer, now a 90-day trial—@ruidlopes
Tuesday at 08:47am
Good gracious, 101 is noisy in the morning #hotelbythefreeway—@ndw
Tuesday at 09:07am
"You can prove anything by attributing invented quotes to famous people, especially
on the Internet" - Albert Einstein—@jamesiry
Tuesday at 11:24am
Vex: an open-source, CSS-based WYSIWYG editor for DocBook. http://intellectualcramps.blogspot.com/2010/03/flexing-vex-editor.html—@ndw
Tuesday at 12:03pm
css based XML Visual editor http://intellectualcramps.blogspot.com/2010/03/flexing-vex-editor.html via @ndw—@karlpro
Tuesday at 03:41pm
The camera is a magic window that transforms the world. - Irving Pobboravsky
#Quotes #Photography #Photo #Quotation—@photoquotes
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 04:48pm
Lots of stimulating conversations and interesting projects. Having a great time in
#marklogic #engineering.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:33pm
Nobody likes a funny search engine. Search Google for "recursion" and get "did you
mean recursion?" http://bit.ly/bWMOU2—@Kellblog
Tuesday at 10:00pm
Wednesday at 02:05am
RT @wcandillon: RT @innovimax: RT @ndw: Vex: an open-source, CSS-based WYSIWYG editor for DocBook. http://is.gd/b7wJa #xml #css #docbook—@livetechdocs
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:03am
Feeling too tired and full of cold to go carousing with @innovimax, @fgeorges, @adamretter and @abcoates this evening :(—@JeniT
@JeniT hehe, a pub crawl with this crew would banish any illness .. of course I am jealous
and must admit to missing my old London haunts—@xquery
@xquery Also makes your programming skills sharper at 5am ;-)—@adamretter
@adamretter HA, you technically had the 2nd best submission though if corrected timewise I would
argue the best!—@xquery
@xquery Nah im good with that, Stefan put in like 3 solutions. I only submitted the one...—@adamretter
@JeniT I'm feeling a little hung over just thinking about it. Hope @innovimax, @fgeorges, @adamretter, and @abcoates make it out ok. :-)—@ndw
@JeniT Unfortunately I wont be able to attend the Carousing either, far far too snowed under
with work :-(—@adamretter
Wednesday at 09:13am
Staples, Stop & Shop, and now the Crowne Plaza in Burlingame. I'm the mayor of such
hip places, I tell ya. #foursquare—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:40am
How is the cooling subsystem on my Mac really? Let's find out: cd /Volumes/eng/src;
cvs update -d -P; make—@ndw
@ndw you don't have make -j <nbproc+1> on mac ?—@gurneyalex
@gurneyalex Oh, yeah, I guess I could do make -j2. Probably should. Why pin one CPU when you
can pin two!—@ndw
Wednesday at 12:05pm
Freaking awesome! RT @bsletten RT @mentalartist Emacs in the Browser! http://www.ymacs.org/ I repeat... Emacs in the Browser!—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:54pm
RT @ndw: Freaking awesome! RT @bsletten RT @mentalartist Emacs in the Browser! http://www.ymacs.org/ I repeat... Emacs in the Browser!—@jirkakosek
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:17pm
@ndw Thanks. Happy to be done. I'm playing with ePub and Drupal now.—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers ePub's fun, check out http://oreilly.com/e connected to @ibisreader Web + ePub is very fun.—@gcarothers
Thursday at 03:05am
Freeking geeks! RT @jirkakosek, @ndw, @bsletten, @mentalartist Emacs in the Browser! http://www.ymacs.org/ I repeat... Emacs in the Browser!—@innovimax
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:37pm
Parsing like it's 1998 all over again. Now how do I get nsgmls to parse XML? Ugh.—@ndw
@larsga but it's a pitty that there is no real SGML parser for Java. Recently I had another
customer inquiry about this and sx was only sol.—@jirkakosek
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:42pm
Looking for the SGML Declaration for XML. Really. Would I make this up?—@ndw
@ndw are you really looking at http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-sgml-xml-971215#null3 ? #sgml #xml—@innovimax
Thursday at 01:43pm
Yes, I know it's the first of April. No, that's got nothing to do with the last two
tweets.—@ndw
Thursday at 02:02pm
Thursday at 02:18pm
@ndw I have an SGML declaration for XML that I use in SP. Is this what you are looking
for?—@harveybetty
Thursday at 02:42pm
iPad: like four iPhones taped together, but without the ability to run four apps simultaneously!
;)—@tommorris
Thursday at 04:41pm
Thursday at 04:53pm
Can we have IntelliJ too? RT @ndw @bsletten RT @mentalartist Emacs in the Browser! http://www.ymacs.org/ I repeat... Emacs in the Browser!—@avernet
Thursday at 05:00pm
♺@merlyn Heh - X-Wing Fighter Crash on Carrier Deck in 1942 - http://blog.usni.org/2010/04/01/usni-archives-fighter-accident/—@ndw
Thursday at 05:01pm
It's interesting. I can't find any XML parser that reports the content model ambiguity
that nsgmls reports. And I think nsgmls is right.—@ndw
Thursday at 05:17pm
Best April Fools' item of the day: http://blog.usni.org/2010/04/01/usni-archives-fighter-accident/ (via @ndw)—@eliasisrael
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 07:22pm
Thursday at 11:38pm
Wrapped up a week with my kick-ass eng colleagues. Great things afoot. And we're hiring!
Let me know if you want in. (And you do!)—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 11:49pm
Dang it. A bug in the test harness means I don't pass all the tests. I just can't
bring myself to do a release that way. Boo. #xmlcalabash—@ndw
@svgeesus Yep. But I didn't have time to do that the other night. Mostly fixed now. Release
this weekend, I hope. #xmlcalabash—@ndw
Friday at 06:34am
The 4:25a airport shuttle is SRO!—@ndw
Friday at 06:37am
"No standing while vehicle is in motion sign" notwithstanding.—@ndw
Friday at 10:23am
As a READER: I still can't buy DRM-free, well-made EPUBs for ~80% books I read. Will
the iPad change that? If not, I have trouble caring.—@adamwitwer
Friday at 10:44am
So impressed (as always) by the insight and erudition of @cshirky: The Collapse of Complex Business Models http://bit.ly/cK3Rg4 READ IT!—@timoreilly
Friday at 12:32pm
Spec archeology around model ambiguity is interesting. I conclude the DTDs are valid,
but legacy SGML systems are allowed to report errors.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:18pm
The more I think about the concept of "Apps" the more it seems like a way to close
off the internet. Sanitize it. Makes me kinda nervous.—@feliciaday
@feliciaday you're not alone in that concern.—@ndw
Friday at 01:34pm
Yep, that about sums it up, I think Wow... Cory's iPad rant, right or wrong, is monumental.
http://is.gd/bbnWN—@ndw
Friday at 02:51pm
I am buying an iPad, but *wow*: RT @ndw: Cory Doctorow's iPad rant, right or wrong, is monumental. http://is.gd/bbnWN #fb—@andrewsavikas
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 03:01pm
Getting my ass whupped at Svrabble—@ndw
@ndw Whoa! And your spelling, too! ;) Are you playing with an actual board and tiles?—@JeanKaplansky
@JeanKaplansky yes. And an unspecified number of #PTO margaritas. My spelling isn't the point: we're outside, that's the point!—@ndw
@ndw well of course! I figured the spelling was due to being blinded by direct sun! 'tWas
gorgeous here today, as well.—@JeanKaplansky
@JeanKaplansky yeah, the sun. That's what I meant to say.—@ndw
@ndw have a margarita on my behalf. :)—@JeanKaplansky
Saturday at 03:02pm
Saturday at 08:05pm
You say "holy" as if your belief in the supernatural deserves respect. Huh.—@CcSteff