The short-form week of 26 Apr–2 May 2010
03 May 2010; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 83 messages in 72 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 01:06pm
Any device that fits in a pocket/purse has a large advantage over any device that
doesn't.—@timbray
@timbray On the other hand, any device with a usefully large screen has an advantage over
any device that doesn't.—@ndw
@ndw @timbray. How about a device that fits in my pocket, with a 21" projected screen, and a roll-up
keyboard?—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay perhaps, but I expect I'll just get uses to carrying something slightly larger around.—@ndw
@michaelhkay @ndw @timbray pocket device: I've been able to do that for 3 yrs with any projector #nokian800—@docum3nt
In a conversation that started on Monday at 03:47am
@dpawson Yep. Squirrel. That's what I was thinking :))—@livetechdocs
Monday at 06:22am
Amazing. RT @benosteen RT @rebeccawatson Try to finish this maze before you start crying: http://i.imgur.com/bSgDo.jpg—@ndw
Monday at 07:13am
In a conversation that started on Monday at 07:22am
Was looking forward to tweeting about attending a tasting of world's strongest beer
(41%) later today, but a 43% beer was announced today...—@larsga
In a conversation that started on Monday at 08:18am
The three most beautiful words in the English language may be "I love you"; the four
most beautiful may be "On vehicle for delivery".—@ndw
@ndw you are so hyped for the unboxing, aren't you? ;)—@JeanKaplansky
@JeanKaplansky I never claimed it was still *in the box*...—@ndw
@ndw oh... You are torturing yourself intentionally, then?—@JeanKaplansky
@ndw Beautiful 3 words: "Let me help". See "The City on the Edge of Forever" cf. http://www.disobey.com/node/1729—@morbusiff
Monday at 08:35am
Monday at 08:39am
In a conversation that started on Monday at 08:49am
Watching the pain of twitter rate limiting at a conference when twitter thinks the
entire conference is coming from one IP (NAT I guess)—@aspyker
Monday at 09:27am
Monday at 09:30am
There is a brand new laptop sitting on my desk and I am not playing with it. I am
GSD. I don't actually have to say how hard this is, do I?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 10:37am
Xbench of my MacBook Pro Core i7/256GB SSD compared w/ old MBP: http://tinyurl.com/28csydw Tweet back your own results!—@ebruchez
@ebruchez That SSD really helps, I see. http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=441693&doc2=441691 Diffs between our i7's are interesting too—@ndw
Monday at 11:27am
Stupid modal dialog box pops up just as I'm about to hit enter in a terminal window.
WTF did I just agree too? I'll never know.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 12:25pm
New laptop. MacPorts dance or just freaking build everything from source by hand by
myself?—@ndw
@ndw instead of #macports, you should definitely give #homebrew a try. see http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/—@bnjmnbck
@ndw Don't do MacPorts, use Homebrew. Better by *far* and super-responsive. http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew—@dethe
@ndw `sudo port install [bla bla bla]` then go out for a seven hour walk with the dog.
That's my standard thing...—@tommorris
@ndw Ubuntu on VMWare and just skip MacPorts ;)—@gcarothers
@gcarothers I hear ya.—@ndw
Monday at 01:36pm
In a conversation that started on Monday at 01:39pm
♺@kellblog Been reviewing the agenda for the Mark Logic 2010 user conf and boy am I impressed.
Best ever. #mluc10http://bit.ly/cEePTm—@ndw
Monday at 02:50pm
Recommendations for an up-scale, romantic (as in milestone anniversary romantic) restaraunt
in Boston? $$$ no object.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 03:54pm
yeah, realized that was more of a statement that a question—@peteaven
Monday at 04:54pm
@ndw can't go wrong with Parker House—@anthonyallen
Tuesday at 04:23am
Tuesday at 09:04am
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 04:04pm
This new multi-touch, buttonless trackpad thingamabob is going to take some getting
used to. And, man, does it click *loudly*.—@ndw
@ndw (re mb pro trackpad) the first thing I did was enable tap to click, drag etc—@andrewwelch
@andrewwelch Turning off "two finger secondary click" and "bottom right corner secondary click"
was a vast improvement.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:11pm
w00t! got the Mayor of #MarkLogic shout out on @kellblog ! http://bit.ly/drcWNX just know @ndw is workin the API now to unseat me. boooo!—@peteaven
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:14pm
Portugal legalized drugs 5 years ago with great success in reducing harm: http://tinyurl.com/23bkgrhh. Now they're broke. Just sayin'—@DaveO
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:57pm
Weird. The OSX installed on the new laptop didn't create a new group 'ndw' for the
new user 'ndw'.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 07:28pm
@mnot I got through it following my nose through this page: http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Manage_users_and_groups—@ndw
@mnot Er. But I guess I got through it with dseditgroup last time: http://norman.walsh.name/2008/01/20/leopard *blush*—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:04am
Cap'n! The avian food replicators are down! The perimeter shields are at 50%! They
canna withstand another bear attack!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:53am
If the TSA demands my laptop psw, can they then demand passwords for any app and connect
to all my online services? I suppose so. #privacy—@ndw
@ndw yikes. Just thinking about it makes me want to drive or meet online—@JeanKaplansky
@JeanKaplansky Just don't drive anywhere within 100 miles of a US border.—@ndw
@ndw then i'm safe by approximate 50 miles...—@JeanKaplansky
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 08:11am
Wednesday at 10:38am
EVERY DAY telemarketers ask ffor "the person who handles your phone services". I say
solemnly "I'm sorry, we don't have phones" and hang up.—@textfiles
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 10:43am
.@timberners_lee If you would make info available for a freedom of information request, then just
stick the raw data on the web #www2010 +1!—@azaroth42
Wednesday at 01:00pm
Burning brain, cpu, and clock cycles in PowerPoint.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:53pm
Encrypting my entire hard disk.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:00pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:38pm
Hmm. Fonts are different on the new laptop. Don't recall installling (m)any, but...—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:50pm
Pardon me while I puke on my shoes. RT @doctorow: Record industry spokesman loves child porn http://tinyurl.com/22t4pu4—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 05:06am
The performance impact of whole disk encryption: in disk I/O, where you'd expect.
http://bit.ly/aG8YMz—@ndw
@ndw If it makes you feel any better, your laptop is still faster http://bit.ly/atlQxS but now your disk i/o is slower than my 5400rpm ;-)—@sss4r
Thursday at 07:09am
"My motto is 'Never say never'. Which makes it difficult to tell people my motto."
- Steve McKenna—@micknugent
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 07:47am
Cannot get the flash player settings dialog to respond to mouse clicks at all on this
new laptop. Hrmfph.—@ndw
@ndw That doesn't sound like a huge loss...—@robinberjon
@robinberjon Not noticeable at all.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 08:19am
The change in behavior of C-n/C-p in Emacs 23 is...definitely a change. Get used to
it, or revert the behavior?—@ndw
Thursday at 08:25am
Thursday at 09:17am
I have a little HTML widget and some JS for manipulating it. What's the right way
to package this for reuse on several pages?—@ndw
Thursday at 10:11am
Blah. The brew build of ImageMagick exhibits some SVG conversion anomaly that the
MacPorts version didn't. #suckstobeme—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:01pm
Friday at 06:05am
Check out spiffy new MarkLogic Developer Community site: http://developer.marklogic.com/—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:47am
I can ping pinboard.in but can't make an http connection. anybody else seeing this
problem?—@dckc
@dckc server is rebooting—@PinboardIN
Friday at 10:15am
Friday at 11:03am
Check out spiffy new MarkLogic Developer Community site: http://developer.marklogic.com/ - RT @ndw—@peteaven
Friday at 11:12am
RT @ndw: Check out spiffy new MarkLogic Developer Community site: http://developer.marklogic.com/—@sss4r
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:30pm
@kendall both; "absolute control" is a misunderstanding of the medium; px, the mechanism,
overrides my choice of body font size.—@dckc
@dckc As Web replaces print, some uses call for the 1000-year old typographic arts. Leading
Web to its fullest potential includes typography—@kendall
@kendall @dckc wouldn't be the first time, or the last, I'm afraid. But respectfully, I don't agree
in this case.—@ndw
@ndw So you think there's not a single legit use case for pixel-level precision typography
on the Web, is that it?—@kendall
@kendall Don't get me wrong, I'm a type and letterpress geek. I wan't beauty, but I don't
think pixel-level precision is the right path.—@ndw
@kendall I'm sure there are. About as many as there are for hand drawn, illuminated manuscripts
in the modern age of dead tree typography.—@ndw
Friday at 01:42pm
A wicked tour de force. NSFW! RT @micknugent Tim Minchin's new Pope Song - not as offensive as prot. paedophile priests http://bit.ly/b9cB17—@ndw
Friday at 01:48pm
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:48pm
Friday at 02:04pm
Friday at 02:25pm
In a conversation that started on Friday at 02:48pm
Almost ready for the @MarkLogic DemoJam on Monday. Looking forward to it! http://bit.ly/aI7Hor—@evanlenz
Friday at 03:19pm
RT @ndw: Check out spiffy new MarkLogic Developer Community site: http://developer.marklogic.com/http://bit.ly/bVRNsA—@abcoates
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:50pm
Sigh. Fuck us all. RT @doctorow AT&T asks feds to create censorwall and to disconnect accused infringers http://tinyurl.com/2g9q6y4—@ndw
Friday at 04:26pm
Friday at 06:49pm
Grab two drinking glasses in one hand. Tip a third out of the cabinet onto the first
two. 52 million pickup anyone? Extra points for blood?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:14pm
How can so much blood come from one tiny little sliver if glass in my foot?—@ndw
@ndw uh... You did go to urgent care, right?—@JeanKaplansky
Friday at 09:35pm
Saturday at 04:41pm
My computer may be stupid, but it isn't nearly as stupid as some of the people it
connects me to.—@tommorris
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 04:44pm
It is apparently our duty as programmers to keep the music industry, journalists and
TV people in business. I didn't get the memo.—@tommorris
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 09:06pm
Forgot to watch the derby, but I did make a mint julep. Does that count?—@ndw
Saturday at 11:04pm
Why do free social networks tilt inevitably toward user exploitation? Because you're
not their customer, you're their product.—@librarythingtim
Sunday at 03:54am
Short version of NYC Mayor's press conference: "don't know a lot yet". Short version
of journalists questions: "We don't listen very well."—@malcolmt
Sunday at 08:54am
Airport driver went to the airport to pick me up. Uh. Bzzt! No! But thank you for
Playing. I need a ride TO the airport. Deb to the rescue.—@ndw
Sunday at 09:12am
Feeling a weird urge to dig through 20ish years of cruft in my .bashrc and .emacs
files. I'm resisting.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 09:34am
Worse than not getting an upgrade? Getting an SMS that says you did, then being told
first checked in full.—@ndw
Sunday at 05:58pm
Battery lasted all the way across the country. That's nice.—@ndw
Sunday at 06:21pm
BARTing through S SF.—@ndw