The short-form week of 24–30 May 2010
31 May 2010; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 42 messages in 49 conversations.
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 Saturday at 04:40pm
Fuck. When I reboot I get the PGP disk password screen, a flash of the normal login
screen, and all those stripes again.—@ndw
Sunday at 11:06pm
Monday at 05:38am
Mostly ignoring Twitter today. Avoiding spoilers. Lost is on the DVR, but we haven't
watched it yet.—@ndw
Monday at 09:12pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:16am
We need MonasticCamp - where we'd discuss how to free ourselves from crappy 'social'
systems and live our lives without 'sharing'.—@tommorris
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:25am
We recommend putting every piece of metadata into an ePub except price. Is there anything
else to leave out?—@abdelazer
@abdelazer why leave price out of an ePub? Maybe I'm weird, but I like to see prices on books,
especially old ones.—@simonstl
@simonstl @abedelazer I assume because the price is more mutable over time than other metadata.—@bobdc
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 03:05pm
How significant is the negative impact of running a servier in an area of high humidity?
Want to move #server to the #basement.—@ndw
@ndw get a humidifier for the basement. It really significantly cuts the humidity—@JeanKaplansky
Tuesday at 03:07pm
I suppose, more to the point, is it higher than the negative impact of *listening*
to the damn thing *all day long*.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 04:54pm
Tuesday at 06:04pm
I wonder what percentage of the ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico will die before it's
cleaned. How much oil would justify that cost?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:12pm
RT @OReillyUG: New Release: DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide http://oreil.ly/9LG2OJ < Congrats, Norm (@ndw)!—@simonstl
Tuesday at 06:24pm
New Release: DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide http://oreil.ly/9LG2OJ from @ndw Congrats on new book! - (via @simonstl via @OReillyUG)—@shelleypowers
Tuesday at 06:43pm
After a clean install, my MPB ran most of a day then locked up and returned to the
striped screen of death. [expletive rant elided -ed]—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:49pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:21pm
Observation: my video issues are roughly coincident with installing drivers for the
USB video adapter. DisplayLink drivers the culprit?—@ndw
@ndw Yes. I guess one external monitor will have to do. #firstworldproblemshttp://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11558589—@ndw
Wednesday at 06:00am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 10:26am
6yo's first wobbly tooth has *finally* come out (with the help of a toffee). Yes,
the same one that started wobbling weeks and weeks ago.—@JeniT
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 11:39am
Trying to decide if I should pitch a DocBook paper to XML 2010.—@ndw
Wednesday at 11:49am
RT @ndw: Trying to decide if I should pitch a DocBook paper to XML 2010. <<= If you're looking
for input, I say yes.—@richardhamilton
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:04am
From the #usability archives: what #Word would look like if you wanted most of the things #LaTeX has available: http://is.gd/cr1xD :-)—@docum3nt
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 06:18am
trying to implement a lightweight mini version control system in #marklogic with #xquery only #fun—@migueldemelo
@migueldemelo get an XML database that has built-in versioning ;-) http://bit.ly/aSwLXG—@martin_probst
@martin_probst @migueldemelo Document Library Services in #marklogic isn't what you're looking for?—@ndw
@ndw also using 4 triggers to abstract operations from webdav users. on create(add); update(checkout);
update(commit); delete(remove)—@migueldemelo
@martin_probst I am . . . ;)—@migueldemelo
Thursday at 06:28am
RT @docbook RT @richardhamilton DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide is officially released today: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596805012—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 08:23am
New MBP came up nicely, runs great. But the right-angle mag power connector sort
of sucks--covers ethernet and firewire.—@mikeloukides
@mikeloukides Uh, Mike, point it the other way :-)—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 08:24am
The DocBook stylesheets support *sixty-five* languages. Not just languages I can't
understand, languages I didn't know existed.—@ndw
@ndw Because everyone needs to write technical documentation in Cuneiform. Just in case.
:)—@JeanKaplansky
Thursday at 08:24am
Thursday at 08:57am
Thursday at 09:16am
@ndw Yeah, I don't like it pointed the other way.... (or, maybe more important, I don't
like having to think about it.)—@mikeloukides
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 11:10am
In short, I don't like Lost because it was the old fight between reason & faith, and
reason lost. Ugh.—@kendall
@kendall That's actually a good summary of LOST. I gave up in Season 1, but I think I would
have liked that faith won ;-)—@svrc
@svrc I'm an Enlightenment, ecrasez l'infame type, myself, so it went all squirrely IMO.
But, eh, it's just TV. :>—@kendall
@kendall I tend to appreciate works (even pop culture) that emphasize faith without confusing
it with morality, as modern religion is prone—@svrc
@svrc "Faith" as basic trust in the meaningfulness of life: that's good. Mystifying mumbo-jumbo:
eh, not so much.—@kendall
@svrc That's 1 reason why "faith v. reason" is misleading; that sense of faith is req'd
to do science or think rationally. Ecrasez l'infame!—@kendall
@kendall Bah. Life has no meaning. "...there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil
and no good, nothing but pitiless indifference."—@ndw
@ndw source of that quote? :)—@thebrianmanley
@thebrianmanley Richard Dawkins. It begins "The universe that we observe has precisely the properties
we should expect if there is, ..."—@ndw
Thursday at 11:26am
RT @davidjhinson @SocialMedia411 BP wants Twitter to shut down fake acct mocking it. Twitter wants BP to shut down
oil leak ruining ocean.—@ndw
Thursday at 11:51am
RT @ndw: RT @SocialMedia411 BP wants Twitter to shut down fake acct mocking it. Twitter wants BP to shut down
oil leak ruining ocean. <-amen—@fiberartisan
Thursday at 01:34pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:38pm
@ndw @kendall I suddenly feel like I'm back in Freshman Philosophy. Which also what Lost Season
2 was like ;) I stopped at Season 2.—@gcarothers
@gcarothers Ooh, well aren't you super sophisticated and urbane! :>—@kendall
@kendall Yeah, very sophisticated. Switched watching Angle and Buffy on DVD ;)—@gcarothers
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:07pm
Feature wishlist for the Penultimate note application http://post.ly/hbN4—@edd
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:13am
I have always wanted to visit Mongolia, but Mongolian real estate spam just seems
weird. What odds I'm looking to rent in Ulan Bator today?—@ndw
@ndw can you forward the re spam to me, wish to see if a pattern exists and if education
or a policy is needed to prevent this in the future—@coreyleong
@coreyleong Sent!—@ndw
@ndw got it thanks!—@coreyleong
@ndw It might be cheap enough that you might want to rent something just in case you get
stranded there? I'd love to go to Ulan Bator!—@robinberjon
Friday at 09:56am
In a conversation that started on Friday at 10:02am
Friday at 10:36am
From my experience of trawling web sites, the info probably wasnt in the flash. RT
@ndw: Went to 2 biz websites, left puzzled WTF they *do*.—@StephenBuxton
Friday at 03:50pm
In a conversation that started on Friday at 05:20pm
Damn power cuts. I'm getting closer and closer to buying a UPS.—@tommorris
Saturday at 10:25am
Next up: King Tut in 3D!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 11:52pm
What's wrong with case-insensitive filesystems? MediaWikis redirect e.g. "Postscript"
to "PostScript" (etc.) - can't store in filesystem.—@tommorris
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 11:51am
Hot Tub Time Machine was LEGIONS better than it deserved to be. I can't imagine I
appealing to people under 35 or over 50, though.—@textfiles
Sunday at 12:13pm
Observation: I am not in the target demographic of a mall with a Sotheby's International
Realty "store".—@ndw
Sunday at 02:43pm
Buy a $2 soda from the vending machine on the 5th floor with a $5 bill, get four $1
coins and 8 quarters in change. #machinesbadatmath—@ndw
Sunday at 02:45pm
In other news: the John Tyler $1 coin has nothing particularly to recommend it. As
in previous attempts: too much like a quarter.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 02:58pm
Another visit to an Apple store, another day successfully resisting an iPad. Whether
I should feel proud or stupid, I couldn't say.—@ndw
@ndw: Proud for resisting, and perhaps a little stupid for even needing to resist. :)—@david_megginson
Sunday at 05:50pm
Sunday at 08:13pm
Lady Liberty http://yfrog.com/jmcjoj—@ndw