The short-form week of 31 May–6 Jun 2010
07 Jun 2010; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 25 messages in 31 conversations. (With 3 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 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
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
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 06:45pm
Monday at 09:27am
Celebrating Memorial Day by not romanticizing the military.—@CcSteff
Monday at 04:53pm
Tuesday at 10:34am
Ack! Accidentally dragged 500Mb of data onto Evernote! I guess that's the last of
my uploads for this month. Boo!—@ndw
Tuesday at 10:43am
Hey! Props to Evernote! Dragged offending items to the trash and discarded them, limit
restored!—@ndw
Tuesday at 11:54am
"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken" - Oscar Wilde. I love this quote!—@gabrielsaldana
Tuesday at 01:19pm
RT @edd/@bphogan Ah. There. @david_megginson was right. I really don't want an iPad, even if it is lust-worthy h/w. http://bit.ly/bp8Mxb—@ndw
Tuesday at 06:48pm
For presentation tomorrow: use PowerPoint or convert my XML slides to a new corporate
template. No brainer.—@ndw
Wednesday at 05:29am
.. @ndw "convert my XML slides to a new corporate template". My mistake was to leave the
copyright notice of prev employer on the handouts.—@michaelhkay
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:38pm
My AT&T contract for 3G modem service is finally up. Want one of those mobile hotspot
things. Is MiFi 2200 from Verizon the right answer?—@ndw
@ndw May I recommend MyFi? Step 1: jailbreak, step 2: install MyFi ($10 app), step 3:
none; you've got a wifi hotspot. Enjoy.—@avernet
@ndw: Nexus One running Android 2.2 makes a nice mobile WiFi hotspot (shipping with 2.1,
but you can upgrade).—@david_megginson
@david_megginson Interesting. I plan to ditch my iPhone anyway later this summer, maybe that's the
ticket.—@ndw
@ndw Do you get good Verizon coverage where you plan on using the mifi? I live in a Verizon
dead zone, so I would check this first.—@JeanKaplansky
Wednesday at 12:44pm
Wednesday at 01:10pm
Lego felt tip printer. Amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX09WnGU6ZY—@ndw
Wednesday at 02:18pm
@ndw Verizon or Sprint, I have both, coverage varies. Sprint has tethered mode I use occasionally.—@louspringer
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:59pm
Is it possible to drive two independent browser windows? For example, a keypress in
one changes the document.location in both windows?—@ndw
@ndw postMessage from HTML5 is already supported by many browsers http://bit.ly/c4VZiA and can be used for sending messages between windows—@jirkakosek
@jirkakosek Yeah but for postMessage() you still need a handle on a window to send it to, you
can't just send anywhere randomly.—@robinberjon
@ndw Do you mean from JS inside of a page? If so, a window can control another if it has
opened it with window.open() (the popup thing).—@robinberjon
@ndw If you mean in general, you probably need to write an extension for that.—@robinberjon
Wednesday at 05:00pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 05:12pm
Testing. Ignore me.—@ndw
Wednesday at 05:45pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:09pm
What does it say about this week that I had our bugtrack system open in 7 different
tabs?—@ndw
@ndw that you can either go home (the prize for filing 3 bugs in a day), or it's gonna
be a long Friday...—@JeanKaplansky
Friday at 04:33am
"evolve the language and you will evolve the reality"—@psd
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:50am
Intrigued by Slippy. Would like a single-file player. Might try hacking to my preferred
styling. http://tinyurl.com/329wowz—@ndw
@ndw OK, Norm. I give up. You are definitely cooler than I'll ever be. Sigh...*&%$^&#
superstars... :)—@SheltieJim
In a conversation that started on Friday at 10:09am
RT @abcoates Legendary Oz political comedy duo's take on US oil spill: http://tinyurl.com/3y3wg2v—@ndw
@ndw and their take on an Australian oil disaster http://youtu.be/8-QNAwUdHUQ - video quality poor—@tug
Friday at 10:14am
Oz comedy duo's take on oil spill, esp liked "people get sentimental about the sea"
http://tinyurl.com/3y3wg2v - via @ndw via @abcoates—@shelleypowers
In a conversation that started on Friday at 10:45am
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:41am
I'm looking for sources for epub files for testing. If you've got any pointers, please
pass them along.—@ndw
@ndw (Epub sources for testing) do you want some with Japanese text? If so, @muratamakoto could help #ePub—@innovimax
Friday at 12:57pm
Is the @aclu on this? RT Are cameras the new guns? 3 US states outlaw photographing police officers.
http://bit.ly/a8RW1M via @bblfish—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:46pm
It's not yet beer-o-clock, but it is crank up the music & write some Python/DocBook
goodness-o-clock.—@liza
In a conversation that started on Friday at 02:48pm
OmniFocus needs a web API http://post.ly/iT8W—@edd
Friday at 03:17pm
@ndw @doctorow has several epubs on his web site, you should read them after testing http://craphound.com/makers/download/—@DALDEI
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 10:35pm
The MacBook Pro 2010 are really beautiful machines. Even when they freeze, they create
artsy artifacts. http://twitpic.com/1u9cuz—@avernet