The short-form week of 7–13 Jun 2010
14 Jun 2010; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 41 messages in 38 conversations. (With 1 favorite.)
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 08:33am
search and reuse DITA content through Office http://ditalabs.com/ & where can i find DocBooklabs? :)—@peteaven
In a conversation that started on Monday at 08:48am
Utterly delighted with my epub reader built on #marklogic server and my W3C QT specification-to-epub converter.—@ndw
@ndw can ordinary mortals see this uber-epub reader in action?—@jirkakosek
@jirkakosek I hope to make it run on the free Community Edition of #MarkLogic server after the 4.2 release. (It uses XSLT so needs 4.2.)—@ndw
@ndw oh, you sly dog, you! Very cool!—@JeanKaplansky
In a conversation that started on Monday at 10:30am
Does anyone seriously believe the BP oil spill will be cleaned up by Autumn?—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers Autumn of 2020, maybe.—@ndw
@ndw I hope not, but I don't think that's outside the ream of possibility.—@shelleypowers
In a conversation that started on Monday at 03:49pm
In a conversation that started on Monday at 05:59pm
Take first 3 space-separated words in 30 random para in a big corpus. Do the same
thing for the para before and after. Any dupes, @ndw?—@abdelazer
Monday at 06:03pm
RT @ndw My #W3C spec to #epub converter has proven to be way more robust than I imagined. #XProc FTW!—@jschneider
Tuesday at 03:07am
Our hacker friend Tim couldn't sleep in a motel with AC that kept turning off and
on.He downloaded the service manual and reprogrammed it.—@MrTeller
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:21am
Trying to set up Fedora after using Ubuntu is painful. I'll take Ubutu's pragmatism
over Fedora's fundamentalism any day. #opensource—@jpcs
Tuesday at 09:54am
No, Apple. If updating Safari means I have to reboot then you can keep your damn update.—@ndw
Tuesday at 10:08am
@ndw i agree. What's up with needing to reboot to upgrade your browser?—@gabrielsaldana
Tuesday at 11:15am
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 05:34pm
A selection W3C XML specs (and a couple of OASIS ones) in ePUB. http://norman.walsh.name/2010/06/07/epub—@ndw
Tuesday at 05:42pm
RT @ndw A selection W3C XML specs (and a couple of OASIS ones) in ePUB. http://norman.walsh.name/2010/06/07/epubhttp://bit.ly/brd4tq—@abcoates
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 05:44pm
Note to self: really should track the ePUB working group more closely and help out
if I can.—@ndw
@ndw can you be in new york next tues and wed?—@andrewsavikas
@andrewsavikas Probably not both days, but perhaps one of them. What's in NY next Tue and Wed?—@ndw
@ndw start of latest ePub working group. mark logic is IDPF member, right? anyhow, will
ping chair and get back to you today—@andrewsavikas
Tuesday at 06:10pm
Classic structured info win RT @ndw: A selection W3C XML specs (and couple of OASIS ones) in ePUB. http://norman.walsh.name/2010/06/07/epub—@jsuttor
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:14pm
Tuesday at 06:40pm
Check out the screenshots RT @ndw: A selection W3C XML specs (and a couple of OASIS ones) in ePUB. http://norman.walsh.name/2010/06/07/epub—@fgeorges
Tuesday at 10:20pm
RT @ndw A selection W3C XML specs (and a couple of OASIS ones) in ePUB. http://norman.walsh.name/2010/06/07/epub—@peteaven
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:47am
Gonna fire up my new Lightroom 3 and import/beautify some pix. Mmmm—@timbray
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:41am
More specs and spec2epub tools, http://norman.walsh.name/—@ndw
@ndw thanks for posting. Would you like write access to the epub-tools project on Google
Code so they're publicly hosted?—@abdelazer
@abdelazer Sure, thanks. And since .epub files don't seem to be plain vanilla .zip files, what's
the best tool to build them with?—@ndw
@ndw They are ZIP files, but are finicky about that first record. We use Python 2.6 zipfile
and just shell out to 'zip' http://bit.ly/aichvE—@abdelazer
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:56am
Wednesday at 08:14am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:35pm
Nice trick using Lynx (remember that) to extract text from web page. @hmason in Making Data Work online conference—@mikeloukides
@mikeloukides I think you'll find that 'elinks' does a more capable job, but the technique is definitely
sound. So is using Readability.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:52pm
If Time Machine fails, is a more technical description of what went wrong logged anywhere?
"Try again later, or repair disk" is not useful.—@ndw
@ndw I don't know, have you looked in the Console to see if it writes anything there?—@robinberjon
@robinberjon Nothing useful on the console. :-(—@ndw
Wednesday at 06:20pm
My epub conversions are a little broken around the edges, struggling to fix some hairy
little relative URI issues.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 12:05am
@ndw I had some time to waste, did covers for your XML conversion: http://bit.ly/bJ9yat all of them zipped http://bit.ly/dri4Vl—@projeturbain
@projeturbain That's exceedingly cool. Did you do them all by hand, or do you have a script that
does it?—@ndw
@ndw done by hand right now in ps, i've read it can be done in XHTML, might be look into
that way of doing them—@projeturbain
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 07:12am
Everytime I leave a mode attribute off a template, I think we should have done modes
with a mode grouping element.—@ndw
@ndw @michaelhkay recently this proposed to XSLT WG but some people were against. If you will express
your concerns it can be done in 2.1—@jirkakosek
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:21pm
Rethinking DITA decision and reverting back to Docbook! I think I will hear an "I
told you so" from @ndw. Editors dislike DITA.—@harveybetty
@harveybetty It gives me a warm glow, but I'll bite my tongue. Hopefully topic-oriented features
of 5.1 will be best of both worlds.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 02:36pm
Here's a weird one. Doing an HTTP GET from Java is causing a modal popup for the briefest
fraction of a second. How can I read it?—@ndw
Thursday at 03:17pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:37pm
Anyone got suggestions for high-frame-rate screen casting software for OSX?—@ndw
Thursday at 03:38pm
@ndw - ishowu is free—@anthonyallen
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:41pm
@ndw quicktime didn't work out for you?—@gabrielsaldana
@gabrielsaldana Dunno. Didn't know it did that. I'm trying to catch a popup that lasts a tiny fraction
of a second.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:59pm
Got it! The culprit was "Do you want the application "java" to accept incoming network
connections?" Now where's the knob to turn that off?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 06:38pm
@ndw [mode grouping element] I proposed it recently, I was surprised by the negative reaction
in the WG.—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay Time for me to rejoin the WG :-)—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:40am
Spec ePUB files updated, tools improved: http://norman.walsh.name/2010/06/10/epubredux—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 02:58pm
This "whirled cup" of which you speak is some sort of sports thing, right? Might ignore
twitter until it's over. How long does it take?—@ndw
@ndw Yep, me too. I should also consider to relocate for a while. My London house mates
are big fans, hard to ignore this thing :-/—@fgeorges
@ndw Long, very long...—@vojtechtoman
@ndw forever. recommend you investigate TweetDeck for its global filter function. ;)—@TheRepoRat
Sunday at 01:45pm
Bah humbug. Team dinner in Boston on Wednesday and I have plans to be in New York.
#scheduleconflict #needteleporter #ipdf #epub #marklogic—@ndw