The short-form week of 26 Jul–1 Aug 2010

02 Aug 2010; last modified 13 Mar 2011

The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 28 messages in 27 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 Tuesday at 08:24am

frickin' awesome! Jane Austen's Fight Club http://kwz.me/aL via @therealmaxf "The first rule of fight club is one never mentions fight club"—@amyvdh

RT @amyvdh frickin' awesome! Jane Austen's Fight Club http://kwz.me/aL via @therealmaxf "The first rule...no one never mentions fight club"—@ndw

Tuesday at 01:32pm

@dailyshoot Number Six #ds254—@ndw

Tuesday at 02:46pm

"What happened to the dalek? It died." --River Song—@ndw

Tuesday at 03:58pm

Great big long stack traces from easy_install do not constitute an easy installation. I'm just saying. #python—@ndw

Tuesday at 04:03pm

"Dancing makes me look like a coma victim being stood up and zapped by a cattle prod." -- Mark Corrigan—@therealmaxf

Tuesday at 04:07pm

By the same token, saying you can install from sources w/o using easy_install when the sources use easy_install is a bit circular. Or a lie.—@ndw

Tuesday at 05:51pm

Doing some #python work in a Linux VM because it, you know, works there.—@ndw

Tuesday at 05:52pm

Say what you want about #perl, CPAN works cross-platform. There seem to be about four different #python installers, none reliable.—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 04:13am

Planning to buy a Linux server. Anyone care to share recommendations or experiences?—@michaelhkay

@michaelhkay I rolled my own, mostly for fun. Aside from the case not actually being quiet, I'm quite happy with it: http://bit.ly/clSz3K—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:41pm

ImageMagick's "convert" is the best thing I've found for SVG to PNG conversion at arbitrary resolution, but it's typography sucks rocks.—@ndw

@ndw Unless it's changed since I last looked at it (don't, btw) the SVG code in ImageMagick does not account for CSS. Check croco and cairo.—@doriantaylor

@doriantaylor Thanks. Cairo looks interesting. I wonder if there's a straight-forward SVG to raster file program built on Cairo...—@ndw

@ndw there are bindings to Cairo in various languages (perl, python, ruby etc.)—@doriantaylor

@doriantaylor Ok. I'll put cooking up an SVG to raster converter with it on my todo list. :-/—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Thursday at 08:37am

Mac OS X IRC client recommendations?—@james_clark

@james_clark I used X-Chat Aqua for a long time, eventually switched to Linkinus for no specific reason I can recall.—@ndw

Thursday at 09:07am

Get Lamp is real! http://bit.ly/9Q0dtw #squee #iwonderwhatnumberwillbeonmycoin—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Thursday at 12:01pm

#emacs registers and macros made my morning easier and very productive :)—@gabrielsaldana

@gabrielsaldana I've never used registers. Clearly I'm doing it wrong. Pointer to how they add value most welcome.—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Thursday at 12:21pm

So far having an Android phone is sweet. It's an odd tradeoff. iPhone had beautiful design, but on every other point the Sony wins.—@grechaw

@grechaw Which Sony, asks a guy planning to buy some Android phone in the next month or so...—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:45pm

I don't think it's for everyone, but to me this Xperia X10 mini pro is the cats pajamas, @ndw http://bit.ly/aaMZdM sim worked ootb—@grechaw

@grechaw latest Android release, or vendor supplied goo?—@ndw

Friday at 02:27pm

Pipe output to a browser. This ought to come in handy occasionally. http://rtomayko.github.com/bcat/—@ndw

Friday at 02:38pm

Yikes! RT @simonstl Adios, phytoplankton. http://mojo.ly/duLE5w—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Saturday at 07:38am

Your secrets, for sale?: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703940904575395073512989404.html #fb—@frumioj

@frumioj "for sale?" I think you meant "for sale!"—@ndw

Saturday at 08:21am

Me: "Boy, that camera takes great pictures!" Anna: "Yeah, and I guess the pots and pans make great dinners. Thanks, asshole." #thinkb4speak—@MarioAquino

In a conversation that started on Saturday at 10:33am

New android, test tweet.—@harveybetty

@harveybetty which phone?—@ndw

Saturday at 01:50pm

I met a man carrying a pole. "Are you a pole vaulter?" I asked. "No, I'm German, but how did you know my name was Walter?"—@RedEaredRabbit

Saturday at 04:54pm

Musing about doing some Scala coding.—@ndw

Sunday at 01:54pm

Bored TSA drone decided to nick my 3.4oz tube of toothpaste. The same one they've ignored the past dozen flights. Serves me right I suppose.—@ndw

Sunday at 03:56pm

BDL to YUL on a flight big enough for me and 17 of my friends. #balisage here I come!—@ndw