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
Tuesday at 02:46pm
"What happened to the dalek? It died." --River Song—@ndw
Tuesday at 03:58pm
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 05:02pm
Tuesday at 05:03pm
RT @xmlcalabash Announcing XML Calabash V0.9.23 http://norman.walsh.name/2010/07/27/xmlcalabash0923—@ndw
Tuesday at 05:21pm
Holy crap! Balisage is less than a week away! http://norman.walsh.name/2010/07/27/balisage2010—@ndw
Tuesday at 05:51pm
Tuesday at 05:52pm
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
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
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
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
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 07:38am
Your secrets, for sale?: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703940904575395073512989404.html #fb—@frumioj
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