The short-form week of 30 Aug–5 Sep 2010
06 Sep 2010; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 36 messages in 27 conversations. (With 2 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.
Monday at 08:19am
Implementing data security on some old hard drives...with a Torx screwdriver.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 10:53am
Wondering if I'm the only one who gets stressed when their computers have high CPU/memory/disk
consumption. Strange kind of empathy?—@JeniT
Monday at 01:36pm
Monday at 03:01pm
My town is having its first hazardous waste collection day in eight years...on the
weekend when I'll be in the UK. Fsck!—@ndw
Monday at 03:16pm
Reconsidering specialization, http://norman.walsh.name/2010/08/30/specialization #docbook #dita—@ndw
Monday at 03:31pm
One keeps writing to atone for the sins of the last book.—@alaindebotton
In a conversation that started on Monday at 05:06pm
Label seen in garden centre: "It is illegal to propagate this plant". What law are
you breaking, I wonder?—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay violation of someone's patent would be my first guess, at least in the US.—@ndw
Wednesday at 07:54am
Grumble. I forgot my cmd-line tweet client would have to be updated to use OAuth.
Maybe if I wait the underlying library will “just work”.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 08:02am
Is anyone else seeing problems with dreamhost-hosted sites? Or is it just me?—@ndw
@ndw re: Dreamhost Access to smtp/pop was spotty this morning, hosted sites look OK
just now—@noahmendelsohn
@noahmendelsohn Thanks, Noah. Whatever the problem was, it does seem to have been resolved.—@ndw
Wednesday at 08:25am
I can haz OAuth? Yes!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 10:19am
Generating XSLT with XQuery is making my brain hurt.—@ndw
@ndw I think you'll be in Oxford next week, yeah? Will you be in London at all on this
trip?—@ronhitchens
@ronhitchens Yes, Monday afternoon/evening 13 September. Unless I get booked into something I
don’t yet know about. http://bit.ly/9ZEA1Z—@ndw
@ndw Cool. Can I book you for dinner Sep 13? I want to start doing London Geek Dinners
(as I've done 4 years in US). 6-10 geeks. RU in?—@ronhitchens
@ronhitchens Absolutely!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 02:58am
Gosh, that would be today, wouldn't it? http://galaxytab.samsungmobile.com/—@timbray
Thursday at 09:14am
Note to self: never upgrade iTunes if you don't have to. After upgrade iTunes doesn't
see music on mt-daapd (ne Firefly) server. Fsck!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:27am
If I bought an Android phone today, I think I'd get the Samsung Vibrant on T-Mobile.
Anyone care to suggest a better choice?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 11:22am
If you dislike the new iTunes 10 stoplight close/min/max buttons: http://bit.ly/dd4RhU (via @inevernu, @stevey)—@olivierthereaux
@olivierthereaux Wow. I didn’t even notice. Man that looks bizarre. So much for UI standards, I guess.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 12:51pm
My reply to chairs: "I consider the caveat about what language I can, and cannot use,
to be discriminatory. Dangerously discriminatory."—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers What language you can use? Really? And they don’t mean, like, Urdu, do they? That
sounds F’ing outrageous!—@ndw
Thursday at 03:44pm
Force-quit Firefox brought down the whole machine. Goddamnit that's not supposed to
be possible.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:53pm
I can never remember the amount in the old saying "a ____ of Camembert a day keeps
the doctor away"—@abdelazer
Thursday at 03:54pm
Disk Utility, you just fscking lie about estimated time for disk verification.—@ndw
Thursday at 03:59pm
Yikes. RT @frumioj Twitter+OAuth: http://arstechnica.com/security/guides/2010/09/twitter-a-case-study-on-how-to-do-oauth-wrong.ars—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:49pm
Is embedded Schematron not possible for DocBook 5.0 validation with Jing, @ndw, because of the old -p [phase] stuff? cc @james_clark—@abdelazer
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 04:05pm
Been working on XML Calabash V2. Pretty happy with the construction API. Trying to
figure out Saxon native pipelines. #xproc #xmlcalabash—@ndw
Sunday at 02:17am
Possibly the greatest photoshopped image ever seen: http://i.imgur.com/zDJ7W.jpg (via @jaimewoo @adammcnamara @kmorr @ryanmerkley)—@lukec
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 06:16am
I think I prefer git more then mercurial but mercurial seems to have more widespread
general usage, so starting to use mercurial now—@xquery
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 11:42am
Sunday at 04:08pm
Rode 41.3 miles today. That's almost 50, but almost doesn't count. And one glass of
wine later, nothing productive will happen this evening.—@ndw
Sunday at 04:32pm
Successfully constructed a three-stage Saxon pipeline that runs. Not sure I fully
understand it, but calling it a day.—@ndw