The short-form week of 27 Sep–3 Oct 2010
04 Oct 2010; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 29 messages in 30 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.
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 03:11pm
I have joined the HTML Working Group. May the fates have mercy on my soul.—@ndw
@ndw I will bet good money you will have a lot more success then you think, make sure
you call on your xml brethren to shout when needed—@xquery
@JeniT Madness, I'm sure. I sincerely want HTML5 to play nice with XML. I can't rail against
the result if I don't attempt to help.—@ndw
@ndw: the WG's mission statement, "lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate", didn't give
you a clue?—@david_megginson
@david_megginson Luckily my dad prepared me by instructing me "illegitimi non carborundum"—@ndw
@ndw: "Some people called the 'Romanes', they go 'house'??" Pls correct the grammar,
then write it 100 times on the Harvard library.—@david_megginson
@ndw Had to look that up, and Google led me here: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Illegitimi_non_carborundum—@JeniT
@ndw you'll need every bit of patience you have, but you can achieve something. Good luck!—@laurendw
@ndw Good luck! I think they are beyond help in many ways, but it is noble of you to try.—@james_clark
@james_clark would be really great if you could share your views on what is wrong with "HTML5".
Cheers!—@annevk
@annevk My biggest complaint would be the process: excessive deference to major browser vendors,
plus the dual WHATWG/W3C specs cc @ndw—@james_clark
@james_clark presumably not liking the process has something to do with the result of it? Can
I persuade you to write a blog post?—@annevk
@annevk It's not about the result: I haven't studied the result closely enough (yet) to form
a view about the result.—@james_clark
@ndw re: HTML5. admirable. Let me know if there are ways I (we) can help. Wish I had
the time for similar endeavor.—@aspyker
@ndw Great, HTML WG really needs some new blood to defend reasonable positions.—@jirkakosek
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 06:38am
Delayed on the Bure Valley railway. Chuckling to myself as we wait for the rescue
engine.—@johnlsheridan
@johnlsheridan I did that once with my folks. A very pleasant ride, at least if it doesn't break
down.—@ndw
@ndw it's my home county, so naturally I am very fond of the landscape. There's no better
way to see it than by train, big or small :)—@johnlsheridan
@johnlsheridan I come to Norfolk once or twice a year to see my mom (she's in Stalham now). We
should grab coffee or a pint sometime!—@ndw
@ndw oh wow, Stalham :) Not far. Please do let me know when you're next around. A pub
lunch + a pint of Woodford's Norfolk Wherry in order!—@johnlsheridan
Monday at 08:35am
Monday at 12:06pm
What could possibly go wrong? RT @shelleypowers For profit companies taking over public libraries http://nyti.ms/dwUjOI—@ndw
Monday at 12:23pm
RT @mnot RT @lachlanhardy: Man, I love the Guardian. Why the fuck don't *we* have a paper like this? http://bit.ly/daDMnD—@ndw
Monday at 12:27pm
In a conversation that started on Monday at 02:41pm
R U Kidding me??? RT @stockguy22: How crazy ironic is this ? .. Segway owner dies while riding a segway http://tinyurl.com/23hz997—@DaveO
Oh! The irony! Owner of Segway corp drives Segway off a cliff. Fatally. http://tinyurl.com/23hz997 /via @DaveO—@ndw
Monday at 03:30pm
You know, maybe I don't need to sleep in NYC this week. Maybe I'll just stay awake
and out of hotels all night. http://bit.ly/nycbedbugs—@ndw
Tuesday at 09:46am
RT @dret "wiretapping on the net is really inconvenient b/c it is decentralized and open,
so we decided to change that." http://is.gd/fwnn3—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 01:01pm
So people who are at Web 2.0 expo, what did the browser companies have to say about
next five years?—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers right now they're banging on XML—@simonstl
@simonstl As in, trying to kill it?—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers they seem to think XML is already dead. I disagree for a few use cases.—@simonstl
@shelleypowers I was afraid to ask.—@ndw
Wednesday at 06:55am
New twitter.com? Meh.—@ndw
Wednesday at 09:17am
Parsing a 2.7M file, "Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence." Great. Fine. Could
I have a clue about *where*, FFS!!?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:18am
<blush>Oh! look! I wrote utf8test last time I had this problem</blush>. Nevermind.—@ndw
Wednesday at 09:19am
@ndw Try iconv?—@vojtechtoman
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:32pm
I swear the thing that will make me finally leave Perl will be 0-based months and
1900-based years.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 04:56pm
When I relaunch my weblog on #MarkLogic, I'll be doing a redesign too. Soliciting pointers to attractive, minimal designs
I can steal from—@ndw
@ndw I'd point you to mine, but who am I kidding, I can't design worth a damn...but it
is minimal! And with RDFa, too!—@shelleypowers
@ndw "Soliciting pointers" Not pushing my particular theme, but IMO "Web user interfaces
should scale" http://tinyurl.com/2fuo4j3—@noahmendelsohn
Wednesday at 11:26pm
I am so tired of web sites that post 10 minute videos instead of 1000 words of text.
If you can't write, get off the Web!—@elharo
Thursday at 12:16am
you could use my framework as stared design http://www.baselinecss.com “@ndw: pointers to attractive, minimal designs I can steal from”—@projeturbain
Thursday at 09:20am
Thursday at 09:27am
Thursday at 11:04am
Amtrak 493 from SPG to NHV struck a tree. Delayed in Meriden. #thingsthatdonthappentoplanes #travel—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 12:01pm
The passengers in this carriage are learning far more than I ever wanted to know about
some young woman's personal life. #phonesonatrain—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 12:26pm
The conductor said the bus would be here any minute as he shepherded us off the train.
I don't think he knows what the word "minute" means.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:08pm
Dan Brown's next book should explore the theory that the world ends if they ever finish
construction on I-95. #ithinkitmightbetrue—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 11:43pm
Just shown US video ad where they were proud of iphone app to scan checks. Meanwhile,
the 19th century called the US and wants cheques back.—@mnot
Friday at 11:39am
Yesterday the train hit a tree, today the car service has put me in a van that's stalling
every 10 miles. #oneofthosetrips—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 02:06pm
T-Mobile will discount my prospective phone (S. Vibrant) by $300 if I agree to pay
them $480 more over the next two years. Uhm. #badatmath?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 02:57pm
I finally got home and discovered the cable is out and has been for hours. Now the
power is out. #enoughalready #weather—@ndw
@ndw which fate did you piss off? Your travels have been very Steve Martin & John Candy
this week.—@JeanKaplansky
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 03:00pm
It must be that my Androidy friends have written weblog posts about their fav. apps.
It appears not to be the case that I can find them.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:09pm
Homemade beer is 1 part making, 1 part drinking, and 8 parts cleaning and sterilizing.
But the Russian Imperial Stout is in bottles!—@ndw
@ndw Well your problem is that you bottle it! I just put it in a barrel and drink it quickly
:-)—@jpcs
@ndw How long until it is ready? I have always been tempted to home brew but some friends
skunked several batches in college. Yuck.—@bsletten
@ndw Imperial stout alway sounds good to me! Did you get to try BJ's take on it? http://bit.ly/9y4XC9—@avernet
@ndw re: stout, how about bringing some to Philly next week:-)?—@richardhamilton
@richardhamilton uh, it'll be a bit green...—@ndw
@ndw Shows you how much I know about brewing beer:). But I am an expert at drinking it.—@richardhamilton