The short-form week of 17–23 Jan 2011
24 Jan 2011; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 28 messages in 30 conversations. (With 4 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 Monday at 07:44pm
RT @simonstl We Didn't Stop the Fire - http://bit.ly/dHPtOe - @Zeldman on some dark challenges of the digital age—@ndw
Monday at 08:02pm
@ndw "We Didn't Stop The Fire" <= saw this earlier today. Good article. Archiving is a
serious job.—@webxstudio
Monday at 08:19pm
Looking at GalaxyTab as well. @ndw Thxs for review/thoughts. @chakery do you have a tablet device?—@webxstudio
Monday at 10:31pm
"Space is big, really big. How big is it..." http://bit.ly/hZ98Dl—@ndw
Monday at 10:55pm
Tuesday at 06:11am
Voight Kampff test for Web site: are state changes captured in the URI and returned
inside a representation for said URI? No? Application!—@psd
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 07:46am
You know, it's the sense that my efforts are appreciated that really keeps me going.
http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20110118#l-415—@ndw
Tuesday at 08:33am
Word Clock, http://norman.walsh.name/2011/01/18/wordclock—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:59am
Lazy web: create an epub version of documentation for a range of #RDF vocabs, so I can have an offline reference for my kindle #linkeddata—@ldodds
@ldodds There's http://norman.walsh.name/2010/06/07/epub from @ndw for W3C specs; may be a start for #RDF vocab doc conversion (or may ;-)—@doug_burke
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:05pm
Have encountered several sites where pasting into a password field doesn't work. Chrome
bug or new security behavior of some sort?—@ndw
@ndw Surely, if it has anything to do with security, it'd actually diminish it: it makes
programs like Password Safe no longer work.—@cky944
@ndw Pasting pwds doesn't work? Hmm. Copy/paste seems MORE secure, esp. if someone's
key logging, etc.—@noahmendelsohn
@noahmendelsohn I just experienced the problem in a non-PW field too. I’m guessing it’s a Chrome
issue. *shrug*—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:19pm
Why, for the love of all you hold dear, is *the title text* of pages on the @TMobile web site done with Flash!?—@ndw
@ndw It's an ancient method of using a given font instead of the basic Web safe ones.
And yes, it's silly.—@robinberjon
Tuesday at 09:38pm
*Experience* makes you an experienced developer. Not "I've been doing this for five
years." The latter doesn't imply the former.—@malcolmt
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:44am
Mac OS repaired disk, manually restored "less" executable from backup, wondering what
else is broken :-(—@martin_probst
@martin_probst Sounds like time to format the disk and start over.—@ndw
Wednesday at 08:54am
Some case sensitive tag got checked into the docbook repo. That's an hour of my life
wasted so far.—@ndw
Wednesday at 09:25am
Oh, yuck. The files tagged v50b2 and V50b2 are *different* in the DocBook repository.
That's this month's actions shot to heck I fear.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 10:23am
The W3C HTML/XML Task Force dream team: @robinberjon, Michael, @james_clark, John, @michaelhkay, Yves, @noahmendelsohn, @hsivonen, and @ndw!—@fgeorges
@fgeorges Might be a dream team, but I'm still not sure what issue we're solving :) @james_clark @michaelhkay @noahmendelsohn @hsivonen @ndw—@robinberjon
@robinberjon Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know you had to solve issues... :-)—@fgeorges
@fgeorges Well if it's about champagne, hookers, and blackjack it seems @ndw has been hoarding them.—@robinberjon
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 10:45am
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:22pm
You don't want the truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at cubicles,
you want me on that XML, you need me on that XML—@peteaven
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:24pm
OH "I've been really surprised by how much DocBook is in the real publishing ecosystem"—@abdelazer
Thursday at 07:32pm
Am I a bad person because I couldn’t care less who runs Google? Or maybe just a bad
capitalist.—@ndw
Thursday at 07:40pm
That paranoid thing where I save every version of every document I put in the database?
Just saved my tucchus.—@ndw
Thursday at 07:43pm
“What makes science possible is not our ability to recognize ‘truth’ but our ability
to recognize falsehood.” - Neil Postman—@bsletten
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:17am
The Efficient XML Interchange Format: http://t.co/eYVQ5XN - is this an admission of XML bloat or what?—@talios
In a conversation that started on Friday at 07:29am
@AlainCouthures ummmm, if Katy Perry can help us bridge the XML and HTML divide then I don't see
why not ...—@xquery
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:38am
Friday at 07:03pm
"I have no plans to learn UML before I die. I'm sure they'll be teaching it in hell."
- dmbarbour—@jamesiry
Saturday at 04:38pm
Topic-based feeds are working again on norman.walsh.name. I'll add pointers to them
after a little more testing.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 07:21am
Dead furnace. No heat. Why is 53 so much colder in January than October? And where
is the repair guy? Brrrrrrrrrr—@ndw
Sunday at 07:28am
cd /MarkLogic/src; make clean; make. There. That’ll warm up the laptop. And my lap.
And my fingers.—@ndw
Sunday at 10:48am
Zone valve mumble something replaced. C'mon second law of thermodynamics! Go, man,
go!—@ndw