The short-form week of 2–8 May 2011
09 May 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 60 messages in 62 conversations. (With 16 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.
Sunday at 11:26pm
Remember on Sept 12, 2001, when you saw people in some places abroad celebrating death?
Exactly. Don't be like that.—@EricFidler
Monday at 12:57am
Apparently knowledge of BL's hideout came from careful analysis rather than from anyone
imprisoned, coerced, or tortured. A lesson here?—@RBReich
Monday at 05:34am
The universe is...littered with the graves of cultures [that] did not go into space...remembered
by the ones who [did] http://xkcd.com/893/—@ndw
Monday at 05:41am
RT @ndw: The universe is...littered with graves of cultures [that] did not go into space...remembered
by ones who [did] http://xkcd.com/893/—@jeffsonstein
Monday at 06:39am
I can not cheer a single death in this endless, senseless "war."—@diveintomark
In a conversation that started on Monday at 08:46am
New term: Inchstones = miniature milestones. Hmmm how many inchstones does it take
to make a milestone?—@harveybetty
@harveybetty 63360?—@ndw
Monday at 09:14am
RT @skepticscience RT @blairpalese: Doctor Who - always at the important events http://t.co/V0QMB6Z—@mathling
Monday at 12:17pm
Guess what? I took your civil liberties with me.—@OsamaInHell
In a conversation that started on Monday at 12:58pm
I come down heavily on always inserting semi-colons - via @dalmaer: The endless debate over semi-colons;: http://bit.ly/ld5tXN—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers I come down heavily in favor as well.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 12:59pm
I'm a structured person. I use semi-colons in JS, prefer XHTML over HTML, am fond
of RDFa, and always wear clean underwear—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers: I was with you until the last part.—@apag
@apag Too much sharing. Way too much sharing ;-)—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers: ;-)—@apag
Monday at 02:30pm
An exciting new way to process XML in Documentum: XProc Service https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-10477
(link corrected)—@JerrySilver
Monday at 02:48pm
Scalzi gets it: "the job of a president is a serious one, while the job of tearing
down a president can be done by morons, & often is."—@kendall
Monday at 03:59pm
"Use the Force", I get. I'm just not sure where the Rabid Lesbian Athiest of Doom
comes in. http://bit.ly/jMies1—@ndw
Monday at 04:03pm
"Hopefully that catharsis will lead us to rethink the liberties we are willing to
sacrifice in the name of security." - http://bit.ly/lwuotN—@simonstl
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 03:55am
Love simple commits :) rewrite now uses MarkLogic internal memcached-like functionality
/at http://bit.ly/iQauFe /cc @ndw—@dscape
@dscape yes set-server-field is cool, but I would like to see the same behaviour with map:map
on single app server—@xquery
@xquery translation: are the server fields already a map? :) anyway it's kick-ass feature
that I've been askin' for ages!—@dscape
@xquery what I wonder is if I get better performance using xdmp:set-server-field as a map,
or putting a map inside a server field?—@dscape
Tuesday at 07:02am
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 12:24pm
anybody willing to donate their iPhone location database before apple starts deleting
them? mine is on http://is.gd/CQ67O0 ; we want yours!—@dret
Tuesday at 01:11pm
If you could really eat someones brain to gain their powers, there are a few of you
out there who wouldn't be safe. From me.—@jrblackwell
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 01:12pm
Everytime I write JavaScript, I have to re-make every stupid, lame syntax error possible
at least once before I become productive again.—@ndw
@ndw So don't write JavaScript? Use an alternative that compiles to JavaScript? (GWT
or, e.g., CoffeeScript:JavaScript as Scala:Java)—@kiniry
@ndw jslint.com is your friend.—@happygiraffe
Tuesday at 01:14pm
@ndw sounds like me—@marjoleink
Tuesday at 01:15pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 03:32pm
I just realized: no one gets outraged about anything that happens with HTML5 anymore.
Either worn out or just plain indifferent.—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers Or both. There’s only so much energy to fight battles you know you can’t win.—@ndw
@shelleypowers For furrther realization, replace "HTML5" with one of the following: politics, poverty,
war in Iraq/Afghanistan, genocide.—@cwilso
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 03:57pm
Damn it, I've thought of *another* cool #MarkLogic server project. I wish someone would pay me just to do the cool things I want to.
Hmph.—@ndw
@ndw don't we all.—@nicferrier
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 04:01pm
Getting two weeks worth of work done in four days feels good, except for the sustainability
thing.—@ndw
@ndw re 2 wks in 4 days. Sustainable if you take the rest of the 2 wks off after the 4
days.—@richardhamilton
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:04pm
Anyone out there listening got a Nikon D7000? What do you think? #birthday #photography #lowlight—@ndw
@ndw Norm, if you're interested in the low light performance of camera sensors check this
site out http://bit.ly/dcGkqt—@tug
RT @ndw: Anyone out there listening got a Nikon D7000? What do you think? #birthday #photography #lowlight—@jeffsonstein
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:51am
How long until use of DRM, App Store, etc., to shut this down? http://⌘.ws/spotify-ipod—@hsivonen
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:18am
Once there was productivity and it was good. Then came expense reports and productivity
died. #butmustgetpaid—@ndw
@ndw we use Concur here, and I must say I'm very pleasantly surprised by it. It's almost
painless!—@martin_probst
Wednesday at 09:26am
♺ @ndw: Once there was productivity and it was good. Then came expense reports and productivity
died. #butmustgetpaid—@kamen
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:35pm
Anyone ever heard of icons just spontaneously deleting themselves of a Windows 7 desktop?—@ndw
@ndw had that phenomenon 3 wks ago. Turned out many files & dirs had become 'hidden',
for no obvs reason. Changing props helped—@gimsieke
@ndw It may be the Desktop Icons Disappear bug: http://tinyurl.com/3unesh7 Mentioned in this podcast at 24mins: http://tinyurl.com/3cbyt2x—@garyprusso
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:43pm
@ndw could depend on what the icons are *for*: files can be removed by utilities running
in the background: could be a file or shortcut—@marjoleink
@marjoleink A whole bunch of files, shortcuts, and folders were inexplicably whisked into the
trash on my better half’s machine. #annoying—@ndw
Wednesday at 02:46pm
You either trust the source (Obama) or you don't. Why would you trust a photo from
a source you don't trust?—@jasonfried
Wednesday at 03:02pm
Way to go, Einstein! We do, indeed, live in a warped universe. NASA Announces Results
of Epic Space-Time Experiment http://goo.gl/etA8a—@sciencecomedian
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:06pm
Have long stick and packing tape, can rescue stylus lost in otherwise inaccessible
space between wall and desk. #win—@ndw
@ndw I use trained spiders....—@leepollington
Wednesday at 03:15pm
"It's like measuring the thickness of a sheet of paper held edge-on 100 miles away."
http://goo.gl/etA8a—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:45pm
Thursday at 02:35am
The ᐸinnovimax/ᐳ Daily is out! http://bit.ly/fTmEYa ▸ Top stories today via @ndw @carnage4life @joehewitt @intel_education—@dominiquepere
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 05:03am
Unicode srsly! Where’s my RIGHTWARDS ARROW WITH CORNER UPWARDS? U+21B4 and U+21B5
discriminate against my chosen direction of flow!—@hsivonen
Thursday at 05:11am
Existential graffiti in Leicester: "Lif is too short"—@tom_watson
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 05:46am
@ndw The yes vote is a forgone conclusion—@andrewwelch
@ndw re: AV i take it back, despite a hugely vociforous yes vote, signs are the silent
majority no vote apparently has it...—@andrewwelch
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 07:04am
xquery tip: I always find it surprising how few people know about xpath id() usage
with xml:id http://bit.ly/kejz0d—@xquery
@xquery re xml:id, those aren't valid ids are they... need to be valid NCNames (leading a
to z)—@andrewwelch
@andrewwelch hehe, a little easter egg ... all impl I know of work with this—@xquery
@xquery Not for me using Saxon... Would it give you any performance benefit when used with
a db? (uniqueness check yes, but lookup perf?)—@andrewwelch
@andrewwelch re perf benefits in xml database ... yes I would expect an index to be used—@xquery
@andrewwelch in #marklogic $xml/employees/employee[@xml:id eq "n001"] seems slightly faster, did not run query 1000 times, will investigate—@xquery
@xquery interstesting topic, bit limited here, I'll post on xquery talk...—@andrewwelch
@andrewwelch though right of you to point out, as this would most likely not validate through
schema processing ... #Iamabadman—@xquery
@ndw @martin_probst @andrewwelch I am a bad man . I also see some validators (admittedly very old) throwing errors
on bad xml:id ... #ohwell—@xquery
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:46am
dear #lazyweb I need input for a sample definition list. Please give me some 'term - definition'
pairs I could use (best will be published!)—@marjoleink
@marjoleink The Jargon File is full of examples :-)—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:54am
Can we just start assuming Mac/Keynote instead of PC/PPT as the default presentation
format for tech conferences already?—@liza
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:00pm
Excellent response from Mozilla to a takedown order: http://bit.ly/lVGsNS—@mikeloukides
@mikeloukides Indeed. Bravo to the Mozilla team.—@ndw
Thursday at 09:09pm
I wonder if/when we'll see a Honeycomb tablet in the smaller Galaxy Tab style form
factor.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 12:06am
imagine generically mapping feeds to RDF, completely: this would require you to define
a generic XML-to-RDF mapping. a scary idea.—@dret
@dret Re feeds-to-RDF: dealing with extensibility is always a huge problem in format mappings.
OTOH, RDF has a datatype for XML literals…—@cygri
@cygri have you seen any #RDF stores storing #XML literals in a dedicated storage structure and allowing XPath/XQuery access on that?—@dret
@dret @cygri ... yes, but we did it ourselves at O'Reilly and it was very strange. Front end proxy
that mixed XQuery (MarkLogic) and SPARQL—@gcarothers
@gcarothers @cygri i am sure it gets very messy because you are mixing two fundamentally different metamodels
in storage and querying.—@dret
@dret @cygri Messy is an understatement. On the other hand I'm reasonably sure that it's a very
USEFUL kind of messy. Content + Context.—@gcarothers
@gcarothers i just cannot imagine how to non-messily live in a world where a query may result
in a set of XML trees and RDF triples.—@dret
@gcarothers it's necessarily messy because you start in 2 different worlds, process 2 different
worlds, get results from 2 different worlds.—@dret
Friday at 02:44am
Syntax rewriting done (bit more than expected), all running except Twitter connection.
Ready to test @ndw oauth.xqy. @socialito_2010 @EllnvB—@grtjn
Friday at 07:17am
Osama Bin Laden decided not to attack U.S. railroads after he discovered that the
U.S. Congress already destroyed them.—@Naparstek
In a conversation that started on Friday at 07:50am
oh my, only IE treats application/xslt+xml properly (when found in a stylesheet PI)—@jreschke
Friday at 10:51am
I bet you can hold your breath for 30 seconds too. http://www.marriedtothesea.com/050411—@ndw
Friday at 02:50pm
Torture doesnt work. It's illegal. Immoral. Demeans us. Radicalizes our enemies, spits
on the Constitution & lowers us to terrorists level.—@David0Monroe
In a conversation that started on Friday at 02:56pm
RT @AndySeaborne: Much relief. We have now received the software grant from HP for Jena so it's all
systems go for the Apache incubator ...—@danbri
@danbri @AndySeaborne grant - much to do to build community? Jena would be nice to run on things like hbase/cassandra
(a la mahout/hadoop)—@dehora
@dehora @andyseaborne i've heard of some experiments with sparql over hadoop (eg Pig), see also larkc ...
Not sure if Jena in the mix—@danbri
@dehora Jena is open source - contributions (ASL) welcome. Start experimenting!—@AndySeaborne
Friday at 03:56pm
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:58pm
"A codified set of the builder's, crafter's, maker's rules" http://wondermark.com/tink8/ /via someone at Make/O'Reilly—@ndw
Friday at 11:20pm
H@M $@NDW!CH... TH@T WH!T3-BO!!! FEAT D.G by KENDALL LANE via #soundcloudhttp://t.co/wlmf7ME—@KENDALL_LANE
Saturday at 03:44am
Posted a new song: "H@M $@NDW!CH-TH@T WH!T3-B0!!! FEAT D.G" http://lnk.ms/NhPGs—@KENDALL_LANE
Saturday at 03:44am
Saturday at 04:15am
"H@M $@NDW!CH-TH@T WH!T3-B0!!! FEAT D.G" http://soc.li/uNzNjwQ @KENDALL_LANE put your songs on -> http://goo.gl/U2BX—@music_message
Saturday at 05:29am
Saturday at 05:50am
On the plus side, at least it’s an awful song. Uh. Wait. What?—@ndw
Saturday at 04:15pm
Hello Nikon D7000. Happy (early) birthday to me.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 08:55pm
@gfxman Yeah, but they rebroadcast 2 first, so I only missed one. But I missed one! #wwwaaaahhhhh!—@ndw