The short-form week of 8–14 Aug 2011
15 Aug 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 69 messages in 58 conversations. (With 7 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 11:49am
In a conversation that started on Monday at 06:06am
In a conversation that started on Monday at 06:39am
Signed by the patient's what, exactly? http://yfrog.com/gycuygjj—@ndw
I think the pen is appropriate here. @ndw Signed by the patient's what, exactly? http://t.co/fptaDEd—@docum3nt
In a conversation that started on Monday at 08:51am
Kind of weird, though, that USG got downgraded when it's the Eurozone that looks even
more politically fragile & unsustainable, structurally—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:43am
Weekend accomplishment: successfully dragged 231,000+ lines of Frame-produced XML
uphill to DocBook. #xproc #xslt #docbook—@ndw
@ndw kicking and screaming?—@christo4ferris
@christo4ferris More of a sort of half-hearted struggle, really, for the most part. But there are
still pockets of resistance.—@ndw
@ndw Now that is a real accomplishment. Congrats!—@scohenadler
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:53am
writing a presentation from a .odp template? don't make the mistake of imagining that's
an open, portable, document format. It's not.—@psd
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 04:56am
2 words for everyone who thinks Apple products are so damn sexy and lickable: Xcode.
Four.—@spencerpieters
@spencerpieters I have never in my life wanted to lick and Apple product, no matter how much I liked
it. Or not. :-)—@ndw
@ndw Can’t talk now, licking my iPad.—@spencerpieters
Tuesday at 11:35am
Playbook never varies: bailout the rich 1st, since they're not parasites. Then refuse
to bailout everyone else because that wld be unfair.—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 11:40am
Since most actions Obama could take to grow jobs require Congressional approval, it's
not a leap to think GOP is hurting us to hurt him.—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 12:31pm
First Draft of HTML5: Edition for Web Authors Published http://ow.ly/1eapct—@w3c
Tuesday at 07:02pm
"It only gets worse." --Gwen Cooper—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 05:56am
Amazon: web-based kindle reader. Optimized for iPad, works offline, avoids Apple's
purchasing system. http://zite.to/qrQDXK—@mikeloukides
@mikeloukides Nice to see the internet routing around censorship again.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:36am
Successful identification of looter using facial recognition software : http://t.co/HYx2zCR #londonriots #bigbrotherftw—@danja
Wednesday at 06:37am
The intersection of markup induced from Frame and EPUB2 is not the empty set. But
it's not a happy place, either.—@ndw
Wednesday at 08:16am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 08:44am
If you represent nested lists with flat lists using continued numeration, it's very
hard to construct the inferred nesting. #justsayin—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 08:53am
@davidmarsden I tried this http://is.gd/l9Qqon (thx @ndw): http://www.translation-telephone.com/#1253380 :D—@marjoleink
Wednesday at 11:01am
All "calls for togetherness" about the economy, in a country with inequality closer
to Namibia's than to Sweden's, are deeply offensive.—@kendall
Wednesday at 11:41am
Wednesday at 11:45am
To print in landscape orientation, I have to create a custom paper size in Page Setup?
Really, #Firefox? #atleastitworked—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 11:46am
In other news, CSS media queries and page break properties turned my interactive,
HTML presentation into paper with remarkable ease.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:24pm
And NOW there's a FB petition 'Say no to legal aid for rioters'. Repeat after me-equality
under the law is the mark of a civilized society.—@langtry_girl
@dierken @langtry_girl Yeah, that too. Though I’m inclined to say lack of rioting is the mark of a civilized
individual.—@ndw
Wednesday at 01:42pm
Oh Apple, you make very pretty things - why do you have to be such tools otherwise?
http://bit.ly/p9yRWl—@dcm
Wednesday at 01:52pm
Very handy indeed! RT @anthonybrunohttp://copypastecharacter.com is awesome for character encodings as well. #aea—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:55pm
Yuck! RT @karlpro: do you have a linkedin account? Time for you to (un)check your settings http://c8l.ca/1e6—@ndw
@ndw Thanks for the info about Linkedin social advertising setting.—@lcahlander
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:58pm
“Who will be first to offer an HTML 5 app store for iPad? The race is on!” —@webminkhttp://wmk.me/qm3Nt0—@ndw
@ndw and how long before Apple rewrites it's rules for iOS use to limit it.—@kingargyle
@kingargyle I’m sure they’ve got the lawyers working on it now. The ones who aren’t engaged in
putrid patent trolling, anyway.—@ndw
Wednesday at 02:21pm
@ndw the worst is when you have run out of landscape paper and have to go out and buy
some. For a small fee they'll convert portrait paper.—@barefootliam
Wednesday at 10:35pm
RT @ndw @anthonybruno Very handy indeed! http://t.co/rhs12qU is awesome. But how 'bout s'more characters? #unicodesnowman is nice, though—@Klortho
Thursday at 01:27am
Thursday at 01:28am
It works in virtually all cases.—@mdubinko
Thursday at 02:35am
The ᐸinnovimax/ᐳ Daily is out! http://bit.ly/a7Qy04 ▸ Top stories today via @ndw @jobsatintel @dizzzz—@dominiquepere
Thursday at 10:47am
Thursday at 10:48am
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 10:51am
Thursday at 10:56am
Thursday at 12:26pm
Thoughts on hanging punctuation in CSS3. http://recoveringphysicist.com/21/hanging-punctuation-in-css3—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:17pm
Well. @foursquare drop their XML API at about the same time that I can start using Google Latitude.
I should switch to the V2 API why?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:39pm
I'm not the only one who finds publication of the CSS Namespaces Module PR while the
browsers are working to discard XML ironic, right?—@ndw
@ndw But don't worry! HTML5 will make it allll better. Google and Apple's technical marketing
people tell me so. :)—@pointybrackets
@ndw Absolutely right. It's pretty hilarious.—@pointybrackets
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:26am
"By declaring falsifiable beliefs to be central tenets of Christianity, Mohler warps
our faith into a superstition. " - http://bit.ly/n7Qnbu—@simonstl
In a conversation that started on Friday at 07:00am
Friday at 07:09am
Is there any way to use CSS to do list numeration that works (w/o adding a bogus newline)
if the first item in the list is a block?—@ndw
Friday at 07:09am
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:05am
Styling list numerations with CSS: http://norman.walsh.name/2011/08/12/styleThis #HTML #CSS #rant—@ndw
@ndw Good rant. I've run into that issue when preparing and styling EPUBs. I agree that
it is a semantic as much as a presentational issue.—@adamwitwer
@adamwitwer @ndw though I'd bet complex semantic/presentation cases are often (not always) symptom
of overly complex writing—@andrewsavikas
@andrewsavikas @adamwitwer @ndw and you must often start the whole semantics/presentation discussion over with every
content supplier/author—@MarieBilde
@andrewsavikas @adamwitwer Sure, but I don’t think continued numeration is that complex. And all I want is to
number blocks w/o line breaks!—@ndw
@ndw @andrewsavikas @adamwitwer I assume removing the displayed list numbers and numbering them yourself is just
too painful? ;)—@gcarothers
@gcarothers @andrewsavikas @adamwitwer Doing the numbering myself suffers from the same alignment problems. And would be
less accessible.—@ndw
@andrewsavikas Fair point, but my big use case is images in lists in Missing Manual books, which
I'd argue is simple, not complex @ndw—@adamwitwer
@andrewsavikas @adamwitwer @ndw as well as arguing wether markup is too complex or not. We discus these issues in
lexicography all the time—@MarieBilde
@karlpro That almost works. The number aligns with the bottom of the block and there’s still
extra vertical space.—@ndw
@ndw If those headers aren't overlapping semantic, you should consider to put them inside
the list. Otherwise, float your bullets.—@eloscurodeefeso
Friday at 08:17am
Friday at 08:52am
In a conversation that started on Friday at 10:09am
If I were rich, I would rather pay higher taxes to live in a well-ordered, modern,
efficient civilization than keep more of my $ to myself.—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Friday at 10:22am
I have high hopes for the about-to-arrive 7" Honeycomb tablets. The original Galaxy
Tab remains my face Android device to this day.—@timbray
@ndw I recommend checking out the Asus Eee Pad Transformer. It's 10.1 inch but a nice
machine. can get 16 hrs battery life with keyboard.—@kingargyle
@kingargyle thanks, but 10 inch is too big.—@ndw
@ndw Acer Aconia Tab A100 might fit your needs then.—@kingargyle
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:57pm
GOP has come unstuck from its traditional moorings; I'd think that my GOP friends
are as scared of this as I am: http://t.co/dAVTUC1—@kendall
@kendall cf. Amer Family Assoc view that 1st ammendment freedom of religion only holds for
Christianity- yow! http://t.co/CZxi1Bj—@jahendler
@jahendler There is no depth to their extremism: we haven't touched bottom yet because there
isn't one. #americantaliban—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Friday at 04:21pm
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:32pm
Do you know why heirloom tomatoes are popular? Because they're awesome!—@ndw
@ndw Enjoyed Brandwine (orange) and Marglobe in my tomato, garlic, mushroom pasta tonight
:) Do have probs with blight though—@EileenOttawa
@ndw +1 had some tonite from local farm stand - delish!—@christo4ferris
Saturday at 02:35am
The ᐸinnovimax/ᐳ Daily is out! http://t.co/bGpVFOL ▸ Top stories today via @i_montaigne @shelleypowers @w3c_wai @ndw @koztoujours—@dominiquepere
Sunday at 01:19am
"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer." ~
Edward R. Murrow—@HannesSiebert
Sunday at 07:29am
Holy cow! RT @pigsonthewing: I blogged: "The BBC’s fundamental misunderstanding of copyright": http://t.co/GZQXAkp /via @libbymiller—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 10:27am
@ndw friends don't let friends use XML...—@dhmspector
@dhmspector Uhm. No. That’s not the lesson.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 11:23am
plumbing is a pain in the ass—@christo4ferris
@christo4ferris You said it! Replaced the kitchen sink and faucet yesterday. What a PITA.—@ndw
Sunday at 03:11pm
“with no apparent esthetic(sic) value” Fuck you! RT @aaronsw LAPD says anyone who takes photos a suspected terrorist: http://t.co/Y5Ey4L7—@ndw
Sunday at 03:34pm
Sunday at 04:10pm
If Benedick cavorting in the fountain doesn't make you smile, you must have died and
not noticed. #muchadoaboutnothing—@ndw