The short-form week of 12–18 Sep 2011
19 Sep 2011; last modified 21 Sep 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 32 messages in 34 conversations. (With 6 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 09:24am
Monday at 09:25am
RT @psd "An imperfect technology can be perfected, but you can't fix hubris" — http://t.co/QV9lBLf—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 10:28am
Sending mail to internal list fails. Me: "How do I configure my linux mail client
so this works?" IT: "Use Outlook" #missingthepoint—@mathling
Monday at 12:12pm
i have good ideas, i just don't know which of them are good up front. hence, looking
foolish is a prerequisite for looking smart.—@KentBeck
Monday at 12:29pm
Integrating Pygments into the DocBook stylesheets is boosting my productivity more
than most hacks, that's for sure. #writing #presentations—@ndw
Monday at 12:30pm
Worry is a misuse of imagination.—@LamaMarut
In a conversation that started on Monday at 12:40pm
Hard to deny climate change when oil companies can drill where it used to be ice http://t.co/xIzWC2c—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers I bet they don’t have any trouble denying it at all.—@ndw
@ndw They pay out millions in order to get others to deny it, too. Has human intelligence
peaked, or something?—@shelleypowers
Monday at 01:32pm
Wayne Carr really pinpoints the problem with never-ending specifications http://t.co/yP2kpCA - a reality check—@shelleypowers
Monday at 03:34pm
Teabonics: misspellings in Tea Party protest signs http://t.co/KEyOCyY—@shelleypowers
Monday at 08:49pm
Careless, Universe. The cable box broke *two* days before I leave on a trip. Left
me time to get it replaced. Just.—@ndw
Tuesday at 01:01am
British government condemns "culture of greed and violence" among inner-city poor;
hosts world's biggest arms fair and invites dictators—@sredniivashtaar
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:03am
@ndw If BP is too far fro your day trip this http://t.co/EX7RIBx might give you some ideas for alternatives—@tug
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:27am
Southwest Air put a new interface on their website. Fancy doesn't equal better.
Sometimes Web2.0 gets in the way of functionality!—@harveybetty
@harveybetty Amen, Betty.—@ndw
Tuesday at 02:12pm
Con: I have no office. Pro: soon I will be looking at that color for the last time.
http://t.co/ci9ctWJ—@ndw
Tuesday at 09:10pm
Things I did not get done before this trip: full backup. What did I say the other
day about a careless Universe?—@ndw
Wednesday at 10:21am
"Random number generation is too important to be left to chance." -- Robert Coveyou—@bsletten
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:14pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:35pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 04:24pm
Should '<colgroup span="3" style="border-right: 0.4pt black solid"/>' put a border
on the right hand side of all three columns?—@ndw
@ndw rule in the typesetting sense of a horiz or vert line, that is.—@AnxiousBulldog
@ndw Or is it on the right of that group. Gah, I have no idea.—@gcarothers
@ndw tables <shudder/> styling examples page shows bugs & implies just the colgroup http://t.co/cHBHrpRL—@jeffsonstein
@ndw My intuitive response would be that the "span" causes the 3 columns to be treated
as 1. If so, this instruc. should produce a 1 rule.—@AnxiousBulldog
@AnxiousBulldog I might have thought that too, except that other properties (color, width) seem to
be inherited by all the columns in span.—@ndw
Wednesday at 04:45pm
Somehow, I've never before noticed how big the 777 engines are! http://t.co/okr7vpIZ—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:30pm
just an fyi to @peteaven and @ndw looks like MarkLogic has a new person for the XQDT project at #eclipse—@kingargyle
Thursday at 01:37am
“Browsers style tables poorly.” http://t.co/l54zarWj Great. And yet that’s what (all that!) I’m expected to use?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:38am
There are many nice things about flying business class. The arrivals lounge at Heathrow
is not least among them.—@ndw
Thursday at 02:04am
.@ndw @AnxiousBulldog Ah. border-collapse: collapse plays a significant role. More exploring to do, I guess.—@ndw
Thursday at 11:11am
If you happen to be near London, make way to the MarkLogic UG meeting and find out
what it's all about http://mugl.org/ @ndw is there.—@grechaw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 11:12am
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:11pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:06pm
Another great #MUGL is in the history books. Still at the pub. @ndw, @leepollington, @dscape and @jpcs have gone in search of food.—@ronhitchens
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 11:21pm
If it requires getting up to catch a 6am train, have you considered the possibility
that you're doing it wrong?—@ndw
@ndw doing it wrong? Oh... <thinks> You're saying I might be doing it wrong *every* day?—@johnlsheridan
Saturday at 04:30pm
@ndw docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org may be down, at least subscription mail fails. You are listed as contact
here: http://t.co/z3eZFUHi—@vogella
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 04:34pm
Sunday at 01:25pm
Hey! Something was easier than I expected. I wish that happened as often as the opposite.—@ndw