The short-form week of 17–23 Oct 2011
24 Oct 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 53 messages in 63 conversations. (With 10 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 07:23am
Like this: Alice, lightweight CSS engine; uses hardware acceleration for visual effects
http://t.co/S6BR3vSf—@mikeloukides
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:13am
Listen, web developers who make payment forms. There is no excuse for failing to
process my form based on phone number formatting.—@jeremiahtolbert
@jeremiahtolbert Amen!—@ndw
Monday at 11:15am
Monday at 11:24am
In a conversation that started on Monday at 12:25pm
Can an index really need sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-subentries?—@dauwhe
In a conversation that started on Monday at 12:27pm
New blog post: "Scala partial functions (without a PhD)" http://t.co/DgDuJ9DO—@ebruchez
Monday at 12:45pm
"I liked XHTML 2.0 much better than this stuff. Honestly, it's crap." http://t.co/uYrPWuMm #html5 (FWIW, I agree with this bug, <h> FTW)—@johnfoliot
In a conversation that started on Monday at 03:33pm
Lots of fire alarms unplugged and hushed. God they are loud—@gcarothers
@gcarothers “Unplugged.” You did actually check to see if there was a fire, right?—@ndw
@ndw Yes, but the 8th time in the middle of the day with all the windows open, No. They
are wire linked with battery backup.—@gcarothers
@gcarothers Years ago, I replaced 7 of our 8 w/a new model. Guess how many middle of the night
alarms it took me to figure that out!—@ndw
Monday at 04:20pm
Monday at 05:09pm
Oh, FFS, why do I have to register at Yamaha to download the fscking manual for my
receiver. #customerservice #fail—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:33am
I can win USSSA Nat'l Snowshoe championships w this: @ndw @RussB Wow indeed! RT @RussB Wow. WOW. Holy wow. Wow. http://t.co/nVk4G5Bl
.—@iHarmonizing
@iHarmonizing If you can get ‘em to install magnets along the entire course, sure!—@ndw
Oh those minor details . . . @ndw @iHarmonizing If you can get ‘em to install magnets along the entire course, sure!—@iHarmonizing
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:40am
Fake or real? RT @ndw: Wow indeed! RT @RussB Wow. WOW. Holy wow. Wow. http://t.co/1RJBBYXR #daretoask—@grtjn
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:16am
... which reminds me, I really need to get my LoL shield all soldered up and ready
to play with. http://t.co/WyfMPYRd—@benosteen
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:56am
If you're experimenting with HTML5 markup, don't run tidy. I'm just saying. Saying
and rebuilding several hundred pages.—@ndw
@ndw there are options that can make tidy work with (i.e. not break) html5 documents /cc
@plhw3org—@dontcallmedom
@ndw Ouch. Thanks for the warning - I'm experimenting with HTML5 right now, and I always
use tidy ...—@jonathan_robie
Tuesday at 10:11am
Google Plus API question, anyone got a clue-by-four? http://t.co/dtJLaeGG—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:50am
buddy just told me he's rockin some new project with hibernate on mysql. I'm like:
people still do that? :)—@peteaven
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:03pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 03:08pm
Three days ago I read "unity improved a lot". Now I see "unity sucks, I switched to
kde/gnome3/xfce/fluxbox/framebuffer/..." everywhere—@vbsteven
Tuesday at 04:10pm
Tuesday at 10:13pm
Tuesday at 10:42pm
Tuesday at 11:00pm
Wednesday at 02:40am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:07am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:52am
@ndw @libbymiller Draw an upside down stickman to see a better view of the app's logic—@shelleypowers
Wednesday at 09:34am
Wednesday at 09:41am
Writing prose is the hardest thing I do.—@ndw
Wednesday at 09:43am
Hij blijft leuk.. :) RT @ndw: Yes, it is! RT @libbymiller This is brilliant http://t.co/zjl0WuTT—@grtjn
Wednesday at 10:42am
How come it's so hard for people to understand that when you use a service without
paying money, the service takes your privacy as payment?—@bphogan
Wednesday at 11:40am
Wednesday at 11:55am
Generation X is sick of your B.S. http://t.co/5OM9UogF—@jdalrymple
Wednesday at 02:18pm
Holy crap: http://t.co/D3rQqbFZ
"(You'll remember Winslow as Officer Sound Effects from Police Academy.)"—@ccgus
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:51pm
The about:legacy-compat hack for HTML totally fails on XML parsers because they don't
recognize the about: protocol. Of course.—@ndw
@ndw I think that about:legacy-compat was never meant for XHTML serialization, only for
HTML. We should add new XSLT serialization ASAP.—@jirkakosek
@jirkakosek @ndw Right. If you're serializing XHTML the intention is you can just serialize without
any DOCTYPE.—@gsnedders
Wednesday at 03:33pm
Wednesday at 09:59pm
Thursday at 11:13am
I learn something new every day. Mostly because I've forgotten so much.—@mattmight
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 12:55pm
I think Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is maybe the best non-rock American
album in the last 20 years.—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:41pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:42pm
Is usage of the word "platform" still considered bad by marketing departments?—@peteaven
Friday at 01:40am
Friday at 02:22am
☑ Saddam Hussein
☑ Osama Bin Laden
☑ Khaddafi
☐ Internet Explorer—@oetsie
In a conversation that started on Friday at 04:46am
Mac OS X is crawling. What have I done?—@richtibbett
@richtibbett Is mds running?—@robinberjon
@robinberjon yeah. mds/spotlight is stuck on a file or something. still trying to resolve it but
my system is somewhat functional at least.—@richtibbett
@richtibbett mds should die.—@robinberjon
@robinberjon mds should die, yes. But it can't.—@koalie
@robinberjon nooooo. Don't! it is my most important productivity tool on the mac. no kidding.—@karlpro
@karlpro You'll have to show me, because all I've ever seen it do right is spin my fans.—@robinberjon
@robinberjon @karlpro @richtibbett I blogged about de-activating mds (and re-activating it eventually...) http://t.co/6lQvwn5N—@koalie
@koalie @karlpro @richtibbett Yeah, I haven't found a way to enable it only where it's used (or better: replace
it).—@robinberjon
@robinberjon @karlpro @richtibbett so, eventually, I pimped my laptop. It has now 4GB RAM, and all is well.—@koalie
@robinberjon huh. what do you mean? system preferences -> spotlight ;)—@karlpro
@karlpro Tu m'as déjà montré ça. C'est peut-être pas mal, mais ça marcherait probablement
mieux avec un meilleur indexer :)—@robinberjon
Friday at 05:53am
In a conversation that started on Friday at 07:11am
After JSONeers reinvent the XML stack, who's going to JSON them?—@kendall
Friday at 07:11am
"Does your dog like children?" Only the slow-moving, tender ones.—@jessicahagy
In a conversation that started on Friday at 07:20am
RT @docbook DocBook meetup in February (colocated with XML Prague)? Interested? http://t.co/A5DRoz51—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 07:29am
Wow. You can't easily get the classic UI anymore? http://t.co/ovhhYlbZ Really?—@ndw
@ndw you have to install it yourself. Reality is gnome2 is no longer the default inn Ubuntu.
Unity is better than it was but not perfect.—@kingargyle
In a conversation that started on Friday at 07:32am
XHTML or TEI to EPUB conversion toolchain (in XProc) by @grtjnhttp://t.co/Ekhp9gjX /via @gimsieke—@abdelazer
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:02am
Friday at 09:06am
RT @docbook I created a Lanyrd page to track interest in the DocBook meetup: http://t.co/lN3kHNtB—@ndw
Friday at 09:27am
@ndw asks if any Docbook people would attend Docbook meetup at XML Prague preconf day
? http://t.co/DHuGG31i—@xmlprague
Friday at 10:17am
Clever. RT @dscape Tangle is a JavaScript library for creating reactive documents. http://t.co/w9xU5TJA—@ndw
Friday at 10:35am
+1 RT: @ndw: Clever. RT @dscape Tangle is a JavaScript library for creating reactive documents. http://t.co/7PivwB4I—@d0cster
Friday at 10:57am
Friday at 10:57am
RT @ndw: Ooh! Add some merging rules and JSON can reinvent not just XML but XML *and* RDF.
Wheeeee!!! /via @iand—@trevormunoz
Friday at 11:02am
RT @ndw: Ooh! Add some merging rules and JSON can reinvent not just XML but XML *and* RDF.
Wheeeee!!! /via @iand—@kiphampton
In a conversation that started on Friday at 12:00pm
A Guide to Publishing Linked Data Without Redirects #topicmaps #linkeddata #redirects #publishing - http://t.co/bqe4Gchi—@patrickDurusau
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:47pm
"Gimme a coping mechanism on the rocks" - http://t.co/2LvxvIFO—@simonstl
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:53pm
There's only one environment: I don't quite understand why GOP wants to destroy EPA
so they can breathe dirty air & drink fouled water.—@kendall
Friday at 02:51pm
"In the most radical reinterpretation of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ferris doesn't
exist and most of the movie takes place in Cameron's head"—@stevej
Friday at 03:19pm
Friends don't let friends pretend that word clouds are useful.—@kendall
Saturday at 04:58am
Xml Techno nouvelle édition http://t.co/uKBUc9XK ▸ Aujourd'hui à la UNE: @alaincouthures @ndw @theassurer—@dominiquepere