The short-form week of 2–8 Jan 2012
09 Jan 2012
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
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 09:35am
RT @xmlcalabash XML Calabash 0.9.42 released.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 05:27am
Ominous "Please wait" on departures board...—@JeniT
Tuesday at 10:24am
RT @xmlcalabash XML Calabash 0.9.43 released with Saxon 9.3 and Saxon 9.4 flavors—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 01:06pm
Twitter spam seems so pointless. A link plus a random collection of usernames from
a random username. You think I’m going to follow that?—@ndw
@ndw sorry, is this spam?—@ChrisWoolfrey
@ChrisWoolfrey No. Your name is insufficiently random. Please try again. Never.—@ndw
@ndw www.sdhdhekfhskh/ff9t.com (?)—@ChrisWoolfrey
@ChrisWoolfrey The usernames are random, not the links. At least, that link doesn’t resolve for
me. Tweet must not be spam: I clicked.—@ndw
@ndw ha. Never has such faith in my integrity / name been so strong from a stranger. I
shall do this more often!—@ChrisWoolfrey
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 01:48pm
The weeks start on Monday on my new wall calendar. I’m not sure that’s going to work
for me.—@ndw
@vambenepe I didn’t say it wasn’t obvious and logical, but I’ve got a few decades of contradictory
visual memory to wrestle with.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:20pm
Does an HTTP PUT with a content-type of application/x-www-form-urlencoded make sense?
What does it mean?—@ndw
@ndw What does it mean when a GET returns a body with that media type?—@robinberjon
@ndw sure! A map of key/value pairs? What's not to like? ;-)—@conal_tuohy
@ndw I think verbs & content-type are orthogonal. It's just a put request with some data
encoded as such.—@mwhooker
@mdubinko I get that. But in our context :-), if the fields were provided for PUT requests,
the body would be incorrect consumed. I think.—@ndw
@ndw It means replace the described resource. Does it matter if the res is represented
by a body blob or a set of name/value pairs?—@ronhitchens
@ndw My bug about PUT param decoding got rejected so it's up to you and ml-rest-lib to
help. :)—@hunterhacker
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:59pm
I think I’m going to have to decide soon if “promoted ads” in my twitter stream will
make me delete my accounts and never come back.—@ndw
Tuesday at 09:27pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:57am
RT @ndw: Does an HTTP PUT with a content-type of application/x-www-form-urlencoded make sense?
What does it mean?—@jreschke
Wednesday at 03:01am
Wednesday at 03:07am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:17am
Google, Facebook, Amazon May Go Black in SOPA Protest, htpp://j.mp/x8GMPh. (via @stroughtonsmith)—@aallan
Wednesday at 09:30am
Dear Arctic, thanks for loan of your weather. We’re done with it now, please take
it back.—@ndw
Wednesday at 09:43am
Yes indeedy! RT @edd Running, not walking, to install writegood-mode http://t.co/HNfZdRDj #emacs #writing—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 11:35am
Anything more disagreeable that starting in on a "simple little fix" to discover pervasive
issue in deep API?—@mathling
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 11:57am
To say nothing of the disagreeable discovery of several dozen code paths, all alike,
except not quite.—@mathling
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:11pm
As the new CEO, Scott Thompsen vows to make Yahoo as popular and beloved as PayPal.—@mdubinko
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:36pm
I just signed up for 80char! #80char is going to be the coolest place to share your code! Sign up for yourself at: http://t.co/8L7UOUVt—@vbsteven
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:43pm
Wednesday at 04:08pm
Wednesday at 04:11pm
Holy crap! How much worse can this get? RT @kendall It's now illegal in NYC to *speak publicly*. No, seriously. http://t.co/8GF0NHGN—@ndw
Wednesday at 05:03pm
I think it might be time to root my phone. Just because.—@ndw
Wednesday at 05:09pm
#httpRange14 RT @ndw: @jreschke @JeniT Oh goodness, that might be a reason to disband, but it’s hardly a reason to be.—@roessler
Wednesday at 05:30pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:45pm
Santorum says that sex has been “deconstructed to the point where it’s simply pleasure"—that's
NOT what she said.—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:49pm
Anyone have comments on “The Rhetorical Nature of XML: Constructing Knowledge in Networked
Environments” by J D Applen and Rudy McDaniel?—@ndw
Wednesday at 07:38pm
Been having one of those "write once, debug everywhere" Java experiences the last
couple of days. About as much fun as it sounds.—@malcolmt
Wednesday at 07:41pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:47pm
I hope I don’t agree with this just because I’m a curmudgeon. https://t.co/iQmiTDwI
/via @talios—@ndw
Wednesday at 07:51pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:55pm
My choice: early night at hotel, or returning to Hungry Mother to meet @amyvdh & other W3Cers—@JeniT
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 08:04pm
Damnit, @80_char why does your app want the ability tweet on my behalf? Bad enough you want to read
my tweets. You want to speak for me? No.—@ndw
@ndw That's actually left over from one of our old feature ideas. We will remove those
access requirements ASAP! http://t.co/7NzPbhUU—@80_char
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 05:42am
Thursday at 09:05am
Oh, drat. I wish I'd thought to note the positions of all my icons before I rooted
my phone.—@ndw
Thursday at 09:25am
Thursday at 11:18am
It's important to remember that the Tea Party is a GOP faction that was and is unhappy
with George Bush's liberalism. No, really.—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 11:30am
Thursday at 11:36am
Thursday at 12:42pm
Things I will not be installing on my phone now that I have a choice: Facebook, Netflix,
mobile provider status crap, excuse me, app...—@ndw
Thursday at 12:43pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:06pm
me: good company, rock solid engineering team (who are some pimps w/ awesome personalities
and senses of humor); him: word, sounds enticing—@peteaven
Thursday at 01:15pm
CyanogenMod let's me turn off haptic feedback. What. a. relief.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:53pm
Talking about HTML & XML at the @w3c TAG meeting this afternoon. @ndw is in the hot seat. http://t.co/Wppr5yWB—@torgo
Thursday at 07:27pm
@ndw - any input into this discussion of docbook sect1/2/3/4/5 vs section issue? http://t.co/SYLmHNHd Is the former more legacy?—@bdarcus
Thursday at 08:34pm
Thursday at 09:53pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 10:08pm
Delightful and productive, I thought, meeting with the TAG. Long drive made more pleasant
with Dirk Gently's H.D.A. audio book.—@ndw
@ndw Thanks for all the help, and the good times at dinner. Great to see you again!—@noahmendelsohn
Friday at 02:41pm
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 11:56am
Saturday at 11:57am
RT @80_char: #hey80char, Compare the contents of two zip files, by @ndw. http://t.co/h2WkiAFk…—@Joe_Wegner
Saturday at 03:15pm
Fixing the import bug in #XMLCalabash is so clearly not worth the trouble (it turns out to be a lot of trouble). #perfectionist—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 03:31pm
"I find myself longing for a church with a cool factor of about 0." - http://t.co/dHiQj9GN—@simonstl
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 10:30pm
What's the preferred android twitter client these days? Tweetdeck has been flaky
lately..—@talios
Sunday at 02:58pm
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 02:58pm
Sunday at 05:24pm
Didn't finish fixing #XMLCalabash imports; didn't write blog posts; didn't finish patching ceiling. Can I have more
weekend, please?—@ndw