The short-form week of 12–18 Mar 2012
19 Mar 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 06:25am
You split your article into multiple pages. I've just stopped reading after the first
page.—@pfhawkins
Monday at 10:24am
You know what I left in St. Thomas? My clip on sunglasses. Damn it. Oh well, pics!
http://t.co/YRHDvNEI (click through to sets for more)—@ndw
Monday at 11:58am
Wireless in the house has fallen over again. And it can’t get up. Sonofab...—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 12:35pm
@readability is it really the case that the Android app isn’t a target for “sharing”? That seems
... odd.—@ndw
@ndw Day one goof-up. Will be fixed in an update.—@readability
In a conversation that started on Monday at 12:47pm
Just this plain old thing -----> ' || ' makes XQuery 3.0 feel so great.—@grechaw
@kstirman You have not yet experienced the magic of string concatenation? My fn:concat has
bit the dust.—@grechaw
Monday at 01:14pm
Monday at 01:16pm
Man, you see some weird things in electronic calendars just around the standard/daylight
savings time transition.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 01:39pm
The new site http://t.co/8pLO6j5I exactly what I've been looking for with my Kindles--offline reading, w/out web cruft.—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers Wonderful! Let us know if you have any questions: http://t.co/nWfLYzjK —thanks.—@readability
@shelleypowers If the Android @readability app is good enough, they’ll probably start getting my monthly subscription again.
Fingers x’d.—@ndw
@ndw I'm trying out it and Read it Later. Readability seems to provide more, including
being able to send to e-ink Kindles as documents.—@shelleypowers
@ndw Thanks!—@readability
@ndw @readability You have to get it through Amazon Android appstore right now, Norm. Let me know what
you think when you try it.—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers @readability Seems fine so far. There’s a (known) day 0 bug where you can’t “share” things to
it so a little crippled.—@ndw
@shelleypowers @readability I also can’t get any bookmarklet to work on Android, so, *grump* waiting for the
update.—@ndw
@ndw Our bookmarklets aren't built for Android, sorry.—@readability
@readability I *swear* I had one working once. But maybe it’s just my imagination.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 01:46pm
No, question is: are you brain dead? “GOP House on Obama's birth certificate: "The
question is, is it legitimate?" http://t.co/9NycqzAB”—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Monday at 01:53pm
That awkward moment when you're txting your bf and cousin at the same time and send
your cousin something meant for your bf—@FrancescaHoule
@FrancescaHoule It could have been your mom instead of your cousin.—@ndw
@ndw that happened once. He's not really my cousin, we're just really close. He's gay—@FrancescaHoule
In a conversation that started on Monday at 02:37pm
Oh. My JSON and XML talk on Friday is 45 minutes. So five slides probably isn’t going
to cut it. Hmmph. Well isn’t that ... special?—@ndw
Monday at 04:09pm
Monday at 09:38pm
"I’d love to sneak up behind Theology in the dark and stab it in the kidneys." --PZ
http://t.co/eSzrLFiy—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:49am
I've perfected procrastination into an art form.—@sgmlguru
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:57am
@ndw told you so-—@davidpflaherty
@davidpflaherty Indeed, you did.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 07:07am
I didn’t realize the significance of the Jupiter/Venus thing at the time, http://t.co/8ryYAtFJ—@ndw
@ndw and if you'd looked behind you you'd have seen Mars too.—@philipfennell
@philipfennell I was content to lie on the beach and gaze out over the harbor. :-)—@ndw
@ndw I can relate to that :-) but I love it when you can trace in the sky the plane of
the solar system. It give you a sense of perspective.—@philipfennell
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:06am
Wondering how hard it would be to implement a completely different backend for openphoto.me.
No prizes for guessing what I want as a backend—@ndw
@ndw Trivial. What did you have in mind? File system adapters are a bit easier than database
adapters.—@jmathai
@jmathai I want to use a MarkLogic database for the photos and the metadata. Pointer to backend
docs?—@ndw
@ndw Objects in and out of DB, https://t.co/nZH7SnrB. MySql example, https://t.co/rGYhsohk.
Google group for questions, http://t.co/HYeN8Qcf—@jmathai
@ndw That might look complicated but I promise it's not. @garethgreenaway just wrote a PGSQL adapter.—@jmathai
Tuesday at 08:13am
Pragmatic Unicode, /via uh, somebody. http://t.co/BlxXHKIh—@ndw
Tuesday at 08:56am
“Techniques for Overcoming Poor CSS Support in Email”. Write your fscking email in
plain fscking text. /via @dyninchttp://t.co/1B4c1yW3—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:58am
First tweet from our new flat in Exmouth.—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay Congratulations!—@ndw
Tuesday at 10:59am
The problem with magic code is that when it stops working, you're left waving the
wand like an idiot.—@jwynia
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 11:06am
@ndw Just noticed that http://t.co/QB2I1pma says that XProc is a Candidate Recommendation. That information seems outdated ;)—@ebruchez
Tuesday at 11:23am
"Intact" is one word, news writers. It is not "in tact". If only there were some
clever way to remember that.—@JaneEspenson
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 11:54am
You know that period at the beginning of a project where *nothing* works and *nothing*
makes sense. That.—@ndw
@ndw Better than that same period at the end of a project where nothing works & nothing
makes sense!—@fred_carter
@ndw Yeah, was in that state for about a month.—@kingargyle
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 11:57am
Take, for example, adding a library to an IntelliJ project and suddenly it’s scanning
every directory of every drive for “Roots”. WTF!?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 12:01pm
United Airlines can't break up our group res., so we're stranded in Reno. Agents on
hold w/their own company while we wait. Grrr.#hateunited—@ediefr
Tuesday at 12:04pm
Really? There’s a bug in IntelliJ where it won’t open the directory my project is
in? How likely is that? Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 12:33pm
[expletive] [expletive] Maven [expletive] [expletive] dependency [expletive] IDE [expletive]
Maven [expletive] Maven.—@ndw
@ndw and to think that Maven was supposed to make it better. Love it when Python people
think Java has package management so much better—@gcarothers
Tuesday at 12:50pm
Maven: Much Agony; Very Expensive Nuisance?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 03:43pm
"I’ll never file a software patent again, and I urge you to do the same." http://t.co/MacswJ4L—@codinghorror
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 04:01pm
Tuesday at 05:12pm
Tuesday at 08:39pm
All the smug web weenies laughing about Encyclopedia Britannica fail to realize Wikipedia
won't endure half as long.—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:58pm
Wednesday at 02:43am
Look, all I'm saying is that 9.9999% is "five nines" too.—@DanaDanger
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:25am
Does renewing my #Flickr pro account imply tacit approval for Yahoo patent lawsuit? #votingwithyourwallet—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:35am
500px seems targeted towards just your best photos not large sets. I’m investigating
openphoto.me. Self-hosting FTW. /cc @mnot, @isofarro—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:39am
@ndw Norm, I hated #Maven initially as well. The problem is the learning curve. You can only love it when you
really know it. If I can help?—@adamretter
@adamretter It’s working now for the project in question. And @inigos sent me a patch to add it to #XMLCalabash, so I guess I’m learning.—@ndw
Wednesday at 06:40am
BEFORE b-e-f-o-r-e not "B4" we speak english not bingo.—@Laughbook
Wednesday at 06:47am
Never make assumptions about someone based on past experiences with someone else.—@funnyortruth
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:13am
Wednesday at 07:47am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 08:09am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:36am
Today is an International Day of Action to Defend Blasphemers and Apostates http://t.co/v2KKplQ2—@al3xbrown
Wednesday at 10:12am
Encyclopedia Britannica to end publication. Wow. Wikipedia says they've been in business
since 1768!—@AlbertBrooks
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 10:17am
Raspberry Pi would seem appropriate. QT @ndw: For π day, this needs a pie, don't you think @daldei? http://t.co/T4lliaRl—@docum3nt
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 10:20am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 11:10am
How do you get around recursive declarations in an EBNF definition of a syntax when
using RegExp to process and build a parse tree?—@philipfennell
@ndw I'd like to but it chocked on the EBNF I feed it so I decided to switch to manual.
It's been a bumpy ride so far but learn't a lot too.—@philipfennell
@philipfennell Gunther was very responsive to my questions even when they were the result of careless
grammar thinking on my part.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:45pm
Important reminder from @luckschanged: Today is Pi(e) Day (3.14). What kind of pie will you celebrate with?—@eliasisrael
@eliasisrael (e) is (2.72) not (3.14)—@ndw
@ndw Oh, man. And I thought my comment was geeky. You win.—@eliasisrael
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:55pm
Now moved over: http://t.co/VNN5gwyd - now with MUCH less pharmaceutical sales offers!! Let me know if you see any still.—@textfiles
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:41pm
First #Maven, now #JAXB. What did I do in a former life, beat kittens to death with baby seals?—@ndw
@ndw JAXB for Maven plugin is actually quite good and easy—@adamretter
@adamretter @ndw it seems like you guys are at opposite ends of the enterprise java continuum ...—@joemfb
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:07pm
@shelleypowers FYI, there are some fishy things in your BB feed as seen by G Reader. Broken link
markup and random script.—@ndw
@ndw Yeah, it's that share thing. I'll have to see if I can put it in without it showing
in the feed.—@shelleypowers
@ndw Could be that Share Anywhere thing. I wish I could keep that out of the feed.—@shelleypowers
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 08:58am
That awkward moment when you realize they've started using fake letters in math...where
the fuck was I??—@FrancescaHoule
@FrancescaHoule Really fake, or just Greek and Hebrew? Mathematicians do really make up symbols sometimes,
so it’s a legit question.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 10:05am
RT @ImTracyMorgan: iPhone > Android > Nokia > Land phone > Typewriter > 2 cans and a string > Message
in a bottle > ...—@crazybob
For @FrancescaHoule #snark RT @crazybob iPhone>Android>Land line>Typewriter>2 Cans w/String>Msg in a bottle>Note on a pigeon>Blackberry—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 12:47pm
One snarky tweet to my neice and I’m spammed like mad. Serves me right, I guess. No,
I don’t want a free chance for a free *anything*.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:42pm
That’s insane! RT @kendall Out of 33,300 employees, Goldman Sachs has 12,000 vice presidents: http://t.co/aUz3eQco—@ndw
Thursday at 02:53pm
The old gods, the Seven, the Drowned god, R'hllor, the god of Many Faces; all perfectly
undisprovable, none actually real. See the parallel?—@hekanibru
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:11pm
Thursday at 08:40pm
Friday at 03:17am
Surprise! Religionist con-men think their indoctrination sessions deserve your continuous
subsidy. Sunday meter... http://t.co/KeQHV2os—@jwz
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:25am
Why do US bloggers keep writing about content coming "after the jump"/"below the fold"/"after
the break" when there's no hint of any divide?—@larsga
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:53am
Imagine: paying to plug something not an outlet when you're in a hotel or airport.
http://t.co/4mqZHGmW—@mikeloukides
@mikeloukides I bet they get installed in airplanes first.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 07:02am
Airline deregulation marginalizing many mid-sized cities as airlines pull out: http://t.co/nGWQLyDo—@mikeloukides
@mikeloukides Hush now. Deregulation is uniformly and incontrovertibly an good thing. Reagan taught
us that.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 07:20am
Dear web, please stop making login pages appear in popup browser windows. It’s very
annoying & makes password management even more tedious.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:01am
I would be lost without http://t.co/an1Y0HFF—@dehora
Friday at 08:13am
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:12am
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:56am
RT @dangillmor: I've always assumed Skype had a back door. Now it's closer to being official policy:
http://t.co/CzEqE9la—@libbymiller
rm -rf /Application/Skype.app RT @libbymiller I've always assumed Skype had a back door... http://t.co/5GGFj14N—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 10:26am
I'm giving up geeking programming puns for lint—@psd
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:07am
Ready for your new iPad: Readability in stunning high-res. http://t.co/liWQoOV1 Ready for download at the App Store: http://t.co/S4VKPhNY—@readability
@ndw Did you install the update today?—@readability
@readability Haven’t seen one yet. I’ll keep my eyes open.—@ndw
@ndw The Amazon appstore automatically updated the app on our testing devices around 11:35am
today.—@readability
@readability After update, Readability still isn't a sharing choice.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:15am
Friday at 11:40am
It seems like we're always looking for more precise definitions of more abstract,
uh, thingies.—@grechaw
Friday at 12:10pm
Ever wondered what rope jumping looks like from point of view of the rope? http://t.co/1ePAbj34—@trieloff
In a conversation that started on Friday at 12:25pm
RT @olebegemann: True for me: "survey … found foreign travelers were more afraid of US immigration
officials than of terrorism or crime" ...—@trieloff
In a conversation that started on Friday at 12:58pm
Here I am, editing my slides 15 minutes before my presentation. Again. I know this
is stupid, I really do. Honest.—@ndw
Friday at 01:17pm
Pre-presentation routine: disable Growl, exit Adium, exit Hibari, ...—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:49pm
OH “RDFa = Rich Data Format” Uhm...—@ndw
@ndw Oh dear, another brain-damaged appropriation of an RDF acronym? As if Really Simple
Syndication wasn't enough?—@doriantaylor
Friday at 01:50pm
In a conversation that started on Friday at 02:48pm
Hmm. A 45 minute presentation in about 20. I guess @timbray was right, you can say everything about JSON in 20 minutes. #talkedtoofastimsure—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:29pm
Dear Twitter trolls: Take your effing free iPad offer or whatever, stuff it up your
ass, and suffer. Pretty please. With bacon on top.—@duncan
Friday at 03:44pm
Friday at 07:13pm
as a web developer it kills me to say that at least I'd still have these apps to use
if they were desktop apps. :(—@bphogan
Saturday at 09:26am
"I have had it with these motherf***ing snakes in this motherf***ing Ireland!" --
St. Patrick L. Jackson—@BillCorbett
Saturday at 02:40pm
"What would I do if I had only six months left to live? I'd type faster." ~ Isaac
Asimov #quotes—@JewishComedians
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 04:31pm
On my way to Shenzhen!—@robinberjon
@robinberjon And I’m green with envy. Appropriate today, I guess.—@ndw
@ndw Join DAP, we go to all the cool places ;-)—@robinberjon
@robinberjon Oh, and a belated happy birthday, too!—@ndw
@ndw Thanks! Finally nearing a respectable age...—@robinberjon
@robinberjon None of that. You’ll never get another GQ interview if you go all respectable. You
gotta keep it real, man.—@ndw
@ndw So long as mojitos exist, the odds that @robinberjon will become too respectable will remain near zero. :-)—@kiphampton
@kiphampton @robinberjon I make a mean mojito, Robin. You should lobby for another TAG meeting in W. Mass.—@ndw
Sunday at 07:54am
Process begets bureaucrats, bureaucrats beget politics. Politics begets politicians.
And politicans kill inovation.—@trieloff
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 07:54am
Did the Olympics always need massive military mobilisation and an erosion of civil
liberties or just this one?—@lisaansell
@lisaansell the powers that be have always wanted it, the Olympics are just a plausible excuse.—@ndw
Sunday at 08:51am
I'm all for the scientific study of religion. After all, the more we understand mental
disorders, the better we can treat them.—@aral