The short-form week of 16–22 Apr 2012
23 Apr 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.
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 03:39pm
A @PaulasTXSpirits PTO margarita is its own reward, but this one is for my first ride of the season
(17.6 mi).—@ndw
@ndw dude! I want to ride with you. My buddy and I used to reward ourselves with burritos
after a ride. seems we were #doingitwrong :)—@peteaven
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 03:53pm
Oh drat, I seem to have made *two* margaritas. What to do? What to do?—@ndw
Monday at 02:20am
awfulness.js - the best Ui js script ever! RT @ndw: Pitch perfect. http://t.co/IwIJJAJP—@donohoe_paul
In a conversation that started on Monday at 07:40am
In Silicon Valley, designers emerge as rock stars | Reuters http://t.co/C09kXFFf—@TobiasL_
In a conversation that started on Monday at 08:22am
maven: time saved = n, time wasted = 2n.—@andrewwelch
@andrewwelch Well, Kn for some constant K. Whether K <=2 remains to be seen.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 08:52am
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:30am
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:41am
Ok, I might not DO anything in calc, but at least I don't fall asleep #annoyed—@FrancescaHoule
@FrancescaHoule There must be an “integrated” joke there somewhere, but I can’t find it.—@ndw
Monday at 11:33am
.@RepRichardNeal Does the NSA really need to know what I do online? #CongressTMI Stop #CISPA https://t.co/lyK7jP4j—@ndw
Monday at 11:33am
.@RepJohnOlver Does the NSA really need to know what I do online? #CongressTMI Stop #CISPA https://t.co/lyK7jP4j—@ndw
Monday at 11:39am
.@RepJohnYarmuth Does the NSA really need to know what I do online? #CongressTMI Stop #CISPA https://t.co/c7P1TcuX (via @ndw)—@whovingh
Monday at 12:05pm
In a conversation that started on Monday at 12:39pm
Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality http://t.co/ldFwwTk8—@slashdot
Monday at 12:48pm
In a conversation that started on Monday at 12:56pm
@ndw Oh FFS! That only applies to mail send to someone inside the building. "Cannot relay"
if I email my son.—@mathling
@mathling Ah. I did it at the MTA level, so I don’t attempt to use the corporate SMTP gateway
for external mail. I use http://t.co/HOOEWtmP—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 02:07pm
I know nothing about tweeting: I was certain this one would take off: https://t.co/7N8aHpmV—@kendall
Monday at 02:17pm
Some code is just freaking hard to write.—@ndw
Monday at 02:19pm
Got big data? You know you want^H^H^H^need to. RT @marklogicpubsec Reg. still open for MarkLogic World May 1-3 in DC http://t.co/nmPmvicp—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 02:33pm
My baboon spells better than yr honor student.—@kendall
Monday at 02:42pm
Some days, you write code. Some days, code writes you. #bruised #battered #unbowed #alsonotwithaworkingimplementation—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 02:58pm
For backstory on ;-gate (no, not smileygate, semicolon-gate) see http://t.co/wHN72Kys—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers /me rolls eyes.—@ndw
@ndw I don't know why, but left me giggling like a mad woman.—@shelleypowers
In a conversation that started on Monday at 03:06pm
Love all of the great photos created in @camerabag! Check out the 12 featured in the new @mashable gallery: http://t.co/9YDikIEu—@camerabag
In a conversation that started on Monday at 03:55pm
It was commonly held to be the most copied book in computer science. http://t.co/R7nN0Ml3—@codinghorror
@codinghorror I’m pretty sure I have a faded photocopy of it somewhere amongst my papers.—@ndw
Monday at 04:21pm
I don’t want to complain, but those don’t look like any timezones I’ve ever heard
of: http://t.co/2sPahvi5—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 05:00pm
Just had an idea: Could apps ask if you want to update them when you CLOSE them, rather
than you open them? (Adobe & Vidyo, this means you)—@mikeloukides
@mikeloukides as long as they don't do that windows thing where they insist and suddenly turning
off your box takes arbitrary time.—@ndw
@ndw Right. That Windows things sucks, particularly when you're shutting down because
the power's out and you're on a UPS.—@mikeloukides
In a conversation that started on Monday at 07:55pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:24am
Chandler quote of the day: “I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care
who knew it.”—@amyvdh
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:55am
I don't trust cartoon mode of thought that now dominates; basic unit of thought is
sentences arranged into paragraphs forming an argument.—@kendall
Tuesday at 09:28am
Almost 33 miles. http://t.co/xL7dYiCE I think I won’t sit on my bike seat again for a couple of days. #ow #ow #ow—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:06am
Firefox choked on webex for me, but IE seems to work fine #MarkLogic Big Data Search webinar http://t.co/rnSYkJIJ—@peteaven
Tuesday at 10:23am
@ronhitchens Good luck!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:25am
I can’t even begin to guess how specific images on http://t.co/PLLRkHSS become popular. I guess I should track referrers or something.—@ndw
@ndw I am quite liking the name: phoToman sounds really good to me.—@vojtechtoman
@vojtechtoman Hah! Nice.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 11:56am
I'll wait for beta 2—@DALDEI
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 12:39pm
Tuesday at 12:44pm
Finger memory slowly coming to terms with my new ~20 character master password.—@ndw
Tuesday at 01:12pm
Tuesday at 01:40pm
I wasn't aware about http://t.co/0TMsUThjj. Seems as useful tool not only for debugging, but also for simulating slow networks
Thx to @abtris—@jirkakosek
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 01:57pm
On Tax Day, I say: tax the churches. #anticlericalmotherfucker—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 01:59pm
How fitting on Tax Day, when we all feed the endless war machines, that we also give
up spacefaring as a civilization. #faints—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:19pm
Twitter's Inventor's Patent Agreement (IPA): a big step forward. http://t.co/2mSY30hx—@mikeloukides
@mikeloukides I fear terms and conditions will apply if ever they decide to go another way.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 04:03pm
WS-Calendar: just what the world needs. Thanks, OASIS! http://t.co/1mrbbirX—@mnot
Tuesday at 07:46pm
Hello martini, fancy finding you in my glass. Shall we watch The Prisoner together?
Yes, let's. "Checkmate"—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:43am
RT @thinkprogress: In 23 seasons, there have been ZERO non-white Bachelors or Bachelorettes http://t.co/8qMNf1tl #icymi—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:56am
I accidentally ate the wrong half of my bagel first!—@JeniT
@JeniT If it hadn't been accidental, it could have been tentative or adventurous exploration
of new experiences.—@Bari10
@ndw How can you *not* have a correct half to eat first? You can't just make an arbitrary
decision each time, surely!—@JeniT
@JeniT @ndw There's not right or wrong side of a bagel to eat first; there's only one side with
more stuff on it. #bagelinclusionist—@kiphampton
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 08:10am
Some of y’all wanted the bits that run http://t.co/PLLRkHSSS, so have at it: http://t.co/IIHWFS6q—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:11pm
“Oh, thank god, the plumber made it fit.” is the sort of sentence you don’t want to
be heard uttering on the internets.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:21pm
Genesis of the “plumber” comment: http://t.co/yT5vENTE—@ndw
Wednesday at 12:28pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:56pm
Wednesday at 02:18pm
A definitive guide for parsing numbers with regular expressions. http://t.co/ZIjUv4b3—@lizardbill
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:27pm
I got porn spam sent to a long list of To: addresses. Now I’m getting all the “stop
sending me this stuff” CC’s. #facepalm—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:07pm
I am pretty sure this is the first and last time the team will use Google Hangout—@liza
@ndw @liza We use it for meetings too. Video + Shared Google Doc for Minutes. Works fine for
us?—@gcarothers
Wednesday at 09:18pm
The plural of "isolated incident" is "systematic problem".—@sigfpe
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:58pm
Commander Keen ported to mobile would be cool, right? It's not just me?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 05:37am
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 06:00am
Hello oxford. My you look damp. #fb—@louBurnard
@louBurnard welcome home!—@ndw
Thursday at 07:47am
The #Hallo rich text editor now has a proper domain: http://t.co/Y0xA50rn See also http://t.co/9VlENbJy & http://t.co/heIwq7z1 #IKS—@bergie
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 07:50am
Emails were scrapped from WhatWG and have been used with an Adult Classified web site.
Getting hammered with email.—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers Ain’t we all.—@ndw
Thursday at 08:00am
RT @FrancescaHoule B-E-F-O-R-E not B4. We're speaking english, not playing bingo. /via @ComedyPosts—@ndw
Thursday at 08:04am
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:05am
So what happened? Have the words "me" and "you" been deleted from the English language
to be replaced by "myself" and "yourself"?—@al3xbrown
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 10:28am
The reward for being on time to telcons is ... waiting for everyone else to join.
*grumble*—@ndw
@ndw But there is still two minutes to go, right?—@ronhitchens
@ronhitchens I guess. Or at least there were four minutes ago :-)—@ndw
Thursday at 11:00am
Watching @georgebina demo remote debugging of #MarkLogic queries in #oXygen is damned impressive.—@ndw
Thursday at 02:58pm
There are still bits of RDF scattered through my address book and appointments. I
should hook up Stardog to my ingestion process.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:36pm
Yo, @ndw & @simonstl I vaguely recall several proposals for a syntactically simplified form of XML. But
I can't find anything. Thoughts?—@kendall
@ndw Worry not. That was meant with the deepest and bitterest irony. :-)—@kiphampton
@kiphampton Heh. Glad to hear it :-)—@ndw
@kiphampton That's one I don't need a pointer for. :>—@kendall
@kendall @ndwhttp://t.co/8Uf6qszO , http://t.co/DT2unT2q , http://t.co/sRjvPUEx , probably more. http://t.co/y0yilKHI also from similar.—@simonstl
Thursday at 03:37pm
Bit of code doesn’t work. Copy file. Undo changes until it works. Redo changes. Code
works. Compare to copy: no difference. #thingsihate—@ndw
Thursday at 06:29pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 06:56pm
In a conversation that started on Friday at 04:28am
Urgh, people who put two spaces after full stops. There's no reason. Stop. It's HTML
for fucks sake, it doesn't even goddamn show. Idiots.—@tommorris
In a conversation that started on Friday at 05:53am
As someone with little or no graphical talent, Fico has become indispensable. 19€
well spent. http://t.co/RjIr1UYV—@ndw
Friday at 07:11am
Hmph. “If the nth term of the Fibonacci series is prime, then n is also prime (where
n > 4).” /via http://t.co/xVj3UoYg—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:30am
My English is joy to read in meeting minutes taken by a native speaker.—@vojtechtoman
@vojtechtoman Uuuhhhmmmm. What? ;-P—@ndw
@ndw Really. You make me look almost intelligible.—@vojtechtoman
Friday at 08:54am
In a conversation that started on Friday at 10:10am
Do you prefer to use XML languages with an XML syntax (e.g., XSLT, RNG) or a non-XML
syntax (e.g., XQuery, RNC)? Why? #seriousquestion—@ndw
@ndw I prefer to query or transform a language with an XML syntax, i like the fact that
RNC/RNG gives me this choice #seriousquestion—@jonathan_robie
@ndw Non-XML. XML was built optimized for machines to understand, not people.—@hunterhacker
@ndw the fact that XML is its own metalanguage is one of the most important features ...
or should be—@jorabin
@ndw mixture of xslt xpath and xquery. Primarily xsd and dtd.—@kingargyle
@ndw depends entirely on the language and usage. Sometimes XML attributes are very useful,
sometimes unnecessary.—@fridgebuzz
@ndw Aesthetically, I prefer non-XML syntax (RNC > RNG). But not a strong pref. & XML
wins if I ever have to manipulate it programmatically—@hcayless
@ndw XML syntax as I'm really used with and I can use custom entities as shorthands; also
I can transform it with XSLT for fun—@gridinoc
@ndw I use XQuery as it's what I learned at MarkLogic and so far has always worked for
me. #notinteresting But interested in replies u get—@peteaven
@ndw xml is "noisy" and verbose, so I prefer to read / write RNC or XQuery - better signal-to-noise,
easier to eyeball #seriousquestion—@jonathan_robie
@ndw What I like most about a language like XSLT is that my output is guaranteed to be
well-formed because the templates have to be.—@doriantaylor
@ndw Overall verbosity relative to the task and the need to generate (rather than just
consume) the tool grammar are also big factors.—@kiphampton
@ndw #TEI XML with TEI ODD meta-schema generating RNG cuz more readable than RNC. XSLT for
some transformation, XQuery for db-like queries.—@jamescummings
@ndw It's also helpful to know when looking at, say, RNC, which is easy to type, that
it's isomorphic to RNG (same goes for Turtle/RDFXML).—@doriantaylor
@ndw Depends entirely on the task and how often the XML tool grammar makes me bend over
backwards (CDATA escapes, lt; vs <, etc)—@kiphampton
@ndw I prefer to avoid XML syntax whenever possible. It's verbose and same semantics can
be accomplished with about 90% fewer characters—@maksim2042
@ndw It varies with the problem. Non-XML is less typing, but more learning, so it's a
trade-off. Wd never type RNG, but happy w XSLT.—@larsga
@ndw RNC, certainly, but I like that I can transform it as RNG. I hate XQuery syntax,
so I can't comment on that—@abdelazer
@ndw on the other hand, when I implemented an Relax parser, RNG was much simpler to break
apart.—@mdubinko
@ndw prefer non-XML - syntax overhead of XML is problem for me. history from Laszlo,
mixing XML & ecmascript showed add'l issues w/XML—@eedeebee
@ndw I prefer those with an XML syntax. Editing them feels safe and well-known.—@MarieBilde
@ndw I'm very comfortable coding XSLT (esp in emacs). But for topic maps, much prefer
CTM to XTM. Some JSON for progressive rendering—@EileenOttawa
@ndw non-XML syntax, just because is cleaner on my eye—@migueldeicaza
@ndw XML syntax, b/c it allows my brain to think exclusively in angle-brackets, not have
to switch back and forth.—@whovingh
@ndw non-XML syntax: I can wrap my head around the code. I cannot format code within
a data structure to my liking. #seriousquestion—@lcahlander
@ndw I like both. I see XSLT as a hybrid - the XSLT instructions give useful structure
to attach the non-XML XPath to.—@pgfearo
@ndw depends; never felt comfortable w/ XSLT or XQueryX, so when it comes to programming:
non-XML, when it comes to modeling XML.—@micheee
@ndw compact. But it must have a good support from text editors. XSLT is useful because
you're sure the output is XML—@olivierjeulin
@ndw Depends. Non-XML syntax is more concise and easier to write (and read). However,
I'm still a fan of XSD and RNG. Belongs to the family—@mstuehrenberg
@ndw but XSLTC would definitely be a +. IF it guaranties that the output is valid XML.
Less typing, easier reading. Keep XML for programs—@olivierjeulin
@ndw It depends on how verbose the XML, on how incomprehensible the alternative.—@robinberjon
Friday at 10:11am
P.S. “I prefer not to use XML languages” is a much less interesting answer to me just
at the moment.—@ndw
Friday at 10:53am
Huh. Apparently I never blogged about supporting the text() (#RFC5147) fragment identifier scheme in #XInclude in #XMLCalabash. #mybad—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:01am
Now that's what you need to make electric vehicles viable: A battery with an energy
density of gasoline. http://t.co/UbkZJDFN—@eliasisrael
@eliasisrael Or, you know, to *drive less*—@ndw
@ndw You know that "drive less" sounds a lot like "live less" to me, right? That's not
going to change.—@eliasisrael
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:39am
All programmers stand up now and walk around for 5 minutes: our profession is killing
us.—@kendall
Friday at 11:58am
In a conversation that started on Friday at 12:07pm
I like JavaScript and I endorse this message: https://t.co/eBcY9J6E—@psd
In a conversation that started on Friday at 02:42pm
Why isn't Anywhere GPS compatible with the Verizon Galaxy Nexus? It works with the
TMobile Galaxy Nexus.—@elharo
In a conversation that started on Friday at 02:56pm
There should be more #XMLCalabash tweets for #XProc. Calabash rocks! ...and it has an API for embedding too!—@alexmilowski
Heh. RT @alexmilowski There should be more #XMLCalabash tweets for #XProc. Calabash rocks! ...and it has an API for embedding too!—@ndw
Friday at 03:09pm
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:11pm
Friday at 03:12pm
Friday at 03:56pm
Saturday at 03:05am
Saturday at 03:06am
perhaps a stray neutrino changed you ! RT @ndw:.... Compare to copy: no difference. #thingsihate—@xquery
Saturday at 12:56pm
Saturday at 04:32pm
On the intersection of text/plain documents, RFC 5147, XInclude and #XMLCalabash: http://t.co/fjyQQ2qn—@ndw
Sunday at 03:25am
Sunday at 04:46am
like it, a useful tool RT @danja: @ndw on identifying fragments of plain text - useful! http://t.co/TkamhU9c #rfc5147—@xquery
Sunday at 05:04am
Copper Horse Mobile Security Daily is out! http://t.co/s3xZMwdE ▸ Top stories today via @ndw @revector @vgholkar—@drogersuk
Sunday at 09:01am
hoping that @ndw's post on text/plain document fragments with RFC 5147 and #XIncludehttp://t.co/5TKFvJQo will get the latter fixed asap.—@dret