The short-form week of 14–20 May 2012
21 May 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 06:17am
About once a year I forget the "never take the first flight on Monday rule." Today
is that Monday. Blech.—@ndw
Monday at 12:19pm
"May I see your id, please?" You must be joking.—@ndw
Monday at 05:23pm
What do you call a gathering/group of devops? A panic.—@talios
Monday at 08:12pm
Yes, http://t.co/O6rpCtEww, wiki.{docbook,xproc}.org, and a few other sites are down. Again. Will check when
I can.—@ndw
Tuesday at 05:16am
Ring, ring. "Good morning, this is your wakeup call." No, it %$#@! isn't!—@ndw
Tuesday at 05:19pm
Tuesday at 07:22pm
Tuesday at 07:26pm
Fixed now, I believe.—@ndw
Wednesday at 01:40am
Yay! RT @ndw: #marklogic RT @edd @ndw should send you guys <3 for markmail again. it's so valuable—@hunterhacker
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 08:24am
<sarcasm>I love the endless complexity that is Maven.</sarcasm>—@ndw
@ndw Anything I can help with?—@adamretter
@adamretter No. I’ll get there. Eventually.—@ndw
Wednesday at 08:29am
Wednesday at 10:48am
Thursday at 01:10am
RT @hunterhacker: Yay! RT @ndw: #marklogic RT @edd @ndw should send you guys <3 for markmail again. it's so valuable—@johndmitchell
Thursday at 03:05am
trying not to be irked by a lack of capitalisation, but keeping these things singular
is hard fought for: The Web, The Internet, The World.—@psd
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 07:13am
Damnit - booked a meeting on my calendar whilst I was amaterdam. Which explains why
I'm an hour early. Fiddle sticks.—@rem
Thursday at 10:21am
Thursday at 10:33am
RT @ndw: RunCore introduces self-destructable SSDs, reports /.; first comment: “Western Digital
has had self-destructing drives for year ...—@FeargalHogan
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 10:35am
Mercurial is the Windows of DVCS. So long as you rm -Rf your local repo and hg clone
another often enough, it works well.—@robinberjon
@robinberjon just keep remembering CVS and everything will feel ok.—@marcosc
@marcosc No CVS is dog slow and incomprehensible, but still more reliable than hg.—@robinberjon
Thursday at 10:53am
Thursday at 10:59am
If [at]XmlElement(...) is the annotation for a child element of the “context”; what’s
the annotation for the non-mixed, text content?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 11:03am
Please, please, please, for the love of all words, do not spell “extensibility” with
a capital X. Please. I’m begging you.—@ndw
Thursday at 11:59am
RT @ndw: RunCore introduces self-destructable SSDs, reports /.; first comment: “Western Digital
has had self-destructing drives for year ...—@lcahlander
Thursday at 12:04pm
Thursday at 01:34pm
Thursday at 01:48pm
FileThis|Fetch seems like a real convenience. And giving them the logins to all my
financial accounts seems like a real risk. Discuss.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 02:02pm
Hey @tmobile! Your online system for generating statements is totally broken. Can you fix it pls,
kthxbai!—@ndw
@ndw Try clearing your cache,cookies, and history. Restart your browser. If that does
not work, try a different browser ^KN—@TMobileHelp
.@TMobileHelp I’ve tried Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and IE on two platforms. It’s not broken on *my*
end, folks,—@ndw
@ndw We've just tested it and it works on our end. We will be opening a ticket for this
however. ^MS—@TMobileHelp
@TMobileHelp If you need more details, let me know.—@ndw
@ndw We appreciate your assistance and may reach out to you. ^MS—@TMobileHelp
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 02:11pm
Try clearing my history? WTF?—@ndw
Thursday at 03:24pm
Thursday at 04:00pm
Just Say “NO” http://t.co/Tl7rEgtY < Excellent!—@geoffarnold
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:36pm
I don't understand (new) daily updated sites that don't have a syndication option.
Atom. You've heard of it, yes?—@kasei
Thursday at 05:22pm
I renewed my Flickr account today, mostly because I haven’t updated all my links.
If it lives another year, I doubt I’ll do it again.—@ndw
Friday at 01:18am
Arguing with my ten-year-old about what a valid Internet hostname is. I think I hold
most of the cards in this conversation.—@mnot
Friday at 03:22am
I see Prince Charles' charity promoting homeopathy has been dissolved. http://t.co/fwLFr8om Presumably that will only make it more powerful.—@thirdsectordave
In a conversation that started on Friday at 07:06am
Did you ever notice programmers object to technologies that empower non-programmers
in the enterprise?—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Friday at 07:15am
To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. ~Elbert Hubbard—@RichardHose
To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. ~Elbert Hubbard (via @RichardHose)—@ifindkarma
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:26am
Another day, another data science IPO. The "smartest minds of our generation" are
about to become the richest ones too—@edd
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:01am
If yr organization has one set of people who "design" software and a disjoint set
that implements software, you are doing it SO wrong.—@kendall
Friday at 10:50am
90% of my department wore blue shirts today. This is what happens when the matrix
doesn't use good random number source.—@climagic
Friday at 12:01pm
Best friend's dad- "Reading a book about anti-gravity. Just can't put it down". :D—@KariByron
Friday at 12:30pm
Attention: effective immediately, I am recalling all electrons in the universe manufactured
at the Big Bang due to safety concerns.—@TheTweetOfGod
Friday at 01:49pm
Liberal christians seem awfully smug for people who share 99% of the same beliefs
as fundamentalists.—@CcSteff
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:59pm
No joy @TMobileHelp, printable statements still busted. Any progress on that open ticket?—@ndw
@ndw email us at TForce[@]T-Mobile[DOT]com with your Twitter name, mobile#, issue, &
contact time M-F 6A-5P MST. ^KM ^KM—@TMobileHelp
@TMobileHelp Done.—@ndw
@ndw Thanks so much we will look into it and get back to you as soon as we can. ^KM—@TMobileHelp
@ndw We don't see any issues at this time, please email us your information and the exact
steps you are taking and we will look for you ^KM—@TMobileHelp
Friday at 02:57pm
juxtaposition of headlines today about Greece & Facebook are absurd. Really absurd.
ABSURD.—@ajkeen
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:28pm
At what point can we saw off Arizona and let it sink to the center of the Earth? http://t.co/h5PuD6yW—@BadAstronomer
@BadAstronomer Any day now is fine by me. I regret being born there.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:49pm
Friday at 06:51pm
Just reading a 'zoo' book with my son and I realized that Rhinos are really just old,
fat unicorns. Don't argue. U know i'm right.—@bostonmike
Saturday at 02:07am
So much to my surprise, Battleship was actually really ... Bad. Also I wasn't surprised.
I lied about that bit.—@tomcoates
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 02:44am
A picture you really want to look at, entitled “Kayaker, Outlet Falls”: http://t.co/YF1E2ARG—@timbray
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 04:26am
*Sigh* My (now aborted) futzing with Maven in XML Calabash has fscked the IntelliJ
config beyond my ability to repair it. #startingover—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 01:05pm
For managing finances, is http://t.co/bDOzr4kd still considered the bees knees?—@ndw
@ndw I'd love to hear what you hear back there — looking for that too.—@robinberjon
Saturday at 01:05pm
Saturday at 01:27pm
Complete chaos at the astronomy shop this morning, employees overwhelmed by demand
for eclipse glasses. YOU HAD THIRTY CENTURIES LEAD TIME—@baconmeteor
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 07:05pm
An emacs mode and XML support? The winner, folks, is Ledger, http://t.co/hyTbEECe—@ndw
Saturday at 08:33pm
It FEELS like the ENTIRE UNIVERSE is out to GET ME. No, WAIT. Other way AROUND.—@DalekThay
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 03:43am
First spam for ages selling fake Rolex watches "to impress my friends". Are there
people who have such friends? It makes me sad.—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay Wearing a Rolex in France (imitation or other) can be a liability: http://t.co/HBUTlENs or a necessity: http://t.co/06JwkrDv—@aljopainter
@michaelhkay: You're lucky: every morning I find I've emailed myself offers of fake Rolexes overnight.—@MenteaXML
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 07:26am
What’s the easiest way to setup Apache (using only .htaccess) so that it 503’s every
requested URI? AliasMatch, I thought, but not allowed.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 08:22pm
The eclipse, seen through a pinhole in a business card projected onto a paper plate.
http://t.co/M07w6rcs—@hunterhacker
@hunterhacker Very nice!—@ndw
Sunday at 08:24pm
I know we're all pretty committed to this "cops can just beat the crap out of whoever
they want" thing. But maybe there's a better way.—@gerrycanavan
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 08:30pm
#solareclipse in shadows on wall perfect ending to great weekend at #MakerFairehttp://t.co/54zvwQNW—@dalepd