The short-form week of 6–12 Aug 2012
13 Aug 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 12:51am
Dear Religion, While you were debating what chicken sandwiches were okay to eat, I
just landed on Mars. Sincerely, Your Pal Science—@MKHDDLSTN
Monday at 06:06am
In a conversation that started on Monday at 10:14am
Analysis of Apple's FileVault 2 whole disk encryption by those nice chaps at Cambridge
http://t.co/c43acxZS Distrust closed source crypto—@tug
@ndw I use TrueCrypt http://t.co/ZxETj2pM Not identical in functionality but some nice features (I also use FileVault but don't
trust it)—@tug
Monday at 10:53am
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:26am
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:05am
@ndw announces demo jam. Free drinks. 5 minute demos. Demo with the loudest applause wins.
Is that the demo after the most beer? #balisage—@jonathan_robie
@jonathan_robie The voting is at the end, so the beer consumption is fairly normalized.—@ndw
@jonathan_robie They do say that drinking a lot of beer as part of the demo would increase your chances..
;-) cc @ndw—@grtjn
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:49am
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 11:12am
14 Wacky "Facts" Kids Will Learn in Louisiana's Voucher Schools http://t.co/0ANrae9X --you won't believe it, I guarantee you—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers We are doomed as a species.—@ndw
@ndw Luckily for us, other countries still teach their children things like science...and
facts.—@shelleypowers
Tuesday at 01:06pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 03:18pm
Why do calendar apps on my Android phone show appointments that have been deleted
in http://t.co/hbGBY96j ?—@ndw
Me too! @ndw Why do calendar apps on my Android phone show appointments that have been deleted
in http://t.co/PwNODzEO ?—@jpcs
Tuesday at 04:27pm
In other news, if you turn off the wireless router when you leave your house, you
can’t reach the servers in your house from the road.—@ndw
Tuesday at 04:33pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 04:36pm
Tuesday at 04:36pm
RT @ndw: Fundamentally, I think the question raised by proposals like UDL is, how far down
the XML stack can you tweak things? #balisage—@xmltechgeek
Tuesday at 05:40pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:43pm
Wednesday at 07:09am
XML Stars, the journal nouvelle édition http://t.co/cd9sLTFc ▸ Aujourd'hui à la UNE: @xmlgrrl @RealMichaelKay @ndw—@dominixml
Wednesday at 10:48am
Wednesday at 11:00am
“Advanced technology is always indistinguishable from a rigged demo” #Balisage #Overheardinthehalls—@ndw
Wednesday at 11:24am
Wednesday at 11:25am
Wednesday at 12:49pm
RT "@ndw: #XProc has turned up in several #Balisage talks. Good to be reminded..." Making my work happen... Thanks to Calabash!—@keithlawrenz
Wednesday at 01:48pm
Wednesday at 01:58pm
did @ndw just imply that an xml syntax is more declarative than an equivalent construct in
a non-xml syntax? #balisage—@jonathan_robie
Wednesday at 01:59pm
Wednesday at 02:00pm
@ndw A criterion we used for the syntax of Quilt / XQuery: a moderately complex query
should fit on a slide for a presentation. #balisage—@jonathan_robie
Wednesday at 02:09pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:12pm
Wednesday at 02:17pm
Wednesday at 02:22pm
Wednesday at 02:45pm
Wednesday at 03:12pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:28pm
@ndw Is http://t.co/kLHrrowK still being maintained? I asked for a few more OpenJDK lists to be added a couple
weeks ago, but no joy yet.—@mreinhold
@mreinhold @ndw MarkMail is maintained as a volunteer effort, by me and @eedeebee. We’re sometimes slow. I’ll add the lists tho.—@hunterhacker
@mreinhold @hunterhacker @eedeebee Thanks, Jason. Sorry I didn’t get back to you more quickly, Mark.—@ndw
@ndw No problem, and thanks for forwarding my query to the right people /cc @hunterhacker @eedeebee—@mreinhold
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:51pm
RT @jonathan_robie did @ndw imply that an xml syntax is more declarative than equiv construct in a non-xml syntax?
#balisage <-- #magic!—@mnot
@mnot No, what I said was that languages designed with an XML syntax tend to be more declarative,
but no magic was implied.—@ndw
@ndw (cc @mnot) you mean XML syntax as language's code serialization or as language's native data
model? disagree on #1, agree on #2.—@dret
@dret I’m not sure I was carefully considering that distinction. I suppose I think #2 is the important part, but #1 helps reinforce that.—@ndw
@ndw Hm. So the canonical example of a programming language in XML is XSLT, right? Does
it get any utility from being in XML? #notsure—@mnot
@mnot @ndw value of XSLT using XML syntax varies wildly by task being performed. Used to hate
it, but for appropriate use, excellent.—@simonstl
@mnot #XSLT is one of the few languages that's naturally digesting the same syntax it lives in.
sometimes, that's *extremely* useful.—@dret
Thursday at 01:19am
RT @ndw: “Advanced technology is always indistinguishable from a rigged demo” #Balisage #Overheardinthehalls—@nine9ths
Thursday at 08:32am
Thursday at 10:14am
Thursday at 09:54pm
Thursday at 10:49pm
Friday at 10:07am
Friday at 11:01am
“Maybe that is third normal form, but it’s certainly not first useful form” @barefootliam #Balisage—@ndw
Friday at 11:01am
RT @ndw: “Maybe that is third normal form, but it’s certainly not first useful form” @barefootliam #Balisage—@simonstl
Friday at 11:02am
RT @ndw: “Maybe that is third normal form, but it’s certainly not first useful form” @barefootliam #Balisage—@mdubinko
Friday at 11:14am
RT @ndw: “Maybe that is third normal form, but it’s certainly not first useful form” @barefootliam #Balisage—@amclark42
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:29am
@ndw A pleasure - returning the favor for others who have live-tweeted from conferences
I could alas not attend—@sheilaMorr
Friday at 11:32am
Friday at 02:47pm
RT @ndw: “Maybe that is third normal form, but it’s certainly not first useful form” @barefootliam #Balisage—@jpcs
Friday at 04:22pm
Friday at 04:47pm
RT @ndw: “Maybe that is third normal form, but it’s certainly not first useful form” @barefootliam #Balisage—@grtjn
Friday at 07:57pm
Friday at 10:43pm
Camera 360 sometimes creates invalid JPGs, apparently. #debuggingonaplane—@ndw
Saturday at 08:10am
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 09:38am
New credit card is first I’ve had with no raised numbers. I wonder how many merchants
will express confusion.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 11:09am
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 01:55pm
If you put an ad for your mobile app between me and the page I was trying to get to:
a. You suck. b. You lose most of your credibility.—@ndw
@ndw At least that earns you the “privilege” of ending up at the page you wanted to view
in the first place. Cf: http://t.co/F2fnCNoi—@20gnd
Saturday at 02:12pm
RT @ndw: “Maybe that is third normal form, but it’s certainly not first useful form” @barefootliam #Balisage—@DALDEI
Saturday at 02:14pm
Saturday at 03:15pm
Holes made in Curiosity's wheels were made to spell out "JPL" in Morse code after
not allowed to put a JPL sticker on it. #GeekGirlCon—@verethele
Saturday at 04:27pm
As a rule, US beer is hop-based, European beer malt-based. Belgian beer is yeast-based,
and industrial beer is water-based.—@larsga
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 07:20pm
My sister has some interesting stuff on etsy, including steampunk and Dr. Who themed
items: http://t.co/yMx0ZoaU—@bobdc
Saturday at 09:15pm
Time to abandon all my hacked up XML representations of iCal for xCal, I suppose.
Tool to convert iCal to xCal?—@ndw
Sunday at 08:37am
Sunday at 09:40am
Text::vFile::toXML is not the answer :-(—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 10:03am
The RELAX NG grammar in #rfc6321 contains a bunch of syntax errors and undefined patterns. #fail—@ndw
Sunday at 10:16am
RT @ndw: The RELAX NG grammar in #rfc6321 contains a bunch of syntax errors and undefined patterns. #fail—@sideshowbarker
Sunday at 10:24am
Errata reported. That’s my good deed. Now I guess I’ll ignore xCal for another six
months… :-/—@ndw
Sunday at 10:38am
RT @ndw: If you put an ad for your mobile app between me and the page I was trying to get
to: a. You suck. b. You lose most of your cred ...—@SteveLAnderson
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 11:42am
How on earth did the #rfc6321 editors manage to produce a schema that contains such egregious errors. It was *tested*,
right?—@ndw
@ndw Don't see how it could have been tested. We had a build/test step for AtomPub, it
caught a bunch of bugs on the way—@dehora
@ndw Same thing with the RNG schema in the OOXML spec: basic, systematic syntax errors.
Amazing that people can be so sloppy.—@larsga
@muratamakoto I was referring to ECMA-376:2006, not the ISO versions.—@larsga
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 01:35pm
At Dorval airport, waiting to board a plane to JFK.—@sgmlguru
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 09:49pm
I just coordinated a bar outing with @xmlgrrl and @MissDestructo from 38,000 feet. That's so branché it makes me sick.—@eliasisrael