The short-form week of 3–9 Sep 2012
10 Sep 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.
Tuesday at 10:14am
“Your flight details have changed”. No kidding, moving my flight from 1:30p to 11:15a
is definitely a change.—@ndw
Tuesday at 01:48pm
Calling something a "must-read", offers no insights into an article, but a clear condescending
conviction about one's own superior judgment.—@anildash
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 03:52pm
It's really cool that Robin will work on this. RT @robinberjon: HTML: The Flowing Standard http://t.co/z5MJDqh2—@jirkakosek
@jirkakosek Thanks, I'll try not to break XML too badly in the process ;-)—@robinberjon
@robinberjon Keep hard, otherwise you will be tortured in Prague :-D—@jirkakosek
@jirkakosek when have I not been tortured in Prague?—@robinberjon
@robinberjon Wait. Is that some sort of tacit agreement that it’s not already broken?—@ndw
@ndw namespaces are fine, a lot of the rest is broken :-)—@robinberjon
Tuesday at 04:40pm
Tufts is lucky to have Noah Mendelsohn teaching internet-scale distributed systems!
http://t.co/k7XxBUrN—@benadida
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:31pm
One advantage of cheap, particle board furniture: you can mod it with some pretty
primitive tools.—@ndw
@ndw Did you give it a web interface?—@alexmilowski
Tuesday at 09:19pm
Julian Castro is speaking. 8 yrs after young Hussein Obama spoke. Next convention
I think the breakout speaker will be Esperanza Hitler-Borg—@hodgman
Tuesday at 10:08pm
JavaScript’s Array.reverse() reverses the array in place. A memoir of the bygone era
when men were men, and mutability was a good idea.—@jonathanpenn
Tuesday at 10:10pm
Wednesday at 06:30am
A programmer goes out. His wife calls and says "While you're out, get some eggs."
He never returns. (by @rvprasadTweet)—@lemire
Wednesday at 09:38am
I don't have Instagram but I do have maple syrup I can rub on the lens so I should
be fine.—@simonhelberg
Wednesday at 10:59am
Wodehouse Wednesday: “Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at
will behind a spiral staircase."—@amyvdh
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:57pm
Awww, this little Google Maps promo film is ultra cute: http://t.co/Ot362weT—@timbray
Wednesday at 01:54pm
Wednesday at 02:38pm
Jython, when called from my app, behaves differently than jython cmd line tool. Reports
errors in /usr/lib/python2.[67]/types.py. KMN.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:18pm
By trial and error, I deduce that the magic incantation is “lib/jython-2.5.2/Lib:__classpath__:__pyclasspath__/“
Really. I sh*t you not.—@ndw
Wednesday at 05:21pm
Thank you, hotel website, for sending my password to me in plain text.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:56pm
Tonight is so totally 3 parts tequila, 1 part Campari, 1 part sweet vermouth, 1 part
dry vermouth, dash of Angostura—@liza
Wednesday at 08:24pm
I have to give a video talk for the next hour. Would you all mind not tweeting anything
insightful or funny til I'm back? Thx!—@dweinberger
Wednesday at 08:25pm
There is no Campari in the house. Panic!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 08:42pm
No, really, my #Android phone doesn’t stay synced with my #Google #Calendar. There’s a solution for this, right? Right!?—@ndw
@ndw even my #iOS devices manage to stay in sync through the GOOG's exchange server; maybe try this
route? http://t.co/IkSuBFci—@dret
@ndw still, weren't we trying to fix that in montreal… All you android aficionados should
help this man out.—@xmltechgeek
Thursday at 03:33pm
At what age does Ryan Gosling have to change his name to Ryan Goose—@meganamram
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:41pm
DITA and XML folk in Austin might be interested in Alan's presentation coming up soon.
http://t.co/S9cnowUY—@donrday
Thursday at 04:24pm
Really, the upshot of high gas prices is we should work harder on getting free from
our addiction to burning ancient plankton corpses.—@lmorchard
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 06:34pm
@kiphampton *snort*—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 08:21pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 08:25pm
Bugs at every turn this evening. I call Mazatlan. http://t.co/ZMkSSltf—@ndw
Thursday at 08:30pm
Fun Fact: Joe Biden is the only American Vice President in the eleven years who hasn't
shot a friend in a face.—@LOLGOP
Thursday at 08:33pm
“But those hours of sun are on the steep downslope of the seasonal sine wave, less
of them every week and you can feel it”—@ndw
Thursday at 08:34pm
Thursday at 08:38pm
Thursday at 10:41pm
Most depressing fact of the two conventions: The political invisibility of the unemployed.—@justinwolfers
Thursday at 11:08pm
@hunterhacker Well played, sir.—@ndw
Friday at 02:27am
The ᐸinnovimax/ᐳ Daily is out! http://t.co/ANfGa58c ▸ Top stories today via @InDesign @ndw—@innovimax
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:32am
By the way, in taking up this HTML thing I've also stepped down from the TAG.—@robinberjon
@robinberjon noooooooo ;) Who will give a balance to the force?—@karlpro
@robinberjon grrrrr… <insert here a gold chain on a hairy torso>—@karlpro
@karlpro <lick finger>, <touch nipple> — tssssssssssssssssscchhhh!—@robinberjon
@robinberjon Un-imagine! Un-imagine!—@ndw
@ndw I'll do it live at TPAC, just for you :-)—@robinberjon
@koalie @robinberjon @ndw I was thinking of Back In Black (checked the Mark Logic video) but I'm w/ you - AC/DC
is always a good idea.—@amyvdh
@robinberjon I love them all! But Boogie Man I chose for your boobie touch. cc: @amyvdh @ndw—@koalie
@robinberjon I want to be there for the premiere performance! But can we put a stake in the heart
of "web+" first? http://t.co/80tQ8EWP—@masinter
@masinter I'm not a huge fan of web+, but I'm not the one to convince!—@robinberjon
@robinberjon @masinter which of course raises the question about *who* needs to be convinced. Anyway, the
WG's decision on this was flawed.—@jreschke
@jreschke well, the WG would need to be convinced. A clear case leading to the creation of
a web+ blacklist might help.—@robinberjon
Friday at 09:11am
Do I really have to be told “all fields are required” when there are only two fields:
username and password?—@ndw
Friday at 12:12pm
Last night, worked on proper tzinfo-based calendar support in my XQuery calendar.
Today, booked itin passing through CDT, MDT, *and* MST.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 12:37pm
I wonder how accurately UPS could estimate the exact delivery time for a package and
how wide the margin of error would be.—@ndw
Friday at 12:52pm
“…the cool thing is: they got roughly the same numbers I did! I guess that’s not surprising:
reality is repeatable.” http://t.co/6ZXbGXLD—@ndw