The short-form week of 17–23 Sep 2012
24 Sep 2012; last modified 26 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.
In a conversation that started on Monday at 02:28am
MarkLogic 6 released http://t.co/XAEqdUEz JSON support built in, REST server (API), java client (API), and lot more #marklogic—@xquery
@xquery MarkLogic 6 downloads only for 64-bit platforms?—@AlainCouthures
@AlainCouthures yes, i'm afraid thats correct, we live in 64 bit world now ...—@xquery
@xquery Who did the REST API in ML6?—@adamretter
In a conversation that started on Monday at 06:32am
Monday at 07:07am
XML Stars, the journal nouvelle édition http://t.co/cd9sLTFc ▸ Aujourd'hui à la UNE: @ndw—@dominixml
Monday at 09:45am
Monday at 11:42am
@crumpledcp deletes important file, mild panic on Skype call until @ndw intervenes from across the room. Hurrah for Norm!—@fidothe
Monday at 12:13pm
RT @fidothe: @crumpledcp deletes important file, mild panic on Skype call until @ndw intervenes from across the room. Hurrah for Norm!—@crumpledcp
Monday at 01:18pm
OH "Maori's killing pandas in Europe" #xmlsummerschool—@ndw
Monday at 01:36pm
OH "I was hitching across the trans-Canadian highway and I got arrested for speeding."
#xmlsummerschool—@ndw
Monday at 02:16pm
Tuesday at 03:40am
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:18am
@ndw : Solving non technical challenges of authoring for XML needs all those impacted
by the change to have a stake in its success #xmlss12—@tom_yamahito
Tuesday at 09:01am
Tuesday at 10:49am
@ndw presenting document management. Nice prez, nice examples and not too many adverts.—@aljopainter
Tuesday at 12:33pm
Shit! Someone with the hostname "localhost" seems to have taken a copy of all my files.
Luckily I can log in and delete them all... fool!—@grorg
Tuesday at 01:09pm
Tuesday at 01:13pm
OH "I had a conversation last night and I didn't understand a word of it, not even
what I said."—@ndw
Tuesday at 03:03pm
OH "Romeo and Juliet. The nurse scene. It's just a bunch of dick jokes."—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 04:49pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:36pm
@ndw O_o!?!?—@JeanKaplansky
Wednesday at 12:46am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:16pm
I think I’m going to have to build a RepRap.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:22pm
@jenit recommends Positive Linking, Everything is Obvious, Thinking Fast and Slow, Good
Strategy Bad Strategy, and Switch—@ndw
@libbymiller that's what I said :)—@JeniT
@libbymiller @ndw @jenit bought it earlier today. Was mentioned briefly in a talk here today.—@ldodds
Wednesday at 03:19pm
@libbymiller @ndw @jenit By which I meant that mention PLUS Jeni's was enough to pique my interest. ;)—@ldodds
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:44pm
Friday at 06:04am
It only took a few years for staggeringly accurate maps and routing directions to
become a basic feature. I have pants that pre-date that.—@benosteen
Friday at 04:16pm
Requiring users to take spaces & dashes out of phone numbers should be a punishable
crime.—@jmspool
Saturday at 06:44am
Waiting for the Circle Line.—@ndw
Saturday at 09:09am
REMINDER: People on welfare didn’t cost us 15 million jobs and trillions in savings.
People on Wall Street did. http://t.co/0RkWwanc—@BubbyKatz
Saturday at 10:13am
Trying to learn Mac "natural" (feh) scrolling. @eliasisrael sez: "Try to be a little patient, y'know, like…not you." He knows me too well.—@xmlgrrl
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 12:36pm
Heading home after a great week at #xmlss12. I had the privilege of teaching with @laurendw, @ndw, & @psd. Was good.—@fidothe
@fidothe @laurendw @psd Was good indeed! Happy travels and see you all again soon,
I hope!—@ndw
Saturday at 04:45pm
127.0.0.1 is home with a CRT TV, dial-up, and a gas-powered car. ::1 is home with
a flat TV, fiber, and a plug-in hybrid car.—@jbqueru
Sunday at 04:44am
Sometimes BTFon works and sometimes it doesn't. Today appears to be a doesn't. No
internet for me then, except my phone. #sadpanda—@ndw
Sunday at 11:07am
Out of 190 countries only 3 offer no legal guarantee of paid maternity leave: Papua
New Guinea, Swaziland & the USA http://t.co/Ki543TQG—@MMFlint
Sunday at 11:44am
A 1798 image "unavailable for electronic reproduction". How quickly guardians of culture
became robber barons. http://t.co/4Fe4utNC—@gnat
Sunday at 03:55pm
Ha! RT @snrkl: “@sophistifunk: Every time a plastic disc player tells its owner ‘action
not permitted,’ a torrent is born.” cc @doctorow—@M0zilla