The short-form week of 8–14 Oct 2012
15 Oct 2012; last modified 13 Nov 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 07:35am
case insensitive filesystems: yet another reason to move back to Linux—@psd
Monday at 08:29am
Once again, my plan to destroy mankind with a half-finished bottle of Dasani water
has been foiled by the heroes of TSA.—@daveweigel
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:30am
Socks. Pants. A long-sleeved shirt. I liked Texas better when it was hot.—@ndw
Monday at 10:22am
Folks, if you have all your data on an external drive and you don’t have another copy
of that data, it *isn’t* a backup.—@ndw
Monday at 10:42am
Romney: this is a war between freedom & tyranny, and our close allies in Saudi
Arabia, UAE, & Bahrain are helping us fight it.—@ggreenwald
Monday at 10:54am
“You wouldn’t know crazy if Charles Manson was eating Fruit Loops on your front porch.”—@pgor
Monday at 11:46am
Woke up on Columbus Day with a stomach bug. Oh the explosive irony.—@kplawver
Monday at 02:15pm
People being comfortable about other people being weird is sort of the point of San
Francisco, surely?—@tomcoates
Monday at 04:48pm
Fun fact: Christopher Columbus used Apple Maps to find his way to India.—@KenjiCrosland
Monday at 05:54pm
Romney supporters: Multiply your income over $250k by 3%. That's how much you're willing
to take to tell your gay friends they're subhuman!—@anildash
Monday at 06:13pm
Wrote myself a note: "Gutenberg's bookends". Not only did I forget what the note refers
to, I can't remember if it was Johannes or Steve.—@trammell
Tuesday at 05:09am
Java: "SingletonTypeInjectableProvider". me: "did you just tell me to go fuck myself?"
Java: "I believe I did, Matt."—@mattb
Tuesday at 09:55am
Huh. The double-wide curly quotes in emacs is apparently not a font bug: http://t.co/zIyquTS4 It’s also almost three years old :-(—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:27am
First working draft of XInclude 1.1 published: http://t.co/EB8EuFLy—@ndw
@ndw any chance #XInclude 1.1 gets more general at fragid support? consider text/plain http://t.co/uK36j7pk & text/csv http://t.co/LlLfg9eU—@dret
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:30am
JSON-encoded HTML is one of the glories of modern humanity. Thanks, Penguin Classics!
http://t.co/xJSkfkmq—@abdelazer
Tuesday at 10:47am
“More Information Per Bit”—@pgor
Tuesday at 11:10am
"To make things more interesting we've wrapped JSON in YAML, because two parsers are
better than one"—@grechaw
Tuesday at 01:32pm
"we're all just temporarily in a very unnatural not-dead state." -- @ftrain—@codinghorror
Tuesday at 02:10pm
I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down.—@adamburmister
Tuesday at 02:36pm
The fact that there’s no Java item in the Eclipse Workspace Preferences panel is going
to be a problem isn’t it?—@ndw
Tuesday at 04:14pm
Oh, It appears Curiosity just dropped its Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.
#CaseClosed—@BadAstronomer
Tuesday at 04:16pm
Perpetratin NoSQL DBs are beat up from the feet up, tore up from the floor up, and
need a checkup from the neck up! .... Word.—@peteaven
Tuesday at 05:27pm
Hello, Sidecar. We’re going to get along famously, I can tell. http://t.co/0cDxbxZp—@ndw
Tuesday at 07:51pm
Adrift in my “000 Input Queue” #Evernote notebook: #Unicode the movie: http://t.co/g22ytCzK /via @balpha—@ndw
Wednesday at 07:08am
XML Stars, the journal nouvelle édition http://t.co/cd9sLTFc ▸ Aujourd'hui à la UNE: @ndw—@dominixml
Wednesday at 07:50am
I don't count down the days till Christmas.
I count down the days till #DoctorWho.—@The_Whip_Hand
Wednesday at 07:58am
A tool may have 1000 features, but if you can only remember 50 of them, then, for
you, that tool has 50 features—@jasongorman
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:05am
The Do Not Track standard has crossed into crazy territory http://t.co/3RhgzH2Y—@shelleypowers
“(This is how polite people in standards groups say “WTF?”)” http://t.co/IU1TywIV /via @shelleypowers—@ndw
@ndw It was a nicely written piece, wasn't it?—@shelleypowers
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:09am
A non-zero share of America's political problem is directly the result of journalism's
failure to do its job properly.—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:12am
Why I'm thinking of moving from Mac back to Linux: http://t.co/lNEJcHVa—@timbray
Wednesday at 11:15am
If you’re going to refer to the 4th and 5th steps, don’t use a bulleted list.—@ndw
Wednesday at 11:55am
Early this morning, I cracked “polygons for timezones”. Now have little app that displays
them in Google Maps. Surprisingly addictive.—@ndw