The short-form week of 29 Oct–4 Nov 2012
05 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.
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 06:10pm
I have been using Perl for roughly 18 years. Abject failure to deal with a UTF-8 encoded
CSV file a few days ago may have been last straw.—@ndw
@ndw That's weird, Perl has good UTF8 support. What were you doing?—@robinberjon
@ndw Even if everything in your locale is UTF-8 aware? Strange. Any "use utf8" anywhere?
I trashed it years ago and haven't looked back.—@sunny256
@sunny256 I think everything is utf-8 aware. Every attempt I made to change characters produced
bizarrely misencoded results.—@ndw
@ndw Really strange. You'd think that UTF-8 problems would be a thing of the ancient past.
Do you have an example of a mangled sequence?—@sunny256
@sunny256 It was a Google csv of contacts. I s/\n/\\n/g and got a bunch of random characters
instead of literal “\n"s.—@ndw
@ndw @sunny256 echo '∀ x φ' | perl -pe 's/\n/\\n/' works for me on Ubuntu 12.04. Perhaps OS/perl
installation or specific to that data?—@jkingdon2000
RT @ndw I have been using Perl for roughly 18 years.[...]
Perl is Cowboy Woody and python is Buzz Lightyear. Cmd.exe is Rex, sh is Sarge.—@icing
@ndw ...at least that was true in 2003 running ActivePerl 5.8—@vancouverizer
@ndw ...ActivePerl on Windows uses ASCII unless told to use another encoding:
Win32::OLE qw(CP_UTF8);
Win32::OLE->Option(CP => CP_UTF8);—@vancouverizer
@ndw Helped someone with an issue like this a few years ago, perhaps it is the same? They
were running ActivePerl on Windows...—@vancouverizer
Monday at 05:41am
Dear weblog spammer, I can undo with three lines of XQuery everything you’ve done
typing for I don’t know how long. P.S. Eat flaming death.—@ndw
Tuesday at 02:55am
Tuesday at 04:30am
AddressBook sync with Google on my 10.6.8 box has made an absolute pigs breakfast
of my contacts. Lovely.—@ndw
Tuesday at 02:39pm
Just arrived in Lyon. Wondering where to go for some company… #tpac /cc @torgo @robinberjon @ndw—@JeniT
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:23am
Oh, fsck me. In an effort to fix address book issues, I created a smart group which
now hangs the AddressBook app at startup. KMN.—@ndw
@ndw aren't you happy you left the Northeast? It's a mess here.—@scohenadler
@scohenadler I’m certainly happy to be in Lyon right now :-)—@ndw
@ndw wish I could have been there. But need to be here cleaning up trees, etc. At least
we got power back today. Give my love to all.—@scohenadler
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:42am
Interested in change tracking? Come join the Change Tracking Markup Community group
http://t.co/rwxJkLlJ—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:57pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:12am
Ok. So sqlite3 can dump the AddressBook-v22.abcddb file. Anyone know how to get sqlite3
to write it back out after I “fix” it?—@ndw
Thursday at 07:03am
XML Stars, the journal nouvelle édition http://t.co/cd9sLTFc ▸ Aujourd'hui à la UNE: @georgebina @ndw—@dominixml
Thursday at 08:41am
OH “At that point, you’ve gone meta-meta and my head explodes."—@ndw
Thursday at 03:41pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 05:24pm
@xquery I'd love to hang out during the day, in the evening my wife arrives for a romantic
time :-) @ndw—@robinberjon
Saturday at 06:24pm
"238 Americans have been killed by terrorists since 911, 293 by falling furniture
and TVs." // Time to declare the War on Furniture.—@theharryshearer
Saturday at 07:42pm
Arrived IAH. Almost almost home.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 07:02am
@marjoleink Photography work is basically what ties me to Mac OS at this time.—@ndw
@ndw I see no need, only preference (but that's OK). I prefer free (as in freedom), open
software, use closed SW only when no alternative—@marjoleink
Sunday at 06:53pm
Don't let anyone stop you from voting.—@WendellPierce
Sunday at 09:25pm
Sunday at 10:38pm
RT @WendellPierce: Don't let anyone stop you from voting.—@ndw