The short-form week of 17–23 Dec 2012
24 Dec 2012; last modified 25 Dec 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 06:59am
There is no heaven.
There is no hell.
But be nice anyway.
You'll have a much better life.
And that's all we've got.
Enjoy.
:)—@rickygervais
Monday at 07:59pm
Almost ready for another XML Calabash release except for the weirdest base URI problem wrt Saxon HE vs EE. *boggles*—@ndw
Tuesday at 11:41am
oh hey, @ndw, @jenit, @laurendw, @michaelhkay, I made a really poor JRuby-only wrapper for Saxon’s XSLT 2 processor: https://t.co/FXmmkpeP—@fidothe
Tuesday at 11:58am
Best. Parody. Ever. https://t.co/jqdhdiuo—@ndw
Tuesday at 12:56pm
Wednesday at 10:46am
As flash mobs go…pretty cool. http://t.co/MmhWLRlG
—@ndw
Thursday at 05:03am
People are making apocalypse jokes like there's no tomorrow.—@elliottmazs_
Thursday at 06:16am
A horse walks into a pub. A second horse walks in. An infinite stream of horses follows. The world fills with horses. It's a global crisis.—@ncguk
Thursday at 07:15am
Thursday at 07:02pm
Thursday at 07:27pm
Friday at 03:46am
Sunrise: check. Alarm: check. Cat purring: check. Hmmm, I guess doomsday didn't happen on schedule this time. Breakfast?—@PragueBob
Friday at 03:48am
They laughed one last time at the superstitious Mayans and returned to preparing for the anniversary of the birth of the magical God-child.—@andytfield
In a conversation that started on Friday at 05:11am
Fourth in line at passport control and the Heathrow Express is out of service. Win some, lose some. Hello Piccadilly line!—@ndw
Friday at 05:13am
Friday at 06:10pm
Q: How many NRA members does it take to change a light bulb? A: More guns.—@BillMorrow
Friday at 09:19pm
Sunday at 08:25am
Christmas is like the Zombie Apocalypse. You want to hoard food, stay at home and hit family members over the head with a shovel.—@Its_Death
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 11:03am
if you upgrade to mountain lion: save /etc/apache2/httpd.conf if you changed it. ML will reset it, and you will have to reproduce it:-(—@ivan_herman
@ivan_herman Save *everything* before an upgrade.—@ndw
@ndw the problem: I could not get to /etc/apache2 on the time machine. WTF...—@ivan_herman
@ivan_herman Time machine is nice, but I don’t trust it for backups. SuperDuper! to an external drive.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 11:06am
Evil, evil, evil things. Need to subtly get them out of trolley before checkout #ChristmasDinner
http://t.co/D24G3QwB
—@RonanKirby
Yes, they are banned in this house. RT @RonanKirby: Evil, evil, evil things. #ChristmasDinner
http://t.co/KgUZ7YmD
—@docum3nt
Sunday at 12:14pm
Github is down! Dammit, why didn't we standardize on a *decentralized* repository architecture???—@raganwald
Sunday at 03:23pm
Can't wait to go to my aunt's house tomorrow night and see how many new toolbars are on her browser.—@inthefade
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 03:46pm
Sunday at 04:34pm
"Sufficiently advanced cluelessness is indistinguishable from malice."—@justintroutman
Sunday at 06:25pm
RT @TheRealNimoy: "We must never forget art is not a form of propoganda. Art is a form of truth." John F. Kennedy. To all ...In this hol ...—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 06:26pm
Implementing support for XLink extended links in the DocBook XSLT 2.0 stylesheets. Yeah, that's right, that's what I said.—@ndw
@ndw Seriously? Cool!—@patrickDurusau
@ndw Nice! Thanks!—@EileenOttawa