The short-form week of 24–30 Dec 2012
31 Dec 2012; last modified 02 Jan 2013
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 06:26pm
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
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 08:48pm
I need some leather hand luggage. Recommendations?—@kendall
@kendall "leather hand luggage"? You mean "gloves"? ;->—@kiphampton
@kiphampton No, I mean like a leather weekend/overnight bag.—@kendall
Monday at 02:01am
One day our children will post little condescending observations about us on social
networks we don't understand.—@codinghorror
In a conversation that started on Monday at 03:27am
Writing XSLT stylesheets that produce XSLT stylesheets is always a slightly mind bending
experience.—@ndw
I'm sorry, @ndw but I have to ask, why write #XSLT #stylesheets that produce XSLT stylesheets? #mebeingignorant—@wildusbillicus
@wildusbillicus To convert out-of-line extended XLinks into inline ones; stylesheet parameterized
by link values.—@ndw
@ndw .... or how I learned to appreciate namespaces ...—@EileenOttawa
Monday at 04:50am
Monday at 12:23pm
Advert: "you may close this ad in 8 seconds." Me (reaching for the close-window button)
"Not even."—@mdubinko
Monday at 12:51pm
"Pope Wants All Faiths to Unite Against Gay Marriage." Benny, this is God. Fuck you.—@TheTweetOfGod
Monday at 04:26pm
Monday at 05:22pm
God I love the internet: “Last Christmas, Gangnam style” by Wham vs. PSY http://t.co/geNZA7bX via @aanand—@Han
Tuesday at 02:10pm
Wednesday at 08:03pm
Programmers take vacations to program.—@pm
Wednesday at 10:48pm
To those complaining that their industry is not moving fast enough, I sometimes want
to say “you don’t know your luck”.—@vambenepe
Thursday at 01:18am
Hoveton and Wroxham now. Home oh blimey so much later!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 02:21am
Lessons learned from teaching my mother how to use an iPad: computers don't make any
sense.—@ndw
Thursday at 04:19am
No Heathrow Express. Apologies for the inconvenience and sixty quid will (probably)
get me to the airport on time.—@ndw
Thursday at 05:09am
For those waiting anxiously: I made it. Next stop breakfast then IAH.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 07:22pm
ASCII by Jason Scott: Kickstarter in Autumn. http://t.co/o2RNcTG7—@textfiles
Friday at 07:27am
Tone of statements on fiscal cliff recalls how former Rep. Lynn Martin once described
the House: a preschool where no one's had a nap.—@ktumulty