The short-form week of 21–27 Jan 2013
28 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 Monday at 01:36am
Interesting #OAuth "device token" proposal from my favorite WS-Dudette, Umit Yalcinalp of Adobe http://t.co/SE6VlE3L—@xmlgrrl
@zer0n1ne @umityalcinalp There's this blog post with a link, but the paper is behind a pay wall - IETF I-D
coming? http://t.co/cDg6oEhW—@xmlgrrl
@xmlgrrl @zer0n1ne Can you access the paper right? I can download it without payment from http://t.co/r7wweBdC—@umityalcinalp
@umityalcinalp @zer0n1ne Nope, sorry, it requires payment for me. You must have a login. #damnauthn—@xmlgrrl
@xmlgrrl @zer0n1ne Interesting! Irony of it as I do not login. Will investigate tomorrow.—@umityalcinalp
@umityalcinalp @xmlgrrl @zer0n1ne Does your employer have unlimited access? Perhaps your IP address is the key?—@ndw
@ndw @xmlgrrl @zer0n1ne Ok, folks. I finally have a copy from my website. Comments welcome.
http://t.co/6DlPFhjz—@umityalcinalp
.@umityalcinalp @ndw @zer0n1ne Re #OAuth device token profile: Thanks very much! Looking now. http://t.co/DPdxZSQl—@xmlgrrl
In a conversation that started on Monday at 04:20pm
If I lived in a country where this was normal, I'd want to own a gun too. http://t.co/MTeNDAvR #fb—@mnot
In a conversation that started on Monday at 04:29pm
We live in the kind of Universe where more things are true than are not. Metaphysically
speaking, Yes is truer than No.—@evanlenz
Monday at 06:40pm
I hate it when Twitter's down because the place where I want to complain that I can't
get on Twitter is Twitter—@Will_Bunch
In a conversation that started on Monday at 06:47pm
The top of my to do list. Paul Graham explains his simple rules for a happy life
http://t.co/arpQe05G—@timoreilly
advice by Paul Graham via @timoreilly "Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships;
be happy."—@amyvdh
In a conversation that started on Monday at 07:37pm
Input: no namespace. Output: namespace. Language: xquery. Result: headache + anger,
and finally, solution.—@dauwhe
Monday at 07:48pm
Q: How is standards development like walking the dog? A: In both situations you get
to watch animals mark their territory.—@edsu
In a conversation that started on Monday at 08:49pm
I have bananas. In a week or so, I will have banana bread.—@ndw
Monday at 08:53pm
Has anyone started a service that functions as an alternate resolver for shortened
URLs?—@ndw
Monday at 08:57pm
RT @wilshipley: Whenever I think of Turing I’m all, “Thank goodness our government wouldn’t hound
a computer genius until he killed hims ...—@ndw
Monday at 08:57pm
Monday at 08:57pm
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:01pm
Never get into a fair fight. The true story of Deadwood.—@kendall
Monday at 09:05pm
I’m not sure how to tell: http://t.co/PwRoFOGD—@ndw
Monday at 09:10pm
It IS about physics. It ALL is. http://t.co/m2NzIXxZ—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 11:26pm
I ♥ NYC—@mdubinko
Monday at 11:29pm
Ok, what asshat at M$ fucked up and a coded a system that allows the HTML quoted parts
of mail messages to have lines that begin “From:”?—@ndw
Tuesday at 12:48am
Suicide Linux; any incorrect command issues rm -rf / http://t.co/2Ih5ERF9—@codinghorror
Tuesday at 02:31am
"Girls, time to join the Brownies." "But Dad, I don't know if I..." "DO IT NOW BECAUSE
COOKIES!"—@codinghorror
Tuesday at 04:48am
Entrepreneurs are prepared to sacrifice what most wouldn't (lifestyle, salary, work/life
balance), so someday they can live like most can't.—@adamblottr
Tuesday at 07:04am
Bach has many awesome qualities, but "being able to compete with the sound of a power-drill"
is not one of them.—@j4
Tuesday at 07:15am
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:36am
Agency Wank: a Tumblr collecting terrible ad agency slogans. “We’re a strategic unicorn
cult that will brandify d... http://t.co/RTMaz8A3—@tommorris
Tuesday at 08:58am
Hi, I’m that guy with ten unfinished projects who’d really like to start twenty more.—@rstevens
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:22am
I am kind of half-offended & half-just-plain-baffled that my QR code cake is included
here: http://t.co/jnMYmnKa—@j4
Tuesday at 09:23am
2004: language zealots (self included) try to force xml-everywhere. 2013: language
zealots try to force xml-nowhere.—@svgeesus
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:28am
Yellow #2 pencil in a dream last night had a little LCD screen on one of its faces into which
you could type (how!?) web searches.—@ndw
@ndw What?—@alexmilowski
Tuesday at 09:41am
Hmph. If you “retweet”, when you get the tweet from your stream, there’s an RT in
front and it may be truncated. Won’t be doing that anymore—@ndw
Tuesday at 10:02am
"I admit that I framed him. I don't feel no remorse. It was just my way of gettin'
even with the man who shot my horse."—@ndw
Tuesday at 10:08am
RT @svgeesus obstructing the cowpaths, if they were made by XML cows #usersAreIrrelevantApparently—@ndw
Tuesday at 10:42am
Never commit to master, http://t.co/1J5DbTDWW, /via, uh, someone.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 12:00pm
I have to reformat the drive to encrypt it. Really, OS X?—@ndw
@ndw Just yesterday I enabled FileVault (for the whole disk I think) and it just rebooted
and started encrypting while I continued working.—@RobbertAtWork
@ndw I think you can encrypt in-place by enabling it from Settings. Certainly I did...—@adamretter
Tuesday at 01:09pm
Tuesday at 01:23pm
Right now, many thousands of alerts around the world are being ignored. Their human
targets correctly suspect they are noise, not signal.—@allspaw
Tuesday at 02:20pm
Tuesday at 04:27pm
Tuesday at 04:28pm
Yay! :D ♺ @ndw: Holy cow! RT @maksim2042 LaTeX has been ported to JavaScript http://t.co/pYhhkQuP—@kamen
Tuesday at 04:30pm
Starting the day out making a right fool of myself. If you're going to do a job, don't
be half-assed about it, I always say! :-(—@malcolmt
Tuesday at 04:31pm
RT @mikeloukides alias.sh: social (?) shell aliases. Seriously, if you're a command line user, this
looks really good. http://t.co/QTcepKUJ—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 05:02pm
@simonstl If I were to pick a winner, I'd say that CSV kicked XML's ass in the #OpenData world, and JSON didn't turn show up for the fight.—@david_megginson
@david_megginson... show and becomes a lot more about genuine implementation. Bottle of wine? @simonstl—@robinberjon
@robinberjon @david_megginson untyped data wins whether you talk CSV or JSON. (I see way more JSON, but web-centric,
so...)—@simonstl
@david_megginson @robinberjon XML itself is not very typed, but much 'XML' practice/culture built on type assumptions
brought into XSD.—@simonstl
@simonstl We're in loud agreement, then. XML is not for object serialization, any more than
SQL is for object persistence. Cc @robinberjon—@david_megginson
@david_megginson @robinberjon yes - I just wish markup had resisted the detour into that terrain. Poisoned many
opinions.—@simonstl
Tuesday at 05:06pm
Wifi calling doesn’t seem to be an option on either of the recent Google Nexus phones.
Is there a technical reason, does anyone know?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 05:21pm
Turns out if you Ctrl+Click on a drive icon in Finder, there’s an encrypt option.
But there isn’t in Disk Utility. Nice UI guys.—@ndw
Tuesday at 10:39pm
“Mary Elizabeth took a picture of the road and it looked like a whole bunch of Z’s
and W’s all strung together”—@ndw
Tuesday at 11:33pm
Templeton Rye. It's okay, you can thank me later,.—@ndw
Tuesday at 11:43pm
Have started the loudest dishwasher in the world moments before bed. Suspect I have
made a tactical error.—@ndw
Wednesday at 01:05am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:56am
Someone please explain to me how accessing CVS on http://t.co/fukZXwxe can possibly cause my wifi connection to fall over. Or how to debug.—@ndw
@ndw Your Wifi router must be astonished by the packets coming from there! More srsly,
what kind of access (Web vs ssh vs ?) on which server—@dontcallmedom
@dontcallmedom cvs+ssh, I believe. Any cvs command to /w3ccvs causes my wifi to stop, which I fully
admit makes no f’ing sense.—@ndw
@ndw I love this kind of non-sense bugs :) is wifi stopping on your machine, or is the
access point failing?—@dontcallmedom
@dontcallmedom I’m pretty confident the wireless AP falls over momentarily.—@ndw
@ndw if (username='ndw') { exit(1); }—@alexmilowski
Wednesday at 08:39am
"Discard instructions" http://t.co/lQTqHk09—@ndw
Wednesday at 10:40am
As the Romulan vessel decloaked, I wondered about all the things that we hide from
our partners, and from ourselves—@trekandthecity
Wednesday at 03:44pm
It's fairly sunny here, yet snowing. I think it's cold enough for snow crystals to
be materializing out of the quantum foam itself.—@lmorchard
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 11:24am
"Warning: E4X is deprecated. It will be .../... removed in Firefox 18." http://t.co/s1T6tDN0 #fails—@evlist
@ebruchez @evlist xslt 1.0 is barely xml tech in my opinion (no offense intended), clearly xtech will
only happen only via js going forward—@xquery
@ebruchez @xquery @evlist It’s a big loss if you rely on client-side processing and there’s only one other
game in town.—@ndw
@ebruchez @xquery @evlist Maybe. It’s an awfully large, complex bit of software to write. In JavaScript. For
a very small community.—@ndw
@ndw @xquery @evlist I am betting on Java-to-JS. Of course non-trivial as Saxon-CE shows, but still possible.—@ebruchez
@ebruchez @ndw @evlist @xquery Here's zorba to js using the same technique http://t.co/IT1Ehiwt—@wcandillon
@ndw @ndw @ebruchez @evlist well there is google.xslt thingie wonder how fast that runs these days ?—@xquery
@xquery @ndw @ebruchez @evlist As far as I know the google.xslt thingy doesn't support unicode. Also couldn't find
a strong test suite.—@wcandillon
Saturday at 12:30pm
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 03:39pm
Are there good Java tools for helping to identify memory leaks?—@ndw
@masteinhauser @dehora It’s clearly powerful. I’m not sure how to use it to figure out who’s not freeing
what, though.—@ndw
@ndw @dehora I don't remember exactly any more, but the site has good tutorials to track it down.
Need to know app details too.—@masteinhauser
Saturday at 04:48pm
Religious freedom: not using contraception. Religious tyranny: preventing someone
else from using contraception.—@kendall
Saturday at 05:04pm
Christian hell: fire; pagan hell: fire; Muslim hell: fire; Hindu hell: flames. Religions
think God was born to run a rotisserie. VICTOR HUGO—@qikipedia
Saturday at 05:34pm
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 06:53pm
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 07:14pm
Well, I made validation run 3x faster. OTOH I made regression crash several 100 times
implementing new search feature. #gooddaybadday?—@mathling
Saturday at 08:23pm
RT @UKYoungAstro: We want to follow 1,000 space enthusiasts by the end of this week. Time for a follow
spree. RT if you want a follow #W ...—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 09:06pm
"Carpe Millennium" Long Now shot glass http://t.co/Au5ZwVR3—@mattb
Sunday at 12:02pm
Sunday at 12:38pm
RT @xmlcalabash: XML Calabash 1.0.5 released, fixed a memory leak.—@ndw