The short-form week of 12–18 Aug 2013
19 Aug 2013; last modified 26 Aug 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 Saturday at 01:52pm
Gotta love the Dutch. Amsterdam marks Putin's visit by flying gay pride flags on all
city council buildings: http://t.co/lZcAHZoyNr”—@Elka72
Goed gedaan! "Amsterdam marks Putin's visit by flying gay pride flags on all city
council buildings" http://t.co/rIAuIJnP25 via @Elka72 @ndw—@amyvdh
In a conversation that started on Monday at 12:43pm
Among the choices offered under “select color” for a pair of jeans: “Dark Heritage”.
That’s a color? Really?—@ndw
@ndw I think you strayed into the emo jeans section.—@walterunderwood
Monday at 01:01pm
Exchanged T-Mobile SIM for Rogers SIM while in Canada. Cheap data for the win. Cannot
now find T-Mobile SIM for the loss.—@ndw
Monday at 03:38pm
The rest of the civilized world already has "hyperloops". They're called trains.—@umairh
Monday at 07:15pm
@james_clark FWIW, I had no trouble abandoning my iPhone and eschewing an iPad, but for my laptop...sigh—@ndw
Monday at 09:05pm
New SIM in less than 10 minutes at a T-Mobile kiosk in the mall. Painless.—@ndw
Tuesday at 04:13am
A programmer had a problem and so he decided to use threads. Now problem had programmer
he a A.—@KiwiCoder
Tuesday at 08:51am
RT @Elka72: Gotta love the Dutch. Amsterdam marks Putin's visit by flying gay pride flags on
all city council buildings: http://t.co/lZcAHZ…—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:02am
Doctype so simple no schema required. Been using it for years. Wrote schema yesterday.
Found several markup errors. #validation #good #xml—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:14am
@ndw Fixed! Part of the system is implemented in COBOL and we had to pull a guy out of
retirement to get the fix—@w3c
[oops! the best of us sometimes... fix underway] RT @ndw: Uh, @w3c, /community/groups/ is an empty page?—@jeffsonstein
Tuesday at 10:15am
Every separable metric space can be embedded into the Hilbert cube.—@TopologyFact
Tuesday at 05:30pm
The Bayesian probability of me getting a Bayesian probability correct given my prior
experience with Bayesian probabilities is zero—@pkedrosky
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:03pm
Gazillion Dollars Idea: Gravatar that supports animated gifs—@dscape
Wednesday at 09:10am
RT @timoreilly: You will be tagged. http://t.co/4EpOXTxYfc Good questions from @acroll about the privacy implications of photo tagging in F…—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:27pm
Wednesday at 05:43pm
"Increase Facebook impressions and brand awareness by seamlessly encouraging likes
and check-ins" has never been the customer's goal.—@briansuda
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:05pm
A dozen Thai green chillies won’t be too many, will it, he asks after the fact?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:25pm
Couldn’t we just ban flying drones in US airspace? #uptonogood—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:47pm
I could work. Or I could go float in the pool. Uh. I’ll see y’all in a bit, ‘k?—@ndw
@ndw The temp and humidity is finally comfortable here in Durham, NC. Enjoy the pool!—@lcahlander
Wednesday at 10:20pm
Wow. http://t.co/cpzMWRrXmj—@ndw
Wednesday at 10:27pm
I’m sorry I said “wow” before. I was clearly misinformed. WOW. http://t.co/QUAw3ObQ43—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 10:32pm
[OMFG this is cool] RT @ndw: I’m sorry I said “wow” before. I was clearly misinformed. WOW. http://t.co/LH3Z5UUpN6—@jeffsonstein
Thursday at 07:12am
XML Stars, the journal is out! http://t.co/lNS6ggKpyZ ▸ Top stories today via @xmlgrrl @ndw—@dominixml
Thursday at 11:43am
"Our commitment to customer service: make a positive impact with every connection
- all the time!" #gobbledygook—@ndw
Thursday at 11:43am
Thursday at 02:47pm
We should think of taxing the rich as a kind of mandatory therapeutic aid: it's good
for them and for everyone, even if they don't agree.—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:10am
Is tipping waiters a good idea? http://t.co/w0v69QgA0j—@larsga
Friday at 09:19am
If technology was a meritocracy I'd be sending this as a peer-to-peer RDF tweet from
an Amiga 10,000 running GNU NLS on top of SmallTalk.—@ftrain
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:25am
I wonder if it’s even possible to unwind the current surveillance state.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 09:31am
In Java, ((SomeObject) x).method(…) works but I want to avoid the static reference
to SomeObject; how can I do this at runtime w/reflection?—@ndw