The short-form week of 6–12 Jan 2014
13 Jan 2014
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 Tuesday at 11:06pm
Merry Christmas, everyone. Yes, I'm am atheist, yes, I said "Merry Christmas", just
deal, ok? Enjoy His noodly appendage if that moves you.—@ndw
@ndw - I don't get the reference to "His noodly appendage" - please explain—@joseespinoza
@joseespinoza Search for Flying Spaghetti Monster.—@ndw
@ndw Ahhh - now that's funny!—@joseespinoza
@ndw Hyvää joulua! (fi) The warmest (+6C), rainiest & most black (no snow) Christmas I've
ever seen in Helsinki.—@ttso
@ndw you too. Having a merry atheist one over here in Copenhagen too. In Danish it's "jul"
(="yule"), orig. from "wheel" (bc of solstice).—@MarieBilde
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 09:58pm
@ndw is pretty solid; lots of new features, etc. http://iso.cdn.pcbsd.org/10.0-RELEASE/amd64/ if there's interest.—@CanOfBees
@ndw I don't know what your requirements are, but if you're feeling adventurous consider
giving PC-BSD a try. The 10.0 release candidate (+)—@CanOfBees
@dpawson "It" being this Thinkpad W530. NVIDIA drivers: no ext display. Nouveau drivers: unreliable
boot, suspend/resume. #linux #grumpy—@ndw
@ndw @dpawson The nvidia GUI tool for configuring multiple monitors would always crash on me. Think
I used their tool to generate config.—@pdxleif
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 01:24pm
With Nouveau drivers, nox2apic and the MATE desktop instead of Cinnamon, I believe
I may be winning. #linux—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 08:08pm
@ndw Whoa, I was JUST ABOUT to try Linux Mint and Cinnamon on a recent VAIO, then saw
your tweet. #savedbythenorm—@JamieXML
@ndw You have too much spare time. Can I borrow some?—@alexmilowski
Tuesday at 07:15am
XML Stars, the journal is out! http://paper.li/dominixml/1329135087 Stories via @ndw @xmlgrrl—@dominixml
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:18am
I’ll be talking about Web Components as distributed extensibility finally done right
at @xmlpraguehttp://www.xmlprague.cz/ :)—@robinberjon
@robinberjon So that *was* your paper I was reviewing :-)—@ndw
@ndw Is it possible you may have guessed so?—@robinberjon
@robinberjon That's too strong. But I had my suspicions.—@ndw
Tuesday at 04:34pm
If you write getters that have side effects I hope you step on a Lego—@importantshock
Tuesday at 06:04pm
Why is it I always ruom good jokes with typos/—@edd
Wednesday at 01:25am
Wednesday at 04:38am
6000 views on http://www.youtube.com/user/XMLPrague/
Top 5: @michaelhkay, @annevk, @JeniT, @muratamakoto, @ndw
To see it live: http://www.xmlprague.cz/conference-registration/—@xmlprague
Wednesday at 09:48am
On the 50th Anniversary of The War On Poverty, I am reminded that we don't need wars.
What we need is lasting societal change.—@BWJones
Wednesday at 10:00am
Having builds finish in roughly ten minutes instead of roughly forty feels way more
than four times more productive!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 04:35pm
I have FIREFOX_HOME, JAVA_HOME, JDK_HOME, MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH, and PATH set. Firefox still
looks in /usr/lib/jvm/... for Java. WTF?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 04:45pm
32 bit Java and 32 bit Firefox in order to run WebEx is another hack that very nearly
breaks my will to continue #linux—@ndw
@ndw I think it is: 32 bit Java + 32 bit Firefox + several cocktails + colorful language—@alexmilowski
@alexmilowski I don't need cocktails for colorful language, and cocktails are still, uh, 28 minutes
away. Not that I'm counting or anything.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:24pm
Weapons Systems That Kill According To Algorithms Are Coming. What To Do? http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/01/08/2227244/weapons-systems-that-kill-according-to-algorithms-are-coming-what-to-do?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=twitter—@slashdot
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:12pm
@ndw My tech life is so much simpler: no outlook, no exchange, no office documents, no
webex, therefore, no windows. #luckybastard—@alexmilowski
Thursday at 12:27am
Thursday at 12:28am
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 10:45am
scary article by @doctorow on W3C and DRM — hoping someone from @w3c will address and respond! - http://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/72759474218/we-are-huxleying-ourselves-into-the-full-orwell—@jahendler
@jahendler Speaking personally, I find it hard to address and respond something so blatantly
scaremongering… @doctorow @w3c—@robinberjon
@robinberjon @doctorow @w3c seems like that would be easiest to reply to - refute the specific points.—@jahendler
@jahendler «The world is coming to an end, we’re all going to die, we’re doooooomed!!!» Try
refuting that :) @doctorow—@robinberjon
@robinberjon - if it said “world will end by plague” (or other such) it could be refuted - seems
to me @doctorow makes his fears clear—@jahendler
@jahendler It’s a long list… First, the W3C is not pushing for DRM, just trying to handle the
situation. Browsers are pushing. @doctorow—@robinberjon
@robinberjon just to be clear, I’m not supporting his comments, I’m suggesting you guys should
refute.—@jahendler
@jahendler I don’t know, every time we speak up it comes out distorted. Maybe I’ll just blog
on my side :)—@robinberjon
@robinberjon do so, and I’ll tweet a pointer to your rejoinder happily—@jahendler
@robinberjon I’d retweet but page is not responding… can you check?—@jahendler
@jahendler I can access it without a hitch, as can others. Are you somehow blocked? Seeing an
error message?—@robinberjon
@robinberjon working now, had to clear cache - not sure why...—@jahendler
@jahendler We’re so Huxleyed to the full Orwell that your browser was trying to hold you away
from dissident voices :)—@robinberjon
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 11:37am
Reviews of #TomsPhD thesis were positive & I may now proceed to the last step: the defense (date tbd.).
:-D // CC: @mhausenblas—@tomayac
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 05:11pm
Thursday at 05:32pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 06:01pm
Take your weird, bizarre syntactic nightmare for addressing into XML documents with
some broken dot notation and ... oh, nevermind. Just go.—@ndw
Thursday at 11:10pm
Follow your heart. It’s in the styrofoam cooler in the back of that pickup up ahead.
Step on it. You haven’t much time.—@NightValeRadio
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:26am
There's nothing like the peaceful tranquility of the wood chipper.—@ndw
@ndw Wait until you've fed 10" logs into a tractor driven one.... Nowhere near peaceful,
just makes me envious.—@dpawson
@bsletten Three days to modify some trees? Was he using DOM level-one directly or something?
@ndw—@kiphampton
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:02pm
IE says "Accept: text/html, application/xhtml+xml, */*". Really, IE, you have no preference
for which one you get sent? Really? Are ya sure?—@ndw
@ndw So send it XHTML, always ... :)—@alexmilowski
@alexmilowski If you don't care what you get, man, I'm sending you straight up XML.—@ndw
@ndw Send along just one XHTML script tag in your #XML and see what happens. Every other browser will execute the script.—@alexmilowski