The short-form week of 27 Oct–2 Nov 2014
03 Nov 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 Sunday at 11:26pm
@alexmilowski you can buy a usb one for a few bucks.—@ndw
@ndw I can literally but a USB stick for a few bucks too.—@alexmilowski
@alexmilowski You want to argue, or you want your degree?—@ndw
@ndw I've asked about the flash drive ... otherwise, I'll make the CD work. Meanwhile,
I'll need to locate media.—@alexmilowski
@ndw Besides, I need to fedex whatever to Edinburgh ...—@alexmilowski
Monday at 12:09am
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 05:43am
@xmlcalabash @ndw A compiled version on http://t.co/4gQqThcsGh which works with java 1.6 would be nice! It could also be an old version—@nkutsche
@nkutsche @xmlcalabash @georgebina Oh, ok. I'll go back to 6. Wasn't any pressing need for 7 except I think some other
lib might now be 7.—@ndw
@xmlcalabash @ndw oXygen also supports Java 6 so that will be useful also for us /cc @nkutsche—@georgebina
Wednesday at 06:40pm
Wednesday at 10:09pm
Thursday at 06:52am
Congratulations to Giants fans; condolences to Royals fans. Continued existential
commiseration for their lot in life to Cubs fans.—@scalzi
Thursday at 08:55am
RT @marcuschown: The Sun. Taken at night. Not looking up at the sky but down through 8000 miles of
rock. Not with light but neutrinos. http…—@ndw
Thursday at 09:12am
@alexmilowski Congratulations, Alex!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:16am
Thursday at 09:16am
Thursday at 09:19am
Thursday at 09:43am
The more programmers try to avoid learning about the actual problem the more they
have to learn about problems of their own making.—@natpryce
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 11:57am
I really should do all my daft XSL string escaping when I’m in the same room as @laurendw, @ndw, @docum3nt, @dalapeyre, @walmsleyph et al…—@fidothe
Saturday at 10:03am
RT @Libroantiguo: Medieval scribes tested their pens drawing doodles, Bodleian Library, Lat. misc.
c. 66, 15th century. http://t.co/NGLvy4R…—@ndw
Saturday at 10:43am
Bravo. http://t.co/KWEZ0J6HC9—@alexmassie
Saturday at 06:31pm
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 12:25am
Sunday at 12:42am
Sunday at 03:37pm
Cryptography is the only art which makes things not to be understood.
Except postmodernism which is trash anyway.—@SwiftOnSecurity