The short-form week of 14–20 Dec 2015
21 Dec 2015; last modified 02 Feb 2016
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 09:31pm
Monday at 10:17pm
35 Lines XQuery versus 604 of XSLT: A List of W3C Recommendations https://t.co/FWf27Cq4UV @XQuery @ndw @KirkDBorne
—@patrickDurusau
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:32pm
Tried to watch The Expanse on the #SyFy app. FFS how many commerci...oh, hello Amazon Instant Video. Show has real potential.—@ndw
@ndw Tried, but just couldn't get into it.—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers I'm not totally hooked, but I'll give it a couple of episodes. Pilots have to introduce so much.—@ndw
@ndw Good point. May try again. I'm getting used to binge watching. Actually having to tune in each week is hard.—@shelleypowers
Tuesday at 11:11pm
RT @dweinberger: Time to redefine "Wolf Blitzer": The amount of alcohol it will take to wipe this hate-fest from my memory forever. #GOPdeb…—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:24pm
To the various causes and charities I support that insist on sending email nearly every day. Congrats, I've filtered you into oblivion.—@ndw
Wednesday at 02:24pm
Thursday at 10:58am
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 11:11am
Solved slightly tricky XML Schema problem. Is that a point in my favor or a point against?—@ndw
@ndw I would you rather see it as a point in your favour. Why do you doubt that?—@Wolfgang_Schi
@ndw demonstrating #XSD mastery by now may be like excelling at #calligraphy: a thing of intricate beauty, but not in very high demand.—@dret
Thursday at 11:11am
Thursday at 06:16pm
@aljopainter Just worked out a way to make a simple type accept either an xs:dateTime *or* an empty string w/o xsi:nil nonsense.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 04:28pm
Why do conservatives hate healthcare? Aren't healthy people better employees? Or is it really cheaper to let them die and hire new ones?—@ndw
@ndw it's a shibbileth: in the hyper-partisan US atmosphere, every public-policy question comes across as "which side are you on?"—@david_megginson
@david_megginson Yeah. I'm not naive enough to believe there are simple answers but some answers are obviously wrong nevertheless.—@ndw
@ndw less "no simple answers" and more "different terms of discourse."—@david_megginson
@david_megginson I guess. And I don't count because I'm to the left of everyone that's left of Sanders.—@ndw
@ndw I live in a country of balanced budgets *and* socialised healthcare; welcomed refugees *and* the tar sands. Left/right are hard to map.—@david_megginson
@ndw ... low corporate taxes *and* gender parity in the federal cabinet; strictly-regulated banks *and* publicly-funded religious schools.—@david_megginson
Saturday at 02:08am
Saturday at 02:09am
RT @SwiftOnSecurity: I'm sorry, I get yelly when people use the descent of humanity into a permanent post-nuclear hellscape to score politi…—@ndw
Saturday at 02:18am
Saturday at 06:57pm
RT @letitiawolf: Reading @RichardDawkins tweets always makes me feel better about the world, until I then inevitably read some of the repli…—@ndw
Saturday at 08:08pm
RT @SoVeryBritish: Shopping
1st week of December: "They'll love that"
2nd: "They won't mind that, will they?"
3rd: "Could give them cash?"
…—@ndw
Saturday at 08:12pm
RT @MaraWritesStuff: "Ugh, put away your phone for once"
*Stops reading about current events and talking to beloved far away family members…—@ndw
Sunday at 11:49pm
RT @masonic_tweets: How to really ban encryption, just ban all prime numbers. 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, ... Let's attack this problem at its sour…—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 12:09am
@shelleypowers Yeah. I'm rewording my blog software and I'm on the fence about porting / reimplementing comments.—@ndw
@ndw I think the world outgrew comments.—@shelleypowers