0. 2008-01-30 23:24 Just passed a guy unicycling in the slush & snow. He didn't look happy.
1. 2008-01-31 01:13 Sigma DP1 seems slightly less vaporous. Was getting ready to pull the trigger on a Ricoh...
2. 2008-01-31 01:14 Oops, omitted the link: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0801/08013108sigmadp1.asp
3. 2008-01-31 05:25 Lost my travel mouse and impulse-bought a wireless Mighty Mouse. I gotta say, it's pretty slick.
4. 2008-01-31 08:00 Except for the thumping of the print blocks, their work can be as quiet as prayer. http://tinyurl.com/3xzapj
5. 2008-01-31 16:45 Blow up BC Place! (See op-ed in today's Sun.)
6. 2008-01-31 19:21 The digicam industry's strategy going forward, shorter version: Ya shoot with a full-frame sensor or yer a weenie.
7. 2008-01-31 20:07 Wow, check it out: http://www.windowsserver2008.com/
8. 2008-01-31 21:22 @zeldman - only Canada I think
9. 2008-01-31 22:26 Hmm... underwater Google options. What a concept.
10. 2008-01-31 22:53 Gosh, isn't it nice that all of Twitter's problems have evaporated as a result of the move?
11. 2008-02-01 06:32 Wildstrom: "you’re not going to be using the Air for video editing or software development." - http://tinyurl.com/2s3eyr
12. 2008-02-01 17:54 I wonder how many different Yahoo userid's there are across all their properties? I wonder what that number divided by 4.4 * 10^10 is?
13. 2008-02-01 19:55 Russ: "Anyone who stays after a MS purchase won't be working there for the love of the company, that's for sure." http://tinyurl.com/2jco6c
14. 2008-02-01 21:33 I gotta say, the Y/M coverage is mostly colossally boring. Probably because, at the end of the day, so is the deal.
15. 2008-02-01 23:50 My brain feels like wet kleenex.
16. 2008-02-02 00:15 Hearing for maybe the thousandth time, the mixtape I made for the store downstairs from my office. Just at the edge of hearing, thankfully.
17. 2008-02-02 02:43 Let's suppose the M/Y deal is strategically sound. Even so, they'll be paralyzed for a year merging. A year at best.
18. 2008-02-02 04:31 @mattblodgett - But I *like* local variables.
19. 2008-02-02 06:35 Scanning slides from 1962-1967. I was one great-looking little boy; what went wrong?
20. 2008-02-03 03:10 Just got an email wanting a quote from a guy whose signature says "Personal Branding Gen-Y Expert". Hmmm.
21. 2008-02-03 05:51 @brentsimmons - it's about the nachos and beer and commercials. Who cares who's playing?
22. 2008-02-03 05:55 Anyhow it's just Tom Petty at half-time. Yawn.
23. 2008-02-03 08:34 Wow, Libération has a NY blogger (the Super Bowl, en Français): http://libenewyork.blogs.liberation.fr/stephane/
24. 2008-02-03 08:38 Ce dimanche soir, 18 heures, c’est donc la finale du championnat de foot américain.
25. 2008-02-03 20:04 Ooh, first Sigman DP1 samples: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0802/08020301sigmadp1gallery.asp
26. 2008-02-04 07:20 I kinda like Tom Petty, but that performance was pretty lame. Give Prince a 5-year contract for the gig.
27. 2008-02-06 21:56 Coming back from quick Prairie trip. THe slanting light on the snow this time of year, there's nothing like it.
28. 2008-02-07 07:38 Adorable snowy cows: http://tinyurl.com/2v9lvd
29. 2008-02-07 07:42 @lrz - this is a *good* thing.
30. 2008-02-07 21:03 Thinking about the examples in http://arclanguage.org/item?id=722 - readability doesn't seem to be at a premium.
31. 2008-02-08 01:11 Best prank ever: Stopping time at Grand Central Station: http://tinyurl.com/273y4q
32. 2008-02-08 01:12 I miss Kathy Sierra too.
33. 2008-02-08 01:19 FancyZoom (http://tinyurl.com/2lw8zq) is lovely.. but isn't it better to load a smaller image and link to the big one?
34. 2008-02-08 07:38 Ah, the ISO process.
35. 2008-02-08 18:02 High-ISO comparison chart for recent cams: http://tinyurl.com/2epgrn and (especially) http://tinyurl.com/2fzybs
36. 2008-02-09 03:07 @robilad - ".yu"? Huh? Where's that now?
37. 2008-02-09 04:42 @penmachine - Shabu shabu, that stuff does permanent damage.
38. 2008-02-09 06:56 Scanning slides is therapeutic; a slow progress towards a distant but finite goal, with shards of beauty & memory accumulated along the way.
39. 2008-02-09 08:06 Brace your soul: http://tinyurl.com/2egvwc
40. 2008-02-09 20:06 Ordered a Ricoh GX-100.
41. 2008-02-10 08:27 As it's now past midnight, this is XML's tenth birthday. Seems like yesterday, or a lifetime.
42. 2008-02-10 18:29 It's OK to have a mullet in 2008 if you're a blonde 18-month-old toddler girl. Or if you're Roberto Luongo.
43. 2008-02-10 18:41 Seven thousand words on the personal history of XML: http://tinyurl.com/37d7dw
44. 2008-02-10 19:11 It turns out that a SanDisk ultra II 2.0GB compact flash card can go through a washing machine in your shirt pocket and still work.
45. 2008-02-10 19:11 @edd - where's "here"?
46. 2008-02-10 22:12 Thinking there's some jQuery in my future.
47. 2008-02-10 22:16 @halostatue: http://tinyurl.com/24qgwh
48. 2008-02-10 22:26 @halostatue I use Pentax myself so I'm biased. But they seem on a bit of a roll. K10D is cheap if you can find one, K20D about to arrive.
49. 2008-02-10 22:49 @twleung Only downside is that that sucker is *big*; you're gonna get RSI in your wrist carrying it around all day.
50. 2008-02-11 06:33 Nexenta 1.0 ships: http://www.nexenta.org/os
51. 2008-02-11 06:51 @glynnfoster: Blogs are so 2006, that was then.
52. 2008-02-11 07:02 OO.org for the Mac, native aqua build, beta: http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html
53. 2008-02-11 09:05 More than just a little funny: http://www.vimeo.com/77426
54. 2008-02-11 09:08 Free icons! http://tinyurl.com/37s2cg
55. 2008-02-11 17:41 @JulieLeung - it would really good to have you back.
56. 2008-02-11 22:09 @pkedrosky - Mmmm, the warm glow of Rogers hate.
57. 2008-02-11 22:24 All you guys are so brave, installing major OS updates the moment they're posted.
58. 2008-02-11 23:01 @chuq - Apple hates you
59. 2008-02-11 23:24 Ah, Pentax lens culture: http://tinyurl.com/2nbon8 (also http://tinyurl.com/22m4fv [PDF])
60. 2008-02-12 00:25 @matthewi - yer WAY out on a limb. You might want to publish the back of that envelope and see what people say.
61. 2008-02-12 00:36 @lowbit - Pentax doesn't have a camera with a 35mm sensor. The much-ballyhooed new K20D uses typical digicam 23.4 mm x 15.6 mm.
62. 2008-02-12 01:23 For my sins, plowing through OOXML Dispositions of Comments.
63. 2008-02-12 01:42 @lowbig - ah, the macro. Also consider the 40mm pancake, unbelievably small & light.
64. 2008-02-12 01:45 @lowbit - ah, the macro. Also consider the 40mm pancake, unbelievably small & light. Oops, first was to "@lowbig"
65. 2008-02-12 06:37 Holy crap... Aquamacs has a Mac-style "open recent" menu, and it works. Mac crack + Emacs smack = high on life.
66. 2008-02-12 07:16 10.5.2 upgrade no prob. WiFi flakiness gone. See no other differences.
67. 2008-02-12 07:48 Leopard Graphics Update?
68. 2008-02-12 07:49 @lrz: To discover good American beers, go up to Portland, Oregon, for a weekend.
69. 2008-02-12 08:28 http://rubyfringe.com/ - isn't $650 a little steep for a small regional ruby conf?
70. 2008-02-12 17:06 I note that those who like to say "Internet OS" or "Web OS" have typically never dealt directly with an OS.
71. 2008-02-12 17:25 Hmm, seems we bought VirtualBox (see http://tinyurl.com/2o2f97)
72. 2008-02-12 18:00 Tripit might be great, but it can't handle email from either of the places I usually book travel.
73. 2008-02-12 20:46 Twitter "Follow" version doesn't seem to work on Camino. Hmmm.
74. 2008-02-12 22:06 Booting Nexenta on VirtualBox
75. 2008-02-12 22:27 Correction: *Failing* to boot Nexenta on VirtualBox on OS X. Sigh.
76. 2008-02-12 23:02 LazyWeb: Best OS X BitTorrent client?
77. 2008-02-12 23:20 LazyWeb says, by an overwhelming margin: Transmission. Thank you, LazyWeb.
78. 2008-02-12 23:22 @duncan - I assume you'll be writing about Aperture?
79. 2008-02-13 01:42 @halostatue - try the NetBeans ruby-only package. Seriously.
80. 2008-02-13 04:22 Installing Nexenta on VirtualBox again; after increasing disk/mem, it works.
81. 2008-02-13 04:29 @metadaddy - already got it. I'll try both. Nexenta booted but is stuck in text-console mode, sigh.
82. 2008-02-13 08:27 Ah, just filed my first Indiana DP2 bug. Network problem on OS X + VirtualBox + Preview 2, maybe a little unfair. I'm ruthless.
83. 2008-02-13 17:59 "In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love". Sex actiually. And middle-aged men too. Dunno about the women.
84. 2008-02-13 18:22 @gruber is right about Flash & iPhone, thank goodness: http://tinyurl.com/37w4ve
85. 2008-02-13 19:38 @chadfowler - does Joe have flowing white locks and the aspect of a Biblical prophet?
86. 2008-02-13 20:53 UPS says my new camera's in town but delayed by "Adverse weather conditions". I'm looking out the window at blue sky & sunshine.
87. 2008-02-13 21:28 @ftrain - Wouldn't an extern be better?
88. 2008-02-13 21:38 Hah! Have Indy running under VirtualBox under OS X
89. 2008-02-13 21:58 @DirtyF: Why not. Macs are what many developers use.
90. 2008-02-13 22:29 Oooh, my Ricoh GX-100 is in. Must... focus... on... work...
91. 2008-02-14 05:23 Lauren reports that the Vancouver-Seattle Amtrak service is very pleasant.
92. 2008-02-14 06:11 urgh. GMail lockup.
93. 2008-02-14 07:01 Looking at my first GX-100 shots. Have never dealt with RAW+JPEG before in Lightroom. Much to learn.
94. 2008-02-14 17:58 OH: "The Java people have severe closure envy."
95. 2008-02-14 18:48 @ndw Why?
96. 2008-02-14 20:08 Jeepers, input flow today is outta control. Haven't managed to break out of email/chat/phone since I sat down early.
97. 2008-02-14 20:17 Web-Centric VRM. With Atom. http://tinyurl.com/3xp79f
98. 2008-02-14 21:43 You couldn't make this shit up: BPEL4People: http://tinyurl.com/36s5c5
99. 2008-02-15 00:26 Lauren and I are doing that with Twin Peaks. We bought the 25-show DVD set and are working through it. Most of it holds up pretty well.
100. 2008-02-15 05:13 4-day single-Dad stretch while Lauren hangs with the knitting posse: http://www.madronafiberarts.com/
101. 2008-02-15 05:32 On my MacBook I'm getting weeks of uptime lately. I would have said that Leopard as updated is among the stabler of OS X versions.
102. 2008-02-15 08:17 New camera, cute cat & flowers: http://tinyurl.com/33t5sn
103. 2008-02-15 18:02 Watch your cuteness meter overload and explode: http://tinyurl.com/2uxsal
104. 2008-02-15 18:35 "Hormel profit helped by Spam sales" - had to cut & paste that headline *somewhere*: http://tinyurl.com/3xh2x5
105. 2008-02-15 19:14 @zakgreant - where do you get good shawarma here?
106. 2008-02-15 19:48 Best shawarma I ever had was in Amman, Jordan. It just doesn't taste the same in the New World.
107. 2008-02-15 20:24 r->connection->server->process, ofcourse
108. 2008-02-15 20:40 @emilsit - reading that is making me ravenous. Breaking for lunch.
109. 2008-02-15 21:50 Urgh... NetBeans 6.1m1 did *not* make me happy. Let's try today's snapshot...
110. 2008-02-16 00:20 @gruber - well, you know, they are *built* in China. A little tap on the side of the pipe, upstream...
111. 2008-02-16 22:04 My son's soccer team finally beat the dreaded ICSF, after 2 years of futility, a tight 3-2 win. Joy all around. I have to tell *somebody*.
112. 2008-02-17 03:40 Roy Fielding has a blog: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/
113. 2008-02-17 05:06 Using iChat a bit, was all-Adium. Everyone is on AIM or Jabber these days, who needs Y! or MSN? Plus sending screenshots & files is nice.
114. 2008-02-17 05:40 Gosh, those hockey players got up on the wrong side of bed.
115. 2008-02-17 05:47 Can they stop the hockey game already?
116. 2008-02-17 08:45 You know, when you import a few dozen 5782x3946 slide scans, Lightroom kinda gets a nauseous sensation.
117. 2008-02-17 20:52 Beautiful and stimulating visual art every day: http://www.linesandcolors.com/
118. 2008-02-17 20:54 Bleeding from the brain: http://www.snellspace.com/wp/?p=895
119. 2008-02-17 22:06 Java closures poll: http://java.net/pub/pq/196 - say your piece.
120. 2008-02-17 22:51 Welcome Kosovo. What's the digraph?
121. 2008-02-17 23:01 The .ks TLD is available.
122. 2008-02-18 04:54 @twleung - yeah... but some truly great apps are built in it. Go figure.
123. 2008-02-18 05:17 @duncan - the food court at the end of the walkway in the United terminal is not bad
124. 2008-02-18 05:31 I think this seriously weird. Check the first entry in a google search for yak shaving
125. 2008-02-18 05:40 @bmanley I honestly didn't know the idiom
126. 2008-02-18 06:06 @samerfarha - Aha, that's it, I'm sure. The deletionists got it, but the pointers survive.
127. 2008-02-18 06:07 @chuq - I'd respin that as "few people do". But my experience may be unusual.
128. 2008-02-18 08:03 Ouf. Linux Foundation getting pissy: http://tinyurl.com/2oymuc
129. 2008-02-18 08:58 Blogging, it's feast or famine. Suddenly I've like 10 big fun interesting posts begging to be written, after a dry couple weeks. 2/day max!
130. 2008-02-18 09:08 Just did WB adjust in Lightroom by clicking on the fur of a white rat.
131. 2008-02-18 18:32 Slashdotted...
132. 2008-02-18 19:10 Jeepers, OS X goes completely brain-dead if you try to access a CD with data errors.
133. 2008-02-18 19:48 Hm... 5K referrals in 3 hours from slashdot. A pale shadow of its former self.
134. 2008-02-18 19:51 Used to be 20K in the first hour. Mind you, XML is a boring subject :)
135. 2008-02-19 00:13 In my other office: http://tinyurl.com/35h7gb
136. 2008-02-19 07:32 Staying in Newark/Fremont tonight. I kinda like the East Bay.
137. 2008-02-19 14:49 Settling into 7-hour ISO OOXML BRM prep conference call
138. 2008-02-19 15:50 @stevebaker: It's remarkable... they never seem to come back and say "Could we have 400 *more* words?"
139. 2008-02-19 16:09 @pkedrosky: There are, but it doesn't matter. 95% of everything is crap anyhow and we seem to do OK at bringing the good stuff to view.
140. 2008-02-19 17:52 @chuq - come over to the *dark* side. I mean Lightroom of course.
141. 2008-02-19 17:54 Eek! My strudel attacked me.
142. 2008-02-19 18:02 "what you choose as a double life hangs upon the very fingernails of the befallen wastrels that pad across the..." http://tinyurl.com/35pgdt
143. 2008-02-19 18:02 @annez - you need a lightweight folding chair. Trust me on this.
144. 2008-02-19 18:05 @duncan: One question: As fast as Lightroom?
145. 2008-02-19 19:24 Just discovered that a person with whom I have been emailing for some months is not the gender I had htought. A unique mental jolt.
146. 2008-02-19 22:09 I'm strapped into a sealed vehicle hurtling at higher and higher speed toward the apocalyptic OOXML meeting in Geneva next week.
147. 2008-02-19 22:13 I promised not to blog while still inside the process. Sigh.
148. 2008-02-20 07:17 You know, if Obama wins, it's a major gift to the world's political cartoonists. Those ears...
149. 2008-02-20 21:56 gmail AWOL for anyone else, or just me?
150. 2008-02-20 23:56 @lmorchard: and the cake is a lie, too
151. 2008-02-21 00:15 @duncan: who makes this thing?
152. 2008-02-21 16:28 Anyone liveblogging whatever it is Msft is announcing? Or tweeting?
153. 2008-02-21 16:39 Msft announcement http://tinyurl.com/2ouelx
154. 2008-02-21 16:45 ... and will "license all of these patents on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, at low royalty rates." Hmmm
155. 2008-02-21 17:13 The devil is *totally* in the details. And the distinction between commercial & non-commercial is interesting.
156. 2008-02-21 23:50 ezmobius Does it discuss the Merb alternative?
157. 2008-02-22 05:24 I have Iggy Pop and you guys are toast.
158. 2008-02-22 05:27 Q: Does anyone *use* Ohloh or is it just a pretty toy?
159. 2008-02-22 21:13 Northern Voice/Moose Camp - what a *nice* little conference
160. 2008-02-22 22:35 If you're in the NorthWest, you ought to consider coming to Northern Voice: http://tinyurl.com/2sxo4d
161. 2008-02-23 21:46 Waiting for the plane to Geneva for the OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting. My God have mercy on my soul.
162. 2008-02-24 13:31 Brilliant sunshine and warmth in Geneva! Gotta get out into it...
163. 2008-02-24 14:26 Looking for a dinner date in Geneva
164. 2008-02-24 18:41 Foreign butler cafe in Shibuya. http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=3888 Turnabout is fair play, I guess.
165. 2008-02-25 06:35 Hi, Ho, it's off to the BRM we go
166. 2008-02-25 13:13 Decree: No pictures from the BRM.
167. 2008-02-26 10:01 WTFPL - innovative software licensing: http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/2008/02/wtfpl.html
168. 2008-02-26 15:39 7½ hours into today's ISO grind. Brain threatening to liquefy & run out my ears.
169. 2008-02-26 21:21 At the end of the day, the technology's irrelevant.
170. 2008-02-26 21:24 Hors d'oeuvres and wine for dinner. I think I have dyspepsia or some other Victorian disorder. Phlogiston? No, that is entirely different.
171. 2008-02-26 22:04 You know, there's no sane excuse to upgrade my MacBook :(
172. 2008-02-26 22:22 You guys are evil... EVIL I say.
173. 2008-02-27 07:23 "Python devours family's chihuahua" with picture! http://tinyurl.com/2wbucg
174. 2008-02-27 11:10 @codinghorror - I can say authoritatively that there is *nothing* more boring than XML.
175. 2008-02-27 15:14 @tomlazar: block that sucker.
176. 2008-02-27 15:16 @tomlazar: Er I mean blog not block.
177. 2008-02-27 20:34 Smoke on the Water, don't miss it: http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=3897 Trust me on this.
178. 2008-02-28 14:39 Blogging from (gasp) inside the BRM: http://tinyurl.com/2kpwyn
179. 2008-02-28 20:04 4 BRM days down, 1 BRM day to go
180. 2008-02-29 15:25 Into the last hour... beer in sight.
181. 2008-02-29 15:57 </BRM>
182. 2008-02-29 23:15 BRM blogging: http://tinyurl.com/2p6pol
183. 2008-03-01 07:44 Horrified at the unabashed fact-free spin (pro & contra) of other peoples' BRM reporting.
184. 2008-03-01 14:00 Bad weather in Europe: unexpected overnight in Frankfurt. Oh joy.
185. 2008-03-03 14:29 Boy, can you ever get a lot work done while suffering from West-traveling jet-lag.
186. 2008-03-03 14:56 Sun ♡ Python: http://tinyurl.com/3x8bop
187. 2008-03-03 15:03 Yow: glad I was only *delayed* by bad weather in Germany yesterday: http://tinyurl.com/27hevw
188. 2008-03-03 15:09 @SaraD - if you're on a Mac, open the character Palette (under the US flag for you) and search for "heart".
189. 2008-03-03 15:22 Awww.... Jeff Healey died.
190. 2008-03-03 15:22 Jeff Healey: http://tinyurl.com/39q5az
191. 2008-03-03 17:59 O'Reilly's 2007 programming-language data is out: http://tinyurl.com/36863d
192. 2008-03-03 18:04 Dog failures: http://faildogs.com/
193. 2008-03-03 18:49 Now that Conrad Black's actually in jail, I'm no longer mad at him. And I was mad for 20 years. Poor guy. Straight out of Sophocles.
194. 2008-03-03 18:50 @pragdave - why don't you post a response & get a conversation going. Those numbers do correspond with reasonable intuition.
195. 2008-03-03 18:57 Boy, does reddit ever drive traffic these days
196. 2008-03-03 19:51 @twleung not to mention being #1 at programming.reddit.com
197. 2008-03-04 00:30 Dropping by Facebook for the first time in a couple of months
198. 2008-03-04 00:34 Done with Facebook for another month or two
199. 2008-03-04 12:56 Well, that's two mornings of up-at-4AM.
200. 2008-03-04 17:37 Updating Aquamacs emacs. At 123M, it's as big an install as many post-modern Gui apps. And it's almost all text. Yow.
201. 2008-03-04 17:57 The stock market is really not very good.
202. 2008-03-04 18:07 @pkedrosky I mean as a place for civilians to put money. What is this "morality" of which you speak?
203. 2008-03-04 18:29 Best write-up so far on the OOXML Geneva circus: http://tinyurl.com/3xv6mp
204. 2008-03-04 20:26 Tim's blog: all OOXML all the time. But I think I'm done: http://tinyurl.com/34dx9q
205. 2008-03-04 21:08 Great video comparing web apps. 378M but worth it. Linked from http://tinyurl.com/yqn76o
206. 2008-03-05 21:47 Hmm... the Financial Times now quotes from (but does not link to) bloggers: http://tinyurl.com/2nl7v3
207. 2008-03-05 21:48 FT: "Brussels to probe votes on Microsoft standard" http://tinyurl.com/2nl7v3
208. 2008-03-05 22:26 So, am I alone in my lack of distress over the lack of Flash on the iPhone?
209. 2008-03-06 00:48 @nicksieger: "The stories and pictures and movies and music that are on computers"
210. 2008-03-06 05:57 Picked up a K20D. It's gonna take some getting used to. Doesn't play nice with Aperture out of the box.
211. 2008-03-06 06:04 er Lightroom not Aperture
212. 2008-03-06 06:25 @twleung yeah, 23M .dng files. ISO1600 shots lookin' great, but big Lightroom trouble trying to fix the white balance.
213. 2008-03-06 15:44 Off for a Silly Valley overnighter. I'm visiting Walmart.com this afternoon,coolio!
214. 2008-03-06 22:08 Hanging in the MPK cafeteria, which is actually Sun's global nerve centre.
215. 2008-03-06 23:50 Have established that K20D DNG's and Adobe Lightroom do *not* play well together. Urgh
216. 2008-03-06 23:56 @blaine - what did you do in the interim? Use the klunky Pentax software?
217. 2008-03-07 00:12 @blaine - yeah, still does PEF. Will have to try some of those.
218. 2008-03-07 00:19 OK, these remarkable seventies photos went around the net a while back. But the're good enough to revisit: http://tinyurl.com/35vkx2
219. 2008-03-07 04:08 Use The Force, Nat.
220. 2008-03-07 16:32 Heading to the O'Reilly concurrency summit, http://wiki.oreillynet.com/concurrency2008/index.cgi - dawns on me that I should've blogged it.
221. 2008-03-08 01:46 Starting to mind-meld with the GX100. Check out the interior shot: http://tinyurl.com/3az888
222. 2008-03-08 02:55 Another day, another canceled flight
223. 2008-03-08 08:18 Wow, I have an anime character following me, @lllXOlll
224. 2008-03-08 08:28 Wondering what a "Yoghurt brombær og nødder + Ga-Jol original" is. @aslakr for details.
225. 2008-03-08 21:32 Bad crane day: http://www.xpotting.com/feb/feb13/05/tabla10.htm
226. 2008-03-09 04:56 Holy crap. Slashdot runs a pro-OOXML puff-piece: "The allegations that we didn't cover aren't true". We are in the end-times.
227. 2008-03-09 17:11 Downloading the NIN sampler. Predisposed to buy if it's any good, to encourage this kind of behavior.
228. 2008-03-09 21:21 click-fraud marketing: http://bux.to/?r=pitti
229. 2008-03-10 06:15 First listen to ИIИ's new "Ghosts" instrumentals. Highly appropriate for a fatigued Sunday evening. I have to buy the sliver disc I think.
230. 2008-03-10 19:17 Having a nostalgia wave at the mention of XML.com. I wonder what will become of it?
231. 2008-03-11 22:07 I do enjoy Twitter but I'll be glad when SXSW is over.
232. 2008-03-12 05:13 Listening to Cale/Clapton "Road to Escondido". Not pushing back any musical boundaries, but very pleasant.
233. 2008-03-12 05:52 For decades, I thought the other word used for the introduction of a book was "Forward". Still makes perfect sense to me.
234. 2008-03-12 06:04 Holy cow, check out the trailer. The 720p version knocked my eyes out: http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/walle/hd/
235. 2008-03-12 15:26 Headline: "John Denver classic provokes Thai karaoke gun massacre"
236. 2008-03-12 17:20 Hmm... following random people on Twitter is a not-bad way to get them to take that one perhaps-crucial glance at your online presence.
237. 2008-03-12 17:46 Hmm, just noticed that I own "atompub.net". No recollection of grabbing it.
238. 2008-03-12 18:28 @cote - just the enterprise product, on the face of it. Sxip has other stuff.
239. 2008-03-12 20:27 @codinghorror - get a Mac.
240. 2008-03-12 20:35 @migueldeicaza: when Linux gets the suspend/resume and outboard-display stuff working, I'm pretty well there. Except for I'd miss Lightroom
241. 2008-03-12 21:19 Thinking it's just not possible to make progress on a boring coding task with a Twitter client active.
242. 2008-03-12 21:32 Best thing Simon Phipps has ever written: http://tinyurl.com/2sdun7
243. 2008-03-12 22:51 @twleung - Come over to the dark side. The Pentax side. Exotic-lens otaku fulfillment.
244. 2008-03-12 22:53 @shanselman - Any time you touch XSD there will be pain. And, uh, I use RelaxNG all the time, so in some sense it happened.
245. 2008-03-12 22:57 @shanselman Well, RNG is *better* than XSD by any metric. Successor, who knows? And any schema is a weak reed to lean on for validation.
246. 2008-03-12 23:05 @shanselman Schemas have lousy ROI, people put too much weight on them. Useless @runtime. Gotta validate with code for anything important.
247. 2008-03-12 23:08 See, come to work for Sun and you can splurge on high-end cameras.
248. 2008-03-13 16:23 Just because Spitzer is a hypocrite doesn't mean the Wall Street operators he skewered weren't large-scale thieves, deserving what they got.
249. 2008-03-13 17:52 I think @chadfowler has way too much time on his hands. Someone at RubyCentral needs to find some important work for him; maybe tax filings?
250. 2008-03-13 20:02 I dunno, @gruber, the OpenDNS explanation seems kind of defensible.
251. 2008-03-13 20:45 The proportion of "XXX is following you" where XXX is not a person but a marketing operation of some sort is small, but increasing.
252. 2008-03-13 20:57 I think what marketers get is that you're apt to look at their feed once when you see the "following". Not much upside but zero cost. Spam.
253. 2008-03-13 23:20 How many followers is a lot? Is there any data about averages, shape of the curve, etc?
254. 2008-03-13 23:30 Wow, I hardly follow any of the top 100. I must be clueless.
255. 2008-03-14 04:57 @dlemen: Alive, or clean/dead?
256. 2008-03-14 05:12 Hah! Adobe ships ACR 4.4/LR 1.4, with support for the new Pentaxes.
257. 2008-03-14 05:32 @paulsmith - mmm, can't beat that record, and PSB has never made a bad speaker.
258. 2008-03-14 05:43 @paulsmith - in my office I'm driving 15-year-old Totems with a Cary Rocket 88 from a USB D/A from my laptop. Just to be perverse.
259. 2008-03-14 06:26 @lrz: I once ordered choucroute in Luxembourg. OMG they brought half the pig on the huge plate with a little choucroute in the corner.
260. 2008-03-14 15:49 There are very few cases where it's right to cause links to open in a new window. If you're doing this you're almost certainly wrong.
261. 2008-03-14 16:54 Holy crap, does @gruber ever drive traffic.
262. 2008-03-14 17:44 2.718281828459045235360287471352662497757247093699959574966967627724076630353547594571382178525166427427466391932003059921817413596629043572
263. 2008-03-14 19:42 OK OK I'M SORRY FOR BREAKING TWITTER. Anyhow, @josephgrossberg started it. What happens to tweets in Chinese or Japanese, no spaces there?
264. 2008-03-14 19:51 @twleung - you need a D3 ... you *must have* a D3 ...
265. 2008-03-16 01:17 Comin' at ya from Lahaina, and that's why you won't be hearing from me much for the next ten days. Have fun!
266. 2008-03-18 05:52 @gruber: the trick is to *just not care*
267. 2008-03-19 09:03 Hah. Just got a full Press Pass for Java One in my capacity as blogger. FYI It's *really* hard for Sun employees to get first-class access.
268. 2008-03-19 09:11 Lightroom on a 2007 MacBook, when asked to sort through ~80 14.6MP K20D RAW files, hurts. I'd been hoping not to upgrade any time soon.
269. 2008-03-19 09:22 @Rerun_van_Pelt - Don't know, upgraded from the ancient *ist-D - it is amazingly, ridiculously better.
270. 2008-03-20 02:01 On the word "bumblebee": http://tinyurl.com/3dp7vw
271. 2008-03-22 00:12 I'm on vacation and somehow missed the start of the whole "colorteam" thing... explanation?
272. 2008-03-25 18:33 Breadth-first approaches to catching up after a 10-day vacation turn out not to work.
273. 2008-03-25 21:39 @pkedrosky - we thought you were just happy to see us.
274. 2008-03-26 00:48 @smaragdis - No, toast with lots of butter and good strawberry jam.
275. 2008-03-26 04:07 Watching women's curling with pleasure, it's surprisingly good TV. USA vs Canada at the worlds, gonna come down to the last rock
276. 2008-03-26 04:53 @DaveO - SEO is a pretty slimy space.
277. 2008-03-26 05:03 @dierken - The best SEO is to post useful material retgularly, in an engaging human voice, and link intelligently. Failing that, SEO.
278. 2008-03-26 07:30 3 Maui Ladies: http://tinyurl.com/3cz6tr
279. 2008-03-26 15:29 Cut & Paste Transport Architecture: http://tinyurl.com/2v84wz
280. 2008-03-26 19:14 @codinghorror - AAARGH!
281. 2008-03-26 22:01 I swear they've started photoshopping Obama's ears to make them bigger. If he wins, he's a gift to a generation of political cartoonists.
282. 2008-03-26 22:36 Damn, Mac Pros are pricy.
283. 2008-03-26 23:21 @mezzoblue - a bit of snow on Main Street, too.
284. 2008-03-26 23:36 Bloody Apple store has busted cookie handling. I almost accidentally bought 2 Mac Pros!!
285. 2008-03-26 23:49 $25 to see the Raconteurs at the Commodore: bargain. $9 per ticket to Ticketmaster: out & out robbery.
286. 2008-03-27 00:49 Better feed reading: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/03/26/Input
287. 2008-03-27 04:30 LazyWeb: Read this long piece recently, saying you should use static langs for big projects especially if you don't TDD. Lost it. Pointer?
288. 2008-03-27 04:33 Hah, found it: Karsten Wagner, http://tinyurl.com/29r7qg
289. 2008-03-27 18:48 English is a living language. Words come into existence and usually irritate some people when they do. Fighting an incoming word is useless.
290. 2008-03-27 22:10 The top level element in an Atom document should have been <atom> not <feed>. Oh well.
291. 2008-03-27 22:37 "It is what it is" means "You're stuck with it, suck it up and deal with it".
292. 2008-03-28 02:46 Blackbook rocks: 19:45 up 27 days, 12:29, 3 users, load averages: 0.73 1.00 0.65
293. 2008-03-28 03:18 What is Photoshop Express written in?
294. 2008-03-28 03:18 D'oh, View Source... Flex/AIR
295. 2008-03-28 03:19 Photoshop express doesn't do Raw. FAIL.
296. 2008-03-28 03:27 @gruber - I have a (very minor) crack in my Blackbook, so it can happen.
297. 2008-03-28 06:38 Raconteurs' "Broken Boy Soldiers" is a truly wonderful pop/rock album. Totally recommended.
298. 2008-03-28 16:29 Heavy snow in Vancouver in late march. Supposed to be the boy's first baseball practice this afternoon. AAARGH
299. 2008-03-28 16:33 Idea: Atompub client for Lightroom, using LR's Lua Export API. LR can then export to WPress or any other APP-supporting publishing engine.
300. 2008-03-28 17:12 Eldorado in Amazonia: http://www.foto8.com/home/content/view/398/161/
301. 2008-03-28 20:20 Is there a good reason to switch from Twitterific to twhirl? T'ific working OK for me.
302. 2008-03-28 23:06 I envision a vast dark cold warehouse in Anchorage filled with in-transit Apple boxes, all white.
303. 2008-03-29 00:23 Heh... just took me a surprisingly long time to figure out where, on OS X, "sudo gem install" puts things.
304. 2008-03-29 00:29 @duncan - suppose I *never* make prints, I'm online-pix only. Does that change your calibration hints?
305. 2008-03-29 00:34 @duncan - that's the first time I've jammed a tweet pointer into delicious...
306. 2008-03-29 00:37 Heh - I've liked @duncan's pix for ages, but have never ever seen one displayed on dead trees. I bet I'm in the majority too.
307. 2008-03-29 06:03 Scanning slides of a Paris metro station, under repair, in 1994. Not bad actually.
308. 2008-03-29 06:04 George V to be precise.
309. 2008-03-29 16:25 Twitter via curl, neat: http://blogs.linux.org.bd/?p=6101
310. 2008-03-29 20:05 Good headline of the day: "Missing New York pastor has been found at an Ohio strip club" - http://tinyurl.com/2j2ucu
311. 2008-03-30 04:51 Is it bad if you spend Earth Hour fooling with lenses and cameras, trying to get a good picture of the many candles on the mantle?
312. 2008-03-30 05:55 Earth hour pic: http://tinyurl.com/2wer2z
313. 2008-03-31 04:01 Any twitterers watching Zimbabwe elections?
314. 2008-03-31 04:58 Zimbabwe Election Support Network: http://www.zesn.org.zw/ (running kinda slow)
315. 2008-04-02 17:08 Heading outta Chicago. I like Chicago, they're not afraid to be square. Architecturally I mean.
316. 2008-04-02 19:47 At the airport, woman across from me called someone, when they picked up she said "Hi, I'm bored." Refreshing honesty.
317. 2008-04-02 19:51 Thought experiment... think of the name of something/someone/someplace, put @ in front of it, ask your self "Should that exist"?
318. 2008-04-03 02:44 Hmm - 1,000 followers. And I still have no idea what Twitter *means*.
319. 2008-04-03 06:06 On Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/2ro5hk
320. 2008-04-03 19:18 Wasted best part of an hour getting an Apachecon submission to submit. Is it perhaps a bit ironic that Apache's server seems b0rked?
321. 2008-04-03 20:32 blog traffic ~220G/month these days... that's insane, something's wrong.
322. 2008-04-03 20:50 DHH on PHP: http://tinyurl.com/2b5fjb
323. 2008-04-03 21:02 Reading http://is.gd/42z it occurs to me that while I'd been thinking it'd be nice to have Elements back, maybe Lightroom is all you need?
324. 2008-04-04 02:40 Fooling with the XO laptop. DIsplay has switched into upside-down mode and won't switch back. Hmmm
325. 2008-04-04 04:19 Time Machine Backup: Backing up 1,499,381 items. 513.2 MB of 106.04 GB.
326. 2008-04-04 16:42 The Apple bluetooth mouse is round, smooth, & wireless: easy to drop on the floor. After you do this a few times, it doesn't work any more.
327. 2008-04-04 17:36 Blackbook FTW: ~> uptime 10:35 up 35 days, 3:19, 3 users, load averages: 0.64 0.41 0.30
328. 2008-04-04 23:10 Lazyweb: Could *really* use advice from someone who understands Blogger. Have broken a friend's blog in an effort to help.
329. 2008-04-04 23:14 Blogger pub-via-ftp silently failing and refusing to show log... ARGH
330. 2008-04-05 04:15 Requesting votes on whether or not I should hack my new Mac. With a hacksaw, I mean: http://is.gd/4g5
331. 2008-04-05 19:47 Wow, only five games into the baseball season and nobody's undefeated.
332. 2008-04-05 19:59 @avibryant - Mutton for dinner!
333. 2008-04-06 02:47 @duncan - is there conventional wisdom on how to keep your LR collections in sync between desktop & portable? I'm sure I saw a write-up...
334. 2008-04-06 05:09 Trying to sync Lightroom between two macs using rsync... What could go wrong?
335. 2008-04-06 08:13 rsync + Lightroom + DVT + ping-pong: http://tinyurl.com/6o2jrz
336. 2008-04-06 20:56 Feeling insufficiently radical. And irritatingly unsurprised by technology over the last year or so.
337. 2008-04-07 04:27 Truly great app: Keyboard Cleaner. http://tinyurl.com/yohotp
338. 2008-04-07 04:27 All my computers end up looking like Willie Nelson's guitar.
339. 2008-04-07 04:28 al3xbrown - that's nauseating
340. 2008-04-07 13:23 Headline: "NZ man 'used hedgehog as weapon'": http://tinyurl.com/5yjsjo
341. 2008-04-07 13:47 I hate industrial lighting. I wonder if the world has an airport somewhere with lighting that doesn't make people look like corpses.
342. 2008-04-07 22:26 Seems odd that Railsconf doesn't think attendees need to hear anything at all about the J option.
343. 2008-04-07 22:52 It would easier for tool vendors if there were one or even a couple dominant Ajax frameworks. Don't think it's gonna happen, sigh.
344. 2008-04-07 23:08 Dear Beijing: there are negative PR consequences to oppressing an unwilling national group. Suck it up and deal with it.
345. 2008-04-07 23:59 @cote - what do they mean by "SOA"
346. 2008-04-08 14:13 This Google App Engine application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later.
347. 2008-04-08 14:22 watching the GApps movie, I find it kind of hurts my eyes when people type in SQL by hand.
348. 2008-04-08 17:07 @shanselman - We have two. One does, the other doesn't. So I suspect it may be the kid, not externalities.
349. 2008-04-08 17:16 @shanselman - Mostly nature if y'ask me. It's amazing how different they are at the core.
350. 2008-04-08 17:47 @SaraD - I think you're just fine, keep it up.
351. 2008-04-08 21:55 @monkchips - that's one erroneous DE.
352. 2008-04-08 22:24 Hah... Dalibor Topic is joining Sun. I had no idea. http://robilad.livejournal.com/30463.html
353. 2008-04-08 23:54 Into the ninth hour of a strategy session.... brain feels like wet kleenex.
354. 2008-04-09 17:12 Sharecroppin' on Massa Google's farm: http://tinyurl.com/5wbqh5
355. 2008-04-09 18:14 Upside of rising food prices: http://tinyurl.com/5rcrxp
356. 2008-04-09 21:52 Oooh, check out @teamtibet - Twitter is an activist's dream tool.
357. 2008-04-09 21:55 Sun product launch blogstorm - http://tinyurl.com/5ktgfb - traditional technology marketing is so, so boring.
358. 2008-04-10 00:12 Ah... "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed". A triumphant arc of music and passion. Can't hear it too often.
359. 2008-04-10 19:20 SFO Terminal 1 is kinda grotty, but there are lots of places to plug in your computer.
360. 2008-04-10 19:55 People are sending me snickery notes about new Intel instructions advertised as useful for XML: http://tinyurl.com/6295td
361. 2008-04-11 00:00 The plane home to Vancouver was full of Tibetans who'd been at the torch run.
362. 2008-04-11 00:17 Java on iPhone, hmmm: http://tinyurl.com/4uqmgu
363. 2008-04-11 03:27 @twleung... I fired it up without incident. But then, I've been running the allegedly-buggy 1.4 for several weeks now.
364. 2008-04-11 05:44 Drat, added 4G to my 2G Mac Pro, it only sees the new 4G... thought I followed the instructions.
365. 2008-04-11 07:39 Imported 50min of HD video on the Mac Pro. In real time, cowabunga! Kiss 37G of disk good-bye.
366. 2008-04-11 08:09 Headlines you gotta love: "Maoists lag in early Nepal result" - (http://tinyurl.com/5ktsug)
367. 2008-04-11 08:11 PHP is strong in Florida: http://tinyurl.com/599u47
368. 2008-04-11 08:13 Oh, shit. Israeli tanks in Gaza: http://tinyurl.com/5k6c5g
369. 2008-04-11 08:39 OK, did my 10 minutes/month on Facebook Why do I lack the courage simply to ignore it?
370. 2008-04-11 19:29 @jzawodn - no shit... my sun.com address now gets several per hour. They all have this polished-HTML-mail look; common upstream source?
371. 2008-04-11 20:15 Jello strategy: http://tinyurl.com/6mq4nf
372. 2008-04-11 20:16 "Bottom line: Windows, as it exists today, is untenable." http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1331
373. 2008-04-11 21:03 heh, just hit "quick view" on an 8M TIF email attachment. It seems to be trying to work
374. 2008-04-11 23:51 @codinghorror - _why's level of eccentricity has been fairly constant during my couple years in the Ruby community. & he writes lovely code.
375. 2008-04-12 20:17 Installing Windows under BootCamp. 95 high-priority updates since XP SP2.
376. 2008-04-12 20:21 Why am I installing XP under BootCamp? Three reasons (a) games, (b) games, (c) games.
377. 2008-04-13 00:34 On a brand-new Windows machine, you have to run IE.... *once*.
378. 2008-04-13 16:41 http://tinyurl.com/5q8quy - Miami outfit sells whiteboxes with Leopard pre-installed starting at $399... can they *do* that?
379. 2008-04-13 17:03 @Dana_Gardner - early days yet in that market. Unless of course you've picked a cloud with lock-in.
380. 2008-04-14 03:53 Studying the history of all the flavors of RPC. Interesting. Doomed.
381. 2008-04-14 07:22 "Medical marijuana users more than $500,000 in arrears with Health Canada". I'm shocked, shocked: http://tinyurl.com/5etvkt
382. 2008-04-14 07:55 K20D review: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/04/13/K20D
383. 2008-04-14 17:26 @zakgreant is an *outstanding* speaker. He's currently keynoting @OpenWeb Vancouver.
384. 2008-04-14 23:39 The PHP community has more women than you find in either Railsland or Javaville.
385. 2008-04-14 23:53 @bytebot - just in the Bay Area for the Ruby thing Friday, unfortunately.
386. 2008-04-15 21:33 I've had so much input the wrinkles in my brain are flattening out.
387. 2008-04-15 22:27 "Chances are, you use parts of the Internet that aren't Facebook." (http://tinyurl.com/6j2byp) Words fail me.
388. 2008-04-15 22:28 OH: "I'll be here for a few minutes...eating in a WiFi"
389. 2008-04-16 07:15 My last OOXML snarl: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/04/15/OOXML
390. 2008-04-16 17:02 I've been working here for 4 years and I still don't understand what JBI is or does.
391. 2008-04-16 17:06 Flickr video pretty lame so far.
392. 2008-04-16 23:42 Will this telecon end before I explode?
393. 2008-04-17 04:46 @ftrain Wowie zowie thanks. I'd go hear Michelle if she were a Scientologist even. Well no, actually. But.
394. 2008-04-17 05:55 Podcasts are a problem... I can only listen to them in a car.
395. 2008-04-17 16:46 JVM+DynLang, this seems important: http://tinyurl.com/67dcqx
396. 2008-04-18 03:28 Realizing my prepared remarks for SDForum RubyConf tomorrow are nowhere near good enough for a 1-hour keynote. Dig dig dig.
397. 2008-04-18 04:01 Why can't San Jose be more interesting?
398. 2008-04-18 05:00 Hah... Camino, my everyday browser, has been refreshed: http://caminobrowser.org/
399. 2008-04-18 05:55 Ah, slides for 9:15 tomorrow AM now Good Enough for Rock & Roll. Drink then crash. xthksbye.
400. 2008-04-18 15:01 "I've looked at clouds from both sides now, and they're really freaking expensive. Google's capital expenditures..." NCarr, http://is.gd/79R
401. 2008-04-18 15:06 The room-service coffeepot is leaking air, making a sound unnervingly like a laptop hard drive. I keep thinking "but I'm not doing anything"
402. 2008-04-18 15:08 OMG dilbert.com is full of heavyweight flashturbation and doesn't work in Camino. Bad, *bad* Scott Adams.
403. 2008-04-18 19:11 SDForum Ruby conference: Small (a few over 100) but smart people with good questions.
404. 2008-04-19 05:17 Bloody flaming hell, heavy snow in late April in Vancouver.
405. 2008-04-19 05:47 THinking about Melbourne real estate.
406. 2008-04-19 17:13 Odd spam... an offer in Spanish for Linux training, from Peru.
407. 2008-04-19 23:53 Wondering at some level of irony and authenticity, Don Cherry is actually forgivable. Seems unlikely.
408. 2008-04-20 18:00 Looking at Twitter i18n... تيم براي
409. 2008-04-20 18:05 Hmmmrm, tbray.org is off the air. Server's up & looks healthy... why no httpd?
410. 2008-04-21 07:23 Just back from the the Raconteurs show. Impressive. Ugly in places but that's the way they want it apparently.
411. 2008-04-21 15:12 Oh Gawd, the Register *butchered* an interview with me. Guess I should learn.
412. 2008-04-21 17:14 @kk - Come join the Pentax world. We have what you need.
413. 2008-04-21 17:47 @kk - partly kidding. But Pentaxland is the place for serious lens otaku. Lovely little ultralight pancake primes, etc... http://is.gd/7Le
414. 2008-04-21 17:48 @chucker: the ISO enhancements to OXML are irrelevant: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/04/15/OOXML
415. 2008-04-21 18:40 gmail spam storm today, wonder why?
416. 2008-04-21 19:00 Amusing... in the Community One blub, @twleung's affiliation is listed as "Python". http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/
417. 2008-04-21 19:12 Hmm... just booked a Vancouver-San Fran trip in May on Alaska for about about half the usual fare. Airline pricing is a mystery.
418. 2008-04-22 02:42 Detecting an intermittent smell of Erlang in the ruby-core IRC
419. 2008-04-22 22:11 Nice new Portishead vide: http://tinyurl.com/6atrxo
420. 2008-04-23 03:42 Just called @webmink's cell in the UK by dialing his Grand Central # in San Fran & through to some SIP thing. Excellent audio. Hmmm.
421. 2008-04-23 03:46 WS-* defender: "The irony here is that MEST is a lot closer to an IAOAP2P than a COSC/S, but Jim does not see it." http://is.gd/8aA
422. 2008-04-23 04:28 Time Machine w/ Time Capsule has started reporting "Backup Failed" with no useful information about why. Disturbing.
423. 2008-04-23 17:40 Downside of being an official JavaOne blogger: now at the end of the PR firehose. Press-release language in 2008 seems entirely intolerable.
424. 2008-04-23 18:00 Cool Phil Glass movie trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/glassaportraitofphilipin12parts/trailer/ - Good joke at the end.
425. 2008-04-23 19:48 @gstein - theme doesn't work for those of us who already lost our marbles.
426. 2008-04-23 20:28 Best explanation I've read of the roots of the sub-prime mess: http://is.gd/8oV
427. 2008-04-23 20:29 @monkchips - Pimp away, but C1 is getting big & hot, you'll need to provide reasons to come to your track vs the five other interesting ones
428. 2008-04-23 21:00 @sogrady - that's a badge of honour.
429. 2008-04-23 21:28 twittearth.com, not bad http://tinyurl.com/4la8gl
430. 2008-04-24 06:08 My Power Mac now has 6G RAM. It could crush Chuck Norris and Bruce Schneier put together.
431. 2008-04-24 16:53 Current web-hosting price snapshot. Damn, it's cheap. Note that Rails is now an option: http://is.gd/8ED
432. 2008-04-24 17:02 Ruby Implementers Design Meeting #1, a Good Thing: http://is.gd/8EM
433. 2008-04-25 16:37 @estherschindler - Software test automation is the future. Trust me on this.
434. 2008-04-25 17:07 On the "Bulldog PR Management Roundtable" where everyone is shiny and happy and wears a suit: http://is.gd/8YI
435. 2008-04-25 17:16 @gruber - the laptop/desktop ratio is up because more people are going laptop-only, not just students.
436. 2008-04-25 19:15 Aaaaaah... http://www.dilbert.com/fast
437. 2008-04-25 23:16 Sometimes a flame can be a positive contribution: http://randomfoo.net/blog/id/4171
438. 2008-04-25 23:25 Good comment on @laurendw's blog: http://tinyurl.com/6lx5uz
439. 2008-04-25 23:51 "I'm going to scale my foot up your ass": http://tinyurl.com/5tsggz
440. 2008-04-26 23:46 I have scrubbed the back deck. I glow with virtue.
441. 2008-04-27 14:28 @BWJones - I frequently have trouble figuring out what I'll need to be working on in 3 months.
442. 2008-04-27 14:48 With an f.14 lens on a camera that has decent anti-shake and negligible grain at 1600, dinner parties are major photo ops.
443. 2008-04-27 14:52 Hah, hadn't seen twitterfeed before. Works great for @SunBlogs: What's everybody here saying?
444. 2008-04-27 16:16 Rob Sayre on life online, worth reading: http://tinyurl.com/6prbud
445. 2008-04-27 22:01 WIshing Doonesbury would restart live strips.
446. 2008-04-28 02:38 Wow, all this time I thought I was willfully obscurantist in liking Portishead, suddenly ("nobody loves me") everybody loves them.
447. 2008-04-28 04:30 Rubinius MVM message interchange smells a bit like Erlang to me. This makes my heart go pitter-pat.
448. 2008-04-28 04:41 @mpesce - You ain't missing much (and since I still have my VRML '95 T-shirt, I probably *want* to believe).
449. 2008-04-28 05:37 @gnat - in fact, avoiding everyone in the "top 100 most followed" results in no information loss. Anything interesting gets through.
450. 2008-04-28 05:44 One reason pix look better in Lightroom is that they're surrounded by deep dark black. There's a lesson in that.
451. 2008-04-28 05:56 If you want to spend a couple hours totally without benefit to yourself or humanity, you can do a lot worse thatn Bioshock. Just saying.
452. 2008-04-28 16:40 Fluid.app is really not bad at all. Now GMail lives on its own with its own window & icon & so on.
453. 2008-04-28 16:57 Dear LazyWeb: How do I get a nice looking Fluid.app icon for GMail? It looks fuzzy and awful.
454. 2008-04-28 17:07 Dear Lazyweb: THANK YOU. I now have 378 GMail logo options.
455. 2008-04-28 17:36 OK, you go get a new icon set at http://csi.nfshost.com/blog/?q=node/28, pick your favorite color, and follow the instructions. LazyWeb ftw.
456. 2008-04-28 17:37 Wondering what Brightkite is.
457. 2008-04-28 17:46 I have an attitude problem about "location-based" anything.
458. 2008-04-28 18:52 Ooh, distro smackdown, http://is.gd/9J0 - it's nice when it's OK to have fun at work. I'm thinking nerf weapons.
459. 2008-04-28 19:12 Wow, for the first time, Tripit understood one of my travel notifications.
460. 2008-04-28 21:19 Argh, f2f with a naked unimproved old-school Solaris box. Indiana, come here, I need you.
461. 2008-04-28 23:41 Buahaha copying many gig of test data across the big net to the wide-finder-redux server. Pity the poor backbone.
462. 2008-04-28 23:51 wow, sustaining 700+ K/sec from tbray.org to the wide-finder box in, uh, wherever network.com is.
463. 2008-04-28 23:54 Reiser found guilty: http://tinyurl.com/63uqrk
464. 2008-04-29 00:14 In the OSS world we tend to have a fairly sunny view of ourselves; we give stuff away, etc. It's unsettling to find a murderer in the family
465. 2008-04-29 00:40 For the Reiser verdict doubters... bear in mind that the jury was in the room. I wonder how common false positives are?
466. 2008-04-29 05:32 Leningrad Cowboys. Red Army Choir. Sweet Home Alabama. Not kidding. http://is.gd/9U5
467. 2008-04-29 05:52 Crying Sumo Babies! http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=4462
468. 2008-04-29 16:35 I complained to Tripit about not handling my ugly Amex-Canada PDF itineraries, so they fixed it & got back by email the next day. +1 Tripit
469. 2008-04-29 16:44 Dear PR Morons: Do not send an email saying only "Here's what we're announcing at Java One" with a .doc attachment.
470. 2008-04-29 16:54 Doing my biggest Bonnie run ever: 100G on a 32G machine. Old code never dies.
471. 2008-04-29 17:59 Heh.... you can read gmail POP with Ruby 1.9 but not 1.8.6.
472. 2008-04-29 18:45 I am in A.D. 2008 now building my first-ever mashup. I can understand why people like doing this.
473. 2008-04-29 21:47 Twitter quotient: http://tinyurl.com/69auxp
474. 2008-04-30 16:16 Some of the pre-J1 PR waterhose is actually interesting. e.g. http://www.mobile-distillery.com/
475. 2008-04-30 18:56 Grumph... doing posts to Twitter via the REST API and something is chopping off the end of the trailing http://is.gd/*** URLs.
476. 2008-04-30 20:47 Cool. If you accidentally feed a tinyurl.com URL to is.gd, it gives it back unchanged.
477. 2008-04-30 21:33 OH: " there is only one autoconf project out there, and everything is a copy of it"
478. 2008-04-30 22:16 JavaOne opening keynote by... wait for it ... Neil Young. I'm sure he's gonna talk about JSF and EJB.
479. 2008-05-01 00:25 The current latest thin/flat Mac keyboard is the best I've used in 20+ years of bangin' on 'em.
480. 2008-05-01 02:42 I couldn't remember a key fact that I needed to change one line in a Ruby program. I had to go grab the book to look it up. The answer: 'm'
481. 2008-05-01 03:19 @gruber - that USA Today link is borked.
482. 2008-05-01 03:21 @rich_kilmer - multi-line regex modifier. Mnemonic, even.
483. 2008-05-01 03:30 Ah, I must say that I do enjoy a good Spolsky flame: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/05/01.html
484. 2008-05-01 06:26 Trying to master Final Cut Express. Damn steep learning curve.
485. 2008-05-01 16:10 Staring at a regex and a chunk of text, thinking "that should match... that *has* to match"
486. 2008-05-01 17:08 Seth Freedman (of Ha'aretz and the Guardian) writes the most astounding stuff about the Middle East, e.g. http://is.gd/aZn
487. 2008-05-01 18:55 Wide Finder 2, let the fun begin: http://is.gd/b2z
488. 2008-05-01 19:06 @airdrie: Good luck!
489. 2008-05-01 19:14 Hmm... Nissan GT-R. Can I have one please? http://is.gd/b2W
490. 2008-05-01 19:17 What Canada earns: http://tinyurl.com/662a8g
491. 2008-05-01 20:15 Twitter API breakage, clients seeing only replies and DM. Twitteriffic and twhirl too it seems
492. 2008-05-01 22:21 @quasi42 - off to the wiki and make some suggestions
493. 2008-05-01 22:36 @codinghorror is right. Dropping the shiny-disk player was brilliant. Lighter is good. Thinner, who cares? Slow CPU & small disk, blecch.
494. 2008-05-02 07:57 First time trying to use wikis.sun.com, crashy and painful. They're Atlassian, which I thought was supposed to work...
495. 2008-05-02 09:07 Does the little trash-can on the Twitter web page actually, you know, do anything? Can tweets be deleted?
496. 2008-05-02 09:29 OK, so delete works for other people, just not me. I wonder if it's related to these having been created via the POST APi...
497. 2008-05-02 16:45 Looking at the /. coverage of the Twitter/RoR rumor. It's actually painful to me to be thinking of /. as clueless; they used to mean so much
498. 2008-05-02 19:14 Look sideways: http://tinyurl.com/5hhpgw
499. 2008-05-02 20:48 very VERY Enterprisey Ruby: http://tinyurl.com/58kc6t
500. 2008-05-02 20:52 So, who are the people sitting in the cafes at every hour of day or night, not apparently working?
501. 2008-05-02 22:37 Check out @PDML - a Picture Every So Often. Explanation: http://tinyurl.com/6rsqvq
502. 2008-05-02 23:08 A little bird tells me that Groovy 1.6 is teh hotness: http://tinyurl.com/5wa7ec
503. 2008-05-02 23:33 Ooh ooh ooh Illusion Science: http://www.illusionsciences.com/
504. 2008-05-03 04:13 @pkedrosky - I saw Brett & whatsisname do one of those live in the the West End in London one time. Intense.
505. 2008-05-03 05:04 @shanselman - sounds extremely plausible to me
506. 2008-05-03 16:01 Ian fears Barbie invastion: http://tinyurl.com/5c8f62
507. 2008-05-03 16:05 TechCrunch seeks two Rails programmers to join the company as interns this summer: http://tinyurl.com/66qsew
508. 2008-05-03 16:13 Festival of the steel phallus: http://tinyurl.com/5cumwr
509. 2008-05-03 16:29 Two typos first time, re-tweet: Iran fears Barbie invasion: http://tinyurl.com/5c8f62
510. 2008-05-03 17:47 Painfully realizing, once again, that skipping unit-testing will *always* bite you.
511. 2008-05-04 04:25 Grumpy; my first DVD of a Final Cut Express movie has horrid sound on a standard DVD player. OK on a computer. Maybe DVD-R problem?
512. 2008-05-04 20:47 "English is essentially French converted to 7-bit ASCII." and many other gems at Essentialist Explanations: http://is.gd/bYX
513. 2008-05-04 20:59 It dawns on me that when we defined Atom, we didn't define fragment semantics. So http://wherever/foo.atom#42 doesn't mean anything.
514. 2008-05-04 21:37 xml:id is teh suck. Since every Atom entry in a feed is guaranteed to have a unique ID, this should not be rocket science.
515. 2008-05-04 21:50 #fragid semantics should be defined in a way sensitive to the language. xml:id is going around behind the lang designers' backs
516. 2008-05-04 21:59 Don't like application/xml myself, the fact that something is encoded in XML is unhelpful to anything except maybe a full-text indexer.
517. 2008-05-05 05:17 OK, Twitterverse, you forced me to turn my TV on for the triple overtime.
518. 2008-05-05 05:52 What are the good J1 Monday night parties?
519. 2008-05-05 06:13 @BWJones isn't that Ry Cooder?
520. 2008-05-06 15:46 I don't care how many times you've been or how jaded you are, the opening of JavaOne is REALLY FUCKING INTENSE
521. 2008-05-06 15:47 Traditional Gosling T-shirt hurl, primitive analog technology
522. 2008-05-06 15:53 Amazing the WiFi in here is holding up at all
523. 2008-05-06 16:11 These dorky movies are my least favorite part of J1
524. 2008-05-06 16:24 @crazybob - that's what they say
525. 2008-05-06 16:27 Yeah, baffled why the Kindle doesn't have a white background instead of the dull grey.
526. 2008-05-06 16:28 See, if you use Java you'll be beautiful and young and fresh like the people in these videos.
527. 2008-05-06 17:07 Ultra-big-screen HDTV is overwhelming in its quality.
528. 2008-05-06 17:10 MichaelSinger - We'll let you know when we work it out. Had a real interesting talk last night with a MySQL guy. About Rails as it turns out
529. 2008-05-06 17:11 Hey, there's Neil. Exact same jeans as everyone else.
530. 2008-05-06 17:11 Heh, Neil's here to plug his new record
531. 2008-05-06 17:16 Audiophiles know Neil has long dissed digital sound, says Blu-Ray 24/192 sampling makes it good enough.
532. 2008-05-06 17:17 They're actually trying to do something interesting with the Java wired into Blu-Ray
533. 2008-05-06 17:19 OK now *that* is cool.
534. 2008-05-06 17:19 NY says buy a PS3 if you want Blu-Ray.
535. 2008-05-06 17:22 It's like this: they are releasing a retrospective & will update it via the net via Blu-Ray infrastructure
536. 2008-05-06 18:05 @olabini, shame on you. Real conference geeks never admit to a hangover even if brain fluid is leaking out their ears.
537. 2008-05-06 18:09 Neo4J looks interesting for social-network apps: http://neo4j.org/
538. 2008-05-07 14:47 Feeling the B&W temptation: http://tinyurl.com/6g3cet
539. 2008-05-07 15:39 J1 Day 1 pix, including Neil: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/05/07/J1D1
540. 2008-05-07 15:39 @IanSkerrett: I'm glad someone's going, do tell the rest of us if anything interesting happens.
541. 2008-05-08 00:43 So... the good Wed-night J1 parties are... ?
542. 2008-05-08 00:51 Company Websites 101: http://tinyurl.com/5uj83f
543. 2008-05-08 06:45 My get up & go has got up & buggered off.
544. 2008-05-08 14:45 @stevebaker Don't sweat it with the #
545. 2008-05-08 15:05 News flash: The travel experience isn't getting better: http://tinyurl.com/5l75zg
546. 2008-05-08 17:43 RESTful JavaOne: http://tinyurl.com/6f522a
547. 2008-05-08 18:20 LazyWeb: When I POST to a Twitter account via HTTP, having a naked "&" in the text breaks things. Does it want '&' or what?
548. 2008-05-08 18:23 Perhaps it wants %26
549. 2008-05-08 18:28 Pardon the static while I debug posting ampersands via API: &
550. 2008-05-08 18:33 For Twitter-APi-heads: the answer is.... if you want '&' in the message, use %26. Which means, I suppose, % itself should be escaped.
551. 2008-05-08 18:36 #bwstory Twitter may not reach everyone, but you probably want to reach the people it does.
552. 2008-05-08 20:33 OH: "You can't do JOIN at Web scale, so why waste your time with all that relational crap?"
553. 2008-05-08 23:10 Heading home, and expecting many fewer biz trips in foreseeable future. Happy. Suspect there are a few like me.
554. 2008-05-08 23:21 SFO is another place where your boingo.com account works. It saves me megabucks.
555. 2008-05-09 15:49 OMG Moscone Center norovirus alert. Watch the Java ecosystem grind to a 72-hour halt.
556. 2008-05-09 22:17 Warm weather has set in, the yard is a riot of tulips all shouting "look at ME!"
557. 2008-05-09 23:25 @gruber - I can understand why you write "Blackberrys" as opposed to "..ies" but it still hurts my eyes.
558. 2008-05-09 23:28 "Can't advertise nothing on Facebook": http://tinyurl.com/4fnaso
559. 2008-05-09 23:37 Well, Joe and Eliza Proudfoot are the Proudfeet, obviously
560. 2008-05-09 23:41 Wet, with forget-me-nots: http://tinyurl.com/5hh9vp
561. 2008-05-10 16:06 The Golden Spike: http://tinyurl.com/3fzowc
562. 2008-05-12 00:55 The evidence suggests that you can't re-use a Net::HTTP::Post (at east on Ruby 1.9). Grmph.
563. 2008-05-12 02:33 Some damn nice shots on @PDML
564. 2008-05-12 02:40 @gnat - thanks for the words on Scratch. I have an 8-year-old.
565. 2008-05-12 04:36 Ah, May. I have no choice but to inflict another series of flower pictures upon my blog readers; most would prefer uninterrupted technology.
566. 2008-05-12 05:32 Have mostly come down from Java1. People who diss Java should go once; won't make 'em like it but they'll know why you just can't ignore it.
567. 2008-05-12 05:37 This would be my manager, hmmm: http://twitter.com/jimParkinson
568. 2008-05-12 06:01 @shanselman - I really, seriously, advise that you just stop worrying about how many people read you. It takes time and it doesn't help.
569. 2008-05-12 15:30 @codinghorror is so right. Just turn the big XML switch in the sky off. Anything that was used to invent SOAP has to go: http://is.gd/fmS
570. 2008-05-12 16:58 @estherschindler - something that's carefully designed to prevent IBM/Microsoft architecture-astronautics land-grabs.
571. 2008-05-12 17:05 @monkchips - Over in the Sun sales org, it ain't hands-off at all. Which is good.
572. 2008-05-12 18:11 Steve Yegge just used up a half-hour of my life. But I don't mind: http://is.gd/fkK
573. 2008-05-12 20:19 Gack, HP buying EDS!?!?
574. 2008-05-12 21:59 HP is very mainstream, decent, maybe a little boring. But EDS, I've met many people over the who totally hated 'em, said they were evil. Hmm
575. 2008-05-12 22:04 Pop bands, rated with frightening accuracy: http://tinyurl.com/6pyjsp
576. 2008-05-12 22:20 My 8yo boy finished SuperMarioGalaxy on the weekend. It seems like a real accomplishment. Neat outro video.
577. 2008-05-12 22:42 @aprilmnz - OUCH! Thank you. The Network Is The Editor.
578. 2008-05-12 23:34 @dsifry - holy crap, I'm paying $40+ for Boingo. What am I doing wrong? [wanders off to check available packages]
579. 2008-05-12 23:37 Oh man, 2000+ still buried in China, who knows how many alive? Makes me sick just to think of it.
580. 2008-05-12 23:38 Mind you, if you add up all the hotel & airport WiFi charges, $40+ for Boingo may in fact be sane. Still...
581. 2008-05-13 00:37 @brentsimmons I presume you know that expresso has less caffeine than good ol' gringo brewed coffee? A large medium-blend for the max boost
582. 2008-05-13 15:45 One could grow tired of the stupid "!" all over anything talking about whatever Yahoo! did! today!
583. 2008-05-13 16:28 To correct the record, I'm paying $39/month for Boingo. They're adding Starbucks (Die TMobil die!). And that's enough fanboying.
584. 2008-05-13 19:30 Microsoft gets patent revenue from Pentax: http://tinyurl.com/6a8ktv
585. 2008-05-13 20:29 Check out "Lucky on the Main Street Bus" on @PDML - Pentax ftw
586. 2008-05-13 20:50 Aunt Dorothy died. 85. Aneurysm. Sudden. Married 66 years. Another piece of life gone missing.
587. 2008-05-13 21:56 Nexenta ships a product: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/
588. 2008-05-13 22:00 There's hope for Twitter: @timcaynes is here.
589. 2008-05-14 21:08 Mark Cuban is having fun: http://tinyurl.com/4uvo2d
590. 2008-05-15 15:34 @fridgebuzz - I switched to Camino even though I like Safari, because I got sick of Safari paralyzing my Mac.
591. 2008-05-15 15:37 On my first Asterisk-based staff telecon. Seems to work.
592. 2008-05-15 19:51 @stevebaker - Thanks for the correction; I thought I knew the story and wondered if you'd dug something new there.
593. 2008-05-15 19:52 It seems that Scala is becoming unavoidable. I must go back and try again.
594. 2008-05-16 06:16 Marca abandons public speaking: http://is.gd/hjR ... Why he's wrong: http://is.gd/hjS
595. 2008-05-16 06:20 I can't get over the weirdness of Mark Pilgrim's voice as reprocessed by the Google HappyShinyPeople filter: http://is.gd/gOX
596. 2008-05-16 06:41 They say time is God's way of preventing everything from happening at once. If true, it's shaky pre-beta quality, at best.
597. 2008-05-16 16:41 Earthquake farewell, by cellphone: http://tinyurl.com/64ns83
598. 2008-05-16 20:35 I have to join Artima to buy the Scala book. This seems wrong.
599. 2008-05-16 21:06 Geeks shift from other langs to Ruby or Python, but very rarely from R to P or P to R. Thus, Ruby and Python are Geek Sinks.
600. 2008-05-16 21:13 @millenomi - I would have said that Ruby feels a bit more Perl-like to me than Python does. TMT1WTDI.
601. 2008-05-16 21:17 I now have the Scala book on my desktop. I'm sincerely hoping this doesn't try to change my life like the Pickaxe did, because I'm too busy.
602. 2008-05-17 07:01 Urgh... 2K+ followers and I *still* don't know what it means.
603. 2008-05-17 07:02 @br3nda - Have 'em send up a bellman. I'm serious. Tip generously.
604. 2008-05-17 20:21 Wow, Asperger's and geeks, heavy overlap, surprise surprise: http://is.gd/hYx
605. 2008-05-18 17:45 Intimations of mortality, no shit: http://www.thewormbook.com/hlog/?p=1593
606. 2008-05-18 17:47 @al3xbrown - really on the no-entities thing? It would be good to lose entities, but the MathML people have historically squealed vigorously
607. 2008-05-18 22:07 Over 2k followers, what does it mean? http://tinyurl.com/67a89w
608. 2008-05-19 03:26 @bwyrosdick - How about an at-length blog on the conversion? Inquiring minds want to know.
609. 2008-05-19 06:43 Wondering eagerly what @avibryant will have to show next Friday.
610. 2008-05-19 15:08 Now *that's* a headline: "MI5 spy wife was Formula One chief's Teutonic thrash tart" http://is.gd/izk
611. 2008-05-19 15:15 Be famous for 15 seconds: http://www.15x15.lincoln.ac.uk/ (website kinda slammed, unfortunately)
612. 2008-05-19 16:30 Ah, the smell of summer rain.
613. 2008-05-19 16:31 Dear world: Today is the Victoria Day holiday. Don't expect much. Signed, Canada.
614. 2008-05-19 16:34 Hmm, a wave of spam advertising online rummy games. Who knew? 3-hand Canasta is a mean cardgame BTW.
615. 2008-05-19 20:07 Urgh... Iranian government locks up Bahai leadership: http://tinyurl.com/5om3jv
616. 2008-05-19 20:20 I always said @avibryant was dynamite.
617. 2008-05-19 21:30 Urgh... launching a time capsule backup makes my MacBook crash instantly. This is disturbing.
618. 2008-05-19 22:04 Yes, TimeCapsule can be corrupted in a way that causes crashes on any subsequent backup. Cure: erase backup (gasp), start again. Seems wrong
619. 2008-05-19 22:47 "Hello world" yes, factorial no: http://tinyurl.com/6s2mdy
620. 2008-05-20 00:16 @graubart - I think it's straightforward to update your status via the Twitter API. I generate a whole synthetic feed at @PDML that way.
621. 2008-05-20 00:42 Railsconf not sold out yet I see. Is the mania abating?
622. 2008-05-20 14:32 Via @xmlgrrl: RDDL redux, http://is.gd/j6F - one of my favorite ideas that previously never went anywhere. Elegant even if useless.
623. 2008-05-20 18:22 100 essential jazz recordings: http://tinyurl.com/5mmhwm
624. 2008-05-20 22:31 Wondering if dabble.com is still alive.
625. 2008-05-20 22:46 We're getting our own Apple store in Vancouver this weekend. Wonder what this means for the nice little resellers I've been going to?
626. 2008-05-21 17:00 Extreme lens otaku: http://tinyurl.com/3mbauc
627. 2008-05-21 20:33 There are those who are way more interesting on Twitter than in real life. Brevity ftw.
628. 2008-05-21 21:24 @mbowkett has a problem with me and Cory Doctorow: http://is.gd/jSP
629. 2008-05-21 21:26 @mbowkett has a problem with me and Cory Doctorow: http://is.gd/jSP
630. 2008-05-21 22:13 Oops, mis-tweeted: @gilesgoatboy has a problem with me and Cory Doctorow: http://is.gd/jSP
631. 2008-05-21 22:35 Correction: Cory and I are *symptoms* of @gilesgoatboy's problem.
632. 2008-05-21 23:58 Time Capsule pain: http://tinyurl.com/6kvb7d
633. 2008-05-22 02:26 @headius - only 4 steps left to automate, then.
634. 2008-05-22 05:41 NetBeans ♥ PHP: http://tinyurl.com/5drktq
635. 2008-05-22 16:11 Time Capsule just locked up my Macbook again. Screw it, back to USB for Time Machine. TC is just an overpriced WiFi hub.
636. 2008-05-22 18:29 @ndw - that's a Bombadier, from Montréal.
637. 2008-05-22 18:39 Something is seriously broken in France: http://tinyurl.com/6l6zkh
638. 2008-05-22 18:52 Cisco "Etch" WTF? http://www.cio.com/article/365513
639. 2008-05-22 21:32 How many geeks, I wonder, are scribbling Solutions To The Twitter Problem on their internal mental whiteboards at this very moment?
640. 2008-05-22 22:15 Is there still a mystery line outside the NYC Apple store?
641. 2008-05-22 22:34 More crying sumo babies! http://www.flickr.com/photos/vyxle/sets/72157605193456584/
642. 2008-05-22 23:15 Almost any draft can be improved by removing instances of "really" and "actually" and "mostly".
643. 2008-05-23 15:35 South Africa appeals OOXML: http://tinyurl.com/64ths4 (PDF)
644. 2008-05-23 17:21 Am I the only one bothered by "tail recursion"? Seems like a Big Fat Lie to me, GOTO TOP in drag. What's wrong with GOTO TOP anyhow?
645. 2008-05-23 17:26 @mreinhold not for years. It bothers me that programmers carefully write tail-recursive functions in full knowledge they'll become GOTOs.
646. 2008-05-23 17:32 Looks like I'm the only one who's bothered by tail recursion. :) I can think of worse things to be a minority of one about.
647. 2008-05-23 17:38 Edd: "XRIs Bad, URIs good" http://is.gd/kWh Right on!
648. 2008-05-23 20:26 Hah; Apachecon accepted my mod_atom paper. That will force me to buckle down and finish mod_atom.
649. 2008-05-23 20:57 She tied you To a kitchen chair She broke your throne, and she cut your hair And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah - http://is.gd/l2A
650. 2008-05-24 02:46 @terrycojones - http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/24/Herodotus
651. 2008-05-24 06:10 Some decent shots on @PDML of late.
652. 2008-05-24 20:40 Ended the flower-of-the-day series with a bang; ever heard of a "Menton" tulip? http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/05/24/Menton
653. 2008-05-24 20:45 Ooh, Hell Cat: http://twitter.com/PDML/statuses/819041544
654. 2008-05-24 21:20 Hmmm.... "sudo port install erlang" installs gawk (well, OK) and, uh, TCL!?!?
655. 2008-05-24 21:28 I've never met anyone from MacPorts. Whoever you are: "Thanks!"
656. 2008-05-24 21:35 @markzero - seems a little better maintained. But I used to use Fink and that was OK.
657. 2008-05-25 00:00 And... it's... Hockey Night in Canada!
658. 2008-05-26 00:09 Vancouver people: Drum circle at Spanish Banks tonight: http://vrad.ca/node/2
659. 2008-05-26 02:03 @MarsPhoenix - Pointer to where pix will show up?
660. 2008-05-26 05:41 What's the little white doohickey near the horizon in http://tinyurl.com/6cgbte - a Martian?
661. 2008-05-26 17:01 @KathySierra - adorable horse you have there.
662. 2008-05-26 17:13 Finding shoelaces in a large department store is surprisingly difficult
663. 2008-05-26 17:13 [er... grocery store]
664. 2008-05-26 17:33 Aquamacs ftw: http://tinyurl.com/55s25b
665. 2008-05-26 17:53 Running the Ruby Wide Finder 2 strawman, naive implementation, on the 45G big-daddy file. Expecting to be horrified with the results.
666. 2008-05-26 17:53 Dear America: We're working today. Signed, Rest of the World.
667. 2008-05-26 17:58 CfP: ESWSA: Workshop on empirical studies of Web service architectures: http://is.gd/lWP
668. 2008-05-26 20:55 @duncan Something must be wrong, there are no photographs of notorious geeks on conference stages.
669. 2008-05-26 20:57 @duncan, is the cool Park Ave night photo HDR? If so, I'll have to stop hating HDR.
670. 2008-05-26 20:59 For those who don't follow @duncan, check out his online gallery: http://photos.duncandavidson.com/p955900367/
671. 2008-05-26 21:04 Phoenix hangs from chute via "chords", who knew? How harmonious: http://tinyurl.com/6gqs57
672. 2008-05-26 21:20 @RussB that's a *lot* of people to be annoyed at. I'd say life's too short.
673. 2008-05-28 19:20 SFO wi-fi via TMobil/Boingo is pathetically slow, like 20k/sec download. Feh.
674. 2008-05-28 19:21 @morrildl quotes someone from G: "there are really no fixed limits to App Engine's ability to scale" Anyone else find that statement lame?
675. 2008-05-28 23:18 Making my quarterly visit to LinkedIn to accept & reject. Sigh.
676. 2008-05-28 23:25 Turns out I missed a couple of really interesting job opps while ignoring LinkedIn in recent months. Wouldn't have jumped, but interesting.
677. 2008-05-29 00:05 @pragdave Very mellifluous. Do you do rock & roll too?
678. 2008-05-29 00:29 In internal Sun mail, "VB" now abbreviates VirtualBox. I had some severe cognitive dissonance for a few minutes before realizing this.
679. 2008-05-29 05:02 Would you pay to tweet? Take the survey! http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/05/28/Twitterbucks
680. 2008-05-29 12:03 Your morning horror; microwaving a cellphone. Don't miss it: http://jwz.livejournal.com/893031.html
681. 2008-05-29 15:22 Would you pay to tweet? Take the survey, http://is.gd/nBC - pass it on, let's gather some data.
682. 2008-05-29 15:28 Metal taxonomy: http://tinyurl.com/52628d
683. 2008-05-29 21:23 @penmachine - you need to have the User Manual permanently open in Preview. But man, it's big & hairy.
684. 2008-05-29 23:02 Trying to warm up to Scala... trying to warm up to Scala.... trying to warm up to Scala...
685. 2008-05-29 23:30 "@webmink Lots of good coffee shops there. Damn decent breakfast to be had at the Victoria Market.
686. 2008-05-30 00:22 Extremely evil Photoshop fakery: http://www.ikketushugi.info/blog/archives/3782 (NSFW).
687. 2008-05-30 05:11 I strive to maintain an open mind when nontechnical people talk about the "Internet OS" or "Web OS". Sometimes it's tough.
688. 2008-05-30 05:27 Now, here's a guy who knows what he likes: @skrud
689. 2008-05-30 14:14 For your morning entertainment: Iggy Pop's concert rider. Really very good: http://is.gd/obR
690. 2008-05-30 16:30 Guess there's no need to go to RailsConf if you're following a few active twitterers who are there. Still, wish I was.
691. 2008-05-30 17:01 freenode.net#railsconf is pretty amusing
692. 2008-05-30 18:24 #railsconf bloggers: nicksieger, olabini
693. 2008-05-30 18:25 er... make tht #railsconf Twitterers: @nicksieger, @olabini
694. 2008-05-30 18:36 more #railsconf Twitterers: @noelrap @greggpollack @igrigorik
695. 2008-05-30 18:46 Perturbed at ignorant lame-ass sexist drivel on freenode.net#railsconf
696. 2008-05-31 02:38 @fielding - Turns out I have no Apple software in my photo workflow
697. 2008-05-31 06:10 Dead rat! http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/05/30/Discovery
698. 2008-05-31 06:35 @avibryant - Ya did well, judging by the zeitgeist; I was tracking a few channels.
699. 2008-05-31 21:28 @tffratio does it work?
700. 2008-06-01 16:35 @headius - wondering about "great" and "incremental" right next to each other like that :)
701. 2008-06-01 16:44 The Great Buddha at Kamakura, beautiful B&W shots: http://tinyurl.com/6952c2
702. 2008-06-02 16:44 Awww, Bo Diddley died. A wee-bocka, wee-bocka... bocka bocka.
703. 2008-06-02 17:04 Is it just my imagination or is the whole Net feeling kind of blue and negative this morning?
704. 2008-06-02 18:41 Transmission seems a very nice BitTorrent mac client.
705. 2008-06-02 19:04 Frameworks built on frameworks built on frameworks: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/06/02/JBI
706. 2008-06-02 20:03 Got 885M of bandwidth to spare for a 9-minute movie? http://is.gd/p0p You'll need a big screen. Blender candy! Explanation: http://is.gd/ps9
707. 2008-06-02 21:42 OMG RubyConf is opposite Apachecon... no no No NO!!!!
708. 2008-06-02 23:08 Want to increase your YouTube popularity? Die.
709. 2008-06-03 00:17 Heh. Just spent the last 3 hours re-re-re-writing a blog piece and just not liking it. Off to the graveyard. It happens sometimes.
710. 2008-06-03 16:52 Someone nearmy office window is playing really loud country music. Well, it's good country music. But still.
711. 2008-06-03 16:57 Good Middle East coverage: http://tinyurl.com/68ros7
712. 2008-06-03 17:32 "Simple real-estate transaction" is an oxymoron.
713. 2008-06-03 21:42 Amazing geography graphic. Think the place you're living is big? Maybe not: http://tinyurl.com/5ompea
714. 2008-06-04 01:03 Wow, is it just me or is McCain awfully flat?
715. 2008-06-04 04:40 The "Web/Internet OS" meme is wrong on many levels: http://tinyurl.com/583k5r
716. 2008-06-04 06:24 Reia: http://wiki.reia-lang.org/wiki/Main_Page - "a Python/Ruby-like mixed-paradigm language targeting the Erlang virtual machine." Hmm
717. 2008-06-04 17:03 It's a pity the world needs big businesses, because small businesses are so much nicer to deal with.
718. 2008-06-04 18:15 @teich - Now you gotta give us the blow-by-blow on the rest of the storage-acquisition story.
719. 2008-06-04 18:20 Cool... going to London in October to speak at FOWA, check out the line-up: http://is.gd/qSe
720. 2008-06-04 19:15 "Tumour turns out to be 25-year-old towel" http://tinyurl.com/6cdu6y
721. 2008-06-04 22:23 @pkedrosky - *everybody* likes the PC guy better, don't they?
722. 2008-06-04 22:33 OK, http://www.plurk.com/user/timbray - I feel vaguely adulterous.
723. 2008-06-05 03:44 First look at chttp, http://tinyurl.com/2fa3kn - looks OK,there are lots of OK solutions, we just have to agree on one.
724. 2008-06-05 04:42 @codinghorror Yeah, and on further examination it seems over-elaborated. Maybe I'm missing something.
725. 2008-06-05 04:47 ♫ ... walk like an Egyptian.... ♫
726. 2008-06-05 05:29 San Franshadows: http://tinyurl.com/6m8wkc
727. 2008-06-05 05:30 @SaraD "inappropriate for Twitter"? The mind boggles.
728. 2008-06-05 06:51 Labels: Laowai http://is.gd/rfM and Gweilo: http://is.gd/rfP
729. 2008-06-05 06:59 "crushed the farmers' hopes/and left the children afraid"; deep trans-Pacific weirdness: http://is.gd/rfX
730. 2008-06-05 16:28 Damn, does reddit ever drive traffic. 13k visitors from there to my "not an OS" piece.
731. 2008-06-05 16:29 More proof that the U.S. political right is led by deranged warmongering liars: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/198873.php
732. 2008-06-05 17:03 Nifty toy for Lightroom addicts, "RPG Keys": http://www.rpgkeys.com/
733. 2008-06-05 17:41 I often think Jakob Nielsen is wrong, but he hits the mark here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7417496.stm
734. 2008-06-05 21:20 Retweeting from @morrilldl - Amazing best-of Cassini pix: http://tinyurl.com/5yzp3g
735. 2008-06-06 00:19 [For Canadians]: Mulroney's back on the hook. How entirely appropriate. Squirm, you worm. http://is.gd/rN5
736. 2008-06-06 00:21 @crazybob I think Microsoft deserves the credit on that one, IE4 was the first browser that actually had a DOM to speak of.
737. 2008-06-06 15:43 Now up to 14 people with accounts on the Wide Finder machine. Global domination within view: http://is.gd/sct
738. 2008-06-07 02:50 Elvis, Jesus, Robert E. Lee: http://tinyurl.com/6m7d4g
739. 2008-06-07 16:36 I have to say that SUI-CZE isn't making my heart beat faster so far.
740. 2008-06-07 22:51 The tricky life problems we geeks face: http://tinyurl.com/6e4kqu
741. 2008-06-07 22:52 @nelson No... that's what Lightroom is for.
742. 2008-06-07 23:04 The sound of someone playing Wii games in the next room is almost always irritating.
743. 2008-06-08 04:40 Editing a 19M file in Emacs to smooth out some XML rough bits in test data, cackling gleefully.
744. 2008-06-08 06:51 Absolutely astounding news via Google: http://is.gd/sXt (keep scrolling!)
745. 2008-06-08 18:53 DE-PL, both defenses look shaky.
746. 2008-06-08 19:17 Militia FAIL: http://tinyurl.com/6xhv2g
747. 2008-06-08 19:25 German forwards are a little bit prone to diving.
748. 2008-06-08 19:57 Beautiful photos of Afghanistan at war: http://tinyurl.com/5lgrbk
749. 2008-06-08 22:09 @mezzoblue Hadn't noticed, have some of the locals bitten the dust?
750. 2008-06-09 00:22 Figuring out how to write string-processing code so it'll work in both Ruby 1.8 and 1.9. some_string.unpack('C*") ftw.
751. 2008-06-09 00:27 @mattblodgett I saw Pere Ubu live one time. You want weird? the singer ran down to the front of the stage and played a metronome solo.
752. 2008-06-09 03:37 Getting some pretty #!%!$! astounding results on the Wide Finder work, see http://wikis.sun.com/display/WideFinder/Results
753. 2008-06-09 04:44 Twitter is both the temperamental child rock star we love &, often, the medium by which we discuss it-an enviable position! http://is.gd/tjU
754. 2008-06-09 05:05 OH: "One of the problems is legacy personalities."
755. 2008-06-09 06:14 Flamenco Sketches: http://tinyurl.com/6bpv9z
756. 2008-06-09 06:21 Famous photos re-created in Lego: http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/sets/72157602602191858/show/
757. 2008-06-09 06:56 Urgh. ['a', 'b'].to_s is different in Rubies 1.8 & 1.9. Ewwww.
758. 2008-06-09 14:35 Every time I follow a link from a Yahoo Finance page, it's amazingly, irritatingly, slow. Wonder why?
759. 2008-06-09 19:40 Been offline all day so far... any info about Rogers pricing for iPhone in Canada?
760. 2008-06-09 23:38 Retweet @todmaffin - a few crumbs of Canada-iPhone news: http://is.gd/tYQ
761. 2008-06-09 23:42 The Canadians who want an iPhone are the same ones who travel often to the US. Unless there's a crossborder & reasonable data plan, it's DOA
762. 2008-06-10 04:58 Girls and trucks: http://tinyurl.com/5t9r86
763. 2008-06-10 16:14 @codinghorror - had to write my own log reader because I'd written my own blogging package... not that this weakens your point.
764. 2008-06-10 16:16 [Canadians] What with all the news stories, I can't stop THAT STUPID HOCKEY tune going round and round in my head. Ta-dum, dum-de-dum, etc.
765. 2008-06-10 18:33 Multipart/related in Atompub, looks just fine to me: http://tinyurl.com/5ctt8y
766. 2008-06-10 18:36 Anyone got a pointer to this mysterious Snow Leopard "Grand Central" stuff?
767. 2008-06-10 19:58 ISO press release on OOXML appeals: http://tinyurl.com/5aeth9
768. 2008-06-10 20:30 Hate Ruby? Feel lonely? Meet like-minded people in @codinghorror's comments: http://tinyurl.com/5mbpto
769. 2008-06-10 20:31 @lobrien option-command-H
770. 2008-06-10 20:55 In the http://is.gd/uF2 performance measurement, what are the actual requests? This numbers seem useless without that info.
771. 2008-06-10 21:06 Arrgh, there's a "Your carbon" tab on Dopplr. Please, I already feel guilty enough.
772. 2008-06-10 21:07 Added my OSCON trip to Doppr... 21 fellow-travelers will be there, heh.
773. 2008-06-10 22:43 @codinghorror's blog is intelligent, but his commenters include a discouraging proportion of knuckle-dragging droolers.
774. 2008-06-10 23:13 Seeking a portable un-hidious idiom to get the unsigned value of the last *byte* in a string that'll work in both Ruby 1.8.6 and 1.9
775. 2008-06-10 23:17 s[-1 .. -1].unpack('C') - surely there's something better.
776. 2008-06-11 04:58 Yow, XML processing in Ruby 1.9: FAIL. I mean, seriously b0rked. Gack.
777. 2008-06-11 05:26 @lrz Yeah, falling down on simple things. When I look at the code that's breaking I want to tear my brain out.
778. 2008-06-11 05:32 @chadfowler Fair point. I acknowledge freely that I have an attitude problem about REXML. I should contribute fixes or shut up.
779. 2008-06-11 07:43 We bought a cottage so we are now True Canadians: http://tinyurl.com/6ee7sf
780. 2008-06-11 17:08 Wow, a ferociously negative review of the might Leica M8: http://tinyurl.com/69mked
781. 2008-06-11 18:51 OSS geography, interesting if unsurprising (NB: based on multiple SW updates thus high-quality data): http://dot.netbeans.org/sunmaps/
782. 2008-06-11 23:36 Just installed the Sun compiler suite on the Wide Finder machine... 1.2G *compressed*. Jebus. On the other hand, we now have FORTRAN 90.
783. 2008-06-12 19:11 http://is.gd/w1W - the story is interesting, but the meta-story is too: Any group with a gripe may now be armed with cameras and uploads.
784. 2008-06-12 20:31 Enterprisey mashup technology, and lots of it: http://tinyurl.com/57etr2
785. 2008-06-12 23:46 Bram Cohen has a really good idea, mod_failgracefully: http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/52896.html
786. 2008-06-13 00:09 Gangsters from London East End (36 photos) http://is.gd/wfr - brilliant but NSFW.
787. 2008-06-13 16:54 Nelson's trying to cause trouble, but I bet nobody gets excited: http://tinyurl.com/5ry3hv
788. 2008-06-13 19:47 NL can't let the French have the ball in their end for the whole 2nd half
789. 2008-06-13 20:02 Henry had has chance and missed. NL didn't. Prediction: NL-Spain in the final.
790. 2008-06-14 05:29 Gothic country grrrl music FTW: http://tinyurl.com/3jfqba
791. 2008-06-14 05:37 @cbeust Evidence re Fan scaling, note low LOC: http://is.gd/vAL - context at http://is.gd/b2z - my first looks at Fan make me smile.
792. 2008-06-14 06:00 @cbeust Fan code is quite readable to my eyes and seems to run fast. Two good things. Haven't looked at the build system.
793. 2008-06-14 06:00 Developing a really jaundiced view of the term "Social media".
794. 2008-06-15 05:58 Maybe it's a symptom of not really understanding motorsports, but I find the Le Mans cars the most beautiful of all.
795. 2008-06-15 06:00 Deletionists are such fucknozzles.
796. 2008-06-15 06:00 Celebrate your inadequacy: Be a deletionist.
797. 2008-06-15 06:08 @codinghorror: Deletionists may be walking vacant spaces, but Republicans are warmongering liars, which seems worse.
798. 2008-06-15 06:16 Deletionist heaven: The only articles are on God, Kant, and Britney.
799. 2008-06-15 20:38 Lazy Sunday: Just added a picture to Mark Pilgrim's Wikipedia entry at http://tinyurl.com/6oyj2w - He'd probably disapprove.
800. 2008-06-15 20:52 The boys are playing Wii and it couldn't read the disk, so my 8-year-old wiped it on his grubby T-shirt. Seemed to work.
801. 2008-06-15 21:42 Twitter wasn't enough: I had to to do 8 paragraphs of vitriolic blogging about deletionist twits: http://is.gd/y3t
802. 2008-06-16 07:09 Is @_why notable? Mu.
803. 2008-06-16 07:13 I thought Doonesbury was coming off re-runs today, June 16. Hmph.
804. 2008-06-16 07:39 I wonder if anyone has ever been interested in anyone else's tweets about their running or weightlifting or stretching. Keep it to yourself.
805. 2008-06-16 16:35 Hmm, Mail.app is starting up in freeze-with-beachball mode after an OS X crash. Monday without mail seems all wrong. I think this is serious
806. 2008-06-16 16:53 Mail is rebuilding itself: "Imported 3149 of 106824 messages". Sigh.
807. 2008-06-16 18:24 I should lose my temper on my blog more often. It seems to start high-quality conversations.
808. 2008-06-16 20:37 Hey @gnat, I'll tip you off in advance next time I get really pissed about something.
809. 2008-06-16 21:44 @Br3ndaBot: Who put the bop in the bop doo-wop doo-wop?
810. 2008-06-16 21:51 Did summer vacation start when I wasn't looking? My email and phone seem to be connected to a black hole.
811. 2008-06-16 22:33 Out erranding, the radio played "New Orleans is sinking" and then the G&R version of "Live & Let Die". Enjoying guitar-induced nerve buzz.
812. 2008-06-16 23:14 What's the cool hotel for OSCON? Assuming it's already booked out, what else is not-too-bad?
813. 2008-06-17 14:24 Wow, truce in Gaza: http://tinyurl.com/6qrwtk
814. 2008-06-17 14:28 This local news story is impossibly weird: single human feet keep washing up on shore. Five feet, no clues: http://is.gd/zlc
815. 2008-06-17 18:22 Microsoft's SOA strategy embraces UML: http://is.gd/zxT - It's not necrophilia if you're both dead.
816. 2008-06-17 19:14 So, this FF3 thing people are all excited about? Turns out it's another web browser.
817. 2008-06-17 19:29 JMS + REST, interesting: http://tinyurl.com/5k6twg
818. 2008-06-17 23:33 Mike Johnson's influential and controversial top-10-new-cameras list: http://is.gd/zPs
819. 2008-06-18 01:01 I so hate autoconf, libtool, and friends.
820. 2008-06-18 02:49 I reported 2 Ruby bugs and 1 for NetBeans today. Admittedly, I may have been trying to avoid tedious work that I *should've* been doing.
821. 2008-06-18 08:06 @lrz gets lucky with Generational Garbage Collection and Chad's eyebrows... that man Should Not Be Trusted With A Camera.
822. 2008-06-18 14:15 Elegant short essay (not by me): "Blue Ray": http://tinyurl.com/6b82d4
823. 2008-06-18 16:28 @reborg Watch out for i18n issues on String#strip [snicker]
824. 2008-06-18 22:18 OMG, another foot washes up, that makes 6: http://tinyurl.com/49gsa9
825. 2008-06-18 22:21 @codinghorror Check out Jake Shimabukuro, srsly: http://www.jakeshimabukuro.com/?t=audio
826. 2008-06-19 05:12 MacRumors posting alleged Rogers Canadian iPhone plans: http://is.gd/AWn
827. 2008-06-19 16:11 Aquamacs 1.4 ftw: http://tinyurl.com/65aqch
828. 2008-06-19 23:51 Major missed goatse opportunity: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/06/19/Colonoscopy
829. 2008-06-20 00:09 Congrats to Israel & Hamas for the courage to try a Gaza ceasefire on for size. Good luck, they'll need it.
830. 2008-06-20 04:51 @dsifry I found the Armstrong/prag book OK. And there's not much else.
831. 2008-06-20 05:15 @dsifry I had the impression there was only one. Anyhow, whatever the first thing you find is when you go looking. MacPorts has it.
832. 2008-06-20 14:11 Java finally 100% de-encumbered (http://is.gd/C6i) less than 2 years from the 2006/11/12 announcement; way quicker than I thought.
833. 2008-06-20 20:01 Completed backing out a large 95%-failed refactoring. Cathartic but not happy-making.
834. 2008-06-20 20:45 Snuck home for an hour to watch an hour of Croatia-Turkey. What a waste of time.
835. 2008-06-21 00:16 It's nice that NetBeans now does proper Apache C-coding indentation, but my latest svn commit thinks every line in the program changed, sigh
836. 2008-06-21 00:19 @jzawodn If you read my blog from yesterday you'll know that I can top your dilation problems...
837. 2008-06-21 00:32 Tsukuba, where the world's Rubyists are now gathering, is a really exciting and beautiful place. Well, actually not.
838. 2008-06-21 19:10 Pre-game Prediction: Russia is so doomed. Now: Gosh, they look pretty good.
839. 2008-06-22 02:41 WTF, NYT still shipping Atom 0.3? Gimme a #$%! break
840. 2008-06-23 05:20 Listening to my birthday present - Simone Dinnerstein playing the Goldbergs. So far, very slowly.
841. 2008-06-23 06:42 @codinghorror Um, just want to place strong disagreement on the record. TDD is the single greatest advance in SW technology in my lifetime.
842. 2008-06-23 16:28 @twleung It's carrying that D3 that's destroying your body.
843. 2008-06-23 17:16 Beautiful Cubs/Sox outside-the-park photo-essay: http://tinyurl.com/67o2fm
844. 2008-06-23 18:55 Shit, loss of cooling pressure in one of the big Sun campuses, need to shut down tons o' servers.
845. 2008-06-23 22:09 @webmink In fact, air conditioning for humans *is* illegal in Zürich. OK for computers though. Find a server room to sack out in.
846. 2008-06-23 22:20 Need to do my regular plug for Epiphany Radio, http://www.epiphanyradio.org/ - outstandingly beautiful audio wallpaper.
847. 2008-06-23 22:46 I only very rarely need the whiteboard in my office. But when I need it, I really need it.
848. 2008-06-24 00:00 @andigutmans Of course, if Perl stopped working tomorrow, the web would grind to a halt :)
849. 2008-06-24 00:01 @andigutmans Perl is past its prime but doesn't get nearly enough credit for being influential. IMHO more historically important than Lisp.
850. 2008-06-24 00:09 Hey, WD-40 has its own website: http://www.wd40.com/ and Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WD-40
851. 2008-06-24 00:09 WD-40 at Snopes: http://tinyurl.com/ynyp3v
852. 2008-06-24 00:09 With WD-40 I could defeat Chuck Norris.
853. 2008-06-24 06:17 @groby Python implementation more mature & faster. Ruby a more innovative language design, will affect your thinking more.
854. 2008-06-24 06:19 @shanselman I understand certain illegal narcotics help.
855. 2008-06-24 17:22 Neave TV: http://www.neave.com/television/
856. 2008-06-24 18:01 XML Fever: http://tinyurl.com/58w8ta - mostly harmless
857. 2008-06-24 20:04 What Joe was really singing: http://tinyurl.com/6rt8zk
858. 2008-06-25 02:53 Ricoh GX200: http://is.gd/Ffe and http://is.gd/Ffi fast RAW=good, more megapixels=FAIL. Pocket cam w/ accessories, how odd: http://is.gd/Ffn
859. 2008-06-25 06:08 Pardon a Google-fanboy moment: search for "Euro 2008" and check out the first result.
860. 2008-06-25 19:03 [snuck home to watch the Euro2008]... Germany looks shaky and sloppy, half-asleep
861. 2008-06-25 19:10 Nothing against Germany, but you gotta love a scrappy underdog.
862. 2008-06-25 19:42 Hey, OpenMoko ships. I'd love it if they turned out to be good.
863. 2008-06-25 22:05 Urgh, NetBeans has suddenly started thrashing on me editing a big BIG .c file. Never happened before.
864. 2008-06-26 00:07 Registered for OSCON. They want me to join a Facebook group. That feels all wrong, somehow.
865. 2008-06-26 04:20 @dsifry Seriously, have a look at the GX200 while you're doing that.
866. 2008-06-26 04:33 @BWJones Not clear. Early results suggest GX200 RAWs are about the same as GX100, i.e. not bad. Hard to find a P&S good past ISO400.
867. 2008-06-26 04:34 @BWJones But you're right about wanting a good little rangefinder. They're frightened of cannibalizing their SLR revenues.
868. 2008-06-26 04:51 @BWJones G9 is quite OK but a little big. I found the Ricoh ergonomics were immensely better and the lens maybe a little too.
869. 2008-06-26 06:11 @gruber I see your grd2d and raise you a http://flickr.com/groups/gx100/
870. 2008-06-26 06:11 (and I'm the worst kind of prime-lens snob on my big pentax)
871. 2008-06-26 06:23 @gruber Pity Ricoh has an attitude problem about us Norteamericanos
872. 2008-06-26 07:15 @diveintomark October is *nice* in most parts of Canada. Yankee parochialism.
873. 2008-06-26 07:28 This woman's eyes change color alarmingly: http://is.gd/GhK But she's a really good piano player.
874. 2008-06-26 07:33 Goldberg Variations video: http://tinyurl.com/552s6e
875. 2008-06-26 18:02 Wow, Sun Chief counsel blogs about current litigation with NetApp. This is pretty radical behavior: http://is.gd/GFl
876. 2008-06-26 18:11 @twleung cursing Ricoh for so exactly scratching my few itches with the GX100 I bought only 5 months ago.
877. 2008-06-26 18:16 Excellent piece by Anil on BillG.
878. 2008-06-26 18:17 Re-tweet, Anil on BIllG: http://tinyurl.com/3ewf3p
879. 2008-06-26 18:41 At Euro2008, the crowd is singing the White Stripes "Seven Nation Army" riff
880. 2008-06-26 18:41 Concurrency is hard. Let's go shopping.
881. 2008-06-26 18:58 Been programming in C for a week solid. Lauren asks: "Why are you so spaced out?"
882. 2008-06-26 21:04 Thinking about TLDs: .geek, .vancouver, .dot, .sun, .whore, .fanboy, .web, .fail, .pwns, .rock, .jazz, .beach, .sofa, .news, .mojo, .sucks
883. 2008-06-26 22:08 @quasi42 A Thumper is truly great technology, but let me tell ya, you do *not* want one in your residence.
884. 2008-06-26 22:46 meta meta meta Meta META!
885. 2008-06-26 22:54 @pkedrosky Wondering if having dumped equities big-time June 1-ish to buy recreational property will look good in retrospect...
886. 2008-06-27 01:45 @lobrien In Canada, there's whitepages.ca, which is kind of lame and stupid, but you can fight your way through
887. 2008-06-27 03:24 Sun vs. NetApp litigation, blow-by-blow by blog: http://tinyurl.com/62zo9y
888. 2008-06-27 04:48 @stevej Emerging conventional wisdom: Build fallback measures into your web app architecture up front.
889. 2008-06-27 12:33 Thought-provoking photographs by Chema Mdaoz: http://tinyurl.com/2pzsmh
890. 2008-06-27 18:07 Aquamacs + flyspell-mode ftw
891. 2008-06-27 18:10 Security/ISO guru looking for work. Fairly rare talent combo: http://tinyurl.com/6zgpk7
892. 2008-06-27 22:23 Wondering if I should give CACM another try after all these years.
893. 2008-06-28 00:31 watching 90-year-old Nelson wave to the crowd at today's AIDS benefit. Moving
894. 2008-06-28 00:46 @headius +1 - Vegas yecch. Severe culture mismatch IMHO.
895. 2008-06-28 05:35 More drama from the rosaceae, with a brothel reference, Pentax+primes ftw: http://tinyurl.com/5n9887
896. 2008-06-29 05:45 @ev Seems kind of callous to just watch while an innocent furry mammal is coated with aromatic pigment-bearing adhesive chemicals.
897. 2008-06-29 05:46 Just wasted a half-hour enjoyably poking around my old Diablo 2 guild which amazingly still exists. D3 on the way, will run on Mac they say.
898. 2008-06-29 14:40 More megapixels is better! No it's not! Yes it is! http://is.gd/Ih3
899. 2008-06-29 18:44 Stumbled across a Jays game on TV. Bit of a nostalgic thrill seeing shots of Cito in the dugout.
900. 2008-06-29 19:07 If Germany can't stop those good through balls, there'll be a Spanish goal PDQ.
901. 2008-06-29 19:32 Some of those Spanish passes are mind-boggling.
902. 2008-06-29 20:02 OK. I'm now an unqualified fan of the Spanish Euro2008 team. Some of those sequences are exquisite.
903. 2008-06-29 20:21 They'll regret taking Torres off if it goes to overtime.
904. 2008-06-29 20:36 Well, well earned.
905. 2008-06-29 20:41 Wow, the Spanish team gets €23M in prize money. Not bad at all.
906. 2008-06-30 05:01 We are fortunate that Roger Angell lives on, and writes beautifully about what really matters, as he approaches 90: http://is.gd/IzH
907. 2008-06-30 17:08 @twleung Man, this is the worst allergy summer in the last 5 years. My 2-year-old goes "ah-tchoo" in her little munchkin voice when I sneeze
908. 2008-06-30 19:06 @sogrady If you have a job where you're looking forward to retirement, maybe it's the wrong job.
909. 2008-06-30 19:24 With any luck, my last-ever OOXML rant: http://tinyurl.com/6q33yl
910. 2008-06-30 20:44 "This is a picture I did not take of a nun, littering." From unphotographable: http://www.unphotographable.com/
911. 2008-06-30 20:45 A title that says "Don't read this as you value your sanity": "RDF Parsing in XSLT"
912. 2008-06-30 20:49 "The End of Theory" is wrong on so many levels.
913. 2008-07-01 02:56 @nicksieger There things to like about OCaml, e. g. http://wikis.sun.com/display/WideFinder/Results
914. 2008-07-01 03:42 Nikon D700? http://tinyurl.com/6hbly4
915. 2008-07-01 03:54 Linux Kernel Summit chews over DTrace: http://wmf.editthispage.com/2008/06/30
916. 2008-07-01 05:26 Hmph, Nikon might've seduced me from the arms of Pentax if they'd shipped the D700 six months ago.
917. 2008-07-01 06:18 @rcousine Don't read Rockwell, but the consensus among the intelligent photo-freaks seems to be that he's a raving moron.
918. 2008-07-01 06:19 @joshu Immensely smaller and lighter. Have you *seen* the D3? You can have a D3 or a life.
919. 2008-07-01 06:21 @BWJones So true. The Pentax "limited" primes (40 & 21mm) are incredibly-compact jewels, and they make my pictures better. I'm locked in.
920. 2008-07-01 06:24 Editing rose photos while listening to Bitches Brew. What a wonderful world.
921. 2008-07-01 06:25 @Atomos That would be God telling you not to use Acrobat. I'd listen.
922. 2008-07-01 06:28 @twleung I've had good results with the Sigma 30mm/1.4 prime. Probably cheaper than Nikon too.
923. 2008-07-01 06:46 On the subject of those delicious Pentax primes: http://tinyurl.com/5dbwfg
924. 2008-07-01 07:19 "I Don't Believe You": http://tinyurl.com/6hmkha - she's right, I don't.
925. 2008-07-01 07:51 @codinghorror the Pro is probably overpriced but, boy, it's sleek and quiet and really REALLY damn fast. Using it makes me happy.
926. 2008-07-01 16:01 Dear world: July 1 is Canada day. See ya tomorrow. Kthxbye, Canada
927. 2008-07-02 18:50 @al3x Kissability mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
928. 2008-07-02 18:51 Well... first $100 fuel fill-up. Suppose that energy costs triple in the near/medium term. Really, because they will.
929. 2008-07-02 18:57 Humbled and delighted by other Ape committers turning my quick hack into a real idiomatic Ruby app.
930. 2008-07-02 22:04 @imsaar The Ape is now http://rubyforge.org/projects/ape/
931. 2008-07-02 22:40 Fast Ruby Debugger Engine. Looks kinda bleeding-edge, but still: http://tinyurl.com/5f2zbf
932. 2008-07-02 23:54 Misspelling "meta" as "meat" can lead to some disturbing formations.
933. 2008-07-03 18:59 I get an itchy unconfortable feeling when devs start saying "that's the architecture, not the implementation".
934. 2008-07-03 21:15 Horse latitudes: http://tinyurl.com/6kquuz
935. 2008-07-04 05:34 The shambling WS-Undead: http://tinyurl.com/6nnv69
936. 2008-07-04 05:38 Beluga cam! http://www.vanaqua.org/belugacam/
937. 2008-07-04 06:41 Awwwwwwwww.... Bozo died: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7489067.stm
938. 2008-07-04 06:44 Some disambiguation pages are truly great: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bozo
939. 2008-07-04 06:58 Re-tweeting @cyprien - early Iggy Pop video mmm: http://tinyurl.com/yt9xle
940. 2008-07-04 08:08 @chadfowler The idea is to be patriotic? RW&B? Well, except for the green typeface. Mere words cannot encompass the hideousness.
941. 2008-07-04 16:21 @timoreilly (oops, missed 2-dy-old tweet). I'm comfortable disagreeing with Ray Ozzie.
942. 2008-07-04 16:44 @gruber Agreed on the PDF & Flash side of Adobe. They're doing OK on the graphics side though with LR & PS.
943. 2008-07-04 17:24 @cbeust I think Erlang is expanding again the last couple of years
944. 2008-07-04 17:58 God's Children: http://tinyurl.com/6dv2we
945. 2008-07-04 18:26 @timoreilly Please finish protecting your house before blogging :)
946. 2008-07-04 18:29 @timoreilly One could argue that Windows suffers from conflating the OS and GUI goo too closely. Is X11 part of the OS? Hmmm...
947. 2008-07-04 21:00 @segphault Can't wait for those reviews. If this rev of the platform is actually *usable*, I'm so there.
948. 2008-07-04 21:26 Even after all these years, there's this little glow you get when you do a commit.
949. 2008-07-04 23:10 @laribee The secret is: use a tripod
950. 2008-07-05 06:36 Tired... adding pix to Wikipedia. Pure fun.
951. 2008-07-05 17:52 Assembling an Ikea chest of drawers. Considering the advantages of NATO invading Sweden with fire & sword.
952. 2008-07-06 22:47 If it stays warm, see y'all at the great Spanish Banks drum circle tonight: http://is.gd/MUz
953. 2008-07-07 00:14 Via @timoreilly - Thomas Disch died. Camp Concentration, the Puppies of Terra, On Wings of Song. Some great books there.
954. 2008-07-07 05:54 @projct Nope. Had one look, didn't like it, will try again sometime.
955. 2008-07-07 06:14 @twleung Take lotsa pix, OK?
956. 2008-07-07 16:21 Dear Apple, when I *unplug* a USB it doesn't mean I want the computer to wake up. Kthksbye.
957. 2008-07-07 17:50 retweeting, uh, someone (sorry): web 2.0 funnies: http://tinyurl.com/64h8zd
958. 2008-07-07 18:00 I used to watch the TdF. No longer: it's just a pharmaceuticals competition now. Screw 'em. So sad.
959. 2008-07-07 18:16 "The shift of online communities resembles urban development and the gentrification of many hip neighborhoods." http://is.gd/NvS
960. 2008-07-07 18:45 Hah, NetBeans wins one: http://tinyurl.com/6ez9d6
961. 2008-07-07 19:00 Man, that's a scary picture @pkedrosky posted: http://tinyurl.com/5vxq22
962. 2008-07-07 21:33 Atomic Monday, with meta-CRUD: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/07/07/Atom
963. 2008-07-07 23:39 @_why Sorry, guy, we inclusionists are remorseless. Your pleas fall on deaf ears.
964. 2008-07-08 14:10 Heh. Latest twitter spam-follower: "Convert your car to run on water". Like bad TV comedy.
965. 2008-07-08 18:59 The NetBeans guys are gonna take a serious run at Python (http://is.gd/Osj) Good thing, since Python's definitely hot in Solaris-land.
966. 2008-07-08 20:10 @KathySierra "Consensus" is a good word, at least in the IETF-culture context: "Rough consensus and running code".
967. 2008-07-08 20:22 Hire Russ Beattie! http://tinyurl.com/5r28m2
968. 2008-07-08 20:33 SDN Python dev center: http://developers.sun.com/python/ (Ruby is http://developers.sun.com/ruby/).
969. 2008-07-08 21:33 What ever happened to SpikeSource? They still out there? Thought it was a sane idea...
970. 2008-07-08 21:49 So many web servers, who knew? http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/beyondlamp.html
971. 2008-07-08 22:13 It seems there's a web-site dedicated to Oil Rig Photos. How odd. http://www.oilrig-photos.com/
972. 2008-07-09 00:22 The world simply doesn't have a nicer place than Vancouver on a sunny summer day.
973. 2008-07-09 03:42 @IanSkerrett is right. Listen to what he says. Don't come here and drive real-estate prices even higher.
974. 2008-07-09 03:43 @_why 17 uplings make an eskerl. But inflation is an issue.
975. 2008-07-09 13:57 Vote on your favorite bug-tracker & SCM, & pass the word: http://tinyurl.com/5kof8c
976. 2008-07-09 15:59 @pkedrosky Seems obvious that looking back in 20 years, the summer of '08 will have been a watershed moment in popular attitudes to energy.
977. 2008-07-09 16:04 Interesting that nobody's contrasting Protocol Buffers with JSON. Seems more relevant than either XML or IDL.
978. 2008-07-09 16:50 @jstrachan self-describing? I thought you needed the .proto file to make sense of it.
979. 2008-07-09 18:29 Hmm, CMS/bug-tracker survey results: interesting: http://is.gd/PnK (survey at http://is.gd/Opn)
980. 2008-07-09 21:11 Hey, they gave me an OSCON registration discount magic code "for colleagues, friends". Tweeps qualify; DM if you want to save a couple bucks
981. 2008-07-10 04:01 In Canada, the Blackberry and Treo users are wondering if they can get that new iPod data rate...
982. 2008-07-10 17:29 Sun ♥ Drupal: http://tinyurl.com/5bcssu
983. 2008-07-10 19:00 @RussB you suck
984. 2008-07-10 20:10 Damn, my whole office just shook in the wind. Mind you, it's a tired old wooden building, but still.
985. 2008-07-10 20:17 Iranian missile photoshop funnies. Really, look at the pic: http://tinyurl.com/62bx8n
986. 2008-07-10 20:21 Lotus Eco Elise: Seriously hot. Want one. http://tinyurl.com/5gmyg6
987. 2008-07-10 20:54 @estherschindler I think the contents of your note would be of general interest. It's becoming a somewhat vexed term.
988. 2008-07-10 22:14 SVN catches git in the tools survey. /me wonders if someone's gaming the poll: http://is.gd/PnK
989. 2008-07-10 22:43 Debugging C code is hard. Let's go shopping.
990. 2008-07-10 22:50 Oh frabjous day! atom_pub meta-CRUD just got an Ape smooch. The testbed looks like the site of a nasty ethnic cleansing though.
991. 2008-07-11 05:37 Eek, something flashed up a REALLY WEIRD Growl message that I mostly missed, and I don't know which app. Am I looking at a little Hal here?
992. 2008-07-11 05:47 @laribee well, you could write a little shell script & stuff it in your crontab. Low-rent, I know.
993. 2008-07-11 05:47 Somehow I'd missed out WhereTheHellIsMatt till today. Awwww... so sweet.
994. 2008-07-11 07:17 @gruber Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not watching you.
995. 2008-07-11 14:17 Urgh.... looks nasty in the financials.
996. 2008-07-14 16:40 Camera pr0n: http://tinyurl.com/67689e
997. 2008-07-14 17:25 @estherschindler Perhaps because of the ugly industry hangover from the failure of the SOAP/WSDL stack, & no expensive REST tools to pitch?
998. 2008-07-14 23:05 Donate to help Andrii Nikitin's little boy Ivan: http://tinyurl.com/6oe9ef
999. 2008-07-14 23:44 @snoopdave Atompub isn't *that* easy...
1000. 2008-07-15 04:30 My Internet voice has been quite silent of late. Nothing bad seems to have happened as a result. Hmmmmmm...
1001. 2008-07-15 05:12 I always thought the #1 must-have in an entrepreneur was talent-spotting & recruiting. Hard for an introvert.
1002. 2008-07-15 05:15 Hey, pleasant Web-typography surprise: the blog title at http://www.gracelessfailures.com/ - that's text, not a graphic.
1003. 2008-07-17 19:52 Dear internet I'm back kthxbye
1004. 2008-07-18 05:31 Ephemeral aggregators: http://tinyurl.com/5r38jk - follow the link to Rabble's piece.
1005. 2008-07-18 14:02 Next time you're in Philly, check out the Comcast lobby. Trust me on this.
1006. 2008-07-18 17:03 Getting eternal-beachball when trying to wake my MacBook recently, maybe one time out of 3. Anyone else or just me?
1007. 2008-07-18 17:04 @quasi42 Death penalty called for, I'd say.
1008. 2008-07-18 18:25 Trying to get NetBeans to talk to RubyForge & use a password. *Somebody* must have done this before
1009. 2008-07-18 21:24 @dewitt I recommend the Sigma 30mm f1.4. A bit hard to find though.
1010. 2008-07-18 21:30 @dewitt http://tinyurl.com/2wer2z
1011. 2008-07-18 21:42 Revisiting the Intel 432: http://tinyurl.com/5o3suo
1012. 2008-07-18 22:01 Mobility Blues: http://tinyurl.com/5g8ms3
1013. 2008-07-18 23:33 Pity last.fm can't scrobble Internet Radio
1014. 2008-07-19 00:19 Radio Delíro is playing Lee Marvin's "I was born under a Wanderin Star". If you've never heard of such thing, that's OK.
1015. 2008-07-19 00:45 another day, another STUPID REXML BUG. Time for pizza & rosé
1016. 2008-07-19 00:46 @sogrady Tom Bihn
1017. 2008-07-19 05:24 My first-ever RubyForge check-in. I understand people have "fun" on Friday nights.
1018. 2008-07-19 05:44 SAP: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb: http://is.gd/XBv
1019. 2008-07-20 15:49 Watching the golf... 53-year-olds ftw.
1020. 2008-07-20 21:27 Toddler napping; refactoring the Ape while eating a bowl of cherries. Sprinkler hissing gently outside. Thinking about coffee. Ahhhhhhhh
1021. 2008-07-21 06:10 Doing a (gasp) marketing session @OSCON. Product announcements etc. Ripped the slides out of mkting's hands to introduce spice & cynicism.
1022. 2008-07-21 06:12 That mkting thing is separate from my actual keynote which will be entirely geekstuff; see how many language religiosos I can anger at once.
1023. 2008-07-21 06:21 I have refactored the Ape sufficiently that dozens of unit tests now blow chunks. Think I'll celebrate by going to bed.
1024. 2008-07-21 17:55 Ruby on the Web: http://www.ruby-mag.com.ar/ - not what you think. *Really* not what you think.
1025. 2008-07-21 21:29 Heh... flow from @gruber including quite a few people who are really mad at me.
1026. 2008-07-21 21:32 OK'd comment ending "You're an offensive creep, Mr. Bray" but bounced "Stick to the shit you know and wallow in your fucking worthlessness".
1027. 2008-07-21 23:41 Enjoying the feeling of power: glance at a Gmail window and click on "Unread" and then "Delete".
1028. 2008-07-22 00:45 OMG closures in PHP5.3. The end times are upon us.
1029. 2008-07-22 17:07 Interesting twitter head-hunting: "UE/UR/UI": http://is.gd/10ql
1030. 2008-07-22 17:17 OSCON preview: http://tinyurl.com/66e7zn
1031. 2008-07-22 17:41 Thinking that impulsively clicking on the 1.3G PSElements download might not have been the smartest thing.
1032. 2008-07-22 18:06 @b3gl Oops, no, just my office; but 1.3G on fairly slow DSL...
1033. 2008-07-22 18:43 "I stabbed my ubuntu. how it hurts." http://tinyurl.com/5wdnhg
1034. 2008-07-22 18:53 Madly pulling in audio & video & pix & tables from all over the web... expect an oversaturated 15-minute keynote Friday.
1035. 2008-07-22 18:57 OSCON has *way* too many parallel tracks.
1036. 2008-07-22 20:11 Wanna use this pic in my keynote: http://tinyurl.com/5plrsw - the metaphor seems obvious.
1037. 2008-07-22 21:22 Wondering why installing Elements wants me to close my browers, grmph
1038. 2008-07-22 22:15 Whenever I'm writing a Mac gripe I feel like I have @gruber hovering over my shoulder waiting to pounce.
1039. 2008-07-22 22:42 On keyboards: http://tinyurl.com/6gctjo
1040. 2008-07-23 00:01 @sogrady Will stick my head into Kells 10-ish to see if you guys are in for the long haul
1041. 2008-07-23 02:34 Finally officially on the road to OSCON. Looks like I'll be the only male passenger on the puddle-jumper.
1042. 2008-07-23 16:00 @john_lam DIdn't know you were looking for a job
1043. 2008-07-23 16:25 Nice to be able to agree with TimO for a whole half-hour at a time
1044. 2008-07-23 16:41 Mmm... "No secret software!" Now that's a sound-bite.
1045. 2008-07-23 16:59 Monty pronounces "MySQL" as MyEssKooEll not MyEssKyewEll. I like it.
1046. 2008-07-24 07:51 Geir beat me 2/3 falls in sumo, got slaughtered in shuffleboard, but was a God at air-hockey; held the table for 5 games and left undefeated
1047. 2008-07-24 17:49 Evan Pomodrou presenting identi.ca at OSCON
1048. 2008-07-25 00:54 looking for an OSCON dinner party to join
1049. 2008-07-25 01:24 @bleything where are the burgers?
1050. 2008-07-25 02:38 @halostatue I did, with regret. Just too much volume.
1051. 2008-07-26 05:27 It sucks that my drive blew up. It's great that it happened just *after* my talk. & I managed to mount it long enough to save the OSCON pix!
1052. 2008-07-26 06:53 @kwerb There's a serious move afoot to ban tourists from Tsukiji. Sigh.
1053. 2008-07-26 15:40 Ever heard of Anuta? http://tinyurl.com/6f2tyl
1054. 2008-07-26 15:47 There seems to be consensus that my background music wasn't loud enough.
1055. 2008-07-26 21:31 Apparently can't do a partial restore of a few files from a Time Capsule backup made by another computer :(
1056. 2008-07-27 04:31 launching a 100+-Gig restore-from-scratch from Time Capsule. Wish me luck.
1057. 2008-07-27 05:40 @duncan's OSCON set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/sets/72157606297321213/
1058. 2008-07-27 06:00 aspell on a computer I don't use for writing just suggested "fsck" was supposed to be "fuck".
1059. 2008-07-27 06:14 22.3% done; 6 hours 4 minutes remaining.
1060. 2008-07-27 06:39 Tom Christiansen's WIkipedia entry now has a picture. Yes, this *is* a good way to spend Saturday night.
1061. 2008-07-27 06:51 @RussB is sitting up late commenting on blogs.
1062. 2008-07-27 16:50 @fridgebuzz Partial restores are easy; but not from another machine's save-set. Irritating but not fatal. Time Machine has worked for me.
1063. 2008-07-27 19:18 Reeling Israelis, check it out: http://tinyurl.com/5hsgnh
1064. 2008-07-27 21:28 No secret software! This is important: http://tinyurl.com/5sa3cg
1065. 2008-07-28 04:20 It depresses me when I don't get the current XKCD. And I'm a hat-wearer, too.
1066. 2008-07-28 04:27 At some point, Spaces & Lightroom stopped playing nice together... when I cmd-tab to Lightroom, it doesn't switch to that Space. Just me?
1067. 2008-07-28 06:24 Nine pictures of OSCON: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/
1068. 2008-07-28 17:37 GMail spam subject: "Find a place in Shelbyville". Sounds like an alt-country song title.
1069. 2008-07-28 17:42 Heh, someone went out and created http://nosecretsoftware.org/
1070. 2008-07-28 21:07 @shanselman Doesn't work with either beer or whisky.
1071. 2008-07-28 21:15 As advised, remapped caps-lock key to be Control. Think it'll work OK once I reprogram my hind-brain.
1072. 2008-07-28 21:40 David Byrne pitching his new record with Eno: http://is.gd/16Ju - it's kinda cute, he's almost embarrassed to be doing it.
1073. 2008-07-28 23:16 Qantas accident video: http://tinyurl.com/5chwy7
1074. 2008-07-28 23:53 Friend asks me: What do the cool kids use to edit HTML these days? I actually haven't the vaguest.
1075. 2008-07-29 16:55 JVM Languages summit, Sep 24-26: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/jvmlangsummit/
1076. 2008-07-29 16:58 @nelson But when the lion is charging *you*, that's much verbier.
1077. 2008-07-29 17:11 Wondering what the Lightroom 2.0 Profile Editor is *for*. Lots of details about how to use it, but not a word I can find on why.
1078. 2008-07-29 17:21 Lightroom 2 installer is just hanging poignantly, saying "You will be guided through the steps necessary to install this software." Hmmm
1079. 2008-07-29 19:03 OSCON in 37 minutes: http://tinyurl.com/6n8696
1080. 2008-07-29 19:51 Paintings by trees: http://www.timknowles.co.uk/
1081. 2008-07-30 00:28 If we were going to start over, we'd totally go base 12, right?
1082. 2008-07-30 00:42 Ruby is like an atomic tank. C is like a sword. Swish. Bleed.
1083. 2008-07-30 04:58 "Weak" ETags totally truly deeply suck. But I blame Ken Thompson.
1084. 2008-07-30 06:13 Happy backyard story: http://tinyurl.com/5vl7xq
1085. 2008-07-30 06:31 Oops, retweet; Happy backyard story: http://tinyurl.com/6kbavc
1086. 2008-07-30 06:33 Screwdrivers are important: http://tinyurl.com/5oxtfh
1087. 2008-07-30 07:40 Ambient Internet brain goo *from Denmark*: http://www.myspace.com/theblissworldofficial
1088. 2008-07-30 15:45 Who are we anyhow? Help find out! http://alistapart.com/articles/survey2008
1089. 2008-07-30 15:50 Hah! @gstein goes indie: http://prng.blogspot.com/2008/07/transitions.html - Hey Greg, please stay visible.
1090. 2008-07-30 16:54 New Bond-movie theme by... Alicia Keys and Jack White. I'm nonplused.
1091. 2008-07-30 17:53 retweeting @robc2: SEC on Twitter! http://twitter.com/SEC_Investor_Ed
1092. 2008-07-30 18:34 Off for my first twitter-initiated lunch date.
1093. 2008-07-30 21:40 Looks like the SEC agrees with what I said in 2007/02: http://tinyurl.com/2a9hxx
1094. 2008-07-30 22:53 Want commenters? Post about keyboards or screwdrivers. Software, politics, love, not so much.
1095. 2008-07-30 22:59 Wow, just got spam from the Apostolic School of Theology.
1096. 2008-07-31 05:48 @lrz Come to Vancouver, I'll show you soft cheese that will make you weep.
1097. 2008-07-31 06:13 Suppose someone who's following you strikes you as a potential mass murderer. "Introspective loner, anger issues with the world" etc.
1098. 2008-07-31 06:15 Be my primary key: http://you.presscue.com/node/1234
1099. 2008-07-31 06:18 @lrz Not an issue, we make our own: http://www.moonstruckcheese.com/available.html
1100. 2008-07-31 06:21 @lrz also see http://tinyurl.com/5fqxmk
1101. 2008-07-31 06:34 retweet @codinghorror http://tinyurl.com/38v6yl - laughter is sacred
1102. 2008-07-31 07:16 Tamil hip hop: http://tinyurl.com/6fxtsc
1103. 2008-07-31 07:21 ZambeZi funK - In My Father's Words - BlaaZe & SagaR. http://tinyurl.com/6x9b2u - I don't believe but they do. Wow!
1104. 2008-07-31 15:25 urgh, seems Outlook 2007 can't read Atom 1.0 correctly. Do I cripple my feed to please the Outlookers? Lots of 'em. Hmmm
1105. 2008-07-31 17:41 Have to get Java6 for FX. I have too many javas and rubies on this little laptop.
1106. 2008-07-31 18:15 @headius Damn that's some hairy code. The JVM is not a workplace for mere mortals.
1107. 2008-07-31 18:25 Wondering how many twitterers are stuck in Whistler: http://is.gd/1aHX
1108. 2008-07-31 19:38 @al3x Can intro you to the guy who does the NB/scala stuff, he's super-responsive. Doesn't work for Sun.
1109. 2008-07-31 20:54 @stshank "spinning off" suggests we're gonna sell it. Re-orging with a direct report to Jonathan is a change, but not a spin-off.
1110. 2008-07-31 21:11 @textism "Almost everybody".
1111. 2008-07-31 21:20 Refactored 1000 lines of C till late last night so I could pass 1 new arg. Didn't work. Debugging ensues. Grr. Was passing placeholder NULL.
1112. 2008-07-31 21:49 Mozilla bug 448604: Can't get out of Whistler. http://tinyurl.com/5dh8b4
1113. 2008-07-31 22:54 @pkedrosky Wow, I couldn't; need primary sources. Good Q if that's a trend. Heh, *someone* has to inject new material into the conversation
1114. 2008-08-01 02:00 Wondering if Knol will become non-lame any time soon?
1115. 2008-08-01 04:12 @brianaker jfdi
1116. 2008-08-01 14:16 Surprising drug-bust video: http://tinyurl.com/y3bg5s
1117. 2008-08-01 17:55 Death by monkey mask: http://jwz.livejournal.com/914926.html
1118. 2008-08-01 18:44 Keep thinking AMQP is huge. Feel guilty for not having drilled down seriously.
1119. 2008-08-01 19:46 @bmann AMQP & XMPP grew out of different communities with different perceived needs. To be clear: I think XMPP is huge too.
1120. 2008-08-01 22:53 @avibryant is, I deduce, now married. Congrats & best wishes.
1121. 2008-08-01 23:12 When you've fixed a horrid bug and tested it and done a commit and it's late on Friday... it's hard to pick up the next to-do.
1122. 2008-08-02 05:17 2010 winter olympic schedules out: http://www.vancouver2010.com/en/WinterGames/EventSchedules
1123. 2008-08-05 03:59 My extremely high-velocity short OSCON keynote is now on http://oscon.blip.tv/ (can't figure out how to point to an individual video)
1124. 2008-08-05 05:10 First listen to free cut from latest Byrne/Eno collab didn't knock me out.
1125. 2008-08-05 06:00 Sad, Solzhenitsyn died while I was off the grid. For me, probably the single most influential writer. Sad I'm prob too old to learn Russian
1126. 2008-08-05 06:46 Solzhenitsyn: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/08/04/Solzhenitsyn
1127. 2008-08-05 16:31 Astounding repository of free live music, courtesy of the Canadian taxpayer (I'm one, no complaints): http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/cod/
1128. 2008-08-05 19:09 Annotated Questions: http://tinyurl.com/6g4gc4
1129. 2008-08-05 21:53 Internet-drafts that do not include plentiful examples are very likely to contain grievous design errors and gaping logic holes. Just sayin'
1130. 2008-08-06 00:21 @terrycojones Herodotus mmm: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/24/Herodotus
1131. 2008-08-06 06:04 Urgh, the long-running soap opera around XRI is gaining heat again. Please make it stop.
1132. 2008-08-06 06:09 Spam begins: Dear,<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
1133. 2008-08-06 15:31 LazyWeb: how to use my mac as a quick & easy sound-recording device? QT Broadcaster doesn't seem to work any more...
1134. 2008-08-06 15:50 @siracusa Sigh, $37.99 for QT Pro. The mac should be able to Just Do This.
1135. 2008-08-06 16:00 Audacity: cluttered ugly window. No button saying "click here to record". Nothing useful under the file menu. FAIL.
1136. 2008-08-06 16:02 Audio Recorder, on the other hand, seems to Just Work.
1137. 2008-08-06 16:10 @rewbs I see the same thing as you. What do I click to record?
1138. 2008-08-06 16:11 Aaaah... click on the greyed-out red circle. Of course.
1139. 2008-08-06 16:13 Me: Export as MP3. Audacity: Would you like me to search for LAME.dylib? FAIL.
1140. 2008-08-06 17:13 @johndunne Roseola - scary but harmless. Rushed one of our kids to the emergency room once.
1141. 2008-08-06 19:18 @DominicJones # of impt material-disclosure sites will be small. Someone should monitor 'em aggressively as a service; wouldn't cost much.
1142. 2008-08-06 19:29 @gruber Monty Widenius of MySQL has this Scandinavian accent and says "EssKooEll", which sounds considerably more KooEll to my ears.
1143. 2008-08-06 19:30 @codinghorror *Nothing* about OpenID providers is cool. Now, some OpenID acceptors, that would be cool. I expect whitelists though.
1144. 2008-08-06 19:43 Hmm, free online criminal-record searches. Better watch out for that Tim Bray: http://is.gd/1hjR
1145. 2008-08-06 20:50 Realizing I forgot to restart Sun email when I rebooted 3 hours ago. Oops.
1146. 2008-08-06 21:03 Friend posted pix on FaceBook, so I made my every-other-month visit. Yawn.
1147. 2008-08-06 21:14 @kellyjeanne Yer on the slippery slope now.
1148. 2008-08-06 21:59 @nwjerseyliz Roughly equivalent to the number of women with "loser" ex-bf/husbands. Or is that unfair?
1149. 2008-08-06 22:13 @jimweirich You can get the coolest electric travel cellos. Totally sexy.
1150. 2008-08-06 22:42 @david_a_black http://www.vectorinstruments.com/cellos/index.html
1151. 2008-08-07 03:44 @br3nda A life without SOAP is a better life.
1152. 2008-08-07 03:46 @brentsimmons Solzhenitsyn. Herodotus. Watchmen. Fritz Lieber.
1153. 2008-08-07 06:58 @todmaffin It'd be refreshing to get back to old-school gang violence stories, by contrast with the severed-body-parts narrative.
1154. 2008-08-07 17:21 @lobrien Try brutalizing the teeny little scrollthingie. Slap it, squeeze it, shake it, bang it. Has worked for me a couple times.
1155. 2008-08-07 18:03 OMG super-interesting new Nikon camera is tied to Windows Vista. No kidding; no Vista no RAW. http://luminous-landscape.com/whatsnew/
1156. 2008-08-07 19:05 Flickr as stupidity tracker (funny): http://tinyurl.com/5tngbz
1157. 2008-08-07 22:12 @sogrady snorkel is fine (maybe better) for sea turtles.
1158. 2008-08-07 22:22 Where the mythical creatures are: http://tinyurl.com/6nb5px
1159. 2008-08-07 23:21 @nicksieger Well, it helps that you're in one of the smarter parts of Sun :)
1160. 2008-08-07 23:23 @al3x Aphid.
1161. 2008-08-08 03:58 @twleung LR2 runs just fine on a 6G 8-core Mac Pro. On my little MacBook, well...
1162. 2008-08-08 18:18 OMG... that's some scary shit coming out of Black Hat.
1163. 2008-08-08 19:08 Internet meme; en Français, «mème». Pourquoi l'accent grave? http://tinyurl.com/59cm9d
1164. 2008-08-08 20:00 Good summary of South Ossetia war news: http://tinyurl.com/6dmjll
1165. 2008-08-11 06:01 Donkeyists: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/08/10/Donkeyists
1166. 2008-08-11 07:10 Watching people swim is boring. I guess I just don't have the Olympic Spirit.
1167. 2008-08-11 15:52 Heh... check out @IngenBio - not bad.
1168. 2008-08-11 17:25 So, um, is Russia going to overrun all of Georgia? Nasty nasty nasty.
1169. 2008-08-11 20:59 Is it OK to go public about interesting head-hunter contacts? I.e. where the recruitment is interesting. "Wow, XXX is looking for a YYY!?"
1170. 2008-08-11 21:12 @d2h Why is Basecamp fast? Inquiring minds want to know.
1171. 2008-08-11 22:22 BTW my gmail never even flickered. Maybe due to being in Canada?
1172. 2008-08-11 22:40 Interesting perspective on Russia/Georgia situation: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4498709.ece
1173. 2008-08-11 22:59 @danielpunkass Gonna see if I can get Mars generic AtomPub working with my Apache server impl. Wish us both luck.
1174. 2008-08-11 23:19 <sob> mod_atom and MarsEdit won't talk to each other. Play nice kids, or I pull over and everyone gets a spanking.
1175. 2008-08-12 01:54 Have hardly seen the Olympics. Enjoying Canada/Taiwan women's softball.
1176. 2008-08-12 03:58 co-debugging AtomPub impls, mod_atom&MarsEdit. Feel guilty filing bugs for new Dad @danielpunkass, but cheery about shaking 'em out of m_a.
1177. 2008-08-12 08:05 @codelust The Reg seems to think they need one or more malevolent flamethrowers (cf http://tinyurl.com/64efla) on staff.
1178. 2008-08-12 18:25 spend an afternoon walking around aimlessly with a dslr pointing it at the sky and tripping over emos: http://is.gd/1oKz
1179. 2008-08-12 18:57 interesting "java.next" examples: http://tinyurl.com/6s9ryv
1180. 2008-08-12 19:56 I have never understood why my physical location is interesting, online. But lots of people seem to care about geo-this-and-that.
1181. 2008-08-12 20:00 In principle, I think we need tech journalism. In practice, I read things like http://is.gd/1oT2 and think WTF, why not just read blogs.
1182. 2008-08-12 21:25 @stilkov The premise is sound, but with weird only-slightly-related counterfactuals making it obvious the writer has no domain expertise.
1183. 2008-08-12 21:36 Feeling, as a Pentax cultist, alternately smug and left-out among the CaNikon back-and-forth.
1184. 2008-08-12 21:56 @dims Soon I expect, you could pester him. I think we're about done.
1185. 2008-08-13 00:35 I get three channels of hi-def Olympics. Still, most of the time there's no actual sports on, just talking heads or ads.
1186. 2008-08-13 03:31 Georgia vs. Russia (women's beach volleyball) - high drama indeed, I'm not kidding. Georgia won.
1187. 2008-08-13 05:45 In love with the Aussie women's beach volleyballers
1188. 2008-08-13 07:05 I was in awe: http://tinyurl.com/6r3glt
1189. 2008-08-13 17:08 Software that makes me smile every day: Emacs, Lightroom, NetBeans. Lots of other stuff is OK.
1190. 2008-08-13 18:52 Holy crap, the all-inclusive-of-everything NB6.5 is a 500M install.
1191. 2008-08-13 19:14 Compelling preso of Freebase app, even if the examples are kind of lame: http://www.vimeo.com/1513562
1192. 2008-08-13 19:34 If this works out, it's the biggest news story of the decade, or longer: http://tinyurl.com/5uu53h
1193. 2008-08-13 20:23 Torture-testing NB6.5b with my messy complicated many-thousand-lines-in-one-file C module. 6.1 couldn't hold up under the strain, long-term.
1194. 2008-08-13 20:30 Retweet @allankh: MIT breakthrough article critique: http://tinyurl.com/6225xn
1195. 2008-08-13 20:47 @huikau Heh, had to shift to Ruby to munge the module testing code. Bad: already reported 2 minor bugs. Good: Ruby file runner much smarter.
1196. 2008-08-13 21:48 retweet @BWJones: Oooooh, very cool: http://www.nervian.com/
1197. 2008-08-14 03:00 Hah, this is what Rails has needed since day 1: http://is.gd/1qTu
1198. 2008-08-14 03:56 Dear America: I hope your cable or satellite or whatever has an alternative to NBC for the Olympics.
1199. 2008-08-14 04:03 @therealadam Well, I'll have to write at length as to why I think it's important. Because I do.
1200. 2008-08-14 07:28 The aerial walkway at the UBC Botanical garden is open... gotta see it: http://is.gd/1r5Y
1201. 2008-08-14 07:40 Weird when someone I never heard of is following me & has protected updates. I want to request. Potential spam vector?
1202. 2008-08-14 16:34 @chadfowler On the other hand, do occasionally consider entirely eliminating one's database.
1203. 2008-08-14 20:36 Tasty Rails ETags: http://tinyurl.com/5z4u5o
1204. 2008-08-14 20:43 Monster wave of Spanish GMail spam. Sigh.
1205. 2008-08-14 20:48 Lovely story, lovely pix: Elephant Bang Bua Thong: http://www.foto8.com/home/content/view/605/161/
1206. 2008-08-14 23:52 When there's a little piece of software with many layers of hacks & patches, and blood is still seeping round the edges, that'd be a message
1207. 2008-08-14 23:53 It seems obvious that there are Way Too Many swimming events.
1208. 2008-08-15 04:37 @luckiestmonkey Awww, I loved your old avatar, that smile made me smile.
1209. 2008-08-15 15:41 @nelson Those gymnastics waifs are *not* hot. Creepy, yes. Beach volleyball is teh hotness, for homos & breeders alike I'd think.
1210. 2008-08-15 17:11 XML Backlash? http://tinyurl.com/6cydnv
1211. 2008-08-15 17:49 XML was widely adopted for configs in reaction to many badly designed ad-hoc config-file languages. Didn't turn out to be a great fit.
1212. 2008-08-15 17:55 @rachelchalmers Unnecessarily heavyweight. A lot of configs are mostly just name/value pairs.
1213. 2008-08-16 05:48 The Obama & McCain Olympics ad spots contrast sharply.
1214. 2008-08-17 21:15 Why does one member of the women's volleyball team have a different-coloured jersey? Usually a smaller person.
1215. 2008-08-18 06:17 Dear America: If you're watching the Olympics, try to find a feed of the Poland-Russia volleyball, it's a barnburner.
1216. 2008-08-18 06:28 Go Poland!
1217. 2008-08-18 08:34 @codinghorror Whenever you write [a-zA-Z] you've probably just committed a bug.
1218. 2008-08-18 17:06 Mmm, tasty new Sigma lens. I have the 30mm and am very happy, would probably have picked up this instead if it'd been shipping.
1219. 2008-08-18 17:06 Oops lost the link: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0808/08081802sigma50review.asp
1220. 2008-08-18 20:30 What TimO said: http://tinyurl.com/5j74tm
1221. 2008-08-18 20:41 CNN: "Musharraf has been a keen ally of the West in the fight on terror." Aaaagh. Alliances with brutal enemies'-enemies never really work.
1222. 2008-08-18 23:36 @zeldman That's a lovely soundbite, where's it from?
1223. 2008-08-19 03:34 Extreme Pentax lensporn: http://is.gd/1Jz4 and http://is.gd/1Jza mmmmmmmmm
1224. 2008-08-19 05:24 Hah! Billmon is back: http://www.dailykos.com/user/billmon/diary
1225. 2008-08-20 05:46 @al3x - Atom dates are RFC3339, arbitrary precision. Some problems caused by persisting in *n*x filesystems with 1-second granularity.
1226. 2008-08-20 20:00 Heh, going after the BEA customer base: http://www.sun.com/software/javaenterprisesystem/javacaps/logic.jsp
1227. 2008-08-21 04:15 Installing nightly dev builds of NetBeans could get problematic at 500M a pop
1228. 2008-08-25 21:06 72 hours off the Net. Quite refreshing, actually.
1229. 2008-08-26 01:46 Still fulminating about IETF ASCII-only parochialism after all these years.
1230. 2008-08-26 02:55 Superelegant Japanese photoblog: http://dacafe.petit.cc/
1231. 2008-08-26 19:39 Howling wind and distant thunder over the prairies.
1232. 2008-08-26 22:06 The world is safe from sunscreen-wielding terrorists trying to get through Regina Airport. Just saying.
1233. 2008-08-27 15:52 Hmm, interesting new online culturemag: http://www.culture11.com/
1234. 2008-08-28 00:11 Gonna sit down and seriously watch some DNC.
1235. 2008-08-28 00:14 @eliast Hey, what's next?
1236. 2008-08-28 03:46 I'm grateful to MSNBC for high-quality video that Just Works. But can't support the sponsor; got no use for a curvy Venus razor.
1237. 2008-08-28 03:51 @codinghorror case-folding basically doesn't work outside the domain of ASCII, but the C# & Java code that tries anyhow is insanely slow.
1238. 2008-08-28 03:54 @codinghorror http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/10/11/SearchI18n - see section labeled "On Case and Diacritics".
1239. 2008-08-28 14:45 What time is the big speech tonight?
1240. 2008-08-28 20:19 There was a time when IM'ing back & forth with one's spouse in the next room to negotiate travel scheduls would have been considered odd.
1241. 2008-08-28 21:57 Twitter killed my tab sweeps for months, but I managed to squeeze one out: http://tinyurl.com/5brb5j
1242. 2008-08-29 06:12 Gasp! Someone says something new about the campaign: http://tinyurl.com/577yec
1243. 2008-08-29 16:48 OMG she has five children.
1244. 2008-08-29 21:24 CBC says Harper will call an election next week. Prediction: grouchy electorate.
1245. 2008-08-29 22:58 Nifty, EC2 + Solaris + Rails, all packaged up with a pretty bow: http://tinyurl.com/6h7gma
1246. 2008-08-29 23:31 Diving into my first from-scratch RSpec
1247. 2008-08-30 06:22 OK, after 11 on Friday, time to commit one's changes and crash already
1248. 2008-08-30 17:09 Especially given that JPost is basically a tool for Likudnik racists. Mind you, that's what many Americans think "pro-Israel" means.
1249. 2008-08-30 17:13 Obama would have got deeper questions from Ha'aretz. But JPost has better US exposure.
1250. 2008-08-31 05:03 Western wear: http://tinyurl.com/5t5auf
1251. 2008-08-31 16:50 If you watch the storm trackers, you might get the impression that Gustav could both moderate and veer left of NOLA. That'd be good.
1252. 2008-09-02 02:43 What @mezzoblue said. Elections, uniquely, are improved by a lack of foreplay.
1253. 2008-09-02 16:13 Thank $DEITY for unprotected linksys networks.
1254. 2008-09-02 16:20 Picture: How love waves work: http://is.gd/28W0
1255. 2008-09-02 18:16 Chrome, windows-only, yawn, irrelevant.
1256. 2008-09-02 18:25 Shorpy: the 100-year-old photo blog. Today's pic is amazing. http://www.shorpy.com/
1257. 2008-09-02 18:55 OK, I hope everybody is ready to explain what a "process" is to civilians.
1258. 2008-09-02 19:01 What's the Chrome User-Agent string? Someone wanna hit tbray.org/ongoing & I'll look?
1259. 2008-09-02 20:00 Chrome user-agent: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13"
1260. 2008-09-02 22:21 There's a phase in Rubyism where all your method args become (opts={}), but I think it's not a mature phase.
1261. 2008-09-03 00:13 Initial impressions of the new CBC Radio 2: not bad. Too much talk.
1262. 2008-09-03 01:45 Just my imagination, or does the RNC look bush-league and small in comparison with the DNC?
1263. 2008-09-03 01:53 W!
1264. 2008-09-03 02:42 Lieberman is at least mellifluous.
1265. 2008-09-03 02:45 I'm 50-something, and this TV show is making me feel young.
1266. 2008-09-03 02:50 I'm making my kid watch the big speeches, both sides, which is kinda tough on a 9-year-old Canadian. He's a fanatical partisan now.
1267. 2008-09-03 03:43 @siracusa I dunno, there are only 3 matches on Google to "buying a secret gift"
1268. 2008-09-03 08:16 The Neal Stephenson book trailer is laughably lame.
1269. 2008-09-03 22:25 Listening to http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/cod/concerts/20080216hmanx while I misuse RSpec. Sunny outside. Mmmmmmm.
1270. 2008-09-03 23:43 putter.rb has *nothing* to do with golf, OK?
1271. 2008-09-04 00:27 Settling down to watch some Repubs in the background while I RSpec away. Meg Whitman telling rich white people McC/P will lower their taxes
1272. 2008-09-04 02:21 Giulani is slime, but he's at least cheerfully un-smarmy as an attack dog.
1273. 2008-09-04 03:04 OK, she's a perfectly competent Republican.
1274. 2008-09-04 15:43 Wondering if the bear is real: http://www.shorpy.com/files/images/13290u.jpg
1275. 2008-09-04 16:37 Amusing table about Web tech progress: http://tinyurl.com/57xqf9
1276. 2008-09-04 17:00 Web software thinkers need to think about http://tinyurl.com/5oae54
1277. 2008-09-05 02:15 Green background!
1278. 2008-09-05 02:25 @evanphx I think they're drowning out the protestors
1279. 2008-09-05 03:02 ... Become a community organizer!
1280. 2008-09-05 04:45 Crossings: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/09/04/Crossings
1281. 2008-09-05 17:25 @pmuellr Thinking a default name for the property locator, e.g. "id" or "p_id", might hit a big sweet 80/20 point.
1282. 2008-09-05 18:53 Pronounced: Keen-eye. http://kenai.com/
1283. 2008-09-05 19:18 @RandomDude Also see http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
1284. 2008-09-05 21:02 @solarce Yep, Kenai is a Sun thing. You need invites to start a proj, but they're around.
1285. 2008-09-05 21:04 @rjray Yeah, they're obviously gonna have to do git. Hg first because Java & other Sunnies use it.
1286. 2008-09-05 21:09 Getting the feeling that holding off a while on picking up that shiny new iPhone might not be a bad idea.
1287. 2008-09-05 23:43 @RussB I stage-managed a couple of Chuck's concerts back in the day. Some heat amid the mellow. Metheny, though, is sometimes brilliant.
1288. 2008-09-06 00:33 @smaragdis You mean Phở? (wondering how far Twitter's Unicode goes)
1289. 2008-09-06 05:38 @RussB You might wanna buy/steal a Metheny tune with WIchita Falls in the name, and listen to it really REALLY loud.
1290. 2008-09-06 07:30 @duncan No football team there last time I checked.
1291. 2008-09-06 19:57 The Totoro Forest Project (yes, *that* Totoro): http://tinyurl.com/6pyf3c
1292. 2008-09-07 04:25 When you go to Canadian Tire at 9:15PM on a Saturday, you see People As They Really Are.
1293. 2008-09-07 19:29 Whole family vanished on one errand or another; no choice but to watch football I guess. & write RSpecs.
1294. 2008-09-07 21:44 Phaistos disk deciphered, *again*! http://www.diskoftheworld.com/
1295. 2008-09-07 22:13 Fun with tech translation: http://tinyurl.com/6cto8z
1296. 2008-09-07 22:24 BTW, the CAR-SD game is very entertaining.
1297. 2008-09-07 23:19 OK, now that was one hell of a football game.
1298. 2008-09-08 00:42 @david_a_black Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.
1299. 2008-09-08 16:37 Bumpersticker: "Jesus is coming. Look busy."
1300. 2008-09-08 17:28 @pete_lacey What you building?
1301. 2008-09-08 17:36 Once again, a big "Thank you" to the people who do The Big Picture. Hurricanes from orbit: http://is.gd/2mxm
1302. 2008-09-08 18:04 Urgh, just posted to ruby-core for the first time. Hoping I didn't make an idiot of myself.
1303. 2008-09-09 04:25 First successful delta checkin on kenai.com. Early indications are that it actually works.
1304. 2008-09-09 05:30 @brianaker latin1: Just Say No.
1305. 2008-09-09 05:32 At some point I'm going to have to stop posting photos and talk about tech again. Working on it...
1306. 2008-09-09 16:43 Pity the Apple thing is about boring old music, I need a new laptop.
1307. 2008-09-09 16:53 Canadians: Here's some tasty politics: http://tinyurl.com/5odu3m
1308. 2008-09-09 18:55 @terrycojones His eyes are orange, his tongue is black; he has purple prickles all over his back.
1309. 2008-09-09 19:10 Gmail spam folder: 14721. Is that unusually large?
1310. 2008-09-09 19:36 @terrycojones The crucial thing is to do all the different voices: Mouse, Fox, etc...
1311. 2008-09-09 21:00 Project Kenai inside poop: http://tinyurl.com/57xpws
1312. 2008-09-09 22:26 Cdn politics: @jacklayton and @pmharper and @gillesduceppe are trying, @stephanedion probably fake; I have more followers so I should be PM!
1313. 2008-09-09 22:28 @sylvainperron that's @pmharper you want
1314. 2008-09-10 00:42 Urgh, failng to internalize lambda currying: http://tinyurl.com/675zbz
1315. 2008-09-10 06:08 rtwt @wingedpig http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
1316. 2008-09-10 17:18 @KathySierra You have a point, but bear in mind that nasty episode was six years ago, and possibly the prevalence of stupidity has lessened.
1317. 2008-09-10 17:30 @robc2 Likewise... they seem related to Time Capsule in my case.
1318. 2008-09-10 21:11 Sad that Rubyconf & Apachecon overlap. Please don't do that again.
1319. 2008-09-10 22:52 rtwt @MichaelSinger Ashlee Vance gets a NYT gig; was one of the Reg's best: http://theduckrabbit.com/
1320. 2008-09-10 23:33 Anytime someone says "Polling doesn't scale", God kills a kitten.
1321. 2008-09-11 00:12 The American left is being driven into shrill unholy madness by the Repub campaign. This is fascinating.
1322. 2008-09-11 00:19 OMG once again the Khyber Pass is in play: http://is.gd/2sLn - where's Flashman when you need him?
1323. 2008-09-11 03:23 @enkrates My perception is that Django usage is growing at least as fast as Rails, just a couple years behind
1324. 2008-09-11 04:10 Jeepers, I wonder how much they're getting for these commercial slots while Barack's on Letterman?
1325. 2008-09-11 15:09 "Al-Qaeda is defeated": http://tinyurl.com/5fmvh7
1326. 2008-09-11 16:33 For something completely different, try following @kimarx
1327. 2008-09-11 16:34 @jcgregorio It's an AtomPub world, Joe. Your fault.
1328. 2008-09-11 16:40 rtwt @bici "Landis Armstrong Basso ... the rolling LAB"
1329. 2008-09-11 19:10 Brand-new RFC5261 defines a general-purpose XML patch framework based on XPath. WTF?! I had missed this work, being done in the SIP world.
1330. 2008-09-11 19:12 Just got a smarmy robocall from @jacklayton. I've voted NDP quite a few times over the years but feeling seriously put off at the moment.
1331. 2008-09-11 20:57 You know, you can get really tired of watching ./configure output.
1332. 2008-09-11 21:02 @nicksieger No real trouble building erl from source on either OS X or Solaris.
1333. 2008-09-11 21:39 That yak is chrome-dome baby's-bottom BALD.
1334. 2008-09-11 22:55 It's OK, really OK, for Canadian politics to be boring. Our neighbors do blood&thunder 5-act tragic/farcical opera for the whole continent.
1335. 2008-09-11 23:22 @vruz Well, last century we had sex & drugs & rock & roll. Would that do?
1336. 2008-09-12 04:19 Heh... Sun Japan is hosting the Tokyo Linux User Group. Good on 'em: http://www.tlug.jp/ML/0809/msg00083.html
1337. 2008-09-12 04:53 Testing REST: http://tinyurl.com/4ex4fs
1338. 2008-09-12 05:27 @headius At this point, Steve Yegge would open a bottle of wine. You could try that.
1339. 2008-09-12 06:27 The state of the camera art keeps being pushed out. Having bought two in the last year, I wish they'd stop for a while: http://is.gd/2wod
1340. 2008-09-12 17:24 @brianaker High-speed rail Vancouver to San Jose, you mean. There's nothing interesting south of San Jose.
1341. 2008-09-12 18:01 SLR's & P&S's converge: http://tinyurl.com/3vqxhk
1342. 2008-09-12 20:02 @gruber I would have said "inevitable" not "indefensible".
1343. 2008-09-12 20:11 RT @dlemen: Jesus is My Friend: http://tinyurl.com/64ml9w
1344. 2008-09-12 21:09 @mezzoblue Apple software upgrades, *particularly* iTunes/QuickTime, have been accused repeatedly of silent file-association changes.
1345. 2008-09-13 02:57 Life Among The Mammals: Gas: http://lamammals.blogspot.com/2008/09/gas.html
1346. 2008-09-13 03:39 Following Ike on Twitter (via #ike at search.twitter.com and @ike) is pretty compelling.
1347. 2008-09-13 04:08 Live video feed from KHOU (khou.com) seems very well-done
1348. 2008-09-13 05:31 @twleung Melatonin does the job for me. Assuming the weird dreams don't stress your personality.
1349. 2008-09-13 06:23 all my specs now run on both intel/OS X and Solaris/SPARC. C+APR = WORA. Well, a handful of bugs.
1350. 2008-09-13 20:06 The Omnivore's Hundred: http://tinyurl.com/66zecu
1351. 2008-09-13 22:17 OMG you mean Erlang isn't perfect!?!?!? http://tinyurl.com/6lpdhf
1352. 2008-09-14 02:59 One hopes the Pope isn't as evil as he looks: http://tinyurl.com/5g6cm4
1353. 2008-09-14 04:13 Time capsule makes my computer lock up on wake-from-sleep maybe once per week. On the other hand, it's saved me from a disk meltdown.
1354. 2008-09-14 04:41 @RussB I stopped following Scoble because of the repeated moronic "Live on Qik". Just sayin
1355. 2008-09-14 05:32 The Horror: http://tinyurl.com/563xvk
1356. 2008-09-14 06:28 News coverage of Ms Palin is well and truly losing its freshness.
1357. 2008-09-14 20:17 Gotta feel sorry for this guy: http://www.ebpml.org/blog/135.htm
1358. 2008-09-15 03:21 Thinking I gotta watch the market open tomorrow.
1359. 2008-09-15 03:45 @br3nda It's OK, we're all basically OK once you get to know us.
1360. 2008-09-15 15:50 *Extreme* lens pr0n: http://is.gd/2F70 Lauren: Check the price. "Hope they're not aiming at the I-Banker market."
1361. 2008-09-15 15:58 Market losses holding <3%. Not that today's action means much. Gonna take months to begin to understand the new landscape.
1362. 2008-09-15 16:37 One imagines an alternate history in which *one* exec at Moody's, circa 2002, said "This shit is nowhere near AAA, let's get real".
1363. 2008-09-15 16:54 Hadn't realized: "it is clear that Lehman is insolvent, not illiquid as Bear Stearns was when the run occurred, or as LTCM was in 1998"
1364. 2008-09-15 19:56 Unless you've dealt with them, it's almost impossible to imagine how big & rich Merrill Lynch & Lehman are (especially ML).
1365. 2008-09-15 19:57 Wow, just watched a police take-down on a caddy with 5 passengers, guns, bullhorn, walk-back-with-hand-in-the-air, etc. Very professional.
1366. 2008-09-16 03:41 @nelson - Take a weekend trip to Portland and spend an afternoon at Rejuvenation. Good fun.
1367. 2008-09-16 04:21 @tom_enebo That the Newark W?
1368. 2008-09-16 20:04 @nicksieger I just do what NetBeans tells me to :)
1369. 2008-09-16 20:13 Prob: At this point, who's going to believe any estimates of the capital requirement to "rescue" AIG? I wouldn't.
1370. 2008-09-16 20:14 Astounding to me that AIG equity retains any value whatever.
1371. 2008-09-16 20:16 Skein Chug Palin.
1372. 2008-09-16 20:54 Hah! Just posted successfully from MarsEdit to mod-atom. Then problems developed... but a good first step.
1373. 2008-09-16 22:14 The absolute epitome of refined musical good taste: http://tinyurl.com/58vp2a
1374. 2008-09-16 22:38 @sogrady Actually pretty practical when you're sightseeing in fall-off-able places and you want to let the kid run around a bit.
1375. 2008-09-16 23:44 @Carnage4Life Nope.
1376. 2008-09-16 23:46 So if the US bails AIG, does anyone *make* a lot of money? That would be a big psychological barrier.
1377. 2008-09-16 23:47 @crazybob Vancouver's nice.
1378. 2008-09-17 03:39 @rayval You must be an innovation factory. I CAN HAZ INNOVASHUNS?
1379. 2008-09-17 03:54 I don't care if the financial system implodes. Because I beat the 9-year-old at Mario Kart Wii, first time ever. Rosalina+Offroader FTW.
1380. 2008-09-17 04:40 @codinghorror That was ten years ago, and the soundtrack was by Sonic Youth.
1381. 2008-09-17 04:41 Dear camera companies. Please JUST STOP for a year or so, OK?
1382. 2008-09-17 04:53 @pkedrosky One imagines there are more than a few hedgies who've been maniacally shorting I-bankers & are rolling on dough, too.
1383. 2008-09-17 16:04 @duncan One prob is the quality/difficulty of the postprocessing tools. There's nothing nearly as intuitive/natural/fast as LR/Aperture.
1384. 2008-09-17 17:22 @twleung 6G 8core MacPro does fine with K20 14.6MP RAWs. Shudder to think about handling shoots of hundreds of >20MP on any current hw.
1385. 2008-09-17 18:18 Want to work on a Rails-based developer platform? Talk to @nicksieger
1386. 2008-09-17 18:33 @gruber There are lots worse things than Verdana. I see them every day, all over the Web.
1387. 2008-09-17 19:34 Really having a hard time focusing on software today.
1388. 2008-09-17 19:53 The phrase "off-balance-sheet" makes me want to resort to violence.
1389. 2008-09-17 21:57 @nelson So get real speakers. Only downside is then you need some space in front of your desk to put 'em in.
1390. 2008-09-17 23:22 RT @wingedpig: It's obvious. The Large Hadron Collider did indeed create a black hole. And it's currently on Wall St.
1391. 2008-09-18 03:32 @jacklayton Don't just twitter a URL. We're busy, give us a reason to click.
1392. 2008-09-18 03:43 Anyone trying syrinx? Compare to twitteriffic?
1393. 2008-09-18 06:03 @iTod The religious dimension had previously escaped me.
1394. 2008-09-18 17:49 Retweet @asbjornu - graphical excellence in a pie chart: http://www.austinthirdgen.org/upload/piechart.jpg
1395. 2008-09-18 21:02 about to make The Call, activating new visa card, haven't changed in years, expecting breakage. See you on the other side...
1396. 2008-09-18 21:51 Shorter Chris Cox: "Fuck you, McCain. Anyhow I'm outta here in January."
1397. 2008-09-18 23:21 O frabjous day! Ruby i18n, http://tinyurl.com/3nqsdk
1398. 2008-09-19 04:21 I don't think the Msft ad is gonna help 'em much, but I have to say it's endearing.
1399. 2008-09-19 05:43 All this virtuoso engineering going into JavaScript optimization. Not actually aware of ever having noticed poor JavaScript performance...
1400. 2008-09-19 05:49 @gruber All your points granted, I still found the ads effective, personally.
1401. 2008-09-19 06:34 @gruber Tonight's. Simply because I found myself connecting with a few of the faces.
1402. 2008-09-19 08:39 Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
1403. 2008-09-19 16:47 @hildjj Way cool, best o' luck
1404. 2008-09-19 16:58 Regretting Hunter S. Thompson's absence.
1405. 2008-09-19 17:04 @nelson Airhead posturing. You can't actually do that, there are too many other ways to bet a stock goes down.
1406. 2008-09-19 17:41 RT @avibryant hm, looks like maybe DSLRs aren't ready for video after all: http://tinyurl.com/5bv3d2 - Hilarious!
1407. 2008-09-19 18:07 That Robert Reich is a smart guy: http://tinyurl.com/5xqymr
1408. 2008-09-19 20:36 @kwerb Hard to think of a platform without an associated industry that builds it.
1409. 2008-09-19 20:42 Pleasing @grader score... is it to be believed? Rank is out of 29,601. I wonder which 29,601 that is?
1410. 2008-09-19 21:44 Retwt @estherschindler - Management lessons from Pink Floyd: http://tinyurl.com/3v83qa
1411. 2008-09-19 21:51 Against stupidity/the Gods themselves/contend in vain.
1412. 2008-09-19 23:34 @dehora Seems like a plausible structure, we'll see how it works out. Nobody can claim to have figured out the One Best Way yet.
1413. 2008-09-20 05:37 So all these people doing polls, how do they get paid?
1414. 2008-09-20 16:40 Real life stranger than fiction as usual: http://tinyurl.com/3ky4z3
1415. 2008-09-20 16:46 Passionate atheism: http://tinyurl.com/4xxcwy
1416. 2008-09-21 20:10 The politics around the financial system bail-out are like ten times more important than who the next POTUS is.
1417. 2008-09-21 20:14 unfollow @huffpost, volume way too high
1418. 2008-09-21 20:25 @textism Being a s.v.t. doesn't mean you don't make some great tunes. Mostly agreed on Roxy but Lou is essential: http://is.gd/2Vv7
1419. 2008-09-21 20:48 Daft Punk soundtrack to some generic detroitmobile ad. We are in the end times.
1420. 2008-09-21 21:21 @textism Songs For Drella (1990 Reed/Cale coolab) is seriously excellent, BTW.
1421. 2008-09-21 23:11 Ruby n00b spends a half hour figuring out why "load 'generator.rb'" works but none of his classes are defined.
1422. 2008-09-21 23:12 Watching the financial news crawl past, getting a feeling of impending doom. This is really really serious.
1423. 2008-09-22 04:06 @chadfowler I dunno, the few remarks captured on Deep Purple's "Made in Japan" are kind of poignant and gnomic.
1424. 2008-09-22 05:17 Driving (with photos of a felony takedown, guns in play, no shit): http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/09/19/Driving
1425. 2008-09-22 05:18 @shanselman Windows Live Writer
1426. 2008-09-22 07:41 Think yer a foodie? In Vancouver we take it seriously: http://tinyurl.com/3va5ze
1427. 2008-09-22 07:43 @kk Photocamp? Ooooooooh. Do tell.
1428. 2008-09-22 07:49 Bravo @duncan for the bitter truth on megapixel numbers. As with many things, less is more.
1429. 2008-09-22 07:53 Titles you gotta like: "Paulo Anarkao, docu-trash à Groland" http://tinyurl.com/4wxer4
1430. 2008-09-22 08:19 Hey, Chinese script kiddies with your EXEC(@S) hack? Quit wasting bandwidth. You're pathetic.
1431. 2008-09-22 15:48 Guy across the street breaking up a concrete staircase with a sledge-hammer. Um, my job doesn't suck.
1432. 2008-09-22 16:54 @monkchips Wow, you don't hear "Oracle" and "cut your costs" often appearing within 140 characters of each other.
1433. 2008-09-22 16:55 @shanselman Come to the dark side. The dark *red* side I mean. I have AtomPub clientware for ya, in Ruby.
1434. 2008-09-22 17:20 The Pentax firmament shudders: http://www.pentax.jp/english/news/2008/200818.html
1435. 2008-09-22 17:23 Any meetups or drinkups or other fun in London Oct 6-9?
1436. 2008-09-22 17:39 @monkchips FOWA party evening of the 8th; other evenings free so far.
1437. 2008-09-22 18:08 @KathySierra I think "I think..." is good practice, actually.
1438. 2008-09-22 18:29 @pkedrosky Doesn't Roubini's predicted run on the ultraleveraged hedgies really end up hurting their bankers most of all? Shudder.
1439. 2008-09-22 20:58 @pkedrosky The Dodd/Frank proposal seems pretty substantial to me. And infinitely more saleable, politically, which matters.
1440. 2008-09-22 21:12 ZOMG start Ruby 1.9 and type Encoding.aliases.keys
1441. 2008-09-23 03:50 Damn, sorry world, glad to report that Charles Goldfarb has *not* left us. Oops.
1442. 2008-09-23 17:02 Interesting OO.o/web mashup. Think wiki with less-lame authoring. Must drill down a bit... http://tinyurl.com/3hub39
1443. 2008-09-23 17:11 Java now *officially* RESTful: http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=311 and http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=4715
1444. 2008-09-23 17:27 Bernanke: "If we're dealing with going concerns, we don't want to do anything that will drive their share price down to zero"
1445. 2008-09-23 17:27 Uh, if they're going concerns with a share price that's gonna hold up, they don't need the help, right?
1446. 2008-09-23 17:31 With GMaps Street View on the G1, you don't have to actually look at the actual street any more, just hold the phone in front of your face.
1447. 2008-09-23 18:35 Paulson: "If we have to have companies grant equity stakes ... that would render this ineffective." WTF!?
1448. 2008-09-24 15:54 @dweinberger I was born in 1955 and feel like a digital native
1449. 2008-09-25 16:23 Sitting in the JVM Languages summit. Gosling giving a historical tour.
1450. 2008-09-25 18:34 I love it in a tech preso when they say "This turns out to work very nicely."
1451. 2008-09-25 22:58 Clojure sure is pretty.
1452. 2008-09-25 23:44 Fighting the urge to step onto the slippery Lisp slope.
1453. 2008-09-26 05:46 Well, if the US were like Twitter, the election would be *so* over.
1454. 2008-09-26 06:14 The golden rule: http://tinyurl.com/4p4fpw
1455. 2008-09-26 16:13 @meejeet Give up on AIM, go with Jabber.
1456. 2008-09-26 16:42 Holy crap, @gafter went to Microsoft.
1457. 2008-09-26 16:48 @lowbit I already have a Sigma 1.4 but yep, looks like a lovely lens.
1458. 2008-09-26 18:29 Eric Meijer is amazingly entertaining. Should shut up about things he doesn't grok, e.g. REST.
1459. 2008-09-27 02:51 @tmolini Heavens, you a Republican? Must be lonely out there on Twitter.
1460. 2008-09-27 02:54 Prediction: Won't move the polls.
1461. 2008-09-27 03:53 For those of you with the right sat TV channels, the Aussie Rules grand final is on. Rockers & a marching pipe band warming things up.
1462. 2008-09-27 05:56 JVM language summit: http://tinyurl.com/3mnbyd
1463. 2008-09-27 07:38 Wow, a few Repubs showing up on election.twitter.com. Both sides are shallow & vindictive, I think I shall not visit there much more.
1464. 2008-09-27 08:04 Hey, 3,001 followers. Um, thanks. [Tries to think of something witty.]
1465. 2008-09-27 15:31 @gruber I *like* "horseshit". It's a good strong word, and you can put a satisfying little snarl into it from the back of your throat.
1466. 2008-09-27 15:32 "What we have here is a failure to communicate."
1467. 2008-09-27 19:55 Now *that*'s a good tweet from @CcSteff: https://twitter.com/CcSteff/statuses/937346974
1468. 2008-09-27 19:57 Drove across town listening to Blondie's Greatest Hits. Thus, happy.
1469. 2008-09-27 21:36 Video? I doubt it. http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/09/27/Video
1470. 2008-09-28 00:37 "Subcommandante Stephen Harper": http://tinyurl.com/4yklde
1471. 2008-09-28 03:54 Dear Canon, thanks for starting a bunch of interesting conversations with the 5DMk2. --TheWorld
1472. 2008-09-28 04:04 Bluegrass festival on PBS. Earl Scruggs can still tear it up.
1473. 2008-09-28 04:41 Oh. Um. Led Zep to tour. Not sure what I think about that.
1474. 2008-09-28 05:17 I'll see your ass in Hell, Pachelbel: http://tinyurl.com/uk45t
1475. 2008-09-28 06:56 Hah, beat Schneier to these squidfangs: http://tinyurl.com/53f6dv
1476. 2008-09-28 07:00 Shark trouble: http://is.gd/3et0
1477. 2008-09-28 07:05 @al3xbrown I'm shocked... shocked.
1478. 2008-09-28 07:08 Tina Fey says a little prayer every morning thanking God for sending her Sarah Palin: http://is.gd/3elR
1479. 2008-09-28 19:13 "But that doesn’t mean we should assume all white people are like that just because so many of them are..." http://is.gd/3fnp
1480. 2008-09-28 19:25 not obvious which football game to watch the end of
1481. 2008-09-28 19:41 Wow, JQuery on a roll: http://tinyurl.com/4swck9
1482. 2008-09-29 00:31 @devslashnull Obama is substantially to the right of what we've had in Canada for the last 50 years and we're hanging in OK.
1483. 2008-09-29 02:14 @devslashnull We have 100% socialized medicine, pensions you can nearly live on, gun control, god-free politics. Yup, Obama's to our right.
1484. 2008-09-29 02:16 @timbray is 99 percent male http://tinyurl.com/458vbe
1485. 2008-09-29 02:24 Unfollow @devslashnull - Dear America, I know that this kind of cluelessness isn't typical. Unfortunately, many think you're like that.
1486. 2008-09-29 02:28 Today discovered two appealing NFL teams, Redskins and Bears.
1487. 2008-09-29 03:52 @josephgrossberg I'm OK with "corrupt warmongering morons" but fascists is dorky not to mention historically inaccurate.
1488. 2008-09-29 06:04 FWIW my follower-acquisition rate has dropped way off. I wonder if I'm a useful proxy for Twitter growth as a whole?
1489. 2008-09-29 06:20 @henry_maddocks Yep, need to compare the derivatives of the lameness curve and the follower count curve.
1490. 2008-09-29 14:13 @gnat The community anger over the OSCON move from Portland to San Jose shouldn't be underestimated
1491. 2008-09-29 15:11 Hm, Black(er white)Box being pitched as carbon-emissions helper: http://tinyurl.com/3m9f5j
1492. 2008-09-29 17:38 Really, really trying to avoid gibbering in panic over the world's banking system: http://is.gd/3hzb
1493. 2008-09-29 17:57 @robilad @twleung & I covered it, haven't seen much else yet
1494. 2008-09-29 18:00 GMail spam processor breakage starting to become a serious issue. I'm seeing same probs as Lauren http://is.gd/3hRL
1495. 2008-09-29 18:07 c-span apparently down
1496. 2008-09-29 18:10 If fox/cspan feed at http://tinyurl.com/5psocg is right, looks like it's passing
1497. 2008-09-29 18:37 Live Repub press conference scrambling frantically for cover, trying to blame it all on a Pelosi speech.
1498. 2008-09-29 19:03 On the downside, Americans may be living on petfood. On the upside, the Republican party may have committed seppuku.
1499. 2008-09-29 20:32 @gnat Well, now we get to find out if it was bullshit or not.
1500. 2008-09-29 21:53 @imurdock Well, not *equally*. Opposition had 3 distinct flavors: 1) up-for-re-election 2) back-bencher 3) Republican.
1501. 2008-09-29 23:40 @TheProkrammer Now that is truly innovative arithmetic.
1502. 2008-09-30 04:12 @stevej Thank you kind sir. It is deeply startling when one does that by accident.
1503. 2008-09-30 04:38 Wrote a blog piece that would cause too much breakage. Sigh. Will post a pretty flower pic instead.
1504. 2008-09-30 04:39 Prediction: some pretty severe breakage in the technology industry.
1505. 2008-09-30 04:48 So, suppose nobody wants to do capital investment but you still gotta get work done. I'm thinking cloud cloud cloud cloud cloud.
1506. 2008-09-30 06:42 @kk no point referencing MG's twitterstream, it's just blogpuff. I was hoping to find a person there.
1507. 2008-09-30 16:39 @hildjj XML 2.0 WTF?!?
1508. 2008-09-30 17:22 @avibryant awk ' { print $7 }' < access_log | sh mumble mumble mumble
1509. 2008-09-30 17:38 Decent Reg writeup on JVM summit. I said collegial not collegiate, but whatever: http://is.gd/3kZi
1510. 2008-09-30 17:58 I wonder if there's any non-mathie who can reliably use the word "corollary" without a spell-checker?
1511. 2008-09-30 18:04 Gosh, Web 2.0 Summit features... Al Gore and Lance Armstrong. Well, OK.
1512. 2008-09-30 20:05 This is when we find out whether modern businesses can run at all, absent rolling lines of credit. The answer, of course, is "some can".
1513. 2008-09-30 20:06 @iTod Hey, I've got a fluidized GMail I've been running for months. Should I, you know, update sometime?
1514. 2008-10-01 07:35 October 1 now, and the first splats of rain on the roof of the sleeping house.
1515. 2008-10-01 07:35 Was in a startup pitch today and said "Of course, we're all gonna be living on nuts and berries this time next year." Everyone laughed.
1516. 2008-10-01 07:41 Iggy and Ziggy on the Dinah Shore TV show: http://tinyurl.com/3tapuo
1517. 2008-10-01 08:01 OK, serious coolness: http://www.thesixtyone.com/
1518. 2008-10-01 16:52 @timoreilly One issue: it's slightly pyramidish. I'm getting email congratulating me on the points I get every time a referral progresses.
1519. 2008-10-01 17:01 RT @therealadam "I'd thought of going as collateralized debt obligations for halloween - scary stuff"
1520. 2008-10-01 17:12 What's a good tutorial REST intro?
1521. 2008-10-01 18:53 This kind of story describes the real crisis, which has nothing to do with share prices: http://is.gd/3odS
1522. 2008-10-01 18:58 REAL pain among i-bankers: http://tinyurl.com/4kmsrk
1523. 2008-10-01 21:35 @timoreilly If Flex is hot, why don't I see any of the resulting apps? Maybe wrong demographic?
1524. 2008-10-01 21:35 Is it ever weird when the OS X Dock process locks up. Find it with "ps" & kill it & you're fine, though.
1525. 2008-10-01 21:53 Learning REST: http://tinyurl.com/4wgb6k
1526. 2008-10-01 21:56 Mongolian Real Estate! http://mongolianrealestate.com/
1527. 2008-10-01 22:20 @Padmasree I kinda like those 1.0 metrics.
1528. 2008-10-01 22:44 @allankh Please stop doing that. Without accompanying context, please-watch invitations are just line noise.
1529. 2008-10-01 23:00 Next POTUS: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/10/01/Obama
1530. 2008-10-01 23:05 Life is way, way, *way* stranger than fiction: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/oct/01/advertising.television
1531. 2008-10-02 00:18 @cammerman Oh, I'm not objective in the slightest.
1532. 2008-10-02 00:27 @jimParkinson Plenty of blame to go around on the economic melt-down. Not too many clean hands. And it all seemed to be working...
1533. 2008-10-02 00:40 @imurdock Free markets are essential but you gotta assume people will try to game the system. Regulation is necessary & very difficult.
1534. 2008-10-02 00:58 @imurdock That analogy had never occurred to me. Hmm. Historical evidence of need for regulatory framework is pretty strong.
1535. 2008-10-02 00:58 @imurdock Anyhow I'm an open-source guy not a Stallmanite. Efficiency not ideology :)
1536. 2008-10-02 01:47 @SaraD Also in a 10-year-old second-time-around marraige. I recommend 'em.
1537. 2008-10-02 01:54 @TheProkrammer Who's a real conservative currently on the US scene? Not a rhetorical question, seriously interested.
1538. 2008-10-02 02:46 Vermin! http://takingalongview.blogspot.com/2008/10/vermin.html
1539. 2008-10-02 07:11 There is at least one key difference between casino gambling and CDS trading: Gambling has strict government regulation: http://is.gd/3pMo
1540. 2008-10-02 07:17 Awwww.... Mr. Clean died: http://tinyurl.com/4zdoty
1541. 2008-10-02 15:26 Capitol One is still spamming me furiously with guaranteed-approval credit card pitches. I smell another bubble.
1542. 2008-10-02 15:58 @brianaker (1) most disks are full of pix/music/video, text is in the rounding error (2) local encodings work if you never have to mix langs
1543. 2008-10-02 16:08 FB Election game at http://zembly.com/mypicksus/ built with coolio "zembly" social-app-builder thingie.
1544. 2008-10-02 16:31 Called bank to setup new card. Then "Sir, you're pre-approved for a $BIG-NUM line of credit with no credit check. Interested?" No, scared.
1545. 2008-10-02 17:14 In Vancouver, the autumn rains are starting, right now.
1546. 2008-10-02 17:23 mm beautiful: http://www.pogirl.net/
1547. 2008-10-02 17:52 @obie Hey, I can't even vote, so I probably can't endorse as such. Think of me as a color commentator.
1548. 2008-10-02 17:56 I just spent 36 hours tracking a horrid low-level C memory corruption bug. The bug guts are now dripping slowly to the floor.
1549. 2008-10-02 19:47 At what point does Parrot become interesting? 0.7.1 ships, http://tinyurl.com/5jg6v4
1550. 2008-10-02 21:11 The yak fur is up to my knees.
1551. 2008-10-02 21:56 @eliast Beware... the jythonistas are lurking in the weeds and pounce like lightning upon the unwary.
1552. 2008-10-02 23:19 @pragdave is being polite, but he's mad at ruby-core.
1553. 2008-10-02 23:49 @pkedrosky Who are you again?
1554. 2008-10-03 02:46 @brentsimmons @gruber's latest has horrible typography in NNW. That your fault or his? <snicker>
1555. 2008-10-03 03:43 Good gosh CBC post-(Canadian)debate coverage is all about Twitter
1556. 2008-10-03 06:53 Press the OS X filesystem hard with low level concurrent write/rename calls from C code and sometimes files transiently aren't there. Urgh.
1557. 2008-10-03 15:07 Wow... The Guardian quotes my Twitter stream: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/oct/02/twitter.microsoft
1558. 2008-10-03 18:03 Getting kinda weird in Israel: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1026228.html
1559. 2008-10-03 20:43 FIrst support of OOXML in practical desktop software: http://tinyurl.com/4gnstl
1560. 2008-10-03 21:07 "It turns out the moose that died Thursday was dropped from a helicopter." http://is.gd/3uKN
1561. 2008-10-03 21:44 On Regulation: http://tinyurl.com/4swamp
1562. 2008-10-04 03:30 Want to do Rails & JQuery & so on at kenai.com? http://is.gd/3vqV & http://is.gd/3vqX
1563. 2008-10-04 03:31 Plus, coolio intern jobs: http://tinyurl.com/4kt6vv & 560990
1564. 2008-10-04 03:33 @brianaker That's too many, n'est-ce pas?
1565. 2008-10-04 03:44 @brentsimmons Good drugs, I gather?
1566. 2008-10-04 07:55 Blues pix: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/10/04/Pix
1567. 2008-10-04 20:21 Exporting *all* the pix of my kids that I have online, 1601 in total, from LR. Ain't fast even on a PowerMac.
1568. 2008-10-04 22:24 @olabini No way. Current state of languages is more interesting than any time in last 30 years.
1569. 2008-10-04 22:49 @blaine You posting Belfast pix anywhere?
1570. 2008-10-04 23:31 @headius Big perf variation VM to VM?
1571. 2008-10-05 04:07 Chris Woods' sax breaks on "Low Spark": Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
1572. 2008-10-05 06:33 I'm thinking some beers and maybe the Lahore Kebab house in London on Tuesday evening. DM or email or whatever if that sounds good.
1573. 2008-10-06 03:20 What are good Canadian election blogs?
1574. 2008-10-06 15:23 Ah, here I am in cool grey London town.
1575. 2008-10-06 15:53 Sasha Frere-Jones has the single best job in the world. And you really want to watch the film on today's top entry: http://is.gd/3BjI
1576. 2008-10-06 20:06 Just arrived in Britain, and there's something wrong with the hotel TV. It only gets really shitty news.
1577. 2008-10-06 21:29 Suggesting 8PM Tuesday for Lahore Kebab House geek grease-fest.
1578. 2008-10-06 22:14 @akohli http://tinyurl.com/3o6nmb
1579. 2008-10-06 22:35 Yellowing: http://tinyurl.com/4w3rz5
1580. 2008-10-07 15:25 Full-contact litigation as a spectator sport, fun! http://tinyurl.com/4m6knq
1581. 2008-10-08 09:25 @jon_ellis It's an Atom world.
1582. 2008-10-09 16:32 FOWA in London is huge HUGE. Unfortunately out in a remote wasteland.
1583. 2008-10-09 22:00 Wanna get scared? http://acrossthecurve.com/?p=1830
1584. 2008-10-09 22:33 @meejeet Congrats! That's wonderful.
1585. 2008-10-10 15:45 @headius What you're talking about is this: http://tinyurl.com/4sjazm
1586. 2008-10-10 15:46 I got really insanely tense and nervous and adrenalinized for my FOWA talk. Still coming down.
1587. 2008-10-11 19:23 Lehman assets sold for $0.08625 on the dollar. Someone's going to make a lot of money. Either that or it's nuts&berries this time next year
1588. 2008-10-11 19:31 "A little bit of well-timed, well-crafted socialism is just the thing to save capitalism from itself." http://is.gd/3TCw
1589. 2008-10-11 20:18 Man, serious ugliness in the news from Israel: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1027942.html
1590. 2008-10-11 20:59 On Tough Times: http://tinyurl.com/4epl23
1591. 2008-10-12 20:46 A good time for agility: http://tinyurl.com/3hjqqa
1592. 2008-10-13 01:01 Memcached hackathon at Sun Menlo Park: http://tinyurl.com/4ugkn8
1593. 2008-10-13 14:25 First known instance of a winner announcing his own Nobel prize on his blog? http://is.gd/3Yqj
1594. 2008-10-13 14:57 Meat-grinder! http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/10/13/T5440
1595. 2008-10-13 15:03 Dear World: It's Thanksgiving here today. Sorry for not answering the phone. xthksbye, Canada
1596. 2008-10-13 17:07 Why I'm voting Green: http://tinyurl.com/4ddy8u
1597. 2008-10-13 21:22 Jersey (Java REST machinery) 1.0 shipped, http://tinyurl.com/3wwfb8
1598. 2008-10-13 21:57 Scarier than the financial meltdown. Way scarier. http://is.gd/40mO
1599. 2008-10-13 22:09 OMG Openoffice.org whacked by OO3.0 traffic, gone to minimal plain-text page. That's some serious infrastructure maxing out, ladies & gents
1600. 2008-10-13 22:10 Odd. OpenOffice homepage overloaded, but my download going at 400K+/sec.
1601. 2008-10-13 22:47 Free Software Now: http://tinyurl.com/497vpp
1602. 2008-10-14 13:16 Super interesting piece on long-term electronic doc archive formats: http://tinyurl.com/4l4chb
1603. 2008-10-14 13:56 @gstein I thought you were between jobs, what's this "getting assigned" stuff? Learn to do unemployed-bum better.
1604. 2008-10-14 14:31 @distobj is voting with the pluraiity.
1605. 2008-10-14 16:33 @monkchips Hudson's in production on a bunch of big dev products here at Sun. Seems to mostly get out of the way and Just Work.
1606. 2008-10-14 16:40 Election day! Canadian elections are better than the US variety because our politicos NEVER TALK ABOUT GOD.
1607. 2008-10-14 17:38 @SaraD I'd be astounded if that worked.
1608. 2008-10-14 17:51 @SaraD I've met a couple. The idea seems deeply wrong to me. Do pass on any success stories you find.
1609. 2008-10-14 18:03 So... no more glamorously black Macs. <sob>
1610. 2008-10-14 18:17 Wow, Obama campaign buying ad space in online games: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/236924.php
1611. 2008-10-14 20:31 The emperor has no clothes, and the new Mac notebooks are really fucking ugly in a sort of lame Eighties-retro way.
1612. 2008-10-14 22:29 @gruber Perhaps when I see 'em in the silver-and-black reminiscent-of-a-Dell-desktop flesh I will have a zen moment of enlightenment.
1613. 2008-10-14 22:31 @robc2 Yes. Wonder if Apple will have to back down a bit on margin if the economy seriously tanks for a while.
1614. 2008-10-14 23:10 Seriously... people think this looks good? http://tinyurl.com/3lf6au Feaugh.
1615. 2008-10-14 23:30 Get In the Cloud: http://tinyurl.com/4ygqas
1616. 2008-10-15 02:32 Vancouver tweeps: Good leather shop? My coolio old winter jacket needs work.
1617. 2008-10-15 02:33 Hmm, people bitching over CBC election coverage, seems OK to me.
1618. 2008-10-15 02:36 So, Tory majority very unlikely. Thank goodness.
1619. 2008-10-15 03:23 OMG NDP winning Vancouver Kingsway, what's astounding is Liberals coming 3rd.
1620. 2008-10-15 03:24 @mezzoblue cbc.ca has a pretty good interactive map you can check your own riding
1621. 2008-10-15 03:30 Well... apparently Canadians are not terribly concerned about the environment.
1622. 2008-10-15 03:57 Bloody Layton talking in sound-bites.
1623. 2008-10-15 04:26 @rcousine Agreed... Vancouver South doesn't feel like Tory country to me. But what do I know, I thought Liberals had Kingsway in the bag.
1624. 2008-10-15 04:33 @buzzbishop I thought Ujjal was kinda post-ethnic. But the notion that the Libs get the immigrant vote seems pretty well over.
1625. 2008-10-15 04:35 Record low turnout. Hard to get too angry at the electorate this time.
1626. 2008-10-15 04:53 Wow... is that right? 19 more seats for the Tories on only +1.1% delta in popular vote?
1627. 2008-10-15 06:34 London words and pix: http://localhost/ongoing/When/200x/2008/10/14/London
1628. 2008-10-15 06:36 @jmettraux JRuby often found useful in that kind of subversive activity.
1629. 2008-10-15 06:39 Sigh. London Words & pix: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/10/14/London
1630. 2008-10-15 16:47 Lockin-free Cloud? http://tinyurl.com/47hpt3
1631. 2008-10-15 16:54 @lskrocki They had music in Seventies porn? The things you learn on Twitter.
1632. 2008-10-15 17:57 Hilarious reportage on my FOWA speech: http://tinyurl.com/4vlxr2
1633. 2008-10-15 17:59 I'm so bored with stock market crashes.
1634. 2008-10-15 20:43 @al3x How about AtomPub for Twitter API?
1635. 2008-10-15 21:36 @al3x reasonably well, plus there's lots of good library code out there, plus apparently lotsa clients coming.
1636. 2008-10-15 22:53 Retwt @drbrain "Rubinius' new vm can now run the core specs without crashing". Good stuff, the more Rubies the better.
1637. 2008-10-15 23:40 Join the Conversation: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/10/15/Conversation
1638. 2008-10-15 23:53 This is cool: mlb.com will carry the US presidential debate so you can watch the ballgame on TV. http://is.gd/49iz
1639. 2008-10-16 00:06 @lisarein Museum of Anthropology. Commercial Drive. Granville Island.
1640. 2008-10-16 00:25 New Panasonic LX-3 getting drooly reviews all over the net. Looks pretty slick.
1641. 2008-10-16 01:59 I thought the baseball would be less painful to watch than the debates, but the Dodgers are painful to watch.
1642. 2008-10-16 03:59 @pkedrosky Ah, "Dispatches". What totally wonderful writing.
1643. 2008-10-16 13:46 Wondering how a guy in Canada can get his hands on an Android at a reasonable price.
1644. 2008-10-16 15:29 Dear Twitter, please don't make any links open in new windows under any circumstances ever. If I want that effect, I know how to get it.
1645. 2008-10-16 16:20 @gruber Well, I think he's pushing the boundaries of statistical sanity. We'll find out on election day. The level of effort is astounding.
1646. 2008-10-16 18:11 @mhp There has been some caselaw but it's narrow & ambiguous. The good guys will clearly win in the long run. Not sure what "Calgary" means
1647. 2008-10-16 18:52 No Venture Capital: http://tinyurl.com/42yho5 (This Tough Times series is fun).
1648. 2008-10-17 03:29 @tomlazar Cool. Original apparently not on the Web, thanks for capturing that.
1649. 2008-10-17 03:46 Good ball game
1650. 2008-10-17 03:48 Looking at 2010 Olympic ticket packages. I've always wanted to attend an Opening Ceremony, but $768/ticket, holy shit.
1651. 2008-10-17 03:55 @dlemen Oddly, I plan to do the same thing. Need an high-end reciprocating saw or is entry-level OK?
1652. 2008-10-17 04:00 Did I say, good ball game?
1653. 2008-10-17 14:55 Sticking my toe in the XML waters, first time in years: http://tinyurl.com/6zgw67
1654. 2008-10-17 16:28 @olabini Isn't running fib() enough?
1655. 2008-10-17 22:39 Regulatory Opportunity: http://tinyurl.com/5lzgcd
1656. 2008-10-18 03:40 Outstanding campaign-trail story: http://tinyurl.com/5htr52
1657. 2008-10-18 08:21 @dsifry Melatonin.
1658. 2008-10-18 16:44 The nastiest news out of Israel always seems to come from Hebron. Those particular settlers are swine. http://is.gd/4jAL
1659. 2008-10-18 20:02 @enkrates Mmm... granted. Let's just say "racist bullies".
1660. 2008-10-18 20:17 Netbeans nightly with all the extras now up to 581M. Yow.
1661. 2008-10-18 20:30 @timoreilly Going to expand on that?
1662. 2008-10-18 21:28 @jimParkinson Hey, is there an SDK for that thing?
1663. 2008-10-18 21:29 @jimParkinson D'oh, Symbian, wasn't looking
1664. 2008-10-18 21:33 The best refactorings are the ones that lead to lots of unused variable/routine warnings.
1665. 2008-10-19 19:26 Damn good piece by @jobsworth, "Invented Here": http://tinyurl.com/5cw9vs
1666. 2008-10-19 21:29 Tab Sweep — (Sun) Technology: http://tinyurl.com/5cbkfm
1667. 2008-10-19 23:58 @al3x Odd, I live in Aquamacs for hours every day, seems to Just Work.
1668. 2008-10-20 00:07 @gruber NeXT boxes were potentially excellent, but unacceptably slow and expensive for most people. Ahead of their time, probably.
1669. 2008-10-20 03:11 Container cranes: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/10/19/Cranes
1670. 2008-10-20 03:34 If I were a Tampa fan, I'd be mad at the ump about the strikes & balls.
1671. 2008-10-20 03:56 Watching US unionist Richard Trumka in very tough BBC interview; the guy who gave that widely-seen racism speech. Very impressive guy.
1672. 2008-10-20 04:06 Holy crap, C$ down to US$0.847.
1673. 2008-10-20 05:23 @shanselman Various unix-flavored shells have made interrupting, suspending, resuming, and so on easy since 1983 or so. Still, nice feature.
1674. 2008-10-20 06:07 @pgib C$ correlates strongly with oil price. Well, that's my guess.
1675. 2008-10-20 06:51 Heh, the Liberal party web site is blank. Unsurprising. http://www.liberal.ca/
1676. 2008-10-20 07:03 Tough Times: Back to Basics http://tinyurl.com/5p3muw
1677. 2008-10-20 07:30 Grouchy Canadian psephological blogging: http://tinyurl.com/6yrr8g
1678. 2008-10-20 16:41 Having arrived at the office, I shall now sit and drip quietly for a while.
1679. 2008-10-20 16:44 @BreakingNewsOn has been hijacked by The Onion.
1680. 2008-10-20 17:18 Steve Yegge shouldn't publish his pieces on Monday mornings. Doesn't he know we have work to do?
1681. 2008-10-20 18:54 XML Trouble: http://tinyurl.com/65aq24
1682. 2008-10-20 19:09 Urgh, that XML Trouble pointer, now correct: http://tinyurl.com/5jeby3
1683. 2008-10-20 19:11 Join the parade: http://tinyurl.com/6pduxb
1684. 2008-10-20 19:16 I continue to be amused that The Economist consistently uses "Populist" as derogatory term.
1685. 2008-10-20 21:49 Celebrating NetBeans' 10th birthday by filing a bunch of little defects on the C/C++ module. Apache-std indentation is *almost* right
1686. 2008-10-20 22:35 Good heavens, Gartner notices Merb. http://tinyurl.com/4c9fzb
1687. 2008-10-21 04:26 Another eloquent Obama testimonial: http://tinyurl.com/6lv7g4
1688. 2008-10-21 05:25 @bici I wish the Flashturbators would just, you know, go away and leave the Web alone.
1689. 2008-10-21 06:13 The language does not contain the words necessary to express how much I hate Windows.
1690. 2008-10-22 16:03 Legacy Opportunity: http://tinyurl.com/5un5ht
1691. 2008-10-22 21:15 Drizzle is hot stuff & big news. I'm 100% convinced. http://krow.livejournal.com/622006.html
1692. 2008-10-22 21:16 @cote Expensive blue-suit consulting contracts.
1693. 2008-10-23 14:00 Answer the Phone Call: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/10/23/Telecom
1694. 2008-10-23 14:45 @robertDouglass You say that as if there were general agreement on the right way to do it.
1695. 2008-10-23 18:38 Learning the horrible truth about the raw tech specs of SSD storage. Amazing it works at all. Spinning rust looking better.
1696. 2008-10-23 19:11 Despite my previous remark, these guys are building some really fucking remarkable server-class storage devices.
1697. 2008-10-23 23:45 Understand your user: http://tinyurl.com/6rlz6v
1698. 2008-10-24 06:59 @brianaker Near Monterey to home in 7 hours elapsed.
1699. 2008-10-24 07:00 @diveintomark 30 is hot. 20 is nice. 10 is chilly. 0 is freezing. Fahrenheit is teh suck.
1700. 2008-10-24 17:12 And it's a global equities meltdown. In other news, there was a Tuesday in last week.
1701. 2008-10-24 17:19 Flew to California and back this week. Planes both way largely empty. Just sayin
1702. 2008-10-24 19:25 Branch Out: http://tinyurl.com/5vnrtq
1703. 2008-10-24 21:39 @diveintomark Practical airport bigotry: Choose line with highest concentration of white men in suits. Always works.
1704. 2008-10-25 04:04 mmmm ETags sugar: http://tinyurl.com/6xj4oo
1705. 2008-10-25 04:08 @freeholdhal Consider writing a double-hyphen name generator and launch a website. You'll be rich, I tell ya, RICH!
1706. 2008-10-25 04:17 @kscaldef I wouldn't do that.
1707. 2008-10-25 05:45 Elite access to Canada: http://tinyurl.com/4su4t6
1708. 2008-10-25 08:00 @stephenfry The British, admirable in many respects, know nothing—nothing, I say—about toast. Must be eaten hot, within seconds of popping.
1709. 2008-10-25 20:35 Wondering where the people who designed Applescript are locked up.
1710. 2008-10-25 22:12 Creating a document with a "word processor" for the first time in a couple years. Feels weird. OO.o 3.0 seems perfectly OK FWIW.
1711. 2008-10-25 23:16 Beautiful weather for tonight's parade, come on out! http://tinyurl.com/6pduxb
1712. 2008-10-26 07:24 Pounded the dead goat for 3 hours at the Parade of the Lost Souls. Feet hurt. Shoulders hurt. Soul glowing. [Djembés have goatskin heads].
1713. 2008-10-26 16:41 Eventually, everyone will get it: http://tinyurl.com/6rjuwr
1714. 2008-10-26 20:44 I must say I do enjoy litigation blogging: http://tinyurl.com/5ptjm9
1715. 2008-10-26 21:03 Been a Steelers fan off & on for years. Really must visit the place sometime.
1716. 2008-10-26 22:41 Wow, OpenOffice.org 3.0 on OS X has (some) Mac/Emacs keystrokes, control-A/E/D and so on. W00t!
1717. 2008-10-27 04:19 That Parade (with a funny picture): http://tinyurl.com/5zpeye
1718. 2008-10-27 04:26 @segphault Well, there's, uh, HTML.
1719. 2008-10-27 06:19 How about we have a weekend without major breaking financial-disaster news stories?
1720. 2008-10-27 06:41 $10K scholarships for blogging... is this legit? http://tinyurl.com/yv8tx9
1721. 2008-10-27 06:42 @meejeet at 23:40 on Sunday?!?! Oh wait, I'm debugging a broken web server.
1722. 2008-10-27 07:16 http://tinyurl.com/6n67v4 It's important because it's ordinary. Kashkash is from Gaza.
1723. 2008-10-27 07:28 Wow, Tony Hillerman died. I enjoyed those books.
1724. 2008-10-27 17:34 Hmm, to check out the new MS cloud thingie, I had to open my first ever .docx (i.e. sorta OOXML) file. Cognitive dissonance. OO.o 3.0 FTW.
1725. 2008-10-27 17:57 @monkchips Been reading the docs. That workflow service is a strange new beast; persistent connections plus AtomPub service docs. Hmmm
1726. 2008-10-27 18:05 @dsifry Also it makes suspend/resume less reliable. On the other hand, it's already saved once from a roached disk.
1727. 2008-10-27 18:57 2nd-last "Tough Times" piece: Contribute http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/10/27/Contribute
1728. 2008-10-27 20:38 The world has another OpenID provider. In other news, there was a Tuesday in last week.
1729. 2008-10-27 21:34 The Shape of the Cloud; why AWS is like Altavista in 1996: http://is.gd/4X9w
1730. 2008-10-27 21:43 gmail filters about 500 spam/day for me. Fairly typical I assume. There are false positives. I'll never see them.
1731. 2008-10-27 23:44 Urgh. Airport Utility can't find the Time Capsule that I'm currently on the net via, so I can't update it. Hmm.
1732. 2008-10-28 00:20 Apparently it's impossible to buy a naked G1. Us UnAmericans are out of luck. Grrr. Have the urge to write mobile-platform code.
1733. 2008-10-28 00:35 Hmm... there are lots of G1s, allegedly unlocked, for sale on eBay, prices in the $400-$500 range
1734. 2008-10-28 02:24 I wonder what proportion of anyone's Twitter followers, on average, are really there? I bet Twitter could measure that.
1735. 2008-10-28 02:32 Sitting next to an airport bar in a strangely empty airport and the radio is playing Deep Purple and The Cars.
1736. 2008-10-28 02:37 @jimgris Japanese economy must be in big trouble.
1737. 2008-10-28 06:38 On blogging in 2008: http://tinyurl.com/5emk3t
1738. 2008-10-28 06:44 @mezzoblue Learn Ruby.
1739. 2008-10-29 06:00 Go network: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/10/28/Network
1740. 2008-10-29 07:03 Excerpts from "Essays in Idleness": http://www.geocities.com/lesliebarclay/EssaysInIdleness.html
1741. 2008-10-30 16:44 I always have to tidy up the dead rodents. It's the Y chromosome, I think.
1742. 2008-10-30 16:56 @glaforge Don't know heuristics by which he chose examples, but I promise there's no conspiracy to ignore Groovy. He meant e.g. not i.e.
1743. 2008-10-30 17:45 Following, looking for my next phone: http://clonedroidphone.com/
1744. 2008-10-30 21:03 @webmink: The Sun Model http://tinyurl.com/5dphzf
1745. 2008-10-30 21:46 Damn, that's conclusive: http://tinyurl.com/3q87g9
1746. 2008-10-30 23:22 Dull red autumn wind/Sol, so far away, so weak/Phoenix voiceless now.
1747. 2008-10-30 23:51 @DominicJones I could put you in touch with the guy who would know. Send me email & I'll forward
1748. 2008-10-31 00:14 @dewitt Seems more about SEO than search, right?
1749. 2008-10-31 05:04 Night before Hallowe'en. Sporadic firecrackers.
1750. 2008-10-31 07:11 Thwomp the vote: http://tinyurl.com/6j7gyc
1751. 2008-10-31 07:20 "you need to know how to build search engine optimization (SEO) best practices into your development processes": http://en.oreilly.com/found
1752. 2008-10-31 07:21 The horror... the horror: http://tinyurl.com/65tjgz
1753. 2008-10-31 17:01 OMG PHP forked: http://tinyurl.com/5sfdxx
1754. 2008-10-31 17:04 OK, Qwitter is cool.
1755. 2008-10-31 19:19 "Note also that you don’t have to use any Microsoft technologies to work with these Azure services." http://is.gd/5mzn
1756. 2008-10-31 22:03 Check out Olio, working comparative Web tech testbed: http://incubator.apache.org/olio/
1757. 2008-10-31 22:55 Holy crap: "sudo gem install ffi" - this is huge for the Ruby ecosystem: http://tinyurl.com/6bkodj
1758. 2008-11-01 05:34 I'll be spending Tuesday evening in an airplane headed to New Orleans; will find out who won when I get off, I suppose.
1759. 2008-11-01 06:10 Sunlit Autumnals: http://tinyurl.com/6drovo
1760. 2008-11-01 08:04 @codinghorror That full-text search stuff is a fad, never gonna catch on.
1761. 2008-11-01 08:08 The only serious test of an online music test is searching for Ry Cooder. http://streamdrag.com/ looks promising.
1762. 2008-11-01 08:22 @d2h Do you read Ursula Le Guin? "Tolk" has special meaning in some books that are important to some people. It means "stone".
1763. 2008-11-01 08:36 @antiform Because Ry Cooder is reliably correlated with good non-mainstream taste.
1764. 2008-11-01 19:21 Hmph Google blog search feeds now report all appearances of link/keyword in blogrolls. This is a change and not a good one.
1765. 2008-11-02 07:40 @jimgris I have discovered the solution to your problem: Simply erase all those images which aren't really really good. *Poof*!
1766. 2008-11-02 20:45 @cote Ah, I see, Emerson Lake and Palmer on the iPod you mean.
1767. 2008-11-02 20:54 @olabini As a matter of principle I don't memorize precedence rules. Parentheses FTW.
1768. 2008-11-02 22:30 Perf-testing mod-atom. Wondering if being able to soak up 140 AtomPub POSTs/sec is good performance (T2000). Nothing to compare to...
1769. 2008-11-03 02:09 That does it, election's over, Linus endorses Obama: http://tinyurl.com/6jf63c
1770. 2008-11-03 05:44 How Fast is Fast? http://tinyurl.com/6m9x5j
1771. 2008-11-03 06:20 Velvet Revolver on HDNet. Cheesiest cliché-ridden glam-rock imaginable. But damn, they're tight. Gotta love it. Hard rock played fast FTW.
1772. 2008-11-03 08:52 That Word: http://tinyurl.com/56qnwy
1773. 2008-11-03 18:50 @mezzoblue What is this "blue sky" of which you speak?
1774. 2008-11-04 00:08 @rhh Usually we're only voting for one person, local Member of Parliament. Americans' ballots cluttered with dozens of races & initiatives.
1775. 2008-11-04 00:10 @pkedrosky PageRank for peer-reviewed pubs is what you're thinking of.
1776. 2008-11-04 01:03 This Chinese-manufacturing-shrinkage story is huge, huge, huge. China's civic compromise depends on steady rapid growth. Hang on tight.
1777. 2008-11-04 01:05 @rhh You left out (0) An exceptionally politically talented candidate. But...
1778. 2008-11-04 01:06 @rhh ...There's gonna be this US Pres on the world stage who looks different. The fact he's there trumps all that true stuff you said.
1779. 2008-11-04 05:10 @mathewi Congrats on the new gig. It'd be nice to see a Canadian media property grabbing some thought leadership.
1780. 2008-11-04 06:05 @br3nda It isn't? I suspect you may be in a minority there.
1781. 2008-11-04 06:05 @webmink You can smile inside, knowing that they're going to be crushed tomorrow.
1782. 2008-11-04 08:02 OMG @jennnyholzer is on Twitter. "Protect me from what I want." Seems like a perfect medium/message match to me.
1783. 2008-11-04 18:33 @d2h I just turned MSN off for Adium. Fewer & fewer interesting people there anyhow.
1784. 2008-11-04 19:28 Dear America: http://tinyurl.com/5lpl7k
1785. 2008-11-04 19:34 @bryanl Have you written about your issues with RSpec? I kinda like it.
1786. 2008-11-04 19:36 Well, it's YVR => LAX => MSY to me for ApacheCon starting at 2PM Pacific. Arriving at midnight, so I guess I miss all the excitement.
1787. 2008-11-04 20:37 Makes me nervous when airports are too empty.
1788. 2008-11-04 20:53 Today the struggle: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/4/115948/468/460/652472
1789. 2008-11-04 21:29 Awwww Brent, that's lovely: http://tinyurl.com/6rk6nh
1790. 2008-11-05 15:13 ASF opening plenary. WIthin 5 minutes of walking in, met an Ape co-committer for the first time. <smile>
1791. 2008-11-06 02:05 W00t - MarsEdit talking flawlessly to mod-atom AFAICT. Software by @danielpunkass FTW.
1792. 2008-11-06 02:12 I never get tired of lecturing the IETF: http://tinyurl.com/5oyk89
1793. 2008-11-06 15:04 Listening to Hadoop evangelism.
1794. 2008-11-06 15:10 WHy are conference meeting rooms always bland pale beige?
1795. 2008-11-06 15:37 @willsnow Apachecon, and yes, it is being filmed/streamed
1796. 2008-11-06 16:27 Whoever just called me, sorry about hitting the wrong button on the phone and rejecting you.
1797. 2008-11-06 18:25 @glaforge Why GF/Jetty decision? Curious.
1798. 2008-11-06 18:32 @monkchips That happened last year. It's just that now they're noticing.
1799. 2008-11-06 20:34 Sun sales-mob has been unleashed to flog MySQL; should be interesting to watch: http://tinyurl.com/55dwxc
1800. 2008-11-06 20:52 Spent a half-hour chasing a broken build caused by a full disk. Ultimate yak shaving. Stupid libtool could, you know, tell you.
1801. 2008-11-06 20:55 @monkchips Most revolutions are bottom-up actually...
1802. 2008-11-06 21:04 @Smokinn "Flog" is anglo-american slang for "sell".
1803. 2008-11-06 21:05 @cmar No tech innovation, agreed. What's new is having an actual world-wide systems-oriented salesforce on the job. Strictly a biz thing.
1804. 2008-11-07 07:27 mod_atom testing joy: seems to scale smoothly with # of parallel clients. 320 POSTS/sec with 50 or so in parallel.
1805. 2008-11-07 18:31 I have "Rudie Can't Fail" stuck in an endless loop in the back of my brain. It makes me walk funny.
1806. 2008-11-07 19:14 Having now had my hands on the new MacBooks & Pros... still think they're butt-ugly. But I'll probably get one.
1807. 2008-11-07 19:19 @pkedrosky Well, they're perfectly decent computers. It's just that beside my BlackBook, they look like a Chevy next to a Porsche.
1808. 2008-11-08 15:46 I feel like a William Burroughs character
1809. 2008-11-08 15:47 Death is far too good for whoever cooked up the "Free" Wifi at Denver airport.
1810. 2008-11-08 17:26 Caught Trombone Shorty in NOLA last night. 2.5 hours sleep as a result. But worth it. Hell of a show. Totally recommended.
1811. 2008-11-09 15:59 @dierken First of all, it's up & down like a yo-yo. Second, some weird proxy puts an ad-loaded goober at the top of every page.
1812. 2008-11-09 17:22 The medum actually is the message, sometimes: http://tinyurl.com/6l56gd
1813. 2008-11-09 22:48 Web geeks on the Bayou: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/11/09/ApacheCon (got some good pix).
1814. 2008-11-10 01:19 @drewm Hey, that's Steve Yegge's URI. But I did notice a snicker from the audience.
1815. 2008-11-10 02:38 @chadfowler The further in you go, the bigger it gets.
1816. 2008-11-10 03:44 @KathySierra Looking forward to some reportage from inside a very strange situation.
1817. 2008-11-10 05:35 The Reg gets the story just a little earlier, as usual: http://tinyurl.com/5sqcmm
1818. 2008-11-10 05:40 DSLR geeks; consider adjusting your auto-focus; I just did: http://focustestchart.com/
1819. 2008-11-10 05:41 If you ran this in a North American paper, you'd be called an anti-semite: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1035415.html
1820. 2008-11-10 06:33 @twleung Hey Ted, that picture of the airplane wing is astounding. Wow.
1821. 2008-11-10 06:36 @gevaperry Agreed; my point is that discussion here in N.Amer is strangled because "pro-Israel" seems to mean Likudnik extremist.
1822. 2008-11-10 06:52 Time Machine Blues: http://tinyurl.com/6ouyca
1823. 2008-11-10 07:27 Forbes & WSJ on new Sun stuff: http://is.gd/6Rqn and http://is.gd/6Rqs - Computers are boring, hadn't you heard? Storage FTW.
1824. 2008-11-10 08:52 Will leave laptop on all night in the faint hope that Time Machine will stop Preparing Backup and just do the fucking backup already.
1825. 2008-11-10 16:13 Storage 7000: http://tinyurl.com/566e4g
1826. 2008-11-10 17:32 Ah, I love the smell of a new-product blog storm in the morning.
1827. 2008-11-10 23:57 Why on earth do people think new Sun storage stuff isn't for big biz? Not expensive enough? Check the features...
1828. 2008-11-11 01:18 On Regulation: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/11/10/On-Regulation
1829. 2008-11-11 03:26 @danielpunkass We Want ETags! We Want ETags!
1830. 2008-11-11 03:32 Running Disk Verify on my Time Capsule per commenters' wisdom. Which turns to be "fsck_hfs" under the covers. Hmm
1831. 2008-11-11 06:44 Twitter Grader needs a little more precision in the floating point. Amusing though.
1832. 2008-11-11 19:41 Just lost a half-hour out of my day to Michael Lewis' mesmerising "The End". Jesus H. Christ on a barbecue. Gotta read: http://is.gd/705w
1833. 2008-11-11 22:21 It's dark and raining hard and we have a depressing mayoral/council election and business is lousy. This calls for some rock and roll.
1834. 2008-11-11 22:26 Heh, just introduced two Spanish people with a common interest (both Twitterers, btw) to each other. Yay Internet.
1835. 2008-11-11 22:46 I don't think the political class has figured out the depth of anger in the population over what happened in the finance industry.
1836. 2008-11-11 23:13 Found Guy Kawasaki's twitwhoring advice repellant to a degree that surprised me. It made this whole thing feel vaguely dirty.
1837. 2008-11-12 00:31 Remembrance: http://tinyurl.com/6n2mo6
1838. 2008-11-12 01:02 RT @headius ruby rock & roll: http://twitter.com/headius/status/1001294788
1839. 2008-11-12 03:43 It's less work to download a multiMB printer driver from canon.com than step across the room to turn on the computer that has a copy. hmmmmm
1840. 2008-11-12 05:42 My first battle with LightRoom's Print module drove me back to Photoshop Elements. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.
1841. 2008-11-12 05:48 @jimParkinson Yeah, but is propping them in their current dysfunctional condition the right thing to do? Tough call.
1842. 2008-11-12 06:41 Anger Management: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/11/11/Angry
1843. 2008-11-12 17:13 Hmm, SpringSource bought G2One, the Groovy guys' company. A little worried, Groovy seems way more important than Spring to me.
1844. 2008-11-12 17:24 @judell Sounds like graceful handling of a sad time. Been there. Look forward to your writing an obituary.
1845. 2008-11-12 18:08 Look at the share price. SpringSource can buy Sun next.
1846. 2008-11-12 18:09 @fredwilson Are you saying that deleveraging is mostly done?
1847. 2008-11-12 19:35 Vaguely reassured that the population is responding to financial stress by cutting back on purchases of big-screen TVs. Sorry, Circuit City.
1848. 2008-11-12 21:07 my twitterank is irrelevant.
1849. 2008-11-12 21:16 @pmuellr I gave up and took it just to make the irritating little goober go away. L'Orthographe française FTW.
1850. 2008-11-12 21:20 Suppose, hypothetically, one grants that GM should be saved. Problem is, It's not clear that it's possible to do so at any price.
1851. 2008-11-12 21:27 RT @tmolini - Neil Young's nifty green car: http://tinyurl.com/5e2vq5
1852. 2008-11-12 23:03 @peat http://tinyurl.com/4fnb9j
1853. 2008-11-13 05:46 @Scobleizer Corruption very quickly disappearing? I really really don't think so. Just possibly not everything you hear is true.
1854. 2008-11-13 06:04 @duncan Those pix look less dramatic/electric than yours usually do. Less on-stage, more in-living-room. Not sure what I think.
1855. 2008-11-13 06:23 Discipline: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/11/12/Discipline
1856. 2008-11-13 06:27 @duncan Your pix at e.g. Railsconf captured the intensity of what it felt like on stage. Perhaps not true to the audience experience,granted
1857. 2008-11-13 06:34 @twleung Ssssssssssssh! Heresy! Nobody expects th☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠
1858. 2008-11-13 08:29 @hildjj Fingers crossed here.
1859. 2008-11-13 17:44 Python 20-30% faster. Compiler tech FTW: http://wikis.sun.com/display/AppPerfTuning/Python
1860. 2008-11-14 03:11 How I Use My Mac: http://tinyurl.com/5v5s59
1861. 2008-11-14 07:12 Headlines you gotta love: "Iranian comedian Randy Muscle rescues man from burning building": http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=7257
1862. 2008-11-14 07:23 Round Yellow Tree: http://tinyurl.com/6krtna
1863. 2008-11-14 07:24 @Scobleizer No, they block WP.com because it has Free Tibet and other flavors of dissident bloggers. Please be more cynical.
1864. 2008-11-14 18:03 Financial meltdown doesn't seem to have impacted Manhattan hotel prices. Silly silly prices.
1865. 2008-11-14 18:13 I dropped my son's violin on the floor and broke it. Only $100 to sort it out turns out, but really quite traumatic.
1866. 2008-11-14 18:21 Via @edwardog, a nice fresh electric blast of energy for a crappy morning: http://radio3.cbc.ca/
1867. 2008-11-14 18:27 @pmuellr I had the impression that REST was developing some pretty powerful positive buzz out there in the boring mainstream market.
1868. 2008-11-14 18:51 @pmuellr Yeah, well, if you paste a REST slogan on the side of yet another XML-RPC pig, you deserve what you're gonna get from Roy.
1869. 2008-11-14 19:19 @pmuellr Right, and you're also right that there's too much anger in the ecosystem left over from the WS-* catastrophe.
1870. 2008-11-14 20:22 Comparative Web (about Olio): http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/11/14/Olio
1871. 2008-11-14 20:43 @sogrady open a Terminal.app window and type rsync. Working out the correct incantation is left an exercise for the student.
1872. 2008-11-14 21:12 You *can* repair a Keynote problem by editing the multi-meg no-linefeed XML file in Emacs. It *hurts* Emacs. But it can be done. Bwahaha!
1873. 2008-11-14 21:34 Missing-font messages in Keynote: http://tinyurl.com/62lxwm
1874. 2008-11-15 00:16 Wonder why Twitter was https: yesterday but plain ol' http: today.
1875. 2008-11-15 00:18 @kwerb Wow, that is ultra-super news. Input from someone who actually *likes* the Internet, what a concept...
1876. 2008-11-15 00:19 @willsnow As soon as I bloody well get home, you betcha, and lots of it.
1877. 2008-11-15 00:38 Wow... 2010 Vancouver winter Olympic finance shenanigans in the NY Times: http://is.gd/7zgQ
1878. 2008-11-15 05:22 Unfollowing ruthlessly. Gotta reduce the input bandwidth.
1879. 2008-11-15 06:09 Bye-bye A&B: http://tinyurl.com/6f9975
1880. 2008-11-15 06:11 @duncan No! Shouldn't have admitted where you were. The Apple secrecy ninjas are creeping up your outside wall as I type...
1881. 2008-11-15 06:15 @stevej That SSD or spinning rust? I'd be super interested in comparable Bonnie numbers for the two.
1882. 2008-11-15 06:23 @stevej shoulda run with 8G. Bet you didn't want to hear that. It ain't really doing 186 seeks/sec. Damn, that code dates from 1989.
1883. 2008-11-15 07:16 @stevej I believe 148, actually. Upon rechecking, I might have even believed the higher number. These things actually do get better, slowly.
1884. 2008-11-15 07:16 @stevej Sure, patch away. Surprised there are any tabs in there.
1885. 2008-11-15 19:57 @gruber: In English: Iron butt.
1886. 2008-11-15 21:08 @DominicJones Why is hair-pulling required? Not rocket science.
1887. 2008-11-15 21:44 That DHH is a lean, mean, evangelizin' machine.
1888. 2008-11-15 22:08 Interesting reglib-vs-JQuery advocacy: http://tinyurl.com/6xrqb5
1889. 2008-11-16 03:20 @danielpunkass Natty Dread FTW: /ongoing/When/200x/2007/03/10/Baby-Dread
1890. 2008-11-16 05:07 @sogrady Yeah too cheap. Sigma's all over the map. I have a $450 f1.4 30mm prime that's like a rock.
1891. 2008-11-16 05:49 At the end of the day, the Beethoven violin concerto is just not that great.
1892. 2008-11-16 06:03 @Yasumoto For violin concerti, Sibelius is hard to beat.
1893. 2008-11-16 06:17 @JulieLeung WIlliam Burroughs influence?
1894. 2008-11-16 06:41 Wonder if Gregor woulda slaughtered Mayor Sam the way he did Peter Ladner? (re: Vancouver election)
1895. 2008-11-16 06:48 Well, I'm doubtful that the new city govt can crack the homelessness nut, but I'm glad that our voters seem to take the issue seriously.
1896. 2008-11-16 07:55 RT @mezzoblue holy crap does this map ever tell a story: http://vancouver.ca/electionresults2008/connect/mayorrace2008.png (I'm in green).
1897. 2008-11-16 08:03 I live in #51 btw: http://vancouver.ca/electionresults2008/connect/mayorrace2008.png
1898. 2008-11-16 20:55 @headius Me too. Dear world: It takes big companies *months* to execute this kind of surgery. At this point nobody knows who's staying.
1899. 2008-11-16 22:09 Scalaris looks a lot like CouchDB at first glance?
1900. 2008-11-17 02:11 Sam sees the wealth of the world in 1655: http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1665/11/16/
1901. 2008-11-17 02:14 @ritam kd is beyond wonderful in concert but doesn't seem to tour much any more.
1902. 2008-11-17 02:18 @blaine You & I live in the *Web* universe. This is the Internet universe, which underlies it. They think about things outside of HTTP/XMPP.
1903. 2008-11-17 03:02 Tim Bray, Strategic Policy Manager, Western Power, is addressing an Aussie Senate Public Hearing at 10:45 Monday morning in Perth. Go Tim.
1904. 2008-11-17 04:22 "the lightweight precision of a command line interface..." http://tinyurl.com/6gz94m
1905. 2008-11-17 04:51 Fix NFL Overtime: http://tinyurl.com/62dpr2
1906. 2008-11-17 06:03 My Tinfoil Hat: http://tinyurl.com/5fgdqw
1907. 2008-11-17 06:11 J'Accuse: http://torturingdemocracy.org/
1908. 2008-11-17 06:36 @DaveO Use "Digital Capture" in the Apps folder to import off the camera, then iPhoto import. My camera focus was mis-set, almost no pix :(
1909. 2008-11-17 07:13 The Art of Manliness: http://artofmanliness.com/
1910. 2008-11-17 16:53 Restful PHP Web Services: http://tinyurl.com/6h2we6
1911. 2008-11-17 17:52 The Play! framework; appealing at first glance: http://www.playframework.org/manual/contents/Overview
1912. 2008-11-17 18:14 QCon keynote Thu on "App Design in the context of the shifting storage spectrum" (http://is.gd/7Rx1). All new material, mucho work but fun.
1913. 2008-11-17 18:20 "Web 2" in Arabic: "وب 2"
1914. 2008-11-17 18:28 @pkedrosky Re your CDS data, interp is people want to short the debt in the rt-hand col, thus a negative indicator for those parties. Agree?
1915. 2008-11-17 19:24 @stshank Many people think no Flash on the iPhone is an *advantage*.
1916. 2008-11-17 22:45 LazyTweet: Anyone got one of those hot Intel SSDs with a *n*x filesystem on it I could run a quick benchmark on?
1917. 2008-11-17 23:00 @stshank "Dislike of Flash content". I've found it irritating for years. Useful as a video codec, otherwise best avoided.
1918. 2008-11-18 05:02 News o' the Ruby world: http://tinyurl.com/6l4z2o
1919. 2008-11-18 06:31 @RussB Brown the meat. Use more garlic. Put in some hoisin & oyster sauce. Shallots.
1920. 2008-11-18 06:33 @headius Before XML there was SGML and the unicorn was its mascot. Unicorns can only be touched by virgins; might be a problem.
1921. 2008-11-18 19:34 Just lost an hour of Keynote work in a hard crash. Everything else I use now autosaves. For example, Emacs has since 1986. Mega-FAIL.
1922. 2008-11-18 22:15 Hah, 98wpm: http://www.typeonline.co.uk/typingspeed.php Now back to work.
1923. 2008-11-18 22:19 @a_williams Come to one of my speeches. You'll see.
1924. 2008-11-18 23:05 @gnat However, they are beautiful objects in their way.
1925. 2008-11-18 23:08 @a_williams I care about both typography and compositional integrity. Particularly in a juicy keynote speaking slot.
1926. 2008-11-19 00:53 Reading the CoucDB API. Smiling. http://tinyurl.com/5zd7eq
1927. 2008-11-19 02:37 Picking up a file and dropping it on Emacs still feels weird. Works perfectly of course.
1928. 2008-11-19 02:42 Get In Focus: http://tinyurl.com/6xz6fu
1929. 2008-11-19 03:43 @ndw Ahh... you need to equip your Finder sidebar with handy directories (hint: YYYY/MM/...) for convenient 1-click access.
1930. 2008-11-19 04:28 About to unleash Bonnie on a fully maxed out Amber Road appliance. The room is echoing with my evil laughter
1931. 2008-11-19 05:10 @codinghorror Yes, my wife has all sorts of lovely houseplants growing hydroponically, and is very abstemious, nothing remotely illegal.
1932. 2008-11-19 05:53 I'm unable to talk about the Fishworks analytics stuff without coming across as a complete fanboy marketroid. Instantly addictive.
1933. 2008-11-19 17:38 NetBeans 6.5 is in da house: http://www.netbeans.org/
1934. 2008-11-19 17:42 @Atomos So, would you be willing to pay for Twitter? Because, well, someone's got to. If neither you nor advertisers, then who?
1935. 2008-11-19 17:51 Won't get to QCon till this afternoon. Looking for dinner and a party.
1936. 2008-11-19 17:55 @_glass NB plenty fast on my 2G BlackBook. There's the occasional GC pause. Mind you I only use it for C and Ruby.
1937. 2008-11-19 19:43 Gmail turned blue.
1938. 2008-11-19 20:01 Pythonistas: Wanna try an IDE? http://tinyurl.com/6mq2qp
1939. 2008-11-19 20:04 @shanselman Never ever wake a sleeping baby.
1940. 2008-11-19 20:18 @justinsheehy With respect, I disagree. I'm fairly addicted to NB for Ruby. If only for command-click on a method.
1941. 2008-11-20 01:27 Like I keep saying, it's an AtomPub world: http://is.gd/8dyi
1942. 2008-11-20 07:35 Is using the groovy GMail "Tree" theme.
1943. 2008-11-20 07:36 At what point does the term "social media" start to provoke general wincing and embarrassment? Not-too-distant future I'd think.
1944. 2008-11-20 18:35 OK, the new GMail theme called "Tree" is seriously cool.
1945. 2008-11-20 18:42 Sun ♥ Wikipedia. Oddly, I hadn't heard of this: http://tinyurl.com/5rqnn3
1946. 2008-11-20 18:45 Received a commercial inquiry from a glossy mag for a flower photo. First ever. Happy, but baffled about what to do.
1947. 2008-11-20 21:24 @d2h You watching Drizzle? They are much more malleable at this point in time & may well become the mainstream.
1948. 2008-11-20 22:21 Ericsson still employes a dozen people full time developing Erlang, I gather. Wow. More than most languages.
1949. 2008-11-20 22:25 Well, the stock market can only go down 5% a day for the next month or so.
1950. 2008-11-20 22:27 Learning about Yaws from Steve Vinoski.
1951. 2008-11-20 22:35 Twitter is a conspiracy of pedants. I feel right at home.
1952. 2008-11-20 22:39 Steve Vinoski is extremely funny on top of being smart.
1953. 2008-11-20 23:14 HTML5 Pain: http://tinyurl.com/6obnnk
1954. 2008-11-20 23:18 @argv0 Relayed your comment; Steve says Yaws does more stuff, doesn't konw webmachine. Important thing is they all have the OTP goodness.
1955. 2008-11-20 23:52 Hey, Len Richardson (of RESTful Web Services fame) is funny and engaging too. REST-track speakers FTW.
1956. 2008-11-21 02:18 I know YVR and SFO better than any human should know any airport.
1957. 2008-11-21 06:41 Just decided that it would be juvenile to say <strong>ZOMGWTFBBQ!</strong> in a blog entry Im writing. Sigh.
1958. 2008-11-21 06:48 2008 Disk Performance: http://tinyurl.com/66ssat
1959. 2008-11-21 16:29 Retwt @CcSteff: Solution to economic crisis: sack everyone who has an MBA.
1960. 2008-11-21 18:09 2008 Storage Hierarchy: http://tinyurl.com/5bb6dd
1961. 2008-11-21 18:42 Wikipedia deployment architecture (but no link to Brion's slides, grr): http://tinyurl.com/6zesh2
1962. 2008-11-21 19:00 Hah, a new business model for software. Thought-provoking: http://www.tausendstern.com/
1963. 2008-11-21 21:47 @danielpunkass If yer shooting RAW you need Lightroom or equivalence and to learn how to do White Balance.
1964. 2008-11-21 22:04 First-Class PR: http://tinyurl.com/6grrwf
1965. 2008-11-22 00:34 Neil Young on electric cars: http://www.lincvolt.com/soyouwant.html
1966. 2008-11-22 17:03 @monkchips Storage is totally one of the bright spots on the horizon for us system vendors.
1967. 2008-11-22 17:08 @dweinberger I thought the post-Chomsky sort-of-consensus view was that we have special-purpose mental hardware for language. No?
1968. 2008-11-22 17:10 @headius Why is a:fixnum better than a => :fixnum?
1969. 2008-11-22 20:20 From a recent DHH checkin: - assert_equal array[41], array.fourty_two 0 + assert_equal array[41], array.forty_two 0
1970. 2008-11-22 21:24 Neither Father nor Inventor: http://tinyurl.com/6rnhoq
1971. 2008-11-22 21:31 @snoopdave What do you do with ten buckets of acorns, Dave?
1972. 2008-11-23 00:17 What's the deal with the mustaches?
1973. 2008-11-23 00:22 @SrVerde RIch, it's 4PM. Must've been a hell of a breakfast.
1974. 2008-11-23 04:01 Dear Twitter, will you PLEASE stop links opening in a new window? I know how to achieve that effect if I want it. Quit fighting the browser.
1975. 2008-11-23 04:28 JJC on Oslo & M: http://is.gd/8Dfi - My initial take, too, was "what about ordering?"
1976. 2008-11-23 06:40 I picked up Portishead's "Live" & "3". On first listen, neither approaches "Dummy". But I'll give 'em another chance or eight.
1977. 2008-11-23 06:54 @danielpunkass That song is so totally way older than you are. People with white beads like me remember when it was a hit.
1978. 2008-11-24 05:58 Transparent storage: http://tinyurl.com/6ks9gc
1979. 2008-11-24 20:34 This last couple of weeks I've been busy & sick and ignored Twitter for days at a time. A bit sad, miss your voices in the background buzz.
1980. 2008-11-24 20:37 Only if you're prepared for *extreme* weirdness: http://tinyurl.com/5m6dxd
1981. 2008-11-24 22:10 O'Grady: "The term document, in my view, is a legacy term" http://is.gd/8QQR - a conversation-starter even if wrong, to be sure.
1982. 2008-11-25 01:31 Many happy returns @headius!
1983. 2008-11-25 04:21 @rael Looking forward to colorful stories from the Twitterverse. Congrats.
1984. 2008-11-25 04:24 @brianaker Hudson gets no buzz but seems to kinda Just Work.
1985. 2008-11-25 04:48 My plain ol' cellphone has a cracked front & certain steampunk charm. Not obvious what, in Canada, to replace it with.
1986. 2008-11-25 05:32 go Canucks
1987. 2008-11-25 06:08 Grumpy about paying for bandwidth for all these no-hoper search engines constantly crawling my site 24/7/365.
1988. 2008-11-25 07:47 Retweet @avibryant - The 500 mile email: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html . Awesome.
1989. 2008-11-25 07:49 @johnbattelle Red plastic jockstraps FTW.
1990. 2008-11-25 07:54 Now that's a nice tide table for closing-down-the-cottage-while-the-Americans-eat-turkey: http://is.gd/8URU Low tide at midnight FTW.
1991. 2008-11-25 18:31 I'm interested in photography and a fan of @duncan, but I don't have time to listen to podcasts, sorry.
1992. 2008-11-25 18:34 Unbelievably dim sky in Vancouver, my eyes are starved for light.
1993. 2008-11-25 19:43 @dewitt James Snell (I think) did an Atom 1.0=>JSON mapping. It was super-ultra-extra-double-ugly. Tentative conclusion: Don't do that.
1994. 2008-11-25 20:08 What Sun should do: http://tinyurl.com/5cn3xg
1995. 2008-11-25 20:10 @dewitt Retweet @calavera yes, he did it and we are suffering it XD - http://tinyurl.com/5fvqdy
1996. 2008-11-25 20:11 @todmaffin The way I explain it is by analogy: You say he's but not hi's.
1997. 2008-11-25 20:16 Arrr, any scurvy bastards come over the side o' t'ship, it's boilin' oil fer 'em.
1998. 2008-11-25 21:34 @pkedrosky Ads in your feed are OK by me, but bright blue blinking bulgy SEO ads are kinda over-the-top.
1999. 2008-11-25 21:50 The massive, monolithic JDK - http://tinyurl.com/5nouds
2000. 2008-11-25 22:34 iPhone and Android are so, so over: http://www.pomegranatephone.com/
2001. 2008-11-25 23:07 The closet JRubyists: http://tinyurl.com/69ruro
2002. 2008-11-25 23:39 @carlmalamud I claim Thumper falls under Storage, but maybe should call it out.
2003. 2008-11-26 01:27 Thoughtful post about camera sizes: http://tinyurl.com/5s3b48
2004. 2008-11-26 04:17 @sogrady Follow Nick Lowe's immortal advice: "Bash it out now, tart it up later." Always works for me.
2005. 2008-11-26 05:40 Rented Iron Man at the video store. At the next store the classic-rock station was playing Iron Man. It's kozmick, I tellya, kozmic.
2006. 2008-11-29 00:23 Listening to Paul McCartney: http://tinyurl.com/6d7rj3
2007. 2008-11-29 00:45 Enjoying a rare bad review: http://tinyurl.com/563col
2008. 2008-11-29 00:59 @chadfowler Linux wouldd be just fine for dev. Problem is I'm stuck with OS X for media apps, Lr and friends, and only want one computer.
2009. 2008-11-29 03:58 "Surging shoppers kill New York Wal-Mart worker" - http://is.gd/9snT - will not relay any of the commentary drifting through my mind.
2010. 2008-11-29 05:32 @bmann @avibryant I'm thinking a Keats/Gambier run would be nice too
2011. 2008-11-29 08:39 Rain and its Culture: http://tinyurl.com/5b3sk4
2012. 2008-11-29 08:53 Severe Pentax lens otaku culture: http://tinyurl.com/5jjvtx
2013. 2008-11-29 09:28 Jdimytai Damour, RIP. But whose funeral is it? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27955316/
2014. 2008-11-29 21:01 Wired, discussing Ray Ozzie, is impressed at his "ability to scrawl out XML code on the fly." I remember when Wired writers were informed.
2015. 2008-11-29 21:41 As for Ray Ozzie, he gave us Notes, which I've long thought was one of the worst pieces of software ever inflicted on the world.
2016. 2008-11-29 22:37 Reading JavaFX reference, thinking about the "binding" stuff. Charming way to package a function of zero arguments (I think).
2017. 2008-11-30 00:56 Dear Google, why is the ad-farm at timbray dot com in the first page of search results for my name?
2018. 2008-11-30 07:47 Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" at the Vancouver Opera. Weak female lead, also not the greatest opera ever, but still tons of fun.
2019. 2008-11-30 17:13 I admit that a large part of my PHP negativity is due to having worked with OsCommerce: http://is.gd/9BQu
2020. 2008-11-30 17:40 I've always had a soft spot for Nissan: http://www.youtube.com/v/K8-iQw9hKjs
2021. 2008-11-30 20:55 Wondering whether to watch Pittsburgh or the Jets.
2022. 2008-11-30 21:04 @StationA Why the Pro over the unPro? Other than screen real-estate.
2023. 2008-12-01 03:23 The new avatar for @d2h is totally Tintin. BTW, my ex-father-in-law was totally Captain Haddock.
2024. 2008-12-01 03:43 Hah! An error-free run-through of Fox in Sox at bedtime. Dad FTW.
2025. 2008-12-01 06:08 OK, I have a conflict of interest, but this is a *great* little tech video: http://cleanupdata.com/#video
2026. 2008-12-01 06:54 www.350.org is an eye-opener, but if you leave it open in a tab it'll suck the life out of your computer.
2027. 2008-12-01 08:39 12/01: Beginning Of The End
2028. 2008-12-01 08:42 @duncan I can hear the heavy breathing from here. Down, boy.
2029. 2008-12-01 08:54 Cameras Small and Large: http://tinyurl.com/6zstac
2030. 2008-12-01 19:41 This "Indexed" speaks to me: http://tinyurl.com/6nxwse
2031. 2008-12-01 21:27 @jerry You'll want to get in some pre-party practice. If you actually use it at f1.4, the DOF leaves *zero* room for error.
2032. 2008-12-01 22:02 Strange days indeed/Most peculiar, mama.
2033. 2008-12-01 23:47 Quick primer on current Canadian political weirdness for non-Canadians: http://is.gd/9NJ4
2034. 2008-12-02 00:28 OMG I think they're really gonna do it: http://tinyurl.com/6m7kc4
2035. 2008-12-02 00:32 I keep seeing headlines of the form "New XXX engine/framework/library for JavaScript". For many interesting values of XXX.
2036. 2008-12-02 00:38 Kenai.com just had some new hires start. Which, at Sun these days, is a news story. Kenai is one of our better efforts.
2037. 2008-12-02 00:48 @bmann Sun needs to use such a thing, and also needs to understand developers. Building one is a good way to learn. Plus, it's useful.
2038. 2008-12-02 05:16 @bmann There are gonna be a few of these. They'll have different strengths/weaknesses. Let's see what Kenai's turn out to be.
2039. 2008-12-02 05:22 Our home network is out. Thanks to the neighbor operaring a naked linksys.
2040. 2008-12-02 15:25 No way can Harper prorogue. It'd be a PR disaster.
2041. 2008-12-03 15:48 Synthetic-CDO horror story; is this true? http://is.gd/a3pw
2042. 2008-12-03 22:17 @jperras This kind of treachery is a builtin feature of the parliamentary system. Used to be a regular occurrence in the UK in the old days.
2043. 2008-12-05 13:34 Creating or Consuming? http://tinyurl.com/57wgj8
2044. 2008-12-05 23:57 Damn, is Toronto's Terminal 1 ever a vast steaming pile of FAIL.
2045. 2008-12-05 23:58 Has been talking to customers for the last three days. Wrinkles in my brain stretched out flat from the input.
2046. 2008-12-06 07:14 Fuzzy Clichés and Money: http://tinyurl.com/6frt73
2047. 2008-12-06 07:21 Saw Vicky Cristina Barcelona on the plane home. Ultra-entertaining.
2048. 2008-12-07 04:13 @SrVerde All three? Chrysler seems like dead meat to me. Time for some triage, perhaps. Thought experiment: If only one can make it, which?
2049. 2008-12-08 00:58 OMG they're going to make a Repo Man sequel. That movie is one of my major influences. http://is.gd/aD1y
2050. 2008-12-08 01:03 One has to admit that the Steelers/Cowboys game was actually pretty lame football, mostly.
2051. 2008-12-08 01:05 @br3nda Actually a replacement for "find . -name <mumble> -print | xargs egrep <mumble>"
2052. 2008-12-08 05:38 Since we're doing Repo Man quotes: "Ordinary people... they're assholes. I hate 'em."
2053. 2008-12-08 16:09 OH: "You date your hardware vendor, but you marry Larry Ellison"
2054. 2008-12-08 17:49 Heh, there's a little problem with that $399 G1 for developers: http://tinyurl.com/6a3mew
2055. 2008-12-08 18:15 The storage market is way more interesting than the computer market these days: http://is.gd/aIyo
2056. 2008-12-08 18:31 Turning the cloud inside out: http://tinyurl.com/66vlrs
2057. 2008-12-08 20:15 Entirely failing to understand movements of Sun's share price.
2058. 2008-12-08 20:24 @dewitt This seems like a step backward, just when JavaScript is turning into a seriously industrial-strength platform.
2059. 2008-12-08 22:43 Argghhh, Android dev G1 won't ship to an alternate US address to dodge UPS thieves. No G1 for Tim for Christmas :(
2060. 2008-12-08 22:51 Hold on, I'm wrong, you *can* ship a G1 to the states if you go through the whole transaction then do "Change Shipping"
2061. 2008-12-09 04:51 httpd+dtrace FTW: http://tinyurl.com/5fpzh7
2062. 2008-12-09 04:53 Bought G1 today. Bank just called, sudden $400+ online charge to "Gotta Go Blue" (!?!?) raised flags. Sounds shady to me all right.
2063. 2008-12-09 05:03 @binary42 MacBook's lighter/smaller but has 800 vertical pixels. For a traveler like me who often uses big outboard monitors, a no-brainer.
2064. 2008-12-09 07:04 Dear Twitter: Please stop opening new windows when I click on things. This behavior is wrong.
2065. 2008-12-09 16:56 The great Ruby shootout: http://tinyurl.com/6cpu8u
2066. 2008-12-09 18:27 Wow, Bob Rae dropped out. These being Liberals, we'll eventually find out what happened in the back rooms. Soon, I hope.
2067. 2008-12-09 18:31 @pkedrosky How long can you ride a position like that? Obviously oil will be way up sometime in the next 36 months...
2068. 2008-12-09 18:50 I love Vancouver, but I have to say that we get some really shitty weather sometimes.
2069. 2008-12-09 19:07 Reduce PHP pain with ext/usim: http://tinyurl.com/5nu8e7
2070. 2008-12-09 19:52 Yow, Dick Hardt is going to Microsoft: http://identity20.com/?p=171
2071. 2008-12-09 20:08 Apple Owes Me $99: http://tinyurl.com/65u7cj
2072. 2008-12-09 21:19 First-ever IDE-oriented Ruby book? http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430216360
2073. 2008-12-09 21:58 Retweet @rbazinet - another Rails/IDE book: http://tinyurl.com/629tmc
2074. 2008-12-10 03:16 @al3x http://tinyurl.com/55e2rq
2075. 2008-12-10 03:20 Pre-existentialist Peanuts: http://tinyurl.com/5ox9nz
2076. 2008-12-10 06:27 Dervala, for the first time in many months: "Life Beyond Screens". Beautiful. http://tinyurl.com/647vwv
2077. 2008-12-10 06:46 Brain feels like wet kleenex. Think I'll try Left 4 Dead, get a heartwarming uplifting change from the economic news.
2078. 2008-12-10 06:54 The Sun's City Editor is listening, @AdrienneTanner - send her a juicy urban story or two. Wish I knew some.
2079. 2008-12-10 17:06 Conservatives, climate change and investing: http://tinyurl.com/6jpx5o
2080. 2008-12-10 17:09 @CcSteff Undo your pants *first*.
2081. 2008-12-10 17:57 @smartgoat Everyone knows it's easy to verb a noun.
2082. 2008-12-10 18:05 The amount of energy and creativity going into OpenSolaris these days is mind-boggling: 2008.11 is just another step, lots more to come.
2083. 2008-12-10 18:10 @psd Sounds like you're in a bad neighborhood.
2084. 2008-12-10 18:27 @codelust I love Nexenta, they're doing storage appliance stuff these days. 2008.* OS releases have been increasingly GNUish.
2085. 2008-12-10 18:28 Heh... actual humans talking to actual Sun engineers at http://www.ustream.tv/sun
2086. 2008-12-10 22:09 Gonna be fun in January watching Harper & Iggy play chicken.
2087. 2008-12-10 23:15 Hah, OpenSolaris 2008.11 screencast features "top" and "sudo" and "screen". It's significant that they realize these are important.
2088. 2008-12-10 23:16 Screencast at: http://tinyurl.com/5u9pek
2089. 2008-12-10 23:31 Struck out entirely in the Olympic ticket lottery. Oh well, guess they don't need my money.
2090. 2008-12-10 23:39 UML, now with pointy brackets! http://tinyurl.com/6mywms
2091. 2008-12-10 23:44 @pkedrosky is undermining my sincere efforts to avoid retreating into survivalist paranoia.
2092. 2008-12-11 00:36 Starting Friday, sign in to your account***ERROR*** (#malformed) to purchase remaining [Olympic] tickets on a first-come, first-served basis
2093. 2008-12-11 04:41 Practical internationalization: http://tinyurl.com/56yhzw
2094. 2008-12-11 04:43 Really good Vancouver coverage: http://www.francesbula.com/
2095. 2008-12-11 04:46 @ceplm I develop on Mac. I *deploy* on Solaris.
2096. 2008-12-11 04:58 It's a pity http://www.cloudstatus.com/ doesn't seem to cover GMail.
2097. 2008-12-11 05:14 Really interesting Ruby performance write-up: http://tinyurl.com/5wey3o
2098. 2008-12-11 06:26 "Smokestack Lightning" is unquestionably at the supreme pinnacle of the blues.
2099. 2008-12-11 16:57 @bensummers Yes, because the GNU userland is better. GNU userland + Solaris kernel FTW.
2100. 2008-12-11 18:46 Powerful: "Open Source in a Closed Market" - http://tinyurl.com/684yws
2101. 2008-12-11 21:00 @jasondlee yesterday linked to global-warming denial at http://is.gd/aZRI - a pack of lies, as it turns out: http://is.gd/bdmc
2102. 2008-12-11 21:05 I think Web 2.0 is a name for changing information flows to include more sources at the edges, but @timoreilly is entitled to his opinion.
2103. 2008-12-12 03:08 Walk *this* way.
2104. 2008-12-12 05:33 Lauren's watching the BBC biz news, and the line-up of disastrous headlines is quietly flabbergasting. Thinking nuts & berries.
2105. 2008-12-12 05:44 The Android Market ain't real busy yet.
2106. 2008-12-12 08:09 The Wikipedia article on π (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi) is beautifully written.
2107. 2008-12-12 08:37 On Lines and Angles: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/12/11/Level
2108. 2008-12-12 16:12 Joe Gregorio: Computer Science is Broken http://bitworking.org/news/388/broke
2109. 2008-12-12 17:00 Snowing in Vancouver. Who needs light, anyhow?
2110. 2008-12-12 18:15 I guess the market had priced in the failure of the auto industry?
2111. 2008-12-12 18:22 @sogrady A powerful firearm will solve that problem.
2112. 2008-12-12 18:25 Now that's cool: local paper's city editor @AdrienneTanner tweets a hot local story now appearing at online front page: http://is.gd/bmXT
2113. 2008-12-12 18:46 This is excellent. From InfoQ a lengthy detailed braindump on the recent QCon SF: http://tinyurl.com/6c85jt
2114. 2008-12-12 19:30 @duncan I got good results with the PDF from http://focustestchart.com/ - wonder how much better this is?
2115. 2008-12-12 20:12 DP Review can be irritating, but this kind of product roundup at holiday time is super-useful: Fuji FTW BTW: http://is.gd/bo09
2116. 2008-12-13 00:29 @kk How do I find out about this Indendent Media Center?
2117. 2008-12-13 01:17 Collaboratively editing a spreadsheet on Google docs with Lauren. Seems pretty slick.
2118. 2008-12-13 06:11 Decemberblossoms: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/12/12/Decemberblossoms
2119. 2008-12-13 07:00 The School Concert: http://tinyurl.com/6akduw
2120. 2008-12-13 20:52 kilowatts per terabyte: http://tinyurl.com/6xy422
2121. 2008-12-14 01:03 On the auto industry bail-out: http://tinyurl.com/56n2xb
2122. 2008-12-14 05:06 Wanna chop a minute off the front of an audio file... what basic free Mac tool does this?
2123. 2008-12-14 05:22 Burned my first audio CD from iTunes. Mostly apple-lossless music. Sounds like dogshit. Wonder what I'm missing?
2124. 2008-12-14 05:23 @meejeet Don't hold anything back, Jeet, just level with the world and use your own voice and you can't go wrong.
2125. 2008-12-14 05:54 Big thanks to @imabuddha - if you're going to burn an audio CD from iTunes, do NOT enable "Use Sound Check". It totally lacerated the sound.
2126. 2008-12-14 06:02 If you get Detroit Public TV, they're showing a 1981 live Queen concert, which has potential.
2127. 2008-12-14 06:04 Absolutely *brutal* piece on the 2012 London Olympics from the Times: http://is.gd/bAhV
2128. 2008-12-14 06:07 @jimParkinson For some reason, the PBS HD satellite feed in western Canada is Detroit. Go figure.
2129. 2008-12-14 07:08 Was gonna take the kids tobogganing at Seymour first thing tomorrow. Is too much snow possible?
2130. 2008-12-14 20:34 @jamest47 - Yep, that's me.
2131. 2008-12-14 23:27 Damn, this Pitt/Balt game is brutal.
2132. 2008-12-14 23:31 Ordered my G1 dev phone 6 days ago with 3-day shipping. Grmf.
2133. 2008-12-15 00:44 @kirklapointe I disagree. "Brutal" in this case was a compliment. Steelers/Ravens was a beautiful defensive showpiece.
2134. 2008-12-15 01:48 Alleged downside of the Amazon.com miracle: http://tinyurl.com/6xh45f
2135. 2008-12-15 03:05 @fredwilson Consider looking at word counts.
2136. 2008-12-15 03:07 @ndw Sure, nothing in HTTP constrains the Content-Length.
2137. 2008-12-15 03:40 @timoreilly Orlowski is a gutternsnipe, don't rise to his bait.
2138. 2008-12-15 03:42 @nelson Who's Art?
2139. 2008-12-15 03:51 Headlines you gotta love: "Jerusalem fire chief suspended over attempting to run a brothel" http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1046496.html
2140. 2008-12-15 06:26 @br3nda I abanoned cello after a couple decades' study in favor of djembé - never an intonation problem, you betcha.
2141. 2008-12-15 06:46 I am printing some labels. I'd like to take this opportunity to say Fuck Avery. Serves me right using WIndows software from a label company.
2142. 2008-12-15 06:54 @br3nda Big west-African hand drum. Only a half-dozen notes, each always in tune. Devilishly complex polyrhythms.
2143. 2008-12-15 07:11 @shita We have an open house on New Year's day ever year in the afternoon, serve champagne and gazpacho. Very relaxed and fun.
2144. 2008-12-15 08:11 I'm afraid that I shall go to my grave without ever having thrown a shoe at anyone.
2145. 2008-12-15 17:27 Tweeted bitchily last night about printing labels. This AM, a reply from @onlinelabels.com, a vendor, saying "check us out". Seems rational.
2146. 2008-12-15 17:28 Holy cow, make that *two* vendors: @Worldlabel
2147. 2008-12-15 17:42 @brentsimmons Courier New 12 bold FTW.
2148. 2008-12-15 19:10 Raw random intelligence on what the Java community uses and thinks: http://is.gd/bOJP (Note that's 1 of 17)
2149. 2008-12-15 22:48 Have some Android code sort of running. Hmph... back to Java it seems.
2150. 2008-12-15 23:50 Looking for examples of heavily-geotagged feeds, RSS or atom.
2151. 2008-12-16 00:07 I can see where I want to go. It'll just take a few thousand lines of Java code to get there. Urgh.
2152. 2008-12-16 00:33 Researching how to do TDD in Android
2153. 2008-12-16 05:11 Dear Twitter: It is wrong that Twitter links open in the same window, but external links pop up a new one. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Please stop.
2154. 2008-12-16 05:13 @webmink Agreed; some BBQ is damned good.
2155. 2008-12-16 05:21 @al3x Scala has too much syntax for my poor little mind.
2156. 2008-12-16 06:38 I'm coding getters and setters, I'm being generic, I'm a good little java coder, you betcha.
2157. 2008-12-16 08:25 "The monster in the mirror". As in, Arundhati Roy blows the roof off. Do please read: http://is.gd/bVjv
2158. 2008-12-16 18:09 In Android, it's far from obvious how to do ordinary unit testing of ordinary POJO code. Got an example?
2159. 2008-12-16 18:39 Hah. I just sold a picture to a magazine. First ever. $100. If I could sell everything I shot at that rate... I'd starve.
2160. 2008-12-16 20:00 OH: "There's a pop-up that's worse than Medusa's head."
2161. 2008-12-16 21:33 Jeepers, godaddy.com is a pain in the butt. But hey, it's cheap and it works.
2162. 2008-12-16 22:14 Discovering secret APIs in Android!
2163. 2008-12-16 22:22 Mmmm... android.net.http.RequestQueue widely used but not officially documented.
2164. 2008-12-16 23:51 @morrildl Hah, thanks. I was 80% of the way to picking HttpClient, you pushed me over the edge.
2165. 2008-12-17 04:39 Brian is totally having too much fun: http://krow.livejournal.com/
2166. 2008-12-17 09:41 I gotta say, I want to hold one of these Imperial-stormtrooper models in my hand: http://is.gd/c5K9
2167. 2008-12-17 09:46 Headlines you gotta love: "Three people killed by foot massage machines" http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=7856
2168. 2008-12-17 09:58 Wishing creativity could be scheduled.
2169. 2008-12-17 17:51 Pencil porn: http://tinyurl.com/62dsnn
2170. 2008-12-17 18:06 @cote Don't know anyone who's not using Ajax to some degree in any reasonably modern Web-facing app.
2171. 2008-12-17 18:10 New VirtualBox release. This is really good software: http://www.virtualbox.org/
2172. 2008-12-17 18:31 Filed for later: Arvo Pärt's soon-to-premiere 4th symphony online: http://issuu.com/universaledition/docs/paert4thsymph
2173. 2008-12-17 18:39 @gillianshaw Sorry, most of us are poorly educated.
2174. 2008-12-17 19:02 @pragdave your email is bouncing, go check out ruby-core
2175. 2008-12-17 19:04 They said only 5cm snow, but you know, it's not slowing down even a little bit.
2176. 2008-12-17 19:11 Java is 13 yrs old, XML 10. Why is it still so awkward/irritating to deal with X from J? Gag me with a DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().
2177. 2008-12-17 23:24 @stevej Dunno about Arc but Clojure looks pretty enticing. For a Lisp.
2178. 2008-12-18 07:14 The deletionists are after Rohit Khare over at Wikipedia. A good time for defenders to pitch in.
2179. 2008-12-18 07:21 Fast sleep: http://tinyurl.com/3quqhp
2180. 2008-12-18 18:04 Clonedroid roundup: http://tinyurl.com/4hydn5
2181. 2008-12-18 18:47 Wondering why I don't see "Sync with google" like it shows in the screen shot here: http://is.gd/n8T
2182. 2008-12-18 21:11 Wondering what @brentsimmons is doing in Ruby
2183. 2008-12-18 21:13 Retweet @sbfaulkner - http://tinyurl.com/668fj6
2184. 2008-12-18 21:17 My unlocked developer G1 showed up. Do I have to do an unboxing blog piece?
2185. 2008-12-18 23:42 Tweeting from the dev G1
2186. 2008-12-18 23:59 Best Android Twitter client?
2187. 2008-12-19 04:28 @headius I stage-managed Rush on two occasions. I have stories...
2188. 2008-12-19 04:29 @timoreilly Write a coupla Ajax bugs and a few perl scripts
2189. 2008-12-19 04:32 Have transferred my mobile life to the Android G1. Now what happens when the app I'm writing bricks it?
2190. 2008-12-19 05:28 Occasionally concerted civic effort works. Heart-warming: http://www.francesbula.com/?p=803
2191. 2008-12-19 05:33 Why I'm working on Android not iPhone: http://tinyurl.com/5ghhhn
2192. 2008-12-19 05:48 Imagine this in the hands of someone with artistic talent: http://tinyurl.com/3t9pbz
2193. 2008-12-19 07:25 Android Diary I: http://tinyurl.com/4vdau7
2194. 2008-12-19 17:46 Trying SpanningSync
2195. 2008-12-19 18:01 Hmm, SpanningSync has now been "Sending data to Google..." for a looooooooooong time. Not a good start.
2196. 2008-12-19 18:50 @spanningsync Yeah, but the SS prefs window won't even show up... I have the great mother of all .ics files.
2197. 2008-12-20 05:53 @dysinger You've got root on the device if you need it without hacking I believe. In my case, the $200 option isn't available in Canada.
2198. 2008-12-20 19:21 W00t - via Connectbot, ssh'ing from my G1 to the world. Next step, ssh into the phone.
2199. 2008-12-20 23:07 On hold with support.
2200. 2008-12-21 15:17 Real-world open-source culture issues: http://tinyurl.com/9br449
2201. 2008-12-21 20:24 28 below on the trans-Canada in Saskatchewan
2202. 2008-12-22 16:45 Online from rural Saskatchewan via "Sasktel Wireless Internet", no idea what the technology actually is. Wimax?
2203. 2008-12-22 16:49 @gilesgoatboy What's your Atom/RSS issue? It's supposed to be simple.
2204. 2008-12-22 19:42 @gilesgoatboy There's pretty good interop among specialized feedreaders; browser feedreading implementations are 2nd-rate generally.
2205. 2008-12-22 19:43 @pulsewidth Near Esterhazy. I looked at the modem and it said "Arris". The Sasktel site is entirely opaque as to the underlying tech.
2206. 2008-12-22 21:02 The "slow town" movement: http://thetyee.ca/News/2008/12/22/Idea1/
2207. 2008-12-23 03:07 @gilesgoatboy On subset: http://is.gd/1M7P and http://is.gd/d3Td and http://is.gd/d3TU may help. Feedreaders like NetNewsWire interop fine.
2208. 2008-12-23 03:50 Clear cold thinking on the current Middle East state of play: http://tinyurl.com/9pcfcn
2209. 2008-12-23 03:52 @ndw Oh shit. Not six hours ago I started wiring HttpClient into my Android stuff. Please say you were wrong.
2210. 2008-12-23 04:50 Retweet @dlemen "Loaded 950 MP3s in abt 17 mins and threw brand new USB stick in the wash cycle." That's what I call product verification.
2211. 2008-12-23 05:44 Spent like two hours trudging through HTTPClient 4 JavaDocs, could have saved 100 minutes or so if I'd found first http://is.gd/d561 - sigh
2212. 2008-12-23 21:41 On Internet addiction: http://tinyurl.com/a5dxr9
2213. 2008-12-24 05:05 More Android Diary: http://tinyurl.com/4vdau7
2214. 2008-12-24 05:09 On the sofa next to my chair a large dog is snoring gently. This is surprisingly relaxing.
2215. 2008-12-26 15:19 Trog and Twi's WGB Christmas Special: http://tinyurl.com/8bkb95
2216. 2008-12-26 23:17 Leftover turkey FTW
2217. 2008-12-27 00:38 Make Your Own Presents: http://tinyurl.com/9jvyem
2218. 2008-12-27 02:18 Jeepers, Vancouver's getting hammered. Sort of sorry to be away and thus not part of the story.
2219. 2008-12-27 06:02 I took altogether too many pictures of snow. I'm at Mom's, away from my Mac Pro meat-grinder; thus editing them down to a sane # is painful.
2220. 2008-12-27 06:08 I have become a Pentax lens-Otaku victim, first class. While shopping for sensor wipes, the 50-135 leapt in front of me: http://is.gd/dEVP
2221. 2008-12-27 15:47 Israel's bombing the crap out of Gaza. That'll shut down the rocket attacks for sure. It's always worked in the past, right?
2222. 2008-12-27 16:44 @hananc After you've shown them who's stronger, then you can go back to work on the unrelated problem of stopping the rockets.
2223. 2008-12-28 06:17 My code just did something nontrivial on the Android emulator. W00t. Now for the real hardware...
2224. 2008-12-28 06:24 Double w00t... I plugged the phone in and by some magic the app got installed and ran. Android FTW.
2225. 2008-12-28 14:40 @Scobleizer is surprised that a meaty chunk of text "got 12x more traffic than my two video posts". I'm not. It's about time and attention.
2226. 2008-12-28 17:00 Mambo #5... get yer Sunday morning going: http://tinyurl.com/67bxe2
2227. 2008-12-28 19:58 Clear thinking on the Gaza disaster: http://tinyurl.com/7uyqo8
2228. 2008-12-28 21:19 Android Diary: Programming n00b: http://tinyurl.com/6sty3t
2229. 2008-12-28 22:47 @rww When people say a show is great, rent it on DVD 2 years later. Much more convenient.
2230. 2008-12-29 14:24 Last Monday of 2009. Can we do better next year please?
2231. 2008-12-30 02:50 Railgate, A to Z - juicy BC political trash: http://thetyee.ca/News/2008/12/29/Railgate/
2232. 2008-12-30 04:40 Damn nice to be back in Vancouver. Even if my neighborhood is ensconced in a couple of feet of hardening slush.
2233. 2008-12-30 05:04 I find a sick fascination in reading Mark Pilgrim's "This Week in HTML5" posts, e.g. http://tinyurl.com/9ruzgs
2234. 2008-12-30 19:06 @ryanaraine I've had good luck with SATech: http://www.satech.com/
2235. 2008-12-30 19:09 I have to say that SpanningSync, so far, Just Works. Zero-admin 3-way sync G1/AddressBook.app/iCal/gmail/gcal.
2236. 2008-12-30 19:25 And now I will figure out how to display a map programmatically on the G1. Can't be that hard.
2237. 2008-12-30 19:52 Damn, it's quiet.
2238. 2008-12-30 20:15 Developing bleeding-edge geosensitive mobile apps still seems to involve debugging with System.err.println(). Somehow I expected more.
2239. 2008-12-30 21:11 In my hand is a G1. On the G1 is a map my program launched. The march of progress is inexorable.
2240. 2008-12-30 22:05 @AdoramaPix Let us know if/when the camera shop comes online.
2241. 2008-12-30 22:59 @Carnage4Life Pretty simple with Python or Ruby or some such; just very basic HTTP calls.
2242. 2008-12-31 03:19 Good mileage, my ass. Literally: http://tinyurl.com/ayqv7l
2243. 2008-12-31 04:42 @codinghorror The solution is, just don't use a database. Nasty pernicious things.
2244. 2008-12-31 05:23 Android java poetry: Point point = new Point(); Paint paint = new Paint();
2245. 2008-12-31 07:10 Android programming proving dangerously addictive.
2246. 2008-12-31 08:14 For those asking: Will write up the Android experience on my blog.
2247. 2008-12-31 17:09 Whooshing sounds has its own website: http://whooshingsounds.net/
2248. 2009-01-01 16:54 New Years' Day waffles & U2's War, loud. The guitar break on "New Year's Day" is one of the top ten ever. Rock & roll en famille FTW.
2249. 2009-01-01 16:57 Quiet NY eve. Got my Android app demo-able with 30 min left in 2008. Today, party! Assuming guests can mush through the slush.
2250. 2009-01-01 18:13 CBC's lead story: Weather everywhere in Canada really crappy: http://tinyurl.com/7pvp7h
2251. 2009-01-02 08:57 Spent 2 hours of quality time figuring out how to connect 2 pts with a gently curved line on the Android. Looks great. Trigonometry FTW.
2252. 2009-01-02 08:59 Does "Support OpenID" mean "Accept OpenIDs" or "Provide OpenIDs" or both? Clarity would help here.
2253. 2009-01-02 09:08 Have a drink: http://tinyurl.com/7qba6k
2254. 2009-01-02 19:06 Hmm... finance world buzzing with NetApp acquisition rumors.
2255. 2009-01-02 22:45 Android Diary - Demo-Ware: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/01/01/FeedMapper
2256. 2009-01-02 22:55 @brentsimmons Add to NNW wish list: Android version.
2257. 2009-01-03 00:25 @anilsrivastava The rumors don't say...
2258. 2009-01-03 06:31 Android Diary - How to draw a curved line: http://tinyurl.com/9d75zs
2259. 2009-01-03 22:42 Loafing in front of the NFL playoff game writing Android code on my laptop, cat jammed into lap too. Life is quite OK, thank you.
2260. 2009-01-03 23:48 Presumably it can't go on snowing forever.
2261. 2009-01-04 21:13 Does the "Open Handset Alliance" actually exist as an organization, other than a bunch of companies waving a flag?
2262. 2009-01-04 21:19 Typographical and photographic elegance: http://www.thephotographicdictionary.org/home.html
2263. 2009-01-05 01:52 Can't help thinking that Israel is doing exactly what Hamas wants them to.
2264. 2009-01-05 01:56 @nelson Daydream Nation and Washing Machine, ah... Saw 'em open for <gasp> Neil Young once. The audience was puzzled.
2265. 2009-01-05 03:27 Another wave of appalling weather hits Vancouver. Not that any of you really care <snif>.
2266. 2009-01-05 03:49 Hey look, @dervalah is here!
2267. 2009-01-05 04:50 Latest chunk of Android anecdotery: http://tinyurl.com/8s5s92
2268. 2009-01-05 04:53 Hah, FreeBSD kernel integrates DTrace: http://tinyurl.com/9pe9qt - must revisit FreeBSD...
2269. 2009-01-05 06:57 Cow Hair (really): http://tinyurl.com/9u568m
2270. 2009-01-05 07:42 Snow Bitching: http://tinyurl.com/7kfkxz
2271. 2009-01-05 09:02 "If it doesn’t rain all night, we are in trouble": http://www.francesbula.com/?p=891
2272. 2009-01-05 09:06 OK, this is getting seriously out of control: http://tinyurl.com/7ulk5t
2273. 2009-01-05 09:08 ... and it's still snowing like hell. NOT THAT ANYONE FUCKING CARES. http://www.youtube.com/user/TransLinkInfo
2274. 2009-01-05 18:17 Alarm went off at the usual time. Took me till 10AM to get things dug out enough to get the working week started. Rain now please.
2275. 2009-01-05 18:45 Yow... Al Jazeera has a live video feed out of Gaza: http://tinyurl.com/5fo2ot
2276. 2009-01-05 19:14 Wow, Jazeera is good. People they interview are partisan, but in between, level-headed well-placed journos behind the lines on both sides.
2277. 2009-01-06 04:14 Well, that's one way to progress networking technology: http://www.ipv6experiment.com/
2278. 2009-01-06 05:02 @dewitt If you describe it clearly and open-source a validator, nobody will feel the lack of a schema.
2279. 2009-01-06 05:25 Gmail offline offline for me. Hmmm.
2280. 2009-01-06 05:41 @dewitt I suggest well-written English prose. You just can't beat it. Especially when you have a validator to backstop. Seriously.
2281. 2009-01-06 05:41 Retweet @dervalah "My faith in children, Germans, and love is restored. http://tinyurl.com/92cefs"
2282. 2009-01-06 07:25 @dewitt Yes, that's one of the luxuries using XML buys you. But I'm unconvinced that a schema-lang analogue for JSON would be worthwhile.
2283. 2009-01-06 07:27 Hah, my Android app now has error-handling and popups and other GUI sugar. Cost: nother couple hundred lines of Java.
2284. 2009-01-06 07:49 Um, are there any geotagged feeds on Flickr? There are feeds but I see no locational info in them. Looking in the wrong place?
2285. 2009-01-06 08:30 Wow, official IDF spokespeople appear on Al-Jazeera. Increasingly feeling that if you're not following AJ, you're not getting the Gaza story
2286. 2009-01-06 08:41 Tentacle Grape: http://tinyurl.com/9fzdva
2287. 2009-01-06 19:54 @paco36 Consider an Android instead, as a bet on radically open architectures. Plus it's a pretty nice phone.
2288. 2009-01-06 19:56 The bloody WWW is radically "service-oriented". SOA lives but SOAP/WSDL bloatware died 18 months ago. Now, mainstream analysts are noticing.
2289. 2009-01-06 19:59 Smart remarks on Gaza: http://tinyurl.com/7o9vx9
2290. 2009-01-06 19:59 Smart remarks on Gaza background: http://tinyurl.com/72w45u
2291. 2009-01-06 20:00 More smart remarks on Gaza commentators: http://tinyurl.com/8w2dn2
2292. 2009-01-09 01:17 Pentax's white SLR, coolio: http://tinyurl.com/9bdft3
2293. 2009-01-09 01:43 Donkeys boost Ethiopian literacy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7777560.stm
2294. 2009-01-09 03:44 Yow, Skype on a ton of Javaphones & Android.
2295. 2009-01-09 05:57 JMMMDD: https://developerdays.dev.java.net/nonav/overview.html - wish I could go
2296. 2009-01-09 08:13 Gaza linkfest: http://tinyurl.com/796xpy
2297. 2009-01-09 20:02 Oops, don't type "sudo gem update" when your machine's already busy.
2298. 2009-01-10 03:04 Sometimes, that "Seven Nation Army" riff gets stuck in your head and there's nothing you can do about it.
2299. 2009-01-10 06:17 @codinghorror Rails/Django pay a pretty severe price for generality/convience. It's a good trade-off. But if you code to the bare metal...
2300. 2009-01-10 06:22 @timoreilly I almost pulled the trigger once on a 7 Pillars of Wisdom Subscribers' Edition. Serious money, that.
2301. 2009-01-10 21:41 Crosbow, nifty stuff, wish I'd had it back in the day: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow/
2302. 2009-01-10 22:26 What chance, I wonder, that the Watchmen movie will avoid complete lameness?
2303. 2009-01-11 02:22 Another who thinks Ayman Mohyeldin is the #1 hero of the Gaza war: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054282.html
2304. 2009-01-11 05:43 Bimonthly hour on Facebook done. It's my fault I think, not FB's; my mind just isn't shaped that way. The ads were all for part-time jobs...
2305. 2009-01-11 06:07 Bono is now a NYTimes columnest. First outing not bad: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/opinion/11bono.html
2306. 2009-01-11 06:47 IDF says they think they've got 300 or so Hamas fighters. Total dead around 700. Thousands wounded. Rockets still being fired. What next?
2307. 2009-01-11 17:41 The truth bout multi-touch and the Android G1: http://tinyurl.com/7nc8qs
2308. 2009-01-11 21:13 Another way to lose faith: http://tinyurl.com/8vkskt
2309. 2009-01-11 21:38 I suspect @secrettweet is partly staged. They're too sharp, too good, not boring/mundane enough to be real.
2310. 2009-01-11 21:47 @tenderlove Man, that's been a vexed question for years. You want to ask @laurendw (who isn't on at the moment).
2311. 2009-01-12 04:39 "The Credible Promise to be Recless" remarkable - http://tinyurl.com/8xqasx
2312. 2009-01-12 04:48 @gnat As a phone, the G1 is really very good. Plus it seems wrong at this point in history to invest in a centrally-controlled ecosystem.
2313. 2009-01-12 04:54 RT @airdrie : Wunder Boner. http://tinyurl.com/8zotfz//failblog.org/2009/01/02/commercial-fail/
2314. 2009-01-12 08:06 Latest Android Diary chapter: http://tinyurl.com/9fjflp
2315. 2009-01-12 08:39 The Old Testament: http://tinyurl.com/a2ecq8
2316. 2009-01-12 18:04 @KathySierra So many orgs haven't taken that essential first step: Start listening. Lots more steps after, but that starting place matters.
2317. 2009-01-12 21:28 Australia denying MySQL people visitors' visas because of "unfair competition"... WTF!?!? http://is.gd/fzV8
2318. 2009-01-12 21:43 It's nice when @scobleizer writes serious analytical pieces. Excellent stuff on the mobile market: http://is.gd/fAwE
2319. 2009-01-12 21:48 Agreed that the MySQL/Aus story seems wacko on the face of it. Am asking around.
2320. 2009-01-12 23:13 Running a little script to find out how many of my followers are "active", as in posted in last 60 days. I should run a pool on the answer.
2321. 2009-01-12 23:27 How Many Followers, Really? http://tinyurl.com/ay7ht8
2322. 2009-01-12 23:30 @snoopdave None on weekdays. On weekends, a judgment call. He'd Wii all day if we let him.
2323. 2009-01-13 01:18 RT @brianaker Cool job working on Drizzle: http://tinyurl.com/8twj79
2324. 2009-01-13 01:46 @MMaryMary Our 9-yr-old boy shows no interest in the computer aside from games. Prob because that's what makes Mom&Dad boring. Girl only 2½.
2325. 2009-01-13 04:30 @rtomayko It'd be easier if the RFC in question was made with xml2rfc and you could get the source (which you probably can if it was).
2326. 2009-01-13 06:16 Mobile Gold: http://tinyurl.com/8q6ym9
2327. 2009-01-13 07:16 @al3x Hah... I see your Cure fanboi splash and raise you: http://is.gd/fEjA
2328. 2009-01-13 17:38 Alternate app store for Android. http://www.phoload.com/android What a concept, multiple app sources for a mobile device...
2329. 2009-01-13 18:01 "Anti-science website on verge of being named Best Science Blog" http://is.gd/fJ9a
2330. 2009-01-13 20:11 Now *that's* a flame: http://tinyurl.com/8dhf3g
2331. 2009-01-13 21:34 Keep an eye on Gearman, essential stuff: http://www.gearmanproject.org/doku.php
2332. 2009-01-13 21:58 Not sure what it's about, but the guitar is good: http://tinyurl.com/75qtgl
2333. 2009-01-13 22:01 Heh, this product has had 5 names, now called "Open Web Server", bsd-licensed: http://tinyurl.com/8vfwlt
2334. 2009-01-13 22:04 Interesting job, interesting hiring process: http://krow.livejournal.com/630177.html
2335. 2009-01-13 22:19 Getting serious about Web-stackery; 1.4 Release notes at http://is.gd/fLGR and download at http://is.gd/fLH8
2336. 2009-01-14 01:26 The hard-line view on Gaza: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1055240.html
2337. 2009-01-14 01:27 Rapidly growing weary of the posturing surrounding the various blogging awards.
2338. 2009-01-14 01:36 @shita What's surprising is they admit the cause of the delay.
2339. 2009-01-14 01:48 @shita Trying to imagine a fight breaking out on the Tokyo subway. Weird.
2340. 2009-01-14 06:15 Raw Gaza video, CC-licensed: http://tinyurl.com/88ta5c - needs a composer to write a soundtrack. A sad one, obviously.
2341. 2009-01-14 06:25 Wanna hear what a real (not movie) urban firefight sounds like? Day 15 video, at 3:30 or so: http://tinyurl.com/88ta5c
2342. 2009-01-14 06:49 Pondering whether to use SQLite or just the filesystem for persisting simple sorta-tabular data in my Android app. Leaning to filesystem.
2343. 2009-01-14 06:58 There might be up to a few hundred records. So SQLite it is, I think.
2344. 2009-01-14 06:58 I'm too stingy to use an RDBMS in my blog system that serves ~250G/month. But in my phone in my pocket, well, yep, let's do it.
2345. 2009-01-14 07:41 Djangirov, too many notes, not enough soul. But then I couldn't stand Oscar Peterson either. That's heresy for a Canadian.
2346. 2009-01-14 08:12 Yow... Qt now LGPL. But is it too late?
2347. 2009-01-14 08:14 @gnat You mention McCoy Tyner. Plays lots of notes, but no soul deficit. Big pounding dissonant chords FTW.
2348. 2009-01-14 08:24 @gnat Chick is a Xenu victim but has made some good music, e.g. "Light as a Feather". Bela is cheerfully virtuosic, can't help liking him.
2349. 2009-01-14 18:51 Reviewing CommunityOne submissions. Are there ever a lot.
2350. 2009-01-14 21:59 Tripit is really really very very good.
2351. 2009-01-14 23:31 Java needs attr_reader and friends.
2352. 2009-01-14 23:34 @DaveO On Android, res/values/strings.xml Just Works. Come to the Dark Side...
2353. 2009-01-15 00:03 Android's internal use of URIs is, um, er, idiosyncratic.
2354. 2009-01-15 00:22 Has been staring at http://code.google.com/android/devel/data/contentproviders.html for an embarrassingly long time.
2355. 2009-01-15 01:20 War as child's play: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1055574.html
2356. 2009-01-15 01:40 @morrildl May take a couple days to write the code & develop a basis for an opinion; other things than Android on the plate too.
2357. 2009-01-15 02:51 Mind-boggling BASE jumping video: http://is.gd/e0GO
2358. 2009-01-15 04:56 Trying to learn to crimp RJ45's. Harder than I thought.
2359. 2009-01-15 05:01 Arbitrary SQL "WHERE" constructs make me nervous. Thus, so does Android's ContentProvider.
2360. 2009-01-15 06:04 "Tibetan OpenOffice.Org L10N pootle project launched" - http://tinyurl.com/axquv7
2361. 2009-01-15 17:38 "Application Architectures for the Cloud" even with the fashion-victim name, sounds like a great talk: http://is.gd/g0Lf
2362. 2009-01-15 18:30 Dana Blankenhorn on telecom reality: http://tinyurl.com/78bthx
2363. 2009-01-15 19:43 Ahh... a database for Real Men: http://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html
2364. 2009-01-15 19:50 To those pronouncing that Apple (one of the most opaque orgs in the world) Will Be Just Fine or Will Die: Nobody knows. Deal with it.
2365. 2009-01-15 21:25 The drama in HTML5-land never stops: http://intertwingly.net/blog/2009/01/15/Grandiosity
2366. 2009-01-15 21:31 OMG picture, landing on water http://www.flickr.com/photos/natekoechley/3199284739/
2367. 2009-01-15 22:17 And... Wikipedia's been updated: http://tinyurl.com/8eufen
2368. 2009-01-15 23:40 I've been doing this a long time. But oddly, my first experience doing SQL from Java. Extremely suckalickous. People do this for a living?
2369. 2009-01-16 04:14 Uh guys, I don't think I'm gonna use Hibernate on my phone.
2370. 2009-01-16 04:15 Here it is, 2009, and I'm typing SQL statements into my telephone. This is not quite the future I'd imagined.
2371. 2009-01-16 05:38 So, I can have Debian on my phone if I want it. The question's not rhetorical, it'd be neat but... so what? http://is.gd/g3ty
2372. 2009-01-16 05:55 @stevej Welcome to the Dark Side.
2373. 2009-01-16 07:49 @mezzoblue Where can you get that beer?
2374. 2009-01-16 18:18 How to shut down a computer: http://tinyurl.com/8wd5pl
2375. 2009-01-16 19:56 SQLiteQueryBuilder is eating my brain.
2376. 2009-01-16 21:24 William Gibson's back to blogging quite regularly, he's a good link-hound: http://tinyurl.com/8zju5o
2377. 2009-01-16 21:44 Vancouver's Main St., between say 6th & 28th, has a lot of really good places to eat lunch. I mean a whole lot.
2378. 2009-01-17 00:35 Does RFC3986 specify a regular language? http://cmsmcq.com/mib/?p=306
2379. 2009-01-17 01:28 Now, if I can just hook up my own ContentProvider to a consumer... oops, time to feed the kids.
2380. 2009-01-17 05:36 @headius Just think of all the coding you'll be able to do, immobilized with a broken leg.
2381. 2009-01-17 06:32 Fogbound: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/01/16/Fog
2382. 2009-01-17 07:45 Up against my first total roadblock in Android. Oh well. Let's see if a little whiskey and a lot of sleep help. Failing that, the source...
2383. 2009-01-17 22:02 So, I guess Israeli troops are going to be camped in Gaza semi-permanently. How nice for them.
2384. 2009-01-17 22:22 Where To Write? · Maybe not so much on Twitter. http://tinyurl.com/9sjmec
2385. 2009-01-17 22:34 There are things showing up in twitter.com/replies that totally aren't. Just me?
2386. 2009-01-18 00:12 @al3x I'm totally on your side; I hope Twitter makes big money and lodges permanently in the infrastructure. It's reasonable to worry though
2387. 2009-01-18 02:10 Making carbonara. Arteries, brace yourselves.
2388. 2009-01-18 16:30 Hah! Jython on the Android: http://tinyurl.com/9nubvx
2389. 2009-01-18 18:43 Twidroid seems quite OK. But the plain web interface is just fine on the G1 too.
2390. 2009-01-18 21:13 Wondering how the NFL is going to pay the bills if GM goes bankrupt and can't buy all the ads. Not that I'd miss the lame stupid ads.
2391. 2009-01-18 21:28 Lots of work going on in federated μ-blogging; links building up at http://tinyurl.com/9sjmec
2392. 2009-01-19 08:55 A totally beautiful little story by Roseanne Cash: http://tinyurl.com/86ewby
2393. 2009-01-19 23:41 Heading off to cloud interop session... First trip o' the year, sigh.
2394. 2009-01-20 06:30 San Jose at 10:30. What a happenin' place.
2395. 2009-01-20 06:32 Maybe this is rude, but: Being mysterious on Twitter (bright or dark) is lame
2396. 2009-01-20 17:42 The multicolored hotel staff and business travelers gathered at the lobby TV & cheered unaffectedly; impossible to be unmoved.
2397. 2009-01-20 19:40 Hah! The new Whitehouse.gov feed is, of course, Atom 1.0: http://tinyurl.com/9aw45s
2398. 2009-01-21 01:18 Obama more popular than sex. Evidence: http://tinyurl.com/9bj6kn
2399. 2009-01-21 16:10 Da Vinci marches on: http://tinyurl.com/9ptelm
2400. 2009-01-21 18:04 Complicated inauguration: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/01/21/Inauguration
2401. 2009-01-21 20:40 Trying to figure out what Fire Eagle is for
2402. 2009-01-21 22:00 Reviewing cloud API specs.
2403. 2009-01-22 00:21 Beginning to think it'd be a good idea to nationalize the big, teetering banks right now today rather than after a few more months bleeding.
2404. 2009-01-22 00:27 @crazybob G1 minijack adapters are sold out in the whole of Silicon Valley, I discovered yesterday. Hope that's a symptom of good G1 sales.
2405. 2009-01-22 00:29 Partial RT @zeldman to steal phrase "buying cut-rate non-semantic HTML", too good to pass up.
2406. 2009-01-22 00:48 @Nouriel It's arguably in poor taste to refer to yourself in the 3rd person like that.
2407. 2009-01-22 00:49 RT @br3nda 'i don't know the maori word for "klingon". help?'
2408. 2009-01-22 01:03 Hah, I hear that Ted Nelson disses me by name in his latest book. I'm honored. Seriously.
2409. 2009-01-22 03:43 Ultra-cool camera: http://tinyurl.com/b784m4
2410. 2009-01-22 04:33 Family email: " Great start to the new year: cash money and dead vermin."
2411. 2009-01-22 04:47 @brianherman Panasonic G1 is the most interesting camera of the last couple of years. Makes me wish I were shopping.
2412. 2009-01-22 05:09 $1,000,000 Theatre: http://tinyurl.com/b8aaxh
2413. 2009-01-22 07:03 WTF NetSol is redirecting my parked domains to their own ad-laden pages?!? This seems egregious.
2414. 2009-01-22 08:06 Cloud Interop Session: http://tinyurl.com/bmjbaf
2415. 2009-01-22 08:39 Fog, then Steam: http://tinyurl.com/cea4fy
2416. 2009-01-22 08:49 Looks like I'm gong to Hong Kong next month, haven't been since '95 or so.
2417. 2009-01-22 16:02 Gonna be one of those days.
2418. 2009-01-22 16:46 NewsGator is asking weird: http://tinyurl.com/b636l9
2419. 2009-01-22 18:10 @SaraD You have brains and energy and an open mind, you'll do OK. Feel free to ask for help/intros/plugs.
2420. 2009-01-22 18:15 NNW was acting jammed-up and weird; couldn't kick it into shape. Installing a minor-version update seems to have restored sanity.
2421. 2009-01-22 22:42 Some awfully raw reporting out of Gaza from the BBC: http://tinyurl.com/cg4l3x
2422. 2009-01-22 22:45 Having trouble focusing. Don't think I'm alone.
2423. 2009-01-22 23:05 Searched twitter for "interop" thinking I'd find cloud stuff. Snicker. http://tinyurl.com/dnczf7
2424. 2009-01-22 23:48 Stray Sunbeam: Dave Johnson http://tinyurl.com/d9qwy7
2425. 2009-01-22 23:48 Exiting Sun? Let me know when you're ready for something new and I'll do linkage.
2426. 2009-01-23 01:52 What’s “Cloud Interop”? http://tinyurl.com/alszdu
2427. 2009-01-23 01:55 The Difference Engine: http://tinyurl.com/d8wmuf
2428. 2009-01-23 01:58 @RussB That Nokia hardware is so slick. If only it ran Android...
2429. 2009-01-23 19:44 Going to Hong Kong (yay) week of Feb 10 but only for 3 days (sob).
2430. 2009-01-24 00:30 I'm looking at a funny part of the Unicode charts: ♨ ⚕ ⚛ ⚤ ⚰ ⚧ ⚘
2431. 2009-01-24 01:41 Plan B for the Middle East: http://tinyurl.com/arwggj
2432. 2009-01-24 03:47 @rcousine Heh... I also can't stand Mushroom Gorge & am OK with Rainbow Road. But Luigi Circuit, how can you dislike that? Drift to the max
2433. 2009-01-24 22:48 OK, following @fluidDB, a cheap bet on Terry's castle in the sky: http://bit.ly/bezc
2434. 2009-01-24 22:49 @dewitt Ditto. There has to be another way, because those passwords are real ammo, not blanks.
2435. 2009-01-25 05:06 Not easy being green: http://tinyurl.com/bpe7vw
2436. 2009-01-25 05:40 Robot Jockeys: http://tinyurl.com/5gvzkh
2437. 2009-01-25 05:53 Wow, Berdych (Czech 23-year-old) has Federer 2 sets down in the Aussie open.
2438. 2009-01-25 06:51 @webmink telling me about his wonderful EeePC; I noticed the specs were almost identical to G1 phone. Blurring lines...
2439. 2009-01-25 07:00 Exalead: your bot is moronic. Welcome to my robots.txt shit-list
2440. 2009-01-25 16:43 Interesting piece on the military realities of Gaza: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1058460.html
2441. 2009-01-26 01:39 A solid if short day of sunshine in Vancouver. I pruned the magnolia thus am happy. Also a rare home-improvement triumph: eavestrough fixed.
2442. 2009-01-26 06:51 @shita If Cairo is "successful", I wonder what is considered "unsuccessful"?
2443. 2009-01-26 07:47 Grumbledroid: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/01/25/GrumbleDroid
2444. 2009-01-26 07:58 Yawwwn. OK, let's try to make something of this year. It's not too late.
2445. 2009-01-26 17:18 Along with QLayer, we seem to have picked up "PyMonkey"; interesting approach: http://www.pymonkey.org/confluence/display/PM/Home
2446. 2009-01-26 21:41 Stray Sunbeam: Lauren Wood - http://tinyurl.com/abr7s5
2447. 2009-01-26 21:46 Wow, lots of Android books (http://is.gd/hjLG), glad to see the prags have one (http://is.gd/Tbc)
2448. 2009-01-26 22:09 This story is horrifying. The comments are worse: http://tinyurl.com/bz2ssy
2449. 2009-01-26 22:55 @codinghorror The counterexample of Northern Ireland proves you wrong, thank goodness.
2450. 2009-01-27 01:29 Apple gets a patent on multi-touch? http://tinyurl.com/btoeph
2451. 2009-01-27 06:28 When @grader says "out of 1,101,437" is it claiming to have graded that many Twitter accounts?
2452. 2009-01-27 16:10 Spam in my @replies this morning. Reported to @spam, it'd be nice if this were a zero-tolerance zone.
2453. 2009-01-27 18:02 Strachan takes a deep look at Java Web goo, likes JAX-RS a whole lot. He's a smart guy: http://is.gd/hq3u
2454. 2009-01-27 19:01 Google is running pig-slow for me. This hasn't happened in years, wondering what's up.
2455. 2009-01-27 19:33 History possibly relevant to that multi-touch patent: http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html
2456. 2009-01-27 19:52 Exploring allegedly-REST interfaces with curl is only-slightly-malicious fun.
2457. 2009-01-27 21:18 Sun's Q2 earnings: http://tinyurl.com/chz324
2458. 2009-01-27 21:37 Stray Sunbeam: David Van Couvering. http://tinyurl.com/cpqm3x
2459. 2009-01-27 22:20 RT @laurendw: amused at linkedin creaking under the strain of all the recently laid-off updating their networks
2460. 2009-01-27 22:40 Cool. Android apps should not have an "exit" button. The system will harvest 'em when it needs to.
2461. 2009-01-27 22:41 @wseltzer @MaryHodder The medium may not *be* the message, but it sure influences it.
2462. 2009-01-28 05:40 Get yer lensporn here: http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/review/2009/01/13/9964.html (search forward for "0.95")
2463. 2009-01-28 20:49 Even after all these years, I sometimes find myself thinking that GNU Emacs is the coolest piece of software ever written.
2464. 2009-01-28 21:59 Colloquy (IRC client) makes hilarious sounds when people get booted from chatrooms.
2465. 2009-01-29 00:21 Outside briefly at 4:20. Neither particularly dark, nor cold, nor wet. There may be hope for 2009.
2466. 2009-01-29 00:40 Yow... display your live Android G1 screen on your computer: http://tinyurl.com/ae2jcb Way cool
2467. 2009-01-29 06:34 Hard Liquor and Porn Film Festival. Really. http://www.hardliquorandporn.com/
2468. 2009-01-29 08:41 Too Bright: http://tinyurl.com/atkbp5
2469. 2009-01-29 18:19 Dear Twitter: Please stop links opening in a new window. This is unfriendly behavior; I would prefer to manage my own windows.
2470. 2009-01-29 20:38 Just got a demo of the latest coolness cooking in the @dabbledb back-room. Web-heads will love it.
2471. 2009-01-29 20:49 Cannabis, Auschwitz, Israeli politics. No, I'm not kidding: http://is.gd/hCro
2472. 2009-01-29 22:24 Name-Value Pairs: http://tinyurl.com/cdr6zo
2473. 2009-01-29 22:27 MacBook Migration: http://tinyurl.com/czvqa3
2474. 2009-01-29 23:14 Reading the Engadget Apple-vs-Palm piece makes me think litigation by either side is very unlikely.
2475. 2009-01-30 03:06 @al3x I recommend physical blockage i.e. the good in-ear phones from Etymotics or Shure. A little pricy but astounding insulation from world
2476. 2009-01-30 19:31 "Mapping people, money, and land through airports" (hit "Larger map") http://is.gd/hQ1s
2477. 2009-01-30 19:58 "My new acronym: ROTFHAHA: ROTF, having a heart attack": http://tinyurl.com/bte8zk
2478. 2009-01-30 22:14 Twitter's great; enjoyable & useful when I do pay attention, but when I get real busy I don't feel bad about skipping a day's worth.
2479. 2009-01-30 22:15 @ndw There's been a noticeable twitter search since the start of the year. Rising tide floats all armadillos, etc.
2480. 2009-01-31 01:15 @pkedrosky Agreed on Top Gear. More than a little gender-specific, but well hey.
2481. 2009-01-31 07:53 Lensing (DA* 50-135mm F2.8 zoom): http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/01/30/Lensing
2482. 2009-01-31 16:39 Thinking there's a Pinax in my future.
2483. 2009-02-01 01:41 @brianaker Better question: Are there any Facebook apps which are any conceivable bloody use at all?
2484. 2009-02-01 09:25 I need sleep, but it's a privilege to be up watching Rafa & Roger.
2485. 2009-02-01 22:35 Pre-game as background video wallpaper. Except for the "My Generation" Pepsi ad made me want to puke. Shame on you Pete Townshend.
2486. 2009-02-02 04:38 I hadn't realized that my homegrown blogging setup was what @brentsimmons calls a "Static Website Generator": http://is.gd/i35v
2487. 2009-02-02 05:51 Maybe it's just because I'm old, but I sure enjoyed Bruce's little gig there.
2488. 2009-02-02 22:49 Trying to think of an excuse to go to the MySQL conference in April: http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2009/public/content/home
2489. 2009-02-02 23:03 Stray Sunbeam: Sara Dornsife: http://tinyurl.com/alqo6d
2490. 2009-02-03 06:38 Hah! @enterprisey
2491. 2009-02-03 08:19 "Maybe I know too many executives and not enough ninjas." http://tinyurl.com/camawe
2492. 2009-02-03 19:54 Hey, Andi Gutmans gets the steering wheel at Zend. I've long thought Zend should do better than it has. Good luck Andi: http://is.gd/igj6
2493. 2009-02-03 20:03 The silver lining of downsizing; RT @estherschindler: "Look at it this way. The good news is that I no longer report to an asshole."
2494. 2009-02-03 22:24 On Apple's missing iPhone "push" service: Android experience seems to show that allowing backgrounded apps has limited/acceptable downside.
2495. 2009-02-04 05:53 twittering from the opera. Carmen mmmm delicious.
2496. 2009-02-04 07:47 There's one more performance of Carmen & if you're in Vancouver I totally recommend it. Outstanding show. http://www.vancouveropera.ca/
2497. 2009-02-04 18:23 "Man held after getting off a flight with live pigeons in his trousers" http://tinyurl.com/c2edsv
2498. 2009-02-04 18:40 Rinat Shaham sings Habanera. Saw her last night in Vancouver. Check it out: http://youtube.com/watch?v=OcnsMnRMN2U
2499. 2009-02-04 20:40 @psd Ooh I'd love to read that because I can't figure it out at all. Many of the players deserve some offending.
2500. 2009-02-04 20:46 @gillianshaw What happens at a "Twestival"?
2501. 2009-02-04 21:32 I'm editing a RESTful Cloud API in a Wiki. I positively glow with up-to-the-minute-ness. Wait, that was last year.
2502. 2009-02-04 22:31 Typocalypse: http://flickr.com/photos/larsveldkamp/sets/72157607710779069/
2503. 2009-02-05 08:13 Jeepers, I spent essentially the whole day grinding away on one wiki page and related arguments. Time for a small scotch.
2504. 2009-02-05 08:17 @brianaker Burn it to the ground and piss on the embers, I'm with ya. Chances are, of course, that it will be cosmically lame.
2505. 2009-02-05 09:11 Pseudobabyloniana. Just saying.
2506. 2009-02-05 16:10 I've always been ashamed to admit that I hate HTML templating: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001223.html
2507. 2009-02-05 22:20 Hmf. ~5% packet loss to the whole world. My ISP or just a Bad Internet Day?
2508. 2009-02-06 03:43 OK, I have to say, those new G buttons, as appearing on Gmail, are pretty slick.
2509. 2009-02-06 06:12 Enrich your life; take West African drumming lessons. In Vancouver, http://drumming.ca
2510. 2009-02-06 06:50 Remarkable photos of Iceland: http://tinyurl.com/btm25f
2511. 2009-02-06 07:49 @olabini My son is studying Mandarin and making remarkably fast progress. Of course, he's only nine years old.
2512. 2009-02-06 20:26 Yow.... using Erlang to manage PHP. This smells good to me: http://tinyurl.com/dxktj3
2513. 2009-02-09 07:02 @gnat You can get a shell if you have the IDE and a USB cable. Failing that, all I can think of is cycle the power.
2514. 2009-02-09 19:05 If I were playing the market I'd be short big-time. In @pkedrosky's short-ratio report people seem to think earnings won't decline further!?
2515. 2009-02-09 19:42 Amazon played the media and bloggers like a fiddle for the launch today. The PR orchestration is way more interesting than the product.
2516. 2009-02-09 21:32 @mikeloukides Does doing that make you feel dirty?
2517. 2009-02-09 23:12 Oooh, patent meltdown, FSF vs. IETF: http://tinyurl.com/blpa5c
2518. 2009-02-10 01:05 Life would be so impossible without wikis.
2519. 2009-02-10 01:32 The ethics of shooting people (and related subjects): http://northernvoice.pbwiki.com/PhotoCamp
2520. 2009-02-10 07:13 OK, it's sophmoric potty-mouth humor. And your point is? http://tinyurl.com/acm52y
2521. 2009-02-10 08:31 Heh, Amazon is offering 10% referral commission on the Kindle 2. That'll drive some linkbuzz methinks.
2522. 2009-02-10 17:30 A bunch of new "Scaling Rails" screencasts: http://tinyurl.com/ddblz8
2523. 2009-02-10 17:53 LazyWeb: What's a good book for a C/C++ weenie who wants to learn Java quick?
2524. 2009-02-10 18:07 The Aussies are hurting bad. Want to help? http://tinyurl.com/dd78ay
2525. 2009-02-10 19:56 About to take off for three days in Hong Kong. It's warm there, I hear.
2526. 2009-02-10 19:59 Is Hong Kong a good place to buy a new Netbook, ASUS or equiv? If so, where?
2527. 2009-02-10 20:38 A plurality feel tha Eckel's "Thinking In Java" is the place to start. 2nd choice: nutshell
2528. 2009-02-11 12:50 Snarl, trying to do the bare minimum of work before crashing in Hong Kong, and of course gmail slows to a crawl. Then breaks.
2529. 2009-02-11 22:03 Looking at http://jsonml.org/ - A lot of work's gone into this. I hope nobody ever has to use it.
2530. 2009-02-11 23:25 A big heavy important piece of writing: On Toast - http://tinyurl.com/d42a7g
2531. 2009-02-15 00:18 Back from HK, jet-lagged. Is that why Apple's arg that iPhone jailbreak is a criminal copyright violation makes no freaking sense?
2532. 2009-02-15 05:45 59 Photographers, 16 Countries, 1 Book: http://tinyurl.com/bctftc
2533. 2009-02-15 07:25 @duncan Fixed up your Wikipedia entry.
2534. 2009-02-15 22:36 Eight Pictures of 香港: http://tinyurl.com/ahqrl7
2535. 2009-02-16 00:43 Learning about "ships" and "shippers", another whole Internet sub-sub-sub-subculture.
2536. 2009-02-16 06:13 "We have used all our bullets, and the boogeyman is still coming." Nationalize banks now: http://is.gd/jr9y
2537. 2009-02-16 07:35 Would like to update my MacBook but it has 39 days uptime, can't bear to tell poor old OS X it can't keep on keepin' on.
2538. 2009-02-16 19:37 "Click to Flash" might lure me into Safari's arms: http://github.com/rentzsch/clicktoflash/tree/master Is there a Firefox equiv?
2539. 2009-02-16 19:57 @d2h Wow, that's beautiful bokeh.
2540. 2009-02-16 19:59 D'oh, turns out my existing browser (Camino) has optional flash blocking built-in.
2541. 2009-02-16 20:35 @anildash 1. Select all unread 2. Delete. 3. Wait for news that matters to find you.
2542. 2009-02-16 22:26 @rich_kilmer Hey, that's wonderful. Your life will never be the same.
2543. 2009-02-16 22:30 @davidascher Yeah, I've been wondering too. I think it's important that they see some high-quality response.
2544. 2009-02-16 22:59 Damn it Twitter, will you PLEASE stop opening new windows when I click on links in tweets? Please, please please?
2545. 2009-02-16 23:21 I guess Web Hooks are now officially the Next Big Thing.
2546. 2009-02-16 23:43 If example.net/switch represents an Big Red Switch that launches a rocket, Should I send a POST or a PUT to turn it on/off?
2547. 2009-02-17 18:59 I think it's OK to go on ignoring Haskell.
2548. 2009-02-17 19:03 Failing to find a plausible high-level interpretation for O'R heatmap of book sales by cat: http://is.gd/jR2a
2549. 2009-02-18 00:02 As an Atom co-conspirator, I'm not entirely happy that the world now prefers <link rel="foo" href="X"/> to <foo>X</foo>.
2550. 2009-02-18 03:14 OK, now that's a slick watch: http://tinyurl.com/advqn5
2551. 2009-02-18 03:27 Way cool that the iPhone, Android, & Palm developer paradigms are so radically different. A large-scale real-time SW engineering experiment.
2552. 2009-02-18 03:49 @kevinmarks Well, except for iPhone is ObjC/Cocoa and Android is a custom POJO framework.
2553. 2009-02-18 04:07 @morrildl Don't get your point. "Custom POJO" is an accurate way of distinguishing the Android approach. It's not a criticism.
2554. 2009-02-18 04:07 @kevinmarks The vibe seems to be that for a first-class app, on iPhone it's gotta be cocoa.
2555. 2009-02-18 04:29 LazyWeb: best screencast-with-voice tool for Mac?
2556. 2009-02-18 05:37 In my fair home city of Vancouver, gangsters are gunning each other down at the rate of one or two per week. I wonder if it can be stopped?
2557. 2009-02-18 17:29 The "hipster scum"-hate meme has arrived in our neighborhood. Not sure I get it. Fortunately, too old to be hip.
2558. 2009-02-18 19:51 Experimental Engineering: http://tinyurl.com/ag5eeh
2559. 2009-02-19 08:01 Gosh, I'm having Fun At Work. But it's midnight so I'll have fun with a book & glass of scotch instead.
2560. 2009-02-19 16:32 Eek... been thinking about a new MacBook, but keep hearing these reports about grotty screen quality, most recently Wired: http://is.gd/k7rZ
2561. 2009-02-19 16:58 Whichever PMO droid tweets for @pmharper is having fun.
2562. 2009-02-19 18:33 Ooh, extra-juicy HTML5 politics: http://tinyurl.com/dzse9q
2563. 2009-02-19 20:36 @chadfowler Wasn't going to come, but if there's jammin' to be had...
2564. 2009-02-19 22:10 Jeepers, Allen Stanford is facing *civil* charges? How much do you have to steal for it to be a crime? http://is.gd/k9Pq
2565. 2009-02-19 22:14 Prawo Jazdy, worst driver in Ireland. Hilarious: http://tinyurl.com/bte8c2
2566. 2009-02-19 23:07 Eek, I need to write a bunch of python code in a hurry, and I haven't for years. What reference must be on my desktop?
2567. 2009-02-20 03:20 @chadfowler And the polyps represent what?
2568. 2009-02-20 05:28 Photocamp 2009 tomorrow afternoon, I'm cranked: http://northernvoice.pbwiki.com/PhotoCamp
2569. 2009-02-20 17:49 At northern voice feeling warm glow of being in a room with 300 bloggers
2570. 2009-02-20 21:34 Another (serious) plan for economic relief: http://tinyurl.com/dxewhw
2571. 2009-02-20 21:40 Leslie Madsen-Brooks: "Mommy-bloggers get the fame and the fortune."
2572. 2009-02-21 03:18 Yow... for the big money, feeds are compulsory: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rssstimulus
2573. 2009-02-21 04:23 One of my fave Big Pictures ever (but no computer programmers!?!?): http://tinyurl.com/d7m62q
2574. 2009-02-21 17:35 One of the nice things about the BBC is that they have people with odd accents and idiosyncratic voices. CBC, not so much. #northernvoice09
2575. 2009-02-21 17:55 I wonder for how much longer you'll be able to get away with using the term "social media" unironically. #northernvoice09
2576. 2009-02-21 22:49 Delighted to find out that others find "Where the hell is Matt" occasionally transcendent. #northernvoice09
2577. 2009-02-22 07:36 I've been publishing photos since 2003. I thought I should finally explore Flickr. Uploading is slow.
2578. 2009-02-22 22:02 I finally succumbed to peer-group pressure; the existence of http://flickr.com/photos/timbray/ makes me a hip Web2.0 kinda guy, they say.
2579. 2009-02-23 08:32 Listening to Radio 3. It's awfully good. http://radio3.cbc.ca/
2580. 2009-02-23 08:54 On Media: http://tinyurl.com/c4e9j2
2581. 2009-02-23 09:25 Hah. Dropped a cheesy photo into the Wikipedia entry for @kk
2582. 2009-02-23 17:02 OAuth going to IETF. What happened to the "Open Web Foundation?
2583. 2009-02-23 19:50 Hmm, looks like Fuji's new dinky F200EXR may be actually usable at ISO1600: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0902/09022304f200exrgallery.asp
2584. 2009-02-23 21:42 @steveprattca Yer welcome; I touched on CBC3 in my conference write-up too: http://tinyurl.com/c4e9j2
2585. 2009-02-24 04:59 Serious Syndication: http://tinyurl.com/bl5ueb
2586. 2009-02-24 05:06 C1 in NY: http://tinyurl.com/bbroxj
2587. 2009-02-24 05:12 What? TechCrunch full of shit? Who knew? http://tinyurl.com/cp2ns2
2588. 2009-02-24 05:36 Gobs of Flash phlegm: http://tinyurl.com/b7basp
2589. 2009-02-24 16:25 Hah! JRuby on Android! http://tinyurl.com/b3swd5
2590. 2009-02-24 16:25 Hah! Rhino on Android! http://tinyurl.com/bun5e9
2591. 2009-02-24 18:55 Wow, the Pentax K20 now has to be the most bang for the buck in a DSLR, & it's a nice camera: http://bit.ly/5eCv6
2592. 2009-02-24 18:58 Hmm... one could become weary of the phrase "shovel-ready".
2593. 2009-02-24 19:26 You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much architecture: http://is.gd/kHTO
2594. 2009-02-24 20:51 RT @rachelchalmers: Architecture with no economic base: SOA is the Dubai of IT.
2595. 2009-02-24 20:52 On The Main in Vancouver, restaurants full for Tuesday lunch. Economic turmoil's gotta bite eventually...
2596. 2009-02-24 21:36 @gillianshaw Thinking we *really* ought to shut down the RCMP and start again. Surely we could do better.
2597. 2009-02-24 22:17 doubleTwist. Works on the Android, except for videos. Doesn't actually *do* much but has potential I think.
2598. 2009-02-24 23:05 Just verified, @headius' JRuby proof-of-concept android port works on the G1
2599. 2009-02-24 23:14 Cut/paste from a shell on my G1: irb(main):001:0> 3 + 4 => 7 irb(main):002:0>
2600. 2009-02-24 23:34 @jonlech Can't drop videos from iTunes
2601. 2009-02-25 01:15 Just encountered the "Lifeboat Foundation": Hmmm. https://lifeboat.com/ex/about
2602. 2009-02-25 05:36 Sigh. JRuby on Android can't get at the android.* classes, so no gps/telephony/wifi/camera. Smart people are looking at it.
2603. 2009-02-25 05:45 Sometimes you gotta follow someone you can't understand: @yukihiro_matz
2604. 2009-02-25 16:18 Yow, big Solaris OEM deal with HP: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/hp/index.jsp
2605. 2009-02-25 16:48 Why camera stores are going out of business in the golden age of photography: http://is.gd/kPuY
2606. 2009-02-25 19:03 Yes We Scan: The Committee to Reboot .gov: http://yeswescan.org/
2607. 2009-02-25 21:47 I guess Ruby is over; fun while it lasted. Everyone learn C#: http://tinyurl.com/d9fhfn
2608. 2009-02-25 21:48 @br3nda I thought you were supposed to steal death metal not buy it.
2609. 2009-02-25 22:57 Ouch $205 data roaming charges for <72 hrs in Hong Kong. That'll teach me.
2610. 2009-02-26 00:17 Are you an HPC dweeb in Canada? Catch Marc Hamilton's tour next month: http://ca.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/mar/hpcvl/
2611. 2009-02-26 00:43 @headius Some of us have vocations, not jobs.
2612. 2009-02-26 00:46 http://code.google.com/p/redis/wiki/README - mmm, I smell big fat 80/20 goodness.
2613. 2009-02-26 03:57 There's a book-length poem about Vancouver: http://thetyee.ca/Books/2009/02/26/Vancouver/
2614. 2009-02-26 03:58 Other really good book-length poems: Derek Walcott's "Omeros" and Vikram Seth's "The Golden Gate".
2615. 2009-02-26 08:45 @duncan The New Punk Portrait isn't working for me. Just a data point. Maybe a bit too much of Charlie-on-Lost.
2616. 2009-02-26 08:45 @Scobleizer I gotta say, Twitter mostly Just Works for me.
2617. 2009-02-26 18:57 Got a graffiti idea for the big West Bank wall? http://www.sendamessage.nl/
2618. 2009-02-26 18:58 On Paper: http://tinyurl.com/b8a2ja
2619. 2009-02-26 22:43 "If you're looking for a web framework on a strongly typed functional language and the JVM..." Lift 1.0: http://is.gd/l1CE
2620. 2009-02-27 00:26 Gosh, ad.yieldmanager.com's cert is out of date? That's awfully risky; no, browser, do *not* fetch it.
2621. 2009-02-27 20:26 My fluidized GMail is acting seriously weird, not transferring focus to browser when it should. Not usable. Not good. Maybe refluidize?
2622. 2009-02-27 21:00 Holy cow, CanWest teetering: http://tinyurl.com/b7jxe9
2623. 2009-02-28 05:29 "There are more pleasures in reading than just reading": http://tinyurl.com/d9ak35
2624. 2009-03-01 09:18 Single-Dad mode this weekend. 1 day down, one to go. It's tiring.
2625. 2009-03-01 09:28 Spent 82 minutes last night watching "Sita Sings the Blues". Wasn't wasted. http://is.gd/l6Pa
2626. 2009-03-01 23:23 If you're fortunate enough to live in a city by the sea, you should go visit the sea sometimes.
2627. 2009-03-01 23:32 @mezzoblue On the other hand, the dorky-plaid-hat for hipsters is at the peak of its regrettable fashion arc.
2628. 2009-03-02 00:01 I have 800 CDs I care enough about to rip. Was astounded to realize that that's less than 500G, lossless-encoded. I.e. a $109 HDD.
2629. 2009-03-02 01:13 Right at this moment, in Canada, there are a large number of extremely irritated curling fans. TSN is staying with the running-late NASCAR.
2630. 2009-03-02 02:12 @morrildl RAID-Z
2631. 2009-03-02 02:54 You want a *serious* sports event? The Canadian national women's curling championship, that's serious.
2632. 2009-03-02 04:20 @morrildl No. I don't say anything I don't believe. The amount of irritation zfs routes around is remarkable.
2633. 2009-03-02 04:55 Colorado Software Summit: http://tinyurl.com/adepfl
2634. 2009-03-02 18:23 Getting lots of "early discount extended" and "temporary price drop" emails from normally prestigious conferences.
2635. 2009-03-02 21:10 What Steve Vinoski's been doing in stealth mode, Verivue: http://www.verivue.com/
2636. 2009-03-02 22:09 Carl for Printer: http://tinyurl.com/bljz7m
2637. 2009-03-03 03:25 @bobdc RDF will be a huge success as soon as it comes with an instant right-now no-deferred-pleasure juicy payoff. Not before.
2638. 2009-03-03 05:53 Worrying when a computer you don't recognize shows up on your home network.
2639. 2009-03-03 06:48 @teich grab a cab to the Great Buddha, which is on the same island as the airport.
2640. 2009-03-03 06:49 Sunday at the Seaside: http://tinyurl.com/aav5mk
2641. 2009-03-03 06:51 @pkedrosky Been there done that: http://tinyurl.com/ba4tzq
2642. 2009-03-03 16:24 Yow, huge spike in twitter followers yesterday. Just me, or was Twitter generally having a good growth day?
2643. 2009-03-03 21:12 Editing a live page in web-space with vi. Next, I shall slay a mammoth with a stone-tipped spear.
2644. 2009-03-03 23:28 Man, Vancouver airport is quiet. Hurt everywhere.
2645. 2009-03-04 06:02 Really tired of headlines along the lines of "XXX losses worse than expected."
2646. 2009-03-04 16:34 Unless I'm imagining it, there's a significant performance boost in the most recent Lightroom update.
2647. 2009-03-05 03:06 I always said O/R mapping was a flawed idea: http://is.gd/lR5P
2648. 2009-03-05 07:48 @ramarob You call that a tough meeting? We're just getting started...
2649. 2009-03-05 07:56 Photography's greatest handicap: http://tinyurl.com/b4eaed
2650. 2009-03-05 16:15 @samruby is here!
2651. 2009-03-05 18:37 Thinking about unix command line pipes with JSON flowing through them. Someone must be doing this already.
2652. 2009-03-05 21:25 Ouch... New Yorker hates Watchmen: http://tinyurl.com/bktueq
2653. 2009-03-06 06:49 A "Wathmen" review that doesn't say it's terrible: http://thetyee.ca/Entertainment/2009/03/06/Watchmen/
2654. 2009-03-06 18:36 Typos that should be words: Impissoble.
2655. 2009-03-06 19:52 You know, Rack is really really a very good thing.
2656. 2009-03-06 20:12 Technically Silent: http://tinyurl.com/csvny3
2657. 2009-03-06 20:52 @KathySierra We'd be glad to have you back any time. Depth and graphics; exactly.
2658. 2009-03-06 21:45 Ah, sinking into NetBeans/Ruby after a few weeks in Eclipse/Android. It's nicer here.
2659. 2009-03-07 21:21 Thought-provoking piece from Dare Obasanjo; walk away from an underwater mortgage? http://is.gd/mjwX
2660. 2009-03-07 22:57 @pragdave I think that's maybe oversimplifying. It's a deep issue. And of course many don't have the luxury of choice.
2661. 2009-03-07 22:59 @ritam Here's the thing: Basically, all of the digicams are good.
2662. 2009-03-08 04:01 More extreme lens porn. Extremely extreme: http://is.gd/mly2
2663. 2009-03-08 09:00 Reading "Audacity of Hope". Title sucks but the book is actually remarkably good.
2664. 2009-03-08 09:02 @xmlgrrl I, like you, am cool to "Graphic Novels" AKA comics. That said, <cite>Watchmen</cite> (the book) is excellent.
2665. 2009-03-08 21:28 @PDML is back: http://tinyurl.com/6rsqvq
2666. 2009-03-09 16:48 Dear Internet: Too busy 2day 2talk. A demain.
2667. 2009-03-10 15:32 Important: Why rich clients are losing: http://tinyurl.com/ahtc3b
2668. 2009-03-11 06:21 Alternating wiki editing & Ruby bridge-building for about 72 hours now with brief sleep breaks. Brain squirming like a toad but not a killer
2669. 2009-03-11 06:23 Seems Twitter is still there even when I ignore it for several days. Thought-provoking. Insufficiently forceful solipsism?
2670. 2009-03-11 07:47 @MayorGregor Wow, they'll make time for *music* in among the incessant lame-ass jabbering? Pick something really Vancouver.
2671. 2009-03-11 07:54 Crocus weather: http://tinyurl.com/b2ctuu
2672. 2009-03-11 16:55 Mailbox bulging with price cuts and 2-for-1 offers from conferences. How was ETech attendance, btw? Couldn't go this year :(
2673. 2009-03-11 18:42 OSCON paper accepted. Groovy.
2674. 2009-03-12 17:08 We've been great together, Verdana, but we've grown apart.
2675. 2009-03-12 17:10 Congrats to @snoopdave on the new gig: http://tinyurl.com/b4juf3
2676. 2009-03-12 19:27 Man, the smartphone market is an interesting place: http://tinyurl.com/dhfuof
2677. 2009-03-12 22:38 @duncan I have observed that when a speaker is actually delivering value, people look up and focus, away from what's on their desk/lap.
2678. 2009-03-12 22:39 @duncan Just because you've climbed up on stage doesn't mean you've owed the audience's attention. You have to *earn* it.
2679. 2009-03-13 07:00 @chadfowler My wife hates celery. I fail to understand how anyone could care, one way or another.
2680. 2009-03-13 07:02 I'm starting to hate the drop-shadows I use in conference slides for screenshots. But removing them looks amateurish somehow. Sigh.
2681. 2009-03-13 23:16 Sam Ruby, HTML Evolution. Eventually we won't be able to ignore this melodrama: http://is.gd/ngS1
2682. 2009-03-14 02:20 If you get a channel with the Brier (Canadian men's curling championship), a hell of a Martin/Howard playoff going on.
2683. 2009-03-14 22:09 Eek, doubleTwist doesn't preserve artist/album information when it puts music on the Android. fail fail FAIL.
2684. 2009-03-15 06:06 Just saw Rigoletto @ VancOpera. Hell of a production. Eglise Gutierrez, what a voice. Big Act3 quartet totally brought the house down.
2685. 2009-03-15 06:31 Apple π day: http://tinyurl.com/am3u72
2686. 2009-03-15 19:26 Prediction: This trend of releasing music or books as iPhone apps is the beginning of something big.
2687. 2009-03-15 20:12 Trust me. If you've never seen a video of slug sex, you really need to: http://tinyurl.com/dmzggl
2688. 2009-03-16 15:29 Android Diary XI: How to use the GPS - http://tinyurl.com/c5p9f8
2689. 2009-03-16 15:45 Mouldy old UAL 757 across the continent. Thought they'd all worn out & been thrown away.
2690. 2009-03-16 15:49 @monkchips mmm, gulags for I-bankers? I bet you could pass a referendum, easy.
2691. 2009-03-18 11:31 Sun cloud APIs: http://tinyurl.com/c8puuh
2692. 2009-03-18 12:12 Oops, that Sun CLoud API link was to localhost. You want http://tinyurl.com/dkl58n
2693. 2009-03-18 13:06 At CommunityOne East. Decent crowd for first-time event in an economic meltdown.
2694. 2009-03-18 13:47 JSON FTW
2695. 2009-03-18 13:48 Twitter surging with thousands of Sun/IBM tweets. All 100% completely content-free.
2696. 2009-03-18 20:49 @benjaminblack So propose an alternative. This is not locked down yet.
2697. 2009-03-18 21:16 Oracle has a good quarter, but the growth is in the DBMS not the apps. Surprising and interesting: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=14888
2698. 2009-03-18 23:37 @benjaminblack PUT to create doesn't work we want implementer to be free to design URI space
2699. 2009-03-18 23:39 @benjaminblack POST to state URI is plausible but iabout as rpc-ish. We're outta CRUD territory
2700. 2009-03-20 06:05 OMG Downtown Eastside photo-essay. Not pretty, but very real: http://is.gd/o8Nc
2701. 2009-03-20 06:48 Apocalypse Meow: http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=9340
2702. 2009-03-20 16:14 Rails won: http://tinyurl.com/c9qcfg
2703. 2009-03-20 20:37 Ground Zero Balls: http://tinyurl.com/d5vnsm
2704. 2009-03-20 21:20 Friday afternoon tension tamer: Little Boots 'Meddle' - http://tinyurl.com/9cqh3t
2705. 2009-03-20 22:54 RESTful casuistry: http://tinyurl.com/cculde
2706. 2009-03-21 00:04 James Clark (!) among others to work on Microsoft's "M" modeling language: http://tinyurl.com/ctzryf
2707. 2009-03-21 06:50 @twleung Looking forward to a Syrinx review
2708. 2009-03-21 22:33 More Music Migration: http://tinyurl.com/d8r62e
2709. 2009-03-22 00:11 Finished ripping the B's. Last disc was by Burning Spear. Everything by Burning Spear is very good.
2710. 2009-03-22 04:51 @shita Agree 100%. Who is your favorite performer of cello suites?
2711. 2009-03-22 05:37 The Anticipation of Pleasure: http://tinyurl.com/dcbnnk
2712. 2009-03-22 05:43 Oops, I meant, The Anticipation of Pleasure: http://tinyurl.com/c8bb5n
2713. 2009-03-22 17:15 Sunshine! I'm thinking compost and pruning and photography.
2714. 2009-03-22 17:21 New Facebook is more like Twitter and thus more interesting. Enough to make me visit it more than once/month? Hmm.
2715. 2009-03-22 19:29 @BWJones Round plastic vented tub. Put it in at the top, take it out at the bottom, black & beautiful. Churn occasionally. No additives.
2716. 2009-03-23 06:39 It'd be nice if wefollow.com had an "about" page. What is it? And it wants permission to access *and update* my data. Hmmrmrmrm.
2717. 2009-03-23 06:51 http://wefollow.com: #tech #photographer #blogger - 3 tags aren't enough for generalists.
2718. 2009-03-23 19:02 Software pricing is inherently insane: http://tinyurl.com/cfww83
2719. 2009-03-23 20:55 Grumpy. Drowning my sorrows in code. Works better than neurochemicals.
2720. 2009-03-23 23:00 QCon ran this nice but not-terribly-newsy interview with me. Weirdly, /. picked it up. Puzzling information flows. http://is.gd/oxRS
2721. 2009-03-23 23:02 Warning @mezzoblue is a decent-looking guy but not nearly as pretty as his avatar.
2722. 2009-03-23 23:34 It's hard to keep an eye on the Net for what it thinks about the Sun Cloud. Weather reports keep getting in the way.
2723. 2009-03-24 07:15 Gavin Bryars' "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet" is good late-night listening.
2724. 2009-03-24 18:28 Yow, @mjasay suggests an HP/Oracle bid for Sun is in play. Gotta love the juiciness of that one, whether it's true is totally irrelevant.
2725. 2009-03-24 19:04 SLRs don't have to be black; tasty olive Pentax: http://www.pentax.jp/japan/news/2009/200909.html
2726. 2009-03-24 19:13 @efreese G1 is the best phone I've ever had. Worst: GPS, battery. Best: maps, slick UI, & I can program it myself, easy!
2727. 2009-03-24 20:38 Am I bad person for wishing that Gmail had a single delete-all-unread button?
2728. 2009-03-24 21:31 There are apparently a substantial number of people who sit there & copy news headlines into Twitter.
2729. 2009-03-25 00:13 To get '@@fields' from a's class, you use a.class.instance_variable_get("@fields"). Of course.
2730. 2009-03-25 00:16 Oooh I want one of the new OpenSolaris shirts: http://tinyurl.com/659yms
2731. 2009-03-25 01:59 @mentalguy Seems to work just fine, as long as I don't mind feeding Ruby an extra '@'
2732. 2009-03-25 01:59 @jimweirich Why? I sense a valuable lesson lurking in here.
2733. 2009-03-25 18:00 Cloud computing, n. - The latest in many waves of technology chiefly aimed at routing around the IT department.
2734. 2009-03-25 21:15 Someone just referred back to this 2004 piece, 47 Ways To Say “Broken”, which might provide a midafternoon smile: http://is.gd/oXuf
2735. 2009-03-25 21:33 Mixing recursion, mixins, and a big stupid gap in the unit tests can produce some amazingly opaque stack traces.
2736. 2009-03-25 22:56 @pkedrosky Hoping the injuries are non-serious. Or at least that you had enough fun on the way down to make it worthwhile.
2737. 2009-03-25 23:22 Hah... CraigMcC's code just successfully integrated with mine for the first time. Cloud combinatorics. HTTP FTW.
2738. 2009-03-26 03:47 Kenai gits git: http://tinyurl.com/d2pa4x
2739. 2009-03-26 04:53 On Rack: http://tinyurl.com/dn9bty
2740. 2009-03-26 05:53 @adambosworth T is yet another communication channel that we didn't know we needed until we had it. Wonder how many more there are?
2741. 2009-03-26 18:41 Looking at http://is.gd/3VuZ & thinking about API design choices. Really don't like the JSON-*or*-XML trend. Adds work, no benefit, pick 1.
2742. 2009-03-26 19:00 Msft says there's a secret "Cloud Manifesto" in the works. Secret from me too, FWIW. http://is.gd/oZtA
2743. 2009-03-26 19:52 On the other hand, just because Microsoft is paranoid doesn't mean...
2744. 2009-03-26 20:12 This Ruby class is growing like cancer & I can't see how to split it. Usually this means the core idea of the class is wrong.
2745. 2009-03-26 23:35 >> JSON.parse("true") JSON::ParserError: source 'true' not in JSON! erggh
2746. 2009-03-26 23:39 >> JSON.parse "[true]" => [true] >> JSON.generate(true) => "true"
2747. 2009-03-26 23:43 @kidehen Sure, the RDF.net challenge is still on in principle. Whatcha got?
2748. 2009-03-26 23:47 @binary42 Hah, per RFC4627 Section 2.2, I believe you're right. In which case JSON.generate is busted, but hey.
2749. 2009-03-27 05:58 body = JSON.parse env['rack.input'].read - why of course
2750. 2009-03-27 07:08 @morrildl Thank you for saying that
2751. 2009-03-27 18:25 Sitting in a future-of-the-Net consultation run by http://www.isd.org - one of the few geeks in the room which is good.
2752. 2009-03-27 21:45 News flash: social/environmental activists generally think the Net is part of the solution. This makes me happy.
2753. 2009-03-28 21:36 Unrelievedly miserable day in Vancouver.
2754. 2009-03-28 21:51 Watching Portugal-Sweden 2010 World Cup qualifier. Both teams playing well; Portugal better but are shameless divers. Ref should card 'em.
2755. 2009-03-28 22:09 RT @br3nda "They're full of green useless space." UI critique not bad urban planning.
2756. 2009-03-29 05:38 Big New Yorker piece about mideast peace (Hersh gets email from Bashar?) is busted, page 3 is page 1. Anyone know anyone there?
2757. 2009-03-29 06:34 Green Eggs and Toast: http://tinyurl.com/dxxv6s
2758. 2009-03-29 07:20 Dark-morning market lights: http://tinyurl.com/crnuqo
2759. 2009-03-29 07:34 @joshu Difficult to read on what?
2760. 2009-03-29 17:03 Amusing that Nick Carr has turned off comments on his latest "Nothing new in Wikipedia" article. http://is.gd/px64 Carr's piec is misleading
2761. 2009-03-29 20:49 Get yer Cloud Computing manifestos (plural): http://is.gd/p2Eg and http://is.gd/pyuE - in related news, motherhood and apple pie are good.
2762. 2009-03-30 00:02 Watching hockey on TV and blogging. Pleasantly indolent Sunday afternoon.
2763. 2009-03-30 01:07 Canucks/Black Hawks turning seriously nasty. Well, in an entertaining kind of way.
2764. 2009-03-30 02:06 @blaine The chutneys are the thing.
2765. 2009-03-30 02:56 Wikipedianism: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/03/29/Wikipedianism
2766. 2009-03-30 04:59 David Lindley & El Rayo-X: "Very Greasy" - outstanding music
2767. 2009-03-30 18:16 Sustaining the Internet: http://tinyurl.com/cgbg7w
2768. 2009-03-30 20:30 Just tweaked the blog stylesheet for the first time in like 2½ years. Hope I didn't break too much...
2769. 2009-03-30 22:06 Cloudy Days: http://tinyurl.com/cymp8q
2770. 2009-03-30 22:07 @jreschke Go talk to @joshu
2771. 2009-03-31 00:12 Following @Roland_Hedley
2772. 2009-03-31 00:59 @kwerb That would be *most* hotels, right?
2773. 2009-03-31 05:43 In the W hotel rooms they have magazines that are so hip that I don't know who anyone in them is.
2774. 2009-03-31 05:45 Hey @johnbattelle, @TheAdnostic says "Anyone know people at Federated Media? They're advertising for my perfect job."
2775. 2009-03-31 06:03 Like many in the biz, I've occasionally raised an eyebrow at the doings of Sys-Con. But this is serious weirdness: http://is.gd/pIyV
2776. 2009-03-31 06:08 @colbycosh The Dalai Lama is totally an Oxford-comma guy.
2777. 2009-04-01 06:48 Sigh... I guess I can't run any of the insane-but-plausible bogus IBM/Sun April 1st tweets I keep thinking of.
2778. 2009-04-01 17:43 Furry rat-hole, n. A rat-hole that is dangerously comfortable, where a group spends too much time.
2779. 2009-04-02 05:21 OK, these pix of the Obamas and the Windsors are just deeply weird: http://is.gd/qeo7
2780. 2009-04-02 08:37 Björk interviews Arvo Pärt. What a world we live in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QTxvmlA95Q
2781. 2009-04-02 09:16 @terrycojones http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/07/03/Tabula-Rasa
2782. 2009-04-02 17:11 "Next time, the iceberg is goin' down!"
2783. 2009-04-03 06:26 I'm learning about cloudbuilding. It's more complicated than you can imagine.
2784. 2009-04-03 06:27 Janet and Kathy throat singing between classes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1qPwHZ-Dqo&NR=1
2785. 2009-04-03 06:49 What is this "Digg" of which you speak?
2786. 2009-04-03 07:22 Sebastien Grainger: http://www.sebastiengrainger.net/
2787. 2009-04-03 16:32 In blank-stare mode.
2788. 2009-04-04 05:57 @jon_ellis Agreed, Jever FTW
2789. 2009-04-05 06:27 @DaveO Funny coincidence... been a while since I've been in Ship Mode.
2790. 2009-04-05 06:28 The fish & chips have my digestive system in an uproar. Can't sleep, might as well code.
2791. 2009-04-05 06:55 Willie Nelson's "Stardust" is just entirely unreasonably great music.
2792. 2009-04-05 07:05 @shanselman Does email count? In 1983?
2793. 2009-04-05 07:14 Where on the Web can I listen to the new satellite streaming "Song of General Kim Il-Sung"? Otherwise I don't believe in it.
2794. 2009-04-05 07:26 @doriantaylor Paranoid Stalinist dictatorships, well maybe, but a Flash-only page? No way.
2795. 2009-04-05 07:35 @kellyjeanne I refer to http://www.amazon.com/review/R30B9YVQD4LZ0J and rest my case
2796. 2009-04-06 03:16 Wondering who was doing all the leaking on this Sun/IBM story, and why.
2797. 2009-04-06 04:54 Bram Cohen on short-term thinking: http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/65060.html
2798. 2009-04-06 05:54 Al3x, meet Ted: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/04/05/Al3x-meet-Ted
2799. 2009-04-06 07:13 @Scobleizer Could you be less green please?
2800. 2009-04-06 08:19 It's a Beautiful Day: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/04/06/Its-a-Beautiful-Day
2801. 2009-04-06 16:39 Deep, intense discourse on queuing-system theory and practice, mostly in the comments: http://is.gd/qFfl
2802. 2009-04-07 23:42 Simon Phipps now on Sun's board, says BizWeek: http://is.gd/riwl - Gotta love the reliability & accuracy of traditional media.
2803. 2009-04-08 20:00 @bramcohen is in da house.
2804. 2009-04-09 00:17 Why HATEOAS? http://tinyurl.com/cheqqa
2805. 2009-04-09 00:17 Does anyone go to Second Life any more, or is that definitively over?
2806. 2009-04-09 04:48 @distobj Here's the thing: They're all good. Consider getting a Panasonic G1 instead; almost all the benefits, cheaper and smaller.
2807. 2009-04-09 04:56 I never spam-brand the emails advertising apartment rentals in Ulanbaatar (Mongolia). They're too enjoyably weird.
2808. 2009-04-09 18:25 Just accidentally had a ½hr shower thinking through a clever (I hope) unit-testing approach. Software development carbon footprint...
2809. 2009-04-09 18:34 @cyprien Big fan of botanical garden says: "Hi"
2810. 2009-04-10 00:18 Don't think Nambu will replace Twitterrific for me just yet; like to see people's real names, and also the sleek dark look.
2811. 2009-04-10 05:04 @ftrain "$40,000,000" is two words. Tsk tsk.
2812. 2009-04-10 05:16 We'll try Syrinx for a while... Twitterrific may have been replaced.
2813. 2009-04-10 05:19 People who don't do this for a living will never know how good hitting the "commit" button feels.
2814. 2009-04-10 05:24 Twitter client idea: replace URLs from well-known shorteners with a little glyph; Who cares whether it comes from bit.ly or is.gd?
2815. 2009-04-10 06:26 @kevinmarks Tragic that so few people know about Lieber. "Our Lady of Darkness" is essential for anyone who cares about San Francisco.
2816. 2009-04-10 06:36 The phrase "free markets" should be banned: http://tinyurl.com/cnnqzj
2817. 2009-04-10 07:29 @gnat Free markets are a tool, free speech is a goal. N'est-ce pas?
2818. 2009-04-10 07:30 Syrinx went flaky, back to Twitterific. One could do better, but nobody really has.
2819. 2009-04-11 00:42 "One of these companies has a great future" (Hint: It's not Business Week) http://tinyurl.com/dzaj6n
2820. 2009-04-11 07:39 The theory says it's OK to not write much when I'm actually working really hard on making things, because stories-to-write will emerge.
2821. 2009-04-11 15:54 @climateprogress is in da house - maybe single best source for global-warming coverage.
2822. 2009-04-11 16:13 Still baffled by XRI. Hey, I can spend more money to buy another version of something I already have.
2823. 2009-04-11 16:17 Rainy saturday morning; idly fixing Wikipedia. Join in, improve yourself and the world.
2824. 2009-04-11 19:12 Homo sapiens, we're really not so bad: http://tinyurl.com/djffsv
2825. 2009-04-12 00:26 @duncan I'm thinking Apache needs mod_shortlink
2826. 2009-04-12 00:30 Hm, it'd be trivial to make a rel="short" alternative for everything on tbray.org with a redirect to the right place.
2827. 2009-04-12 03:39 Is rcov good?
2828. 2009-04-12 19:20 For Easter Sunday: Life-size Lego Jesus - all-white of course: http://tinyurl.com/cc5rev
2829. 2009-04-13 05:05 @joshu Everyone sys git is awesome but fairly hard to learn. Googlecode is plain ol' SVN. These days I use kenai.com which has both.
2830. 2009-04-13 05:57 I think jruby-rake will be easy to use once I figure out how to use it, which so far I haven't.
2831. 2009-04-13 16:38 Installed rcov. Wearing a guilty and furtive expression.
2832. 2009-04-13 17:58 A Toast: http://tinyurl.com/c6jkhr
2833. 2009-04-13 21:52 Wall Street Prison Consultants. You can't make this shit up. http://www.wallstreetprisonconsultants.com/
2834. 2009-04-15 17:52 Awww.. Greenpeace likes us: http://tinyurl.com/d84m42
2835. 2009-04-15 22:13 Gack, how horrible - "Woman killed by laptop in auto crash" http://is.gd/sDIG
2836. 2009-04-15 22:14 @MarsPhoenix How cold?
2837. 2009-04-15 22:26 @meejeet Accept nothing less than World Domination, I advise.
2838. 2009-04-16 02:04 And it's... Hockey Night in Canada
2839. 2009-04-16 05:36 @gnat I'm sorry, but they're either nuts or they're abominable hypocrites. Check the data: http://is.gd/sHge #teabag
2840. 2009-04-16 06:00 @gnat The claim that the US is overtaxed is unsupported by the data. It's sad; an intelligent US Right with integrity wd be a useful thing.
2841. 2009-04-16 06:08 @gnat You're prob giving way too much credit; Just old-fashioned party politics with aromas of class war, astroturf, and fringe looniness.
2842. 2009-04-16 06:13 @gnat Bear in mind that these are the people who brought you Terry Schiavo, torture, WMDs, Katrina... this is how they rebuild credibility?
2843. 2009-04-16 07:04 Wondering why some CDs rip at 5×, others at over 10×. Doesn't correlate with anything that leaps out at this observer.
2844. 2009-04-16 07:12 Steve Reich has cooler album artwork than anyone. No exceptions. If you don't know Steve, start with "Sextet". Do it soon. Trust me on this.
2845. 2009-04-16 07:21 Serious, and I mean *serious*, data p0rn chez @pkedrosky: http://tinyurl.com/d2harg
2846. 2009-04-17 02:41 Read the torture memos, make up your own mind: http://tinyurl.com/c4wzkv
2847. 2009-04-17 05:17 Via William Gibson: Smoke on the water CHA CHA CHA! http://tinyurl.com/2auxzf
2848. 2009-04-17 16:40 Trotsky's ashes stolen and baked in cookies: http://tinyurl.com/cv2gkk
2849. 2009-04-18 00:43 Minimal Rack+JRuby+GlassFish Recipe: http://tinyurl.com/dn2zlx
2850. 2009-04-18 01:44 @arungupta No. 1) that seems to bring a lot of rails/etc goo I don't need. 2) I needed a generic GF install to test dropping a .war in.
2851. 2009-04-18 03:42 Mats Sundin looks like he's been dead for a week.
2852. 2009-04-18 04:22 I'm not that big a hockey fan, but Vancouver & St.Louis are putting on a hell of a show.
2853. 2009-04-18 16:37 Wondering why http://www.omg.org/ still exists.
2854. 2009-04-18 16:45 "the focal length of the lens is directly correlated with hatred of America" - http://is.gd/ta8W
2855. 2009-04-18 19:51 “If this security continues, within a year all the waiters will be girls.” http://is.gd/tbwI
2856. 2009-04-18 19:55 @SparklingAmber Having trouble getting past the NDP's sleazy pandering on the carbon tax. Planet's future trumps other issues.
2857. 2009-04-18 20:08 We New World-ers are used to pervasive unending growth and expansion. Not always pervasive now: http://is.gd/rgdo
2858. 2009-04-18 20:36 Serious paper: http://www.atlanticpapers.com/
2859. 2009-04-19 04:47 Empty Walls: http://tinyurl.com/c3qfyk
2860. 2009-04-20 04:28 Stop-motion wolf and pig. Cleverissimo: http://tinyurl.com/cpcoqa
2861. 2009-04-20 05:12 By logic in #mckclouds, I suspect all of these would have been rejected on TCO grounds: Personal computer, Unix, Web, Java, RDBMS, etc.
2862. 2009-04-20 17:19 4/20 sentiment: Who starts fights? http://tinyurl.com/cut4f3
2863. 2009-04-20 17:48 It will be entirely safe to ignore all the uninformed prognosticators for the next few weeks. Like it or not, we're in wait-and-see mode.
2864. 2009-04-20 18:52 Drupal perf, OpenSolaris vs SUSE. http://is.gd/tvZx I asked "why so fast?" Devs: "Sun compilers, we think."
2865. 2009-04-20 23:51 Tweetie's nice. But needs more prefs. No menubar goober, refresh-only-on-demand, etc. Won't pay I think because the ads are interesting.
2866. 2009-04-21 05:02 Cloudy IT: http://tinyurl.com/c8ys57
2867. 2009-04-21 05:07 holy crap!!! ... RT @rasmus:Amazing render job - http://tinyurl.com/dlffaj - I can't even begin to imagine how he did this. (via @gstein)
2868. 2009-04-21 05:08 @MMaryMary It may be 4/20, but talking about hash on Twitter is coming it a little high, even for a marketing person.
2869. 2009-04-21 06:45 Listening (by accident) to Scriabin Piano Concerto. Liking it. Know nothing of Scriabin. Hmm.
2870. 2009-04-21 06:57 @knowtheory RailsConf is in Vegas, life is too short. Locked down in Ship Mode at the moment actually, and enjoying it.
2871. 2009-04-21 08:00 via @kk http://tinyurl.com/c56el3 - truly astounding bike tricks. My fave at 5:03 but you won't regret a second.
2872. 2009-04-22 03:07 So if I taser some poor fool to death in a chickenshit way, then lie about it to investigators, it'll be OK if I apologize http://is.gd/tNgd
2873. 2009-04-22 17:02 Really good camera-buying advice: http://is.gd/tUOd
2874. 2009-04-22 23:39 Crowdsourced Sun/Oracle integration; contribute and pass the word: http://tinyurl.com/d5o3vn
2875. 2009-04-23 08:04 @jack Good food in Amman: http://is.gd/u2wQ
2876. 2009-04-23 08:21 @wael3rabi Yes, and eaten very well.
2877. 2009-04-23 14:45 Email from "Conservative Outpost" complaining about possible torture investigation. Conservative brand tainted for a generation at least.
2878. 2009-04-23 20:41 @avibryant Zipang sushi has both. But it's not a cafe
2879. 2009-04-23 20:47 Yow, AMD can run their latest at 7GHz. Well, *screw* concurrency then, who needs the pain? Let's all go back to single-threaded everything.
2880. 2009-04-23 22:21 Eek 50% packet loss to everywhere. Internets come back
2881. 2009-04-24 03:23 Why won't US MSM use the word "torture"? Shame on them.
2882. 2009-04-24 03:47 @al3x Nifty stuff. Slide 131 is weird... what's with the body-full-of-headers on DELETE?
2883. 2009-04-24 03:54 A real RESTafarian knows *all* the 'curl' options.
2884. 2009-04-24 04:35 @jcrosby Congrats, looks like a nice piece of work. Tokyo has come out of the weeds fast.
2885. 2009-04-24 16:06 @mjasay Well, except for, the practical use of licenses relies on a civil framework of contract-law and court mechanisms to enforce them.
2886. 2009-04-24 17:59 @cote I went to one QCon last year, it was quite good, trying to straddle the Enterprise & OSS crowds with some success.
2887. 2009-04-24 18:03 Even by Web standards, the emergence of Tokyo Cabinet/Tyrant has been remarkably sudden.
2888. 2009-04-25 02:44 @diveintomark Your passionately held opinions are clearly fringe, but you're not a zealot. How does that work?
2889. 2009-04-25 03:06 Re Oracle: My future being opaque, no big deal. But the endless authoritative prognostication from the know-nothings is really hard to take.
2890. 2009-04-26 02:55 Dear Fellow Rubyists: http://dyepot-teapot.com/2009/04/25/dear-fellow-rubyists/ - Ruby's all-male culture is sad, sad, sad.
2891. 2009-04-26 04:45 Orwell in 1949: "The object of torture is torture". I've never seen anything which would convincingly falsify that hypothesis.
2892. 2009-04-26 15:54 http://iplocationtools.com/ip_location_api.php looks handy.
2893. 2009-04-27 06:18 My brush with fame: misspelled by Andrew Sullivan: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/04/a-world-of-clutter.html
2894. 2009-04-27 06:50 Pondering one of life’s conundra: – vs — and whether you put spaces around them. U+00A0 helps: http://is.gd/uOjP
2895. 2009-04-27 07:48 Atheist evangelism FTW: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/us/27atheist.html
2896. 2009-04-27 23:07 Less Like Oration: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/04/25/Long-and-Short-Forms
2897. 2009-04-28 13:51 A Painful Decision: http://tinyurl.com/d475r3 I don't think this is just a tempest in a teapot.
2898. 2009-04-28 19:40 Valrhona chocolate, OMG obscenely good.
2899. 2009-04-29 02:40 Was thinking about picking up a couple of Canucks playoff tickets, but don't care enough to spend the big bucks. Sofa at home it is.
2900. 2009-04-29 04:18 DMTF vs OGF: http://tinyurl.com/cphxgl (It's OK if you haven't heard of either).
2901. 2009-04-29 16:59 Thanks, _why, for "A Selection Of Thoughts From Actual Women": http://is.gd/vl77
2902. 2009-04-29 21:22 @StationA Is it true that a foul sulfurous stench of evil hangs about anyone from Ticketmaster?
2903. 2009-04-29 21:33 Watching the pilot walking around the bird that's gonna take me outta Logan soon. I'm sure it's just fine, Captain.
2904. 2009-04-30 16:50 Horrible disaster. Major, and I mean MAJOR, toothpaste explosion in my travel toiletries kit. Mess not to be believed.
2905. 2009-04-30 22:09 Nastiness: http://tinyurl.com/ceoywk
2906. 2009-04-30 22:27 Wow, @joewilcox (longtime MS-watching journo) latest victim of mainstream media's implosion. Need a biz model to pay someone to watch MSFT
2907. 2009-04-30 22:45 @twleung No... it's that Erlang is *weird*.
2908. 2009-05-01 06:56 Currently ripping the Stax/Volt singles compilation, just possibly the single greatest collection of music ever to inhabit 9 CDs.
2909. 2009-05-01 07:05 Relatedly, Booker T Jones' latest album features Crazy Horse including Neil. They say it's good. http://www.bookert.com/
2910. 2009-05-01 07:43 "No American Agent Will Get Through Our Village": http://tinyurl.com/cu2tux
2911. 2009-05-01 14:46 @snoopdave Heh, it's a $7 *billion* deal. Lawyers in ultra-paranoid mode, and I can't blame 'em.
2912. 2009-05-01 21:01 Wondering when RubyConf is this year (@rich_kilmer, I'm looking at you)
2913. 2009-05-03 01:13 Tweeting from the Merc on Howe Sound: http://www.mercurylaunch.com Lovely!
2914. 2009-05-03 03:37 @GreatDismal is William Gibson.
2915. 2009-05-03 03:44 Another good reason not to believe in God: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/30/religion.torture/
2916. 2009-05-03 18:40 Incredibly important demographics news: http://is.gd/woUK Seriously, I don't think I've read anything as important in years, maybe.
2917. 2009-05-03 20:17 My get-up-and-go has got up and gone.
2918. 2009-05-03 21:03 @dewitt Key problem with the Air is that the biggest storage option is 128G.
2919. 2009-05-03 21:42 "In the air, nobody knows what’s on your feet." http://tinyurl.com/dlz5ka
2920. 2009-05-03 21:45 @brentsimmons Espresso has less caffeine than Norteamericano filter coffee. A lot less. Also, medium roast has more than dark, I hear.
2921. 2009-05-03 22:04 "In the air, nobody knows what’s on your feet." http://is.gd/wqU8 (Sigh, wrong URL last time)
2922. 2009-05-04 01:18 @nelson ActiveRecord achieves tolerability by severely constraining generality. Real question: is there a tolerable *generalized* ORM? Nope.
2923. 2009-05-04 02:04 I am predisposed, on good grounds, to believe that Wolfram Alpha is overhyped puffery that will change nothing. Would like to be wrong.
2924. 2009-05-04 02:16 Takashi has sobering influenza stats from Japan: http://twitter.com/shita/status/1691104856
2925. 2009-05-04 02:18 A terribly frightening smile: http://is.gd/wtnK
2926. 2009-05-04 02:33 It's not every day you discover a truly good new geek blog: http://perilsofparallel.blogspot.com/
2927. 2009-05-04 05:36 Listening to Third World's "96° in the Shade". Mmmmmmmmm. If you like reggae (or just deep funk) and don't know it, snap it up.
2928. 2009-05-04 18:41 RT @rubyconf RubyConf 2009: Nov 19-21 in San Francisco! http://rubyconf.org/ (via @chadfowler)
2929. 2009-05-04 19:33 @MichaelSinger Why is your mag "still very strong" when the rest of the trade press seems moribund? I want you to succeed but I'm gloomy.
2930. 2009-05-04 20:16 Which menu item was that, Tweetie?
2931. 2009-05-04 20:33 Grmf. Tweetie used to have an option to only light up the menubar goober for unread replies & DMs. Gone in 1.1?!? FAIL.
2932. 2009-05-04 20:43 Thanks all for Tweetie help. LazyWeb FTW.
2933. 2009-05-04 22:12 Severe cognitive dissidence between #ibmimpact & #railsconf tweets, both coming from Vegas.
2934. 2009-05-05 04:48 It's OK for a TDD religioso sometimes to hate the laborious construction of corner-case unit tests. Hate hate hate.
2935. 2009-05-05 06:42 "Wolfram|Alpha" is typographically awkward. Not a good sign.
2936. 2009-05-05 06:51 @avibryant Hong Kong is unfortunately choking on itself. They're paving over the sea and the air stinks and they're unhappy. Try Melbourne.
2937. 2009-05-05 15:12 Suicide bombers are a logical consequence of the Gladwell David/Goliath analysis.
2938. 2009-05-05 18:04 Have never understood why you'd want tweets to come in via SMS.
2939. 2009-05-05 18:33 Glanced at my spam folder. Unbelievable volume from one source: "Star Position". Those scum must be costing the Net millions.
2940. 2009-05-05 18:59 "The whole IT industry is living in cloud cuckoo land right now" http://is.gd/wZiU
2941. 2009-05-06 03:14 Why all these FriendFeed subscribers? I never go there.
2942. 2009-05-06 06:30 Pale early summer / wind full of apple blossoms / gutters brim with pink.
2943. 2009-05-06 17:50 Amazed, once again, at the skill with which Amazon's PR plays the media. Each Kindle release receives 2nd-coming-of-Jesus-level coverage.
2944. 2009-05-06 22:02 First attempt at a voice google search on android 1.5. Ego of course. I tried "Tim Bray", it searched for "temporary". Heh.
2945. 2009-05-07 05:15 Dear LazyWeb: Can you shoot video on an iPhone and insta-upload it to YouTube? Signed, ignorant Android user.
2946. 2009-05-07 05:45 Cupcake videography Stephenson gigalapse OMG http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/05/06/Cupcake
2947. 2009-05-07 07:19 Finished initial music ripping pass. iTunes says: 909 albums, 30.2 days, 218.39 GB. Problem: I'm starting to hate iTunes.
2948. 2009-05-07 18:31 Regretting that I just do *not* have time to check out what's up over on FriendFeed now that I'm getting all these follow messages.
2949. 2009-05-07 20:41 Thinking @chadfowler should grow the beard back
2950. 2009-05-07 22:00 Ellison on Sun's hardware biz (PDF): http://bit.ly/1aiXgl
2951. 2009-05-08 16:21 Good Lord, is telecom the next melt-down? http://is.gd/xOlH I retreated from VOIP last year with glee: http://is.gd/xOpK
2952. 2009-05-08 23:03 It's Friday afternoon. Cogitation is slowing down. Go read a funny Star Trek review. http://is.gd/xxcf
2953. 2009-05-08 23:05 @unclebobmartin Well, there is /usr/lib/* and the whole unix/linux userland. Hey, I'm a TDD fan too, but really.
2954. 2009-05-09 16:42 Massively weird news from the math world (enlarge the graph at the end): http://bit.ly/hREWK
2955. 2009-05-09 17:09 @MarkusQ I bet you can't explain why in 140 characters.
2956. 2009-05-09 19:37 @MarkusQ Elegantly and tersely put. A tip o' the hat.
2957. 2009-05-09 23:16 @willsnow Glad to hear that, Will. Good luck with recovery mode.
2958. 2009-05-09 23:27 @dsearls Ads on Tweetie are just fine, sometimes verge on intelligent. Twitter should get a cut of revenue from API users.
2959. 2009-05-09 23:31 @penmachine How about Canucks audience overlap with Richard Strauss' "Salome" at the Opera tonight? Well, me.
2960. 2009-05-10 16:29 Saw Salome at the Vancouver Opera last night. Amazing orchestration, staging, singing, but the music is empty puffery.
2961. 2009-05-10 17:11 @bobdc I like lots of 20th-century music, but Richard Strauss' is empty at the core.
2962. 2009-05-11 06:54 Voting Green: http://bit.ly/urkyE
2963. 2009-05-11 21:58 @ceplm Yes; see http://bit.ly/7nTi4
2964. 2009-05-12 01:53 Benchmarking Oracle on SSD; it's complicated: http://is.gd/yZM7
2965. 2009-05-12 02:38 Chicago & Vancouver providing some first-rate hockey entertainment this evening.
2966. 2009-05-12 06:19 Because you can't do everything in Twitter: Tab Sweep — Tech http://bit.ly/ywpnL
2967. 2009-05-12 07:02 There are no words for how irritating it is when I'm looking for a piece I know is there somewhere in my own blog, but I can't find it.
2968. 2009-05-12 18:02 Vodaphone to open APIs including billing. Done right, could be a very big deal: http://is.gd/zeMw
2969. 2009-05-12 18:09 Juicy inside poop on the Sun acquisition dance: http://bit.ly/DoQNs
2970. 2009-05-13 05:16 #fixreplies Put me on the "Twitter, please hit UNDO" bandwagon.
2971. 2009-05-13 18:18 Thinking about HTTP status code "202 Accepted"
2972. 2009-05-14 02:23 Abandoned: Six Flags New Orleans: http://bit.ly/ufC3D Spooky.
2973. 2009-05-14 05:51 Never could program more than about 12 hours in a row without starting to do stupid things. Brain feels like wet Kleenex...
2974. 2009-05-14 16:22 Making the JVM do what it'd rather not: http://bit.ly/8B6CN
2975. 2009-05-14 17:11 Every month I get enjoyably-exotic Mongolian-apartment-rental spam, e.g.: "2 Bedrooms, 4th floor, 108m², Near Grand Khaan Irish Pub"
2976. 2009-05-15 06:24 As I was driving home they played "War Pigs" on the radio. Must be 20 years since I heard it. Silly, but my goodness, such riffs.
2977. 2009-05-15 17:02 Wow, my hometown taking open-ness seriously: http://bit.ly/mPuyc
2978. 2009-05-15 17:12 Would love an excuse to do some more Erlang work: http://bit.ly/RKgQr
2979. 2009-05-15 18:59 @unclebobmartin We manage to make it work in Canada. Lots of messy budget politics every year, but that's what messy politics are for.
2980. 2009-05-15 20:10 @unclebobmartin Almost all doctors in Canada are private small businesses. It's a single-payer system, one public-sector insurance co.
2981. 2009-05-15 23:14 Apple's so careful about iPhone background apps. But seems a non-issue on Android. Wondering about the back-story.
2982. 2009-05-16 05:43 typing numbers into Wolfram Alpha is fun. E.g. 37
2983. 2009-05-16 21:21 @tmolini I don't think that's compatible with Apple's business strategy.
2984. 2009-05-16 21:21 Springtime Death: http://bit.ly/nZm7w
2985. 2009-05-17 03:24 Marlowe the cat is back after 5 days' absence. The magical power of blogging at work...
2986. 2009-05-17 18:45 Biting summary of recent-historical weirdness from @nelson: http://bit.ly/18qodf Hard to believe..
2987. 2009-05-18 01:10 Listening to Dick Dale's "Tribal Thunder". Surf guitar instrumentals FTW.
2988. 2009-05-19 02:46 Dear LazyWeb, a civilian friend asks me: How2 convert RealVideo to Quicktime? Any good experiences to share?
2989. 2009-05-19 04:14 Parenting triumph: The toddler has a major melt-down just as you *leave* the nice restaurant.
2990. 2009-05-19 18:44 "Financial Innovation". Yes, it may really be that simple - http://bit.ly/16sKSF
2991. 2009-05-19 22:02 Overheard at the café, in a low between-friends voice: "It's a huge... HUGE thing". But actually I bet it isn't really.
2992. 2009-05-19 23:34 Dancing to "The Art of the Fugue": http://bit.ly/hYw7G
2993. 2009-05-20 05:34 Being severely bitten by lack of FireWire target mode. Bad, BAD Apple! http://bit.ly/BCESj
2994. 2009-05-20 05:48 Maybe I should get a FireWire enclosure & extract my old mac disk & go that way?
2995. 2009-05-20 07:28 Kernel geeks in Oz, what's not to like? I'd go if I weren't stuck in the top half. http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/kernel/
2996. 2009-05-21 03:54 How can Chrysler still be running prime-time TV ads when they're bankrupt? Who's paying?
2997. 2009-05-21 04:18 CPAN. Oh joy.
2998. 2009-05-21 04:40 I love MySQL. Except when I don't.
2999. 2009-05-21 05:16 Friends and Flexibility: http://bit.ly/4hBWZ
3000. 2009-05-21 06:13 "I like how it feels but not how it looks." http://bit.ly/MeqMW
3001. 2009-05-21 06:16 Eek, localhost link again; I meant http://bit.ly/HAN6J
3002. 2009-05-21 06:31 Surprising memcached numbers: http://bit.ly/bVwot
3003. 2009-05-21 07:53 Arthur Erickson R.I.P.
3004. 2009-05-21 16:43 Just discovered Buck 65's "Blood Of A Young Wolf". Overwritten but beautiful. http://bit.ly/2p3An (no picture)
3005. 2009-05-21 17:12 If you're shopping for a DSLR, the Pentax K20D is an *astounding* bargain while you can still get one: http://is.gd/C5fp
3006. 2009-05-21 21:09 Drizzle.new mmmmmm http://freshmeat.net/projects/drizzle
3007. 2009-05-22 17:21 Want to decorate/enhance/badge the outside of my new MacBook to distinguish it from my spouse's identical computer. Suggestions?
3008. 2009-05-22 18:06 Thanks all! Will blog those links. My fave so far (but expensive/impractical) via @_mtr: http://bit.ly/10CePI
3009. 2009-05-22 23:20 Twitter complaining it can't send me mail. Wonder why?
3010. 2009-05-23 00:05 Just wasted 10 minutes of my life on that silly Deck readership trig problem. Friday afternoon attitude issue I think.
3011. 2009-05-24 00:52 Another in the typo-that-should-be-a-word department: Hostory.
3012. 2009-05-24 06:48 It's possible for a chair to be too comfortable.
3013. 2009-05-24 19:20 Kits beach is disgusting, littered with garbage and drug debris. Shame on you, Vancouver.
3014. 2009-05-24 19:24 World-record paper-airplane flight: 27.9 seconds. http://is.gd/BfsP
3015. 2009-05-25 00:39 Vancouver folk - The great drum circle at the anchor on Spanish Banks is tonight. I'll be there later.
3016. 2009-05-25 21:41 The Web vs. the Fallacies: http://bit.ly/6YQTe
3017. 2009-05-26 01:51 Battery on the bottom of my new MacBook is bulging slightly. Is it about to explode with fatal consequences?
3018. 2009-05-26 05:46 The Wrath of Heaven: http://bit.ly/w8udW
3019. 2009-05-26 20:26 My new 13" MacBook is much less accomplished at switching between display configs than any previous Mac. Known issue or have I a lemon?
3020. 2009-05-26 23:19 I do believe William Gibson just unveiled the title of his next book over on his blog: http://is.gd/FMuN
3021. 2009-05-26 23:32 @timbray Actually, I think he did it on the twitter:http://is.gd/FMFo (via @kebernet)
3022. 2009-05-27 17:44 Homo Sapiens' nearly-infinite capacity for silliness; magnificent! http://bit.ly/EwALd
3023. 2009-05-27 20:24 Hey Vancouver: The Canada Line neighborhood-wreckers get their ass handed to them in court. Yee-hah! http://www.francesbula.com/?p=1659
3024. 2009-05-28 06:33 Justice: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/05/27/Justice
3025. 2009-05-28 06:57 Suspects @twleung of cranking the saturation just a little on his beach-walk Flickr photoset.
3026. 2009-05-28 15:54 "White Light White Heat" - Nice piece from Alex W-H: http://bit.ly/2nzPn
3027. 2009-05-28 15:58 I'd sign up for Typekit in a flash, assuming a reasonable price: http://bit.ly/BKe8m
3028. 2009-05-28 18:01 @bing Just an old search guy wanting to savor the new flavor.
3029. 2009-05-29 05:32 @GreatDismal Wear a vest at all times. Problem solved. Also camera problem, phone problem, etc. Also stylish.
3030. 2009-05-29 05:44 Professional situation is stressful but hey, day after day of sunshine in Vancouver can make up for really a whole lot.
3031. 2009-05-29 18:25 Comparing AWS pricing to cheap&cheerful hosting services. Apples to oranges, but still startling.
3032. 2009-05-29 19:43 How Much Does One Terabyte Of Bandwidth Cost? (via @lloydbudd): http://is.gd/JhmE - data is from January which is a long time, these days.
3033. 2009-05-29 20:48 Meanwhile, in the cheap&cheerful hosting space (no affiliation, wife's a customer): http://canadianwebhosting.com/ - Is this the future?
3034. 2009-05-29 20:55 Follower count past another milestone. Thanks, everyone. Don't autofollow back but almost always see stuff with @timbray in it.
3035. 2009-05-29 23:53 @dewitt Maybe just slapping CC-BY on it hits an 80/20 point? I'm skeptical of patent-dodging efforts, it's the submariners who'll getcha.
3036. 2009-05-29 23:59 Heading into the weekend in the lead on a cool vintage-telephoto EBay auction... adds a little spice.
3037. 2009-05-30 16:20 Trudeau wimps out, won't cook up an icon for Barack. http://bit.ly/VbaPh Grmf
3038. 2009-05-31 06:42 Won a tight last-second ebay war for an old 400mm telephoto by £1 with my android between playing catch with 9yr-old at the park. SoPoMoDad.
3039. 2009-05-31 06:43 @SparklingAmber OMG that's awful.
3040. 2009-05-31 20:31 Deeper dive than I've seen so far on Google Wave: http://bit.ly/7MBpd
3041. 2009-05-31 23:50 @playspymaster Huh?
3042. 2009-06-01 00:02 Seems browser devs are adopting groovy new HTML5 tags without necessarily buying into all its parsing micromanagement?
3043. 2009-06-01 03:03 @brentsimmons What are you using instead?
3044. 2009-06-01 05:37 Having an attitude problem.
3045. 2009-06-01 05:41 @playspymaster I want an invite!
3046. 2009-06-01 14:08 OpenSolaris 2009.06 what's new (Crossbow, lotsa dtrace, etc): http://bit.ly/150oHP
3047. 2009-06-01 14:46 @hchorey Server-side deployment people mostly, is my perception. That's what I use it for anyhow.
3048. 2009-06-02 00:09 @monkchips is tweeting from the stage at C1. Hmmmmmmm
3049. 2009-06-02 15:49 Enjoying (maybe the last?) JavaOne opening.
3050. 2009-06-02 16:42 Larry Ellison just walked in
3051. 2009-06-02 17:19 Ellison plugs FX, disses Ajax.
3052. 2009-06-02 17:23 Ellison - mentions Android but I didn't quite get the drift
3053. 2009-06-02 19:58 @twleung Suggest you come out and drink heavily this evening just to investigate that hypothesis
3054. 2009-06-02 20:01 @LennyKravitz Is a guy who really gets how to use Twitter. Impressed.
3055. 2009-06-02 20:42 #javaone press room consensus: This is the last JavaOne.
3056. 2009-06-02 21:14 Hah. Kenai is going to be offering Hudson continuous-integration as a service. That's (a) tricky and (b) extremely useful. Way to go.
3057. 2009-06-02 22:01 Java One - opening DJ beats http://bit.ly/SBjQw
3058. 2009-06-03 00:28 JavaOne 2009 Notes I, with pix: http://bit.ly/VgleY
3059. 2009-06-03 00:29 The JavaFX-vs-Ajax talk is really outstanding. #javaone
3060. 2009-06-03 08:05 @sayrer Catch 'em live sometime, they do a great show
3061. 2009-06-04 01:38 Practical clouds and yarn harlotry: http://bit.ly/ErZXA
3062. 2009-06-04 01:41 The Tienanmen shooting started about now, 20 years ago. The same scum are still in charge. Poor China; muzzled but I think unforgetful.
3063. 2009-06-04 02:10 Exalted company: http://bit.ly/1rH9UW
3064. 2009-06-04 15:57 Tiananmen protests & massacre - never forget.
3065. 2009-06-04 20:54 Surely there could be a better android client than Twitroid. By "better" I mean faster.
3066. 2009-06-04 20:58 <hums> I left my Visa card in San Francisco...
3067. 2009-06-04 21:03 Suppose Pepsi/Nike/etc gave away logo-branded anti-infection masks in Japan/Mexico/etc. That'd be real viral marketing.
3068. 2009-06-05 02:06 @RickDeNatale Easy to read.
3069. 2009-06-05 17:08 kenai.com: as of today, 10,000+ members, 853 projects. One of Sun's best pieces of work in recent years. Check it out.
3070. 2009-06-05 20:32 "With these savages ... there is no peace" The majority is sane but the crazies stand astride the path away from war: http://is.gd/PqsD
3071. 2009-06-05 20:38 In the spirit of #followfriday I offer http://www.twitterbelle.com/timbray/
3072. 2009-06-05 23:24 Ben and Dion and JavaFX and Ajax: http://is.gd/PwSe
3073. 2009-06-06 05:06 Gruber: "Normal people aren’t planning to do much typing on their new smartphone, and they’re probably right." I think they're wrong.
3074. 2009-06-06 07:20 @al3x It is now your duty to publish lots of photoclichés featuring palm trees and sunsets.
3075. 2009-06-06 07:28 Grainy Eye Candy: http://bit.ly/uV93U
3076. 2009-06-06 08:26 @headius Well, you are totally not "normal" but you might still be right. I SMS & chat, both heavily, & am addicted to actual physical keys.
3077. 2009-06-06 19:48 Scored some tickets to Olympic curling, but short-track speed-skating seems sold out.
3078. 2009-06-07 22:55 I'd like to have thoughtful disagreements with conservatives. Tempting to just diss 'em all as mean-spirited morons: http://is.gd/S8Xk
3079. 2009-06-08 07:05 I love rosé wines, and this is outrageous: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/opinion/08millo.htm
3080. 2009-06-08 07:41 Sitting up late writing, listening to Miles Davis' "In a Silent Way". Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
3081. 2009-06-08 07:43 Damn nice Santa Cruz lighthouse picture by @webmink - http://www.flickr.com/photos/webmink/3606853212/
3082. 2009-06-08 15:53 Was eating at Kibune in Kits last night; David Suzuki walked in & had dinner at the bar, writing steadily, longhand with a fountain pen.
3083. 2009-06-08 18:06 Sitting waiting in Dr's office watching wwdc via macosxrumors on my Android, works great.
3084. 2009-06-08 18:16 Oops. Make that macrumorslive.com. Would be interested in their tech & workflow for this live publishing setup.
3085. 2009-06-08 21:06 As the recent acquirer of a now distinctly shoddy-feeling plain ol' MacBook, experiencing severe disgruntlement.
3086. 2009-06-08 23:54 The light in Vancouver is weirdly yellow for 5PM in early June.
3087. 2009-06-09 00:06 Interesting & a little odd: Android Scripting Environment: http://bit.ly/TJz1w
3088. 2009-06-09 17:47 Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to Upper Canada we go.
3089. 2009-06-10 19:11 Poor @unclebobmartin, having to share the Net with us believers in civic commons and collective effort who like both the market & the state.
3090. 2009-06-13 03:20 On Carving Your Initials: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/06/12/Convocation
3091. 2009-06-13 05:04 Migration about done: http://bit.ly/sRcgD
3092. 2009-06-13 15:18 Getting wingnut anti-US-health-reform spam. If I thought a human intelligence was listening I'd send 'em http://is.gd/10PON
3093. 2009-06-13 15:26 Shonen Knife does Carpenters' "On top of the World", via @kimarx - http://bit.ly/vvC93
3094. 2009-06-13 15:31 @bramcohen Don't go to sleep early.
3095. 2009-06-13 15:33 If looking back a few years from now, the FB namegrab proves to have had meaning, that means life probably will have had little. PS got mine
3096. 2009-06-14 05:06 I'm not one for blogosphere-triumphalism... but right now it's the only place to look if you care about the Iran story.
3097. 2009-06-14 05:39 @knv We want to know what you see and hear and read. And... good luck, it seems you'll need it.
3098. 2009-06-14 05:49 Iran street photography on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mousavi1388/sets/72157619592664479/
3099. 2009-06-14 16:06 Scrambled a bunch of eggs in the non-stick wok instead of the cast-iron frying pan. D'oh. Why didn't I do this years ago?
3100. 2009-06-14 16:11 I guess @dooce tweeting through childbirth represents commitment to her medium; gotta respect that.
3101. 2009-06-14 16:12 @colbycosh Pete's definitely a weirdo, but that doesn't mean that you're not.
3102. 2009-06-14 19:34 That Iran web video with the motorcycle cops attacking & retreating, the commentary is in Italian I think? #iranelection
3103. 2009-06-14 19:39 Bibi says the West Bank isn't the real problem; proof he's not willing to look the problem in the face. Israel can do better. #bibispeech
3104. 2009-06-14 20:48 If Your Job’s Just a Job: http://bit.ly/dSCAY
3105. 2009-06-15 05:11 Car-free day on Main Street: http://www.flickr.com/photos/timbray/sets/72157619674577251/
3106. 2009-06-15 16:01 If Nate Silver says the election was bogus, that's good enough for me: http://is.gd/12Ace #iranelection
3107. 2009-06-15 20:50 Wow, #iranelection tweeters begging Twitter to hold off on the maintenance outage. Thought-provoking.
3108. 2009-06-15 21:51 RT @avibryant A cougar's been sighted on Galiano. Helpful advice: http://tinyurl.com/nog7a2 . Unhelpful version: http://tinyurl.com/lngw5h
3109. 2009-06-15 22:23 Imagining Twitterfolk trying to find someone at NTT hosting ops who can understand why they're asking not to be down today. Sigh.
3110. 2009-06-16 04:40 World's mental image of Iran suddenly shifted from that little creep Ahmadi or some ayatollah, to ordinary folks in the streets for freedom.
3111. 2009-06-16 05:36 Livestation useful at times like these. You can get Al-Jazeera's take, always fresh, also watch Iran govt "Press TV", different indeed.
3112. 2009-06-16 06:43 Gryphon Rose: http://bit.ly/VODcL
3113. 2009-06-16 06:56 I may have to buy a Geforce video card. Everything is greened in my Livestation. (via @kimarx)
3114. 2009-06-16 15:08 @chadfowler: "No more projects." Thought-provoking: http://bit.ly/Vwqf1
3115. 2009-06-16 19:32 Jython 2.5 ships: http://bit.ly/pClIj
3116. 2009-06-16 20:53 "Moving Blues"; a deep & moving essay on life & economics. http://bit.ly/AD6Fx
3117. 2009-06-17 06:02 Preview on Mac OS X will cheerfully convert PostScript to PDF. And it has a bunch of other handy little features. Truly great software.
3118. 2009-06-17 06:12 Beautiful eyewitness account from Tehran: http://bit.ly/10i7j9
3119. 2009-06-17 06:14 Gosh, I'm an Amazon product now: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002DGRSJK
3120. 2009-06-17 20:04 Reading the VMWare API spec-ware carefully for the first time: http://is.gd/14GjX It's biiiiiiiiiiiiig.
3121. 2009-06-17 20:59 @jtroyer Cool, thanks for the pointer. Would be nice to see some modern languages options...
3122. 2009-06-17 21:17 Kindle yourself: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/06/17/This-Blog-on-Kindle
3123. 2009-06-17 22:28 @drbrain Wasn't that in 1998?
3124. 2009-06-18 00:40 @jimParkinson Erlang has very important lessons to teach.
3125. 2009-06-18 02:07 Wow, NetBeans 6.7 is aggressively different-looking. A real design statement.
3126. 2009-06-18 04:45 @duncan Cool screencast, thanks. Would like to see you fight a tough white-balance problem in a RAW sometime.
3127. 2009-06-18 05:22 @BWJones The picture of @duncan in his Wikipedia entry is teh suck, why not drop yours in?
3128. 2009-06-18 06:54 OMG, Wikipedia markup includes {{Maya date}} (Thursday is 12.19.16.7.17 by the Long Count): http://is.gd/155Tq
3129. 2009-06-18 07:05 Microsoft: "It's not as stupid as it sounds". Which isn't saying much. Not linking to their airhead cheapskate find-$10K-with-IE8 contest.
3130. 2009-06-18 15:56 Beautified his entry, thanks
3131. 2009-06-18 15:57 Oops, that was supposed to be a DM. Good thing it wasn't one of the really hot&spicy ones.
3132. 2009-06-18 16:57 Wow, fairly straight reporting on #iranelection fallout from Iranian state media: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/98431.htm?sectionid=351020101
3133. 2009-06-18 17:57 Phil Glass music with Segways & flames & horns & drums & monastic robes & a banjo. Remarkable. http://bit.ly/ZcTUt
3134. 2009-06-18 21:03 1st (vanity, of course) search on collecta.com is a bust. Now if my name were Moussavi....
3135. 2009-06-18 21:19 I have bludgeoned this Rakefile to the ground, where it lies panting abjectly in hopes of merciful treatment in the future. We'll see.
3136. 2009-06-18 21:20 @marcambinder Resisting Web neologisms is admirable, if futile.
3137. 2009-06-18 22:19 I ♡ NB67: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/06/18/NetBeans
3138. 2009-06-19 05:15 @penmachine One of the top five rock songs by anyone ever, that one is.
3139. 2009-06-19 15:50 @IanSkerrett Also consider that 99.9% of them go, unread, into the trash (physical or electronic). Business value increasingly questionable.
3140. 2009-06-19 17:31 Considering getting up at 5AM tomorrow to follow events from Iran. #iranelection
3141. 2009-06-19 17:40 ThingsIdLineUpFor 1. Good concert tickets. (But not a consumer product).
3142. 2009-06-19 17:40 ThingsIdLineUpFor 2. Tea with the Dalai Lama. (But not yet another phone).
3143. 2009-06-19 17:41 ThingsIdLineUpFor 3. An emergency replacement passport. (But not something I can buy next week too).
3144. 2009-06-19 17:41 ThingsIdLineUpFor 4. Fresh baguettes at a bakery in Paris. (But not buggy v1.0 hardware).
3145. 2009-06-19 17:42 ThingsIdLineUpFor 5. To join the Sea of Green march in Tehran. (But not mass marketing hype fodder).
3146. 2009-06-19 17:43 ThingsIdLineUpFor 6. The intake nurse at the emergency room. (But not a non-smear surface).
3147. 2009-06-19 17:44 ThingsIdLineUpFor 7. The ferry to the island. (But not something you can buy over the Net).
3148. 2009-06-19 17:46 ThingsIdLineUpFor 8. Airport security. (But not to pump revenue onto a control-freak Fortune 500 company's bottom line).
3149. 2009-06-19 17:47 ThingsIdLineUpFor 9. Coffee from a good barista. (But not a ticket to be abused by a mobile-network operator).
3150. 2009-06-19 17:48 ThingsIdLineUpFor 10. A subway train. (But not a stupid bloody phone). OK, that's all.
3151. 2009-06-19 18:34 Interesting to see Ahmadinejad described as "right-wing". Is that now just a synonym for "creepy and oppressive"?
3152. 2009-06-19 20:09 OMG can we please just shut the bloody RCMP down and start again from scratch? http://is.gd/16AFE
3153. 2009-06-19 21:25 Evocative Tehran-by-night video: http://bit.ly/139OHX #iranelection
3154. 2009-06-19 23:04 @benjaminblack raises a C coding conundrum on Twitter. How deliciously retro. typedef struct opaque_foo * FTW BTW
3155. 2009-06-20 15:52 Tehran video: http://www.youtube.com/v/cjcgYycnlHI
3156. 2009-06-20 20:23 If I were a Basij, I'd be thinking about where I might emigrate to after this is over. Because they're not gonna be very welcome at home.
3157. 2009-06-20 21:21 Wow, Erik Naggum died!?!? http://twitter.com/kjetilv/status/2251766884
3158. 2009-06-21 01:58 Erik Naggum remembered: http://bit.ly/ZQyj8
3159. 2009-06-21 02:27 OK. The two fake umpires are hilarious. What kind of person does that?
3160. 2009-06-21 05:35 This Bacardi campaign is un-fucking-believable. It'll be a cold day in hell before I go near one of their products. http://is.gd/17XHt
3161. 2009-06-21 06:00 Took in the http://www.worldrosefestival.com/ this morning. Not a bad way to kill an hour & there's a children's area.
3162. 2009-06-21 07:31 Right now the top Google hit for "neda" is the National Eating Disorders Association. Bet that doesn't last.
3163. 2009-06-21 18:43 Little grocery at 18th & Columbia has divine Okanagan cherries picked yesterday. Mmmmmmmmmmm
3164. 2009-06-21 20:23 @al3x You might try typing "wide finder" into Google. Bringing concurrency to a boring ol' data processing problem.
3165. 2009-06-21 20:55 Kudos to Nikon for advertising the D5000 by shooting a US Open commercial with it.
3166. 2009-06-22 02:35 Via @webmink journos discovers Scientology is sleazy, abusive, and larcenous. Also, there was a Tuesday in last week. http://is.gd/18MlP
3167. 2009-06-22 02:53 Neda Agha-Soltan has a Wikipedia entry: http://bit.ly/fYR5d
3168. 2009-06-22 04:32 Depth of Field consciousness-raising: http://bit.ly/r7jPA
3169. 2009-06-22 05:55 The Internet's payload: http://bit.ly/vcas5
3170. 2009-06-22 16:20 @psd has another online-culture mandala in progress? http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/3650111419/
3171. 2009-06-22 16:29 @monkchips re "Rich" and "poor"; The contents of my Twitter window are usually vastly richer than a couple of meg worth of Flashturbation.
3172. 2009-06-22 16:38 I hear rustlings in the underbrush and think I smell a big fork.
3173. 2009-06-22 18:01 @SaraD Congrats! Gosh, REvolution is vacuuming up the talent... a company to watch methinks.
3174. 2009-06-22 18:06 The finance biz just doesn't get how close they're skating to a grassroots-driven political lynching: http://is.gd/19qSX
3175. 2009-06-22 22:22 @kevinmarks now an ex-googler; member of an increasingly prestigious club.
3176. 2009-06-23 05:16 Everyone loves an explosion: http://bit.ly/utzhq
3177. 2009-06-23 05:43 Got a preview of what a blog looks like on Kindle: http://bit.ly/16CtKG It's not terrible.
3178. 2009-06-23 06:17 I think I just heard an outburst of gunfire, right here in the middle of Vancouver. Sounded like it was coming from around 16th & Main?
3179. 2009-06-23 17:51 Last day, (save $250) #oscon, plus take an additional 20% off, use code os09twitter, register today: http://bit.ly/iwCts (via @oscon)
3180. 2009-06-23 21:53 Ruby marches on, resistance is useless: http://bit.ly/RzSC2
3181. 2009-06-23 22:02 Biked down to Gastown & back to visit Joyent. Bike-lane setup is fabulous these days. Maybe want a downtown/gastown/yaletown job.
3182. 2009-06-24 04:43 A usage entering the meanstream: "The Wiki says..." or "Look in the Wiki to find out..." in both cases meaning Wikipedia. We stuck with it?
3183. 2009-06-24 14:12 Test-Driven Heresy: http://bit.ly/HiRuI
3184. 2009-06-24 14:18 http://bit.ly/T0PGj via @charlesarthur - Read the comments. I saw Feargal on an early Undertones tour, this is more proof talent != brains.
3185. 2009-06-24 18:00 Yow... damn slick Android re-skinning by HTC. Really remarkable. http://bit.ly/19tZtn
3186. 2009-06-24 19:00 Congrats to Jeff Weiner on the the LinkedIn gig. Life after Yahoo...
3187. 2009-06-24 19:25 Good fun in the comments on that TDD piece: http://bit.ly/HiRuI
3188. 2009-06-24 20:09 @charlesarthur Long tail of blogging is dying http://is.gd/1ciEI "Why? Because blogging isn't easy..." Except for those of us who can't not.
3189. 2009-06-24 20:19 @cbeust Come on Cedric, tell us what you really think. (Had no idea the anti-TDD caucus was so big).
3190. 2009-06-24 22:06 Baristas wear ironic T-shirts.
3191. 2009-06-25 00:26 RT @jzawodn Tab Zero is the new Inbox Zero!
3192. 2009-06-25 03:21 Well-produced podcast of me saying the same things I always say: http://bit.ly/TD04h
3193. 2009-06-25 06:20 Whispery June rain / leafy joy is all around / umbrella sidewalks.
3194. 2009-06-25 17:45 @DonMacAskill Please share any answers you get.
3195. 2009-06-25 18:25 @becktold: traditional press releases remain relevant because twitterers pick them up. http://bit.ly/8IN4d Hmm, many more pick up @blogworld
3196. 2009-06-25 18:46 Android now supports native code: http://bit.ly/SAedj (via @crazybob)
3197. 2009-06-25 20:36 Actually, I don't think native code on Android is a big deal, the existing framework gives most apps all they need. But flexibility is good.
3198. 2009-06-25 20:43 Super-intense Tehran video: http://bit.ly/qmGy3
3199. 2009-06-25 21:49 He died before he got old.
3200. 2009-06-25 23:58 @unclebobmartin There are intelligent conservatives but unfortunately in the USA they're now obscured by hypocritical Republican buffoons.
3201. 2009-06-26 07:24 My personal fave MJ video: http://bit.ly/ZMqNP (via @donpark)
3202. 2009-06-28 21:16 48 hours without having touched the computer. The Internet seems to do just fine without me.
3203. 2009-06-29 05:55 @unclebobmartin No-one's against energy per se. It's the side-effects on the planet. More is better as long as my kids still have a home.
3204. 2009-06-29 18:09 There's something happening here / What it is ain't exactly clear...
3205. 2009-06-29 19:53 Just about burnt the cottage down with inherited BBQ. Need a new gas BBQ. Doesn't need to be big. Opinions?
3206. 2009-06-29 21:27 Last-second save; didn't send nasty mean-spirited tweet even though someone was Wrong On The Internet. That'll be my good deed for the day.
3207. 2009-06-29 22:34 @Smokinn In the case of Nasdaq, they bought the company that built the software for their core trading system. Way over $1M & worth it.
3208. 2009-06-29 23:32 @jtauber's new gig: http://eldarion.com/ One to watch, I'd say.
3209. 2009-06-30 05:06 Eeek, @gruber thinks Adobe's heading down the drain. Perhaps they could spin off Lightroom first, please? http://is.gd/1iMnd
3210. 2009-06-30 05:11 Feels immoral not to pass along this short Shai Agassi pitch on climate change: http://bit.ly/13SqVp
3211. 2009-06-30 05:16 This Crossbow thing in OSol2009.6 is ultra-cool. Here's a "Hello world." http://bit.ly/11DzZZ
3212. 2009-06-30 05:25 Kent Beck is writing some important stuff: http://bit.ly/nRw5G
3213. 2009-06-30 05:29 Paul Downey is writing some important stuff: http://bit.ly/NyzBF
3214. 2009-06-30 17:31 An outstandingly practical example of how open public-sector data could pay off. http://is.gd/1jiRT I'm impressed.
3215. 2009-07-01 00:31 I've read this a dozen times and still end up making rude loud guffawing sounds: http://freeworld.thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html
3216. 2009-07-01 03:37 At Vancouver Canadians single-A ball games between innings 5&6 they have a race between 3 giant pieces of sushi.
3217. 2009-07-01 06:42 I believe there is a subtle new category of spam blogs emerging.
3218. 2009-07-01 16:34 Got a comment from http://www.wendycarlyle.com/ Hmm... read the "about" and follow the blogroll links. Subtly spammy patterns emerge. Sad.
3219. 2009-07-01 20:01 _why's latest brainchild: http://hackety.org/potion/ You can never have too many languages.
3220. 2009-07-01 20:04 Wonder if any "cost/benefit analysis" in the history of the universe was prepared by someone not trying to spin the outcome.
3221. 2009-07-01 20:29 Is this spam? http://bit.ly/13me2d
3222. 2009-07-01 21:48 “Hello World” for Open Data: http://bit.ly/HZGSy
3223. 2009-07-02 01:25 wondering how much work it would be to get top(1) working on my Android, which is running kinda slow.
3224. 2009-07-02 01:43 Wondering why there's a helicopter going round & round & round & round over central Vancouver, like for the last hour or more. Alien attack?
3225. 2009-07-02 06:01 Hah, turns out Gosling's perceptions of the Oracle transaction are 100% identical to mine. So, here's what I think: http://bit.ly/Zcpj2
3226. 2009-07-02 06:42 The harder the SEO knuckle-draggers are working to pull people somewhere, the lamer it's going to be. That's almost a tautology.
3227. 2009-07-02 20:54 @dewitt The upside is, you're allowed outbursts of unreasonable grouchiness.
3228. 2009-07-02 21:19 @gruber says "... there’s no longer any dispute over the future of HTML". Which is not exactly what he meant I think.
3229. 2009-07-02 21:51 Deep thinking about Israel/Palestine options: http://bit.ly/QDCMj
3230. 2009-07-02 22:59 Slow REST: http://bit.ly/NIDsN
3231. 2009-07-02 23:04 Tokyo! - 3 alien directors' reflective rampaging romp through old futureland. Must-see I think. http://tiny.cc/X0Zwn (via @GreatDismal)
3232. 2009-07-03 07:45 Gack... just hit my first-ever apparent bug editing Wikipedia. The people who run WP are goddesses&gods to me & mortals should forgive gods
3233. 2009-07-03 21:51 XML in Oxford: http://bit.ly/EOsoR
3234. 2009-07-04 02:59 @codinghorror Android devices have those. Immensely helpful.
3235. 2009-07-05 04:36 I enjoy @IngenBio and others might too.
3236. 2009-07-06 04:27 Tweeting from Cranbrook, BC. It feels a long way from anywhere.
3237. 2009-07-07 14:08 @asbjornu Ape was being attacked and don't have time to invest in defense. Run a local copy: sudo gem install ape && ape_server
3238. 2009-07-07 18:04 HTML5 without <video> is a whole lot less interesting. But maybe I'm weird.
3239. 2009-07-07 20:11 I mean a video tag that's better than what we have now, i.e. says "use this file format and it'll Just Work". I can make video work now.
3240. 2009-07-07 21:14 @avibryant Are there any Vancouver f2f go-playing get-togethers? If not we should organize one.
3241. 2009-07-09 00:37 VLC 1.0 rah rah http://www.videolan.org/ - plays everything, doesn't crash.
3242. 2009-07-12 02:45 Bright summer Saturday on The Main getting gelato for the kids. I am a member of a civilization.
3243. 2009-07-12 04:38 "Generation M", sooooo 1968. http://is.gd/1vvvP But not everything that came out of 1968 was bad.
3244. 2009-07-12 04:44 Hey, a USB chainsaw. http://www.usbchainsaw.com/
3245. 2009-07-12 18:49 "The ‘Infrastructure’ IS an application, a long running process with inputs, outputs and state." http://is.gd/1wcoY
3246. 2009-07-12 21:35 Upgraded the Android app I'm talking bout at OSCON next week to Cupcake. Should've months ago. No sweat, one new checked exception in 2kloc.
3247. 2009-07-12 21:37 @pjb3 Um, JRuby seems to work OK. What's your point?
3248. 2009-07-12 22:08 One of Java's major contributions is proving to the world that checked exceptions, while plausible in theory, are a bad idea.
3249. 2009-07-12 22:09 @joshu Twidroid seems to be the default choice but I find it irritatingly slow.
3250. 2009-07-12 23:49 Reading "Infinite Jest" this summer. A couple hundred pages in it hasn't reached out & grabbed me, but hasn't repelled me either.
3251. 2009-07-13 18:45 2009 JVM Languages Summit, Sep 16-18 in Santa Clara. Outstanding event, don't miss it: http://bit.ly/5ljTJ
3252. 2009-07-13 21:26 Visited pingwire.com briefly. If you didn't have a life, you could easily spend an hour there with a blank TV stare.
3253. 2009-07-14 22:53 Eek, nasty little race-condition bugs are so easy to miss and can wreak such utter havoc. Threads are part of the problem not the solution.
3254. 2009-07-15 02:33 Oooh, entertaining Ruby/Python smackdown (read the comments): http://bit.ly/C18Fs
3255. 2009-07-15 07:37 @DougCoupland Internet and Web are both proper nouns, n'est-ce pas? There's only one instance of each, like Pacific or Stalin or Punic Wars.
3256. 2009-07-15 07:38 You might want to follow @burtoncummings if you know who he is. Distinctly different tweetstream in a dark-brown voice.
3257. 2009-07-15 14:40 Hmm... no gmail since 9:30PM yesterday. Disturbing.
3258. 2009-07-15 15:21 Gatewaying from main email address to gmail suddenly borked, all email vanishing silently. One hopes I'll see them again someday.
3259. 2009-07-15 15:27 Trying out http://backupmytweets.com
3260. 2009-07-15 17:41 The Web curriculum: http://bit.ly/hNADn
3261. 2009-07-15 18:52 I've always said the big prob with nuclear power is the cost structure, but really, OUCH: http://is.gd/1zZU9
3262. 2009-07-15 18:57 Just bought some concert tickets at StubHub. Hope they're not a scam.
3263. 2009-07-15 19:36 @MaggieL I'm familiar with the pain when factual reporting fails to confirm my prejudices. Shooting messenger doesn't help though.
3264. 2009-07-15 19:47 Twitter's response is classy IMHO: http://bit.ly/Lz0QI
3265. 2009-07-15 20:03 The reliable @CcSteff is having fun with Arrington.
3266. 2009-07-15 21:19 "Liquid Image" 720x430 30fps underwater videocam goggles. I think I'd like to walk around the city streets in these. http://is.gd/1A7Fl
3267. 2009-07-15 23:50 @kk Come tomorrow where/when?
3268. 2009-07-16 06:08 Dinosaur of the day: http://bit.ly/jnOcm
3269. 2009-07-16 06:13 It's crystal clear that persistence is the hottest area in computer tech right at the moment. E.g. http://opensource.plurk.com/LightCloud/
3270. 2009-07-16 17:40 Into the Dark: http://bit.ly/IRuSL
3271. 2009-07-16 18:05 I'm not particularly a golf fan, but @danjenkinsgd is still great fun to read.
3272. 2009-07-16 18:11 Infoworld's Krill on multilanguage JVM, http://is.gd/1Be1W - quotes me about 38 times, so it must be good, right?
3273. 2009-07-16 18:24 Good cloud-API piece by William Vambenepe: http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/863
3274. 2009-07-16 19:49 SW management churn at Oracle: http://bit.ly/QXw3R
3275. 2009-07-16 20:16 Damn, it's quiet.
3276. 2009-07-16 20:51 @davidsinger A lot of people like the Panasonic LX-3 but it's hard to find. For real semi-compact excitement, you want the Olympus EP-1.
3277. 2009-07-16 22:04 Wow, two headhunters in an hour. In the dog-days of July forsooth. I sense a disturbance in The Force.
3278. 2009-07-16 23:42 Happen to have Eclipse & NetBeans icons adjacent in my dock. Deathstar vs. Borg cube, totally.
3279. 2009-07-17 05:41 Dino of the day: http://bit.ly/XsxMG
3280. 2009-07-17 05:53 Reading "Bone", big thick novelized comic my 10yr-old got. It's light-hearted & good.
3281. 2009-07-17 17:17 Feeling that we who are still generally fans of the GPL are becoming a minority. OK. But equating it to DRM is bogus. http://is.gd/1Cmbf
3282. 2009-07-17 18:04 I'd really like to like Scala. Haven't managed yet. Liked Ruby within 30 seconds of first seeing it.
3283. 2009-07-17 18:21 Is it just me or is the Tokyo Cabinet/Tyrant buzz starting to stand out from the new-database-thingie background noise?
3284. 2009-07-17 18:37 Another reason not to believe in God: http://www.evangelcathedral.net/
3285. 2009-07-17 18:50 Lazyweb: Looking for a recent report on smartphone OS market share, iPhone/Android/RIM/Symbian/WinMob. Everything I find is old or expensive
3286. 2009-07-17 19:57 Another crack in the Symbian castle wall: http://bit.ly/13qMgK
3287. 2009-07-17 20:31 Dino of the day: http://bit.ly/h5Vc3
3288. 2009-07-18 05:40 App store lament at http://www.marco.org/143265621 But is it possible even in principle to scale that sort of control to that market size?
3289. 2009-07-18 16:11 Watching the golf waiting for some get-things-done energy. Amused by the use of sailboats (in a scary high wind) for ambush advertising.
3290. 2009-07-18 20:19 @duncan Pre-smartphone, I used to buy a cheapie pay-as-you-go SIM card when in Europe. Not sure what best approach is now.
3291. 2009-07-19 00:56 @shita Twidroid seems most popular but it's irritatingly slow
3292. 2009-07-19 03:01 Fresh-picked peas from the garden with Okanagan Gewürtztraminer. Really hard to improve on.
3293. 2009-07-19 05:49 Best-ever dino of the day. Seriously. http://bit.ly/3k2sNh
3294. 2009-07-19 17:27 In Vancouver we just spent like $2B on a subway/elevated system. Maybe BRT would've been smarter: http://is.gd/1ElTe
3295. 2009-07-19 19:06 Yow, nasty bushfires up in the Okanagan. A normal part of the ecosystem, but no fun: http://is.gd/1EpYB
3296. 2009-07-19 19:22 Alberta Skies — Incoming! http://bit.ly/nkssD
3297. 2009-07-19 19:24 A-a-a-a-and... it's OSCON week! Pity about it being in SJC, I'd so much rather be packing for Portland.
3298. 2009-07-20 04:07 @dsifry http://ruby-doc.org/
3299. 2009-07-20 06:42 Seven months of Android: http://bit.ly/3cCVNX
3300. 2009-07-20 15:34 (eek, pardon dupe tweet)
3301. 2009-07-20 17:25 Wildfire in the Okanagan, aggregated pix: http://is.gd/1FrR9
3302. 2009-07-20 18:33 I read this (http://is.gd/1Fv9s) and I'm starting to think it might be a moral obligation to pirate the Lennon-McCartney catalogue.
3303. 2009-07-20 22:48 When you have to get a haircut to go to OSCON, you know you've been letting things slip.
3304. 2009-07-21 02:13 OH: You can't kill a doohickey.
3305. 2009-07-21 02:14 At the old Yaletown brewpub, 1st time in years. Beer's still good.
3306. 2009-07-21 15:21 "TransactionAwarePersistenceManagerFactoryProxy" - you couldn't make it up: http://fiber-space.de/wordpress/?p=1016
3307. 2009-07-21 16:56 Wondering what the good OSCON socials are this evening.
3308. 2009-07-21 16:57 Sexy UNIX commands: date, unzip, touch, strip, finger, mount, gasp, yes, top, man, uptime. (via @chrispirillo) (via @ernieattorney)
3309. 2009-07-21 18:00 Introducing major-bit-barf bugs in the software I'm presenting tomorrow at OSCON. Open Source, gotta love it.
3310. 2009-07-21 18:53 A good introductory NoSQL posting: http://bit.ly/1718E3
3311. 2009-07-22 00:53 Hell, seem to have lost my macbook power supply along the way. Where in downtown San Jose can I buy one? #oscon
3312. 2009-07-22 01:16 Thanks folks for the good advice. The Network Is The Shopping Advisor.
3313. 2009-07-22 05:04 @kk I've had a beard since 1975.
3314. 2009-07-22 16:10 OSCON size down but, looking around, I think (unlike some other gatherings this year) not disastrously.
3315. 2009-07-22 17:06 Just noticed that my preso this afternoon is competing with one about cloud APIs and another about (I'm doomed) sex: http://is.gd/1HOs4
3316. 2009-07-22 17:07 Michael Lopp AKA Rands in Repose: Good speaker! #oscon
3317. 2009-07-22 17:54 Note to self for future use: Valerie Aurora (talking about btrfs) throws candy to the audience. Smiles all around.
3318. 2009-07-22 18:39 #oscon WiFi is working fine with my Mac, but neither my Android nor my neighbor's Fedora can DHCP. Blecch.
3319. 2009-07-22 19:03 Ted Ts'o: SSD's are a long way from $-parity. See Hetzler's "The Storage Chasm" http://is.gd/1HV7q Still useful for specialized uses #oscon
3320. 2009-07-23 07:12 Hah! Dancing with the geeks to mouldy disco classics, can't beat it.
3321. 2009-07-23 07:22 I'm a friend of Erlang but this is obscenely funny: http://bit.ly/16TpIw
3322. 2009-07-23 16:48 Simon Wardley: "Don't worry about feeling lost. This is a cloud computing talk. Feeling lost is normal"
3323. 2009-07-23 18:11 Polemics are fun, but specific concrete proposals are better: http://bit.ly/103LTS
3324. 2009-07-23 19:00 Usually agree with @SaraD but #oscon isn't a ghost town. Down some like the rest of the biz, but not bad. Hangovers all round this morning.
3325. 2009-07-23 20:50 Pushback on my link to http://bit.ly/103LTS from @diveintomark - e.g. "zombie lies". I guess he disagrees.
3326. 2009-07-24 01:02 Oscon is really very good indeed. Good people, good talk. Now let's go back to Portland.
3327. 2009-07-24 01:04 Caught half the Cassandra talk. It's totally a contender.
3328. 2009-07-24 18:00 Bruce Lawson declaiming the unimpaired wonderfulness of HTML5. Gotta wear shades. #oscon
3329. 2009-07-24 18:10 Apple is dueling w/Palm about music and with Google about Latitude (http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=21695). How many fronts can they fight on?
3330. 2009-07-24 18:30 </oscon> :(
3331. 2009-07-24 19:28 Light traffic on 101, blasting along to the big backbeats on Little Steven's Underground Garage, XM59. Aaaaaaaah.
3332. 2009-07-24 20:45 Jeepers, SFO is packed end-to-end, just crawling. Allow a little extra time.
3333. 2009-07-25 03:43 I'm performing tomorrow at Illuminares: http://www.flickr.com/photos/publicdreams/3739480021/sizes/l/ C'mon out, it's a blast.
3334. 2009-07-25 21:35 Hey Vancouver, skip the firework mobs tonight for music/lantern magic: http://is.gd/1MxLG & http://is.gd/1MxME (Disclosure: I'm performing)
3335. 2009-07-26 05:55 Vancouver weather isn't like this. Warm rain, steady thunder, weirdly intense orange sky. Kids wouldn't go to sleep, couldn't blame 'em.
3336. 2009-07-26 16:36 The best radicals are old radicals; Tom DeMarco on the end of software engineering: http://bit.ly/QDqnX via @unclebobmartin
3337. 2009-07-26 16:39 Waffles with maple syrup over fresh-cut mango. Hard to beat.
3338. 2009-07-26 16:55 There's no evolutionary pressure to increase male attractiveness, sigh: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6727710.ece
3339. 2009-07-26 18:54 Wonder if there's a good meteorology blogger out there who can explain WTF happened to our weather in the last 24 hours. Insanity.
3340. 2009-07-26 19:55 That meteorological blogger: http://is.gd/1NQMb - via http://friendfeed.com/gburd Scary stuff, read it if you're in the Pacific Northwest.
3341. 2009-07-27 00:20 Having stuck to the score for 90 minutes in the rain yesterday, it's the Spanish Banks drum circle tonight for hot free-form sunjamming.
3342. 2009-07-27 05:32 I GOT BLISTERS ON MY FINGERS
3343. 2009-07-27 14:49 OSCON 2009 report, with pix: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/07/27/OSCON
3344. 2009-07-27 16:18 More bad Sys-con craziness. Thought the "Ulitzer" cancer was some temporary spasm, but it seems they're standing behnid it. (via @monkchips)
3345. 2009-07-27 16:31 Don't speak at sys-con conferences. Don't go to them. Don't advertise on their sites. Don't read them. Insanity: http://is.gd/1P4N4
3346. 2009-07-27 17:05 One of my fave little Mac apps: Keyboard Cleaner, http://bit.ly/ECLYM
3347. 2009-07-27 23:30 half the bloody internet is refreshing my random-error-message generator. It's just a ruby CGI, people. "Cap'n, she can't take any more..."
3348. 2009-07-28 02:23 David Byrne disses U2 with a smile http://is.gd/1PG7b I love his music & blogging too, but still have tickets to the Vancouver U2 show.
3349. 2009-07-28 02:39 @bramcohen Well, and not to mention *wrong* about everything.
3350. 2009-07-28 03:03 Every new wave of Net technology has its detractors. Fair enough. But Twitter's seem unusually mean-spirited. http://is.gd/1PKcn
3351. 2009-07-28 03:04 @Scobleizer Heh, had forgotten your previous gig as World Chief Tablet Computer Evangelist.
3352. 2009-07-28 03:18 It's like this, you see: the JRuby guys' meetings are now in hip funky SoMa instead of boring corporate Santa Clara. Easy choice.
3353. 2009-07-28 05:02 Making MySQL & Amber road play nice (read the comments too): http://bit.ly/algks
3354. 2009-07-28 05:16 @haaretzonline I believe haaretz.com has been hacked. I get Windows viruses trying to install when I retrieve stories.
3355. 2009-07-28 06:03 Crawler from much-ballyhooed new stealth search engine Blekko by Skrenta et al, see scoutjet.com, walking through my blog right now.
3356. 2009-07-28 07:19 @dsifry Why?
3357. 2009-07-28 07:56 Did a Tab Sweep on the blog. It's been months. I blame Twitter. Still too many tabs though. http://is.gd/1Q6sq
3358. 2009-07-28 15:48 @swardley Anything appearing on any Sys-con property is either (a) hysterical rubbish or (b) scraped from elsewhere. Just ignore them.
3359. 2009-07-28 17:09 David Eaves says smart things on open-source community-building: http://is.gd/1RkOQ
3360. 2009-07-28 17:18 "Bashing Goldman Sachs Is Simply a Game for Fools" - http://bit.ly/1j9a5
3361. 2009-07-28 17:18 @enkrates Aquamacs FTW
3362. 2009-07-28 21:18 OMG, stumbled into the Wikipedia entry for XML; it's appalling. Fixed a couple of just-plain-wrong things but it needs many hours of work...
3363. 2009-07-28 21:41 Woah, looks like Ulitzer is deindexed from Google. http://bit.ly/13RWv2 (via @aral) (via @samj) Justice.
3364. 2009-07-29 05:49 Eep, Twitter nudging me to upgrade to the latest Firefox. But I don't use Firefox. Huh?
3365. 2009-07-29 06:01 Another Tab Sweep with not much politics but lotsa juicy links & some bad language, you'll love it: http://is.gd/1SdhF
3366. 2009-07-29 06:30 "Almost married" - a story I'll never know: http://bit.ly/2FDTB
3367. 2009-07-29 14:09 OSCON keynote on women in open souce; this matters! http://bit.ly/qpsVO
3368. 2009-07-29 16:22 @sogrady http://www.satech.com/ - good cheap memory.
3369. 2009-07-29 16:26 Go crazy and come to a Ruby conference in an obscure corner of Japan (http://is.gd/1SToH): http://bit.ly/EEuWA
3370. 2009-07-29 17:46 Dropped by Home Depot, some supply-chain genius had scored a few pallets of air-conditioners. Smily sweating people stuffing Toyota trunks.
3371. 2009-07-29 17:59 If the world gets into a trade war right now, we are *so* toast. Someone slap the EU upside the head http://bit.ly/11oxVk (via @pkedrosky)
3372. 2009-07-29 22:49 "Android Needs More Developer Evangelists" - well said. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/43958
3373. 2009-07-30 03:29 It's official now... hottest day ever recorded in Vancouver. The air has forgotten how to move.
3374. 2009-07-30 03:49 ZOMG Leica S-series. Words fail me. http://www.dpreview.com/news/0907/09073001leicassystemprice.asp
3375. 2009-07-30 04:52 @morrildl Nobody knows how to energize a volume of air linearly without bringing a certain amount of very rigid mass to the table.
3376. 2009-07-30 05:11 Recent sat photo of the neighborhood. Clouds? Those are what are over the ocean. http://is.gd/1TQql
3377. 2009-07-30 06:56 God help me, I'm blogging about blogging. That's so 2005.
3378. 2009-07-30 07:21 Highlights from the Hokkaido bellybutton festival (stay till the end): http://bit.ly/LnmUr
3379. 2009-07-30 07:44 Bad Dogs: http://bit.ly/WGQQN
3380. 2009-07-30 15:13 Is blogging over? http://bit.ly/sts7a
3381. 2009-07-30 16:02 Rejecting blog comments promoting loony "Zeitgeist" conspiracy film. Guess I must be part of the conspiracy now.
3382. 2009-07-30 19:41 Sun Web Stack 1.5. I've always hand-assembled my stacks in the past, but would be happy to avoid that work: http://is.gd/1UQYu
3383. 2009-07-30 20:30 Trying NetNewsWire 3.2ß, syncing with Google Reader, wondering what's up with NewsGator.
3384. 2009-07-30 20:49 Thinking about PubSubHubbub, I keep having little Erlangs scurrying across the back of my mind.
3385. 2009-07-30 20:52 @brentsimmons Instapaper is sorta like the 2009 flavor of del.icio.us?
3386. 2009-07-30 23:04 Whenever I type "port upgrade whatever", I'm astounded at all the stuff that gets pulled in. We've woven a tangled web indeed.
3387. 2009-07-31 00:24 @gruber 3rd-last para seems somehow inconsistent with the rest... that *is* the biz they're in, de facto, you've just said so for 23 paras.
3388. 2009-07-31 07:01 Yep, the geeks are right. NetNewsWire is now the coolest icon in my dock, by a wide margin. Also good: Tweetie and Aquamacs.
3389. 2009-07-31 07:05 Cute yellow bird, via the awesome power of the Pentax 50-135: http://is.gd/1VE37 (Pixel-peepers' special edition)
3390. 2009-07-31 07:09 The wisdom of developing for (to quote @davewiner) the platform with no vendor becomes more & more obvious: http://is.gd/1VEnd
3391. 2009-07-31 07:11 @Skud @gnat consider the venerable but still pretty good "asswipe"
3392. 2009-07-31 07:14 @jobsworth I never used Feedburner because it'll intermittently get your blog blocked in China. No regrets so far.
3393. 2009-07-31 15:16 Good God, eBay paid $2.6B for Skype and didn't actually get the technology rights? Can't wait to hear the juicy details.
3394. 2009-07-31 16:54 A synthospamblog whose cheery mechanized obsession made me smile: hotnz dot com
3395. 2009-07-31 16:57 Developing for the iPhone is like picking up dimes in front of a steamroller.
3396. 2009-07-31 17:25 Hate the name, but the word-cloud is cool: http://bit.ly/bFRSS
3397. 2009-07-31 19:58 Maybe more like playing a slot machine in front of a steam roller. (via @gruber)
3398. 2009-08-01 03:26 How does one report a spammer? In this case, @socialbang, who does an auto-reply pimping his site to anyone who mentions gambling.
3399. 2009-08-01 03:29 Maplesoft Sold To Cybernet Systems http://ow.ly/15Jssh (via @techvibes) I was briefly Maple's CEO in 1989. Wonder what the real story is?
3400. 2009-08-01 14:22 Hopping on the boat to Keats island & away from the Net. See y'all Monday.
3401. 2009-08-03 17:21 from the mercury
3402. 2009-08-03 17:23 Oops. At sea... http://twitgoo.com/21cf8
3403. 2009-08-03 22:09 Amazing live sand-animation performance (Україна має талант) http://tinyurl.com/lnwzxs (via @GreatDismal)
3404. 2009-08-03 23:26 Via @gruber BusyMac looks cool but doesn't do contacts, Spanning Sync does. Spanning sync shaky on cals (eg complex repeats) though. Hmm
3405. 2009-08-04 00:28 Last week we had lunch with Blaine & co; discovered @Maureen (recommended) and PubSubHubbub (jury out). Good people/lunch!
3406. 2009-08-04 01:46 @mezzoblue Isn't that "current" tattoo craze like 15 years old now?
3407. 2009-08-04 03:26 This is essentially the OSCON btrfs talk. Way cool but I wouldn't be too eager to bet on filesystem futures: http://lwn.net/Articles/342892/
3408. 2009-08-04 03:31 Holy crap, serious Prairie weather hits a country-music hoedown. In Alberta today: http://bit.ly/JqZul
3409. 2009-08-04 03:42 Simply not worrying about who or how many are following you has many benefits. Try it. It shouldn't affect what you say anyhow.
3410. 2009-08-04 06:08 Cottage Life: Building things (with blurry eagle): http://bit.ly/xVUAH
3411. 2009-08-04 06:38 Say what you will about the boy, but Zed's never boring: http://zedshaw.com/blog/2009-08-03.html
3412. 2009-08-04 17:17 Nice Python-vs-Ruby survey concludes: "These languages are interchangeable". Yep. http://is.gd/22pEO
3413. 2009-08-04 19:55 Damn damn damn can we get this #$*^! deal done!?!? http://is.gd/22zpw #mylifeisonhold
3414. 2009-08-05 02:26 Anyone got an opinion on what the Wikipedia XML article should say? Drop by http://bit.ly/3AWp82 & speak up!
3415. 2009-08-05 04:32 Ad on Gmail: "FP jobs on Wall Street - www.janestcapital.com/tech.html - Erlang programmers welcome! Research & development jobs in NYC"
3416. 2009-08-05 06:32 What was the most important year in human history? http://bit.ly/3uxT0e
3417. 2009-08-05 14:32 Prime Number of the Day: 99999989 (via @mikeloukides). Some people will look at that # and smile. It's OK if you don't, though.
3418. 2009-08-05 15:29 "browsers should not be controlled by big companies with agendas to control your desktop": @jimParkinson
3419. 2009-08-06 02:34 OMG a gleaming white BMW 328 done up inside &out in ultrapink Hello Kitty. We live in the End Times.
3420. 2009-08-06 02:55 New Toshi sounds like nice hardware, put a decent OS on & you'd have something. Used to love my Portegé back in the day: http://is.gd/243Ns
3421. 2009-08-06 06:28 Oliver Nelson, "Stolen Moments". Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
3422. 2009-08-06 08:35 A small anniversary: I've been editing Wikipedia here and there for five years.
3423. 2009-08-06 08:49 @jtauber They say it's about "XML elements with unexpected byte values and recursive parentheses". Have written them asking for details.
3424. 2009-08-06 08:51 @jtauber The assertion that Python's expat gateway is affected is troubling; If expat itself is vulnerable, ouch.
3425. 2009-08-06 15:36 If a big chunk of the MSM all decided to put up paywalls all at once, would that be an antitrust violation?
3426. 2009-08-06 16:28 Starting to hate the splodgy little "NoSQL" label. How bout "nonrelational"? Anyhow, nice write-up from BJ Clark: http://is.gd/258qw
3427. 2009-08-06 17:01 @sogrady It's like this: 0°C is freezing, 10°C chilly, 20°C nice, 30°C hot. I'm not a metric bigot but for temps it's clearly a winner.
3428. 2009-08-06 23:07 apache + lighttpd + memcached + mysql + php + python + ruby + squid + tomcat + glassfish + hudson = SWS http://is.gd/25AOT
3429. 2009-08-07 04:55 @rams It's open-source, use it for free. Pay if you want support.
3430. 2009-08-07 15:13 @MargaretLAtwood Lumpiness is OK sometimes. Your writing is considerably lumpier than, say, Ms Munro's silky flow, but both are nice.
3431. 2009-08-08 02:08 Feeling like this particular Friday calls for cheezy YouTubing: http://bit.ly/21ltDN (via @GreatDismal).
3432. 2009-08-08 02:09 More YouTube cheese: http://bit.ly/PSa71
3433. 2009-08-08 05:07 Latest update on Twitter DDoS situation, Friday 8pm PDT: http://bit.ly/HsHeo (via @twitterapi) (via @obie)
3434. 2009-08-08 15:59 Building a PubSubHubbub hub would be fun. But how would you make money?
3435. 2009-08-08 20:40 Fixing XML: http://bit.ly/MjQEi
3436. 2009-08-09 02:05 Does anyone know anyone at haaretz.com? Their website is totally hacked and trying to virus my browser.
3437. 2009-08-09 05:03 I've liked Sonic Youth for 25 years. Lots of perfectly reasonable people don't. http://bit.ly/esKGM
3438. 2009-08-09 16:57 @samj Trevor & Jacob's BigRoom thingie is interesting, they have some cool ideas on "green" label stdization & data publishing.
3439. 2009-08-09 19:18 Hmm, I still hit the favorite button sometimes. Is anything/anybody watching? http://twitter.com/timbray/favorites
3440. 2009-08-09 19:43 Was thinking of going to Burnaby bluesfest, but it remains disturbingly damp.
3441. 2009-08-09 20:53 "As a working parent, I am often asked to speak on work-life balance. When I get time, will write more." That says it (via @Padmasree)
3442. 2009-08-09 21:10 Well, when this Web hype runs outta steam, those of us who remember COBOL will be fine: http://is.gd/29zIW
3443. 2009-08-10 01:00 Dinner at Jericho yacht club. Mmmmmm http://twitgoo.com/25gra
3444. 2009-08-10 02:16 Vancouver cliché http://twitgoo.com/25hcz
3445. 2009-08-10 03:21 @anildash Android/iPhone pieces: Salling Sync, doubleTwist, iTunes Remote.
3446. 2009-08-10 04:01 @morrildl Maybeso, but I really want IDEs now for Perl & Ruby & Python & C & Erlang & JavaScript. If only for "Find usages".
3447. 2009-08-12 17:40 Blog & tweet: http://bit.ly/p2xdu
3448. 2009-08-12 17:55 @kasthomas "wikipedianess at its worst" Huh?!?!