0. 2006-12-05 17:04 Sitting in Palazzo Franchetti on the Grand Canal in Venice
1. 2007-08-22 16:18 Heading to football in Barceloneta to inflict more pain on the wimps from Yahoo! Research...
2. 2007-08-26 15:17 Trying to focus on making slides for PyCon UK... finding many ways to not.
3. 2007-08-26 17:33 Contemplating coffee #3 for the day...
4. 2007-08-27 01:50 Listening to the Tiger Lillies "The Gorey End", rewriting large chunks of complicated Python (I love Python), 4am coming up.
5. 2007-08-28 00:00 If a bird twitters in the forest but has no followers...?
6. 2007-08-28 00:12 Helping n00b rustlem to get his mind around the web.
7. 2007-08-28 04:05 Foregoing a final bowl of cereal for sleep, after watching Japanese human tetris at http://tinyurl.com/2zaxuu
8. 2007-08-28 23:35 I hate building software...... why can't things just frigging work?
9. 2007-08-29 01:49 Aiming for more than 3 hours sleep tonight...
10. 2007-08-29 14:11 Checking out Eli's application
11. 2007-08-29 22:58 Waiting for Steve Hofmeyr to show up in skype...
12. 2007-09-01 11:55 Wondering where my twits from last night ended up.
13. 2007-09-01 11:56 I wrote two twits last night, and they both vanished. This is just like real SMS!
14. 2007-09-06 01:31 Laughing out loud at what I have created.
15. 2007-09-08 13:35 In a twisted talk at PyCon UK, laughing with Russell at Bar's twittering.
16. 2007-09-11 01:17 Processing 16G video of my pycon talk.
17. 2007-09-12 08:11 so - much - to - do - doh - re - me - fah - soh - lah - te
18. 2007-09-15 20:48 www.walkscore.com tells me the nearest coffee shop is 15.17 miles away, and finds NO bars near me. I beg to differ...
19. 2007-09-16 23:16 Listening to Red Birds Will Fly Out of the East and Destroy Paris in a Night by Coil
20. 2007-09-19 13:39 Steve MacQueen jumped the first one clean...
21. 2007-09-19 13:40 ... maybe next time Steve.
22. 2007-10-02 00:02 overheard @andrewparker burp
23. 2007-10-02 00:06 @albertwenger title?
24. 2007-10-02 00:48 Listening to Bonnie Prince Billy's Southside of the World. "Where were the rapists, when I was a child? They were my neighbors."
25. 2007-10-02 02:15 B.E.D.
26. 2007-10-02 02:17 @plasticbagUK goodnight Tom :-)
27. 2007-10-02 15:42 Just decided to go to FOWA in London. http://www.futureofwebapps.com
28. 2007-10-16 00:47 filling in gaps on dopplr
29. 2007-10-16 14:24 Eating beautiful ripe figs from the Santa Caterina market...
30. 2007-10-16 22:30 Listening to WSB: "He lifts the abdominal wall and searches along the incision, dropping ashes from his cigarette..."
31. 2007-10-17 02:30 Playing with Mahalo data: 18189 URIs in 932 categories from 1015 files. Hmmmm.
32. 2007-10-18 00:14 Making impossible searches possible.
33. 2007-10-18 01:56 Waiting for 1106 unit tests to finish.
34. 2007-10-18 14:15 More fresh figs from the Santa Caterina market. Succulent luscious sensual sweet decadent. I am a fruit bat.
35. 2007-10-18 14:28 More figs. The wall and stained glass windows of Santa Maria del Mar are a few meters from my balcony. They're playing the organ. Fabulous.
36. 2007-10-20 01:28 "Casually appearing from the clock across the hall..."
37. 2007-10-21 09:10 My kingdom for a blog.
38. 2007-10-22 05:16 @barshirtcliff blood
39. 2007-10-24 03:54 Exhausted from traveling all day then spending all night booking yet more travel. Bed.
40. 2007-10-25 01:12 Executive summaries are hard.
41. 2007-10-25 21:22 just back from giving yet another of my patented confusing presentations
42. 2007-10-26 02:48 Twisted the towel... http://tinyurl.com/27aoux now off to bed.
43. 2007-10-26 11:37 I'm following 43 people... none of whom has twittered in the last 6 hours? Impossible, unless the world has ended and I haven't noticed yet.
44. 2007-10-27 01:48 Heading into bed with my two kids. Pouring outside. Spout of water gushing from the mouth of the gargoyle outside my window.
45. 2007-11-01 01:11 Played football tonight. Tired. Just checked out 3 new branches of our code... cool! Heading to bed for sleep deficit ketchup.
46. 2007-11-01 17:06 just covered a book. takes me back to 1974.
47. 2007-11-03 02:19 @barshirtcliff covered a book.... you know, with sticky plastic. Vol 2 of Orwell's letters, essays, journalism. Property of R. Manley.
48. 2007-11-03 02:34 @barshirtcliff You have a followers:following ratio of 3:1. How do you do it? I'm so jealous. Send me their IDs immediately.
49. 2007-11-03 20:28 heading off for duck curry with Fergus
50. 2007-11-05 10:32 Listening to Cal Henderson talking about scaling and HA at Web 2.0 in Berlin
51. 2007-11-06 09:17 Listening to Art Bergman talk about operations
52. 2007-11-06 10:21 In Next Generation Datacenter talk at Web 2.0 Berlin
53. 2007-11-06 10:42 Art Bergman has just said "we have a distributed cooling system in people's home desktops". Great.
54. 2007-11-06 17:04 twittering from a nokia 810...... nice
55. 2007-11-06 20:37 Paying through the nose to get online for 30 mins... 6 euros. THANKS a lot vodafone - very bloody friendly.
56. 2007-11-06 22:39 In the lobby of hotel Ibis. Thinking: beer. Free internet, wooo. Faded keyboard.
57. 2007-11-07 08:04 @cervus glad you liked it....
58. 2007-11-07 08:06 @barshirtcliff you're only as alone as you feel. haw haw haw. "Precisely" he thought.
59. 2007-11-07 08:13 listening to Andreas Weigend on data. he's great! reminds me strongly of Bob Arno.
60. 2007-11-07 08:45 @vascellari how do you know your client wont be following you on twitter next week....?
61. 2007-11-07 08:49 "yummy profits" D. E. Shaw internal saying - Jonathan Laventhol, Technology Director, Imagination.
62. 2007-11-07 09:01 "leveraging the wisdom of the masses, or the stupidity of the masses, whatever you want" - Andreas Weigend
63. 2007-11-07 12:58 wondering where my 2 last twitters went to. grrrr.
64. 2007-11-08 00:03 sitting once again in the lobby of the fabulous hotel ibis in berlin
65. 2007-11-08 21:57 catching up on everything. I've sent this to twitter FOUR times now. they've all been dropped.
66. 2007-11-11 22:44 Re-reading the Twitter API docs.... thinking
67. 2007-11-11 23:21 Updating status via curl
68. 2007-11-12 00:10 The Twitter API doesn't let you do anything interesting.
69. 2007-11-12 01:41 Posting from python-twitter inside emacs...
70. 2007-11-12 01:44 @barshirtcliff well..... i'd like to get at the graph. see people's followers and friends. you can only do that to a very limited extent.
71. 2007-11-12 01:57 @barshirtcliff see email
72. 2007-11-12 02:19 switching to buffer .phonebook-old
73. 2007-11-12 02:20 switching to buffer /Users/terry/.emacs.el
74. 2007-11-12 02:21 Entering Python mode.
75. 2007-11-12 02:22 switching to buffer /Users/terry/jon.es/src/Fluidinfo/trunk/Avs/avs/attributeInstances.py
76. 2007-11-12 02:23 Entering Python mode.
77. 2007-11-12 02:23 switching to buffer /Users/terry/jon.es/src/Fluidinfo/trunk/Avs/avs/namespace.py
78. 2007-11-12 02:24 switching to buffer /Users/terry/oh-my-god-there-go-all-my-followers!
79. 2007-11-12 02:30 M-x twit
80. 2007-11-12 02:45 @barshirtcliff M-x tweet i guess, yes. i'm not going to do much more, so go ahead.... send me the result!
81. 2007-11-12 03:01 'sí, mañana... prueba de palabras con acentos desde emacs.'
82. 2007-11-12 03:06 sí, mañana... prueba de palabras con acentos desde emacs.
83. 2007-11-12 03:10 ¿esto funciona?
84. 2007-11-12 03:12 ¿esto funciona? ¡sí!
85. 2007-11-12 03:15 última prueba: ¿esto funciona?
86. 2007-11-12 03:38 Blogged on twittering in emacs http://tinyurl.com/2bjcdw
87. 2007-11-12 16:37 just back from lunch, and still in love with emacs after all these years.
88. 2007-11-12 16:44 @vacellari yeah, and it's a hell of a lot warmer here too. see http://tinyurl.com/yshcs3
89. 2007-11-12 17:10 finished reading the titles of 486 Twitter Development Talk mailing lists posts
90. 2007-11-12 21:43 twittering in emacs -> straight to my blog at http://fluidinfo.com/terry
91. 2007-11-13 00:32 just introduced Bob Arno to his doppelganger, Andreas Weigend
92. 2007-11-13 01:51 reducing philosophy to engineering
93. 2007-11-13 14:37 listening to Meeting Of International Conference Of Technological Psychiatry - wsb.
94. 2007-11-13 14:38 "are we to gulp down this tissue of horseshit?"
95. 2007-11-13 14:48 "I studied appendectomy in ninteen-four at Harvard"
96. 2007-11-13 14:48 "He lifts the abdominal wall and searches along the incision, dropping ashes from his cigarette..."
97. 2007-11-13 22:06 New blog post: Bicycle removal problem - solution http://tinyurl.com/ywv9fy
98. 2007-11-13 22:09 @vascellari Not Found Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.
99. 2007-11-14 00:31 learning about Python descriptors. i had no idea.
100. 2007-11-14 02:57 small finite amounts of chocolate
101. 2007-11-14 03:00 @barshirtcliff gas..... that sounds very bad. bike solution: aw shucks.
102. 2007-11-14 03:47 "it's a payment which precludes the having of fun" - bonnie prince billie
103. 2007-11-14 14:40 New blog post: The young are different http://tinyurl.com/24yj9m
104. 2007-11-14 17:06 New blog post: Is Andrew Parker secretly running Union Square Ventures? http://tinyurl.com/2bgx6m
105. 2007-11-14 17:25 @cameronreilly nice idea re iTunes. the 2 minute elevator pitch is history. you've got one twitter to present your idea, or your're toast.
106. 2007-11-14 17:42 off to play football
107. 2007-11-15 00:31 just mailed @gapingvoid anyone else in barcelona for microsoft ETech?
108. 2007-11-15 00:55 @HodracirK wesabe mint remember the milk
109. 2007-11-15 02:19 running unit tests......
110. 2007-11-15 03:11 "The president, with his toadies and familiars, is now 500 feet down in solid rock. With enough fine foods, wine, liquors...
111. 2007-11-15 03:13 hash, coke, and heroin to last 100 years. And the longevity drugs to enjoy it. Held off the market in the interest of national security."
112. 2007-11-15 04:37 New blog post: Stop in the middle of something http://tinyurl.com/2hq2rf
113. 2007-11-15 14:19 @barshirtcliff did you register at the site? you have to, and give it an email addr, then it sends you conf. i'll try.
114. 2007-11-15 22:59 @cervus the teacher ruled it out and made me write "when i grow up i'm going to be a doctor". i remember it & still have the book. i was ~6
115. 2007-11-15 23:02 Twitter's brain is scrambled. It shows me messages from the last 26 mins, then jumps all the way back to Nov 7th!!!!
116. 2007-11-16 03:21 @barshirtcliff when i look at it, and click on the title of an article, at bottom there's a link to log in to comment. register there. sorry
117. 2007-11-16 04:54 New blog post: Flakey Twitter and the use of consecutive ids http://tinyurl.com/2amyk2
118. 2007-11-16 12:15 @barshirtcliff i just changed a setting that i think should make it easier to comment.
119. 2007-11-16 12:19 @anamosterin try commenting again....
120. 2007-11-16 23:18 New blog post: Dinner at Els Quatre Gats http://tinyurl.com/2dsu79
121. 2007-11-17 02:22 writing the web
122. 2007-11-17 23:15 New blog post: The Mahalo-Wikipedia-Google love triangle http://tinyurl.com/39ou6t
123. 2007-11-18 00:56 @Coneee :-) just thinking out loud. wouldn't fit in twitter...
124. 2007-11-18 07:43 sleepless
125. 2007-11-19 01:14 In NYC at meetup.com
126. 2007-11-19 03:15 eating a roast beef & tomato toasted onion bagel on E. 12th st ny, ny
127. 2007-11-19 23:21 playing with an iphone. Too bad I don't like bandwagons. Text entry not easy.
128. 2007-11-20 03:08 New blog post: Not exactly Brownian motion in Manhattan http://www.fluidinfo.com/terry/2007/11/19/not-exactly-brownian-motion-in-manhattan/
129. 2007-11-20 19:14 New blog post: No comment http://www.fluidinfo.com/terry/2007/11/20/no-comment/
130. 2007-11-20 19:16 Off to buy my daughter a Wii. Or to try to.
131. 2007-11-20 21:06 Got Wii. Saved 70 euros on the price in Spain. Weeeee....
132. 2007-11-20 23:16 fighting with wordpress to get it to send me mail on comments.... grrr
133. 2007-11-20 23:33 "S.S. America, Jersey coast. Ladies and gentlemen there is no cause for alarm. We have a minor problem in the boiler room, but everything"
134. 2007-11-20 23:34 "is now under...." sound effects of a nuclear blast. explosion splits the boat. Doctor Benway, ship's doctor, drunkenly added 2 inches to a
135. 2007-11-20 23:36 4-inch incision with one stroke of his scapel. "Perhaps the appendix is already out doctor" the nurse said.
136. 2007-11-21 18:21 @barshirtcliff indeed. opens many doors. you may not want to go through them, but it's nice to have them open.
137. 2007-11-21 18:23 Off to return my apparently region-locked Wii. Grrrrrr. Thanks Esteve, wherever you are.
138. 2007-11-21 18:32 @andrewparker g'luck!
139. 2007-11-22 02:12 Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the
140. 2007-11-22 02:12 guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence. Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit. Beckett
141. 2007-11-22 02:30 New blog post: Twitter creeps in http://tinyurl.com/2ek2m9
142. 2007-11-22 03:15 Listening to Red Birds Will Fly Out of the East and Destroy Paris in a Night.
143. 2007-11-22 03:29 "Wise words from the departing: Eat your greens, especially broccoli." Coil
144. 2007-11-22 03:51 Marking up nth version of a 27-author paper on the global circulation of seasonal influenza A(H3N2). Highlight changes on screen.
145. 2007-11-22 04:11 @barshirtcliff Beckett essay on Proust? It's great... I have a copy, specially ordered sometime in 1987/8... probably avail on ABE.
146. 2007-11-22 04:14 "They're bound to get you, coz they got a curfew, and you go to the Starkville city jail" J. Cash
147. 2007-11-22 20:30 heading up to west 67th to page back in and work on 4500 lines of perl CFO code. ugh! can't stand perl.
148. 2007-11-23 01:18 Hating perl. I wrote THAT????? omfg
149. 2007-11-23 04:34 New blog post: Can't stand perl http://tinyurl.com/2b9x4b
150. 2007-11-23 07:47 @timbray http://tinyurl.com/25xgew is worth a read. not comprehensive, mid 2006.
151. 2007-11-23 16:28 New blog post: Off to LA http://tinyurl.com/yt4uqb
152. 2007-11-23 17:28 @timbray you could graph it. see http://tinyurl.com/2amyk2
153. 2007-11-23 19:04 Free wifi at the jetblue terminal (6) at JFK. Reason enough to choose an airline. Smart.
154. 2007-11-23 19:20 New blog post: Free Wifi with JetBlue at JFK terminal 6 http://tinyurl.com/2aun22
155. 2007-11-23 20:06 @nelson is my mail hitting your spam folder? kill file? :-)
156. 2007-11-24 06:55 In LA drinking beer with Michael Hawley
157. 2007-11-25 02:41 New blog post: Hacking Twitter on JetBlue http://tinyurl.com/yuesfd
158. 2007-11-25 18:39 updating my status to "updating my status to "updating my status to "updating my status to "updating my status to "updating my status"""""
159. 2007-11-25 20:02 @barshirtcliff i think so. still ironing out the kinks in my direct twitter <-> neural gateway. fighting self-reference at all lev ...
160. 2007-11-25 20:04 @dweinberger you've got writer's blog!
161. 2007-11-26 04:56 New blog post: The blogging honeymoon is over http://tinyurl.com/2y9dyb
162. 2007-11-27 00:32 Wiped out after just 2 meetings. Lightweight. Heading to Oakland...
163. 2007-11-30 07:55 New blog post: Elevator status report http://tinyurl.com/22asml
164. 2007-11-30 08:47 yes, i'm still alive...
165. 2007-12-01 00:45 Catching up on email in the Oakland airport, waiting on flight to Las Vegas
166. 2007-12-01 00:59 "Russell Choked, Russell Choked, will you please report to US Airways ticket counter."
167. 2007-12-01 02:15 @ev you're in vegas, or going to vegas?
168. 2007-12-01 03:36 New blog post: reCaptcha added http://tinyurl.com/2h3m45
169. 2007-12-01 06:07 six hour (and counting) delay out of Oakland to Vegas.... ETA now 3am.
170. 2007-12-01 11:40 Now at Bambi's!
171. 2007-12-01 11:41 This from inside emacs
172. 2007-12-02 03:07 proving once again that i can't lie down and read
173. 2007-12-02 07:28 New blog post: Pushing back on the elevator pitch http://tinyurl.com/2xpfvc
174. 2007-12-02 08:29 Twittering at the end of the comments in http://tinyurl.com/2bo35o
175. 2007-12-03 16:43 New blog post: Free wifi, with blacklisted IP, in Vegas McCarran airport http://tinyurl.com/yvjjxf
176. 2007-12-03 17:12 Waiting for a flight out of Vegas to Chicago. Bling bling bling... poker machines
177. 2007-12-04 00:53 sitting at Daniel's in the village of lakewood (chicago) catching up on email
178. 2007-12-05 05:35 hands almost back to normal after 30 mins shoveling snow.
179. 2007-12-05 15:31 looking out the window at more snow. more shoveling later.
180. 2007-12-05 18:58 @esteve wow, nice...
181. 2007-12-05 23:10 it's time to stop shoveling snow when you no longer have the strength to empty the shovel, and find yourself carrying 1/2 a shovelful back.
182. 2007-12-06 00:22 heading down to -17C in crystal lake tonight... no naked snow angels around here.
183. 2007-12-07 03:52 hot hands from shoveling yet more snow.
184. 2007-12-07 16:28 getting ready to fly chicago -> barcelona, via paris. then back to paris on monday for Le Web. 10 flights in 24 days. enough...
185. 2007-12-07 17:41 @barshirtcliff yeah... sorry i never made it into town. glad you liked End Of The Road. i loved the boy scout uniform scene.
186. 2007-12-09 06:51 @barshirtcliff i should read that again. kirilov was always my fave. but i read it at 25 or so. a mere slip of a lad.
187. 2007-12-09 07:19 so nice to be back in barcelona after 3 weeks staying with others. knew something was missing: just made myself a coffee. mmmmmmmm.....
188. 2007-12-09 07:54 New blog post: Random travel thoughts http://tinyurl.com/2hbmzf
189. 2007-12-10 02:21 windiest i've seen in 12 yrs of barcelona. balcony doors banging breaking glass crashing howling blackness trees down... falling gargoyles?
190. 2007-12-10 11:15 heading off to Le Web in paris...
191. 2007-12-10 11:16 @cervus thanks!
192. 2007-12-11 08:06 dead slow wifi at le web...
193. 2007-12-11 09:23 @TechCrunch he didn't pick either. that may have been when he said i like both for different reasons (or was that wired vs biz week?)
194. 2007-12-11 09:26 wifi at le web is like molasses. nowhere to leave coats. the handle on my new bag broke. whine whine whine.
195. 2007-12-11 14:38 @pkedrosky are you in paris or watching from a distance?
196. 2007-12-11 15:32 @Joi - just sent you email about meeting at Le Web.
197. 2007-12-11 15:50 sitting in the startup presentations at le web.
198. 2007-12-11 16:13 can't believe that anyone still uses Windows. i hate windows. it's a tax on my life imposed by my friends, traceable to microsoft. ugh ugh.
199. 2007-12-11 16:25 @TDavid i don't play any games :-)
200. 2007-12-11 16:26 @mbites where in the room are you. i'm front right, row 4.
201. 2007-12-11 17:10 @TDavid you're not a geek? i guess the reverse question is that geeks are v opinionated on the subj, wonder why non-geeks are not.
202. 2007-12-11 17:12 @TDavid i don't ask much... but windows drives me crazy. it's SO unreliable, SO annoying, the DLL model is SO broken. machines clog up ugh.
203. 2007-12-11 18:37 back in the hotel. worn.
204. 2007-12-11 19:01 the amazon kindle is truly horrible.
205. 2007-12-11 21:06 @tomit Mozy (beta) has been _utterly useless_ for me on my mac. @nelson says it's great on windows.
206. 2007-12-11 21:19 limits to networking: missing the Le Web party, thankfully. looks exactly like a place i'd find unbearable: http://www.lascalaparis.com/
207. 2007-12-11 21:22 can't understand why 6 Apart gave attendees a (substantial, nice) pocket knife. perfect gift for the traveler with no checked bags!
208. 2007-12-11 22:50 New blog post: As I please: pizza margarita & 2 beers http://tinyurl.com/2eb9lk
209. 2007-12-12 10:01 spontaneous user testimonial at le web! "on my 60 inch HDTV" uh, right :-)
210. 2007-12-12 16:02 @leweb3 jeez! just skipped straight over david weinberger and HE'S SITTING RIGHT HERE in the audience. #leweb3 unbelievable.
211. 2007-12-12 22:32 New blog post: Conference panels - self-indulgent, elitist, and smug http://tinyurl.com/yuhwuv
212. 2007-12-12 23:46 New blog post: Carrying a knife onto a plane http://tinyurl.com/yrwxuj
213. 2007-12-13 00:02 @timbray Hi Tim. Python is really great. I switched after nearly 30 years of coding. So happy I did. Read the Ruby book too, made my choice.
214. 2007-12-13 00:04 @timbray btw, noted your note on Python on p45 of Beautiful Code. I'm surprised how much the aesthetics of code matters. Old dog, new trick.
215. 2007-12-13 01:12 @pkedrosky glad you liked it :-) There are plenty more where that came from. Have you noticed this phenomenon http://tinyurl.com/3cdtg4 ?
216. 2007-12-13 01:43 New blog post: User authentication in a world with no free will http://tinyurl.com/2b2vm9
217. 2007-12-13 01:49 @pkedrosky choosing a seat on a flight with two aisles, i always take one on the right. micro-optimizations to take away dullness (dulles?).
218. 2007-12-13 01:51 puzzle for y'all http://tinyurl.com/2an73w see elsewhere on blog for one solution. think first! :-)
219. 2007-12-13 09:07 @mroth pizza & 2 beers :-) http://tinyurl.com/2eb9lk
220. 2007-12-14 03:19 @barshirtcliff guilty as charged, and knew it at the time. a shameless, relentless, non-stop, networking machine. totally uncool.
221. 2007-12-14 03:30 pondering
222. 2007-12-14 08:42 @rafer it's nice, huh? thanks for the Le Web support!
223. 2007-12-16 10:31 it's 3C outside. thinking i should probably turn on a heater.
224. 2007-12-16 16:12 @dweinberger very few BOS delays stateside. See http://www.flightwait.com/
225. 2007-12-20 00:34 so many people are grumpy on twitter. xmas. midnight mandarins for me.
226. 2007-12-20 02:42 planning how to bring a 300x120 cm whiteboard home to live with me...
227. 2007-12-20 20:52 @vascellari happy b'day!
228. 2007-12-21 16:39 blocking out the light
229. 2007-12-22 21:58 rearranging multiple large bookcases
230. 2007-12-23 09:14 wondering how i could have accumulated so many clothes
231. 2007-12-27 21:26 googling Zijuatenejo
232. 2007-12-30 19:38 "Last night I was informed I could not, in the NYT, say the phrase 'All hell broke loose'." Paul Krugman http://x98.us/gt minute 40:05.
233. 2007-12-30 19:38 "So we changed it to 'things started to go wrong.'"
234. 2007-12-30 20:07 "we now have fair trade with china. they send us poisoned toys, we send them fraudulent securities." krugman min 65:20
235. 2008-01-01 19:35 New blog post: I resolve to waste less time online http://tinyurl.com/28aopo
236. 2008-01-01 23:05 New blog post: My email setup http://tinyurl.com/ys5sla
237. 2008-01-01 23:35 New blog post: Amazon just billed me 14 cents http://tinyurl.com/2fyudx
238. 2008-01-03 19:45 New blog post: I just deactivated my Facebook account http://tinyurl.com/2cerjj
239. 2008-01-04 01:04 New blog post: More email customization http://tinyurl.com/23kqnj
240. 2008-01-04 01:36 New blog post: Both my kids beat me at Connect 4 http://tinyurl.com/2b2hvu
241. 2008-01-04 01:50 @simonw yes, i've seen that. fixed by lowering SSLCipherSuite level in apache. email me for details: terry atatat jon dotdotdot es
242. 2008-01-04 02:19 @timbray did you switch version control systems? consider hg vs bzr? i'm leaning towards bzr after much reading. i'm done with svn, i think.
243. 2008-01-04 18:44 New blog post: Tagging in the year 3000 (BC) http://tinyurl.com/2alqog
244. 2008-01-05 23:34 @barshirtcliff But I'm reading less email than ever. I'm really happy with my new setup, it's much more efficient and much less intrusive.
245. 2008-01-11 08:08 New blog post: Wifi on a bus http://tinyurl.com/ysw9uv
246. 2008-01-11 16:19 New blog post: Free wifi at Stansted http://tinyurl.com/ypfgwa
247. 2008-01-18 03:07 New blog post: Twittering from inside emacs http://tinyurl.com/2fxuw4
248. 2008-01-19 00:58 New blog post: One email a day http://tinyurl.com/27mcqe
249. 2008-01-20 11:35 New blog post: Giselle is served an apple martini, but she doesn't drink it http://tinyurl.com/yp52ku
250. 2008-01-23 17:46 New blog post: Understanding high-dimensional spaces http://tinyurl.com/2c5lkn
251. 2008-01-24 15:54 New blog post: Final straws for Mac OS X http://tinyurl.com/yt4c6v
252. 2008-01-24 16:37 New blog post: Sort uniq sort revisited, in modern Python http://tinyurl.com/ysqr9o
253. 2008-01-24 16:38 New blog post: iteranything http://www.fluidinfo.com/terry/2007/05/07/iteranything/
254. 2008-02-09 02:17 @rgleeson coming to Barcelona?
255. 2008-02-12 13:44 @fredwilson took you a while to find that one :-)
256. 2008-02-13 17:05 The power of representation: Adding powers of two http://x98.us/syb
257. 2008-02-13 17:07 @bfeld http://tinyurl.com/2lpbbl
258. 2008-02-13 20:40 New blog post: The power of representation: Adding powers of two http://tinyurl.com/3yy787
259. 2008-02-13 20:42 New blog post: Multiplying with Roman numerals http://tinyurl.com/2zvc3p
260. 2008-02-13 20:42 New blog post: why data (information representation) is the key to the coming semantic web http://tinyurl.com/2zybpz
261. 2008-02-13 20:44 New blog post: Talking at TTI/Vanguard Smart(er) Data conference http://tinyurl.com/2sbcnf
262. 2008-02-14 07:12 @weissman not surprising... facebook has deep right wing connections. see e.g., http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook
263. 2008-02-14 07:13 @aweissman not surprising... facebook has deep right wing connections. see e.g., http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook
264. 2008-02-14 10:06 New blog post: How the democrats could blow it. Again. http://tinyurl.com/38l9yh
265. 2008-02-14 14:14 @martinvars actually, parenting teaches you that the meaning of life IS life. sounds trite, but that's my post-existentialist conclusion.
266. 2008-02-15 20:31 New blog post: Keynote is good http://tinyurl.com/2q97a5
267. 2008-02-15 22:45 @dweinberger which text is that?
268. 2008-02-17 23:13 @bpm140 hey eric - things are going.... apace. which is much better than apart. off to atlanta in the morning. then ETech early march. you?
269. 2008-02-20 14:22 sitting in the TTI/Vanguard Smart(er) Data conference.
270. 2008-02-20 14:23 Nova Spivak about to speak: Making Sense of the Semantic Web
271. 2008-02-20 17:01 Marvin Minsky talking to Doug Lenat....
272. 2008-02-20 19:27 Listening to Dan Ariely talk at Smart(er) Data. Nice optical illusions and other oddities.
273. 2008-03-01 01:54 New blog post: Amants de Lulu http://tinyurl.com/2kstz6
274. 2008-03-01 01:55 New blog post: Thiefhunters in paradise http://tinyurl.com/2n2rop
275. 2008-03-03 05:12 Wondering how the Discovery Channel can be so appallingly dumbed down. And with that horrible sensationalist voice, like watching CNN.
276. 2008-03-03 05:14 @pkedrosky I just blew into SD, happy to say hi @ ETech. Talking at 2pm Wednesday.
277. 2008-03-03 05:40 @pkedrosky *before* my talk? i.e., you want to help prepare the slides? cool. seriously - that would be fine.
278. 2008-03-03 13:26 @kevinmarks sense of self-importance? :-)
279. 2008-03-03 16:06 @nelson happy b-day. i even had it in my calendar, but you beat me to it :-)
280. 2008-03-03 18:19 A man at the table next to me at breakfast this morning ordered the Eggs Benefit
281. 2008-03-04 15:34 @mattb lookin' so white & cute in that little white towel! Cue the steam, it's like a Turkish bath, here at the Y-M-C-A, the Y-M-C-A-ay
282. 2008-03-04 16:00 Finally, stardom! On Mahalo daily, wondering why I let my hair be cut militarily short http://tinyurl.com/33g5q2
283. 2008-03-04 16:59 Thinking that one coffee will not be enough...
284. 2008-03-04 17:37 NaN just popped up on the ETech presentation screen. Should've gotten more of a laugh.
285. 2008-03-04 19:39 is that karl rove on the escalator going up to ETech? splitting image if not...
286. 2008-03-05 01:11 @esteve i hope not! there's no conference T-shirt, i'm afraid. BUT, i lashed out and bought you one from some people here. you'll like it.
287. 2008-03-05 14:37 just managed to hit myself in the head with the lid of my own laptop. duh.
288. 2008-03-05 16:45 New blog post: More fragments of Orwell http://tinyurl.com/3dggfo
289. 2008-03-05 21:24 @zenchaos been there, done that. and it re-broke. i didn't go back to the dentist :-( thanks for the earlier link; hadn't seen, will read.
290. 2008-03-05 21:38 @pkedrosky missed you? I'm talking 2-2:45, will be floating around after that.
291. 2008-03-06 17:53 couchDB dual presenter format at ETech really isn't working
292. 2008-03-06 18:07 @fredwilson see http://youtube.com/watch?v=3DfsHk9WC7fnQ for inspiring usage of "fuck". just talked to @alexiskold at ETech.
293. 2008-03-06 18:09 @kellan you MUST be in the couchDB talk. it's really really really not working. it's annoying.
294. 2008-03-06 21:05 post-ETech decompression, with a coffee.
295. 2008-03-06 21:48 The Wendy's on Broadway & 1st in San Diego is invariably full of crazies. (And yes, obviously, I feel right at home.)
296. 2008-03-07 03:12 @kevinmarks I'm still here, @mattb is still here, I think. But I ate already. A beer a bit later would be good.
297. 2008-03-07 06:27 so.... tired
298. 2008-03-08 01:04 New blog post: Anything for him but mindless good taste http://tinyurl.com/2wr7qp
299. 2008-03-08 04:47 New blog post: 500 West hotel, San Diego http://tinyurl.com/2r5jp9
300. 2008-03-08 16:17 @dsifry i have code that can help with your iTunes problem. finds and/or deletes dupes in your filesystem. is very fast. terry /AT/ jon . es
301. 2008-03-08 23:40 @plasticbagUK i can give you an example, from the weird and wacky world of algorithms.
302. 2008-03-08 23:45 @timbray wow, that photo series is great! thanks. the people who make the Failure posters should make a series out of them.
303. 2008-03-08 23:47 @timbray the 2nd and 3rd trucks are from the same company and are the same size. i wonder if they have _any_ trucks left...
304. 2008-03-08 23:48 New blog post: San Diego ramblings http://tinyurl.com/35d4r3
305. 2008-03-08 23:48 New blog post: Lucky Streak http://tinyurl.com/39cepo
306. 2008-03-09 03:15 New blog post: Another thought on Mahalo http://tinyurl.com/2rrmoh
307. 2008-03-09 10:55 @voidspace you were at SFI, as in Santa Fe Institute?
308. 2008-03-09 11:00 Sitting in the Delta Crown room on concourse E in Atlanta airport for the next 11 hours...
309. 2008-03-09 11:26 New blog post: iPod vending machine http://tinyurl.com/2vmxkc
310. 2008-03-09 12:49 @RussB bikes with no pedals seem the way to go. all over barcelona, not that you're in spain anymore. E.g., http://www.likeabike.co.uk/
311. 2008-03-14 09:03 Mac OS X crashed. Again.
312. 2008-03-14 09:07 @bpm140 way to go... congrats. Love the name!
313. 2008-03-17 05:28 awoke thinking of Twitter-based apps. again.
314. 2008-03-17 05:36 @loiclemeur you can't explain why Twitter is so quiet in 140 chars? Links are so passé. You know no one's going to click through :-)
315. 2008-03-17 05:39 @loiclemeur dude, you need to get some fake books on the shelves behind you. Like they have in Ikea or when George Bush is interviewed.
316. 2008-03-17 06:45 wondering how the python docs on urllib and urllib2 can be so poorly written.
317. 2008-03-18 04:57 @loiclemeur what's so huge? you took my advice and bought some encyclopedias for your bookshelf??
318. 2008-03-18 04:57 @swardley mornin' guv
319. 2008-03-18 05:02 @swardley i'm on a bizarre up-at-4am schedule. it actually works quite well. i've spent decades going to bed at 4am, so it's a bit of a flip
320. 2008-03-18 08:17 automating EC2 bootstrapping... very manual, lots of steps. but fun.
321. 2008-03-18 08:48 EC2 sudo poweroff at 6 euro cents a pop. i could sell this to geek wannabees who've never been root.....
322. 2008-03-18 09:57 good Don Dodge article on startups http://tinyurl.com/24dc7h
323. 2008-03-19 06:14 bed at 10:45pm, up at 2am, back down at 7:10am, kids wake in 1 hour, work with @esteve at 10am... my startup hours. i love coding in python.
324. 2008-03-19 14:52 Steeling myself to dig into some old perl... Ugh. Should I go for total immersion and edit in vim, to round out the primitiveness of it all?
325. 2008-03-20 11:43 wrangling H5 & H7 flu data. human capacity for putting unexpected crap into excel sheets knows no bounds. how to automate away stupidity?
326. 2008-03-20 17:30 another day spent saving the universe from influenza with perl. fingers in pain. time for kids.
327. 2008-03-22 15:19 New blog post: Twitter dynamics: unfollowing guykawasaki, Scobleizer and cameronreilly http://x98.us/t8b
328. 2008-03-22 16:22 @aweissman One Great Jones (Street) http://tinyurl.com/3auhns :-) From an old photo shoot.
329. 2008-03-22 16:26 @pkedrosky agreed. you could be next! chin up, signal/noise ratio up :-) love the links, thx.
330. 2008-03-22 17:03 @aweissman sounds good! let's see if you buy the adjective first though :-)
331. 2008-03-22 17:12 "But I did know that the future was dark. Failure, failure, failure - failure behind me, failure ahead of me. That was by far the deepest
332. 2008-03-22 17:13 conviction that I carried away." --- George Orwell, from his essay 'Such, Such Were the Joys" 1947.
333. 2008-03-22 18:22 @ben_research it's 4 volumes, at least as published by penguin. there's also the single-volume Everyman's Library edition, with big overlap.
334. 2008-03-22 19:10 @pkedrosky http://business.alexanderalaric.com may be automated. try blogging that the site is ripping you off. maybe it'll show up there.
335. 2008-03-22 19:13 @pkedrosky you're on his/her blogroll! the link in http://x98.us/u8b is to your site. continuous dup posts. smells a bit like a bot.
336. 2008-03-22 19:21 @pkedrosky see also http://x98.us/v8b and http://x98.us/w8b seems to be your man. @bambivalent1 has been dealing with same; hers an ex-cop!
337. 2008-03-22 19:29 @pkedrosky also see http://alexanderalaric.com/ and http://tinyurl.com/32ylnt he's your man.
338. 2008-03-23 01:41 New blog post: The unmistakable screams of the freshly robbed http://x98.us/x8b
339. 2008-03-23 18:07 @pkedrosky do you ever look at http://twitter.com/replies when you come back to Twitter? i have a feeling you do not....
340. 2008-03-23 18:49 @barshirtcliff commenting on your blog
341. 2008-03-23 19:02 @pkedrosky i sent 4 re Alexander Alaric last night, and a couple in SD when at eTech - maybe they were too old by the time you looked.
342. 2008-03-23 19:22 off to bed super early, still sick. document avoidance mode.
343. 2008-03-25 21:37 @zenchaos UGH!
344. 2008-03-26 16:08 Wrestling with trying to create feature matrix from hell. Not channeling Tufte.
345. 2008-03-27 10:32 New blog post: Finishing Orwell’s Essays, Journalism and Letters http://x98.us/38b
346. 2008-03-27 16:19 Amazon EC2 adds static IP support http://tinyurl.com/27rs3s
347. 2008-03-30 19:52 In NY for an hour so far. Met with Esther Dyson & coffee with @JasonCalacanis. Trying to remember why I'm running a startup in Barcelona...
348. 2008-03-30 21:25 @vascellari yep, it sure was. and also http://flickr.com/photos/jasoncalacanis/2374935622/
349. 2008-03-30 23:24 Instead of working on a presentation I just dropped $100 at Strand books. More Orwell. A lot more Orwell, inc 3 biographies. Mmmmm...
350. 2008-03-31 00:22 Documenting the thatbox.
351. 2008-03-31 10:42 New blog post: Dare to try sushi! http://tinyurl.com/2qvllq
352. 2008-03-31 10:43 @esteve good idea.... changing my slides :-)
353. 2008-04-01 01:55 how not to get my banking dollar: charge $45 to put a GBP check into my US account. drawn on barclays, not on another planet. Chase bank.
354. 2008-04-01 11:36 To all my followers: Arise!
355. 2008-04-01 19:03 Visiting Ingres at 9 West 57th street. No cell phones in the building lobby. Can't have too much idiotic security. Reason: "building policy"
356. 2008-04-01 19:05 Had lunch at the New York Yatch Club on 44th. The trophy room curiously bare! Australians not terribly popular. No jokes! Photos at 9.
357. 2008-04-01 19:06 Duh... yacht.
358. 2008-04-01 23:01 @shayman hi steve. nice to see you again!
359. 2008-04-02 00:08 New blog post: A curiously empty space in the heart of Manhattan http://x98.us/08b
360. 2008-04-03 03:03 At Rob and Hadji's on 30th & 5th in Manhattan....
361. 2008-04-03 03:46 @r_sheridan rob! hi!
362. 2008-04-04 01:43 @kellan you COULD learn python by tomorrow. i'm out in SF all next week, will teach python for beer.
363. 2008-04-04 01:51 @lotd "By working the soil, we cultivate the sky. We embrace the vegetable kingdom." Coil, Broccoli.
364. 2008-04-04 03:21 Kepha wanting to know you as an entrepreneur is so rare you could mistake it as a phishing site to harvest business plans http://x98.us/b9b
365. 2008-04-04 04:00 New blog post: Individuality, transparency, and the cult of impersonality http://x98.us/c9b
366. 2008-04-04 11:28 New UK coin design. The whole is definitely greater than the sum of its parts... http://www.royalmint.com/newdesigns/designsRevealed.aspx
367. 2008-04-04 11:30 @pkedrosky commiserations. that's how i end the day (JFK->LAS).
368. 2008-04-04 13:13 @mbites she's really that ugly? i thought that was just an urban myth. maybe you need http://tinyurl.com/6bjc3d
369. 2008-04-05 07:22 in vegas talking to bambi !
370. 2008-04-06 23:23 @timbray Dopplr has us both in the SF Bay area next week. Coffee? I'll show you what we're building, put a smile back on your face.
371. 2008-04-07 17:17 @zenchaos hi and hi to jim (if it's that jim). i just landed SFO and am in Oakland.
372. 2008-04-07 22:50 Alpha/Beta testing in Berkeley... hmmm
373. 2008-04-09 01:30 @sarawinge you have to look at it as a massage. framing. thanks for the pointer to linda. we've spoken & will meet next Tuesday in NY.
374. 2008-04-09 02:04 @ robert_sheridan learn ElementTree, btw. nice & simple. and fast. from xml.etree.cElementTree import ...
375. 2008-04-09 02:09 @amarshwren hey! welcome. i owe you an email reply...
376. 2008-04-09 05:21 I have 140 followers. I follow 140. This twitter message has a length of precisely one hundred and forty characters, not more, and not less.
377. 2008-04-11 02:39 If I had $10K for every time I've been told: @fredwilson will LOVE this, I wouldn't be raising money. Heard it again today. Twice.
378. 2008-04-11 07:24 Wordpress just zapped 90% of a blog post due to (I guess) a syntax error. Fuck.
379. 2008-04-11 08:08 New blog post: Everything you think you know is wrong http://x98.us/h9b
380. 2008-04-12 03:34 Installing kubuntu on a new Thinkpad T61p... ah, the simple joys of life. Adios Mac OS X.
381. 2008-04-13 02:03 visiting jordan hubbard and his many pets outside santa cruz. just played 1942 for the first time in over 20 years.
382. 2008-04-14 11:19 Wondering if I should skateboard 30 blocks uptown to my 8:45am meeting.
383. 2008-04-14 17:20 lawyering up!
384. 2008-04-14 17:26 @JasonCalacanis At took you a full 4 minutes to get 50 emails in? I guess it's a slow day, Monday morning, etc. Or are you losing your mojo?
385. 2008-04-14 17:39 @zenchaos It's fun, old friends, new friends (on Twitter), interests largely aligned, simple, etc. All good.
386. 2008-04-14 18:50 New blog post: The trouble with bitter http://x98.us/l9b
387. 2008-04-14 21:25 People ask me why I'm dumping Mac OS X. Just came back from a 2 hour meeting. Click on the app I was using. Spinning color wheel for 3 mins!
388. 2008-04-14 22:27 New blog post: Could someone please give Natalie Jeremijenko a MacArthur grant? http://x98.us/m9b
389. 2008-04-14 22:39 @zenchaos I do now. Will do. She told me about the calit2 connection, and we'll talk more.
390. 2008-04-15 00:01 @zenchaos black cowboy hat. tall boots. no rabbit.
391. 2008-04-15 00:03 @adactio maybe he thought you were the bad guy from No Country For Old Men :-)
392. 2008-04-15 11:10 @aweissman I have a partly-written post on exactly the same subject... as you can guess, I agree. Feeling better?
393. 2008-04-15 11:51 My love affair with Mac OS X continues. MS Word just crashed when I tried to open a first document, and the dock seems to have crashed too.
394. 2008-04-15 11:54 Dock restarted.
395. 2008-04-15 11:58 @zenchaos Natalie is @njeremijenko
396. 2008-04-15 23:53 Exhausted!
397. 2008-04-16 02:06 @fredwilson easily the best IMO are the 4 single CDs. dog on wheels, LLPJ, TIJAMRS, 369SOL. Also, don't miss Looper: Up A Tree. it's great.
398. 2008-04-16 02:34 a long, long day. inviting myself out to dinner at the Yaffa Cafe, with the collected stories of Paul Bowles. i've been too long sans Yaffa.
399. 2008-04-16 04:10 Got 4 spam mails today with the subject "4 we caught you naked terry! check the video". Sadly untrue. For a second I thought I was a celeb.
400. 2008-04-16 05:00 @robert_sheridan go Rob go! I half expected you to turn up at the Yaffa.
401. 2008-04-16 11:52 @mattb that's called power napping / micro napping.
402. 2008-04-16 12:03 @voidspace yes please!
403. 2008-04-16 12:04 @voidspace it's available online, according to @esteve but i collect dead trees....
404. 2008-04-16 12:09 @voidspace deal. thanks!
405. 2008-04-16 12:13 Contemplating an anyone-want-it twitter bot. Watches the public timeline, replies with "Yes, please!" to posts ending in "anyone want it?"
406. 2008-04-16 14:07 @amarshwren Yes, please!
407. 2008-04-16 17:41 @mmoritz Sorry, I have extremely limited time to meet with potential investors these days. I'm far too busy generating artificial scarcity.
408. 2008-04-17 05:44 Home sweet home... Barcelona
409. 2008-04-17 20:03 I'm author #2 on a paper about the spread of flu, out today in Science. Lots of coverage at http://x98.us/n9b Science URL: http://x98.us/o9b
410. 2008-04-18 15:09 New blog post: Paper on the global spread of influenza published in Science http://x98.us/q9b
411. 2008-04-18 21:23 rsync'ing 120GB to new Thinkpad T61p. Sleep.
412. 2008-04-19 10:30 happily back on Linux. feels about a zillion times faster than Mac OS X. yes, i'd like my new xterm NOW, thanks.
413. 2008-04-19 17:19 Anyone know 3 young girls currently in Barcelona who lost their digital camera this afternoon? I have it. Photos coming up....
414. 2008-04-19 17:52 New blog post: Digital camera found in Barcelona. Do you know these girls? http://x98.us/r9b
415. 2008-04-20 22:42 @hollan hey JIm! Jerry is @zenchaos
416. 2008-04-20 23:49 If I never have to install ZODB again it'll be too soon.
417. 2008-04-20 23:53 @shayman you've still got that trademark humor... Twitter is the perfect place for you to hang out, alone :-) Smiling in Barcelona.
418. 2008-04-21 00:04 I hate cables.
419. 2008-04-21 07:15 Being repurposed. I hear a voice: "Mac OS X has made him soft. We can rebuild him. We have the technology."
420. 2008-04-21 20:24 @esteve there goes your summer, dude. congrats!
421. 2008-04-21 20:26 The two funniest people I follow: @hotdogsladies and @shayman Twitter needs more stand up comedians. Recommendations?
422. 2008-04-21 21:25 @marshwren Twitter username?
423. 2008-04-22 00:08 @shayman Spurned repeatedly over time, I learned to be more circumspect regarding those to whom I offer the gift of unlimited naked power.
424. 2008-04-22 00:37 @robert_sheridan now you can put that power supply back on the shelf for another 10 years. rob.modernize(self)
425. 2008-04-22 01:31 Twitter has lost its mind.
426. 2008-04-22 20:21 New blog post: Google maps miles off on Barcelona hotel http://x98.us/v9b
427. 2008-04-22 23:36 Trying to decide if I'm hopelessly romantic or romantically hopeless.
428. 2008-04-23 00:40 2:40am in Barcelona. All (my) eyes on PA...
429. 2008-04-23 00:52 @jsellens my, how those 22 years have flown by. i was only 22 then. "leave other people alone" is my new motto. i break it frequently.
430. 2008-04-23 01:18 @jsellens looks like you've been listening to early TMBG?
431. 2008-04-23 01:26 @jsellens do you have the kids album NO by TMBG? it's great.
432. 2008-04-23 02:01 from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker -> ImportError. Grrr......
433. 2008-04-23 23:38 Hoping the comment numbers on TechCrunch posts are stored in a single unsigned byte...
434. 2008-04-24 00:55 Was just thinking it can't be long before someone writes a blog post titled "Amateur Hour at TechCrunch?". And yep, Google shows it already.
435. 2008-04-24 00:57 Was also thinking @blaine could get himself a joke T-shirt. Front: Me Blaine. Back: Blame Me.
436. 2008-04-24 07:54 Playing with cool CAPTCHA tech from PSU http://alipr.com/captcha (via slashdot). Given 4 hours sleep, I may not be 100% human - can it tell?
437. 2008-04-24 12:52 @fredwilson I noticed you smile when I said Moby Dick was boring. I wonder if you remember.
438. 2008-04-26 22:39 @shayman What's wrong with find .... -print0 | xargs -r -0 .... ?
439. 2008-04-28 10:50 @brisbourne nice. and the frequent corollary is that the successful idiot/genius then tries it again to prove it wasn't a fluke, and fails.
440. 2008-04-28 10:56 @RussB you could already do that in FF2. Just right click on the tab bar, choose Undo Close Tab. can do it over and over to bring back tabs.
441. 2008-04-28 10:58 @brisbourne see also Spurious Correlations http://tinyurl.com/jmna2 and "hitchhiking" in evolutionary biology.
442. 2008-04-28 11:05 @fredwilson another approach? http://www.411song.com/
443. 2008-04-29 00:52 @zenchaos I own 4 unicycles.
444. 2008-04-29 01:08 @andrewparker Annouce [this snooze on Twitter?] -> Announce
445. 2008-04-29 09:07 "The distant thwack of willow on leather". How we gonna get a computer to understand that? Natural Language understanding is so doomed.
446. 2008-04-29 18:28 Cynicism is great, but the major downside is that it's highly infectious. Acidic and undermining, it has a tendency to eat through the hull.
447. 2008-04-29 19:22 @jsellens You can't give blood in Canada if you've lived in Europe???
448. 2008-04-30 03:11 @robert_sheridan Remember the giant color word frequency / ambiguity poster I did for Eatoni? That was via code to make postscript. Fun too.
449. 2008-04-30 03:13 Sleep at 5am, again. A whole day spent wrapping my head around Twisted code. Fingers, thumbs, wrists, joints all ache, again.
450. 2008-04-30 03:33 @robert_sheridan Always remember: There's never a season to select kicking puppies :-) 'night.
451. 2008-04-30 15:43 @nelson @kellan - agreed too. I whizz right by them, never listened to one. Now if I could play them all at once... that might be different.
452. 2008-04-30 15:43 @pkedrosky Sure, sure. Why didn't you wave to your mom?
453. 2008-04-30 16:03 @weissman Jeez Andy, and there's so much great bpb to choose from. I have tons...... Maybe you have problems executing? :-)
454. 2008-04-30 20:16 @weissman I offer: "I'm afeared if I dont have a piglet, lamb, or little calf I'll chop my humanness in half and be as worm or virus."
455. 2008-04-30 23:32 @adam_messinger hey Adam. house hunting? couldn't handle the pace in Portland?
456. 2008-05-01 00:38 It's RSS awareness day tomorrow? I celebrate it every day of the year.
457. 2008-05-01 00:54 At 4am I'm going to crack a big bottle of San Miguel beer. It's time. Now drinking tea in preparation. 1 hour to go.
458. 2008-05-01 00:57 My beer bottle is labeled 100 cL. WTF? That's like saying something is 10^9 nanometers or 1000 millimeters long, or costs 4 quarters. Absurd
459. 2008-05-01 01:37 @JasonCalacanis can you summarize the #hosting replies? important: are you looking to co-locate or rent machines?
460. 2008-05-01 02:18 Python is nice. map(Classname, List) -> array of initialized class instances. So clean and simple, unlike another language starting w ...
461. 2008-05-01 02:38 @JohnBorthwick nice!
462. 2008-05-01 02:42 Drinking 30 cL of cold San Miguel, listening to The Bewlay Brothers. Heading towards a 100% green-light test suite...
463. 2008-05-01 02:57 @DonMacAskill and the other 1/4 is EC2/S3?
464. 2008-05-01 10:00 @nealrichter Not yet. There is a spot for some behind-the-scenes online optimization to improve resource alloc. It's mainly nuts & bolts.
465. 2008-05-01 19:04 @aweissman Did you know that track already? It's one of my favorites of his. I've listened to it ~300 times! There are many great ones.
466. 2008-05-01 19:07 @nealrichter glad you're interested in the macro-mutation paper. Say hi to Alden. I'll reply to your mail soon...
467. 2008-05-01 20:57 @aweissman I wonder if you're ready for The Tiger Lillies.......?
468. 2008-05-01 22:02 Think we're still under the radar at AWS. Just got billed $1.98
469. 2008-05-01 23:32 Twitter is hosed again.
470. 2008-05-01 23:33 Giving "500 Internal Server Error" when I try to go to people's Twitter pages. Dropped my last update mentioning this (clever Twitter).
471. 2008-05-02 11:02 @timbray delete works for me too, including via API. btw, i have code for sending tweets from inside emacs if you want it. M-x tweet
472. 2008-05-02 11:05 @Bandrew it's cause you send all the employees to the pub at 5pm each day. no wonder nothing gets done up there :-)
473. 2008-05-02 11:39 @aweissman "Time is the enemy. Time is the guy." is a fave too. Know it? It's the whole of Proust, in 2 sentences.
474. 2008-05-02 13:08 @aweissman [coughing hides noise of background googling] ah, yes, early stuff. as with Lost Blues. ok, you got me. i own it, have it on now.
475. 2008-05-02 13:09 @cameronreilly > GORE VIDAL ON LATELINE. first sensible thing you've said on Twitter :-) all is forgiven. prefer you drunk (you or me ...
476. 2008-05-02 13:29 @aweissman I have both, thanks.
477. 2008-05-02 16:09 @aweissman "as in the passenger position, Eleanor was thrashing." What a great word, thrashing.
478. 2008-05-02 18:55 Britannica so don't get it. Free access = free for 1yr. They want CC#. T&C say they'll automatically bill you, but wont send bill. Duh. DUH!
479. 2008-05-02 23:09 @DonMacAskill just emailed you a smugmug suggestion.
480. 2008-05-03 09:32 Twitter have changed things: you can only back up 4 pages now, not 9. Not good. The 4th page has no back link. Hopefully that's temporary.
481. 2008-05-03 17:46 @rabble hey - just got back from the pool. missed you by an hour or so. hope you got some rest. see you next week.
482. 2008-05-04 01:25 What's another level of indirection? There's nothing so general you can't make it more flexible with another vague & abstract layer. Shrugs.
483. 2008-05-05 01:01 "friend" is becoming an almost meaningless concept online. the implications are too long to fit into my remaining 12 characters.
484. 2008-05-05 02:20 @RussB Why not add a rule to zap them in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs ?
485. 2008-05-05 03:11 Hmmm... when did it become possible to see people's Followers in Twitter? On the dev mailing lists months ago that was ruled out.
486. 2008-05-05 08:03 @pkedrosky Have you read/seen Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead? You might enjoy the coin-tossing scene at the beginning. Brilliant.
487. 2008-05-05 08:07 @bpm140 Check out "Start a fire" by The Tiger Lillies. Start a fire, start a fire, start a fire today. Burn it burn it - burn it all away.
488. 2008-05-05 08:09 What is it with the Older link in Twitter? I can only see 2 pages of prior tweets. Madness. Maybe I should read directly, via the API?
489. 2008-05-05 10:52 "if you study the logistics and heuristics and of the mystics you will find that their minds rarely move in a line." Backwater (Eno)
490. 2008-05-05 10:54 "the shorter of the porter's daughters dips her hand in the deadly waters..."
491. 2008-05-05 13:42 suggestions for wacky / entertaining not-too-high-volume people to follow? my twitterverse is much too quiet today.....
492. 2008-05-05 17:27 @amarshwren uh, yeah. good point!
493. 2008-05-05 19:40 @pkedrosky it's not a "model", it's a fact :-) each toss starts a new trial. so if you do (2^n)+n-1 tosses, then E(#runs of n heads) = 1.0
494. 2008-05-06 12:50 @weissman That seems very expensive, but it's a while since I looked at that market. Why have your own T1 vs having machines elsewhere?
495. 2008-05-06 13:08 @aweissman right, but why not multiple DSL and put things that need fast connections on hosted machines? oh, right, music downloads...
496. 2008-05-06 13:19 @aweissman i.e., you get servers from layered or server pronto or whoever, with multiple T3 cxs. And have >=1 DSL in office. much che ...
497. 2008-05-06 17:12 Just added cron job to regularly print all followers to a file, and email me a diff from last time. If you dare unfollow me I WILL KNOW :-)
498. 2008-05-06 17:20 @adenmark I might make it auto-email a "Sorry to lose you" customer feedback form, how can we improve, etc. And auto-reciprocating unfollow.
499. 2008-05-06 17:21 Just got 3 identical emails from Twitter in 32 seconds, all telling me the same person (who was already following me) is now following me.
500. 2008-05-06 17:26 @adenmark same here, I don't get the followers emails either - as of a couple of days ago.
501. 2008-05-06 17:26 @sarawinge triggerfinger!
502. 2008-05-06 19:46 @denmark yes, it's definitely broken.
503. 2008-05-06 19:46 @adenmark oops, adenmark not denmark....
504. 2008-05-06 21:22 Mailing couch-potato apolitical friends in Indiana.....
505. 2008-05-06 22:15 @voidspace @esteve would at this point recommend http://spirit.sourceforge.net/ with easy hook in to Python.
506. 2008-05-06 22:20 @voidspace Or maybe you could put something together using the Intel Threading Building Blocks? I hear it's great :-)
507. 2008-05-06 22:39 Hold someone in Guantanamo for 6 years without charging them... Shouldn't these people be offered US citizenship? http://snurl.com/26u8j
508. 2008-05-06 23:16 @amarshwren Said couch potato is still registered with the potatoes... Jeez.
509. 2008-05-06 23:39 1 in 10 voters in Indiana are republican, apparently... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24481004/
510. 2008-05-07 00:05 Just sent an email: "you look like while i look at." Let's get a computer to try understanding that...
511. 2008-05-07 00:27 I love reading documentation. Going one more time through the Twisted.Web2 Object Traversal description for good luck...
512. 2008-05-07 01:30 The IN gap is closing. Some heavy BO counties (Monroe, Marion, Hamilton, Tippecanoe) are only at 30-40% reporting. But I think HRC has it.
513. 2008-05-07 01:45 A quick Python program shows BO cannot catch HRC in Indiana, based on CNN numbers for hamilton marion tippecanoe monroe montgomery.
514. 2008-05-07 01:55 But wait wait wait... Lake county and Laporte have a combined 600K+ people and have not reported at all. Lake is next to Chicago... Wow.
515. 2008-05-07 01:57 If BO takes Lake county 60-40 (typical for urban counties) he's going to overtake HRC.
516. 2008-05-07 02:02 WTF is going on in Lake county that they have reported NOTHING? FBI terrorism warning? Had to lock down the counting center? Hmm?
517. 2008-05-07 02:06 @cameronreilly Try the nocturnes, chief.
518. 2008-05-07 02:15 @davewiner I don't think so... What do you think is going on in Lake county? That's a huge IN unknown - could change everything.
519. 2008-05-07 02:38 No wonder the nets aren't calling IN. My program shows BO making up 7K votes on the outstanding counties, EXCEPT Lake. The diff is now 42K.
520. 2008-05-07 02:40 So can BO make up 35K in Lake? Pop=500K. If turnout=30%, BO needs to win Lake by 62-38% to get there. Quite a few IN counties are that wide.
521. 2008-05-07 02:56 @barshirtcliff well, i only do it once every 4 years. and the solution is right at hand.
522. 2008-05-07 03:16 My program shows it's all over in IN apart from Lake. gap=40K. BO needs to take Lake 64-36, assuming a 30% turnout & 500K pop.
523. 2008-05-07 03:35 The story in Lake county: http://x98.us/59b It's not over yet..... not at all.
524. 2008-05-07 03:49 I'm calling IN for Obama....
525. 2008-05-07 03:55 28% of Lake is counted. 75-25 BO-HRC split. 133K voters (projected). Means BO nets another 72K, HRC another 23K. The gap is only 20K. Done.
526. 2008-05-07 04:02 @adenmark I'm doing a mix: new math with Python and old math with my trusty HP-41CX (the last decent programmable calculator ever made).
527. 2008-05-07 04:15 Putting the 5 incomplete counties into my program shows BO gaining another 50K. Union county not reporting but only has pop 7K.
528. 2008-05-07 04:20 It's all over. Hillary cancels all morning show appearances. http://x98.us/69b
529. 2008-05-07 04:46 Yowser! My program shows BO gaining another 18409 and the gap is 16,600. Lake is tightening. This is gonna be close! Nearly 7am here... argh
530. 2008-05-07 04:54 @amarshwren insane? Me? Hillary might pick up 800 votes or so in Union County. Right, I'm off to bed. Birds chirping outside.
531. 2008-05-07 08:36 I was wrong. No more nights of amateur punditry --- until next time, that is.
532. 2008-05-07 09:04 When you sign up for Twitter they should assign you 10 random followers from speakers of your language(s). That would change its dynamics.
533. 2008-05-07 09:08 Then Twitter sends mail to the 10 randoms, saying XXX is brand new to twitter, could you lend them a helping hand, maybe make a new friend?
534. 2008-05-07 12:28 @voidspace Ah yes, in which the branching of a Splay Tree becomes so fine API return results are subject to quantum effects. Federate!
535. 2008-05-07 13:30 Gazpacho, grilled rabbit with alioli, fresh bread, beer or wine, dessert, coffee... lunch for 9 euros. Hard to beat.
536. 2008-05-07 15:52 I have 7 different sets of people visiting me in Barcelona this month!
537. 2008-05-07 23:21 @flipbrad a tab? wazza tab?
538. 2008-05-07 23:30 @flipbrad ah..... got it. In any case, I officially resigned from Cambridge in Sept of last year. Look ma, no wires! (i.e., salary)
539. 2008-05-07 23:35 @flipbrad so..... you're trying to serenade me? cute. take a number!
540. 2008-05-07 23:49 @flipbrad my great grand uncle was at Balliol: http://tinyurl.com/6jhxy5 so I can't be entirely evil!
541. 2008-05-08 02:45 4:45am (should be || am not) + sleeping = awake
542. 2008-05-08 02:54 @davewiner Chelsea?
543. 2008-05-08 14:00 @fredwilson what is an "album"???
544. 2008-05-08 14:17 @fredwilson it's ok, i found it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album that's SO retro, it rocks. where can i find an album "player" though?
545. 2008-05-08 14:39 @pkedrosky the best part of Twitter, for me anyway, is the peanut gallery element... i encourage incoming peanuts too, of course!
546. 2008-05-08 20:11 @zenchaos you were waaaaay early on twitter. web junky.
547. 2008-05-08 20:43 @timbray agreed!
548. 2008-05-08 22:28 @shayman where are you exactly?
549. 2008-05-09 01:28 Writing specs, listening to My Life in the Bush of Ghosts...
550. 2008-05-09 01:33 @barshirtcliff hi bar. not crazy, not nuts. i liked it a lot, going to read it again, as is not my habit. dog, ballast, vomit, chain, etc.
551. 2008-05-09 02:12 "Come with us. Learn the truth. We will appear from you. From time to time." Eno & Byrne, "Come with us" / My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.
552. 2008-05-09 02:22 @barshirtcliff It's a reference to the Beckett volume on Proust... you know it of course! Jeez Bar.
553. 2008-05-09 02:35 4:30am & bedtime. The Tiger Lillies "Bankrobber Blues" has been on. So I posted an old story, Manhole. http://x98.us/89b
554. 2008-05-09 02:54 @pkedrosky @freecloud If you're smarter than average then almost by definition you're always going to come up with stuff too early.
555. 2008-05-09 02:56 That's why "build something people want", which should be pretty obvious, is almost always pertinent advice to smartypants startup founders.
556. 2008-05-09 02:56 I exempt myself from attending to my own commentary, as always.
557. 2008-05-09 15:33 Ha! "Take a look at these hands. Take a look at these hands. The hand speaks. The hand of a government man."
558. 2008-05-09 20:14 More fun pickpocketing adventures in Naples from @bambivalent1 http://tinyurl.com/5u62fe
559. 2008-05-09 20:50 @JasonCalacanis I've done the bridge climb. It's good. I've also climbed the Sydney Opera House 5 times, all illegal. V dangerous when wet!
560. 2008-05-09 23:32 Off to save @rabble :-)
561. 2008-05-13 19:56 @fredwilson the UK twitter sms number is +447624801423 but your friend may need to register their device first, not sure.
562. 2008-05-16 23:03 Further twisting of my mind around Twisted. Don't call me, I'll call you.
563. 2008-05-16 23:54 Thinking someone should do a mashup of John Zorn's "The Ballad of Hank McCain" (on The Big Gundown "album") for the election year.
564. 2008-05-16 23:58 "No-one knows better than McCain what a desperate man may do when it gets too hard to bear."
565. 2008-05-17 00:05 I have 133 buffers open on files in emacs.
566. 2008-05-17 00:14 @amarshwren Yes... well I've been busy (opening files in emacs). That was 16 or 17 years ago! I still have mine too, plus newer ones.
567. 2008-05-17 00:33 @shayman Hey, you're still under NDA on my emacs setup. Shoulda made you sign a "no disparagement" agreement too!
568. 2008-05-18 00:29 "But I can't forget where my lips have been: those holy hills, that deep ravine." L. Cohen (Never Any Good).
569. 2008-05-18 02:03 Working with branches under bzr makes svn seem as heavyweight and inflexible as svn made cvs feel. SO much easier, faster, lighter, and fun.
570. 2008-05-18 02:12 branching self to bed
571. 2008-05-18 02:19 @bpm140 LOL, wow. Very interesting/amusing! The reach of @fredwilson :-)
572. 2008-05-18 22:41 @timbray Hint: http://jon.es/timbray-meaning.png
573. 2008-05-19 02:15 @earthtobella go to bed!
574. 2008-05-19 04:13 I hate going to bed. But it's 6am......
575. 2008-05-19 07:16 screwing in eyeballs. thinking: coffee.
576. 2008-05-19 11:25 @voidspace you can't rely on hotmail! i learned that the hard way...
577. 2008-05-19 13:15 @andrewparker That's been going on for some weeks. It's highly variable - sometimes you can see 2 page's worth, sometimes 5, sometimes more.
578. 2008-05-20 18:33 Off to dinner with my thief-hunting friends, @bambivalent1 and Bob Arno.
579. 2008-05-20 23:41 @barshirtcliff Agree. I just finished "Coming Up For Air" & "Burmese Days". They're better. Orwell wasn't proud of Asp. Quite the opposite.
580. 2008-05-21 01:25 @gjer Gregory Rawlins hits Twitter!
581. 2008-05-21 01:26 @barshirtcliff Anyway, I agree with the overall point, as do many. I also just read the Hitchens book on Orwell. Says the same, and more.
582. 2008-05-21 12:04 Off to translate in an interview with the "pigeon poop" pickpocket with @bambivalent1 Look, a bird shat on you! Let me help clean it up...
583. 2008-05-22 12:32 Off to interview Khareem, stunningly proficient and prolific Barcelona pickpocket, with @bambivalent1
584. 2008-05-22 19:58 Today I was offered work as an internet cyber-criminal. Nice to have a fall back in case things don't work out with Fluidinfo.
585. 2008-05-23 12:36 How can it be SO DAMNED HARD to buy a couple of airlines tickets online!!!??? argh. Qantas, Deutsche Bank, computers, argh argh argh.
586. 2008-05-23 20:08 @weissman but... apps are written on top of platforms. SimpleDB, S3, EC2, appEngine are platforms upon which many an app relies.
587. 2008-05-23 20:09 @aweissman i meant, not weissman!
588. 2008-05-23 20:12 @aweissman some things that look like, or which are even intended as, platforms do become single apps. Blogger and Ning are rough examples.
589. 2008-05-23 20:18 @timbray Disliking tail recursion coz it's like a goto is like disliking switches, or loop unrolling. Compilers play tricks with gotos. So?
590. 2008-05-23 20:19 @aweissman well, you know i feel passionately about this stuff! i simply don't buy the line that everyone must build apps, or FAIL.
591. 2008-05-23 20:21 @aweissman even if it's often true, it's not always true. i'm so happy to run my own company, be responsible, script my own doom :-)
592. 2008-05-23 20:29 @timbray Should have ended: compilers play tricks with gotos so you don't have to. Tail recursion is just a nice goto trick, as you say.
593. 2008-05-24 01:44 "It's simply hysteria. Nothing convinces me, either. You're working with the dark. There is nothing in this. Day are sea are ah mama pa-pa."
594. 2008-05-24 01:46 Seeing daylight after a few weeks of pushing on some code... nearly 4am. Should be having a beer. Having a coffee instead. Plus: Scene B.
595. 2008-05-24 01:49 "His steed was bespattered with mud. His head hung down as if worn by long travel. The horseman himself sat his horse like a master." SceneB
596. 2008-05-24 02:42 Reading Herodotus: Astyages has just tricked Harpagus into eating his own son, roasted. But Harpagus will have the last laugh. Who needs TV?
597. 2008-05-24 02:57 @timbray Ah!! Nice. Have you read Tom Holland's "Persian Fire"? It's great. I read Thucydides a few years back & loved it.
598. 2008-05-24 03:24 Keith Olberman is furious. Justifiably.
599. 2008-05-24 03:35 bzr push && bed. Goodnight cruel world.
600. 2008-05-26 12:26 Drop everything, watch this: http://www.vimeo.com/993998
601. 2008-05-26 21:24 @timbray did you see my question on the Tom Holland book Persian Fire? And did you watch http://www.vimeo.com/993998 ??
602. 2008-05-27 00:36 It's like a graveyard here (in Twitter)....
603. 2008-05-28 15:30 @flipbrad Generalizations don't suck - life would barely be possible without them. What sucks is when they are applied to individuals.
604. 2008-05-28 15:50 @timoreilly google john doerr missionaries mercenaries, and watch the video of doerr's talk on the subject.
605. 2008-05-28 15:51 @timoreilly e.g., here: http://tinyurl.com/3baedc
606. 2008-05-28 15:54 @flipbrad irony goes over my head. i spent too many years living in a country where all unlikely humor is slowly being bleached away...
607. 2008-05-28 23:55 Eating sabor de anchoas olives... hard to beat post-football salt replacement scheme.
608. 2008-05-29 09:52 Solved disappearing error mesg problem: checking the process for status too early, before it had failed. I should sleep(3) more often :-)
609. 2008-05-29 17:07 @shayman Try to trick Twitter into running one of those scripts. Reverse hacking: help keeping Twitter up via cross-site (shell) scripting!
610. 2008-05-30 11:36 @voidspace no, not a full OS, but i have something a little like that. uses twisted.reactor.spawnProcess. send me mail, i'm off to lunch.
611. 2008-05-30 20:48 @flipbrad what's up next?
612. 2008-06-01 00:47 @gjer still writing books in vi? You and @shayman should have gotten together [cue background sounds of dinosaurs rutting]
613. 2008-06-02 15:00 Visiting San Telmo biz school in Seville with Juan Enriquez.
614. 2008-06-02 17:31 @fredwilson Re Shakeshack: That's a version of the El Farol problem. See http://tinyurl.com/2bekrp
615. 2008-06-04 16:40 Off to kick more Yahoo! Research butt in football. Someone has to do it.
616. 2008-06-04 20:34 Old photos recently scanned: meeting Al Gore at SFI http://www.flickr.com/photos/edyson/
617. 2008-06-04 20:52 Nothing jams the wheels of progress quite so effectively as the need to produce written documents.
618. 2008-06-04 21:13 @amarshwren Yes. Melanie asked me to go to SFI - that's why I left IU & Doug. I'd love to see the doodle. I bet I was asleep!
619. 2008-06-04 22:55 How long will it be before Plurk has an API, people release tools to ex/import your Twitter friends, etc.? Feeling sad for Twitter already.
620. 2008-06-04 23:31 Anyone have a ping.fm beta invite?
621. 2008-06-05 00:17 Just reached Book 3 in Herodotus. Posting from ping.fm to mark the occasion.
622. 2008-06-05 00:26 http://www.plurk.com is very slick
623. 2008-06-05 01:11 @timoreilly Nice Guardian article. Nice question.
624. 2008-06-05 01:31 Plurk could add all Twitter IDs:Twit users claim their equiv Plurk ID by twitting a Plurk-supplied rand string. Plurk verifies, gives access
625. 2008-06-05 02:25 Sleep, must. Picnic, lightening.
626. 2008-06-05 22:14 24hr conclusion: Twitter is to Plurk as LinkedIn is to Facebook
627. 2008-06-07 08:21 @codinghorror That's a real image.
628. 2008-06-07 08:26 @codinghorror It's right here http://tinyurl.com/4jaty5
629. 2008-06-07 19:55 New blog post: Bandoneón http://www.fluidinfo.com/terry/2008/06/07/bandoneon/
630. 2008-06-07 22:03 New blog post: Python: looks great, stays wet longer http://tinyurl.com/6824pn
631. 2008-06-07 23:11 Twitter acting like my (now dead) grandmother: short term memory completely scrambled, missing large chunks, etc.
632. 2008-06-08 19:24 Nice quip: "Google really changed the advertising game by making it feel like content" Dan Rose, Facebook
633. 2008-06-08 21:38 random thought - not sure what it might mean: Greed is its own reward
634. 2008-06-09 00:49 New blog post: Random thoughts on Twitter http://tinyurl.com/56d77u
635. 2008-06-09 01:11 @aweissman Hi Andy - thanks! It's just stuff that goes through my head when I should be working......
636. 2008-06-09 01:33 @gjer hey Greggles!
637. 2008-06-09 02:16 Gregory Rawlins (@gjer) is the author of the fabulous Compared to What? http://tinyurl.com/6ybq6z - Analysis of Algorithms done right.
638. 2008-06-09 02:17 Compared to What? bonus: @amarshwren did all the illustrations and I made the cryptic crosswords (with Lisa Thomas).
639. 2008-06-09 08:01 @timoreilly I nearly wrote about that. Apart from being selfless (how odd!) and apart from thanks (thanks!), you're enriching Twitter.
640. 2008-06-09 08:02 @timoreilly And then I thought: Tim is being both a filter & an amplifier. Then: That's what he does, it's the explicit aim of his Radar.
641. 2008-06-09 11:20 @gfcampbell Hey Gerry - when do you hit Barcelona?
642. 2008-06-09 12:56 What was Herodotus smokin in the middle of Book 3? Ants bigger than foxes, flying snakes, lion births, black semen, weird camels & sheep etc
643. 2008-06-09 14:27 Twitter is currently not showing me my # of followers, followings, favorite, etc. Madness!
644. 2008-06-09 17:15 @timoreilly Wow... A book I read discussed branding & Harley Davidson: When your customers get tatoos of your brand, you've really made it!
645. 2008-06-09 17:21 google O'Reilly tattoo is surprisingly fruitful! Grandfather Samuel was the family's first entrepreneur?
646. 2008-06-09 17:23 @timoreilly Also the constant updates from seesmic commenters are spammy. And I don't care about the WWDC either :-) Now, kids.
647. 2008-06-09 20:02 Learning BicycleRepairMan: Python refactoring tool, with an Emacs interface... Yes! Life is good. Thanks @esteve http://tinyurl.com/2byox2
648. 2008-06-09 20:11 @gfcampbell OK. I'll be gone from 8/16 though.
649. 2008-06-09 20:15 @brady Thanks for the Twubble link. But...... how does the Twubble site figure out who I am on Twitter?
650. 2008-06-09 20:35 @voidspace Jeez, that Michael Foord guy is prolific :-)
651. 2008-06-09 20:52 @brady But what business does your browser have sending a twitter.com domain cookie to crazybob.org? That's a no-no. Digging....
652. 2008-06-09 21:08 @crazybob Can you tell me how Twubble already knows my Twitter user name? I don't get it. I have no crazybob.org cookies on first visit. Thx
653. 2008-06-09 23:05 @crazybob Thanks. Twubble javascript has my browser talk directly to Twitter? I didn't think that was possible / allowed. I'm out of date?
654. 2008-06-10 00:16 @crazybob thanks again! Cute. It's a wonder the web works at all given all the odd little hacks there are. JSONP looks ripe for abuse...
655. 2008-06-10 00:26 I've interacted (directly) with 8 other tech people via twitter in the last 24hrs. That's 8 more than I've interacted with in person!
656. 2008-06-10 20:22 @brady see replies & link from @crazybob Your browser gets your name from Twitter, using JSON generated on twitter.com
657. 2008-06-11 19:52 Violent scenes in Spain. Farmers fighting police, restaurants with no fish, beer. Markets empty. $10M of milk tossed for lack of transport.
658. 2008-06-12 08:29 @codinghorror i prefer the 140 character version of your post :-) Why: the long version is of value only if you're not already into DVCS?
659. 2008-06-12 20:29 @voidspace Aw, shucks. I am honored.
660. 2008-06-12 20:49 WOW! Look at the Wesabe community commenting at http://tinyurl.com/5cf7wd That's amazing - quality, quantity, care. Congrats @precipice !
661. 2008-06-13 20:09 @gjer the graffiti animation is here http://www.vimeo.com/993998 It wasn't done in Barcelona though. LA & Buenos Aires, I think.
662. 2008-06-14 14:42 @vascellari hi andreas. i unfollowed you; when you comment with seesmic you tweet. = dozens of identical tweets. s/n ratio took a nose dive.
663. 2008-06-14 21:40 Stuck pondering how/if to make Boto async via Twisted, _without_ breaking synchronous API. Must resist urge to fork... 12K LOC & not pretty.
664. 2008-06-14 22:07 From Greg Linden: Zappos offers all new employees $1000 to quit a month after they're hired. That's brilliant. 10% take it. http://is.gd/xyx
665. 2008-06-15 00:08 @nealrichter yes, agreed, it's brilliant all round. plus, the cost of getting rid of people later is MUCH MUCH higher.
666. 2008-06-15 00:14 There are lots of interesting & thought-provoking pages on startups & angel funding at Angel Blog http://www.angelblog.net/
667. 2008-06-15 00:22 Twitter says @jmcoon follows 49. Click on following, it says 44. # of icons on his page: 18. Reload the followers page: 49,50,46,45,51..Wild
668. 2008-06-15 00:36 @gjer no, in this case @jmcoon has 6K people following him! i think others, who follow thousands, are trawling for reciprocal followers.
669. 2008-06-15 00:52 @amarshwren yes, i think you're right. nice work! he's vacuuming up all the world's friendly reciprocal followers.
670. 2008-06-15 01:02 For fans of Gore Vidal, an interview in the NYT Mag: http://is.gd/xBC "Well, it was a great pleasure talking to you." "I doubt that."
671. 2008-06-15 19:42 @pahlkadot NP. I've been reading some of the earlier novels: Williwaw, The City & The Pillar, Messiah. They're v. good, esp. given his age.
672. 2008-06-15 21:35 @pahlkadot Hey Jen, have you read The Omnivore's Dilemma? It has a very good rap & is on my shoooort list...
673. 2008-06-15 23:05 @njeremijenko Aren't you supposed to be in Madrid???
674. 2008-06-15 23:10 Gore Vidal on Kucinich on impeachment, media silence, etc http://is.gd/y4V via @rustlem
675. 2008-06-16 13:15 I hate printers. But the Dell 1815DN is great. Scan directly to PDF via email, or to USB. No paper. Faxes CC'd in email. http://is.gd/ymg
676. 2008-06-16 20:45 tracking summize on summize http://summize.com/search?q=summize
677. 2008-06-16 20:52 @aweissman twisted is more like it :-) It's great, give it a try - congrats!
678. 2008-06-16 21:20 guitar and wonderful solo singing in the street beneath my balcony window.
679. 2008-06-16 21:22 wondering if i should go film it....
680. 2008-06-16 22:14 Paraphrasing Erdös, a programmer is someone who turns coffee into code. I wasn't going to sleep tonight anyway, so why not another pot?
681. 2008-06-17 00:55 @pkedrosky and so you gave him a big tip, right? :-)
682. 2008-06-17 08:45 code_swarm: Extremely (geek) cool commit visualizations for several OS projects http://is.gd/xQF via slashdot
683. 2008-06-17 11:47 New blog post: Sequoia Capital is the new Delphic Oracle http://is.gd/zcc
684. 2008-06-17 15:46 @aweissman When assembling Ikea furniture, I often find it useful to have a drill at hand.
685. 2008-06-17 15:54 Thinking about complicated (for me) asynchronous code http://tinyurl.com/5lm9kv
686. 2008-06-17 21:46 Learning Python 3Ed arrived today, 100 pages more than 2Ed (a mixed bag). Looks good. My 65th O'Reilly book! Am I a fanboy yet, or what? :-)
687. 2008-06-17 22:37 @randyadams That's a nice UI you've got going over there! http://beta.searchme.com
688. 2008-06-17 22:50 @pkedrosky Yes, 65. I still have Programming Perl, 1st ed, signed. Bought at the Jan '91 Winter USENIX in Dallas. I could ship it to you :-)
689. 2008-06-18 00:56 Opened a 1 liter bottle of beer, put on the Moldy Peaches. There goes a good night of hacking... but it's a hell of a lot more fun this way.
690. 2008-06-18 00:57 "Bloody Mary, mother of God. Granpa's on the hobby horse again." "Hey! I'm starting to feel OK" Gotta love it.
691. 2008-06-18 12:42 Amazing lunch in Barceloneta, again. Bomba, roasted artichokes, grilled sardines, sepia, chorizo, pan con tomate, clara, lots of oil & salt.
692. 2008-06-18 13:51 @aweissman lotd: "Where were the rapists when I was a child? They were my neighbors." Alas and alack for the bleaching and homogenization...
693. 2008-06-18 14:10 New blog post: Embracing Encapsulation http://is.gd/Aeg
694. 2008-06-18 14:36 # Shorten URLs import urllib, sys for arg in sys.argv[1:]: print urllib.urlopen('http://is.gd/api.php?longurl=' + arg).read()
695. 2008-06-18 21:52 Just spent 2hrs making invitations to my to-be 7 year old son's birthday. I invite the whole of Twitter. July 5, 16h. Barceloneta.
696. 2008-06-18 23:09 @nealrichter and a nice reply. thanks. i followed up http://is.gd/AL6
697. 2008-06-18 23:13 @rossjones Only just saw your tweet. DeferredList needs to be passed a list of Deferreds. You need to have them all in hand already.
698. 2008-06-18 23:18 Using Summize to find tweets I missed, from people I wasn't following. Why leave it to Twitter? :-) http://summize.com/
699. 2008-06-18 23:40 1:30am, flamenco guitar, clapping & singing in the street under my balcony. 20C (68F). Paseo del Borne.... Ay ay ay
700. 2008-06-19 19:58 New blog post: Sardanas in the Born http://tinyurl.com/6z4mz8
701. 2008-06-20 00:04 Arvo Part: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten.... falling, falling, falling, like the final scenes of Koyaanisqatsi.
702. 2008-06-20 10:16 Contemplating 3 months of kids' school holidays. 3 kids, 3 months = 0.75 person years of non-stop activities. Help! Help! Hello?
703. 2008-06-20 14:19 @timbray and 10 years after they should have done it :-(
704. 2008-06-20 22:02 @pahlkadot yes, Hollywood Squares.
705. 2008-06-21 00:45 @timbray - just found your link, thanks! I could've argued the other side too, of course :-)
706. 2008-06-21 16:35 @nelson Great post title "The tyranny of sourdough". Couldn't agree more. http://is.gd/CRd
707. 2008-06-24 15:41 New blog post: Paella for 325 people. http://tinyurl.com/5hpkts
708. 2008-06-25 16:05 Getting ready to play football with the Yahoo! Research guys in Barcelona. Wishing there was more physical stuff in my life. Love to sweat.
709. 2008-06-26 02:21 4:15am milk run completed.
710. 2008-06-26 02:48 @zenchaos nope, it's powdered infant formula.....
711. 2008-06-26 11:05 @timbray Thanks for the Goldberg video. I have about 5 versions, including the remastered '55 and '81 Glenn Gould. Is that one good?
712. 2008-06-26 19:56 A noise like that in the neighborhood can only mean one thing....
713. 2008-06-27 05:28 From /. BillG slams MS on usability. I often wonder if anyone from companies actually uses their own products. Read: http://is.gd/FIx
714. 2008-06-27 19:39 @socialmedian sintra is well worth visiting. it's right outside lisbon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sintra
715. 2008-06-27 23:21 I am living proof that it is not possible to overdose on cereal.
716. 2008-06-28 15:15 Interesting NYT op-ed on source amnesia http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/opinion/27aamodt.html
717. 2008-06-28 15:59 Do any URL shortening services also let you see stats on usage? They should. E.g., click count, referrer, browser, time distribution, etc.
718. 2008-06-28 16:38 @aweissman @voidspace Thanks! Sorry for the slow reply - was out filming more of the wonders of my 'hood. Blog post with video coming up.
719. 2008-06-28 17:01 Listening to Bonnie Prince Billy's great version of I Can't Live (If Living Is Without You).
720. 2008-06-28 18:15 New blog post: Giants in the Born! http://tinyurl.com/5qxmmh
721. 2008-06-28 22:46 @voidspace ESR URI? It's not his "A victory for civil rights" post, I take it?
722. 2008-06-28 23:32 @voidspace Hmmmm.... I don't see anything by you.
723. 2008-06-29 00:07 Finally(?) finished ironing out a fully asynchronous Twisted iterator http://is.gd/I27
724. 2008-06-29 00:13 @timoreilly I'm adding a view right now....
725. 2008-06-29 09:01 @gfcampbell yes, that's perfect.
726. 2008-06-29 09:03 @amarshwren yes, that's right. but i don't want to build it myself :-)
727. 2008-06-29 10:26 "Steve McQueen jumped the first one clean. But the great escape he tried to make was not to be. Maybe next time Steve" Divine Comedy
728. 2008-06-29 18:41 @timoreilly Spain give 2500 euros per new child, as of 7/1/2007. Our last was born 2 weeks early, at 6pm on 6/30/2007 :-(
729. 2008-06-29 20:49 the night is filled with explosions...
730. 2008-06-29 21:22 @timoreilly not in the NYT article: a working woman -> more money to pay for help. that eases the burden, makes having another much e ...
731. 2008-06-29 21:25 Twitter just incorrectly told me my last message was too long. It was not. I wonder if it was the -> in there. This one is 138 charac ...
732. 2008-06-29 21:26 Write a 138 char tweet and put a -> in it. Twitter complains it's too long. Hmm....
733. 2008-06-29 21:29 Ah... Put a > (and <, & etc) into a message, Twitter replaces it with the HTML entity, like > and charges you for the extra cha ...
734. 2008-06-29 21:30 So when you tweet, an ampersand is actually more expensive than just saying 'and'. The HTML entity should count as one char methinks.
735. 2008-06-29 22:47 Anyone up for a quick game of who's got the noisiest neighborhood? It's crazy outside here. 44 years since Spain won the euro cup.
736. 2008-06-30 13:54 @zenchaos I don't understand... is that a dent in the back of your car?
737. 2008-06-30 16:58 Sometimes I feel like my brain may not be being turned to slush by prions after all. Only really happy writing code..... only 1/2 joking.
738. 2008-06-30 20:30 Motorbike bag snatching under my balcony 2 mins ago...
739. 2008-06-30 23:22 @aweissman @nathanfolkman love the http://bit.ly API docs :-)
740. 2008-07-01 12:18 Thoughts on scaling from Glyph of Divmod/Twisted fame http://tinyurl.com/5j55rv
741. 2008-07-01 14:18 New blog post: Minor mischief: create redirect loops from predictable short URLs http://is.gd/JBO
742. 2008-07-01 14:57 @kveton Twitter has detected that your mouse has moved. Please wait while Twitter reboots for your changes to take effect.
743. 2008-07-01 15:53 @voidspace Just got told: "Glyph was invited to speak at PyCon UK, but we never got a follow up from them, so maybe it's off."
744. 2008-07-01 21:23 Der Spiegel aricle on the IMF launching an investigation into US financial system http://is.gd/HlR Big news, but hard to find in the US...
745. 2008-07-01 22:05 Try searching http://news.google.com for news of the IMF investigation of the US. 3 hits in top 100 results, only 1 is US-based (a blog).
746. 2008-07-02 03:16 Bed bed bed... after many hours twisting my fingers around Twisted. It's getting hard to think synchronously any longer.
747. 2008-07-02 13:59 Colin Percival has a good blog. E.g., analysis of Amazon SimpleDB box pricing http://is.gd/Kqw plus various other good postings.
748. 2008-07-03 13:45 Hitchens gets himself waterboarded. Conclusion: torture. This is valid as a (courageous) lower bound on how bad it must be. http://is.gd/KFw
749. 2008-07-03 21:21 EISENHOWER: If there's one thing I can't stand it's a Vice President. KENNEDY: That is probably the only thing you and I will ever agree on.
750. 2008-07-03 21:22 From Gore Vidal's "An Evening With Richard Nixon" p105.
751. 2008-07-04 23:12 @timbray That's beautiful. It took 20 years before I lost the secret tiny thrill of logging in. I think the GUI took away important rawness.
752. 2008-07-04 23:15 @timbray I still love committing... there's something there that has to do with creation, converting abstraction to reality, power, lock in.
753. 2008-07-04 23:39 Toast with butter & Vegemite is very hard to beat, no matter how cultured you are.
754. 2008-07-07 12:59 Wacky Erlang video http://tinyurl.com/j5urt I wish Erlang weren't so unbearably ugly to look at.
755. 2008-07-08 00:28 Putting together a presentation for FOO Camp (thanks @sarawinge & LS) with keynote. It's Miller time.
756. 2008-07-08 13:25 @aweissman did you know there's a new BPB album? i can bring it if you like. he's playing in madrid in a couple of days apparently.
757. 2008-07-08 14:36 I have a film-maker friend seeking Spanish speakers & actors (esp folks from Barcelona) in Switzerland (esp Geneva). Any takers or pointers?
758. 2008-07-08 15:32 @pkedrosky First job at 22? Poor little Richie Rich! :-)
759. 2008-07-08 15:56 @aweissman yes, that's it.
760. 2008-07-08 22:20 Tears, teeth gnashing, and threats of mass exodus as CoE admits women bishops. Ancient power and privilege crumbles. http://bit.ly/e21l9
761. 2008-07-08 22:39 @voidspace Ouch! BTW, I wrote a Python package to auto-generate HTML feature tables like that (with nested header categories).
762. 2008-07-08 22:44 @voidspace ouch on the "murders your wife" column.
763. 2008-07-08 23:34 Why do I ALWAYS end up ironing shirts at 4am the day before flying, mere hours before having to leave for the airport? Universal constant.
764. 2008-07-09 18:28 Back in Manhattan....
765. 2008-07-10 11:39 @fergusstothart wushu... woo-hoo. have the duck for me!
766. 2008-07-10 18:40 19 people at the Betaworks brown bag lunch in NYC - interesting group, good dynamics.
767. 2008-07-11 19:13 Just spent 2 hours in Berkeley bookstores.... aah.
768. 2008-07-11 22:34 In Tim O'Reilly & Mike Arrington led Foo startup camp panel.
769. 2008-07-11 23:17 @shbrown my "classic post", ha! Now I'm smiling even more.
770. 2008-07-11 23:20 Seeing people sitting on Summize at Foo camp
771. 2008-07-12 17:56 In Esther Dyson led user-generated meta-data session at Foo.
772. 2008-07-12 22:39 14 parallel sessions at Foo camp!
773. 2008-07-13 04:53 Listening to Charles Armstrong & Chris Messina talking about emergence, complexity, Bar Camps.
774. 2008-07-13 21:29 Jeff Jonas' Foo camp talk on how to organize a party for 1700 people in your house was hilarious, incredible, amazing...
775. 2008-07-14 16:29 Outgoing SMTP server borked. 25 messages queued. Bad timing!
776. 2008-07-14 18:34 Relentless social networking from home. Earn $10 a day.
777. 2008-07-14 21:07 @rabble thanks for the Cassandra link! hope things are gradually getting less frantic/stressful for you. sorry to miss you at foo.
778. 2008-07-14 23:19 @puppetmasterd post-foo drinks in SF? where/when?
779. 2008-07-14 23:22 @larrychiang thanks for the sausages!
780. 2008-07-14 23:43 Eating a bowl of delicious small yellow plums I just picked up off the ground right outside Steve Hofmeyr's front door in Oakland.
781. 2008-07-15 01:02 New blog post: GPS serendipity: Florence Avenue, Sebastopol http://bit.ly/2mAxej
782. 2008-07-15 01:39 2 pi followers is a nanospecies
783. 2008-07-15 09:51 5 meetings in Palo Alto tomorrow... Have to be up in 4 hours. = sleep.
784. 2008-07-16 22:29 @emileifrem I just mentioned you to John Markoff of the NYT as someone to take a look at re information architecture. Thanks to @shbrown
785. 2008-07-16 23:35 4 flights coming up in the next 3 days. Lots of meetings already under the bridge. Resting pulse in the Bay area: 80. In Barcelona: 48.
786. 2008-07-18 03:29 @factoryjoe sangria? you're in spain?
787. 2008-07-19 04:07 Nearing the end of a truly remarkable 10 days in the US... Haven't slept in an actual bed for even one of the nights.
788. 2008-07-20 07:25 Back home in Barcelona. What a trip... no luggage, but that's a minor issue. Kids.
789. 2008-07-21 16:14 @psemme Cool & congrats. I'll take you up on that. I'll be back soon, it seems.
790. 2008-08-02 16:20 Just back from a week totally offline in the countryside of Southern France.
791. 2008-08-02 16:31 It's 13 days since Delta lost my bag en route to Barcelona. On the phone to them yet again.........
792. 2008-08-04 10:52 From slashdot: Chinese restaurant translates their name for an English sign... http://tinyurl.com/62jvwo
793. 2008-08-04 21:07 Testing Twitter2go from my bed, via wifi...
794. 2008-08-05 00:08 Just finished Gore Vidal's play "The Best Man". Nicely worked.Summer 1960 pre-convention nomination battle. Smears, high/low ground, etc.
795. 2008-08-05 15:56 I left JFK for Barcelona on July 19. My bag finally arrived in Barcelona on August 5, a mere 17 days late.
796. 2008-08-05 22:26 Off to bed with Herodotus: "Four thousand here from Pelops' land, Against three million once did stand."
797. 2008-08-06 00:24 When entrepreneurs talk to lawyers it's rule breakers vs rule makers.
798. 2008-08-06 01:06 @timbray Did you read Tom Holland's "Persian Fire"? It's excellent. I might read Gore Vidal's "Creation", then I'm done with the 5th C BC!
799. 2008-08-06 10:40 Orange operator: "What is the brand of your Blackberry?" Me: "Blackberry". Operator: "OK, please hold." Madness
800. 2008-08-06 15:05 Email just in from Delta. Subject: Good things come to those that wait
801. 2008-08-07 21:17 Playing with TwitterBerry
802. 2008-08-07 22:12 @pkedrosky sounds like #start08 was the word you were looking for the other day :-)
803. 2008-08-07 22:17 The Blackberry OS feels vastly superior to Symbian. So glad I didn't give in to the N95 temptation. So nice to be able to actually type!
804. 2008-08-08 13:51 Spanish menu lunches are damned hard to beat. It's not even worth trying.
805. 2008-08-08 16:02 I enjoy business relationships more than friendships. Is that weird? Or just cause I don't have any friends???
806. 2008-08-11 12:19 Singing along to Bonnie Prince Billy
807. 2008-08-11 14:09 @aweissman Nope! I'll hunt for it. I play the old stuff over and over and over.... Thanks.
808. 2008-08-11 14:11 @aweissman Is it the sea?
809. 2008-08-11 14:13 @JamesPlankton Why me??? I'll follow you back for the Paul Bowles purchase alone :-) I recently read the Collected Stories 1939-1976.
810. 2008-08-11 15:37 Sending out the source code to Echo http://www.santafe.edu/~pth/echo/ Blast from the past.... any other takers :-)
811. 2008-08-11 20:25 @larrychiang That's not nearly as weird as being able to Twitter in your sleep!
812. 2008-08-12 13:31 On the train heading back to Barcelona from the airport. Entire family packed off to Germany.
813. 2008-08-12 13:38 Trying to remember what life was like without a Blackberry. Last week was so last century.
814. 2008-08-12 15:42 @aweissman oops, only just saw your linked - and it has timed out! again? sorry..... & thanks.
815. 2008-08-12 15:43 @JamesPlankton I bought 2nd hand copies of Let It Come Down and The Sheltering Sky last month in Berkeley. Yet to read...
816. 2008-08-12 17:25 @aweissman I just get "500 - Your link has timed out or is invalid." from your link.
817. 2008-08-12 18:18 @aweissman got it, thx!
818. 2008-08-12 21:23 Running apt-get upgrade via ssh on blackberry on my bed... Smallest font ever. I may never get up again!
819. 2008-08-12 22:04 Huge Blue Screen of Death at the Olympics opening ceremony: http://bit.ly/2ycPaW
820. 2008-08-13 01:55 Just read Gore Vidal's "The Season of Comfort" right through. Should have been working; happily was not.
821. 2008-08-13 16:02 @pkedrosky Have you read "Calculating the Weather" by Nebeker (AP, 1995)? It's good. Interesting info on von Neumann and weather prediction.
822. 2008-08-13 16:05 Dressed an hour early for football........ can't wait. Must run around AFAP. Not getting any younger, very sadly.
823. 2008-08-13 20:55 Wondering how many 10 slide, min 30 point font startup deck pundits actually had to follow their own adamant advice...
824. 2008-08-13 22:12 @aweissman lots of nice stuff on the BPB - thanks!
825. 2008-08-13 23:08 RT @timbray check out the Parallax browser, AND the rest of David Huyhn's videos, on left http://bit.ly/2OYnDM Huyhn should have 5 startups!
826. 2008-08-13 23:09 @JasonCalacanis you'll send me 3k what? Followers? :-)
827. 2008-08-14 08:08 @emileifrem @littleidea You guys should have done a deal... I could use a virtual office in Japan right now, have a 3:30am call tonight.
828. 2008-08-14 10:57 Starbucks doesn't have a way to identify lavish customers perfectly, so it invites them to hang themselves with a choice of luxurious ropes.
829. 2008-08-14 10:58 From "The Undercover Economist" by Tim Harford
830. 2008-08-14 20:15 Keynote is so damned nice...... with just a few minor annoyances.
831. 2008-08-15 00:51 Does printing to PDF undex Linux really have to be so butt ugly?
832. 2008-08-15 00:52 Getting ready for 3:30am conf call....
833. 2008-08-15 14:50 @bijan I paid $60 for mozy on mac (beta) 1yr ago. it was worse than useless. maybe they've improved. OTOH, supposed to be good on windows.
834. 2008-08-15 17:10 @amarshwren I wouldn't. Last I tried one of them (2 yrs back). It ate batteries fast, and when idle took annoyingly long to re-connect.
835. 2008-08-15 17:52 Today's word spy is a good 'un. Social notworking: Surfing a social networking site instead of working. http://bit.ly/2m2o3h
836. 2008-08-15 18:34 Not sure where I picked this up today; it's entertaining, enlightening: Why you should never ever talk to the police. http://bit.ly/2CHcEL
837. 2008-08-15 18:46 @timoreilly Nice. See also the Gever Tulley TED talk "5 dangerous things you should let your kids do." http://bit.ly/3Gi5oF
838. 2008-08-15 18:52 Sorry sign o' the times: For me YACC now stands for Yet Another Conference Call, not something to type at the command line.
839. 2008-08-15 21:25 @gnat Yep, English is soooo weird. My kids speak 4 languages, and English packs easily the biggest wallop for surprise pronunciation.
840. 2008-08-15 21:28 @nealrichter Lesson I learned: You're not going to be done until you realize YOU have to tell your adviser when you're done. Not vice versa.
841. 2008-08-15 23:08 A long week... Made an executive decision to open a can of beer and have a 1am skype with thief hunter @bambivalent1 See http://bit.ly/BNn9B
842. 2008-08-15 23:12 See previous URL for mooning thieves!
843. 2008-08-16 00:20 @pkedrosky xt or xc?
844. 2008-08-16 00:30 follow @mefollowyou - it's the best you can do!
845. 2008-08-16 00:35 Making a second Twitter account and chatting with it in public is the 21st century equivalent of sending yourself flowers.
846. 2008-08-16 08:13 @gnat They do most of the work :-) One nice thing is that they have always taken it for granted that they know more than I do.
847. 2008-08-16 11:22 Off to Bad Mergentheim in 30 mins: Granfamissimo - garantiert familienfreundlich!
848. 2008-08-16 13:18 @fxn deben que ofrecer un producto nuevo: un champu para pelo "sucio". Imagina la sensación! La demanda! Claro, costaría un pocito más...
849. 2008-08-18 13:59 Waiting at Würzburg Hbf with Lucas for a train to Frankfurt.
850. 2008-08-18 15:51 At the kids' space rocket in the Frankfurt airport. Spent 5 hours here with the kids a few years back. Today just one.
851. 2008-08-18 15:54 Damn, that was quick: "Dada, it's so boring..."
852. 2008-08-18 19:35 Back in Barcelona. Read more of The Sheltering Sky on the plane. Bowles is very good.
853. 2008-08-18 21:37 @gnat Agreed! With appeal across all ages. "But why are you laughing?" "Because I know something you don't know." Gamesmanship at its best.
854. 2008-08-19 09:31 crazybusy. preparing to leave for london, then singapore, then sydney...
855. 2008-08-20 11:10 Sitting in Changi airport, Singapore. A 13hr flight behind us, a 7hr flight to go.
856. 2008-08-20 19:27 Finally in Sydney. 34 hour trip.
857. 2008-08-20 21:57 Downloading 1200 new emails over a sloooow link.
858. 2008-08-22 14:14 It's non-stop rain in Sydney. Right now it's absolutely pouring.
859. 2008-08-23 15:52 @voidspace what @yacitus said. Kinesis Advantage is fantastic, inc for coding. I love mine to pieces. I have a good emacs layout, BTW.
860. 2008-08-24 00:14 making notes for a speech about my father, who just turned 70.
861. 2008-09-02 17:20 Delayed in Bangkok. Groan. 11 hours of a 33 hour trip done.
862. 2008-09-03 08:11 On a bus, LHR to LGW for BCN flight, then BED.
863. 2008-09-03 15:10 @mariasipka hey - I was in Terminal 5 earlier today too! Too bad we didn't all meet up, but then again I was on the run... Back in Barna.
864. 2008-09-03 15:51 @mariasipka G'luck. Phil gave me an update last week - sounds wild!
865. 2008-09-03 15:59 @rossjones nope, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. but we were only there an hour.
866. 2008-09-04 12:32 Became more of a Paul Bowles fan on my holiday. Read: Up Above the World, Let It Come Down, and The Sheltering Sky. TSS is brilliant.
867. 2008-09-04 14:27 @aweissman Hmm, we have more in common.... Have you read the collected short stories? There are some real beauties.
868. 2008-09-05 13:54 New blog post: Pond scum http://tinyurl.com/6hzd9v
869. 2008-09-05 14:39 Wondering how anyone can resist my humor.
870. 2008-09-05 17:03 @bambivalent1 Hey hi. Tweet more often!
871. 2008-09-05 18:36 @voidspace Thanks for the vote of confidence. Got any spare change? Sorry to miss PyCon UK :-(
872. 2008-09-09 15:32 @nelson Dell 1815dn. It's great.
873. 2008-09-09 18:53 "All was quiet in the deep dark wood. The mouse found a nut and the nut was good." The Gruffalo.
874. 2008-09-09 19:13 @timbray You are a man after my literary heart, it seems! The purple prickles are best accompanied with furious back tickling.
875. 2008-09-09 19:22 In the tiny kids playground with our 1yr old I thought: The first infinity of afternoons in the park just wasn't enough, apparently.
876. 2008-09-10 13:09 @mariasipka company's ??? :-)
877. 2008-09-10 13:59 Cycling through tourists on Paseo de Gracia. Not fun.
878. 2008-09-11 22:24 If it's true McCain has a 1/3rd chance of dying before 2013, a vote for McCain carries a 1/3rd chance of making Palin PRESIDENT, not VP.
879. 2008-09-11 22:26 Should be a major Dem point: a vote for McCain is also in large part a vote to make Palin PRESIDENT. Should sink McCain, and rightly so.
880. 2008-09-12 16:13 @pkedrosky yes, that was Rilke.
881. 2008-09-12 16:21 I deleted my facebook account a year(?) ago. They're still sending me mail telling me people added me as a friend...
882. 2008-09-12 16:21 @aweissman No side trip to Barcelona? It's an easy hop on Easyjet!
883. 2008-09-12 16:44 @aweissman ha! Come. I'll give you a place to sleep.
884. 2008-09-12 19:31 "The planet is pulling loose from its moorings, careening into space, spilling cities mountains and seas into the void." WSB
885. 2008-09-12 21:32 @bpm140 You didn't get a chance to talk to Tristan of Apture at Foo? Really really nice stuff.
886. 2008-09-13 21:47 Savoring Conrad's "Nostromo". A densely worded dessert eaten slowly and deliberately, chewing not taken for granted, sipping cafe con hielo.
887. 2008-09-13 22:40 Deferred methods have later methods upon their callbacks to bite 'em, And later methods have later methods, and so ad infinitum.
888. 2008-09-13 23:45 one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry. C. S. Peirce
889. 2008-09-14 06:20 @timbray Noted, and incorporated into the design for your Room 101.
890. 2008-09-15 15:06 @oubiwann That was quick! Congrats too.
891. 2008-09-16 21:13 I have 128 buffers open in emacs. One more will surely cause a core dump. How do people manage to write code in other editors?
892. 2008-09-16 21:15 @liubinskas Nice! Please say hi to Amir. Where are you guys?
893. 2008-09-16 23:23 Working on EC2 server farm classes. EC2 is nice, getting nicer, and you get full control. But there are so many details. All with Twisted.
894. 2008-09-17 14:02 Church of England will apologize to Charles Darwin. They think their voice is relevant! Still deluded. Desperate times. http://bit.ly/2ru0iE
895. 2008-09-17 14:02 That tweet should lose me a few followers :-)
896. 2008-09-18 15:16 McCain appears not to know that Spain is not part of Latin America http://bit.ly/2MqT4T Oops. That's what you get for helping in the WoT.
897. 2008-09-18 17:12 EC2 instance not providing user-data or meta-data from 169.254.169.254 instead I get a 404. Grrrrrr.
898. 2008-09-18 20:19 Started an EC2 instance. It's up, apparently. But, I can't ping it, I can't ssh to it.... Can I have my 10 cents back?
899. 2008-09-18 20:32 Anyone else with connectivity problems to Amazon EC2 instances? Ping reply from ec2-75-101-235-83.compute-1.amazonaws.com ???
900. 2008-09-18 20:55 @littleidea It was listed, yes. But I couldn't ping (from various accounts), couldn't ssh. Happened with 2 instances. I shut them down. Thx.
901. 2008-09-18 20:58 I think EC2 has hiccups. Earlier I couldn't ssh in using the keypair I started an instance with. On another I got 404 on meta and user data.
902. 2008-09-18 21:13 Made a new EC2 instance. Couldn't connect, then a few mins later could. BUT getting 404s on trying for user/meta from 169.254.169.254 Argh.
903. 2008-09-18 21:34 EC2 is wacky. Now ssh prompts for pwd. User data was avail via 2008-02-01 API, now is not. 2008-05-05 API gets 404. Time to do sth else.
904. 2008-09-18 21:45 But teacher, honest, the cloud ate my homework.
905. 2008-09-19 12:24 Lots of people are running into various EC2 connectivity and ssh login problems. See forum at http://bit.ly/lShGr
906. 2008-09-19 15:04 Silly me, believing what it says in the EC2 Developer's Guide! The AWS EC2 support forum is good.
907. 2008-09-19 19:41 @andrew_lusk The 2008-05-05 DG says you can get user and meta data from 169.254.169.254/2008-05-05. Not so. Use 2008-02-01 or 'latest'.
908. 2008-09-19 19:44 @oubiwann Nope - didn't see that one, thanks!
909. 2008-09-19 20:20 Accidentally leave a (small) EC2 instance running? It's cheaper to stop it yourself a couple of hrs later than to ask a friend to via SMS.
910. 2008-09-19 22:41 Coding defensively.
911. 2008-09-19 22:59 @ev There you go.... you coulda bought it off the shelf!
912. 2008-09-20 01:12 Why do distutils and __import__ have to be so unintuitive and unpredictable? What purpose does the MANIFEST serve, besides causing problems?
913. 2008-09-20 01:44 @decafbad Yeah... I added a MANIFEST.in to keep things sane.
914. 2008-09-20 01:55 @pkedrosky Agreed... I've been huge lines there, of I estimated 500-1000 people. Not fun.
915. 2008-09-20 18:27 Amazon EC2 is a Universal Turing machine for the world, and S3 is its infinite tape. Accessing it via HTTP is appropriately primitive.
916. 2008-09-20 18:49 Video from kids' Correfoc, Barcelona, an hour ago http://bit.ly/4yZSjU Adult version is much more intense. Set vol to MAX. 2nd 1/2 is best.
917. 2008-09-21 18:27 @voidspace Yes, they're very useful for making a 'key' argument to sort.
918. 2008-09-21 23:13 Automating every last thing, Twitter excepted (for now).
919. 2008-09-21 23:19 @pahlkadot Ha. In early 2004, aged 4, my daughter thought my name was "New York"... not a good sign!
920. 2008-09-22 02:08 @JohnBorthwick You rang?
921. 2008-09-22 02:45 Bed. Just spent 7 hours writing scripts to automate building custom EC2 images, with a lot of help from Eric Hammond's http://bit.ly/4iipHd
922. 2008-09-22 10:11 @littleidea No release yet. Working on it night and day. We've looked at Puppet :-) Not sure if we'll go there though.
923. 2008-09-22 10:26 @aweissman And there I was thinking that was Nirvana.....
924. 2008-09-22 11:45 My 7yr old son: Dada, why do they sometimes spell WiiFit as Wifi?
925. 2008-09-22 16:34 Fingers crossed, again.
926. 2008-09-22 17:55 Reid Hoffman (@quixotic) is the Twitter equivalent of Godot. 863 followers, 0 tweets. I'm sure he'll be along soon.
927. 2008-09-22 20:44 Home internet down... Blackberry up.
928. 2008-09-22 20:55 Actually, just my ISP's DNS server is down. 4.2.2.1 to the rescue!
929. 2008-09-22 22:01 @al3x Missed your original msg, though saw you chatting with @nelson :-) 4.2.2.1 has never failed me yet... (Cue Gavin Bryars/Tom Waits).
930. 2008-09-22 22:49 @pahlkadot You can vote more than once in that poll, including from the same IP address. Not so useful.... so I voted one each way :-)
931. 2008-09-23 08:06 @davewiner @njeremijenko could give you a good answer (re mini-parks).
932. 2008-09-23 13:15 @esteve :-) Just saw the mail on the dev list...
933. 2008-09-24 00:03 APIs are to programmers what UIs are to users. Both grant and limit access to information. I'm going to shake both up.
934. 2008-09-24 02:13 Have to put off changing the world for another day, once again :-) Bed.
935. 2008-09-24 15:29 @voidspace You don't mention the efficiency of using key. You go from 2*n*lgn calls to n calls (to the key function). That's the main point.
936. 2008-09-24 21:06 @pkedrosky @JamesOReilly I hope you gents have read the real book, not just the Clff's Notes :-) I enjoyed the de Botton too btw.
937. 2008-09-24 21:21 Making EC2 images like there's no tomorrow.
938. 2008-09-24 22:32 Just found 2 friends not heard of in 10 yrs. One's in the DietCoke/Mentos vids, other w/ Cirque du Soleil HERE, in Barcelona! Amazing luck.
939. 2008-09-25 08:39 @Trading Goddess How could I resist becoming your 1000th follower?
940. 2008-09-25 08:40 @ofrecord Yes, that's what I meant.
941. 2008-09-25 14:20 Offline again. "I can't be expected to work under such conditions! Sew 'er up!" Doctor Benway. WSB
942. 2008-09-25 16:57 Still offline. 3.5 hours and counting.
943. 2008-09-25 19:46 This is simply amazing - endless fun: http://bit.ly/kfKOs
944. 2008-09-25 19:59 OTOH, this link will do nothing for you: http://bit.ly/2J5pU3
945. 2008-09-26 13:23 Spending the whole day rewriting code I should have written properly the first time. Still learning how to better work with Twisted.
946. 2008-09-26 18:51 Argh... Twitter, please get that bar off the top of my window! Or let me turn it off. Not interested in Miss Teen USA, Katie, or ads(!) etc.
947. 2008-09-26 18:56 @al3x Thanks. I'd done that earlier, but it came back (methinks). I don't have Twitter open all the time. @andrewparker thanks too.
948. 2008-09-26 21:41 @pkedrosky What's the Best Book on the Financial Crisis That You Haven't Twittered?
949. 2008-09-26 22:23 @timoreilly That's interesting... Zotero is really nice - it's very well done.
950. 2008-09-26 22:34 Cafferty savages Palin, Blitzer tries to soften it http://bit.ly/fZU9Q Tragedy, comedy, farce? You be the judge.
951. 2008-09-26 23:36 @bradleypallen Half makes me wish I had a TV (and US coverage). But youtube at a very safe distance is not a bad trade-off :-)
952. 2008-09-27 00:03 Python is so nice. Bazaar too. bzr viz produces beautiful full revision history graphics, incl. cross-merge. Wish I could understand them.
953. 2008-09-28 18:26 I've just been referred to as the new, digital, Don Quijote. That can't be good.
954. 2008-09-28 19:51 "The mere presence of a coward, however passive, brings an element of treachery into a dangerous situation" from Nostromo (Conrad).
955. 2008-09-28 19:55 "At no time of the world's history have men been at a loss how to inflict mental and bodily anguish upon their fellow-creatures."
956. 2008-09-28 19:57 said that primeval man did not go to the trouble of inventing tortures. He was indolent and pure of heart. He brained his neighbour
957. 2008-09-28 19:58 ferociously with a stone axe from necessity and without malice." Ibid.
958. 2008-09-28 20:14 "This aptitude came to them in the growing complexity of their passions and the early refinement of their ingenuity. But it may safely be
959. 2008-09-28 20:29 @emileifrem Yes, similar, agreed. Did you read DQ? I did, but found it a bit silly/boring. "That's the point." My philosopher father in law.
960. 2008-09-29 00:31 Just started Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy). Reminded strongly of Burroughs' Western Lands trilogy and his wild boys protagonist, Kim.
961. 2008-09-29 15:53 @simonw @jtauber BTW, if it really is graphs you want, talk to @emileifrem (who was also at Foo). My fellow digital Don Quijote!
962. 2008-09-29 16:17 @edjez Nope :-) not sure what "mesh-style versioning " is. We're not building a RDF store BTW. Happy to talk. You have my email, I think.
963. 2008-09-29 19:24 I have 3 laptops on my desk: Linux, Mac, Windows. When static electricity builds up removing my coat, guess which one I choose to zap?
964. 2008-09-29 20:07 @stevej M-x follow-me
965. 2008-09-29 20:15 If they'd asked for $800 billion would the DOW have fallen 800 points?
966. 2008-09-29 20:21 @dweinberger Are you a TPM fan? I am. Josh Marshall is very good.
967. 2008-09-29 21:09 If you care about Python, Thrift, and Twisted, go vote up http://bit.ly/3e9nVf Fluidinfo just released it, all coding done by @esteve.
968. 2008-09-29 21:41 Has anyone used (e.g.) co-citation distance followed by multi-dimensional scaling to map Twitter users? Bound to be interesting.
969. 2008-09-29 22:34 I *really* should be working. But Cormac McCarthy is brilliant. Read this: http://bit.ly/3pl7zH Not for the faint of heart/easily offended.
970. 2008-09-29 23:21 Pelosi speech ahead of the vote and the Republican reaction to it http://bit.ly/cCqwP
971. 2008-09-30 16:53 @timoreilly I spent lots of time thinking about and modelling emergence at SFI. My simplest conclusion was http://bit.ly/4CvhG7
972. 2008-09-30 16:54 @timoreilly Non-trivial conclusion: humans like to look for psychologically reassuring explanations of complex systems. These do not exist.
973. 2008-09-30 17:05 @timoreilly: General conclusion: never try to answer a question that starts with the word "Why". There's no such thing as "understanding".
974. 2008-09-30 20:00 I love it on Skype when people say "we got a bad line" and then hang up on you and try the call again.
975. 2008-09-30 21:39 Jeez, I was still the #1 hit on Google for Terry Jones in 2001. How times have changed. Who is that other guy anyway?!?
976. 2008-09-30 21:43 The WTC were still up when Google made the 2001 index at http://bit.ly/4vnydS Still, lots of hits on Osama bin Laden. Thx @voidspace
977. 2008-09-30 21:50 Ah, I was wrong, there are pages with the WTC down in the 2001 Google index. But it seems not many.
978. 2008-10-01 01:51 Nearly done converting some code to Thrift+Twisted. I'm a Twisted fanboy. Now to bed with Blood Meridian, perchance to dream outrageously...
979. 2008-10-01 11:01 Just lost €100 to @esteve. Memo to self: don't bet real money against a guy who's never wrong.
980. 2008-10-01 11:05 Windows on EC2? There goes the neighborhood.
981. 2008-10-01 11:20 Interesting overview of redflagging in security by Bob Arno and @bambivalent1 http://bit.ly/2cPTfU I read the Ekman book, also interesting.
982. 2008-10-01 14:36 Sometimes you just have to go back and listed to The Smiths for an afternoon. "Nature is a language - can't you read?"
983. 2008-10-01 15:22 @aweissman I just knew you were going to pipe up in support! :-) Not oftentimes because we (the young) are constantly trying new music.
984. 2008-10-01 15:26 @aweissman Yes, a little joke - just in case you forgot your @terrycojones Humor Appreciation tabs this morning with your cornflakes.
985. 2008-10-01 15:38 I'm off to play football. No-one can stop me.
986. 2008-10-01 19:49 @JohnBorthwick @mashraqi Yes, a good summary of the issues. I might blog a Fluidinfo-specific followup. All near and dear to my heart.
987. 2008-10-02 00:06 @timbray Your March 8 2008 tweet "Bad crane day" now takes me to porn. Too bad, that was a great link.
988. 2008-10-02 08:11 New TCP/IP DoS attack(s) http://bit.ly/1jCIXB English starts at 5:11 in the mp3. Sounds serious. From Slashdot.
989. 2008-10-02 08:30 "We've not encountered any systems that are not vulnerable, yet." "That's not good news." "No." Min 27:12
990. 2008-10-02 08:36 The DoS interview is good, the interviewer is good - but he proves at the end that he doesn't really get it.
991. 2008-10-02 13:39 @simonw from google: DIRIGIBLE America SGINUL The "Bermuda Triangle"
992. 2008-10-02 13:41 @simonw full translated text: http://bit.ly/nRQO7 (again, from google)
993. 2008-10-02 13:46 @voidspace Ha, the bank job has things in common with my story: http://www.fluidinfo.com/terry/2008/05/09/manhole/
994. 2008-10-02 14:38 Michigan house bought on eBay for $1.75 http://bit.ly/39l9i
995. 2008-10-02 16:42 @simonw Nice. Updates in real time? I guess I'm about to find out... I'd like to be able to drop someone from a tweet, not just at top.
996. 2008-10-02 22:39 Recommendations for cheap places to stay near FOWA next week in London?
997. 2008-10-03 07:42 @timbray Or, just type make to recreate a local HTML file and hit reload in your browser. 404. I go so so tired of it, went back to linux.
998. 2008-10-04 12:46 @aweissman "In every dream home, a heartache" Name that tune.
999. 2008-10-04 12:53 Why doesn't Keynote let me format the presenter's text properly? Seems very inconsistent, mainly doesn't work. Bug? User error?
1000. 2008-10-04 13:34 @aweissman It's old (1973) Roxy Music. For Your Pleasure is the album, that track's a classic. Know/want it?
1001. 2008-10-04 14:30 @aweissman Hope you have the original version of JCSS. "The end... is just a little harder when... brought about by friends."
1002. 2008-10-04 23:42 @littleidea I did quite a lot running Allegro on Mac OS X, talking to it from inside emacs. Worked well. Not free. SBCL has a good rap.
1003. 2008-10-05 00:04 @littleidea If you're using emacs, you can talk to lisp via Slime mode http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/ Works with many lisps.
1004. 2008-10-05 19:37 Reading my kids the LoTR before bed. The evil balrog just pulled Gandalf into the abyss. There'll be some uneasy young sleepers tonight...
1005. 2008-10-05 19:52 @fxn Sí. Nací en otra parte del mundo, pero afortunadamente conozco el pan con tomate de aquí! Me dan nacionalidad española en 10 días...
1006. 2008-10-05 20:21 Finally booked a room for FOWA. Custom House Hotel. No need to criss-cross London on the tube, exhausted, at ungodly hours.
1007. 2008-10-05 20:40 @emileifrem Too bad. I'm skipping Web 2.0 and Le Web. Only going to FOWA as it's so cheap and I have a meeting on the 9th in London town.
1008. 2008-10-05 20:46 I finished Blood Meridian - massive doses of premeditated violence. About to start Light In August. Should have read more Faulkner.
1009. 2008-10-06 01:07 Just spent 3 hours finding/fixing a bug that didn't affect me. Open Source Community Service, with a non-altruistic Twitter chaser.
1010. 2008-10-06 09:38 Kristol shamelessly greasing the wheels for the impending cranking-up of the desperate Republican slime machine: http://bit.ly/3s2oaT
1011. 2008-10-06 14:23 @simonw What's the new job?
1012. 2008-10-06 15:07 It's a Stina Nordenstam kinda day.
1013. 2008-10-06 15:37 @simonw Nice! Congrats. See you Thu/Fri.
1014. 2008-10-06 22:02 "When I was a boy, my daddy sat me on his knee. And he told me, he told me many things. And he said: Son, there's a lot of things in this
1015. 2008-10-06 22:02 world you're gonna have no use for. And when ya get blue and you've lost all ya dreams, there's nuthin' like a campfire and a can o' beans".
1016. 2008-10-06 22:03 Some cheery Tom Waits, from "Lucky Day" on The Black Rider. Baked beans for the Wall Street blues.
1017. 2008-10-06 22:19 @psemme Tom Waits is always right :-)
1018. 2008-10-07 00:56 Refactored a bunch of code from YAML+HTTP+Twisted to Thrift+Twisted, and it finally works. Thrift is nice. @esteve made it Twisted-friendly.
1019. 2008-10-07 01:04 McCain and Palin supporters yell "terrorist"(?) and "kill him" in the context of Obama: http://bit.ly/1fZds It's gonna get real ugly.
1020. 2008-10-07 16:01 @pahlkadot looking for your tips on submitting to Web2.0. You're still reading Water Music? It's his best (tho I've not read the last 2).
1021. 2008-10-07 16:36 Just submitted a proposal to Web2.0 Expo in SF next Mar/Apr.
1022. 2008-10-07 16:39 Google calendar not reacting when I add a new event. I've seen that a few times in the last month.
1023. 2008-10-07 16:45 Interesting NYT piece on 80-100 year-old turtle mating http://bit.ly/3XHHy0 Case of the infertile turtle? Sorry.
1024. 2008-10-07 17:37 Today's Word of the day was a good 'un: skeuomorph http://wordsmith.org/words/skeuomorph.html
1025. 2008-10-07 18:22 @voidspace did you get a Kinesis? I went cold turkey to force myself to tt too. Like being a child. Worth it. Careful with the backspace!
1026. 2008-10-07 19:19 @emduck Greetings! Hope you'll stick around... Twitter is the perfect medium for your slippery quippery.
1027. 2008-10-07 19:31 @pkedrosky I'll expect you in Barcelona.
1028. 2008-10-07 20:04 Esther Dyson is heading (back) to flight school http://bit.ly/2BeKAe What a gal!
1029. 2008-10-07 22:34 Who's monitoring things like /* funny 6 */ and what are they doing with the data?
1030. 2008-10-07 22:40 @pahlkadot Thanks Jen. I just winged it in the end.
1031. 2008-10-07 22:54 @aweissman Thanks! Freeform tags + values? Added ad hoc with no permission? Nah.... that'll never catch on :-) cf Flickr machine tags btw.
1032. 2008-10-08 09:35 Heading to FOWA. Staying CustomHouse hotel, across from the ExCeL center. Might be up for a beer later, depending on work progress.
1033. 2008-10-08 11:14 In the Barcelona airport. There are 0 power outlets. The 2 I knew of are no more: 1 gone, 1 disabled. Is it too much to ask?
1034. 2008-10-08 15:42 Heading to London Bridge from Gatwick. Semi-sunny in London, raining in Barcelona. How odd.
1035. 2008-10-08 23:08 Can't believe McCain really said "my fellow prisoners": http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/222883.php Ya gotta wonder....
1036. 2008-10-09 08:13 Hundreds of perky youths at FOWA with I Love My Church t-shirts, all saying "Good morning!"
1037. 2008-10-09 09:08 Sitting waiting for FOWA to kick off.
1038. 2008-10-09 09:23 @swardley and @simonw did an intro at FOWA that was actually interesting and fun.
1039. 2008-10-09 09:50 @timoreilly I hope you're planning to auction those NB running shoes on eBay for charity when you're done with them! :-)
1040. 2008-10-09 11:27 Looks like just one class C IP address range for a conference with 2000 attendees? Fail #fowa
1041. 2008-10-09 12:28 Wifi at FOWA is completely unusable, waste of time even trying to connect. Nice @mattb talk on messaging.
1042. 2008-10-09 12:38 Ran into @swardley @simonw @monadic @zzgavin @rafer and various others at #fowa
1043. 2008-10-10 07:57 @swardley I'm having b'fast at the cappuccino express place outside the main door, in case you're around early and have time.
1044. 2008-10-10 07:59 @paulwalsh @steepdecline @jasoncalacanis I skipped out on breakfast, in favor of wifi and email...
1045. 2008-10-10 08:37 Wifi quality at #FOWA in steep decline.
1046. 2008-10-10 11:04 @shayman I remember that NeXT cube well!
1047. 2008-10-10 12:32 You MUST follow @JasonCalacanis now. Genius. Pure Genius.
1048. 2008-10-10 13:38 @aweissman Thanks! Will do - when I get better connectivity.
1049. 2008-10-10 13:44 Aussies don't want to be mistaken for NZ'ers, Irish don't want to be for Brits, Canadians for US, etc. US don't want to be mistaken for US.
1050. 2008-10-10 21:56 Back in Barcelona... I love my keyboard. Is that wrong?
1051. 2008-10-10 22:17 @swardley Thanks!
1052. 2008-10-10 22:18 "It's an instrument" Machine-Gun Kelly told him. "Play it." WSB
1053. 2008-10-10 22:20 @jerrymichalski Hey Jerry. Let me know if you get any replies on the API question. I'm v. interested and have my own opinion, of course :-)
1054. 2008-10-10 22:30 "The rulers of this most insecure of all worlds are rulers by accident. Inept, frightened pilots, at the controls of vast machines they
1055. 2008-10-10 22:31 cannot understand, calling in experts to tell them which buttons to push." WSB (with John Cale), Dead City Radio.
1056. 2008-10-11 22:59 Gak. Erlang is gross.
1057. 2008-10-12 08:15 Awake to lots of singing. If my bed were 5m to the East, I'd be high inside Santa Maria del Mar. Prefer it out here with the gargoyles.
1058. 2008-10-12 08:41 Dems to hit 60 in the senate? http://bit.ly/2CRBWA (via Frank Rich http://bit.ly/2ZE7KD). I'd love to see Al Franken get the nod.
1059. 2008-10-12 09:00 @gnat Yeah, lots of people don't know how to type a ♥, so they just leave a space.
1060. 2008-10-12 09:47 Go to 'Find People' on Twitter and the Search tab. Search for either S or T and you get 0 results. All other English letters work. Why?
1061. 2008-10-12 09:48 My current theory is that this is Twitter telling me to Stop That.
1062. 2008-10-12 12:24 On the beach in Barceloneta. It's cloudy, cool, windy and the surf's up. 20 people out with boards. Biggest surf I've ever seen here.
1063. 2008-10-12 22:57 New blog post: How many users does Twitter have? http://tinyurl.com/3u5szh
1064. 2008-10-12 23:26 @gnat chyme means stomach slime in English! :-)
1065. 2008-10-12 23:33 I read 300 pages of Programming Erlang this weekend. So powerful, but so ugly. I'm spoiled by the minimal clean beauty of Python.
1066. 2008-10-13 00:20 @daveman692 You're back in SF? And yet you'll be in Barcelona this Thursday? Brutal.
1067. 2008-10-13 05:29 Wishing I didn't have to sleep and that I could clone myself a bunch of times. Some would argue that one is enough.
1068. 2008-10-13 05:55 Um, how do I get a higher Twitter API rate limit? 70 an hour is so low... How can you build something quickly with tied hands? :-)
1069. 2008-10-13 06:12 OK, found the Twitter whitelisting request page.
1070. 2008-10-13 06:20 @fxn No. Maybe @al3x or @ev will know something.
1071. 2008-10-13 12:33 Trying to stop thinking about Twitter.
1072. 2008-10-13 16:57 New blog post: Digging into Twitter following http://bit.ly/2JKT4f (thanks @ev).
1073. 2008-10-13 16:59 @sarawinge @swardley @littleidea @dewitt @aweissman @johnborthwick @voidspace Just used you in an example in http://bit.ly/2JKT4f OK?
1074. 2008-10-13 17:11 @swardley Well, Spurned and Unrequited were obviously(?) supposed to be funny.
1075. 2008-10-13 17:12 @swardley If you're not spurning them, send me your Twitter password and I'll write some code to add them all for you. My pleasure. Hmmm?
1076. 2008-10-14 18:11 Off on my bike, for dinner with @yannick and @mariasipka
1077. 2008-10-14 23:58 Fantastic dinner, thanks to @mariasipka and @chaminguy Sure beats the hell out of cereal. Next up, get @yannick to Twitter more.
1078. 2008-10-14 23:58 Oops... meant @charminguy
1079. 2008-10-15 00:02 @pkedrosky Wow - you already have the #3 hit on Google for the Haldane quote.
1080. 2008-10-15 08:59 I am Spanish! Happy day.
1081. 2008-10-15 23:04 @voidspace Did you try traceroute and then telnet to that port on the various intermediate IP addresses?
1082. 2008-10-16 05:03 Spent the night hacking a Twisted deferred class that maintains its call/errback history and can log it http://bit.ly/xOUKT
1083. 2008-10-16 15:07 @emduck After you've lived here 10 years you can apply for citizenship. Then it's just paperwork, and time (took a couple of yrs to go thru)
1084. 2008-10-17 21:29 The main problem with standing on the shoulders of giants is choosing the right giants. Looking at postgreSQL replication and HA solutions.
1085. 2008-10-18 00:49 @littleidea Even when it's not?
1086. 2008-10-18 21:21 @timoreilly Will you write about this fragmentation on Radar?
1087. 2008-10-18 22:37 Apostrophe-challenged spam subject line from today: Give your woman multiple climax's!
1088. 2008-10-19 00:06 Anyone out there with experience using Continuent's Sequoia as a multi-master synchronous RAIDb-x front end to PostgreSQL???
1089. 2008-10-19 00:08 Off to bed, perchance to finish Light In August. Nearly done....
1090. 2008-10-20 09:17 Britney Spears (therealbritney) is now following your updates on Twitter. Yes!!!
1091. 2008-10-20 13:10 Off to hang out with @daveman692 and @esteve
1092. 2008-10-21 07:55 @timbray Agreed 100%
1093. 2008-10-21 16:33 @amarshwren one man's webcockery is another man's cockwebery!
1094. 2008-10-22 00:05 @swardley Nice! (I'm Alice)
1095. 2008-10-22 07:44 One year since, demo in hand, I innocently lowered myself into the emotional meat-grinder of startup funding. A year to build the demo, too.
1096. 2008-10-22 11:29 @aweissman I've *completely* stopped w/RSS. Used to use it many times every day. Now Twitter. I miss stuff, but I want to miss most stuff!
1097. 2008-10-22 13:35 @aweissman Cool! Thanks! Had never heard it... playing right now.
1098. 2008-10-22 16:34 fauxmosexual: A person who pretends to be gay, particularly as a way of garnering attention; or who mistakenly believes he or she is gay.
1099. 2008-10-22 16:36 That's the word of the day from Word Spy http://wordspy.com/
1100. 2008-10-23 09:44 @timoreiily Interesting you say "art". I prefer to think of success in these things as being due to good taste, with luck on your side.
1101. 2008-10-23 09:45 @timoreilly "These things" being e.g., entrepreneurship, programming, building models: things people often refer to as being an art.
1102. 2008-10-23 15:13 Followed @brianaker via @timoreilly (someone should track tweets of this kind). #followed ?
1103. 2008-10-23 15:16 BTW, each @timoreilly @ mention of my username nets roughly 5 new followers. Twitter influencer economics yardstick. Other data points?
1104. 2008-10-23 16:36 Greenspan innocent shock at the consequences of dereg is like Condi's no-one could've imagined a plane hitting the WTC. http://bit.ly/RpEui
1105. 2008-10-23 21:16 @puppetmasterd If it takes much longer, it'd be faster to fly to Spain, walk in off the street, and been seen immed. Even as a foreigner.
1106. 2008-10-23 22:17 Amazon EC2 pricing is 25-50% higher if you run Windows on your instance http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing
1107. 2008-10-23 22:45 Newsflash: Major ($900K) donor would "no longer consider" stoning gays "essential" if CA prop 8 passes http://bit.ly/10dLso (see last para).
1108. 2008-10-23 22:55 If The Onion didn't exist it would be necessary to... Buchanan Woos Gay Vote: "I Promise I will Not Incinerate You" http://bit.ly/46EILf
1109. 2008-10-24 00:02 @timbray You offer 3 versions of the same thing: a) Yegge, b) your blog, c) your tweet/title. I'll take c!
1110. 2008-10-24 00:26 Programming complex stuff without a test suite is terrifying. No wonder we all have gray hair (if any) at 45.
1111. 2008-10-24 02:20 Building a new EC2 AMI. Happy I spent so much time automating it down to just 10 mins. Added essential new goodies...
1112. 2008-10-24 02:36 @pahlkadot OK Jen, spill the beans.
1113. 2008-10-24 22:28 @monadic Thanks for the slides. @esteve and I were talking AMQP, RabbitMQ, Thrift, and XMPP just this morning....
1114. 2008-10-25 00:05 The future of search is "will search".
1115. 2008-10-25 00:34 Test suite passed, merged long-standing branch to trunk, killed 65 branch buffers in emacs, and it's only 2:30am.
1116. 2008-10-25 02:21 Some evil spammer is using a From: "Alison Wood" <terry@jon.es> header. I am getting ALL the bounces. Tons of them. Argh...!
1117. 2008-10-25 02:52 Classic wedding FAIL http://video.yahoo.com/watch/3710199! (via @KamikazeKitty). No way that's fake.
1118. 2008-10-25 11:30 @lotd "You know, I've heard about people like me. I just never made the connection."
1119. 2008-10-26 23:54 @fergusstothart cool! congrats. Just got back from the hospital myself... (just a high fever for F).
1120. 2008-10-26 23:56 Took kid with high (40C/104F) fever to hospital. Time from check-in to check-out: 37 mins. Socialized medicine, nah, that could never work.
1121. 2008-10-27 18:06 @sarawinge @brady @timoreilly Can one of you guys get Chris to whitelist 74.220.207.126 again please? I can't mail any oreilly address. Thx!
1122. 2008-10-27 20:18 Interesting (unsurprisng?) article on getting people to vote http://bit.ly/usg8A Social networks are important; they are life itself.
1123. 2008-10-27 20:20 @amarshwren He sure is.
1124. 2008-10-28 10:34 @yannick Nice name change! I like it.
1125. 2008-10-28 10:37 @yannick The site looks really good - clean, attractive, simple. Just as it should. I'd love to see the new office sometime.
1126. 2008-10-28 12:43 If you're into math/crypto, follow @lukeoconnor We did undergrad hons CS together. He's done crypto since. Twittering bravely in isolation!
1127. 2008-10-28 12:51 @lukeoconnor was also at Waterloo in CS with me, for all you ex-Waterloo twitterers.
1128. 2008-10-28 13:04 You would think the reStructured text docs http://bit.ly/41iX8k would tell you how to process the markup. But no, that would be too helpful.
1129. 2008-10-28 15:12 Working on a talk proposal for PyCon 2009 in Chicago.
1130. 2008-10-28 16:31 @nelson I have a Hush server, and it's fantastic. Totally silent, fanless, 35W. Form factor might not suit you. I keep it in my cupboard.
1131. 2008-10-28 16:39 @barshirtcliff Of course they'll let you in - you just have to pay. @esteve and I might be there, depending on paper acceptance.
1132. 2008-10-28 18:58 @jsellens In what language? Please tell me you're not using C.
1133. 2008-10-28 20:50 @yannick Fear not, @mariasipka 's programmers blew the fuse cooking. They should probably stick to writing coding, not hamburgers...
1134. 2008-10-28 23:57 @jsellens I guess you might be stuck with manual pipe/fork/execl. You're the last one out, it seems; make sure you kill the lights.
1135. 2008-10-29 16:23 Great shot of Obama talking in the rain http://bit.ly/C6zoa People waited for hours to hear him, and he delivered. Way to go.
1136. 2008-10-29 21:52 @timoreilly "Yet, the more questioningly we ponder the essence of technology the more mysterious the essence of art becomes."
1137. 2008-10-29 21:53 @timoreilly from the very end of Heidegger's long essay "The Question Conerning Technology". There's more nice stuff in there too.
1138. 2008-10-29 21:58 @swardley I sent a short mail to William, but didn't hear back. I'll try harder next time I'm heading to Cambridge. Or?
1139. 2008-10-29 22:32 It's snowing in Catalunya in places where it hasn't snowed (in October) since 1926. http://bit.ly/eT6U9 (in Spanish)
1140. 2008-10-29 22:43 Emacs is a way of life.
1141. 2008-10-30 01:13 @lukeoconnor Which book?
1142. 2008-10-30 01:25 Interesting: How Page rank creates meaning http://bit.ly/4xp5SK "One might say that PageRank is one part brilliance and two parts daring".
1143. 2008-10-30 01:26 @lukeoconnor I read the yes version in 2000 or so. Liked it.
1144. 2008-10-30 01:30 I have been editing mechanically for hours. Sore fingers, even with multiple assists from find ... | xargs perl -pi.back -e 's/.../.../'
1145. 2008-10-30 02:23 Hillary who?
1146. 2008-10-30 10:24 @mingyeow Hi. I'm not doing anything with the Twitter API, just playing/relaxing from time to time. Glad you liked the posts.
1147. 2008-10-30 20:28 The person who dreamed up sending HTML via email has a lot to answer for.
1148. 2008-10-30 22:06 Can't believe it took me so long to get into Faulkner. Liked Light in August, and *loving* As I Lay Dying. Fantastic. Thanks @barshirtcliff
1149. 2008-10-30 22:16 @gjer Thx. Have it, unread. Sound/Fury next. Try @barshirtcliff at online chess; cue bg sound: female praying mantis calmly eating yr head.
1150. 2008-10-30 22:30 @gjer Very little Zola (just some of Germinal). I have a stack of them though, to my pride/shame.
1151. 2008-10-30 23:33 Just submitted a PyCon talk proposal, to go with the one of @esteve.
1152. 2008-10-30 23:47 @nikibobb Good for you. Congrats!
1153. 2008-10-30 23:50 T-shirt I saw and loved in the East Village NYC a few years back: IF YOU LICK THEM, THEY WILL COME.
1154. 2008-10-30 23:52 Best job ad: Man with two penises seeks bilingual secretary. Best bumper sticker: Horn broken, watch for finger.
1155. 2008-10-31 01:14 @timoreilly Will do. As I Lay Dying is brilliant too. Those characters are amazing. @barshirtcliff says The Sound and The Fury is his best.
1156. 2008-10-31 01:23 Amazon EC2 connectivity (us-east-1a zone) is *extremely* sluggish right now.
1157. 2008-10-31 02:36 New blog post: Twitter’s amazing stickiness (with a caveat) http://bit.ly/43Yi7F
1158. 2008-10-31 02:38 For comparison, I just posted the date of the LAST tweet of the 50 early tweeters at http://myfirsttweet.com/oldest.php http://bit.ly/43Yi7F
1159. 2008-10-31 13:29 "Crossroads" by Tom Waits/Burroughs (on The Black Rider) is such a great track. http://bit.ly/GHXVK
1160. 2008-10-31 23:56 @shayman Read the Stephen Jay Gould essay "Phyletic Size Decrease in Hershey Bars" in Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes.
1161. 2008-11-01 01:52 The good part of doing everything yourself is you learn a lot. The bad part is that it takes forever.
1162. 2008-11-01 16:15 @JohnBorthwick Yes, it was nice! Twitter was almost unusably slow. I had exactly one follower, @nelson.
1163. 2008-11-01 17:16 GOP mailer links Obama, Jews, Holocaust, Germany. Un-fucking-believable. http://bit.ly/3G4FKh
1164. 2008-11-02 03:15 @lukeoconnor Try Zotero (if you use Firefox).
1165. 2008-11-02 03:16 @lukeoconnor Also Diigo
1166. 2008-11-02 23:34 New blog post: A Python metaclass for Twisted allowing __init__ to return a Deferred http://bit.ly/1whZUK
1167. 2008-11-02 23:35 That's the geekiest blog posting I'll ever make, hopefully.
1168. 2008-11-04 00:54 @pkedrosky And... you want an info architecture that lets you (or others) put the pagerank academic figure onto objects, sort on it, etc.
1169. 2008-11-04 00:54 @pkedrosky Have I got a database for you! :-)
1170. 2008-11-04 13:11 @lotd "The foreigners are at it again. When will they learn to fight like our men? How can I rise if you don't fall?" Robert Wyatt
1171. 2008-11-04 14:30 Bush has 25% approval. If everyone who approves voted for him (if he could be re-elected), he'd STILL get half the vote today. Vote!
1172. 2008-11-04 15:08 @monadic and that's why S3 PUTs are so expensive. I have some (a bit flawed) analysis on my blog showing why PUT is hugely costly.
1173. 2008-11-04 16:22 @aweissman http://bit.ly/Y9Eh3 The flawed part can be ignored. Based on a monumentally wrong Selipsky slide and my unthinking gullibility.
1174. 2008-11-04 16:26 @aweissman Best to start 1/2 way thru the first posting, then go read the corrected revenue numbers, then play with spreadsheet.
1175. 2008-11-04 16:28 @aweissman I should post an update, given that we now have new figures on number of S3 objects and that the pricing has come down.
1176. 2008-11-04 16:35 @N_Harrington BTW I came up with keystroke dynamics auth in 1985, implemented it, had a prov. patent (w/Syd. Uni). It was not new even then.
1177. 2008-11-04 16:52 @aweissman With an embarrassing error, though :-) The spreadsheet is quite useful, it lets you play with the unknowns, see the revenue.
1178. 2008-11-04 16:59 @N_Harrington Yr article says it's a "relatively new field". Anyway, I wasn't miffed! It's reinvented every ~5 years. See CACM in 1994/5(?)
1179. 2008-11-04 20:13 @al3x Have you looked at AMQP?
1180. 2008-11-04 21:29 @al3x Was going to suggest you talk to @monadic :-)
1181. 2008-11-04 23:47 The US have an election and my Spanish ISP (ya.com) goes down. Maybe I will get some work done tonight, after all.
1182. 2008-11-05 00:37 @philmorle VT
1183. 2008-11-05 00:59 @philmorle Sorry, VT = Vermont. And hi!
1184. 2008-11-05 01:06 @simonw Who has called PA?
1185. 2008-11-05 01:09 @simonw And MSNBC, ABC too. Thx.
1186. 2008-11-05 01:13 Wow, NBC are now projecting MA, NJ, CT, DE, ME, MD, NH, D. of Col all for Obama.
1187. 2008-11-05 01:15 Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27531033/
1188. 2008-11-05 01:18 The MSNBC map has Obama up 54%-46% in FL, with 24% of precincts reporting.
1189. 2008-11-05 02:14 The (rest of the) world has been waiting 8 years for this.
1190. 2008-11-05 02:17 John Bolton on BBC saying McCain was "not aggressive enough". Figures.
1191. 2008-11-05 02:30 I'm reminded of a quote from a Cricinfo commentator: "If there's one things the Australians like more than a contest, it's a massacre."
1192. 2008-11-05 02:51 FL 51/48 to Obama, 60% counted.
1193. 2008-11-05 03:12 It's all the fault of the "headwind". They waged a great campaign, but that pesky headwind got them.
1194. 2008-11-05 03:14 BBC interviewer did a good job getting the CO GOP leader worked up. John Bolton complains, "media bias!" "Fire him."
1195. 2008-11-05 03:17 "The Republican party has ended up with the old confederacy" Historian on BBC. "Historically remarkable moment."
1196. 2008-11-05 03:19 Bolton: "Criticism of the United States for being a racist nation will now stop. Right?" Silence.
1197. 2008-11-05 03:23 Less talk, more result!
1198. 2008-11-05 03:24 Oh great, David Frum in place of John Bolton. This should be fun. BBC http://tinyurl.com/5wv5wq
1199. 2008-11-05 03:36 David Frum doing a good job. McCain "ran on biography", puts blame on McCain.
1200. 2008-11-05 03:53 Frum: "We are in danger of .... becoming a white rural party." Rues the proudly anti-intellectual aroma of Bush, Palin as leader figures.
1201. 2008-11-05 04:01 BBC guy desperately trying to fill 30 secs. "It's not done until it's done. You don't get 270 until you get 270."
1202. 2008-11-05 04:13 That was worth staying up to 5am for. SO MUCH Bush damage to be undone, the man's got his job cut out for him.
1203. 2008-11-05 16:46 @lukeoconnor What's the practical impact of the caveat "in a simply consistent extension B" of B"?
1204. 2008-11-05 17:38 @lukeoconnor I mean do they show P!=NP in the real world, or in some highly restricted system? Maybe I should just read the paper myself.
1205. 2008-11-05 19:38 @lukeoconnor Yep. And I guess Dave McClurkin's quip (which I took seriously) that the # of vars in the proof looked exp was actually right!
1206. 2008-11-06 02:16 Refactoring code is so much more satisfying than writing it right the first time (actually, I can only speculate).
1207. 2008-11-06 03:29 @aweissman More at http://bit.ly/3rHK9j
1208. 2008-11-06 07:04 Bed at 5am, up with 3 kids at 7am.
1209. 2008-11-06 09:06 @lukeoconnor I don't know... I'll probably have a nap later.
1210. 2008-11-07 02:08 Nice new linear scalability results/graphs from the RabbitMQ AMQP broker http://bit.ly/JuBu
1211. 2008-11-07 02:50 @lukeoconnor I'm heading to bed. Another long day chipping away at the cliff face. Kids up in 3-4hrs. Meet @esteve at 10. Groan. Fingers.
1212. 2008-11-07 02:56 Impalin' Palin: The long knives come out http://bit.ly/Vk8R
1213. 2008-11-07 18:42 Technology is changing so fast: New is the new old. Even the cliches can't keep up.
1214. 2008-11-08 03:48 You know your sleeping schedule is wacky when you go to bed at X on one day, and get up at X on the next, or vice versa. X = 4am.
1215. 2008-11-08 15:39 Watching two young guys tap-dancing in the park. Very cool.
1216. 2008-11-09 13:51 Frank Rich delivers consistently high-quality commentary. Insightful, conclusive, clearly written, frank, etc. http://bit.ly/11KQi
1217. 2008-11-09 17:39 New blog post: Brief history of an idea http://bit.ly/11RBA
1218. 2008-11-09 17:59 @fxn Thanks!
1219. 2008-11-09 21:53 New blog post: Expecting and embracing startup rejection http://bit.ly/hPJy
1220. 2008-11-09 22:07 @voidspace Thanks. Let's see if I have the energy to write about the main point...
1221. 2008-11-10 01:21 New blog post: Passion and the creation of highly non-uniform value http://bit.ly/PaTw
1222. 2008-11-10 01:22 @timbray Just mentioned you in http://bit.ly/PaTw
1223. 2008-11-10 01:22 And now I'm all blogged out for the night.
1224. 2008-11-10 11:01 @amarshwren Yes, anything more than a paragraph is really "long". I wrote about that too: http://bit.ly/1hj8
1225. 2008-11-10 11:03 @gjer Fluency? Interesting! URL? I have Fluidinfo. We've crossed paths so many times, I guess it's not surprising.
1226. 2008-11-10 15:36 I'm really enjoying The Sound and The Fury (Faulkner). I don't have any idea what's going on, though.
1227. 2008-11-10 15:38 @aweissman @rafer I commented back. Andy... what about that EN? You know you want it.
1228. 2008-11-10 16:30 @timbray Wow, the 7000 series looks fantastic. I want one! Have to settle for the virtual simulator for now though.
1229. 2008-11-10 16:32 @rabble I think anyone coming out of Guantanamo found not guilty should be offered immediate US citizenship, at the very least.
1230. 2008-11-10 16:38 @zenchaos The $100K is just for the planning costs...
1231. 2008-11-10 16:48 @zenchaos The librarians have no architecture. That's what we're building. BTW, cf @pkedrosky wanting to put "pagerank academic" onto pages.
1232. 2008-11-10 18:17 Just received spam: "McCain has reached an agreement with the Obama lawyers that makes Obama resignation effective November 11."
1233. 2008-11-11 01:10 @lukeoconnor Ha! That really made me laugh. Perfect question for Twitter and the Lazyweb.
1234. 2008-11-11 01:18 Yowser! I just came THAT close to powering down my machine by mistake. Fortunately, my code had a typo! shutdown not shutDown. local != EC2.
1235. 2008-11-11 01:40 LOL: "I can't believe Obama is already sitting down with an unpopular, aggressive world leader without preconditions." http://bit.ly/TPvH
1236. 2008-11-11 01:44 Dick carp gets highly deserved prize http://bit.ly/5ka5 His brilliant research strongly influenced me as an undergrad. http://bit.ly/UWDv
1237. 2008-11-11 01:47 Oops, typo. It's Karp, not Carp.
1238. 2008-11-11 02:01 Nice story on a switch from poppies to pomegranates in Afghanistan http://bit.ly/17FAk
1239. 2008-11-11 04:50 Off to bed before sun-up. Just in case.
1240. 2008-11-11 15:14 @mariasipka Hey, it's @terrycojones day every day around here! :-)
1241. 2008-11-11 17:15 @lukeoconnor Wow, that's amazing. Hey @bambivalent1 check this out http://tinyurl.com/6ggple (12K laptops lost PER WEEK in US airports).
1242. 2008-11-11 20:59 The world's most famous (professional) pickpocket is now on Twitter: @bobarno He's authority on all sorts of crime, and travels like crazy.
1243. 2008-11-12 02:41 @littleidea Some thoughts on Regular Expressions and Python http://bit.ly/voWs
1244. 2008-11-12 17:36 @lukeoconnor @johnborthwick @sarawinge Thanks for the great links! Keep 'em coming, please.
1245. 2008-11-12 23:37 @voidspace What's on in ATL?
1246. 2008-11-13 01:03 @jerrymichalski Does it have to go to a woman? Try @njeremijenko who's doing brilliant things. See http://bit.ly/WsAq and Google.
1247. 2008-11-13 01:08 I have 30Gb of music on my laptop. S3 costs $0.15/Gb / month. So $4.50/month to store all my music on S3, plus bandwidth. Hmmm...
1248. 2008-11-13 02:10 @jerrymichalski Ha. I read the "i" at the end of jerrymichalski as being part of the tweet text. So I read it a statement, not a question.
1249. 2008-11-13 17:36 The Fed lends $2T. Wont say to whom, wont say for what. Very reassuring. http://bit.ly/4uOPvl
1250. 2008-11-13 20:45 @ev Simple Twitter revenue idea: let users pay to upload (essentially) an image map to accompany their background image.
1251. 2008-11-13 23:56 Amex: "we need $3.5B". Just where do these people get off? http://bit.ly/PY59
1252. 2008-11-14 00:03 @gnat It's a disgrace. Charge $95/yr for the card. Charge insane interest rates. Then beg for $3.5B when people can't pay up. Incredible.
1253. 2008-11-14 00:33 @Werner the (legless? insane?) guy in the phone booth is a great detail.
1254. 2008-11-14 08:43 @timoreilly More Stoppard: Reporter asked him "What's Waiting for Godot about?" Stoppard: "It's about to make me rich."
1255. 2008-11-15 01:49 Why does db user/perm setup always have to be so complex? How hard can it be? Postgres: CREATE USER xxx WITH PASSWORD 'xxx'; fail. Argh.
1256. 2008-11-16 22:40 @timbray Scalaris is more a sibling of memcachedb (note the db in that), and S3.
1257. 2008-11-16 22:42 @benjaminblack What's your relation to Scalaris? Agreed on Gore Vidal's Messiah btw. I enjoyed that one a lot.
1258. 2008-11-17 00:27 RT @mariasipka when a prospective investor tells you they can 'get your deal through quickly' fall to the ground and laugh your head off..
1259. 2008-11-17 00:39 Another Barcelona pickpocket story from @bambivalent1 http://tinyurl.com/6mnps3
1260. 2008-11-17 21:03 @voidspace Just make a symbolic link (with no space in it :-)) in / that points to where you wanna work.
1261. 2008-11-17 21:12 @voidspace Can you ssh in? Or hold command-S at boot into single user. Else try mounting it via firewire as a drive of another machine.
1262. 2008-11-17 21:23 @voidspace did you remount / to be read/write in single user mode? /sbin/mount -uw / (I think that's right, I'm not on a mac).
1263. 2008-11-17 21:56 One nice thing about beer is that reciprocal beer owings don't cancel each other out, unlike other forms of debt.
1264. 2008-11-17 23:10 @benjaminblack You can talk to or follow @emileifrem (Emil Eifrem) for much more on neo4j
1265. 2008-11-17 23:17 @gnat is a Twitter entropy plugin.
1266. 2008-11-17 23:26 Merged a branch to trunk, then killed 99 emacs buffers. No wonder I sometimes feel totally confused. I love ### eval: (rename-buffer "...")
1267. 2008-11-17 23:30 @gnat LOL, no, quite the opposite. But if you'd stop tweeting I'm sure Twitter could compress the firehose much more. I ♥ diversity.
1268. 2008-11-17 23:33 @benjaminblack I was there too :-)
1269. 2008-11-17 23:56 Great find by @rustlem: "credit crunch in ancient rome" http://bit.ly/Gful From Tacitus’ “The Annals of Imperial Rome”
1270. 2008-11-17 23:59 @pkedrosky @timoreilly Don't miss http://bit.ly/Gful
1271. 2008-11-18 00:18 @pkedrosky You'd probably like @rustlem 's blog. Finance guy (and more) in London. Sits on 30+ boards, including mine. http://bit.ly/mFfB
1272. 2008-11-18 02:16 @emileifrem :-)
1273. 2008-11-18 02:29 If you go to bed at 3:30am when you normally go to bed at 5am, does it count as an early night?
1274. 2008-11-18 12:17 My BB8820 is hung. Spinning hourglass every 10 secs, white bg. Nothing helps. Battery out, battery drain, mem out, SIM out, PC USB cx. Nada.
1275. 2008-11-18 18:13 @monadic Where's Patrick???
1276. 2008-11-18 21:27 @monadic reticulum or opus reticulatum.
1277. 2008-11-19 23:08 New blog post: bzr viz is so nice http://bit.ly/aSzW
1278. 2008-11-20 00:07 Hoodwinked: 4 great con-men on stage. NY state mini-tour on now http://bit.ly/AYmt Friends @bambivalent1 and @bobarno are part of it.
1279. 2008-11-20 02:18 Consequences of gay marriage pie chart (via Reddit): http://bit.ly/hh2d
1280. 2008-11-20 02:32 Great article: Joel On Software (via Reddit) http://bit.ly/7BQR About books, pseudo-science, just-so stories, and skewers Tom Friedman.
1281. 2008-11-20 09:08 @pkedrosky Are you heading up to Europe on this trip, for a visit to the chocolate-making nations?
1282. 2008-11-21 18:23 New blog post: A kinder and more consistent defer.inlineCallbacks http://bit.ly/djiG
1283. 2008-11-23 20:33 @emileifrem @benjaminblack I sent JJ the Triadic Continuum link a year ago :-) Now it's gone full circle.
1284. 2008-11-23 20:37 @barshirtcliff Install procmail if you don't have it. Then read the man page for procmailex (search for duplicate).
1285. 2008-11-24 04:59 Lying in bed still awake at 6am having totally failed to fall asleep in the last 90 mins. Head too full.
1286. 2008-11-25 01:11 Spent most of the day playing with Django. It'd been over a year. It just keeps getting better. Yet another great part of the Python world.
1287. 2008-11-25 01:14 And now (he said optimistically), I'm off to sleep - after another small bite from Absalom, Absalom!
1288. 2008-11-25 05:17 Inner alarm went off: get up you fool, get up! get up while it's still dark out... :-(
1289. 2008-11-25 05:21 ...crap ideas are out there, getting funded. Lack of vision meets lack of courage. Hurrah!! (OK, OK, it's early; just doing my exercises)
1290. 2008-11-25 06:07 Just sent a book anonymously (well semi-anonymously, now) to one of my lucky followers!
1291. 2008-11-25 09:50 @timbray Samsung 256GB SSD now available to resellers http://bit.ly/3X0MvI
1292. 2008-11-25 10:43 @voidspace Ha, that's great. Those Indian programmers are hot!
1293. 2008-11-25 10:44 @voidspace I love the AlanT in Manchester touch.
1294. 2008-11-25 15:14 Sitting in the park with Vladimir Estivill-Castro. Haven't seen him for 20 years! He'll soon be on Twitter.
1295. 2008-11-25 15:42 @fredwilson http://tinyurl.com/5lwz69
1296. 2008-11-25 16:28 @Bandrew Don't you find the WebMission proposition a bit condescending? Learn for yourself "the differences" that make the US"...
1297. 2008-11-25 16:29 @Bandrew "innovation", "_successful_ execution". I.e., stuff you don't know how to do, so let's all go worship those in the US who do?? Ugh.
1298. 2008-11-25 19:29 @Bandrew Imagine the reaction if you tried to do that on the East coast in the US. Looking for East coast entrepreneurs who want to come
1299. 2008-11-25 19:30 @Bandrew on a joint trip to SF to meet companies that are innovative and who know how to successfully innovate! I think there'd be a bit of
1300. 2008-11-25 19:31 @Bandrew an indignant uproar. Anyway, I was mainly questioning the tone, which I find condescending and a bit insulting, or something.
1301. 2008-11-25 20:10 @Bandrew Actually, it's just the Michael Birch quote that I don't like. I'm not objecting to the idea, not saying it doesn't have value etc.
1302. 2008-11-25 21:54 @gfcampbell I can confirm that development is a bottleneck :-) Especially when your company is just 2 people and your product hard to build.
1303. 2008-11-26 18:02 New blog post: Changing POV under Twitter http://bit.ly/XrEf
1304. 2008-11-26 19:14 @littleidea Use expect http://expect.nist.gov/
1305. 2008-11-27 00:59 Awoke from dreaming up Twitter fortune cookies. So pleased to find they already exist. I must be sick.
1306. 2008-11-27 03:21 Rolling yet another EC2 image... I must have made about a hundred.
1307. 2008-11-27 05:03 A 3-day bug fixed. Off to sleep. 3 kids will wake me in <= 2 hrs.
1308. 2008-11-28 18:27 SFTWU: acronym to use on people who insist on saying FTW. There's gotta be some sort of backlash soon... right?
1309. 2008-11-28 18:31 Doubling down?? Tripling down??? Jeez. I'm still trying to get an investor to single down.
1310. 2008-11-28 18:43 @emileifrem LOL. Many things I might add. But not in public, for now :-) Good luck with your VC mail. I've written a few of them too...
1311. 2008-11-29 03:11 @JasonCalacanis re "genius": You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. (see Princess Bride).
1312. 2008-11-29 04:37 Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! reminding me of Scene B from Robert Wilson's fantastic CIVIL warS. Nice association. http://bit.ly/kJ5y
1313. 2008-11-29 05:19 It's the witching hour on Twitter.
1314. 2008-11-29 11:38 RT @lukeoconnor python in chinese http://tinyurl.com/5bc29w
1315. 2008-11-30 23:49 Q: Anyone have hard figures on the # of Firefox extensions there are? (Search for "t" within all extensions @ mozilla.org gives 6K hits.)
1316. 2008-12-01 02:27 Stopping coding to work on docs is like going to the dentist to have teeth pulled.
1317. 2008-12-01 05:57 Can't seem to sleep more than a few hours in a row these days. Lying awake unfunded = un-fun + un-dead.
1318. 2008-12-01 06:06 @jsellens grep/xargs is like map/reduce for the UNIX command line.
1319. 2008-12-01 06:21 Night of the Living Unfunded. Rated NFH (not for the faint of heart).
1320. 2008-12-01 20:52 @bpm140 Hey, I nearly went for mudball.com (it's for sale). Multi-User DataBase for ALL. I love it. Got shot down.
1321. 2008-12-02 00:07 @Scobleizer Yes, Wednesday is good. If you're jetlagged and wide awake, now is good too :-) URL for tomorrow?
1322. 2008-12-02 00:10 @pkedrosky If you're driving from ABQ, try Hwy 14 (ghost towns) http://tinyurl.com/6j9kls The SF->LANL leg is really spectacular.
1323. 2008-12-02 00:10 @barshirtcliff Thanks, looks interesting.... I opened a tab.
1324. 2008-12-02 00:23 @pkedrosky There is/was a great jewelery store in Golden. Blink though and you'll miss it, literally. RHS. Madrid is hippy/crystal fun too.
1325. 2008-12-02 00:37 @philmorle Sounds good. I'll be in London on Thu/Fri though, and maybe Wed.
1326. 2008-12-02 01:02 Anyone have usage numbers for Amazon SimpleDB? Price for storage was slashed today from $1.50/Gb/month to $0.25.
1327. 2008-12-02 01:05 Google queries and (#hits): "we are using simpleDB"(0) "we are using amazon simpleDB"(0) "we use amazon simpleDB"(1) "we use simpleDB"(4).
1328. 2008-12-02 01:12 "using amazon simpleDB"(68) "using simpleDB"(1010) "simpleDB sucks"(3) "love simpleDB"(1) "hate simpleDB"(0) "recommend simpleDB"(0). Ouch.
1329. 2008-12-02 01:18 @aweissman On their main SimpleDB page http://bit.ly/4Etslc Follow @werner
1330. 2008-12-02 02:20 New blog post: Amazon SimpleDB a complete flop? http://bit.ly/42X4
1331. 2008-12-02 02:30 @lukeoconnor 4 x 2 = 8. Hmmmmm. Maybe you're onto something.
1332. 2008-12-02 03:06 @dbounds Hi. E.g. #domains (we know there are ~31B objs in S3). There are ~440K AWS users, how many use SDB? Interested in any SDB stats.
1333. 2008-12-02 14:47 Don't use Serverpronto!!! They are a complete ripoff company and they will bill you forever. Unbelievable. http://bit.ly/YFz4
1334. 2008-12-02 14:47 New blog post: Serverpronto (Infolink) is a RIPOFF http://bit.ly/YFz4
1335. 2008-12-03 00:22 Little ideas are the enemies of big ideas.
1336. 2008-12-03 00:54 So many ideas, so little funding. Just had a ripper, and it's relatively straigtforward. Sigh.
1337. 2008-12-03 01:07 @barshirtcliff If I told you I'd have to kill all my followers. That could get messy.
1338. 2008-12-03 02:07 @aweissman You obviously forgot your lobster http://bit.ly/ojaV
1339. 2008-12-03 04:30 Another deeply fulfilling 3 hour night. How nice to have a global audience. I'M IN YR TIMEZONZ MAKIN WHOOPY.
1340. 2008-12-03 05:56 New blog post: Airports to install giant security mood rings http://bit.ly/CqGc
1341. 2008-12-03 05:59 @Silona Use set -e to exit on errors.
1342. 2008-12-03 09:19 @sig Interesting/fun UI @ thingamy. Would be good if the category went to the top. Could move a bit faster too. Anyway, I like it.
1343. 2008-12-03 09:21 @sig Practice/technical contradicts Trying It/Operating Systems.
1344. 2008-12-03 11:35 @lolacomomola @mariasipka
1345. 2008-12-03 13:04 @mariasipka June 29, 1975! I love emacs :-)
1346. 2008-12-03 13:11 @Scobleizer Just called, no answer. Where are you? Your hotel is very close by (10 mins).
1347. 2008-12-03 13:16 @Scobleizer Will do.
1348. 2008-12-03 15:22 In a cab. First time I've been out of my 'hood in yonks. Haven't owned a car for almost 13 years.
1349. 2008-12-03 22:05 Had 2 beers over a nice dinner with @Scobleizer and family. Tonight I predict sleep!
1350. 2008-12-04 03:28 @joi Congrats!!
1351. 2008-12-04 04:24 @Scobleizer I just got the strong impression your had woken up :-) Thanks, I enjoyed myself too. Glad you like Barcelona and Anis del Mono.
1352. 2008-12-04 07:13 Interview with @Scobleizer part #1: video http://bit.ly/Yoj Friendfeed discussion: http://ff.im/ct7z
1353. 2008-12-04 09:59 Interview with @Scobleizer part #2 is now online http://bit.ly/Jzzx
1354. 2008-12-04 10:02 @susanbeebe Thanks! There's more video on its way.
1355. 2008-12-04 10:10 @hymanroth Thanks. I hope we're doing complimentary things. I have the feeling you're UI oriented, given your AJAX ref and chat question.
1356. 2008-12-04 10:11 @mariasipka Thanks too - you are very kind!
1357. 2008-12-04 10:13 @bradzo Read your posting. That would be a mountain of work to build! That's the big problem with vision :-)
1358. 2008-12-04 10:16 @hymanroth Yes, right. OpenID/OAuth will be very important to us.
1359. 2008-12-04 11:26 New blog post: Twittendipity: a chance interview with Robert Scoble http://bit.ly/929s
1360. 2008-12-04 11:37 Part #3 of the interview with @Scobleizer http://bit.ly/UteO
1361. 2008-12-04 12:00 According to Google there's only one instance of "twittendipity" on the web.
1362. 2008-12-04 12:05 @amarshwren Agreed :-)
1363. 2008-12-04 13:36 @gfcampbell No, I'll be here, in Barcelona. But if you want to send me a plane ticket I'll be there :-)
1364. 2008-12-04 13:37 Part #4 of the interview with @Scobleizer And that's a wrap.
1365. 2008-12-04 13:52 Oops, forgot that last interview link: http://bit.ly/BIfE
1366. 2008-12-04 17:41 Via @yannick If chance favors the prepared mind, serendipity favors the re-tweeted.
1367. 2008-12-05 07:40 @Scobleizer The guy working at the docks is running a transport business there. He's Jordi Soler @jordisoler First time we'd met. Thanks!
1368. 2008-12-05 09:50 @littleidea Yes! Thanks to @timoreilly A butterfly flaps its wings in Sebastopol, and the effect ripples around the world in a day.
1369. 2008-12-05 11:03 Blog piece by @Scobleizer on why Fluidinfo has been unfundadable (so far) http://bit.ly/SUdX
1370. 2008-12-05 13:48 @voidspace Thanks :-)
1371. 2008-12-05 15:32 New blog post: Not alone http://bit.ly/OUkU
1372. 2008-12-05 16:28 @voidspace You wont regret it. They're incredibly good. Saved me.
1373. 2008-12-05 17:51 @timoreilly @danbri http://jon.es/pandemonium.pdf
1374. 2008-12-05 17:59 @timoreilly @danbri BTW, I did my dissertation on Fitness Landscapes, Search, and Evolutionary Algorithms :-) Also see Holland's ANAS book.
1375. 2008-12-06 02:07 @emileifrem mentioned neo4j here http://bit.ly/NBM4 Meet Gerry Campbell @gfcampbell He of the Ibsen background. Another @timoreilly intro.
1376. 2008-12-06 02:22 Mathgeek trivia question: my number of followers (641) is famous. Why? Hint: number theory.
1377. 2008-12-06 03:15 @mikaelsandblom Hi - yes, I was thinking of Euler and F5. I hope you didn't have to look that up :-)
1378. 2008-12-06 03:36 @gjer Ha. I *knew* I could rely on you to answer that one without thinking :-) I'm off to sleep, it's 4:30am. It's been an amazing week.
1379. 2008-12-06 07:33 @barshirtcliff It's got to be FooBar Enterprises. That's great. A too dark/cynical/strange name will hurt you. FB Ent is goofy and great.
1380. 2008-12-06 11:49 @ealdent Re Fluidinfo.... Great! Thanks.
1381. 2008-12-06 14:47 @Scobleizer OK. No need for a reply, just wanted to make sure. Have fun on Oxford St.
1382. 2008-12-07 10:03 @tweetipFH You sent me $100!!?? I thought that was a joke, but according to tipjoy it's real. Thanks, we need the cash :-)
1383. 2008-12-07 12:10 Unplugging my network cable.
1384. 2008-12-07 13:28 @njr0 Hi Nick! Hey @gjer @esteve @rustlem the cryptically named njr0 is Nick Radcliffe. The physics PhDs begin to arrive on Twitter. Help!
1385. 2008-12-07 17:06 @timoreilly Re USB attack, see earlier version of this at http://bit.ly/l4At
1386. 2008-12-08 00:31 "I have never been able to like these model countries with everything up to date and hygienic and an enormous suicide rate." - Orwell
1387. 2008-12-08 01:31 @hymanroth Yes, thanks. I doubt we'd apply - unless things really were desperate. Not being funded may not imply you deserve a handout :-)
1388. 2008-12-08 06:38 There's interesting discussion (i.e., I am talking a lot) over on @gfcampbell blog http://bit.ly/NBM4 Data, semantics, representation, etc.
1389. 2008-12-08 06:59 This (via @voidspace, thanks) http://bit.ly/w0yr starts with a great analogy about how we do things around here. Search for "onion" too.
1390. 2008-12-08 09:16 @pkedrosky "...the only religion that has any commentary on midgets." I shoulda known.
1391. 2008-12-08 13:30 Two beers for lunch with @esteve. I feel a siesta coming on rapidly.
1392. 2008-12-08 13:30 Anything interesting going on in London on Thu or Fri nights?
1393. 2008-12-08 13:33 @monadic I just gave the RabbitMQ t-shirt to @esteve. I liked it a lot, but I am a snappycool dresser while he's 100% geek wardrobe.
1394. 2008-12-08 17:30 Dopplr is asking me to help them build a travel guide to Barcelona (for free). Hmmmm.
1395. 2008-12-09 01:13 I highly recommend getting oneself @Scobleizer'd S'good for what ails ya.
1396. 2008-12-09 05:48 @amarshwren Rustling through the dusty archives? I have another blog that my dad suggested I unlink, for the continued safety of the public.
1397. 2008-12-09 08:31 @njr0 mornin' Nick.
1398. 2008-12-09 09:01 @njr0 thank goodness Fermat's last has been done. You won't have to prove it in a single tweet. @lukeoconnor following @njr0 ?
1399. 2008-12-09 09:17 I made the mistake of buying my daughter an iPod. Now upgrading *everything* on her windows laptop in order to install iTunes. Windows tax.
1400. 2008-12-09 09:19 @davemc500hats Be happy DW got on stage this year. Last year he was sitting down the very front and they missed him! Major bummer.
1401. 2008-12-09 09:25 ITunes installation splash screen shows a stack of CDs. Ha! Token nod to the RIAA. Very quaint. They should have done the image in sepia.
1402. 2008-12-09 10:05 @communicating Hi, thanks! Don't think it's related. @emileifrem may be interested. @jerrymichalski is this what you use and love?
1403. 2008-12-09 10:38 For genetic algorithms fans in Barcelona, Dave Goldberg talk on Thu. http://bit.ly/47Nq I'll be in London. Hoping to catch him before/after.
1404. 2008-12-09 11:05 @edjez Yes, agreed. BTW, I've known Dave for 17 years :-)
1405. 2008-12-09 11:07 @voidspace Argh... bad timing. What about @simonw, @swardley, others - in town Thu/Fri nights? Beer? @njr0 may join.
1406. 2008-12-09 11:19 @edjez "solve pretty much anything" is a bit strong. See: No Free Lunch theorems of Wolpert/McReady? The answer is too long for a tweet.
1407. 2008-12-09 16:50 Via @voidspace You wouldn't buy our shitty cars.... http://twurl.nl/t8aw7y Ouch.
1408. 2008-12-10 03:58 @puppetmasterd I got rejected for Web 2.0 too. I figure I'll crack it by the time 3.0 comes around :-) Meanwhile... http://bit.ly/hPJy
1409. 2008-12-10 04:03 Cool: using Genetic Programming to evolve a Mona Lisa face via 50 transparent polygons http://bit.ly/143S5 (from /.)
1410. 2008-12-10 04:30 @timoreilly BTW, the Spanish for store or store room is almacen, also from the same Arabic root. al majzan.
1411. 2008-12-10 09:12 @jordisoler Hi Jordi - that's very cool, good for you!
1412. 2008-12-10 10:10 @mariasipka Best of luck! What a life.
1413. 2008-12-10 22:27 Just back from dinner with Dave Goldberg of GA fame. Talked about you @gjer and @njr0 Got caught up on 13yrs of nasty academic infighting.
1414. 2008-12-10 22:32 @pkedrosky Did you go up Hwy 14? Hope I didn't contribute to your lostness.
1415. 2008-12-11 06:09 @bambivalent1 Ha! And I'm just up; heading to London.
1416. 2008-12-11 09:50 Two hour (min) delay out of BCN to LGW...
1417. 2008-12-11 11:21 @bonanzinga I've run into a 5hr delay out of Barcelona. Easjet tell me "we're not British Airways". Aiming to see you in 17:30 slot.
1418. 2008-12-11 12:38 A 5 hour delay ahead of a 2 hour flight is so much more annoying than a 5 hour delay ahead of a 24 hour flight... Easyjet argh.
1419. 2008-12-11 20:48 In a cab following Turkish dinner with @njr0 (thanks). Long day, spent mainly in the airport.
1420. 2008-12-12 03:38 Not sleeping in London.
1421. 2008-12-12 22:43 @sarawinge Given a choice between "love" and "bunk", I'd take the latter. I can say more in email if you like.
1422. 2008-12-12 23:39 @rustlem GBP1000 on lunch..... OMG.
1423. 2008-12-13 04:24 Upn at 'em at 4:20am in London. It's not going to warm out there... Heading for beloved Barcelona. Easyjet the weakest link.
1424. 2008-12-13 05:56 London tube meltdown. This trip has been cursed. In a cab racing to Liverpool St. May still maKe the Stansted flight. Unbelievable.
1425. 2008-12-13 08:06 How can it take 3 hours to get from central London to Stansted and STILL miss your flight? Fury.
1426. 2008-12-13 08:08 Now a 10hr wait to next flight. £230 for the pleasure. Wishing I were dead.
1427. 2008-12-13 10:29 @daveman692 Hey Dave. I would've, but I'm stuck (stuck, stuck, a word that rhymes with stuck) in Stansted for the whole day. Stuck!
1428. 2008-12-13 14:18 @doughellmann We chose Bazaar over Mercurial too.
1429. 2008-12-13 14:49 @doughellmann We host our own. I'm thinking of making it an EC2 instance, and only bringing it up for push/pull (very infrequent) :-)
1430. 2008-12-13 17:02 My 10 hours in Stansted are almost up. About to try Ryanair for the first time ever. Their poor service is legendary. Let's see....
1431. 2008-12-13 20:39 Sitting on a bus halfway to Barcelona from Girona. Nice to be back in civilization.
1432. 2008-12-13 21:56 Home.
1433. 2008-12-14 14:51 BBQ chicken, fries, beer, coffee, ice cream, 7 kids, sitting outside by the beach in Barcelona. Hard to beat, and it's mid-December to boot.
1434. 2008-12-15 00:00 @njr0 That's interesting on the odd bit.ly link. Where did you get that bit.ly URL? @JohnBorthwick did you see @njr0's tweets?
1435. 2008-12-15 10:51 @otoburb Hi. That link you gave for Kdb and FluidDB doesn't work for me (under Firefox or Konqueror). Thanks!
1436. 2008-12-15 11:37 @voidspace Cool! Use emacs? One useful binding is to put ctl and meta on index and middle of both hands, at bottom (orig arrow keys).
1437. 2008-12-15 20:18 Was there a second shoe thrower?
1438. 2008-12-15 20:25 @pkedrosky Wow. There's got to be a fantastic caption or headline to go with that story. Annals of parody. Time for a competition...
1439. 2008-12-15 21:45 Billion is the new million.
1440. 2008-12-16 08:04 At Lucas' swimming class. An old guy with baggy costume and a swimming cap just crossed himself before getting in.
1441. 2008-12-16 10:05 @timbray Thanks a lot for the Arundhati Roy link (http://is.gd/bVjv).
1442. 2008-12-16 16:39 Does getting a PhD in computer science count as premature optimization?
1443. 2008-12-16 18:18 @sarawinge I submitted lots of errata to the 2nd Ed. Does that count as geek-studly? Sure hope so.
1444. 2008-12-17 09:04 "...surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity"
1445. 2008-12-17 09:05 From near the end of the 30+ pages of italics in Ch5 of Absalom, Absalom!
1446. 2008-12-17 16:28 Burger King enters the perfume market http://bit.ly/mQkW
1447. 2008-12-17 21:47 @maysonic I'd not heard of that - thanks!
1448. 2008-12-17 22:10 @geekstats and @lukeoconnor You two should follow each other! GS - sorry for the unfollow, too many stats for me :-)
1449. 2008-12-18 12:52 @ocelma Hi Oscar. I'll help. You know my email.....
1450. 2008-12-19 02:27 Looks like Twitter just did a mass cull of accounts. Follower count down by 6%, all of which seem suspended accounts.
1451. 2008-12-19 02:38 p $2 @wellwishes for CharityWater
1452. 2008-12-19 02:38 @al3x Glad I made the cut.
1453. 2008-12-19 03:11 p $99 @wellwishes To make JB's day more fun.
1454. 2008-12-19 15:35 Naming and organizing files and directories can be more time-consuming than actually writing the code.
1455. 2008-12-19 22:49 @al3x My question to your group and its backers: http://bit.ly/13gVJ You've obviously pondered the same. No-one's given me an answer.
1456. 2008-12-20 09:02 @JohnBorthwick Do we have some unfinished business? A $99 matching tip?
1457. 2008-12-20 12:49 @otoburb Very interesting - thanks for the link!
1458. 2008-12-20 23:01 @xamat Where's the asian supermarket?
1459. 2008-12-22 05:16 @kenreisman Writing where? I wrote some too: http://bit.ly/BFm9 You know @philmorle? @lukeoconnor: go to bed!
1460. 2008-12-22 05:46 @pkedrosky -40 is the temperature at which you never have to ask Celcius or Fahrenheit.
1461. 2008-12-22 15:28 @aweissman APIs will go the same way.
1462. 2008-12-22 18:00 @amarshwren And the other half it goes on?
1463. 2008-12-22 22:39 Yet another startup gets funded to wrap html links around stock symbols. The pace of innovation is simply breathtaking.
1464. 2008-12-23 00:34 @al3x We need a VC-oriented adaptation of @timoreilly's rallying cry: Fund stuff that matters. :-)
1465. 2008-12-23 08:51 @al3x There's a space in here http://bit.ly/tjKq (between the m and the p in "simply") that wasn't in the original tweet.
1466. 2008-12-23 16:26 @swardley Praising the military for organization and balance??? Have you read The Psychology of Military Incompetence ? http://bit.ly/10Uyh
1467. 2008-12-23 16:30 RT @voidspace The awesome book:a book for kids that really is awesome... http://twurl.nl/uiprdn
1468. 2008-12-23 18:53 @timoreilly says "in particular, being able to mix data sets, is critical" (http://snurl.com/91h7b). Agree 100%. Working on it.
1469. 2008-12-23 19:39 Duck curry.
1470. 2008-12-24 09:31 How to make a 40TB RAID0 filesystem in Amazon EC2 via multiple EBS volumes http://bit.ly/lyto
1471. 2008-12-24 11:21 Booked ticket to Singapore with S. Air. With no FF miles (13,500 of them) it's 27 Euros less: 0.2 c/ml. Delta charges 2 c/ml. =10x spread!
1472. 2008-12-26 19:50 Our Science paper on the global circulation of influenza virus was #14 of Discover Magazine's top 100 stories of 2008 http://bit.ly/xJas
1473. 2008-12-26 22:26 Just read @Werner's Eventually Consistent - Revisited http://bit.ly/JUAa
1474. 2008-12-27 20:59 @aweissman On the subject of appearances, who do you get if you cross the faces of Rod Blagojevich and Alfred E. Neuman?
1475. 2008-12-27 21:08 @zzgavin @njr0 Something (phenotypical-intellectual) tells me you two would get along. Either that or hate each others guts on sight.
1476. 2008-12-28 01:30 Tweetree (c/sh)ould put ads up ASAP while they still have the fresh aura of adding value to the regular Twitter UI.
1477. 2008-12-28 01:33 Tweetree adds important context to @ discussions, but not too much of it (unlike FF, which for my taste shows way too much).
1478. 2008-12-28 02:27 @Scobleizer Watching...
1479. 2008-12-28 17:33 Still chipping away at Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner is a master. His books richly reward the effort it takes (me) to read them.
1480. 2008-12-28 17:34 @fxn Spoken like a man who uses emacs.
1481. 2008-12-29 22:14 LOL: @timoreilly @Scobleizer Interview part 2, 7:45 "One day I slapped myself on the foresk...uh [laughs] forehead".
1482. 2008-12-29 23:15 @aweissman Wow! Thanks.
1483. 2008-12-30 00:21 @al3x Did you see my question about spurious spaces showing up in the Twitter page for individual tweets? There are many examples.
1484. 2008-12-30 00:24 @al3x In fact my last tweet has a spurious space. See "Th ere" in http://bit.ly/fyl3 which has a space not in the original tweet.
1485. 2008-12-30 00:28 @al3x BTW, the spaces don't show up in API calls (not surprising, or 3rd party search apps wouldn't fully work).
1486. 2008-12-30 00:31 @al3x Can't replicate or can't see? Did you follow my link? How about http://twitter.com/pkedrosky/status/1084906021 ?
1487. 2008-12-30 00:34 @al3x Interesting. I just looked at one in Konqueror and there's no space. FF text rendering bug - weird.
1488. 2008-12-30 03:49 Cleaner leaves out glass containing bleach. Sleepy mother gives it to thirsty child. Vomiting, convulsions, and panic ensue. All ends well.
1489. 2008-12-30 03:52 Barcelona medical service is amazing. Calling to ambulance to hospital and immediate attention in ~15 mins flat. Cost: zero (+taxes).
1490. 2008-12-30 04:02 @emduck Ha Em, you shoulda been a writer. It's in your genes, after all.
1491. 2008-12-30 04:04 @pahlkadot Yes... baby just 18mo old too. The body's an amazing thing; almost instant reaction to get the stuff back out. Sleep now. Thx.
1492. 2008-12-30 04:06 @emduck Yes! Ana still at the hospital, trying to sleep, feeling terrible / guilty. Findus is under observation til morning, but is fine.
1493. 2008-12-30 04:07 @amarshwren Thanks. Just one of those things. Hardly the first trip to emergency, but the first one (here) in an ambulance. 'night.
1494. 2008-12-30 04:08 @fxn Thanks. Shouldn't you be asleep?
1495. 2008-12-30 04:15 @fxn When a hacker says they broke "it", with no context, you can only assume they're talking about "the trunk". Dang. You broke the trunk.
1496. 2008-12-30 12:45 @communicating Thanks! All ok.
1497. 2008-12-30 16:20 @gfcampbell Thanks! Nice to have my normal level of stress fade into background stress. Slept. Now back to baseline levels.
1498. 2008-12-30 20:02 Thought-provoking piece from Paul Erb: "Kenneth Burke, personal supply-chains, and Mao now" http://bit.ly/KPh
1499. 2008-12-30 20:31 @fxn My turn to wish you the best... say hi to the friendly folks at Hospital del Mar in case you're heading there.
1500. 2008-12-30 23:09 @JohnBorthwick You re-tweeted my link to the Erb article. But your bit.ly link (pointing to the same page) is different from mine. How come?
1501. 2008-12-30 23:54 Having a wonderful time swapping high-speed mails with @nitin. We met by chance at ETech. I dropped the ball. Shouldn't have.
1502. 2008-12-31 06:54 @barshirtcliff Hi, thanks. All ok. Just one of those things. Safe to say there will be no more bleach left lying about. Ana = @anamosterin
1503. 2008-12-31 06:59 @waferbaby More detail on what @al3x was responding to? I'm v interested in computing habits - how we work with information. Can I play too?
1504. 2008-12-31 07:13 TheFunded is putting together an Investor Pledge. One great thing about the internet: shifts in power via collective action.
1505. 2008-12-31 07:16 @codinghorror Drives me nuts too. Absolutely can't stand it. NPR, CNN (sensation! breathless! drama! news!), movie trailers, etc.
1506. 2008-12-31 07:20 friend re a long-dead mutual friend: knowing hensel was like / a vast mountainscape / panoramic in my chest / now it's just lawns and fences
1507. 2008-12-31 15:19 Someone (X) should use Mechanical Turk to make a task paying 50c which instructs the taskee to pay $1 to X. Use Amazon FPS for the payment.
1508. 2008-12-31 16:44 Average IQ on Twitter just shot up! Go follow @maggiemiss. See if you can make her speak.
1509. 2008-12-31 17:16 Trying to take myself seriously. A lifelong challenge. Required for maintaining focus.
1510. 2008-12-31 17:53 Jo'burg pickpockets, razors, invisibility potions, human feet, lion cubs... all in a day's work for @bambivalent1 http://bit.ly/KhQe
1511. 2008-12-31 22:05 Paul Erb, who wrote the article I tweeted yesterday: "Kenneth Burke, personal supply-chains, and Mao now" http://bit.ly/KPh is @paulderb
1512. 2009-01-01 02:27 @bradzo Not sure what to say (in 140 chars)! Looks nice - we do nothing like it, yet. Maybe one day. Hook functions, hosting code, etc.
1513. 2009-01-01 13:42 Fascinating article on dolphin communication (and information representation) http://bit.ly/RPZ7 Wonder if doplhins have a word for "sorry".
1514. 2009-01-02 00:50 @edyson It's 2am in Barcelona at it's 50F... But the funding climate here is down around 10 degrees. Kelvin.
1515. 2009-01-02 01:02 Tit-for-Tat is one Twitter follow/unfollow strategy. But should it be called Twit-for-Twat?
1516. 2009-01-02 01:14 @timoreilly Ordered Pig Earth from ABE (I love ABE). Resolving to be a better citizen on GoodReads. Thx.
1517. 2009-01-02 12:05 @JohnCleese I loved http://bit.ly/PEqg Sadly, you're too late to be the first person on twitter to say the word "fuck".
1518. 2009-01-02 18:06 @dewitt Too late, I already commented :-)
1519. 2009-01-02 18:24 @JohnBorthwick Try it for yourself (too bad it's spoiled 4u) http://bit.ly/3n7r and see also Derren Brown youtube for some people switches.
1520. 2009-01-02 18:25 @JohnBorthwick People swap http://tinyurl.com/4o94tv
1521. 2009-01-02 22:06 Decoupling complexity.
1522. 2009-01-02 22:10 @nealrichter Wow. Really? I remember when there were under 300 papers in the whole GA field, and 0 on epistasis. @njr0 and @gjer do too.
1523. 2009-01-02 22:32 What's up with LinkedIn these days? It's been like molasses recently.
1524. 2009-01-02 23:36 @nitin Try it and see :-)
1525. 2009-01-03 01:28 @edyson That report is very different from the powerpoint Tufte criticizes in Pitching Out Corrupts Within :-) Please don't go up in smoke.
1526. 2009-01-03 02:05 @amarshwren I guess you need FF for that, or http://bit.ly/9KDCF or the switch view I mentioned on my blog that you commented on...
1527. 2009-01-03 15:27 @fergusstothart Did you forget to add the 15min/child lateness factor? See you soon.
1528. 2009-01-04 15:24 On the beach in Barceloneta. With four kids, a kite, and not quite enough wind. Sunset.
1529. 2009-01-04 18:25 I've read 35 of the Times' top 100 novels of all time: http://bit.ly/1FNhHP
1530. 2009-01-04 19:52 @barshirtcliff Gee, that sounds exactly like Nick Cave!
1531. 2009-01-04 20:51 via @timoreilly @jamesoreilly and @BILL_ROMANOS That is AMAZING... I watched it 4 times in a row. http://is.gd/eukj
1532. 2009-01-04 22:43 Writing a nasty review of Madame Bovary on Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/550761
1533. 2009-01-04 22:52 I've read 44 of the top 100 on Goodreads http://tinyurl.com/5dsowk
1534. 2009-01-04 22:56 @njr0 You're RE-READING Madame Bovary??? OMG. Opinion 1st time, 2nd time? I'm never goin' back.
1535. 2009-01-05 00:26 New blog post: 10,000 things: Andrew Hensel lives (on Twitter) http://bit.ly/DJvy
1536. 2009-01-05 00:27 @barshirtcliff No way. I bet you're thinking of the guy with the fixed wing jetpack. I sent that out some months ago.
1537. 2009-01-05 00:31 @maggiemiss @lukeoconnor @gjer @jsellens @shayman You might like these, written by Andrew Hensel http://bit.ly/DJvy
1538. 2009-01-05 00:41 @barshirtcliff Well, I suppose you're right (easier to forget than to invent). In which case, you're right - I'm losing it. As I suspected.
1539. 2009-01-05 00:44 @timbray Not sure if you knew/remember Andrew Hensel from Waterloo http://bit.ly/DJvy
1540. 2009-01-05 01:32 Feels odd to be tweeting lines from a dead friend. But also somehow right. Follow @adhensel More at http://bit.ly/DJvy
1541. 2009-01-05 01:50 @al3x @timoreilly That quote comes from T.H.Huxley - Darwin's "bulldog" and grandfather of Julian and Aldous.
1542. 2009-01-05 02:18 @timoreilly Yes... my err! The top of the page says ALL TIME, then it says since 1923. Light in August as the Faulkner seems so wrong.
1543. 2009-01-05 14:00 Off to skateboard with a 6 and a 7yo. I'm older than the two of them put together. And I'm not talking about addition! Life is good.
1544. 2009-01-06 00:45 @fxn unmacer.rb has 92 non-blank non-comment lines. 19 of them (20%) have just the word "end". How can you stand it? :-)
1545. 2009-01-06 02:20 @steepdecline Ha! Glad it made it intact. Looks great. JC finished the last bottle with Jeff Bezos! Gotta keep you guys going somehow :-)
1546. 2009-01-06 02:22 @steepdecline BTW, that's a caricature of Charles Darwin on the label.
1547. 2009-01-06 02:34 @gfcampbell Nice to see you do an honest day's work for a change! Keep at it and we may find a way to promote you out of the typing pool.
1548. 2009-01-06 02:35 @amarshwren Not 100% sure on that one (PyCon). Depends on funding. @esteve is going though, for sure. His talk was accepted (mine not).
1549. 2009-01-06 02:47 @fxn Me too! He's a champion, a thoroughbred, a man among men, a king among kings, and one hell of a programmer.
1550. 2009-01-06 02:49 I threw caution to the wind and had 2 beers. Unflagging, I'm still trying to find/fix a bug. Red Queen hypothesis.
1551. 2009-01-06 11:26 @gnat Orwell essays... nice. I read them all. Blogged a little along the way: http://www.fluidinfo.com/terry/?s=orwell
1552. 2009-01-06 13:07 @blaine Ha, that's great (the vimperator). Wonder if it has an emacs emulation mode... :-)
1553. 2009-01-06 17:42 Vimperator (http://vimperator.org) is great (thanks @blaine). Mix of vim, lynx, firefox. Highly promising. Hard to figure some stuff out.
1554. 2009-01-06 17:46 @jerrymichalski Agreed. See http://tinyurl.com/9tud6p
1555. 2009-01-07 23:26 @simonw Hi Simon. That's very nice, very clean.
1556. 2009-01-07 23:37 @JasonCalacanis NSFW.... Unless you work at Mahalo! Perks of the job.
1557. 2009-01-08 14:22 Check out Phun (2D physics sandbox) http://bit.ly/2KgpCf especially if you have kids. Lots of cool videos on the tube: http://bit.ly/Q1l1
1558. 2009-01-08 20:38 @rabble Um, but those are the most important things to track down! :-)
1559. 2009-01-08 21:35 Imagine if Newton had patented "devices based on gravity". Nuts, right? Then see end of this article: http://bit.ly/MVdl
1560. 2009-01-09 14:42 @azaaza Thanks for "The Recently Deflowered Girl" (via @voidspace), it's great. $60 on ABE books...
1561. 2009-01-09 14:44 Booklovers: don't miss The Recently Deflowered Girl http://tinyurl.com/8axrr8 (via @voidspace, @edleafe, @azaaza)
1562. 2009-01-09 17:00 Via @pkedrosky Twilight of Venture Capital http://bit.ly/V8IB Meat for the debate on platform (tool) vs product first (@aweissman @rafer).
1563. 2009-01-10 07:54 @timbray I love the poem in the front of 7 pillars.
1564. 2009-01-10 08:00 Know the feeling: RT @philmorle Reid Hoffman: entrepreneurialism = jumping off a cliff and building the plane on the way down. Nice.
1565. 2009-01-11 03:02 @BILL_ROMANOS Also, it's GREAT there are people like you filtering the news. It has a lot of value. There's an ecosystem of filters, etc.
1566. 2009-01-11 21:40 Via @PaulMiller: NYT article on Ted Nelson. Ted is great.
1567. 2009-01-11 21:57 Just bought Ted Nelson's latest book via Lulu: http://www.lulu.com/content/5371507
1568. 2009-01-11 22:03 @markoff Hi John. Nice piece on Ted Nelson. I wish history (at least so far) had treated him better.
1569. 2009-01-11 22:06 @amarshwren Oops, yes, thanks. I forgot to put in the link to the @markoff Ted Nelson NYT story: http://tinyurl.com/9dm7sp
1570. 2009-01-11 22:38 I think I might be falling in love with Vimperator! http://vimperator.org/trac/wiki/Vimperator
1571. 2009-01-12 00:07 @zzgavin Gavin, your @leisa link is broken (=404).
1572. 2009-01-12 17:01 @N_Harrington See the bottom section of http://vimperator.org/trac/wiki/Vimperator/Wiki Or stop using google reader: use Twitter :-)
1573. 2009-01-13 01:38 Just spent many hours (again) digging into Twisted's inlineCallbacks decorator. Solved a nagging obscure problem: http://bit.ly/gfoC
1574. 2009-01-13 02:15 Off to bed, perchance to finish Absalom, Absalom! Nearing the center of the onion. Revelations and speculations coming thick 'n' fast.
1575. 2009-01-13 03:52 Absalom, Absalom! is done. Wow. Took me 2hrs to read the last 25 pages. Extraordinary book.
1576. 2009-01-13 11:35 @voidspace What's the submission date for EuroPython talks?
1577. 2009-01-13 11:44 @voidspace Thx. Somehow I missed that (the date).
1578. 2009-01-13 22:18 @gfcampbell you should meet @kreisman next time you're in NYC. See http://bit.ly/aAgg (Q: why does it take a human to point this out?)
1579. 2009-01-13 22:20 @gfcampbell Oops, I meant @kenreisman
1580. 2009-01-13 22:33 New iTunes DRM-free files contain your email address http://bit.ly/1ZTyRv Words fail me.
1581. 2009-01-14 00:43 Wishing Kimya Dawson would show up on Twitter....
1582. 2009-01-14 00:59 @lotd "Smarty-pants, you wanna gold star?" "No, I wanna bash your head in with a crow-bar. But, the cycle of violence has to end somewhere."
1583. 2009-01-14 01:00 @lotd From "Hold My Hand" on Kimya Dawson's album "I'm Sorry That Sometimes I'm Mean".
1584. 2009-01-14 02:54 A quick hack (32 lines of Python): Who signed up for Twitter immediately before/after you? http://bit.ly/DXX6
1585. 2009-01-14 03:35 Classic geek/programmer humor: Hitler Doesn't Like Rewrites http://bit.ly/hQRd
1586. 2009-01-14 09:18 Checking search.twitter.com for @ messages when you get in or wake up is like checking an answering machine for messages.
1587. 2009-01-14 09:30 @Bandrew I'm old-fashioned? :-) I don't like clients: too distracting, and use screen real estate. Prefer to do it on demand.
1588. 2009-01-14 09:40 @jessykate (thanks @nitin) see http://bit.ly/jSBp txAMQP: http://bit.ly/OQt4 @esteve (author) is talking at PyCon, open-sourced by Fluidinfo
1589. 2009-01-14 09:41 @hymanroth I have a vimtuperator command mapped to it :-) Thx
1590. 2009-01-14 11:32 "constancy in labour will conquer all difficulties" Trollope http://bit.ly/12hTt (via @netroman following @timoreilly intro - thx!)
1591. 2009-01-14 17:43 @rabble You can't hire a gestoria to do that stuff for you? That's what I did in Spain - cheap and they're experts.
1592. 2009-01-15 12:22 @fxn man update-rc.d (Something I learned from @esteve).
1593. 2009-01-15 12:27 @nealrichter 'm no expert on CouchDB (far from). It's a very different animal from what we're building. Strong focus on docs, nice views.
1594. 2009-01-15 12:29 After a long wait in line I am now the proud possessor of a Spanish birth certificate (which states I was born in Australia). DNI next.
1595. 2009-01-15 16:50 Unbelievable efficiency: the Spanish just issued me an ID card and passport on the spot. Start to finish: one hour.
1596. 2009-01-15 17:39 @pkedrosky My neighbor wrote The Economist intel report on Spain and Portugal for many years. I've asked him to comment on your comment.
1597. 2009-01-15 17:40 @blaine I'm off to see my kids, back home around 21:30.
1598. 2009-01-15 23:46 "Containing as much of the birth of the foundling as is necessary or proper to acquaint the reader with in the beginning of this history."
1599. 2009-01-16 00:00 @aweissman Thanks Andy! Roberto and I are lined up for dinner on 1/20 and a meeting in London the week after (with thx to @mariasipka)
1600. 2009-01-16 00:28 @jordisoler What do you make of http://is.gd/fOf8 (via @jdmarkman via @pkedrosky)?
1601. 2009-01-16 00:29 Shipping rates Asia to Europe have fallen to ZERO. I'm going to Singapore in Feb. Can I come back for free in a container? http://is.gd/fOf8
1602. 2009-01-16 22:13 @jamesoreilly You can add "friend" and "long" (in writing) to the scrubbed word list. (I mean that only in an online context.)
1603. 2009-01-17 16:10 @rustlem There are 3 lists there, not one. I've read 7/40+13/52+5/33=25/125 in total. http://bit.ly/taAF
1604. 2009-01-19 23:37 @njr0 Thanks. My numbers are very low: 7 on crime and 16 on comedy. Guess I'm not into either really.
1605. 2009-01-20 03:39 In bed but notsleeping at 04:40 and other palindromes.
1606. 2009-01-20 04:16 Mind solves mind/body problem. I'm back up.
1607. 2009-01-21 10:00 Off for a coffee and to start on Ted Nelson's new book http://geeks-bearing-gifts.com/
1608. 2009-01-21 11:03 @otoburb Hi, yes, those sorts of issues. Sorry, only just saw this (typo in my username). Thanks for the links!
1609. 2009-01-21 14:12 "The electronic voting machine is best understood as a video game programmed to look like a democratic input device." Ted Nelson
1610. 2009-01-21 16:07 @njr0 Um, Nick, are you OK? Didn't anyone tell you what Twitter is "about"? Will you be entertaining us with any other numbers?
1611. 2009-01-21 17:54 @zvoase Not so good if your iterable is a dict :-)
1612. 2009-01-21 19:11 @zvoase a) You're a fan of KeyError, b) you made your dict via dict.fromkeys(range(N)), or c) your code is wrong. Pick one :-)
1613. 2009-01-21 19:28 @zvoase What we really need is a Twitter plugin to unit test your tweets :-)
1614. 2009-01-21 21:29 The monster.co.uk home page loads 269 images. Other pages all load 150-250 images. Site totally doesn't work in FF or Konqueror. Fail.
1615. 2009-01-21 22:26 @njr0 Sorry - I'm talking about the interface for employers. Presume you're looking at the employee side?
1616. 2009-01-22 00:04 @Scobleizer Answer: Give all the money to Paul Graham.
1617. 2009-01-22 00:13 @pkedrosky You should do that more often! Serotonin trumps the grouch. (Actually, I enjoy the grouch.)
1618. 2009-01-22 00:15 My new programming motto: Fail Publicly.
1619. 2009-01-23 16:15 It was 21C (70F) in Barcelona today. Winter here is really tough!
1620. 2009-01-24 16:20 I wrote a quick list of 20(!) subjects I'll blog about FluidDB when we launch into alpha. Can't wait. Now back to the grindstone.
1621. 2009-01-24 16:43 Very strong winds last night, to 100km/h. They predict 160km/h tonight. Roofs, trees, walls blown down. At least 7 dead. http://bit.ly/gwNE
1622. 2009-01-24 22:10 FluidDB domain names available early (and free) for Twitter users http://bit.ly/bezc Please re-tweet.
1623. 2009-01-24 22:12 If you want to reserve a domain name in FluidDB (same as your Twitter name), follow @fluidDB That's all there is to it.
1624. 2009-01-24 22:32 @aweissman 4-letter domains wont be cheap. You missed that in the business plan?
1625. 2009-01-24 23:15 @Ed Thanks! I'm terry atsign jon.es
1626. 2009-01-24 23:27 @timbray Thanks :-)
1627. 2009-01-25 00:51 500 follows of @fluidDB in 150 mins. The signup method must be about the simplest ever, if you use Twitter http://bit.ly/bezc
1628. 2009-01-25 01:26 Just got invited to speak at http://gmdlondon.ning.com/ With thanks to @osbornec #Geomob
1629. 2009-01-25 01:27 @torchstar Ha :-) Thanks!
1630. 2009-01-25 01:57 @osbornec OK, flight changed. I'll be there! Thanks again, looking forward to it.
1631. 2009-01-25 02:29 @jbruin Have a look at http://bit.ly/2a5m if you're curious. Thanks for the re-tweet.
1632. 2009-01-25 10:06 @jmtosses Heh, heh :-) Thanks for signing up!
1633. 2009-01-25 13:05 Off to the beach with the kids and a kite.
1634. 2009-01-25 13:36 Incredibly beautiful at the beach in Barcelona. Blue blue blue, sunny, clear, clean, and WINDY. Four highly excited kids (not counting me).
1635. 2009-01-25 20:54 I've read 161 of The Guardian's top 1000 books. http://bit.ly/uzMo
1636. 2009-01-25 20:56 How many more books will you read in your life? Back of the envelope: 40yrs x 25 books/yr = 1K? Choose wisely, grasshopper.
1637. 2009-01-25 20:57 "Constant readers make novel lovers" on a T-shirt I was once given.
1638. 2009-01-25 21:09 @Ed Yes, I've seen it, thanks. They were following me on Jan 15, but then unfollowed :-)
1639. 2009-01-25 21:15 @FutureGlue Yes, and I do :-) BTW, nature does have a wheel, search for a Stephen Jay Gould essay on a spider that rolls down trees.
1640. 2009-01-25 21:21 @FutureGlue See the "Kingdom Without Wheels" essay in Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
1641. 2009-01-25 21:25 @FutureGlue I have the physical book on a shelf a few meters away.
1642. 2009-01-25 21:45 @jamesoreilly You may enjoy reading @bambivalent1 She travels ~250 days/yr, writes, is published, knows TONS about street crime worldwide.
1643. 2009-01-25 21:53 Yes we can: @fluidDB only needs 12 more followers in the next 20 mins to reach 1000 in a single day. Re-tweet: yes you can!
1644. 2009-01-25 22:10 @nitin Thanks. That feels spammy to me. I must admit though that the temptation to Rick Roll everyone has been hard to resist.
1645. 2009-01-25 22:19 We made it, give or take 5 mins :-) Thanks to everyone who signed up and re-tweeted. I'll lay off now and go back to work.
1646. 2009-01-25 23:04 @gnat Agreed. It took me 6 months to read Proust (see http://bit.ly/iwce). Months on Orwell's essays. At least a month Absalom, Absalom!
1647. 2009-01-25 23:07 @amarshwren Yes... it's such a small number. Changed the way I read: I now stop things that aren't good enough.
1648. 2009-01-25 23:23 I was sent a link to C.W. Stoneking yesterday. Listen to "The Love Me or Die", it's great. Tom Waits influence? http://bit.ly/2uAjFE
1649. 2009-01-26 00:15 @nitin Feels spammy: I said follow "to receive a password", not "to receive news". Still you're probably right. I'll update further along.
1650. 2009-01-26 13:34 @Alfie Ha!! Sounds great. I'll listen closely. I love hearing people try to explain fluidDB. I often do a bad job. Many ways to look at it.
1651. 2009-01-26 13:44 @Alfie Hadn't heard of John Harrison (*blush*). Reading about him (and you!) on wikipedia. Look forward to meeting, and thanks :-)
1652. 2009-01-26 15:01 @JohnBorthwick The NS headline+cover is deeply irresponsible. Sensationalist over-emphasis on tree. I rec the Desmond/Moore bio on Darwin.
1653. 2009-01-26 15:05 @JohnBorthwick E.g., "Without it the theory of evolution would never have happened." that's complete crap.
1654. 2009-01-26 15:47 @skepner You got the Chinese data - very cool. You have my sympathies - you know how much time I spent cleaning viral HI assay data :-)
1655. 2009-01-26 15:53 Twitterers at Cambridge helping the WHO pick the H3N2 component of human flu vaccine: @skepner @anamosterin @colinrussell @derekjamessmith
1656. 2009-01-26 23:11 @Alfie Seems you like Rupert Brooke? Send me your email address and I'll send you something interesting and moving.
1657. 2009-01-27 01:42 @pkedrosky Yes, it seems really good. But I've not read a lot of it. @rustlem has, as has @anamosterin (I bought her a copy)
1658. 2009-01-27 23:51 @shiyankoh Glad you liked it!
1659. 2009-01-28 09:15 Sitting waiting for a Easyjet flight to depart, Barcelona to London. No 5 hr delay this time. Bag stuffed with loot for @rustlem
1660. 2009-01-28 12:10 Surfing hard-core porn ahead of meeting with @bryce. Browser history and cache chock-full of obscenities.
1661. 2009-01-28 13:33 Just passed a sign declaring "The ward of Cripplegate Without". Experiencing cultural dsicombobulation.
1662. 2009-01-28 21:29 @nealrichter Jeez Neal, you can't say O(3N) (not even on Twitter) and expect to get away with it!
1663. 2009-01-29 13:39 "Your card has been retained." I'd briefly forgotten how much I hate Barclays. Silly me, trying to use my ATM card to get my money.
1664. 2009-01-29 14:51 @psychemedia Hi Tony - yes, that's me. Surprising you know of that paper! The Fitness Distance Correlation one is much better known.
1665. 2009-01-29 14:53 @psychemedia It may sound weird, but there's a lot of evolutionary thinking behind FluidDB. Ev of reputation, trust, convention, etc.
1666. 2009-01-29 16:39 @psychemedia Wow, that's amazing :-) I wish you could make it too. I'm in London frequently.
1667. 2009-01-29 18:05 Sitting in #geomob Filling up, cool space, full of hackers.
1668. 2009-01-29 19:32 RT @Alfie at #geomob: "The map is the interface, the world is the platform."
1669. 2009-01-29 23:34 Found a Pizza Express on the way back to my hotel after #geomob. Great event, thanks @osbornec for the invite and the org.
1670. 2009-01-30 00:05 @Alfie Flying out ~13:30 from Gatwick tomorrow. Could meet tomorrow morning. terry atatat-rat-a-tat-tat jon.es
1671. 2009-01-30 09:02 @Alfie OK. I'm in London quite often, might even be back in Feb. I'll let you know.
1672. 2009-01-30 09:26 @Rchards I'll see about getting the slides onto slideshare. Thanks for (almost) coming :-)
1673. 2009-01-30 09:28 Following #geomob followers. Miss anyone?
1674. 2009-01-30 09:43 @osbornec What should I do with the power supply I found at #geomob? (@andrewjscott yours?) Heading to LGW soon.
1675. 2009-01-30 11:33 @osbornec I left powersupply with my hotel. They're expecting a pick up. Any way to find out fast who left ThinkPad power supply at #geomob?
1676. 2009-01-30 11:48 @colinbruce No compelling use? Have you considered a career as a VC? :-) Seriously, I should have given more examples, esp for #geomob Thx!
1677. 2009-01-30 21:59 "The passer-by, she cawed, should always raise his hat to the one who is shitting!" The Cockadrille in "Pig Earth" http://bit.ly/WVG8
1678. 2009-02-01 17:01 Slides from my #geomob talk in London last Thu night: http://bit.ly/8uFi @vicchi @Rchards @osbornec
1679. 2009-02-01 18:06 @amarshwren Thanks, though any beauty is due to keynote. With Keynote you have to work hard to make ugly slides. Missing font in last few.
1680. 2009-02-01 22:20 @esteve Heh, nothing so colorful I'm afraid. You can see in the text transcript below the slides that it's a Roman numerals example.
1681. 2009-02-01 22:21 @paulderb Yes, you can own the attrs on an object. You can even make them invisible. An obj with only invis attrs is essentially private.
1682. 2009-02-01 22:23 @hymanroth Thanks! Those slides were never meant to stand alone, though. I imagine they're fairly cryptic in places.
1683. 2009-02-01 23:40 @hymanroth Yes, agreed. But later. Right now we (me especially) have to concentrate on talking less and coding more.
1684. 2009-02-02 18:24 Twitter has crossed a threshold for me: I'm following too many people. Not sure what to do. Feels less useful, less personal.
1685. 2009-02-03 00:56 @gnat Thanks. TweetDeck yes thanks, maybe I'll try it.
1686. 2009-02-03 17:43 The economy must be bad: Hilton are offering me 6x the normal FF miles if I'll just spend some time at one of their hotels.
1687. 2009-02-04 01:56 Just hooked a Django view and template up to our API doc class. Easy, and it worked first time. Nice. Proto-documentation.
1688. 2009-02-05 02:13 @kellan I've heard Barcelona is nice :-) Depends what you mean by "fast" though.
1689. 2009-02-05 15:33 Just had a big plate of paella with lots of lemon.
1690. 2009-02-05 15:38 I wrote some Python last night that's a real mess. Like making ugly slides with Keynote, it's not an easy; takes real effort.
1691. 2009-02-05 21:23 @maysonic Hi Mayson - thanks for the link. Python, good. Open, good. Data, yum.
1692. 2009-02-05 21:52 @otoburb Yes :-) We've thought about that sort of thing too. Thanks for all the links, thoughts. Sorry for the slow follow.
1693. 2009-02-06 00:17 Wow, I found a Nick Cave album I actually like. And guess what? It's a 100% instrumental soundtrack.
1694. 2009-02-06 00:35 @andrewl I have a terry/preferred-volume = 0 attribute on all his album objects :-) Have to hack Amarok to query FluidDB.
1695. 2009-02-06 17:50 @pkedrosky Have you read The Undercover Economist? Good? I've read some. Has examples simple enough for my non-economic mind.
1696. 2009-02-06 22:45 No time to comment on interesting posts by @gfcampbell http://bit.ly/5jCe @JohnBorthwick http://bit.ly/oYhh Jeff Jonas http://bit.ly/3SkUWU
1697. 2009-02-06 22:53 Twitter ate my RSS reader. Please tweet your blog posts!
1698. 2009-02-06 22:54 @philmorle I'll be here & happy to catch up.
1699. 2009-02-06 23:13 Crippled template formats, grrr... Where's {% continue %} and {% break %} for {% for %}, and method arg passing in Django?
1700. 2009-02-07 00:04 @zvoase Thanks, will do.
1701. 2009-02-07 00:23 @zvoase OK, Jinja2 it is. I can even rewrite my ugly code that was accommodating Django's template lameness. Thanks, very helpful.
1702. 2009-02-07 01:48 @zvoase OK, switched to Jinja2. All easy, except figuring out that {% load i18n %} was raising cryptic ValueError: too many values to unpack
1703. 2009-02-09 00:01 On the inherent dangers of studying street crime (up close) in Naples http://bit.ly/3BwpJ0 By thief-hunter @bambivalent1
1704. 2009-02-09 23:10 I'm off to Singapore in the early morning, and of course I haven't even begun to pack.
1705. 2009-02-10 00:11 Antigenic Cartography just proved itself again http://bit.ly/11OAr Details can't be given, but it's great science, with high human impact.
1706. 2009-02-10 01:03 @rabble Happy b'day Rabble! Too bad on the veggies.... at least you didn't pick Argentina :-)
1707. 2009-02-10 08:28 About to board flight to Singapore, via Milan. Looks like the flight will be almost empty, at least the first part. 15 people at the gate.
1708. 2009-02-10 11:25 Argh... they just escorted an extremely sick, clearly distressed, and regularly coughing woman into the seat in front of mine. In Milan.
1709. 2009-02-10 11:48 Right, got that sorted, and have a whole 3-seat row for the 11:30 flight. Oily wheel really not wanting to catch whatever that woma has.
1710. 2009-02-10 11:49 We're sitting on the tarmac, but the computational system says we're 227m up. Hope they don't rely on it to land the plane...
1711. 2009-02-11 00:17 Heading across Singapore in a taxi. We lived here 30 years ago, seems amazing.
1712. 2009-02-11 02:10 Just had breakfast with Walter Fontana and W. Brian Arthur. Hadn't seen either of them for 13 years.
1713. 2009-02-11 02:32 @bambivalent1 Nothing so glamorous I'm afraid: toast with butter, OJ, coffee. At the Nanyang Technical University.
1714. 2009-02-11 15:33 Described FluidDB to Murray Gell-Mann over dinner. In any conversation with Murray, one agrees in advance to be intellectually crucified.
1715. 2009-02-12 02:12 Listening to Geoffrey West give an overview of the Santa Fe Institute.
1716. 2009-02-12 02:59 In Steph Forrest's talk: The Road to Software Evolvability: Fixing Real Bugs in Real Programs.
1717. 2009-02-12 03:42 Dave Goldberg about to speak on "Not Your Grandmother's Genetic Algorithm".
1718. 2009-02-12 03:46 Dave Goldberg puts up an image of the cover of Godel, Escher, Bach in describing his intellectual history.
1719. 2009-02-12 03:48 Dave Goldberg took John Holland's class "Introduction to Adaptive Systems" by chance at UM. Wonderful, colorful personal history.
1720. 2009-02-12 03:48 Dave Goldberg: 3 things I learned from John Holland:
1721. 2009-02-12 03:52 1. Start good science with good stories. 2. Go broad or go home. 3. Will Rogers Theory of Models (never met a model I didn't like).
1722. 2009-02-12 03:55 I'm in Singapore for the 80th birthday celebration "Adaptation, Order and Emergence" of John Holland, father of the genetic algorithm.
1723. 2009-02-12 04:17 Dave Goldberg: "John's work has legs. It's more like a millipede than a biped."
1724. 2009-02-12 05:36 Peter Stadler starting his talk on the Modern RNA World.
1725. 2009-02-12 05:41 Note to GA fans: turns out David Goldberg is on Twitter. He's @deg511
1726. 2009-02-12 05:55 Peter Stadler arguing that "a gene is a crude approx. - at best". Better to drop the whole thing, instead focus on RNA transcripts.
1727. 2009-02-12 06:04 @psemme Yes, he got it. Said "sounds like a wiki" and then asked about business model.
1728. 2009-02-12 06:12 @objectiveous I got a quick lesson on historical linguistics and the complexities of Navajo grammar!
1729. 2009-02-12 06:16 Peter Stadler: Lots of non-coding RNA evolutionary diversity accompanied the development of placental mammals. Why?
1730. 2009-02-12 06:50 @gjer Will do. Told Dave over lunch that you're on Twitter too...
1731. 2009-02-12 06:53 Erling Norrby of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on "What is a discovery" and unusual Nobel awards in virology. Great hist of science.
1732. 2009-02-12 07:51 2nd law of thermodynamics: Heat wont pass from a cooler to a hotter. You can try it if you like but you far better notter.
1733. 2009-02-12 07:52 That last from a slide of Daan Frenkel in a talk: Entropy, Dense Packing, and beyond.
1734. 2009-02-12 08:31 @mdneale Ha, interesting - thanks for the link.
1735. 2009-02-12 08:57 John Holland is talking about Tags, Recombination, and Adaptive Networks, and @deg511 is live Twittering it! I get to put my feet up.
1736. 2009-02-12 21:15 @dewitt Joined, thanks.
1737. 2009-02-13 01:11 Murray Gell-Mann: A scientist would rather use another scientist's toothbrush than another scientist's terminology.
1738. 2009-02-13 01:40 Congrats to Dr. @ocelma, a newly-minted Ph.D. with a dissertation on Music Recommendation and Discovery in the Long Tail http://bit.ly/GFPJD
1739. 2009-02-13 01:46 Murray Gell-Mann: You don't need something more to get something more. Emergence comes from the laws of the lower levels, plus accidents.
1740. 2009-02-13 02:31 Carl Simon: In order to get the Lynx/Hare predator/prey models to work properly, you really do need the hare to eat the lynx.
1741. 2009-02-13 03:10 Brian Arthur talking about revolutions in economics: "Personally I'd like to see a few more beheadings in economics."
1742. 2009-02-13 03:11 Brian Arthur: "If John Holland is the answer, what is the question?"
1743. 2009-02-13 03:17 Brian Arthur describing 1987 with Holland, Ken Arrow, Phil Anderson, Stu Kauffman, James Gleick: Bar at the end of the universe meeting.
1744. 2009-02-13 03:19 @nitin Yes, agreed. And explicitly so in FluidDB too, BTW
1745. 2009-02-13 03:25 Brian Arthur: New economics: how does agent behavior respond to the patterns that behavior creates? Non-equilibrium economics.
1746. 2009-02-13 03:31 Brain Arthur: Two Chicago school of econ profs: One "Should we hire Krugman" Other: "If Krugman was that good, he'd be here already"
1747. 2009-02-13 03:33 Brian Arthur: Two Chicago school of economy theorists see $1 in the street. One stops to pick it up...
1748. 2009-02-13 03:33 and the other says "Don't bother, it can't be real. If it were real someone else would have picked it up." Criticisms of hyper-rationality.
1749. 2009-02-13 03:53 Brian Arthur: Non-equilibrium economics implies the need for not the invisible hand, but the nudging hand.
1750. 2009-02-13 03:55 Brian Arthur: Disasters of simplistic hands-off equilibrium economics: California dereg, Russia, housing crisis.
1751. 2009-02-13 04:00 Brian Arthur offers heartfelt thanks to John Holland for being "very much at the heart of a major change" in economics.
1752. 2009-02-13 04:01 Brian Arthur: Chicago school "completely discredited" in at least a dozen examples.
1753. 2009-02-13 04:01 Brian Arthur: "At the extreme level it's not just wrong, it's dangerous and criminal."
1754. 2009-02-13 04:02 Brian Arthur "What we need in science is not ideology, what we need is realism" Wishes the discrediting had happened 30 years ago.
1755. 2009-02-13 04:04 And now, the wonderful Walter Fontana on "Biology 2.0". 20 yrs of SFI association, now in systems bio at Harvard Medical School.
1756. 2009-02-13 04:23 Walter Fontana talking about @timoreilly and Web 2.0 -> Biology 2.0. "Only after the bubble burst did people grasp the web is here to stay".
1757. 2009-02-13 04:46 Walter Fontana is brilliant.
1758. 2009-02-14 02:43 About to have Kaya Toast Set A, plus Sarawak pineapple, watermelon & pear in Canteen #2 at NTU.
1759. 2009-02-14 04:31 Off to the Singapore botanical gardens in search of orchids with @derekjsmith and Peter Stadler. Talking about fitness landscapes.
1760. 2009-02-14 07:09 The orchid gardens here are amazing.
1761. 2009-02-14 12:05 Almost ready to head to the airport, heading back to Barcelona. @derekjsmith is looking for an iPhone twitter client... Lookout.
1762. 2009-02-14 12:26 @fergusstothart Ay ay ay... nice. It's 25 degrees here too, and 99% humid. See you soon.
1763. 2009-02-15 05:42 Sitting onboard in Milan, waiting to take off on the hop back to Barcelona.
1764. 2009-02-15 08:18 Landed in Barcelona. 16-17 hour trip almost done. Singapore was a long way to go for a birthday celebration.
1765. 2009-02-15 20:29 300+ pics of Singapore Botanical Gardens http://bit.ly/k27ie LOTS of orchids + one MEGA insect http://bit.ly/1482tl Ugly mug of @derekjsmith
1766. 2009-02-16 06:10 Yesterday I pulled a muscle in my lower back. Can barely move. Wasn't clear how to get out of bed. Doctor today for sure.
1767. 2009-02-16 08:50 Time between arriving at the medical center and being seen by my doctor: 13 mins.
1768. 2009-02-16 11:17 If I were tweeting my day, it would go like this: trying to stand up, trying to roll over, trying to get my socks off the ground, etc.
1769. 2009-02-17 04:38 I spent 28 of the last 32 hours in bed. Pain/awkwardness easing. Still can't get my socks on.
1770. 2009-02-17 06:19 @solso Hi Josep - thanks for the kind words! Glad you approve :-) http://twitter.com/solso/status/1217339161
1771. 2009-02-17 15:26 @solso And thanks to you and @xamat (and Telefonica for the food). It was great to meet you guys - we love strong opinions and high energy.
1772. 2009-02-17 15:27 Thanks to everyone for the health wishes and the advice. I am improving rapidly. Even got my socks on today. Taking lots of vitamin I.
1773. 2009-02-17 15:44 A friend pointed out: when you view my LinkedIn profile, it says viewers of this profile also viewed Barack Obama. http://bit.ly/xfMZT Heh.
1774. 2009-02-19 17:59 @derekjsmith Great to follow your progress.
1775. 2009-02-19 23:12 @timbray In A Nutshell, Learning Python, Essential Reference, Core Python Prog., Cookbook - are all good. NOT Programming Python.
1776. 2009-02-19 23:13 @timbray And the small O'Reilly pocket reference is good to have at one's fingertips.
1777. 2009-02-20 06:20 @plasticbagUK Sighing for the time when a standing o was something spontaneous, not org'd a priori by Twitterers with 1000s of followers :-)
1778. 2009-02-21 01:20 @nealrichter Hi Neal, yes. And the crime was here in Barcelona, right under my nose! @bambivalent1 will be very interested. Thx
1779. 2009-02-21 02:08 I'm weirdly ill. Back strain. Alternating sweating/shivering. No temperature. No other symptoms. Spent so many hours in bed, can't lie down.
1780. 2009-02-21 02:15 @Ed OK, thank you. I'll have to wait til Monday. Back improved for a couple of days, then leveled off and the hot/cold cycles began.
1781. 2009-02-21 13:11 @andrewjscott Oh no... you got robbed? Sorry I missed you this week, I've been really under the weather.
1782. 2009-02-22 20:46 Elizabeth Gilbert (at TED) speaks 90% like a Laurie Anderson performance. Nice @tomwaits anecdote at 12:30 http://bit.ly/10RBV
1783. 2009-02-23 05:19 Wow, out of all the Oscar movies, counting winners and nominees, I've seen a total of 2. http://bit.ly/t4bTa
1784. 2009-02-25 20:25 @otoburb I'm much better, thanks. Sorry for the slow reply.
1785. 2009-02-25 20:27 @AB9RF Thanks. I'd never heard of walking pneumonia. I'm about fine now. Happily that wasn't it!
1786. 2009-02-27 12:42 "800 numbers are free" Funny hotel language mixup from @bambivalent1 http://bit.ly/wckQy
1787. 2009-02-27 23:22 @otoburb Hi, thanks for the link. @emileifrem may be interested too (http://is.gd/l5M1)
1788. 2009-03-02 18:13 Just sent an email with the subject "The glass is zero quarters full".
1789. 2009-03-02 22:35 The entrepreneurial spirit in literature: http://bit.ly/tAoxq Can you place the quote?
1790. 2009-03-03 14:33 Thanks (+self-promotion?) for the nice Fluidinfo mention by @xamat in The Barcelona Startup Scene at http://bit.ly/ksl1R
1791. 2009-03-05 17:32 Read and commented on @johnherren on web hooks http://bit.ly/JHEe9 John - Oxford MS.... Have you been to Faulkner's house?
1792. 2009-03-07 09:59 Twitter created a followocracy. (No hits on Google. Domain is available. Go!)
1793. 2009-03-09 17:39 Well that was a first: just got a stuck battery out of a digital camera using a corkscrew.
1794. 2009-03-09 17:46 From marcos on the Python Ideas mailing list: "Lisp is like assembly language for the mind." http://bit.ly/8l5Wt
1795. 2009-03-09 23:40 Friends, family, & followers: raising a seed round on Twitter.
1796. 2009-03-10 00:49 @xamat Yes, just a little... sent 3 mails, got 3 bites :-) Should probably have done it a year ago.
1797. 2009-03-10 01:12 @kenreisman What can I add? We're putting together a small seed round. I haven't quite gotten to the point of trawling Twitter. Or have I?
1798. 2009-03-10 12:58 Thieving mongrels stole the bolted-on seat off my bike. €6 new about 5 yrs ago, today it would fetch €1 or 2, max. Trickle down crisis.
1799. 2009-03-10 20:53 @otoburb Yes, that's definitely on the right track. Thanks for the link.
1800. 2009-03-10 20:55 @disturbyte Great. I just stumbled upon @disturbyte :-) Go follow @esteve for more on txAMQP. Glad you like it.
1801. 2009-03-10 21:46 @disturbyte reduce(lambda x, y: x and y, [1, 2, 3, 5]) etc.
1802. 2009-03-10 21:50 @disturbyte And you should give reduce a final True/False default arg for and/or to deal with the list being empty.
1803. 2009-03-10 22:09 @disturbyte Yes, a cute use of reduce, I agree.
1804. 2009-03-10 23:30 @bryce Now you've gotten a bike without a chain, you can get an app tray sans MSFT. Forever young. @aweissman is a cruel taskmaster.
1805. 2009-03-10 23:35 @bryce Chain, gears, whatever :-)
1806. 2009-03-11 00:36 @bryce Did I mention that investors in FluidInfo recv complimentary unicycling lessons? No chain, no gears. Your kids will love you for it.
1807. 2009-03-11 01:14 @pkedrosky Have you noticed how often Hitchens says he's "rereading" something? He apparently never reads anything for the first time.
1808. 2009-03-12 16:24 @xamat Hi - no, I don't know @pau (Hi Pau). EyeOS is looking beautiful!
1809. 2009-03-12 20:14 @barshirtcliff I read some of DFW's essays too. Lively yes, wasn't sure what to make of him; sometimes trying too hard to be random.
1810. 2009-03-12 21:58 @xamat Thinking I need a Firefox extension to send your tweets through Google, each to auto open in a new tab...
1811. 2009-03-13 17:01 @elimisteve Thanks for the idea. I could say more, but not in public :-) Hopefully it will happen, in time.
1812. 2009-03-13 17:06 @wingdude Hey Jodee. In 1982 you got me a job in sales at Computer World(?) in Bondi Jnct in Sydney. I was 19. I lasted exactly a week :-)
1813. 2009-03-13 19:48 @Sokratis Dan Dennett is talking in London?
1814. 2009-03-14 00:46 Amazon offers reserved EC2 instances. Priced 33% down from on-demand (for small inst). Pay 55% up-front. Cash is king. http://bit.ly/sdCp
1815. 2009-03-14 18:32 @disturbyte Bummer. Rejections don't say much about you, if anything.
1816. 2009-03-14 23:57 Amazing slug sex video (via Reddit) http://bit.ly/X9fN
1817. 2009-03-18 21:16 Madness in the Born: riot police, dozens of police vans, sirens, helicopters, brick throwing, restaurant trashed, people standing in shock,
1818. 2009-03-18 21:17 shops putting down their persianas, police with clubs and odd large weapons, running in boots, traffic diverted. What's going on???
1819. 2009-03-18 21:21 Newspaper beats Twitter: http://www.lavanguardia.es/
1820. 2009-03-18 21:26 @nelson Yes, a mob (of students, it seems) went through our street. See last URL. Police reaction seems way over the top. Like a war zone.
1821. 2009-03-18 21:28 A few results showing up now http://tinyurl.com/6asnxo
1822. 2009-03-18 21:29 RT @JessBCN: Sirens and people running along our street now. Helicopters overhead. Is this Barcelona? It's a jungle out there.
1823. 2009-03-18 21:34 @gfcampbell @paulderb I'm in my apartment now, with just the noise of helicopters. Maybe I'll go wander around a bit.
1824. 2009-03-18 21:35 RT @TracieSherlock: Why does it look like a bomb has gone off in Barcelona?
1825. 2009-03-18 22:00 The Born is more quiet now. Still, tens of police vans driving slowly around, helicopter above. People hanging around watching, waiting.
1826. 2009-03-20 15:21 Just sent Layered Tech plaintext email w/ sudo account details :-( No tech phone support. Voice system hangs up on you. No security. #FAIL
1827. 2009-03-20 15:33 @nelson Very reassuring! They told me to email an attachment, that they get purged. We made them an account, and will delete it ASAP. Thx.
1828. 2009-03-20 21:20 @msha Hi Mike - thanks for the followup. I'm terryAT jonDOTes
1829. 2009-03-20 21:44 @bryce LOL. You're meant to unscrew the prosthetic legs *before* you get into the car.
1830. 2009-03-20 22:29 Kudos to @msha of Layered Tech for monitoring Twitter, and for reacting really quickly and well to criticisms/suggestions.
1831. 2009-03-21 22:10 @Scobleizer Congrats to you & Maryam!
1832. 2009-03-22 00:03 Recommended reading: Rolling Stone "The Big Takeover" http://bit.ly/I6nXJ
1833. 2009-03-22 11:49 @skepner Happy birthday, Eu!
1834. 2009-03-23 00:03 @boblq @davewiner @scobleizer I'm not seeing ads on Google for *anything*. Or, they pop up fast and then disappear.
1835. 2009-03-23 00:06 But OTOH, I am using the CustomizeGoogle extension :-)
1836. 2009-03-24 08:30 @timbray It's one thing I know!
1837. 2009-03-24 22:13 @gfcampbell Hey Gerry - that's great news. Congrats. Is a move to SF on the cards?
1838. 2009-03-25 19:18 @kortina !$ has been around for 25 years :-) If you're using bash, try Meta-dot. Does the same thing, but inserts the word (more useful).
1839. 2009-03-26 01:24 A typically stylish, interesting piece "The enemy commander blew his bugle" on Chinese foreign policy from @rustle http://tinyurl.com/dmjk93
1840. 2009-03-26 01:25 Oops, make that @rustlem
1841. 2009-03-26 01:51 @paulderb Thanks for trying. You went through Great Books... explains a lot. I found DQ very boring btw :-( "That's the point" I was told.
1842. 2009-03-26 02:06 Enjoying Faulkner's first Novel: Soldiers' Pay
1843. 2009-03-26 23:45 Shame Redhat, shame. http://tinyurl.com/cvm7gu (via @monadic). Ugly, revisionist, divisive over-reaching on AMQP. #integrity #lack-of
1844. 2009-03-27 00:29 Just typed 12 consecutive closing right braces in a Python data structure.
1845. 2009-03-27 00:37 @disturbyte Dude, I was programming in Lisp before your parents had even *met* :-)
1846. 2009-03-27 00:43 @disturbyte "tweetworthy" has extremely low entry requirements, esp wrt tech. It's not like we're in the CS staff room at Stanford here.
1847. 2009-03-27 01:29 @precipice Maybe of interest to @wesabe folks http://bit.ly/pAH1G
1848. 2009-03-27 02:42 At #pycon and interested in FluidDB? Introduce yourself to @esteve. He's talking on txAMQP, a core architecture piece we've open sourced.
1849. 2009-03-27 02:44 txAMQP home page http://bit.ly/OQt4 and @esteve's talk http://bit.ly/XvMeQ #pycon
1850. 2009-03-27 02:52 @akunzle Agreed. It's a sad day when Redhat most reminds one of... Microsoft.
1851. 2009-03-27 03:34 @kenreisman The more data you have, the less model you need.
1852. 2009-03-27 03:48 If you can't do lightweight branching and merging in patterns like this with your VCS, you're doing it wrong :-) http://bit.ly/czpOD
1853. 2009-03-27 03:51 @otoburb I almost thought you were going to mention FluidDB there. You should have :-) Then take a step back to comms in general.
1854. 2009-03-27 03:52 @kenreisman Thx. I have a paper I wrote on modeling in case you're interested. Rejected as "too negative" by the people who commissioned it.
1855. 2009-03-28 01:00 @paulderb Ian Johnson... the one in Archaeology? Don't know him. http://bit.ly/2qvTg has a button to Follow Ian. Oddly familiar.
1856. 2009-03-28 10:19 @vicchi Surely it was a collaborative effort? Administer an impromptu spelling test to id the typist. Probably the Australian.
1857. 2009-03-28 12:16 Enthusiasm is infectious.
1858. 2009-03-29 14:56 @gjer Living with you is wot did it. I was fine before that.
1859. 2009-03-29 14:57 @ericflo did you meet @esteve at #pycon?
1860. 2009-03-29 16:46 Is love of programming the most exhilarating of intellectual passions?
1861. 2009-03-29 23:51 Read cloud manifestos via @timbray. Can't think of a single positive thing to say.
1862. 2009-03-30 00:43 @JohnBorthwick Doesn't look like a bot: several tweets are squeezed to 140 chars. Doesn't mean it's him tho. I'll find out for you.
1863. 2009-03-30 02:59 @timbray s/Wikipedia competitor/Wikipedia contributor/ ?
1864. 2009-03-30 03:03 Least favorite word in the English language: wife (invariably attended by a possessive pronoun).
1865. 2009-03-30 06:50 From the horse's mouth: the richard_dawkins Twitter user is an impostor.
1866. 2009-03-30 09:29 @mikehedge I wanna be on your jumping page! http://jon.es/images/blading.gif Crappy old GIF images. With @derekjsmith in the bg.
1867. 2009-03-30 12:34 Perro desaparecido en La Garriga (Barcelona). Fotos http://bit.ly/ilSYg
1868. 2009-03-30 12:47 @decafbad Thanks. It's not mine - my sister in law's. She's crazy about dogs, and desperate.
1869. 2009-03-30 16:43 @jerrymichalski @jack Not in Wikipedia: A Güell employee suffered bad burns. Güell arranged a skin graft for him - from his own son.
1870. 2009-03-30 18:52 It's cold and wet... but I'm off to play football.
1871. 2009-03-30 23:32 This will be too abstract for some (many? all?), but here's a @paulderb article thinking about FluidDB http://bit.ly/1cVic
1872. 2009-03-30 23:33 And a second article, "More is metadata" from @paulderb http://bit.ly/sk7Mx The last URL is cutely titled "Is Metadata?"
1873. 2009-03-31 16:14 Bonsai of a bonsai: @fdousek spends 2 weeks tagging the notes for his upcoming(?!) book. What's it about? See http://bit.ly/2TCzOS
1874. 2009-03-31 18:44 Thanks to @timoreilly and @emileifrem for ongoing behind-the-scenes generosity and help.
1875. 2009-04-01 03:56 @jack Commiserations!
1876. 2009-04-01 04:10 @voidspace s/yellow/green/ in cell B25 on the key sheet.
1877. 2009-04-01 04:27 Rueing the disappearance of my lovely old copy of The Myth of Sisyphus. I hate lending-losing books. #wabi-sabi
1878. 2009-04-01 11:38 Just submitted a FluidDB talk to EuroPython http://www.europython.eu/
1879. 2009-04-01 15:06 @paulderb An impostor. From RD: "No, it is not me. It is an impostor, just like the many Richard Dawkinses on Facebook."
1880. 2009-04-01 15:08 I've spent the day playing "O Ignis" over and over, from Paul Giger's beautiful album, Ignis.
1881. 2009-04-01 16:56 @vicchi Wait, wait, wait. You're RTing @mattb saying he had a good talk with you? Don't do that, you'll break the Twitter. #shameless
1882. 2009-04-01 17:31 Circular re-tweeting breaks Twitter's garbage collection, prevents cleanup of unloved, unwanted and unreferenced tweets, etc.
1883. 2009-04-01 20:56 @vicchi I was just trying to rib you. If self-promotion were outlawed on social networks, the web would be a very lonely place :-)
1884. 2009-04-01 21:16 Finding a Foo Camp invitation in your inbox is like finding a Wonka Golden Ticket in a chocolate bar.
1885. 2009-04-02 08:27 Via Slashdot: Interview With the Author of "Mastering Cat"
1886. 2009-04-02 08:28 @jack Are you reading email?
1887. 2009-04-02 08:42 @gnat Yeah. Word from #fooeast was that they thought a student could do the job. Sad to see standards slip like that.
1888. 2009-04-02 08:54 @timbray Thanks! Pärt: "In art, everything is possible. But everything what is made is not necessary."
1889. 2009-04-02 09:01 @timbray BTW, Tabula Rasa is my favorite album ever. Discovered in 1986 via rec.music.gaffa Bought with @adhensel, loved it ever since.
1890. 2009-04-02 09:05 @gnat Channeling Stewart Brand: cat wants to be open. Redirecting the output of cat is like sending dm in Twitter: missing the point.
1891. 2009-04-02 09:09 @gnat The cat wiki is a great idea. It would give Rob Pike space to expand on his 1983 theme: cat -v considered harmful http://bit.ly/13nrw
1892. 2009-04-02 09:22 @timbray Wow. I bought everything I could find from ECM in the 80s/90s. Have all you mention. Also love Alina.
1893. 2009-04-02 09:25 @gnat I pitched O'Reilly on an anagram series. I was to kick it off with Anagrams of Analysis of Algorithms. They passed. No imagination.
1894. 2009-04-02 09:26 @gnat Here follow some "analysis of algorithm" anagram beauties. It's a rich vein. Bookworthy IMO:
1895. 2009-04-02 09:28 1. Flashy glamorisations 2. Also hasty formalising 3. Also flashy amortising 4. half simian's astrology 5. analysis from goliaths
1896. 2009-04-02 09:30 6. stylish anagram folios 7. small soothsaying fair 8. go flashy rationalisms! 9. flashy rationals gismo 10. oafishly strong salami
1897. 2009-04-02 09:31 11. fishy alligator's moans 12. for missing ayatollahs 13. maoists flay longhairs 14. glary foolish satanism 15. hooliganism's fatal yrs
1898. 2009-04-02 09:32 16. Goliath's family arsons! 17. foolishly gas martians 18. foolishly amassing art 19. hooligans mislay farts
1899. 2009-04-02 09:33 And my all-time favorite: 20. orgasms shinily afloat
1900. 2009-04-02 09:33 @gnat Whaddaya think?
1901. 2009-04-02 10:14 @zzgavin Skype says you're offline.
1902. 2009-04-02 10:15 @albaladejo Very cool background Twitter image!
1903. 2009-04-02 21:36 @emileifrem See http://bit.ly/Emp9C at 21:00 FB Dir. of Engineering: "what we have going on ... is a graph database", then mentions neo4j.
1904. 2009-04-02 21:45 @bryce See last tweet to @emileifrem re graph databases :-)
1905. 2009-04-02 21:47 Facebook to be commended for their architectural openness http://bit.ly/Emp9C
1906. 2009-04-02 21:52 Wow, FB has network data arriving back from memcache so often that the standard I/O interrupt mechanism can't keep up. So kernel polls too.
1907. 2009-04-02 22:06 @benjaminblack Thx!
1908. 2009-04-02 22:11 Hearing about the internals of FB makes me happy about both the design of FluidDB and the arch choices we've made (including using Thrift).
1909. 2009-04-02 22:20 @benjaminblack Hi - yes, I've seen some of libevent. We're using Twisted, to be able to use Python (actually, the other way around).
1910. 2009-04-02 22:24 @benjaminblack Interesting that FB hacked PHP to do async w futures. Ugh. We created txAMQP to do async via Twisted, Thrift and AMQP.
1911. 2009-04-02 22:55 @benjaminblack Dishwashing liquid????? . . . . It does get in!
1912. 2009-04-02 22:57 @benjaminblack http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bEkq7JCbik Blast from the past.
1913. 2009-04-03 12:26 @disturbyte Shorter: >/dev/null 2>&1 &
1914. 2009-04-03 17:03 Thanks @kenreisman :-) #followfri
1915. 2009-04-03 17:05 Grrr, 42 outgoing mails queued. Postfix start/stop/flush has no effect. DNS fine. /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf fine. Duh, duh, duh.
1916. 2009-04-03 18:33 Cannot get outgoing mail to drain. Rebooted. Fiddled DNS, hosts, postfix versions. Can telnet smtp server:port. Postfix: no such host. Shit.
1917. 2009-04-03 20:54 50 clogged mails just went out. DNS weirdness routed around via dotted IP addresses, for now.
1918. 2009-04-03 21:12 Which Twitter user will pass 100000 π followers sometime tonight?
1919. 2009-04-03 22:35 My outgoing mail DNS problem was due to a DDos attack on register.com servers.
1920. 2009-04-04 00:58 I just remembered Austen Tayshus. And of course he's on the tube http://bit.ly/9yPCe Only click if you're Australian and of a certain age.
1921. 2009-04-04 08:38 Norm Packard is on Twitter, needs followers :-) @nhpackard See http://bit.ly/jOOw http://bit.ly/mZx2C Note @edyson @nelson #EudaemonicPie
1922. 2009-04-04 08:41 I'm following 173. Surely there must be others who look at that number and thing exactly the same thing I do. Headful of numbers.
1923. 2009-04-04 13:58 Here's video of @esteve's #pycon talk on txAMQP http://bit.ly/XvMeQ His first PyCon, first day in the US, and first presentation in English.
1924. 2009-04-05 09:34 @zurichskepner Um.... does that mean what I think it means?
1925. 2009-04-05 15:10 @zurichskepner The "outskirts of the middle of nowhere" sounds very remote. What is MN? I can only think of Minnesota, which can't be right.
1926. 2009-04-06 00:10 Looking at Megan Baker's photos and writings. Very nice, via @mbakerphoto Check it out, @fergusstothart
1927. 2009-04-06 02:56 Off to bed at 5am yet again. Lots of code. Fingers more tired than brain.
1928. 2009-04-06 14:07 Second Life evaluation of messaging systems http://bit.ly/Fc2Ii Note mention/use of Fluidinfo's Twisted AMQP library, txAMQP.
1929. 2009-04-06 16:04 Started Gore Vidal's "Two Sisters: a novel in the form of a memoir". Deft skewerings abound.
1930. 2009-04-06 21:00 @voidspace @jezdez The MANIFEST has given me nothing but trouble. Safer just to rm it before doing anything... I don't get it.
1931. 2009-04-06 23:00 Meet Kharem, one of Barcelona's most prolific pick-pockets http://bit.ly/x3dg He's still working the streets here. Article by @bambivalent1
1932. 2009-04-06 23:09 Long since lost count of the number of times I've been told "love what you're doing, but location is an issue" by VCs. Just heard it again.
1933. 2009-04-06 23:28 @disturbyte LOL. I hereby offer you a position on the pitch team.
1934. 2009-04-06 23:58 @otoburb There's no one thing. That's close enough tho. Some cannot invest outside the US (by LP agreement). They want you close by.
1935. 2009-04-07 00:01 @benjaminblack I liked Messiah a lot too. I like many of them. He's one of my favorite writers. The essays are superb.
1936. 2009-04-07 00:03 @rabble I'd love to, and plan to. But you need to be funded to do that. Sadly, we're not.
1937. 2009-04-07 00:06 @maysonic Thanks. Google Trends is incredibly interesting, revealing, and entertaining. I once spent many hrs playing with it with @rustlem
1938. 2009-04-07 00:08 @dpn No comment :-)
1939. 2009-04-07 01:54 @voidspace See also various non-Newtonian liquid (whatever that really means) videos on YouTube.
1940. 2009-04-07 11:28 Rec: @DannySullivan's Google's Love for Newspapers http://bit.ly/k7aBv "dinosaur death throes" "Poor babies" "shut up" LOL, via @davemcclure
1941. 2009-04-07 11:29 @DannySullivan BTW: "3 million visitors to Google per day" should be "to the Guardian" in http://daggle.com/090406-225638.html
1942. 2009-04-08 01:09 Indep vid: UK police attack man from behind http://bit.ly/10k8N He dies. Intimidating new law re photographing police http://bit.ly/SWCq
1943. 2009-04-08 01:45 Reading about Rackspace's cloud servers. Bring on the API!
1944. 2009-04-08 02:03 Great to see Rackspace offering serious competition to AWS. Good for consumers, will improve ToS/SLA, and both services will benefit.
1945. 2009-04-08 02:04 Seeing the rackspace offering makes me glad we abstracted away the details of the serverfarm in building FluidDB.
1946. 2009-04-08 02:06 @rackspace Request: Twisted-capable Python libraries for your APIs. Or, pay us to write them for you. http://bit.ly/1VhU8T
1947. 2009-04-08 19:38 Drinking a beer and watching football with Lucas. Barcelona 4, Bayern 0 at half time. Messi is a phenomenon.
1948. 2009-04-08 21:26 @al3x EQ3??? I know about S3, EC2, and SQS. I've not heard of EQ3. Private beta? AWS are so cool. You got the couch via a REST API call?
1949. 2009-04-08 21:44 @al3x It's so obvious - but only now that it's out: Amazon blending their retailing with their web services. Unassailable.
1950. 2009-04-09 03:11 Sack the golden towns of Montezuma! http://tinyurl.com/cbqwtr
1951. 2009-04-09 14:33 @edyson Watching... nice to hear the history, smiles & laughs too.
1952. 2009-04-09 14:52 "People can't stick pins in my genome and make me die." @edyson at 28:00 or so in http://bit.ly/lL8Ig
1953. 2009-04-09 19:23 @simonw What do you mean by "Whoosh is cook"? Have you used PyLucene? Opinion? I've found it quite troublesome, needing love.
1954. 2009-04-10 16:35 @JohnPinner Thanks for the Xappy pointer. We (Fluidinfo) submitted a couple of talks to EuroPython. Hope to make it & see you there.
1955. 2009-04-11 21:39 Really great TED talk by Bonnie Bassler. Bacteria controlling pathogenicity and more, via quorum sensing. http://bit.ly/bOwW
1956. 2009-04-12 13:22 "And NOW comes an act of Enormous Enormance! No former performer's performed this performance!" Dr. Seuss (If I Ran the Circus)
1957. 2009-04-12 13:33 @simonw Anecdotal: I used Greader every single day for ages. Now haven't touched it for 6(?) months. I'm 99% Twitter, 1% Reddit.
1958. 2009-04-12 13:44 @voidspace Disagree :-) You post links in Twitter that I follow. You are a valuable filter for me (thanks). I have 174 hand-picked filters.
1959. 2009-04-12 13:53 @kellan RT's ruining Twitter? RT brings stuff and other users you'd likely not see to yr attention. It's a useful addition to conversation.
1960. 2009-04-12 13:54 @kellan It'd be nice to be able to filter out RTs of people you already follow. That's the downside. Don't like RTers? Unfollow them.
1961. 2009-04-12 14:03 Introduce meat-eating flies to combat cane toads http://bit.ly/4vMr AKA "The King, The Mice & The Cheese" http://bit.ly/10PEdf
1962. 2009-04-12 14:05 BTW @kellan @rabble This, to me, is all about personalization - the kind that matters, and is largely missing. FluidDB is good for that :-)
1963. 2009-04-12 15:32 @robinklein Could you identify 10K UK startups? Putting 1M into each of 1K startups feels a better balance. Stats?
1964. 2009-04-12 15:33 @robinklein The startups have to already exist. You don't want to create a rush to start companies on a whim, just to get hold of 100K.
1965. 2009-04-12 15:54 I *never* get the comment CAPTCHA on O'Reilly Radar posts right first go. Always takes me 2 or 3 tries. Am I a fractional human?
1966. 2009-04-12 19:40 Extraordinary: The Seven Signs of Terrorism (via reddit) http://bit.ly/LsErG So glad I'm no longer a US taxpayer. #fearmongering
1967. 2009-04-13 20:18 Blog post "FluidDB: The Next Web Paradigm?" by Filip Dousek (@fdousek) http://bit.ly/4Ffqzv Thanks Filip :-)
1968. 2009-04-14 20:51 Recommendations for a Python OAuth library (server & client)? I can see various options.
1969. 2009-04-15 01:59 Spent many hours pondering OAuth. Interesting that apps don't (by default) know the user's ID on the service. Implications for URI design.
1970. 2009-04-15 09:44 @JohnBorthwick We're on the same sleep schedule. Another nail in the "we can't fund you, you're in Barcelona" coffin :-)
1971. 2009-04-15 10:32 Firefox unable to restart itself. Yet again.
1972. 2009-04-15 12:53 How many times do I have to tell Firefox that yes I do want to send exactly the same cert to exactly the same server? A million?
1973. 2009-04-15 15:03 Creating simple tickets, branching, fixing, testing, merging, resolving. Perfect therapy for never-ending branch disorder.
1974. 2009-04-15 23:10 Gee, @NYTbrk doesn't exist. Grab it, hook it up to the nytimes API, get Twitter to add it to the SUL, split the proceeds.
1975. 2009-04-15 23:28 @disturbyte Hey, aren't you supposed to be writing me a Python OAuth module?
1976. 2009-04-15 23:37 @disturbyte Yes. Much more work on the server, especially if you want to run it on many boxes, with no SPOF, no bottlenecks. #txAMQP :-)
1977. 2009-04-15 23:47 @disturbyte Yes again (I was joking BTW about you writing one for me). We have to do it ourselves, with some lower level lib help.
1978. 2009-04-16 00:06 What are the hottest startups in Portland? I have a very good friend there looking for something new.
1979. 2009-04-16 00:48 @amarshwren Thanks!
1980. 2009-04-16 03:40 My sleeping schedule is completely wacky. A not-sleeping schedule. Way too much stuff swirling in my head. Fluidinfo has taken over my life.
1981. 2009-04-16 05:55 @disturbyte Cool. I miss hacking all night with people. Twitter is a poor substitute, but it's better than nothing.
1982. 2009-04-16 06:05 @gnat (Cc @timbray) Believing you're sane and right doesn't disqualify you from being a loony. Good thing, or I'd be out of work.
1983. 2009-04-16 06:14 @gnat Re: your astroturf question, have you read Blinded by the Right? There's orchestration at many levels, very ugly, very deliberate.
1984. 2009-04-16 07:21 @disturbyte Nice. Liked the "Americans can use this library too" and "you'll need a minor amount of initiative" comments.
1985. 2009-04-16 07:39 @disturbyte No need for #txAMQP (we do that, server side), but it would be cool if you had a Twisted version. We could use that :-)
1986. 2009-04-16 19:44 Listening to They Might Be Giants with Sofia: "There's electric cars, there's electric trains, here comes a robot with electric brains!"
1987. 2009-04-16 21:34 @decafbad Let me guess: Python.
1988. 2009-04-16 22:08 Apologies for the @ replies I've not responded to lately. I'm a bit preoccupied and busy. Not too busy to tweet, I know...
1989. 2009-04-18 00:03 When I was about 14, my mother said to me "The last thing you and I had in common was an umbilical cord."
1990. 2009-04-18 14:23 At the beach with @fergusstothart and seven kids.
1991. 2009-04-19 01:55 Under every stone... there's another stone.
1992. 2009-04-19 02:14 "Her outfit was all made of vinyl. Like nothing that I'd ever seen. When our divorces are final, she'll fit right into my scheme." Tom Waits
1993. 2009-04-19 04:44 Bed at 6:45am... after another 10 hours of chipping away at it.
1994. 2009-04-19 20:36 @indiapaleale Hi. I don't know what to say..... except thank you :-) And thanks too for taking the time to watch the videos.
1995. 2009-04-19 20:52 @janl otool -L
1996. 2009-04-20 00:27 @andrewjscott Meet @philmorle
1997. 2009-04-20 13:06 Feeling nostalgic re SUN. Had a soft spot for them for 25 years. Wrote my dissertation on a 2nd hand Sparc 1+ I bought for home.
1998. 2009-04-20 23:32 Unit testing is like Muller's Ratchet in reverse: Permanent removal of deleterious mutations, modulo occasional back mutations.
1999. 2009-04-21 02:15 Me (re FluidDB): "You can pretty much talk to the thing now." @rustlem: "Ask it when it's going to be ready."
2000. 2009-04-21 08:26 @xllora Just read your 18(!) page CV :-)
2001. 2009-04-22 01:58 @otoburb Ha :-) Agreed, it's going to be messy - just like the real world, and maybe like your teeth.
2002. 2009-04-22 02:02 @mattxbart Hi Matt - only just saw your tweet. Me too!
2003. 2009-04-22 03:05 Another 5am bedtime. I'm working over 100 hrs/wk. And I have to be up in 3 hrs... Happy not to need much sleep.
2004. 2009-04-22 06:01 @decafbad I actually used to do the same, in a crazy game dev shop: Micro Forte, in Sydney in 1985/6. They're still going!
2005. 2009-04-22 08:16 At the kids' annual singing marathon with @fergusstothart
2006. 2009-04-22 16:01 Video comments will never take off because you can't skim. Usually, most comments are not interesting. Video slows consumption immensely.
2007. 2009-04-22 16:05 Video is fine when you care about a decent fraction of the content or its producers. I skim thru tweets at about 1 per second.
2008. 2009-04-22 20:18 @serverpronto Ripping people off is your speciality. I want my money back: http://bit.ly/YFz4
2009. 2009-04-22 20:49 @serverpronto I was never asked to fax anything. You took down my server, as requested, I asked the account be canceled that was it.
2010. 2009-04-22 20:50 @serverpronto You stopped answering email. NOW you want to talk. I'd prefer to talk here in front of 1200 followers. Welcome to Twitter.
2011. 2009-04-23 00:40 Twisted deferreds are so cool. A class as a method decorator to pool identical concurrent deferred requests http://bit.ly/nWknw
2012. 2009-04-23 06:01 Doug Hofstadter elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Joins Gauss, Euler, Darwin and (not) many others http://bit.ly/muosP
2013. 2009-04-23 15:40 @solso Thanks - that's a great title. I'll look it up. See you Monday.
2014. 2009-04-24 00:01 @timoreilly Reminds me of @Moltz: "Hey, you can spend time with your family when you're dead." http://bit.ly/12fzwa
2015. 2009-04-24 00:03 @voidspace Wasn't there a Smiths song about that? Girlfriend in a comma.
2016. 2009-04-24 00:12 McCain reminds us that Japanese were executed for waterboarding Americans in WW2 http://bit.ly/tAkK3 (from Nov 2007).
2017. 2009-04-24 00:13 Chomsky was right: war crimes are defined by the victors: Anything the enemy did that we didn't. A bit embarrassing now.
2018. 2009-04-24 01:03 I've added 7000 new lines of code to FluidDB in the last month. Getting there! I'd be sunk without a Kinesis keyboard.
2019. 2009-04-24 02:31 @RomanStanek Congrats! You'll have to tell me how it's done.
2020. 2009-04-26 00:23 The swine influenza outbreak is extremely interesting, not least from the social angle. What to say, not say, how, when. A v difficult subj.
2021. 2009-04-26 00:41 Promed is a good source of info on emerging infectious diseases. E.g., http://bit.ly/xY34f
2022. 2009-04-26 00:44 There are multiple signs that this influenza might be very very bad. The WHO and CDC will move heaven & earth to get on top of it.
2023. 2009-04-26 00:46 I could tweet more about pandemics. But the dilemma is: is it irresponsible to say more, or irresponsible not to? Maybe it's time to blog.
2024. 2009-04-26 00:55 @edjez Hi Ed. Yes, agreed. One thing is for certain: a lot of highly inaccurate and irresponsible things will be said, and repeated.
2025. 2009-04-26 01:04 It will be interesting to see how this map evolves over the next week http://bit.ly/gN2ji Hopefully we wont have to zoom out.
2026. 2009-04-26 03:33 Just blogged: "A few comments on pandemic influenza" http://bit.ly/kK3zQ
2027. 2009-04-26 03:43 I guess I should have hashtagged that tweet: Blogged "A few comments on pandemic influenza" http://bit.ly/kK3zQ #swineflu
2028. 2009-04-26 18:55 The Born is covered end-to-end with thousands of candles. Looking at it from up on a 4th floor.
2029. 2009-04-26 21:53 Traducción a español de mi artículo sobre la gripe porcina http://bit.ly/imjim Gracias a @federicomena #swineflu
2030. 2009-04-26 22:09 Here's what the Born looked like tonight. They were preparing it all day. No idea why. http://bit.ly/17eD8F http://bit.ly/zrfn8
2031. 2009-04-26 22:31 There are now 8 suspected cases of #swineflu in Spain, including one here in Barcelona. All young, just back from Mexico http://bit.ly/MElSG
2032. 2009-04-26 22:34 A big problem with containing influenza: we're often infectious before showing symptoms. It's not enough to only isolate the clearly unwell.
2033. 2009-04-26 22:38 @nealrichter You're good at math: consider this map http://bit.ly/hKJBk Under 24hrs ago there were only dots in Mex & USA.
2034. 2009-04-27 03:30 And so to bed. Wishing I had time to read (Chekhov). Have to be up in 4hrs. Giving a talk on FluidDB at Telefonica R&D tomorrow.
2035. 2009-04-27 14:01 Thanks a lot @xamat, @solso, @unpocodetodo, @haripako. Telefonica R&D is nothing like I might have imagined. Succulent plants!
2036. 2009-04-27 21:34 Go check out the Twiggler demo at http://bit.ly/qCCHx from @hymanroth It's cool, and even more cool is the framework he built it on.
2037. 2009-04-27 21:38 Twiggler is a Twitter client http://bit.ly/qCCHx The underlying LM framework uses no flash & no plugins. See http://bit.ly/1v1kc
2038. 2009-04-28 03:41 5:30am... punctuated sleepilibrium.
2039. 2009-04-28 04:29 Axel @axeloide needs some followers! He's a biologist turned freelance hardware hacker, building amazing devices. And my bro-in-law.
2040. 2009-04-28 21:26 @hymanroth Yes: Southern Hemisphere.
2041. 2009-04-28 21:28 @axeloide You should have thought of that before having kids :-)
2042. 2009-04-28 21:30 @damonsnyder Yes, "The Great Influenza" by John M. Barry is easily the best. http://bit.ly/1aPtIf Hurry, while stocks last. #swineflu
2043. 2009-04-28 21:33 Ha! RT @axeloide Twitter instantly reminded me of Deleuze's Rhizome (http://bit.ly/hHcbL); probably authored while on drugs.
2044. 2009-04-29 06:21 Just fired up and ssh'd into my first ever Rackspace cloud server. 1.5 cents/hr. Very cool. Simple interface, could do with more AJAX.
2045. 2009-04-29 16:45 @brandingme The Deleuze connection was made by @axeloide, not by me. I was just re-tweeting.
2046. 2009-04-29 20:09 Question: what was the name of the quantitative guy who weighted many polls by political bias and nailed everything in the last US election?
2047. 2009-04-29 20:20 @i2pi Ah yes, that's the guy. Thanks a lot!
2048. 2009-04-29 21:08 @nelson Yes, it's silly. The mode that supports ipython interaction via C-c ! is better. Its indenting sucks for long lines sometimes tho.
2049. 2009-04-29 21:47 I think I'm going to write up more thoughts on #swineflu now that we have a WHO-certified pandemic. First post was at http://bit.ly/kK3zQ
2050. 2009-04-30 00:53 Blogged: "OK, it’s a pandemic. Now what?" http://bit.ly/hXfVs A few more comments, and some history. #swineflu
2051. 2009-04-30 01:07 @askbal Yes, I was. Thanks!
2052. 2009-04-30 01:11 @mattc58 @jny2 @garnaat @pkeane Thanks a lot for the Nate Silver pointer.
2053. 2009-04-30 01:13 @rabble The official numbers are always a lower bound: 1) they're old, and 2) we don't know how many have been infected & recovered.
2054. 2009-04-30 01:13 @rabble Beyond that I can't say anything (i.e., I know nothing).
2055. 2009-04-30 01:17 @rabble Hope that was clear. The raw numbers are a lower bound. Mortality can be lower than reported, due to unknown infections/recoveries.
2056. 2009-04-30 09:58 Nice line: "Time is arguably more valuable than money because you can’t raise more time." in http://tinyurl.com/df7rds (via @peterneubauer)
2057. 2009-04-30 20:25 My mother-in-law just offered to sew me a wingsuit.
2058. 2009-04-30 20:37 @Cycling_Chef See http://bit.ly/LsBT Amazing in any language :-)
2059. 2009-05-01 05:36 @peterneubauer Um, you have to appreciate her sense of humor. I don't think it would be sewed too carefully :-)
2060. 2009-05-01 06:11 Have any Python people here tried PyLucene 2.4.1? I'm wondering how improved it is over late-2007 PyLucene.
2061. 2009-05-01 06:50 Off to finish a volume of Chekhov short stories over coffee & croissant.
2062. 2009-05-01 06:55 @paulwaite We may. I've looked at it, seemed a bit heavyweight. The PyLucene code is largely done. But I'll look again, thanks.
2063. 2009-05-01 13:30 @paulderb I don't know about the first part of that comment, but the worlds are certainly great. I like Ward 6 a lot too, and many others.
2064. 2009-05-01 13:33 @plragde Hey Prabhakar! Nice to bump into you again, after 20+ years :-) I still like John Zorn - thanks.
2065. 2009-05-02 18:08 @i2pi You could try a graph db. Ask @emileifrem about neo4j.
2066. 2009-05-02 19:10 Barca are taking Madrid apart (I hear). 3-1 so far. My upstairs neighbors are going insane. Actually I think they were already insane.
2067. 2009-05-02 19:11 @emileifrem No problem! One of these days we'll have a product out too :-)
2068. 2009-05-02 19:54 If there's one things Barna fans like more than a contest, it's a massacre. (Adapted from Cricinfo commentary on Australians)
2069. 2009-05-02 21:54 There's nothing happier than a dinosaur with a test suite.
2070. 2009-05-03 04:18 A distributed VCS encourages experimentation, creativity: nobody hears you branch.
2071. 2009-05-03 04:21 @paulwaite Thanks. And thanks for the debian offer, I'll take a look. Address = terry jon es with some punc thrown in.
2072. 2009-05-03 05:21 @gjer Skip svn entirely. A dvcs is easy: local commits & branches, push/pull to server if needed, merging a joy. We use bazaar (bzr).
2073. 2009-05-03 09:19 Why is every article and every blog post "great"? Another word becomes meaningless online. RIP "long", "friend", "great".
2074. 2009-05-03 15:11 @gjer No problem. You may also be interested in the comments at http://bit.ly/aSzW
2075. 2009-05-03 15:23 @pkedrosky Agreed! I don't know how Frank Rich keeps producing such high-quality, beautifully written, and (dare I say?) balanced pieces.
2076. 2009-05-03 15:33 @vicchi Nice. I played cricket at Arundel castle a couple of decades ago, in a former existence. See you Thurs.
2077. 2009-05-04 01:59 If I could've written a chapter for the book Beautiful Code, it'd've been on Twisted's deferreds. So elegant/simple, flexible & powerful.
2078. 2009-05-04 02:03 RT4Beer: New Neo4j release! http://bit.ly/owrDn Online backup, performance boost, reduced footprint, new API treats (via @neo4j)
2079. 2009-05-04 06:20 @gnat dig -t MX torkington.com sits there for a while, then returns "connection timed out; no servers could be reached"
2080. 2009-05-04 06:33 @gnat Mate, you love egg on your face. I saw the videos.
2081. 2009-05-04 08:34 @pkedrosky "The foreigners are at it again. When will they learn to fight like our men?" (Robert Wyatt, The British Road)
2082. 2009-05-04 09:11 Enjoyed "How David Beats Goliath" by Gladwell http://tinyurl.com/ctpv3j (via @pkedrosky). Makes me feel good about having 3hrs sleep.
2083. 2009-05-04 14:39 @davidpaccoud The core docs http://bit.ly/PEoZt are most useful. Steep learning curve. Ask on the mailing list http://bit.ly/begJM
2084. 2009-05-04 18:53 @i2pi Interesting. I've had some thoughts on that too. More later, I'm off to play football.
2085. 2009-05-04 21:18 Wow. Tearing a calf muscle kinda hurts :-(
2086. 2009-05-04 21:20 @i2pi Sounds like multi-dimensional scaling might be useful on that data.
2087. 2009-05-05 05:07 On the train, zippimg from Barcelona -> Zaragoza. Are trains our only form of transport that the driver cannot steer?
2088. 2009-05-05 14:04 On the AVE heading back to Barcelona, zipping along at 300km/h.
2089. 2009-05-05 17:06 "The first loud ding-dong of time and doom." http://terrycojones.posterous.com/
2090. 2009-05-06 03:08 @dsifry Nice chatting yesterday morning over coffee with Marten. To be continued?
2091. 2009-05-06 04:02 @i2pi Does the myspace profile pics file come with user names?
2092. 2009-05-06 04:13 Found a reference to "white trash" in Faulkner's novel Requiem for a Nun. Added to wikipedia: http://bit.ly/18c5Vz Incremental knowledge.
2093. 2009-05-06 04:17 I'm one of those people who doesn't "get" friendfeed. I've tried. And now I'm trying again. http://ff.im/2CLaS
2094. 2009-05-06 06:18 @gjer Ch 2 of what? I don't see Faulkner listed in the Name Index of CTW.
2095. 2009-05-06 08:11 @martenmickos Here's the David v Goliath Gladwell article I mentioned yesterday: http://bit.ly/ZVD9d
2096. 2009-05-06 09:56 Blogged: Balcony Music http://bit.ly/kjV0V Some thoughts on changing the frame of reference in music downloading.
2097. 2009-05-06 09:58 @fredwilson Any thoughts on http://bit.ly/kjV0V ?
2098. 2009-05-06 10:06 @rossjones I do use Goodreads - same user name. I should contribute more too.
2099. 2009-05-06 13:25 @simonw @joestump Do all those 500K+ update/delete queries happen inside a single (distributed?) transaction?
2100. 2009-05-06 14:55 @simonw Thx. We have same issue w/FluidDB, but we have the Twisted reactor for scheduling. Means username is unavail for immed re-use.
2101. 2009-05-07 19:37 Just stopped one pick-pocketing, but the same guys got some other tourists minutes later. Right in Port Olimpic, so obvious. Police?
2102. 2009-05-07 23:06 Thanks to Gazza @vicchi and Yahoo! for a nice dinner.
2103. 2009-05-08 04:49 @axeloide Thanks. I haven't watched any yet, but may...
2104. 2009-05-08 08:49 Just back from breakfast with @onigiri. Thanks for the vino fragolino!
2105. 2009-05-11 06:28 @disturbyte Took a gander at the docs/README. Nice, simple, fast, good. Name could've been zaqueue or, better, just zaq.
2106. 2009-05-11 08:57 @fdousek Note via @arrington: If you are a startup in Prague, I'd like to meet you. In person. Soon. email me at tips at techcrunch.
2107. 2009-05-11 09:05 My "Introducing FluidDB" EuroPython talk was accepted http://bit.ly/OHbKp See you in Birmingham.
2108. 2009-05-11 09:09 I'm also talking at PgCon: "The design, architecture, and tradeoffs of FluidDB" http://bit.ly/3wioKV Weird, I know nothing about databases!
2109. 2009-05-11 09:20 Dear @twitter, when I click More at the bottom of your web page, please also scroll down for me to show the new results.
2110. 2009-05-11 16:57 Blogged: A mixin class allowing Python __init__ methods to work with Twisted deferreds http://bit.ly/blpAh #python #twisted
2111. 2009-05-12 07:57 In the Palau de la Musica for the Jocs Florals Escolars to see Sofia. 13 years in Barcelona, and it's my first time in here. Impressive!
2112. 2009-05-13 06:21 Twitter just got worse. #fixreplies please. I *want* to see those replies, not to have my twitter experience homogenized.
2113. 2009-05-13 08:01 @atweetthatnoonewillsee A tweet that no-one will see.
2114. 2009-05-14 10:22 @axeloide Thx for the offer to listen to the talk (I wont practice it). Check out Fergus' series on Fantastic Findus http://bit.ly/VCE59
2115. 2009-05-14 11:36 @aweissman Under Linux/Firefox&Konqueror, betaworks.com now shows a big box saying: Oops, trouble with your Prezi!?
2116. 2009-05-14 12:01 What a bastard http://bit.ly/4FFYW (via reddit) #policebrutality
2117. 2009-05-15 05:28 We're constantly high in Spain http://bit.ly/eJMeW No wonder all those tourists just keep coming back.
2118. 2009-05-15 11:14 Anyone got a spare couch for @osbornec in SF this weekend? I can vouch that he's a well-brought-up young lad, with no bad habits.
2119. 2009-05-15 13:07 "Don't let hurricanes hold you back. Raging rivers, or shark attacks. Find love, then give it all away" Clem Snide http://bit.ly/5GcvS
2120. 2009-05-15 13:31 What's the good of Twitter when you can't even use it to find someone a couch in SF for a weekend? I think of the # who've stayed here...
2121. 2009-05-15 14:58 Thanks @amarshwren @ikirgin @drstarcat & @boothead. Probably too early, agreed. Over to you @osbornec.
2122. 2009-05-16 20:47 Taking Sofia to have tiramisu with @blaine and @maureen
2123. 2009-05-17 13:58 @onigiri Thanks!!
2124. 2009-05-17 15:02 Off to the park, with 5 kids.
2125. 2009-05-18 20:41 "reverse Nuremberg defense: Bush administration officials are let off the hook because they were only giving orders." http://bit.ly/1viPv
2126. 2009-05-18 20:44 >@onigiri You could make your iPhone Kanji app put an attribute into FluidDB to show what you know. Then it becomes social.
2127. 2009-05-19 11:00 Just read David Beazley's nice course notes on coroutines in Python http://www.dabeaz.com/coroutines/
2128. 2009-05-19 11:07 Just found that David Beazley is on Twitter (@dabeaz). Hi David! #python
2129. 2009-05-19 11:46 Firefox: restart,crash,restart,crash,restart,crash... sigh. Restart KILLALLTABSSUPERFAST... Edit/undo 10 times. What a pain.
2130. 2009-05-19 12:40 @amarshwren Ah, ok, thanks. Not sure it'll help me restart with extensions on, though. I'll try it now...
2131. 2009-05-19 12:47 @emileifrem Thanks!
2132. 2009-05-19 13:28 Note and pointer to talk about FluidDB at PGCon this week http://bit.ly/9EbOg #pgcon #fluiddb #postgres
2133. 2009-05-19 14:10 Bmibaby just tried to charge me €5 for online flight seat selection, a "seat selection charge".
2134. 2009-05-19 18:16 Family dinner: "Use the fork Lucas!"
2135. 2009-05-19 22:55 Ironing a shirt, you discover it's not even clean. Do you a) stop, find a clean shirt; b) keep going; or c) Tweet it?
2136. 2009-05-20 08:29 3 people in one group of 5 on my plane to Frankfurt are wearing masks. The masks are totally cheap and useless, half open on the sides.
2137. 2009-05-20 20:58 In a taxi in Ottawa, off to the U of Ottawa. Very long line at immigration. All nationalities treated equally, even Canadians. #pgcon
2138. 2009-05-20 21:39 I haven't been to Ottawa for 23 yrs. Hitch-hiked here from Winnipeg (via Waterloo) & back in '86. ~5000km hitched in 7 days.
2139. 2009-05-20 21:40 @bambivalent1 You're in Canada too? Where?
2140. 2009-05-20 21:42 @themanuel Hi. Thanks for the link. It does look like Marbl.es, but that's just an app :-)
2141. 2009-05-20 21:44 @mjlambie Good! Thanks - hope to meet you in person.
2142. 2009-05-20 23:12 Not ordering paella in Ottawa.
2143. 2009-05-21 19:22 @edyson 3263442
2144. 2009-05-21 20:15 Asking successful companies the secret of success is like asking old people the secret of longevity. http://bit.ly/1bKNaV via @benjaminblack
2145. 2009-05-21 23:02 Just found out an important email of 3 weeks ago was never received. Argh. I'm not fond of computers.
2146. 2009-05-22 02:30 "it is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge." Conrad, in Lord Jim.
2147. 2009-05-22 12:50 My ThinkPad T61p so often has trouble with wifi connections. Sitting right next to it my old MacBook Pro connects in a flash.
2148. 2009-05-22 16:10 @zzgavin Cool! Looks really good.
2149. 2009-05-22 21:14 Interesting thoughts on Google, real time web, nofollow from @sfoskett http://bit.ly/1CaSOV (not sure of my source).
2150. 2009-05-22 21:18 Sitting in the lightning talks at #pgcon. #FluidDB talk done, slides and video will appear online.
2151. 2009-05-23 13:38 @colladude Hi. I don't think there's much in common. fluidDB has a query lang, perms, namespaces. Soon I'll post a talk video from #pgcon.
2152. 2009-05-23 15:16 Standing at the foot of the bell tower in front of the Canadian paliament in Ottawa. I'd forgotten how impressive it is here.
2153. 2009-05-23 15:39 Oct 18, 1929: the word "persons" in relation to serving in the Canadian Senate was qualified to include women. "Women are persons too."
2154. 2009-05-23 18:19 @davewiner That Maureen Dowd link gets a 404.
2155. 2009-05-23 20:03 >@bambivalent1 How can you be in Slovenia right now if you haven't tweeted about it???
2156. 2009-05-23 20:17 @ntoll Hi - hope to meet you there, and thanks for the email & the Python turtle link. I was just playing with it instead of working...
2157. 2009-05-23 22:51 @gnat You're channeling The Onion's moon landing transcript?
2158. 2009-05-23 23:40 @pkedrosky rt if you verbatim copy a tweet. via if you pass on a link with your own or modified comment. Is what I do.
2159. 2009-05-24 04:34 I *really* dislike not being able to see tweets to people I don't follow. I'm using an initial > before an @ to thwart it. You could too.
2160. 2009-05-24 04:35 The people I'm not following who follow the people I do follow are probably of interest to me. Let me see them!
2161. 2009-05-24 04:40 >@ashberg Yes, it works. And the people who follow me can see that we're talking. As it should be.
2162. 2009-05-24 04:44 The new hiding gives the option to speak publicly (via >@ say), or just to your group. That's nice, but IMO the default should be public.
2163. 2009-05-24 04:52 >@shayman Nope, I didn't miss it :-) I just took my time saying anything. I was going to blog, didn't have time.
2164. 2009-05-24 04:54 Hiding @ replies is a rich get richer, poor get poorer approach. If you speak to someone with very few followers, no-one sees it.
2165. 2009-05-24 04:59 The ironic thing is that @ is a user driven convention. Twitter embraced it, then pulled the rug out from under us.
2166. 2009-05-24 05:00 >@learncreativity Right. The symbol doesn't matter. If we all use something different it will be harder for Twitter to kill it :-)
2167. 2009-05-24 05:02 >@gjer I agree (if you mean the >@ makes it easier on them). I didn't buy/understand the arg that not showing was easier for them.
2168. 2009-05-24 05:03 I wonder if #>@ works as a hashtag.....
2169. 2009-05-24 14:35 @rabble is right, >@ was a bad idea. People who weren't already seeing all replies shouldn't suddenly be subjected to them.
2170. 2009-05-24 14:38 I guess I just need to read via another interface. @robinklein I can't easily use Tweetdeck, I have 64-bit Linux (no Air support). Thanks.
2171. 2009-05-24 16:54 Ottawa airport security just took 2 small cans of maple syrup away from me. Now going to charity instead of my kids.
2172. 2009-05-24 17:03 @shayman Ha, that's great. I'll send my address in email. Thanks!
2173. 2009-05-24 17:05 @bambivalent1 Yes, 2 sealed cans. I believed the charity story, sounds reasonable / sensible.
2174. 2009-05-24 17:49 @amarshwren I'm trying to like Friendfeed. Twitter shwos too little, FF too much. It's weird, Twitter now feels like plumbing :-(
2175. 2009-05-24 17:50 @shayman Yes, it was carry-on, I don't have a checked bag. I was going to suggest that maple syrup isn't really a liquid...
2176. 2009-05-24 17:53 @marciavincent you're welcome! I saw 2 beautiful cloth Library of America vols in a 2nd hand bookstore yesterday. Sorely tempted. No room.
2177. 2009-05-24 20:40 Feeling Sisyphian, after hours hacking on stopping/restarting FluidDB cleanly with db save to key-value store. About... http://ff.im/3db7W
2178. 2009-05-25 22:40 @qu1j0t3 Thanks for the very kind offer - it's under control now tho :-) You're in the db world?
2179. 2009-05-25 22:42 @self Hi, thanks. I keep meaning to do it (also to be able to use skype), but never get around to it....
2180. 2009-05-26 09:39 Here are the slides from my talk on #FluidDB at #pgcon last week. The video will be available soon. http://bit.ly/16WPzG
2181. 2009-05-26 11:19 @RomanStanek Thanks :-)
2182. 2009-05-26 11:28 @puntofisso In 1 tweet: the objects are always writable, to all. Any app can add any attributes it likes to any object. That changes things!
2183. 2009-05-26 11:51 @puntofisso It can be (and is) built partly on a db. Like having fine grain col perms + anyone can add rows/cols. Then fully distribute.
2184. 2009-05-26 11:55 @puntofisso Progs use dbs to build silos for anticipated data, with many APIs. This is the opposite: shared, unanticipated data, one API.
2185. 2009-05-26 12:17 @puntofisso As soon as the #PGCon people have it processed. Thanks for your interest & questions. I hope the video will help too.
2186. 2009-05-26 12:28 Today is the deadline for submitting proposals to Web 2.0 Expo in NY (Nov 16-19). http://www.web2expo.com/webexny2009/
2187. 2009-05-26 15:22 @andrewparker grep -r --include='*.html' PATTERN . (note the trailing dot - the dir you want to search under).
2188. 2009-05-26 15:31 Yahoo Developer Network meeting in Barcelona on June 17, 2009. More info & sign-up at http://bit.ly/SdGd1
2189. 2009-05-26 15:35 @andrewparker If you use find, at least use xargs: find . -name '*.html' -print0 | xargs -0 -r grep PATTERN.
2190. 2009-05-26 15:37 @andrewparker Else you launch one grep per file. xargs will launch a single grep. Also see xargs -n to limit the # given at once to grep.
2191. 2009-05-26 15:49 @hymanroth Thanks!
2192. 2009-05-26 15:49 @ardsrk Thanks for the RT!
2193. 2009-05-26 16:18 Slides from FluidDB talk at PGCon http://ff.im/3gJb8
2194. 2009-05-26 16:41 Slides from FluidDB talk at PGCon http://ff.im/3gLZL
2195. 2009-05-26 16:44 Apologies for the double posting of my PGCon slides. I'm still getting the hang of Friendfeed. http://ff.im/3gMnl
2196. 2009-05-26 18:12 @selenamarie Thanks for the RT, and thanks again for all the nice blow-by-blow tweets during the talk.
2197. 2009-05-26 21:37 Just submitted a talk proposal "Getting Personal" to Web 2.0 Expo in November.
2198. 2009-05-26 22:44 Resisting the urge to blog about #twitterdata. Arbitrary key/value pairs on tweets.... mmmm $vote /0
2199. 2009-05-26 23:05 @onigiri Heh :-) Thanks.
2200. 2009-05-26 23:06 @benjaminblack I already divided the vote by zero. That should slow 'em down.
2201. 2009-05-26 23:24 I keep waiting for someone to write me an Emacs Twitter major mode.
2202. 2009-05-26 23:36 @decafbad Thanks!
2203. 2009-05-26 23:40 @plragde Heh, you're full of beans tonight! Guilty as charged.
2204. 2009-05-26 23:45 Just committed a branch with a 7K line diff... feels good.
2205. 2009-05-26 23:56 @al3x Yes, thanks. Several people have suggested I use Google. Meant to say I keep waiting for someone to Google me an emacs Twitter mode.
2206. 2009-05-27 00:05 @benjaminblack Thanks!
2207. 2009-05-27 18:06 The atmosphere on the streets in Barcelona is extraordinary. Just heard a huge low and distant roar of many thousands of voices.
2208. 2009-05-27 18:56 Barcelona erupts!
2209. 2009-05-27 20:39 Barcelona is going INSANE.
2210. 2009-05-27 21:39 7 of the top 10 trending topics on Twitter are for the football game just finished.
2211. 2009-05-27 21:41 The center of Barcelona is chaos: horns, smoke, explosives, flags, dancing, shouting, screaming, streets closed, police, parties, etc.
2212. 2009-05-28 06:12 @plragde My front balcony is about 4 meters from the (inland) side of Santa Maria del Mar, in the Born. I have a personal gargoyle.
2213. 2009-05-28 07:56 In a Canonical UDS meeting on AMQP and RabbitMQ. Standing room only (ok, in a small room).
2214. 2009-05-28 16:02 Really happy to discover that txAMQP is being used in several places by Canonical. Spent the day talking to Canonical folks. More tomorrow.
2215. 2009-05-28 16:07 @monadic Hi. Only just saw your tweets - I don't read Twitter from my BB, too expensive. Lots of awareness of RabbitMQ in Canonical today.
2216. 2009-05-28 16:08 @bambivalent1 In Spain. And drinking whiskey, besides.
2217. 2009-05-29 01:23 Very cool Python pipes via coroutines from @disturbyte (who is 16 and living in the south of Spain) http://bit.ly/11NS6 (NB @dabeaz).
2218. 2009-05-29 01:24 @radix Make sure you don't miss http://bit.ly/11NS6 from @disturbyte
2219. 2009-05-29 06:34 The difference between 'squeak' and 'speak' just a point mutation? http://bit.ly/ZctRy
2220. 2009-05-29 08:26 Sitting in a Canonical session on Cluster Computing in the Cloud. I think I may have the only Mac in the building.
2221. 2009-05-29 09:13 In a Canonical session on Mobile Data Synchronization.
2222. 2009-05-29 10:01 And now, the Canonical UDS session on Promising Cloud Technology Investigation...
2223. 2009-05-29 10:03 @boothead I'm not sure re online. It's all open though. See http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-karmic/
2224. 2009-05-29 10:03 @Rchards Good, thanks. We'll have an alpha release any month now.
2225. 2009-05-30 19:48 Just finished Lord Jim. Enjoyed it, but Conrad doesn't really do it for me. Next: Intruder in the Dust (my 10th Faulkner novel). #books
2226. 2009-05-30 20:10 "weird, inch-wide single-celled creatures discovered rolling across the sea floor" http://bit.ly/eyQDk (via Reddit). With funny comments.
2227. 2009-05-30 22:19 Enjoyed Clem Snide's take on the Lucille Ball Show http://bit.ly/13cvrG "The neighbors were vaudvilleans; the laughs came from a can."
2228. 2009-05-30 22:24 @marciavincent Reasonably fast, but with very little time, so not so fast overall. I've read none of Dreiser or Wolfe! What to start with?
2229. 2009-05-30 22:25 @JohnPinner Hi John. I didn't see your tweet until after I'd left the Karmic UDS, sorry!
2230. 2009-05-31 00:26 Nice Wired article on lock picking, especially Medeco, and full disclosure http://bit.ly/BQGSI (via Reddit)
2231. 2009-05-31 01:26 Just sent mail pulling out of attending Science Foo...... what a horrible feeling. #scifoo #gutted
2232. 2009-05-31 13:36 Just saw 2 pretty obvious thieves get escorted out of Estacion de Francia by security within 1 minute of them (the thieves) entering.
2233. 2009-06-01 00:10 "... full tilt at the center of the earth." http://bit.ly/xmvw2 #faulkner
2234. 2009-06-01 00:23 @marciavincent Thanks! Haven't read The Jungle, though have heard good things. Will get hold of some Wolfe & Dreiser.
2235. 2009-06-01 01:49 Contemplating a 4am coffee.
2236. 2009-06-01 01:52 @gjer I've not read it. There is lots of material for it in the collected letters, essays & journalism volumes, which I did read. I should.
2237. 2009-06-02 06:23 @onigiri Well, I started with The Hamlet. But I'd recommend As I Lay Dying as a good first step. Short & sweet. Stick with it.
2238. 2009-06-03 08:02 Just found out I've been volunteered to give a juggling & unicycling show to about sixty 2-3yr olds. I'm a little rusty.
2239. 2009-06-03 10:12 @robtreat2 That's interesting! :-) Thanks again for inviting me to submit something. I'm waiting for the video to be done.
2240. 2009-06-03 16:50 Anyone have opinions/experience with Hetzner hosting (e.g., http://bit.ly/MI1Bj). Pricing/specs look great. (Via @solso)
2241. 2009-06-03 22:27 @mjlambie That's marbles, not fluidDB. Marbles is just an app, on top of the writable architecture, and a grid is one possible view.
2242. 2009-06-03 22:29 @mjlambie Hope that's clearer. Also, much of interest wont work in a grid - objects may/will have wildly different attributes on them.
2243. 2009-06-05 07:49 @clemesha Yowza! That script grabbed 3Gb of memory before I killed it. It did print the 'Log opened' event though, to its credit :-)
2244. 2009-06-05 19:35 Want to learn more about FluidDB? Here's the video of the talk I recently gave at PGCon in Ottawa. http://bit.ly/gM6I0
2245. 2009-06-05 21:07 Thanks for the RTs and for watching @ocelma, @osbornec, @Crad
2246. 2009-06-05 22:24 I'll be talking about FluidDB & geo at the AGI conference in Sept. Thanks to @vicchi and @StevenFeldman. http://bit.ly/19SC4A #geocom
2247. 2009-06-06 00:08 On June 2nd, my personal bank account was down to 2 cents http://bit.ly/14ZaJS (I've since been paid)
2248. 2009-06-06 09:34 Awoke to: "Tech has taken us for a ride, algorithms have got me cross-eyed." http://bit.ly/CgUO5 (via @johnborthwick)
2249. 2009-06-06 22:28 @timoreilly Impossible to read without a facebook account :-(
2250. 2009-06-07 00:59 There's so much weird/funny/silly stuff on the web: SKATE BORD GIRLS http://bit.ly/vvRL8 (via Reddit). 1m12s
2251. 2009-06-07 01:47 I just wrote an inlineCallbacksDecorator to decorate inlineCallbacks decorated funcs in #twisted http://bit.ly/Y9Pi4
2252. 2009-06-07 01:50 Thanks to @monadic, @bradzo, @philmorle, @mattxbart, @gjer, @ntoll, @onigiri, @ocelma for the FluidDB RT juice!
2253. 2009-06-08 00:28 @solso Nice work! Congrats.
2254. 2009-06-08 00:29 @JohnBorthwick So why don't you just tell him your name? :-)
2255. 2009-06-08 11:01 Via @onigiri "my first iPhone app is available!" See http://omoideapp.com Helps in learning Japanese. Follow @omoideapp
2256. 2009-06-08 20:26 Beautiful Australian & European landscapes by Duncan Stothart http://bit.ly/15GCLK (father of @fergusstothart). Artists both.
2257. 2009-06-09 09:52 Just did a unicycle / juggling show for sixty 1, 2 & 3year-old kids. I'm beyond rusty. First kids' show in > 13 years.
2258. 2009-06-09 14:18 A middling tower http://bit.ly/Q6Gtu (thanks to @njr0)
2259. 2009-06-09 20:01 @HawleyHills I may have met them, back when I was doing the IJA festival circuit, esp. in the midwest in 90-91. You know everyone.
2260. 2009-06-09 21:33 Those who do not remember the past are doomed to follow @swardley.
2261. 2009-06-10 00:07 EuroPython organizers are looking for volunteer session chairs: http://bit.ly/yPmHx (via @voidspace)
2262. 2009-06-10 02:58 @sarah_delman Wow, that's great! High Stakes No Prisoners is one of the great entrepreneurial books, as you surely know.
2263. 2009-06-10 03:00 I spent the whole night working on documentation. And you know what that means.
2264. 2009-06-10 03:07 "... with the frantic niggling patience of a man in a burning house trying to gather up a broken string of beads." Off to bed with Faulkner.
2265. 2009-06-10 03:09 @gfcampbell On a geological time scale, it is extremely imminent :-) Just an alpha release. Any month now.
2266. 2009-06-10 03:12 @gfcampbell No kidding. This is the 3rd implementation, 1st release. Let's catch up soon. 'night.
2267. 2009-06-10 03:13 I am being followed by an increasing number of horny strippers. How cool is that?
2268. 2009-06-10 08:32 Thanks @szarka and @shauntrennery There's some overlap, but it looks very small. At least from what I've read so far...
2269. 2009-06-10 12:01 @hymanroth Ha, I only just saw this thread... nice contribution! Now we just need OCR to read all the submissions & put them in FluidDB.
2270. 2009-06-10 16:41 @markoff You're on a bike??? Wow, nice. I've done some of that route too, cycling from Munich to Madrid, in 1989.
2271. 2009-06-11 05:15 @paulwaite Don't blow your brains out, Paul. Reach out for help :-)
2272. 2009-06-12 14:10 One of my insane neighbors is yelling "A la mierda!" over and over and over. Their balcony is wide open, 2 meters from mine.
2273. 2009-06-12 14:59 @decafbad I guess not. He yelled it repeatedly, without variation, for about 5 minutes, while his wife tried to talk over him. Fun.
2274. 2009-06-12 20:32 FluidDB has just been described as a "virtual thrift store" and "an oline eBay". Strange days, beer with @kreisman and Lily.
2275. 2009-06-12 23:39 @bambivalent1 I was typing too quickly. It was actually: "an eBay for information."
2276. 2009-06-13 13:46 watching a team of 4 female pickpockets with Lucas in the Born.
2277. 2009-06-14 10:36 Today's the day they make paella for 300 in the Born. Paella: http://bit.ly/MotSZ And for stirring: http://bit.ly/Oj5vK
2278. 2009-06-14 10:49 From the good old days (pre-2008) when they used to just make a fire right in the Born to cook on http://bit.ly/XOFhB
2279. 2009-06-14 12:09 They've just put 130 liters of water into the paella.
2280. 2009-06-14 12:23 Add 40 kilos of rice, and stir.
2281. 2009-06-14 23:57 Solid Potato Salad (via @rustlem). Start at 0:50s or so. What an exit! http://bit.ly/8BWH4
2282. 2009-06-16 06:18 @ericflo Wait til you discover the (currently undocumented) SuperColumnFragilistic. It's like nothing else.
2283. 2009-06-16 09:58 @philmorle Yes.
2284. 2009-06-17 16:37 Off to the Yahoo! Developer Network event being held at Y! Research Barcelona.
2285. 2009-06-18 00:54 Testing TinyTwitter. I wish it were easier to know whether my BB is connecting via wifi or not.
2286. 2009-06-18 20:07 @fxn You live in Sants Estacio? That's rough.
2287. 2009-06-18 21:25 Want a greasemonkey script to remove Twitter user names, scramble avatar icons, let me unscramble them based on tweet. Timer, points, etc.
2288. 2009-06-19 02:33 Man cannot live on code alone: spent the whole day working on docs. Now to bed with Ulysses!
2289. 2009-06-19 13:58 Happy to live in a country where you can have a beer at the kids' end of year party at their school.
2290. 2009-06-19 17:01 The etymology of #followfriday has been established beyond doubt: Robinson Crusoe, on a beach, in 1659.
2291. 2009-06-19 17:06 @redjane It's the opposite here: the parents drink beer at the end of school party, then the kids drive us home in the SUV.
2292. 2009-06-19 17:07 @gjer @barshirtcliff I've tried once before too, got to p100 or so, & enjoyed it. Stopped 'cause I was too busy, I think.
2293. 2009-06-19 22:18 @i2pi Thanks from me too - I hadn't seen the 8.4 changes. We're still using 8.3.
2294. 2009-06-19 23:46 @gjer I have an Erdös number of 3. I met him when I was 22. He came to a talk I gave at Sydney Uni :-)
2295. 2009-06-19 23:53 Clay Shirky's (@cshirky) TED talk is great. http://bit.ly/uJNvy (via @timoreilly)
2296. 2009-06-19 23:55 FluidDB is relevant to Clay's message: although people can now create more, they're still mainly in read-only mode. Trying to change that.
2297. 2009-06-19 23:59 @gjer I should have written a paper with CJC back at UW when I had the chance. He has an Erdös # of 1.
2298. 2009-06-20 01:51 Reaching for the handy-dandy @voidspace guide to character encoding in Python http://bit.ly/79ZXD Thanks Michael!
2299. 2009-06-20 03:10 Wrote a little Python to retrieve all a user's tweets. Here's mine: http://jon.es/twitter/terrycojones.html
2300. 2009-06-20 20:45 @epoz Here you go: http://dpaste.de/FBUD/
2301. 2009-06-20 22:39 @ericneufeld Hi emn!
2302. 2009-06-20 23:19 Obsessed with democracy in Iran, but not familiar with the events of 1953? http://bit.ly/11q8Oq History worth knowing.
2303. 2009-06-21 00:11 @andrewl Thanks for the RTs!
2304. 2009-06-21 01:17 Blogged: Python code for retrieving all your tweets http://bit.ly/uof1i