zzamboni’s Twitter Archive

Tweets for 2008-05

…in reply to @undefined
@vkoser I disagree, I think it's stupid. See my posted comment for my suggestion.
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 1 Mood -4 🙁
Trying to figure out the best way to lay an audio cable across the living room to the last remaining speaker.
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 1 Mood +3 🙂
Does anyone have experience with transmitting audio over household power lines? That would cut down on the cabling significantly.
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 1 Mood -1 🙁
…in reply to @undefined
@vkoser Sadly, no carpet.
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 1 Mood -3 🙁
…in reply to @bauxring
@bauxring A Sonos is in plan for some future time, but at the moment the budget dictates we should use current system as much as possible :)
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 1 Mood 0
Being a Mexican and having lived in the U.S., I can tell you these are very accurate: http://tinyurl.com/66923m
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 2 Mood 0
Unbelievable: http://tinyurl.com/5a7fjo
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 2 Mood -1 🙁
Only three RAID reviews remaining, and for a change, I'm way ahead of schedule!
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 2 Mood 0
Busy week next week: DIMVA proceedings, RAID reviews, guest lecture @ETH, several important meetings, oh my.
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 2 Mood +2 🙂
TextMate + TeXSLMate (http://tinyurl.com/2q7glt) makes it easier to develop & debug XSL transformations
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 2 Mood 0
XSL has left my brain tired. Happily, it's time to go home.
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 2 Mood -2 🙁
…in reply to @undefined
@vkoser Akismet does a relatively good job of stopping trackback spam as well
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 3 Mood 0
Using my iWork'08 trial to prepare a 2-hour guest lecture on virtualization for ETH. Gives me a good chance to see if it's worth buying.
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 5 Mood +7 🙂
Juggling calendar entries in iCal to find a good arrangement for the DIMVA'08 program
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 6 Mood +3 🙂
XML+XSL+AppleScript = automated creation of the iCal events for the talks
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 6 Mood 0
Anyone knows a good program for pretty-printing .ics entries? It'd be nice to automatically print a conf program from the generated entries
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 6 Mood +6 🙂
This makes me proud: http://tinyurl.com/44a6tr - I studied there, and was there when the change from COAST to CERIAS took place.
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 6 Mood +2 🙂
Now that we have a program in the order it should be, I can start assembling the DIMVA proceedings
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 6 Mood 0
I just spent 30 minutes traveling through space with Celestia (http://tinyurl.com/b8aqk). Very nifty!
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 6 Mood +2 🙂
Grrr... twice already Numbers locked up my machine when trying to select a large area. Back to Excel for now, I guess...
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 6 Mood 0
Just finished putting together the DIMVA proceedings to send to Springer. Off to bed.
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 7 Mood 0
DIMVA proceedings - almost there! (missing one file from one author)
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 7 Mood -2 🙁
…in reply to @culturedcode
@culturedcode Great news! I'm really looking forward to trying out the new sync engine
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 7 Mood +3 🙂
Transferring the tar file with the DIMVA proceedings. Finally done!
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 7 Mood 0
…in reply to @undefined
@vkoser Try Witch, lets you set kbd shortcuts for window ops and to tab-switch between windows and not only apps: http://tinyurl.com/36kvsg
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 7 Mood 0
DIMVA proceedings done, now I have to finish that guest lecture for tomorrow at ETH
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 7 Mood 0
About to dial into a conf call to the U.S. - 11:15PM my time
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 7 Mood 0
Got up today at 5AM, worked on lecture slides all morning, delivered lecture, finally relaxing a bit at home
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 8 Mood 0
What a fantastic weekend. Yesterday to the pool with the family, today a nice walk and a grill outside. And tomorrow is a holiday!
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 12 Mood +7 🙂
Just finished another RAID review. Two to go, and the deadline is today... and I was doing so well :-(
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 12 Mood 0
Nice weather today, so off to have lunch and then finish reading RAID papers outside
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 13 Mood +3 🙂
Fixed IImage Gallery plugin after update to WP 2.5, and wrote about it: http://tinyurl.com/4c4n6n
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 14 Mood 0
…in reply to @undefined
@fraserspeirs You weren't so much off the mark with that URL: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 14 Mood 0
Reading and trying to make sense of a CDA document - legalspeak can be so confusing.
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 15 Mood -2 🙁
In the park with my daughter. Beautiful day outside.
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 15 Mood +3 🙂
Is the Vienna RSS reader (Mac) dead? I used it some time ago, but now its web site seems to be down.
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 15 Mood -3 🙁
Oh... I found it. Funny that the "Vienna web site" menu item in the program itself takes you to a wrong URL
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 15 Mood +2 🙂
Checking out http://tinyurl.com/6fgesp - quite impressive
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 16 Mood +3 🙂
I was completely uninspired to tweet about anything today. Going home now.
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 16 Mood -2 🙁
…in reply to @raffaelmarty
@zrlram Reading Chapter 6 now
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 17 Mood 0
It seems the iPhone is finally coming (officially) to Switzerland: http://tinyurl.com/5m86uy Thanks @gruber for the link.
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 18 Mood +2 🙂
Back from the museum with my daughter - great place for a rainy afternoon, she loves it
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 18 Mood +5 🙂
…in reply to @rands
@rands Side to the door - social, yet not so distractable (you can choose to ignore people by focusing on your screen)
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 19 Mood -1 🙁
Back from a patent disclosure evaluation meeting... more work to do
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 19 Mood 0
Installing Fedora Core 9 on a test machine. The last FC I used was FC 1!
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 19 Mood 0
Finished all my RAID reviews. Now on to review one more patent draft. Need coffee first.
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 19 Mood 0
The author of the mysterious Fermi Lab letter must be having so much fun reading all the speculation - http://tinyurl.com/6d3xke
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 20 Mood +4 🙂
…in reply to @raffaelmarty
@zrlram Finished reading Chapter 6
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 20 Mood 0
…in reply to @undefined
@vkoser I guess it depends on the software you use. I have not spent much money on SW, I am very selective about what I buy
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 21 Mood 0
…in reply to @raffaelmarty
@zrlram Done and sent
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 21 Mood 0
Done for the day (1:43 AM!) - going to bed.
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 21 Mood 0
I'm reviving my old first-gen G4 Mac as a guestroom/game machine (I don't play very ambitious game, actually none at all at the moment)
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 22 Mood +2 🙂
I spent all day yesterday organizing the cellar - now the floor is visible again, and I have a good inventory of each box
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 22 Mood +3 🙂
I had Linux installed on this old Mac, and getting rid of the yaboot bootloader has been harder than I expected
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 23 Mood 0
…in reply to @undefined
@fraserspeirs Safari Prefs -> Tabs -> "Confirm when closing multiple pages" is what you need.
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 23 Mood 0
WHEN TWITTER IS DOWN http://tinyurl.com/53p4wj
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 23 Mood 0
It's "IT junk collection week" at work. I just put outside my office a big pile of old machines, keyboards, cables, CDs and whatnot
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 26 Mood +1 🙂
…in reply to @culturedcode
@culturedcode Very nice - so far I haven't had any problems with the sync feature
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 27 Mood +1 🙂
Giving twhirl a try - it seems nice, but I'm also getting the "limit exceeded" error much more frequently than with Twitterrific
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 27 Mood +1 🙂
I could not get Twitter Tools to post from my blog, and I'm too lazy to debug it - trying twitterfeed.com now
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 28 Mood -1 🙁
New blog post: Things gets synchronization abilities http://tinyurl.com/6z5b3d
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 28 Mood +2 🙂
Just upgraded to MacOS 10.5.3 - went smoothly, my machine rebooted twice after the install
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 29 Mood 0
Neither Twhirl nor Spaz allow running more than one copy on the same machine, even on different accounts. Bummer.
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 29 Mood -1 🙁
Just pledged to download Firefox 3 when it is released: http://tinyurl.com/5v6p4h
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 29 Mood 0
After trying Spaz and Twhirl, I'm back on Twitterrific. It seems the most reliable of the three
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 30 Mood +2 🙂
Preparing slides and material for a meeting on Monday - which I am only attending remotely
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 30 Mood 0
The 10.5.3 update finally fixed the annoying flickering on my external monitor when in portrait mode when using any CoverFlow view
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 30 Mood -2 🙁
I had reported the problem to Apple, and they even followed up on it to check if it had been fixed - nice
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 30 Mood +1 🙂
…in reply to @undefined
@KGranson Thanks for the pointer to thesixtyone.com - nice site
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 30 Mood +5 🙂
Done with making slides - going home early for the weekend!
Permalink On twitter.com 2008 May 30 Mood 0