zzamboni’s Twitter Archive

Tweets for 2008-06

1. Not sure how that's going to work out.
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 2 Mood 0
2. Preparing for a day-long meeting in the U.S., attended remotely from Switzerland - 3:00-11:30PM instead of 9:00-5:30. Ugh.
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 2 Mood -2 🙁
3. I just undusted and customized my Tumblr account, which I had never used. For now, feeding it with blog, twitter, etc.
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 2 Mood 0
4. My twitter updates seem to be getting through (I see them on my "Archive" tab) but they are not shown in my main timeline - weird
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 2 Mood -2 🙁
5. My twitter updates seem to be getting through (I see them on my "Archive" tab) but they are not shown in my main timeline - weird
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 2 Mood -2 🙁
6. Another great behind-the-scenes post from culturedcode, this time about "Things touch": http://tinyurl.com/4kax6s
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 2 Mood +3 🙂
7. Attending by phone a meeting where almost everyone is in person is virtually impossible
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 2 Mood 0
8. Discovered that with Skype I can call toll-free U.S. numbers from outside the U.S. without paying - w00t
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 2 Mood 0
9. …in reply to @mroesch
   @mroesch Congrats! We are expecting our second now - also both girls
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 2 Mood +2 🙂
10. …in reply to @funkatron
    @funkatron It's "we" when we won, it's "they" when they lost
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 2 Mood 0
11. …in reply to @CorneliusBomba
    @Phil801 Really admire your courage in dealing with this and in sharing it- not sure I could do it myself. I wish you and Serenity the best!
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 3 Mood +9 🙂
12. Somehow this seems appropriate: http://tinyurl.com/5u5p9q
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 3 Mood +2 🙂
13. I'm looking for good headsets for use with Skype, also for music/gaming. I am trying the Plantronics DSP-400, I like them - any suggestions?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 3 Mood +5 🙂
14. Not too expensive too, I'd say US$150 tops - wireless would be nice, stereo headset also nice
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 3 Mood +8 🙂
15. This is NOT what I have in mind for my new headset: http://tinyurl.com/4q77vp
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 4 Mood 0
16. My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 4th http://tinyurl.com/6fbbts
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 4 Mood 0
17. Found a nice app to interact with iusethis.com: http://tinyurl.com/373dnj Takes care of all updates, including system updates
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 4 Mood +5 🙂
18. Hm... now that I'm feeding my blog entries to Twitter, I need to customize my auto-posted del.icio.us bookmarks to be more informative
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 4 Mood 0
19. I'm sure with all the cross-feeding, at SOME point I'll create a deadly Blog-Twitter-del.icio.us-tumblr-facebook-friendfeed cycle somehow
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 4 Mood -3 🙁
20. Of course if it hasn't happened to @Scobleizer, it's unlikely anyone else will trigger something like that
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 4 Mood +1 🙂
21. One of those days... I just can't get myself into "productive" mode....
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 4 Mood 0
22. I envy all those people tweeting about going to WWDC. You know who you are. The only Jobs keynote I attended was way back in NeXTworld '92
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 5 Mood -1 🙁
23. That was when NeXT announced they would stop making HW and started selling NeXTstep for PC hardware. I still have those old CDs
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 5 Mood -1 🙁
24. If I read @TechCrunch say "I'm streaming live right now, come chat!" one more time, I'm going to scream. Sorry, unfollow.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 6 Mood -3 🙁
25. I still have to register and book trip & hotel for DIMVA'08 - need to do that today
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 6 Mood 0
26. Links: Open source on Mac http://tinyurl.com/6rfo9j
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 6 Mood 0
27. I'm getting a used Sony-Ericsson K800i. Much cheaper than an iPhone, and much nicer than my aging and broken T610.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 9 Mood -1 🙁
28. Links: Classics in Lego - a set on Flickr http://tinyurl.com/5m5pk7
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 10 Mood 0
29. $199 for an iPhone 3G sounds tempting, but it's only with some outrageous contract - I'll pass until I can use it with my prepaid card
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 10 Mood -3 🙁
30. Watching the WWDC keynote
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 10 Mood 0
31. Every once in a while, my Desktop freezes (on OSX 10.5.3). I can't select or do anything - I have to restart Finder to bring it back.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 10 Mood 0
32. Trying to concoct a script for smssend to send SMS through the cablecom.ch web interface
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 10 Mood 0
33. Just drove home through the worst rain - I had never seen construction signal posts dragged by the rain - those things are heavy!
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 10 Mood -4 🙁
34. Spain 4-1 Russia - goliza!
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 10 Mood 0
35. (day-old news) I would have put Netherlands and Italy on about the same level - but 3-0?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 10 Mood 0
36. After last night's Quicktime update, all my apps are "quitting unexpectedly" - well, not all, Twitterrific is working, my session started ok
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 11 Mood 0
37. But Mail, Safari, Adium, Terminal all are dead. Will try a reboot.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 11 Mood -3 🙁
38. After a reboot, everything is fine. How wierd.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 11 Mood +2 🙂
39. Fun-filled afternoon of conference calls. Oh joy.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 11 Mood +3 🙂
40. Going through my pending calls - I hate making phone calls...
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 11 Mood -3 🙁
41. Watching Switzerland-Turkey on Euro2008 - today I'm Swiss :-)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 11 Mood 0
42. …in reply to @funkatron
    @funkatron Really nice mod, here are more pictures: http://steampunkworkshop.com/daveveloz.shtml
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 12 Mood +3 🙂
43. Links: Dave Veloz's Mac Mini Mod, Monitor, & Keyboard | The Steampunk Workshop http://tinyurl.com/679qx4
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 12 Mood 0
44. Downloading the Safari 4 dev preview
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 12 Mood 0
45. Catching up on email and news before the rest of the family wakes up
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 13 Mood 0
46. Watching Stephen Hawking's TED talk: http://tinyurl.com/6o3aj2
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 13 Mood 0
47. Still trying to write a script to send sms through http://www.hispeed.ch/
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 13 Mood 0
48. smssend is nice, but its scripting language is very obscure and hard to debug
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 13 Mood +2 🙂
49. Giving up on smssend, I put together my own SMS-sending script from scratch in Perl using WWW::Mechanize, in 30 minutes. All hail Perl.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 13 Mood +2 🙂
50. Going home - have a nice weekend everyone
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 13 Mood +3 🙂
51. Links: How to add emacs-like keybindings to MS Word http://tinyurl.com/5ros9n
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 13 Mood 0
52. …in reply to @codinghorror
    @codinghorror The Logitech Clearchat wireless looks nice, although I think it hasn't been released yes: http://tinyurl.com/24rth8
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 14 Mood +4 🙂
53. I was about to start writing a Twitter bot to post euro2008 scores, but someone did it already: @euro2008uefa
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 14 Mood 0
54. Sending SMS through the Cablecom (hispeed.ch) web interface (howto) http://tinyurl.com/5a4r5y
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 14 Mood 0
55. I have to start learning about Linux kernel internals
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 16 Mood 0
56. Just finished revising a patent disclosure. It's 1AM, do I check personal email/news or go to sleep?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 17 Mood 0
57. I guess I knew already what the answer was - just quick 10 minutes more....
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 17 Mood 0
58. Google reader as a Fluid app is very cool
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 17 Mood +1 🙂
59. I was playing today with the built-in web-app feature of Safari 4 preview, but Fluid has many more options, coverflow preview is very cool
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 17 Mood +1 🙂
60. That was more like 30 minutes instead of 10. I need to go to sleep now.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 17 Mood +2 🙂
61. …in reply to @undefined
    @vkoser Do you still have any brightkite invites left?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 17 Mood 0
62. …in reply to @undefined
    @vkoser Thanks! Will check it out
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 17 Mood +2 🙂
63. Just signed up at both Plurk and BrightKite
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 17 Mood 0
64. Setting up Synergy to control my Linux machine from my Mac mouse/keyboard
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 17 Mood 0
65. Downloading Firefox 3
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 18 Mood 0
66. Trying FF3 as my default browser for a while
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 18 Mood 0
67. Today is t-minus-8 days (birth of second baby daughter). I'm strangely calm.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 18 Mood +1 🙂
68. …in reply to @ginatrapani
    @ginatrapani Congratulations!
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 18 Mood +2 🙂
69. I've had several crashes with my Google Reader Fluid app - going back to reading GReader with Safari...
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 19 Mood 0
70. All the details for DIMVA are finally falling in place - about time, the conference is in three weeks: http://dimva2008.org/
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 20 Mood -1 🙁
71. …in reply to @undefined
    @fraserspeirs Sun's dtrace is by itself an epic win. Apple did a great job wrapping a human-understandable GUI around it though
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 20 Mood +7 🙂
72. How do you post to Plurk? Web page? Is there a client? How about cross-posting to Twitter and Plurk? MoodBlast doesn't support Plurk yet
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 20 Mood -2 🙁
73. Just finished watching the Turkey-Croatia match - what an incredible ending!
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 20 Mood 0
74. Very hot day - in the park while my daughter plays in the fountain
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 21 Mood 0
75. Links: Penny Arcade! - Lego-shaped snacks? http://tinyurl.com/5p8t9w
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 23 Mood 0
76. Links: XML Alternatives http://tinyurl.com/5deotn
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 23 Mood 0
77. Links: Password Assistant | codepoetry http://tinyurl.com/66um93
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 23 Mood 0
78. Finished transferring my disk to a new machine, need to wipe the old disk to send for repairs. Secure erase, here we go...
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 24 Mood +2 🙂
79. Secure disk erase in Disk Utility takes a loooong time...
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 24 Mood +2 🙂
80. The dilemma: Firefox 3, which is very nice, fast and with lots of plugins, or Safari, which integrates better (e.g. Automator Actions).
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 24 Mood +4 🙂
81. Links: macosxhints.com - 10.5: Repair Time Machine after logic board changes http://tinyurl.com/5ejwk2
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 24 Mood 0
82. It seems quite hard to synchronize contact pictures from the OSX AddressBook to phones other than the iPhone. Grrrrr.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 24 Mood -1 🙁
83. Today is my last day of work - the baby will be born tomorrow at the latest
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 25 Mood 0
84. Preparing everything I need to be away from the office for two weeks
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 25 Mood 0
85. Oh I so hope Turkey wins against Germany
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 25 Mood +6 🙂
86. GOAAAAL!! Go Turkey!
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 25 Mood 0
87. http://twitpic.com/2tnd - Karina Aimée, born on Jun 26th, 2008 at 2:54PM in Zurich. 3.160kg, 49cm. Both baby and mom are doing great!
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 27 Mood +3 🙂
88. Today's the day my older daughter will meet the new one. Should be fun. I need coffee, by the way
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 27 Mood +4 🙂
89. BIG thunderstom started all of a sudden
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 29 Mood +1 🙂
90. Still in the elation phase after the birth of my second daughter. I can't stop looking at her (and when I'm not with her, at her photos)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jun 30 Mood +4 🙂