zzamboni’s Twitter Archive

Tweets for 2008-07

1. Backing up before 10.5.4. Normally I wouldn't worry too much, but I have too many pictures from the last few days to risk anything
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 1 Mood -3 🙁
2. Installing 10.5.4. For those wondering - I do regular backups, but with so many new baby pictures, I wanted to have everything up to date
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 1 Mood 0
3. Preparing to go home (with baby) tomorrow!
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 1 Mood 0
4. Rare (even more so now) moment of quiet while the whole family takes a nap
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 4 Mood 0
5. Completely failing to keep up with my Twitter feed
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 6 Mood -2 🙁
6. I have to take the plane to Paris in 7 hours. And before that pack, go grocery shopping and get to the airport.
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 9 Mood 0
7. Me, panic?
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 9 Mood -3 🙁
8. Just landed in paris
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 9 Mood 0
9. …in reply to @undefined
   @KGranson Don't even get me started on them "tubing" the big fountain at Purdue. It was so much fun before!
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 9 Mood +5 🙂
10. I'm finally at the hotel in Paris, my home for two days. Internet access? EUR17 for 24 hours (clock hours, not access hours). Wow.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 9 Mood +4 🙂
11. The cable I thought was the European power plug (different from the Swiss one) wasn't.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 10 Mood 0
12. Luckily, I could fit the cable from my room TV into my Mac's power brick. Also helps with distractions: it's either the Mac or the TV
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 10 Mood +6 🙂
13. Finishing my opening talk for DIMVA for tomorrow
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 10 Mood 0
14. Quicksilver is eating 220MB of memory - that's more than Keynote! I think I have to trim my catalog
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 10 Mood 0
15. …in reply to @undefined
    @vkoser There's an Apple store in West Lafayette?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 10 Mood 0
16. …in reply to @undefined
    @vkoser So did you decide for an iPhone in the end?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 10 Mood 0
17. On a boat deck, looking at the Eiffel tower lighted in blue
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 10 Mood 0
18. http://twitpic.com/3h9z - @vkoser Here you go
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 11 Mood 0
19. All this twetting about iPhone apps is making me jealous. I want one.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 11 Mood -1 🙁
20. Links: 5 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do | Cracked.com http://tinyurl.com/5cu8j8
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 11 Mood 0
21. Flight to zurich delayed. Gate change. Second time through security. Ugh.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 11 Mood -3 🙁
22. …in reply to @CorneliusBomba
    @Phil801 Thanks for the link to Dr. Horrible. Cool!
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 16 Mood 0
23. Back to work after paternity leave. Welcome to the real world.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 16 Mood +1 🙂
24. …in reply to @undefined
    @vkoser I _was_ wondering what a shower train was...
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 16 Mood 0
25. Filing my expense report from trip to Paris last week. I hate filing expense reports.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 16 Mood -3 🙁
26. Old highschool friend trying to convince me to join an multi-level marketing scheme. How do people get sucked into these things?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 17 Mood +3 🙂
27. …in reply to @funkatron
    @funkatron This is silly, but only now I realized who you are IRL and that you work at CERIAS. Duh. I only knew you as the author of Spaz.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 18 Mood -1 🙁
28. …in reply to @funkatron
    @funkatron Since when are you at CERIAS? I graduated in 2001. I'm not sure if we met, although we've been in email contact a few times.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 18 Mood 0
29. I've seen tweets about the new twitter interface, but I'm still seeing the new one - with tabs and everything. Not everyone gets it?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 18 Mood 0
30. Watching Sir Ken Robinson talk about imagination: http://tinyurl.com/5nhpr3
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 20 Mood 0
31. Watching Dr. Horrible Episodes II and III
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 20 Mood -3 🙁
32. Just made a new release of grabcartoons: http://tinyurl.com/5h9n8c
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 21 Mood 0
33. Doing some system update/cleanup with the help of AppFresh
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 21 Mood +2 🙂
34. …in reply to @undefined
    @fraserspeirs Go go go :-)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 21 Mood 0
35. …in reply to @undefined
    @fraserspeirs Not sure if this would help, but it looks cool: http://explore.twitter.com/blocks/
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 22 Mood +2 🙂
36. A friend just came by to give me a bottle of Dom Perignon as a gift for Fabiola's birth. Wow.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 23 Mood +7 🙂
37. I'm trying out the "Blog This" feature in my SE K800i. Seems nice for putting together a photo blog: http://tinyurl.com/5hnohk
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 23 Mood +3 🙂
38. I have an old PC disk that takes HOURS to boot (into Fedora Core 4 with Xen) but once it boots, seems to work normally. Any ideas why?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 24 Mood 0
39. A colleague spotted I had entered the wrong month in Fabiola's birth-announcement cards. Happily, I had only printed 3 so far.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 24 Mood -2 🙁
40. …in reply to @undefined
    @vkoser Why? What happens today?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 24 Mood 0
41. Preparing camera-ready version of AIsec paper
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 24 Mood 0
42. Lazy twitter: anyone knows of an OSX PDF viewer that can automatically reload-on-change, or that at least has a "reload file" command?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 24 Mood -1 🙁
43. I can't seem to get either Skim nor AcroReader to do it
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 24 Mood 0
44. Making a raw image of a disk is faster over the network than over USB to an external disk (old machine, I think it's USB1).
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 25 Mood 0
45. …in reply to @macdevnet
    @macdevnet Give us a photo!
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 25 Mood 0
46. …in reply to @macdevnet
    @macdevnet I just signed
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 25 Mood 0
47. Proofreading AIsec paper
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 25 Mood 0
48. I never before realized I had a printer namesake: @ZamboniPrinter
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 25 Mood 0
49. Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 25 Mood 0
50. 35 out of 40GB transferred
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 25 Mood 0
51. …in reply to @ikawnoclast
    @ikawnoclast Bonus points if you did the swapping without unplugging them first
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 25 Mood 0
52. Oh how I love portrait mode on my external monitor
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 25 Mood +3 🙂
53. …in reply to @ikawnoclast
    @ikawnoclast OK, bonus for the darkness part. Now go find coffee. I'm on my 3rd big cup of the day already.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 25 Mood 0
54. dd-over-the-network of a 40GB disk done. It just took ~5 hours
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 25 Mood 0
55. I have started to collect test machines under my desk again. Rewiring my old keyboard/monitor switch to my monitor's second input
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 25 Mood 0
56. In the words of an old Usenix sticker: It's dirty work, but someone told me I had to do it
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 25 Mood -2 🙁
57. Finishing the day by answering work email - I really should just rest for a bit
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 25 Mood 0
58. Going to sleep now. Good night and good weekend everyone.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 26 Mood +6 🙂
59. Watching "Tarantino's mind": http://tinyurl.com/6dd5kh
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 26 Mood 0
60. Watching a "Spongebob Squarepants" DVD with my daughter
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 27 Mood 0
61. Tired.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 28 Mood -2 🙁
62. Upgrading my blog to wordpress 2.6. Really shouldn't do that in combination with my previous tweet.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 28 Mood 0
63. What does the little "2" bubble on the "Plugins" tab mean in WP2.6? It's not plugins with pending upgrades...
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 28 Mood 0
64. Despite my tiredness, upgrade seems to have gone well. I should go to be now before I do break something.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Jul 28 Mood 0