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Tweets for 2008-10

  1. just getting into the office, starting late
  2. …in reply to @gabvirtualworld
  3. Getting increasingly frustrated trying to configure Gmail/IMAP on my SE K800i. I can get email, but I cannot send anything. SSL/TLS errors.
  4. …in reply to @undefined
    @vkoser Nice - is that your car?
  5. The Google timeline. Interesting, and very nicely done: http://tinyurl.com/3r8c7g
  6. Cleaning up "foo's recommendations" feeds left behind in Greader by my brief brush with Feedly. Feedly's gone forever now.
  7. …in reply to @feedly
    @feedly Thanks - actually I think it's very neat, but it doesn't fit the way I read my news.
  8. Interesting tidbit: Paul Rand, designer of the NeXT logo, also designed Eye-Bee-M, still included in IBM machines: http://tinyurl.com/32kmxg
  9. My machine gets sooooo sloooooow when I run Windows in VMware Fusion...
  10. Lunch time! Hopefully my machine will be done by the time I get back
  11. …in reply to @undefined
    @vkoser MacBook Pro with 2GB of RAM. I think it's the memory that's killing me.
  12. …in reply to @undefined
    @vkoser That would be very nice - I'll have to see if it's possible to convince my manager that I actually need it :-)
  13. Trying the LimeChat IRC client. I'm annoyed by Colloquy's bugs/lack of updates, there aren't many decent IRC apps for OSX. Any suggestions?
  14. git blame is very cool
  15. Just saw a very serious old lady, with an umbrella that said 'merde, il pleu' :-)
  16. …in reply to @ids
    @ids That would be so easy to abuse for nasty practical jokes...
  17. …in reply to @1Password
    @1Password With 2.8.3.Beta-13, I'm still not seeing data in the web browser (Safari). How do I regenerate the .html file after upgrading?
  18. …in reply to @tarasis
    @tarasis It's a simple threshold: < 30 chars -> post as is, 30+ chars -> tinyurl. See http://tinyurl.com/yq6oo7
  19. I'm starting to put more content into http://www.librarything.com/ I use it for my "now reading" list in my blog: http://zzamboni.org/brt/
  20. LibraryThing vs aNobii vs Shelfari vs Goodreads - thoughts? LT seems the most populated, Shelfari and GR have nicer UIs
  21. Leaving early to pick up my car at the garage. Of course, since today I don't have a car, it's been raining all day.
  22. At the merry-go-round in zurich
  23. So many meetings today, not too much time to do real work.
  24. I always thought those special buttons on newish keyboards were useless, but I actually use them quite a lot, especially for audio control.
  25. …in reply to @undefined
    @Shrdlu At the Rathausbrücke, here: http://tinyurl.com/3qjcwt
  26. …in reply to @undefined
    @Shrdlu I don't think it's there all the time, but I don't know the criteria. It was nice weather yesterday, my daughter enjoyed it.
  27. …in reply to @undefined
    @RyanSwagar What did it say?
  28. Off to another meeting. Grrrrrr
  29. …in reply to @innismir
    @innismir What a low-key announcement of something so big. Congrats!
  30. …in reply to @lmacvittie
    @lmacvittie On both counts (intro/fun), it also depends on the audience and setting. e.g. intro slide might be good for suits-only audience.
  31. I just installed the WPtouch plugin on my site. If you have an iPhone, check it out: http://zzamboni.org/brt/ let me know if it looks OK
  32. …in reply to @undefined
    @vkoser http://twitpic.com/eyxo - Great - thanks for trying it out :-)
  33. …in reply to @MRRSoftware
    @MRRSoftware any news about that fix for the multiplicate tweets? Today I had one repeated 9 times after coming back from pause.
  34. I have to trim my login items, my session takes forever to start
  35. Has anyone else been getting frequent kernel panics since 10.5.5? I'm getting them at least 2-3 per week.
  36. …in reply to @undefined
    @Securethinking I think I need a follow so I can DM you :-)
  37. …in reply to @undefined
    @Securethinking btw, I would love a copy of the book if there are still any left.
  38. Just placed the order for 4GB of RAM for my MBP
  39. …in reply to @datenkeller
    @datenkeller Thx - must be something I have installed.
  40. …in reply to @joelsnyder
    @joelsnyder I hadn't even looked at mem prices in so long, i was surprised how cheap it is. Thx for the prod
  41. …in reply to @PurpleCar
    @PurpleCar Funny picture (the trains) and funny anecdote. Until recently, for my 2.5-yr-old all women were "mommy" and all men were "daddy"
  42. I'm really loving LibraryThing. Slowly but surely populating my library: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/zzamboni
  43. And with that, it's time to close transmissions for tonight.
  44. Platypus is a very cool Mac utility http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus
  45. Damn - no internet connectivity all morning at work. I feel crippled.
  46. w00t network is back - for now
  47. …in reply to @andysc
    @andysc Nice interview - I didn't know about @andy_house, interesting project.
  48. …in reply to @jth
    @jth So you do GSD instead of GTD? :-)
  49. Trying Stainless as my browser for a while. It does feel more responsive, no more hanging while another tab loads.
  50. WILTAC #1: invoking methods on nil in Objective-C http://tinyurl.com/4c4gmb
  51. WILTAC #2: Designated initializers http://tinyurl.com/3gopq7
  52. …in reply to @tarasis
    @tarasis Congratulations on the anniversary!
  53. Uninstalled VMware Fusion to see if the kernel panics stop.
  54. Another kernel panic!? This is getting very annoying
  55. I'm starting to wonder if I have a hardware problem - the KPs are seemingly random. I'll test if they continue when new memory arrives
  56. Finishing Friday early. Happy weekend everyone.
  57. Easy video conversion in Mac OS X http://tinyurl.com/4fjzhs
  58. Wooha - Left Syrinx running since yesterday afternoon - 281 new tweets (and that's only while my machine has been awake)
  59. Just made pancake batter in advance for tomorrow morning
  60. ...while watching Back to the Future II. Nice relaxing time.
  61. I think I may be a bit out of date - I just watched Ep. 1 of Season 1 of House M.D. I liked it, my wife liked it.
  62. …in reply to @undefined
    @Shrdlu It's worked fine for me since the beginning. What problems did you hear? The Genius playlist generator is actually a nice feature.
  63. gathering up the courage to call my insurance company to renegotiate car insurance policy. I hate dealing with insurance companies.
  64. …in reply to @sestinable
    @girlinblack Come on, tell us what you really think :-) Something like this? http://tinyurl.com/4kmh6x
  65. …in reply to @juliaroy
    @juliaroy I'd like a Strands invite if you still have any. Thanks!
  66. w00t Syrinx 1.3
  67. …in reply to @MRRSoftware
    @MRRSoftware Conversation button not working properly in Syrinx 1.3 - sent you email
  68. …in reply to @undefined
    @sgaw Oooh - I just now saw how the "Conversation" button works - if you have the replied-to tweet in your list. It doesn't work if it's not
  69. …in reply to @undefined
    @sgaw If the tweet is not on your list (e.g. you don't follow the replied-to person), you get sent to a broken URL
  70. …in reply to @undefined
    @fraserspeirs Enjoy the opportunity. Me? I was up at 5:00 this morning. The older one with an upset stomach. Not pretty.
  71. …in reply to @undefined
    @Shrdlu Something like that. And of course, she was up, we were up, the little one woke up, and no one slept after that.
  72. Trying OpenOffice 3.0
  73. Ugh. Ugly. Imported .ppt file, and OO reformatted it in portrait mode and messed up and squashed the fonts
  74. Importing .doc file - fonts also squashed, page layout wrong. I don't think OO3.0 is replacing NeoOffice yet.
  75. …in reply to @MRRSoftware
    @MRRSoftware Nice release, thanks! The conversation viewer is very nice - when all the tweets are in the current view.
  76. …in reply to @funkatron
    @funkatron It's a good book, I'm reading the PDF version now
  77. Links: Apple - MacBook design video http://tinyurl.com/3e6e2e
  78. Good morning Twitter. Happily we have nice weather today in Zurich - I'm about to bike to my office.
  79. …in reply to @macdevnet
    @macdevnet How do you keep things synchronized? Not having to worry about sync is an advantages of using a laptop as your main machine
  80. …in reply to @undefined
    @iWork For some value of "forever". I have a MBP from ~Sep. 2007 and it came with a remote.
  81. …in reply to @mckeay
    @mckeay Good one. I LOLed with the little girl's voice at the end of the ad.
  82. …in reply to @undefined
    @DrScofield Sorry to hear about your friend. My condolences.
  83. Reading source code, some by me, some by others, trying to produce a description of the algorithm in English so I can think about it
  84. …in reply to @IBMResearch
    @IBMResearch Funny, I got through my local communications people a request from you asking about IBMers who blog. Responded already.
  85. Finally sitting down to read some more about Cocoa programming
  86. …in reply to @davideisert
    @davideisert That's the Finder's way of authenticating you (a la "sudo") when you need additional privileges for certain operations.
  87. …in reply to @davideisert
    @davideisert What are you deleting? It should only happen when you try to modify system files (or files you don't own).
  88. That shouldn't happen, not for files you own. Maybe the ownership of the files got changed somehow?
  89. …in reply to @davideisert
    @davideisert You could look at the files on the command line to see the permissions.
  90. …in reply to @undefined
    @vkoser What does your tattoo say? BBOR?
  91. On a whim, I set my desktop icons to 112x112. On my 1200x1600 (portrait) monitor, they actually look nice. I really should be working.
  92. Also, hardware test on my machine reports one error: 4VDC/1/40000003: VideoController. I wonder if that explains the recent kernel panics
  93. MacFusion is very cool
  94. vm_log( .., "\terror message: %s." ... for a moment I thought "terror message?"
  95. …in reply to @lmacvittie
    @lmacvittie Oh boy - fun times ahead. I remember a friend of mine said "enjoy immobility while it lasts". How right he was.
  96. …in reply to @datenkeller
    @datenkeller I still have one of those as well! 20GB disk (2nd gen I think). Even battery life is still quite good.
  97. http://twitpic.com/ghug - How many mounted disks are too many?
  98. …in reply to @raffaelmarty
    @zrlram Wow. My Schwyzerduutsch has gotten better, but that's still beyond my reach. Something about smoke-free places?
  99. …in reply to @IBMResearch
    @IBMResearch Gray, dark and wet http://twitpic.com/ghym It hasn't stopped raining since last night.
  100. …in reply to @raffaelmarty
    @zrlram I found some refs to OLMA but I couldn't figure out what it is. I was proud of myself today, I could mostly follow the news on radio
  101. …in reply to @raffaelmarty
    @zrlram Thanks :) I've been here 7yr after all, I should understand it much better, that's the prob of working in an english-speaking bubble
  102. There really is a web page for everything: http://upsidedowndogs.com/ via @pjnet
  103. …in reply to @mattgemmell
    @mattgemmell Sure it can - either party can enable video or not
  104. …in reply to @adrianxbenjamin
    @DVDQuotes Terminator!
  105. …in reply to @AmyJane
    @AmyJane Indeed. I've always wondered how (and most importantly: why) people do that.
  106. +1 to Aaron Hillegass for Knight Rider reference in his Cocoa Programming book
  107. WILTAC #3: NSZombieEnabled http://tinyurl.com/4eautu
  108. Just received the 4GB RAM I ordered for my MBP - shutting down to install it
  109. http://twitpic.com/gn34 - Maxed out!
  110. …in reply to @undefined
    @fraserspeirs Looks useful - please let us know how well it works
  111. Wow. Weekly review finished in a record 30 minutes. The advantages of actually having done another one last week.
  112. …in reply to @mattgemmell
    @mattgemmell Is there a channel for you to ask what's up?
  113. …in reply to @pilky
    @pilky 403 Forbidden
  114. Trying to reset a warning light, I accidentally reset my whole devel server. Oops. Luckily I'm the only one using it :-)
  115. I have now on my VMware ESX server: 2xRHEL, Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, WinXP and BillyGoat (custom Linux 2.4 distro from an old project)
  116. It's been a very productive day coding-wise. Going home early.
  117. …in reply to @undefined
    @quine I never understand why ppl do that. Also kids barefoot on public places. I guess what doesn't kill them makes them stronger...
  118. Just saw the new MBP at the Apple store in Zurich. Sweet, looks and feels very nice.
  119. Reading about microformats. My new pet project: a wordpress plugins that posts your LibraryThing reviews to a WP blog
  120. …in reply to @undefined
    @adhm What'd you get?
  121. It gives me a headache when people regularly write "cause" instead of "because", even in a serious text. Example: http://tinyurl.com/5gjxnm
  122. Had a very productive morning. The trick? No email, no Twitter, no IM before lunch.
  123. …in reply to @undefined
    @adhm Nice. I bet the Mini would make a nice media center ;-)
  124. …in reply to @mroesch
    @mroesch Congratulations on your new baby girl!
  125. Links: ADC—Developing Cocoa Applications Using MacRuby http://tinyurl.com/5clqot
  126. Sad but true: http://tinyurl.com/6ekpos
  127. …in reply to @codinghorror
    @codinghorror Not anymore - it seems Twitter has closed the loophole. You now get a "you cannot DM non-followers" error message.
  128. How to trick an RHEL5 client install to use server RPMs http://tinyurl.com/65barz
  129. Too much reading Linux kernel source code. Time for coffee.
  130. I see a lot of tweets about voting today. Pardon my ignorance: you can vote early in the U.S., instead of on Nov. 4th?
  131. …in reply to @sestinable
    @girlinblack I think it's OK on Twitter, but I would definitely not tolerate it in a classroom (if I'm the one teaching the class)
  132. …in reply to @catalyst
    @chrisjager @catalyst Thanks for the replies
  133. Aaaaand there went my day. Going home. It's raining and I biked to work. Ugh.
  134. It's funny there's not built-in way in Linux to map from syscall number -> syscall name
  135. …in reply to @undefined
    @catshive I use launchd to restart QS automatically - useful for when it crashes too: http://tinyurl.com/2etphk
  136. Grrrrr. Off-by-one error cost me an hour trying to figure out what was wrong with my code.
  137. Hm... coffee
  138. D/L SLES10 for testing is taking forever. I could use our local mirror, but I don't have read perms and the sysadmin is nowhere to be found.
  139. Wow - the U.S. wakes up and it gets harder to keep up with all the tweets. Syrinx' pause FTW
  140. …in reply to @zefrank
    @zefrank Game works well, but the URL received when sharing took me to the start page instead of that game
  141. …in reply to @funkatron
    @funkatron Hey! What did I do to you?
  142. …in reply to @AmberBaldet
    @AmberBaldet Great video! :-) Thanks @innismir for the link
  143. …in reply to @njames
    @njames Oh wow. There goes my family name.
  144. …in reply to @lulugirl896
    @lulugirl896 Happy birthday to him!
  145. Links: Idiosyncratic Routine - My baby niece bring tha Jedi skillz. http://tinyurl.com/5oe5r2
  146. "The worst part was hitting the ground - not the feeling so much as the sound" - this line always makes me cringe (Barenaked Ladies)
  147. …in reply to @XabbuTardis
    @XabbuTardis Welcome to Twitter - have fun!
  148. Comparing car insurance companies... blegh
  149. I'm addicted to LibraryThing.
  150. …in reply to @XabbuTardis
    @XabbuTardis Not yet - I'm still under the "200 books for free" limit. But I'm sure sooner or later I'm going to break it
  151. Wow - SLES10 download _finally_ done
  152. …in reply to @XabbuTardis
    @XabbuTardis My LT library: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/zzamboni
  153. …in reply to @XabbuTardis
    @XabbuTardis You can never have too many books :-)
  154. Installing Xcode 3.1.1 + burning a DVD + copying DVD image over net + iTunes+all my regular apps = machine still usable! Extra memory rocks.
  155. Do I need coffee to get back into C & Linux-kernel-hacking mode? Yes I do.
  156. Installing SLES10 on a brand-new VM in my ESX server
  157. VMware Fusion is actually usable now on my machine. Extra memory rocks.
  158. Lazy twitter: My Spaces-switching, Expose and QS keys stopped working. What do I need to restart?
  159. …in reply to @datenkeller
    @datenkeller Tried that - didn't work
  160. …in reply to @SifuMoraga
    @SifuMoraga That's pretty drastic :-)
  161. Weird - the culprit was @VMwareFusion. I switched to the VMF window and back out, and my kb shortcuts came back.
  162. …in reply to @raffaelmarty
    @zrlram Congrats on the good reviews on Amazon! Bejtlich gave you 5 stars, that's quite an accomplishment. http://tinyurl.com/6pnqhc
  163. …in reply to @BadAstronomer
    @BadAstronomer (and everyone, actually) This is priceless. "With the whole light-years thing" http://tinyurl.com/5grab8
  164. …in reply to @BadAstronomer
    @BadAstronomer Indeed, no context. But I could believe she was actually being serious.
  165. …in reply to @X
    @twitter I get a "That page doesn't exist!" error when trying to send a request for protected updates. Happening in the last few days.
  166. …in reply to @brainix
    @brainix Wow - scary, that forum
  167. …in reply to @undefined
    @vkoser not much of a power user, is he?
  168. It's snowing! But but but... it's not even November yet!
  169. Wow, it's REALLY snowing
  170. Back from picking up my daughter from daycare. It's cold outside, time for some tea to warm myself up
  171. In all my years of coding using Emacs, I had never discovered M-/ for code completion. Wow.
  172. I'm still having some KPs, and other random crashes (e.g. Mail). Thinking of doing a clean reinstall.