zzamboni’s Twitter Archive

Tweets for 2008-11

1. Links: Commodore BASIC as a Scripting Language for UNIX and Windows - now Open Source http://tinyurl.com/55buph
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 1 Mood 0
2. How to display random header images in a Wordpress theme http://tinyurl.com/6kqchc
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 3 Mood 0
3. …in reply to @VMwareFusion
   @VMwareFusion Now that you ask, I'd like to make a FW disk (WD MyBook) visible, not as a shared folder, but as a device, so I can format it
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 3 Mood +3 🙂
4. Links: Diego Zamboni - ACM author profile page http://tinyurl.com/675dr3
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 3 Mood 0
5. …in reply to @VMwareFusion
   @VMwareFusion I want to format as NTFS, and want to do it from Windows, not NTFS-3G on the Mac, for testing purposes
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 3 Mood +2 🙂
6. …in reply to @SifuMoraga
   @SifuMoraga I wouldn't. When I tried OO3, I had tons of problems. Squashed fonts, rendering issues, crashes.
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 3 Mood -2 🙁
7. …in reply to @mattgemmell
   @mattgemmell Re: LCC, does it still disable Growl notifications? http://tinyurl.com/2m2hlj
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 3 Mood 0
8. Links: Disabling Quit and rewriting keyboard shortcuts http://tinyurl.com/6hphu4
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 3 Mood -1 🙁
9. …in reply to @boredzo
   @boredzo Thx. I haven't upgraded LCC in a while because of this, I will try a new version soon
   Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 4 Mood 0
10. To all my American friends: this is it. Go out and elect Obama today, OK? Thanks.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 4 Mood +2 🙂
11. …in reply to @al3x
    @al3x Thanks for the pointer to Emacs --with-ns, which is indeed Cocoa. I had been using Carbon Emacs before.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 4 Mood +2 🙂
12. Well done my friends! Good choice in voting for Obama.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 5 Mood +3 🙂
13. Obama won! http://tinyurl.com/624878
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 5 Mood +3 🙂
14. …in reply to @undefined
    @Shrdlu Beautiful indeed. Happy that you won't have to move back to Zurich ;-) But come visit any day.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 5 Mood +6 🙂
15. …in reply to @ax0n
    @ax0n @mckeay @innismir Wow, it's every 90 days here and I still think it's too often.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 5 Mood +4 🙂
16. I'm still reflexively typing "svn" when I want to type "git". I need more time.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 5 Mood +1 🙂
17. Like Cocoa Emacs http://tinyurl.com/y7mns7 but dislike the icon? Replace it with one from here: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsIcons
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 5 Mood 0
18. I used the last one (the one without the shading)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 5 Mood 0
19. Links: EmacsWiki: Mac OSTweaks http://tinyurl.com/6dw7re
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 6 Mood 0
20. …in reply to @njames
    @njames The author who played Palmer thinks he did help: http://tinyurl.com/5r6sxy
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 6 Mood +2 🙂
21. I love my external rotatable monitor. Working in portrait mode is much better for a lot of things
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 7 Mood +5 🙂
22. …in reply to @myrcurial
    @myrcurial Congrats to your son! Normally I'd say "he's a little boy", but since my oldest is 2.5, I think "what a big boy". Perspective.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 7 Mood +3 🙂
23. Finished prez for a project review I have later today. Next up: lunch!
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 7 Mood 0
24. Has anyone tried EventBox? It looks quite nice.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 7 Mood +3 🙂
25. Links: YouTube - "Star Wars" - an a capella tribute to John Williams http://tinyurl.com/5o3a5k
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 7 Mood +2 🙂
26. Dear laptop: you are a new machine, with lots of memory. Why do you take so long to start my session?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 11 Mood +2 🙂
27. …in reply to @davideisert
    @davideisert Right. LIke anyone's going to believe your excuse after that Panera tweet ;-)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 11 Mood +1 🙂
28. …in reply to @macdevnet
    @macdevnet Cool :-)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 11 Mood +1 🙂
29. Yes! I'm back at the top of Google results for "Diego Zamboni". It's always a battle with my namesake Italian singer.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 11 Mood +2 🙂
30. …in reply to @davideisert
    @davideisert At the moment, while rocking my baby daughter to sleep at night, a bit on my bike ride to work.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 11 Mood 0
31. I did not know this: U.S. president-elect Barack Obama delivered his acceptance speech from behind 2 inches of bulletproof glass (wikipedia)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 11 Mood +1 🙂
32. …in reply to @ax0n
    @ax0n True, although I was comparing my 10min ride with @davideisert's 1hr drive
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 11 Mood +2 🙂
33. Links: The Mac Developer Network Book Review: Pragmatic Version Control Using Git http://tinyurl.com/5tcp57
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 11 Mood 0
34. Intense Debate http://tinyurl.com/6s9h78
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 16 Mood +1 🙂
35. …in reply to @chrisjager
    @chrisjager A long time ago I use ifile http://people.csail.mit.edu/jrennie/ifile/ but I don't think it's being developed anymore
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 17 Mood 0
36. …in reply to @njames
    @njames Sadly I'm not related. Maybe I would have less financial worries if I were ;-)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 17 Mood -5 🙁
37. @alecmuffet Does Bruce still have a web page somewhere? Used to be at www.sun.com/software/communitysource/senss/ but that's gone
    Permalink On twitter.com Mention 2008 Nov 17 Mood 0
38. Links: Weekend Watching: Merlin Mann on Maximizing Your Time http://tinyurl.com/6ngych
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 17 Mood 0
39. WILTAC #4: Undo http://tinyurl.com/5bw34k
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 19 Mood 0
40. Linky no more http://tinyurl.com/6382ae
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 19 Mood -1 🙁
41. Quote of the day: "I sleep like a baby - I wake up crying every two hours". I can so relate.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 19 Mood 0
42. …in reply to @davideisert
    @davideisert Which email client do you use that timed out? That sucks. If you use FF, for next time: http://prismicspiral.com/scribe/
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 19 Mood -3 🙁
43. …in reply to @davideisert
    @davideisert That, or avoid web-based clients ;-)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 19 Mood -1 🙁
44. http://twitpic.com/mvcl - From the corner of my desk
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 20 Mood 0
45. …in reply to @tgardner
    @tgardner turducken?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 26 Mood 0
46. …in reply to @codinghorror
    @codinghorror I read a lot of bear-attack preparation is getting people to realize they look cuddly, they are not cuddly.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 26 Mood 0
47. Just back from lunch at home - today was our youngest's first "solid" meal (apple puree - not _that_ solid), so I went home for the occasion
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 26 Mood +4 🙂
48. …in reply to @MRRSoftware
    @MRRSoftware 2.4GHz. The faster, the better. I would go for a MBP actually.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 26 Mood +2 🙂
49. Is LinkedIn acting up for everyone, or just me? It is at random not letting me send messages, telling me I'm not connected to people, etc.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 26 Mood 0
50. …in reply to @undefined
    @GorillaMonk You mean something like http://hashtags.org/ ? Twitter does not support channels by itself.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 26 Mood 0
51. …in reply to @undefined
    @GorillaMonk :-) My pleasure
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 26 Mood +3 🙂
52. To all my American friends: Happy Thanksgiving! I'll celebrate by not having any conference calls with the U.S. for the rest of the week :)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 26 Mood +6 🙂
53. How do people keep up with Twitter and work at the same time? Oh... maybe they don't. I have to turn Twitter off if I want to get work done.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 26 Mood +1 🙂
54. …in reply to @MRRSoftware
    @MRRSoftware I guess you want to buy one of the new-model MacBooks, but if you don't, this looks like a good deal: http://tinyurl.com/29pct2
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 26 Mood +6 🙂
55. I want Emacs --with-ns so it's Cocoa, but in a complete pre-configured package like Carbon Emacs. Staying with CE for now because I'm lazy.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 27 Mood +2 🙂
56. I've been staying up late reading Hillegass' Cocoa book. And then wondering the next day why I'm so tired.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 27 Mood -2 🙁
57. …in reply to @undefined
    @vkoser Saw Hancock the other day. Entertaining (like most Will Smith movies) but not good IMO.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 27 Mood +1 🙂
58. …in reply to @SifuMoraga
    @SifuMoraga Looks good to me - maybe you have some ad-blocking that is messing things up?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 27 Mood +3 🙂
59. New 250GB disk for my wife's Powerbook arrived today. I will install it during the weekend.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 27 Mood 0
60. …in reply to @undefined
    @adhm Carbon Emacs comes with a lot of preinstalled stuff (both lisp pkgs and Mac-specific tweaks) that don't come by default with Emacs...
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 27 Mood 0
61. …in reply to @undefined
    @adhm ...and which I would have to recreate/reinstall by hand on my build of Cocoa Emacs. I'm not that much of an Emacs wizard, I'm afraid
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 27 Mood -2 🙁
62. Powerbook surgery this weekend. I have the instructions, I have the tools, I hope I have the steady hand I need.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 28 Mood +2 🙂
63. …in reply to @boredzo
    @boredzo Missing context, but what's wrong with it? If it's The Empire Strikes Back, it's correct, it's Ep. V
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 28 Mood -5 🙁
64. Happy Thanksgiving aftermath to everyone in the U.S. Hope you stuffed yourselves silly with turkey last night.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 28 Mood +4 🙂
65. …in reply to @boredzo
    @boredzo I'm pretty sure it always was Episode V. According to wikipedia, only the first movie didn't say "Episode IV" at the beginning
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 28 Mood +1 🙂
66. …in reply to @boredzo
    @boredzo See http://tinyurl.com/2sxnfo
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 28 Mood 0
67. Booting from an external DVD drive using Firewire Target Disk Mode http://tinyurl.com/5echda
    Permalink On twitter.com 2008 Nov 30 Mood 0