zzamboni’s Twitter Archive

Tweets for 2009-10

1. Got call from my wife to tell me we now have the official you-are-leaving-Switzerland letters from the Gemeinde. No turning back now, people
   Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 1 Mood -1 🙁
2. …in reply to @undefined
   @sebitas On the contrary, it's quite on the plan: http://bit.ly/15YFvD
   Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 1 Mood 0
3. Shocked to tears - how can anyone do things like these? RT @parent_tweets: http://tr.im/AkAn nursery worker found guilty of child abuse
   Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 1 Mood -8 🙁
4. …in reply to @lulugirl896
   @lulugirl896 Don't light a match, just in case.
   Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 1 Mood 0
5. Awesome: Liu Bolin...The Invisible Man: http://bit.ly/aOgZg
   Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 2 Mood +4 🙂
6. Very true. RT @hotdogsladies: Nothing like a sick kid to make you forget how you don't believe in prayer.
   Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 2 Mood +1 🙂
7. …in reply to @ifcorey
   @ifcorey I've had that happen sporadically. Normally turning Airport off-on fixes it (reconnects properly when turning it back on).
   Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 2 Mood 0
8. Removed the last DNS entries for zzamboni.org pointing to my old server - waiting for them to propagate. Nervous.
   Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 2 Mood -2 🙁
9. …in reply to @DedRyzing
   @DedRyzing The whole thing is even better: http://bit.ly/W89DM
   Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 2 Mood +2 🙂
10. Pizza and a movie at home
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 2 Mood 0
11. Awesome day with my family, and it's only lunchtime yet. Next: Bruno-Webers sculpture park
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 4 Mood +4 🙂
12. After the migration (and shutting down my old blog) I realized I failed to mirror the RSS feed. GReader to the rescue: http://bit.ly/A4Nt4
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 5 Mood 0
13. …in reply to @undefined
    @fraserspeirs I'd be curious what your reply to those emails is :-)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 5 Mood +1 🙂
14. Finished emptying two of my four office filing cabinets. It's liberating to throw away so much stuff at once.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 5 Mood 0
15. Gyrowheel by Gyrobike interbike 2009 http://post.ly/7PE9
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 5 Mood 0
16. Tango - The Big Picture http://post.ly/7SIN
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 6 Mood +1 🙂
17. Terminator - How It Should End http://post.ly/7T2f
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 6 Mood 0
18. Working at home, watching the girls play. It's great fun for them now that the youngest can walk too :-)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 7 Mood +7 🙂
19. My free @Dropbox account now includes an 8GB bonus!? Wow, very nice.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 8 Mood +8 🙂
20. Learned something new today RT @mattgemmell: Shift+Option+VolumeUp/Down keys = fine-grained volume adjustment.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 8 Mood 0
21. Also: Shift-Volume up/down - volume adjustment without the audible clicks.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 8 Mood 0
22. …in reply to @guyro
    @guyro A bit convoluted, but you could do it through Posterous with auto-posting to delicious.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 8 Mood +3 🙂
23. …in reply to @guyro
    @guyro Doesn't bookmark the original link though, rather the post at posterous.com - I have bugged them about it already :-)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 8 Mood 0
24. …in reply to @tarasis
    @tarasis No idea-noticed status said "x% of 10GB used". When I set up DB on another machine, all the choices in the wizard said "+8GB bonus"
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 8 Mood -1 🙁
25. Doing a much needed update and cleanup of the RAID web page: http://www.raid-symposium.org/
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 8 Mood 0
26. If it's plain now, you should've seen it before :-)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 8 Mood 0
27. xkcd - A Webcomic - Scary http://post.ly/7qH3
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 9 Mood -2 🙁
28. I'm scanning+shredding everything just for completeness, but there are some old class notes I'd rather just shred. I'm looking at you, CS514
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 9 Mood 0
29. After much investigation into Evernote, Google Docs, etc., in the end I'm just using Dropbox to store my scanned documents.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 9 Mood 0
30. Drives On What Side? http://post.ly/8DTx
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 12 Mood 0
31. …in reply to @SifuMoraga
    @SifuMoraga Unless you are left-handed :-)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 12 Mood 0
32. The three big sofas have now been sold. *phew* I thought they would never go, and would've been a shame to throw them away.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 13 Mood -1 🙁
33. Just discovered that the cp command in Snow Leopard now includes the -a option, although it's not exactly equivalent to the one in Linux
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 13 Mood 0
34. The Mail.app search bar needs a "with" option, that shows messages from or to that person.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 14 Mood 0
35. ZISC 2009 workshop (Virtualization/Cloud security) session recordings are now available: http://bit.ly/Py3CI #zisc09
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 14 Mood 0
36. @mattgemmell Why would "discontinue" be a weasel word? Its meaning is clear and unambiguous, same as stop, end, terminate, etc.
    Permalink On twitter.com Mention 2009 Oct 14 Mood 0
37. RT @pvinod: Finally! - now you CAN delete an application at Google App engine! http://bit.ly/zYaN6
    Permalink On twitter.com Retweet 2009 Oct 14
38. Cooooooffffeeeeeeee
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 14 Mood 0
39. …in reply to @sergio_avila
    @sergio_avila Asi es, profesor: http://bit.ly/1QE0Lu
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 14 Mood 0
40. …in reply to @undefined
    @Shrdlu @vkoser By the way, the NeXT has been sold. It's going to Austria now :-)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 14 Mood 0
41. GitHub + Drydrop + Google App Engine is very very cool for hosting static web pages. Thanks @ryanwi for the tip.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 14 Mood +3 🙂
42. …in reply to @vincentcorwin
    .@vincentcorwin Looks like a human, but is an advertising bot that spammed me just because I mentioned "hosting". B-bye, blocked.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 14 Mood +1 🙂
43. …in reply to @jeremyvisser
    @jeremyvisser You could use grep --context=10000 (or some other really large number, larger than the number of lines .. http://bit.ly/mPY2M
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 14 Mood 0
44. …in reply to @tegola
    @tegola http://bit.ly/18ieTE .. http://bit.ly/18ksRp
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 14 Mood 0
45. I really like the Genius Mixes feature in iTunes. I wish there was a way to see the current contents of each playlist.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 14 Mood +3 🙂
46. …in reply to @mronge
    @mronge I would be very interested!
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 15 Mood +2 🙂
47. On the train to Bern again, this time to get our household goods declaration signed.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 15 Mood 0
48. Less than 2 weeks before the move. Strange feeling.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 15 Mood 0
49. Arriving in zurich
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 15 Mood 0
50. The movers are here
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 19 Mood 0
51. Starting the last week in Switzerland. The movers are gone, stuff is being sold, the house is getting emptier by the moment!
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 19 Mood 0
52. Packed and ready to go http://post.ly/9Dld
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 19 Mood 0
53. …in reply to @DocDamo
    @DocDamo Yes: http://bit.ly/1QE0Lu This is my last week in Switzerland
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 19 Mood +1 🙂
54. Selling our bed in ricardo.ch (Swiss ebay-like site), 4 minutes to go, competition is stiff, who will get it?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 19 Mood 0
55. …in reply to @DocDamo
    @DocDamo :-) Not much to read in my blog really, mostly some tips and other things I don't want to forget.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 19 Mood -2 🙁
56. …in reply to @DocDamo
    @DocDamo Cool, please let me know what you think of it! I still like it, although there's many things that I would approach differently now.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 19 Mood +4 🙂
57. …in reply to @ikawnoclast
    @ikawnoclast VMware Fusion works quite nicely for me.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 19 Mood 0
58. …in reply to @ikawnoclast
    @ikawnoclast Sounds fascinating - wish I could watch it from here.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 19 Mood +4 🙂
59. Downloading YouTube videos for the long flight home. It's going to be an interesting flight, with a 3- and a 1-year-old.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 19 Mood +2 🙂
60. …in reply to @DocDamo
    @DocDamo Thx - we have booked seats, and we'll try getting better ones (bulkhead) at check-in time.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 19 Mood +2 🙂
61. Walking to work http://post.ly/9Vs5
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 21 Mood 0
62. Had my farewell lunch today at work. I'm going to miss this bunch of people.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 21 Mood -2 🙁
63. …in reply to @undefined
    @Shrdlu I'm moving back to Mexico. For more of the story: http://bit.ly/1QE0Lu
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 21 Mood 0
64. Had a delightful pizza lunch with my wife and a good friend. Now, off to the office.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 22 Mood +7 🙂
65. Anyone has a Google Wave invite you may want to share with me?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 22 Mood +3 🙂
66. Had my final meeting with my manager, cleared out most of my office. A bit sad.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 22 Mood -1 🙁
67. @sergio_avila gracias prof. Ya me mandaron una.
    Permalink On twitter.com Mention 2009 Oct 22 Mood 0
68. …in reply to @latone
    @latone Moving back to Mexico - tomorrow is my last day at ZRL. I'll announce the new job once I actually start there :-)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 22 Mood 0
69. …in reply to @undefined
    @DrScofield Thanks!
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 22 Mood +2 🙂
70. …in reply to @SifuMoraga
    @SifuMoraga Thanks!
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 22 Mood +2 🙂
71. On my way to my last day at work. Mostly to finish paperwork, say goodbyes, return my Mac, and leave early to finish packing for Sunday
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 23 Mood -1 🙁
72. Today was not a good day to forget my badge at home. Happily, after a moment of anxiety, I realized I didn't :)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 23 Mood 0
73. Thanks for the good wishes @zrlram @latone @DrScofield @SifuMoraga @sergio_avila @Shrdlu @DocDamo @vkoser @bauxring #followfriday
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 23 Mood +6 🙂
74. Stepping out me the ZRL building for the last time as an employee. What a strange, strange feeling.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 23 Mood -1 🙁
75. Finally caved and got myself an iPod Touch. Should be sleeping instead of playing…
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 24 Mood 0
76. What am intense day, physically and emotionally. We are now moved out of the apt., keys turned in. Tomorrow, the actual 15-hour trip.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 24 Mood +1 🙂
77. This is it - boarding the plane to Mexico. So long Switzerland, it was good knowing you, but I'm happy to go.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Oct 25 Mood +6 🙂