Week ending Sunday 2013/03/03

Monday 00:00 · And they’re all wearing ties! RT @carlosdomingo: The GSMA is redefining the concept of Fast Track... [Original.]

Monday 10:41 · Dear Lazyweb: I need to de-tag a big bunch of XML to do some brute-force processing on the raw text. Good cmd-line tool? [Original.]

Monday 10:44 · @headius Do you think it’s a good approach? [Original, responding to @headius.]

Monday 10:46 · @danielpunkass There are vending machines in Heathrow. Before immigration, even. [Original, responding to @danielpunkass.]

Monday 10:56 · @cpswan t.co/j4prU5rO25 [Original, responding to @cpswan.]

Monday 11:00 · @danielpunkass I poked around and consensus was that “3 Network” is a decent deal. A couple of G for £20. MicroSIM no prob. [Original, responding to @danielpunkass.]

Monday 11:10 · Thanks all; xsltproc seems like the minimum-pain way to go. [Original.]

Monday 18:44 · Hair of the dog. Or is that backward? t.co/ItoDe1wznk [Original.]

Monday 21:35 · Damn good New Yorker piece on whiskies, Islay and otherwise: www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/02/11/130211fa_fact_sanneh [Original.]

Tuesday 08:20 · Lots of Google+ API news this morning: , googledevelopers.blogspot.com/ [Original.]

Tuesday 11:08 · @kevinmarks @benwerd Keep watching. [Original, responding to @kevinmarks.]

Tuesday 12:10 · Argh, want to make a word cloud, but wordle.net seems to be a java applet. Other good options? [Original.]

Tuesday 13:31 · New Mobile Rhythm; why the Android Versions dashboard is irrelevant: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2013/02/25/Google-Play-services [Original.]

Tuesday 13:47 · @JWKelso 2.2%, to be precise [Original, responding to @JWKelso.]

Tuesday 14:55 · @JWKelso Yeah, lots more Kindles & interesting Chinese products than old 2.1 things. [Original, responding to @JWKelso.]

Tuesday 23:03 · RT @brucel: Oh, you're a turnkey cloud-based solution to optimise and monetize LTE in enterprise? How interesting. How disruptive. Now ... [Original.]

Tuesday 23:33 · @alfthomas Interesting; which app? [Original, responding to @alfthomas.]

Wednesday 00:02 · Current soundtrack: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Yellow_Moon [Original.]

Wednesday 07:31 · Tenth blogbirthday! With statistics, preaching, and of course thanks: (1,555,068 words) [Original.]

Wednesday 08:21 · Audio geeks note: Human perception not modeled well by standard Fourier techniques. arstechnica.com/science/2013/02/human-hearing-beats-sounds-uncertainty-limit-makes-mp3s-sound-worse/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+(Ars+Technica+-+All+content) [Original.]

Wednesday 15:11 · Hoping to see some Japanese friends next week in Tokyo at JICS: [Original.]

Thursday 11:50 · Why the Keystone XL pipeline is worth fighting: swampland.time.com/2013/02/28/im-with-the-tree-huggers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+timeblogs%2Fswampland+(TIME%3A+Swampland) [Original.]

Thursday 13:32 · @codinghorror @ironicsans It’s too late, xml is IN YOUR TOOTHPASTE now. [Original, responding to @codinghorror.]

Thursday 14:14 · RT @DonDavies: Harper appointed Brazeau, Duffy, Wallin, Carson & Porter. He takes advice from "mentor", Tom Flanagan. Maybe he's NOT ... [Original.]

Thursday 14:48 · RT @MayorGregor: Do you support a Broadway subway line to #UBC? Respond to my fb question: www.facebook.com/questions/496792823711949/ #vanpoli #bcpoli [Original.]

Thursday 15:25 · The ranting I’m reading about how awful Glass gonna be, and the raving about its brilliance, are equally clueless. [Original.]

Thursday 19:05 · @codinghorror Kind of Blue. Live at Leeds. Trinity Session. Made in Japan. Court and Spark. Tabula Rasa. Broken English. Coltrane/Hartman. [Original, responding to @codinghorror.]

Thursday 19:05 · @codinghorror Also see [Original, responding to @codinghorror.]

Thursday 22:34 · RT @brixen: How does this only have 14 views? What is wrong with you dynamically typed language fans? https://t.co/WpcpthHgOA [Original.]

Thursday 22:35 · @fabulavancouver NPA surely? [Original, responding to @fabulavancouver.]

Friday 11:07 · @tenderlove It's all Enterprisey B2B these days, don't let them think you do (shudder) Social. Drop names of famous CIOs. [Original, responding to @tenderlove.]

Friday 11:20 · Awww, getting all misty-eyed: www.webstandards.org/2013/03/01/our-work-here-is-done/ I was a WaSP activist back in the day. We moved the needle. [Original.]

Friday 13:16 · Shoulder management: www.laurenwood.org/anyway/2013/03/shoulder-management/ [Original.]

Saturday 11:49 · Hm... Something/somebody reset my Twitter password. No other evidence of hacking though. [Original.]

Saturday 11:51 · Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it's off to Tokyo I go. [Original.]

Sunday 02:30 · Ah, the glacial inefficiency of Narita... [Original.]

Sunday 14:17 · @ChemiShalev Wow, for a happy moment I thought he was talking about Israeli isolationism. [Original, responding to @ChemiShalev.]

Sunday 18:03 · @colbycosh Well, not OK at all if you needed to kill them. [Original, responding to @colbycosh.]

Sunday 18:59 · Grmf, I just noticed that my @typekit font isn’t working on either my Galaxy Nexus or Nexus 7. I’m pretty sure it used to. [Original.]


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