Week ending Sunday 2008/07/20

Monday 9:40 · Camera pr0n: members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/08_07/08_07_penca/01.htm [Original.]

Monday 10:25 · @estherschindler Perhaps because of the ugly industry hangover from the failure of the SOAP/WSDL stack, & no expensive REST tools to pitch? [Original, responding to @estherschindler.]

Monday 16:05 · Donate to help Andrii Nikitin's little boy Ivan: www.mysql.com/about/help-ivan.html [Original.]

Monday 16:44 · @snoopdave Atompub isn't *that* easy... [Original, responding to @snoopdave.]

Monday 21:30 · My Internet voice has been quite silent of late. Nothing bad seems to have happened as a result. Hmmmmmm... [Original.]

Monday 22:12 · I always thought the #1 must-have in an entrepreneur was talent-spotting & recruiting. Hard for an introvert. [Original.]

Monday 22:15 · Hey, pleasant Web-typography surprise: the blog title at www.gracelessfailures.com/ - that's text, not a graphic. [Original.]

Thursday 12:52 · Dear internet I'm back kthxbye [Original.]

Thursday 22:31 · Ephemeral aggregators: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/07/17/News-Gentrification - follow the link to Rabble's piece. [Original.]

Friday 7:02 · Next time you're in Philly, check out the Comcast lobby. Trust me on this. [Original.]

Friday 10:03 · Getting eternal-beachball when trying to wake my MacBook recently, maybe one time out of 3. Anyone else or just me? [Original.]

Friday 10:04 · @quasi42 Death penalty called for, I'd say. [Original, responding to @quasi42.]

Friday 11:25 · Trying to get NetBeans to talk to RubyForge & use a password. *Somebody* must have done this before [Original.]

Friday 14:24 · @dewitt I recommend the Sigma 30mm f1.4. A bit hard to find though. [Original, responding to @dewitt.]

Friday 14:30 · @dewitt www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/03/29/Earth-Hour [Original, responding to @dewitt.]

Friday 14:42 · Revisiting the Intel 432: blogs.sun.com/bmc/entry/revisiting_the_intel_432 [Original.]

Friday 15:01 · Mobility Blues: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/07/18/Mobile-Net-Gloom [Original.]

Friday 16:33 · Pity last.fm can't scrobble Internet Radio [Original.]

Friday 17:19 · Radio Delíro is playing Lee Marvin's "I was born under a Wanderin Star". If you've never heard of such thing, that's OK. [Original.]

Friday 17:45 · another day, another STUPID REXML BUG. Time for pizza & rosé [Original.]

Friday 17:46 · @sogrady Tom Bihn [Original, responding to @sogrady.]

Friday 22:24 · My first-ever RubyForge check-in. I understand people have "fun" on Friday nights. [Original.]

Friday 22:44 · SAP: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb: gotlegacy.net/2008/07/18/sap-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb/ [Original.]

Sunday 8:49 · Watching the golf... 53-year-olds ftw. [Original.]

Sunday 14:27 · Toddler napping; refactoring the Ape while eating a bowl of cherries. Sprinkler hissing gently outside. Thinking about coffee. Ahhhhhhhh [Original.]

Sunday 23:10 · Doing a (gasp) marketing session @OSCON. Product announcements etc. Ripped the slides out of mkting's hands to introduce spice & cynicism. [Original.]

Sunday 23:12 · That mkting thing is separate from my actual keynote which will be entirely geekstuff; see how many language religiosos I can anger at once. [Original.]

Sunday 23:21 · I have refactored the Ape sufficiently that dozens of unit tests now blow chunks. Think I'll celebrate by going to bed. [Original.]


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