Week ending Sunday 2008/02/24

Monday 0:03 · Ouf. Linux Foundation getting pissy: www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/amanda/2008/02/17/hey-jonathan-the-l-in-lamp-is-literal/ [Original.]

Monday 0:58 · Blogging, it's feast or famine. Suddenly I've like 10 big fun interesting posts begging to be written, after a dry couple weeks. 2/day max! [Original.]

Monday 1:08 · Just did WB adjust in Lightroom by clicking on the fur of a white rat. [Original.]

Monday 10:32 · Slashdotted... [Original.]

Monday 11:10 · Jeepers, OS X goes completely brain-dead if you try to access a CD with data errors. [Original.]

Monday 11:48 · Hm... 5K referrals in 3 hours from slashdot. A pale shadow of its former self. [Original.]

Monday 11:51 · Used to be 20K in the first hour. Mind you, XML is a boring subject :) [Original.]

Monday 16:13 · In my other office: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/04/24/My-Other-Office [Original.]

Monday 23:32 · Staying in Newark/Fremont tonight. I kinda like the East Bay. [Original.]

Tuesday 6:49 · Settling into 7-hour ISO OOXML BRM prep conference call [Original.]

Tuesday 7:50 · @stevebaker: It's remarkable... they never seem to come back and say "Could we have 400 *more* words?" [Original, responding to @stevebaker.]

Tuesday 8:09 · @pkedrosky: There are, but it doesn't matter. 95% of everything is crap anyhow and we seem to do OK at bringing the good stuff to view. [Original, responding to @pkedrosky.]

Tuesday 9:52 · @chuq - come over to the *dark* side. I mean Lightroom of course. [Original, responding to @chuq.]

Tuesday 9:54 · Eek! My strudel attacked me. [Original.]

Tuesday 10:02 · "what you choose as a double life hangs upon the very fingernails of the befallen wastrels that pad across the..." blog.globalful.com/blog/_archives/2008/2/19/3533064.html [Original.]

Tuesday 10:02 · @annez - you need a lightweight folding chair. Trust me on this. [Original, responding to @annez.]

Tuesday 10:05 · @duncan: One question: As fast as Lightroom? [Original, responding to @duncan.]

Tuesday 11:24 · Just discovered that a person with whom I have been emailing for some months is not the gender I had htought. A unique mental jolt. [Original.]

Tuesday 14:09 · I'm strapped into a sealed vehicle hurtling at higher and higher speed toward the apocalyptic OOXML meeting in Geneva next week. [Original.]

Tuesday 14:13 · I promised not to blog while still inside the process. Sigh. [Original.]

Tuesday 23:17 · You know, if Obama wins, it's a major gift to the world's political cartoonists. Those ears... [Original.]

Wednesday 13:56 · gmail AWOL for anyone else, or just me? [Original.]

Wednesday 15:56 · @lmorchard: and the cake is a lie, too [Original, responding to @lmorchard.]

Wednesday 16:15 · @duncan: who makes this thing? [Original, responding to @duncan.]

Thursday 8:28 · Anyone liveblogging whatever it is Msft is announcing? Or tweeting? [Original.]

Thursday 8:39 · Msft announcement www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/21/microsoft_goes_open/ [Original.]

Thursday 8:45 · ... and will "license all of these patents on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, at low royalty rates." Hmmm [Original.]

Thursday 9:13 · The devil is *totally* in the details. And the distinction between commercial & non-commercial is interesting. [Original.]

Thursday 15:50 · ezmobius Does it discuss the Merb alternative? [Original.]

Thursday 21:24 · I have Iggy Pop and you guys are toast. [Original.]

Thursday 21:27 · Q: Does anyone *use* Ohloh or is it just a pretty toy? [Original.]

Friday 13:13 · Northern Voice/Moose Camp - what a *nice* little conference [Original.]

Friday 14:35 · If you're in the NorthWest, you ought to consider coming to Northern Voice: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/02/22/Photo-Camp [Original.]

Saturday 13:46 · Waiting for the plane to Geneva for the OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting. My God have mercy on my soul. [Original.]

Sunday 5:31 · Brilliant sunshine and warmth in Geneva! Gotta get out into it... [Original.]

Sunday 6:26 · Looking for a dinner date in Geneva [Original.]

Sunday 10:41 · Foreign butler cafe in Shibuya. www.japanprobe.com/?p=3888 Turnabout is fair play, I guess. [Original.]

Sunday 22:35 · Hi, Ho, it's off to the BRM we go [Original.]


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