Twitter Posts for 2008-01-31

this is kinda like Dummy’s Guide to Lost. I guess it’s a good refresher for new fans of the show. #
"our triangle just became a quadrangle." …hah! Classic. #
working from home this afternoon…sweet. I love being able to work in a hoodie. #
@leahjones I agree. It seemed a little sluggish when it came back up last night, and it seems to be continuing this morning. #
@Matthom My prediction for Sunday: Manning to Toomer, back of the endzone as time runs out, Giants win by 4. #
I remember why I stopped using MT as my CMS. The admin interface is still a nightmare (better than it used to be, but it’s still poor). #
@steverubel The first gen of any Apple product will have all kinds of horrible issues….as I am sure you are aware. #
@steverubel very cool indeed, thanks for the link. #
http://snurl.com/1yo76 "Internet failure hits two continents" …wow, that sucks. Hopefully they get up and running again soon. #
By the way, today is National Lost Season 4 Premier Day (NLS4PD)…at least I acknowledge my addiction. #
Do any of my "Twitter peeps" also use Jaiku? Pownce? …manually searching is kind of a pain to do. #
listening to a little Billie, sipping my coffee, getting ready for my conference call. #
@leahjones I was definitely not ready for that… and it totally freaked out my dog 😛 #
Didn’t realize the Democratic debate was tonight at 8PM, that sucks that it conflicts with Lost…pretty sure I know which will win. Tivo’d #
@Mobasoft That is not necessarily a good thing. Personally I like the back button, and the ability to actually bookmark subpages. #
@Mobasoft True, but what about accessibility? I bet a screen reader freaks out. #
@Mobasoft My only point is that by coding with graceful degradation they don’t have to be left out. #
@Mobasoft a very valid point. Accessibility is a goal to strive for, but not necessarily a reality. #

Twitter Posts for 2008-01-30

trying to find some motivation, but failing miserably so far. #
wow, ok. Time to actually doing what I need to do. geez, I procrastinate like a mofo #
@tmarkiewicz wow, I have trouble keeping up with 44 …that is very impressive. #
Have you seen my motivation lately? Yeah, me neither. #
I just had a reported sighting of said motivation "hitch-hiking to Atlantic City". That explains it… #
Watching the new episode of House. Pretty good so far. #
sustained winds of 40 mph tomorrow, gusts up to 65… Boy that sounds pleasant. #
watching a new episode of Dirty Jobs…love this show. #
The roads are pretty nasty today. The temp has dropped almost 20 degrees in the past hour so everything just flash froze. #
oh right, forgot I had class this afternoon with the prof who’s class I skipped this morning…doh. #
tonight is the Lost season 3 finale recap (to refresh your memory), and then tomorrow is Lost day! (season 4 begins) #
Score! Class was canceled. Heaven forbid our prof send us an email informing us of this decision… #
Firefox 3’s inline extension search is pretty nice. Looking forward to this release. #
playing around with Microsoft’s FeedSync http://feedsync.mslivelabs.com …pretty cool stuff. #
Apparently I have rekindled my burning hatred of math. #
setting up my RSS feed for Lost season 4 downloads *cough* –> http://snurl.com/1ymg1 (this will update when some share an episode) #
http://snurl.com/1ymgw "10 Best Films of Sundance 2008" To see: Be Kind Rewind, The Wackness, and Assassination of a High School President #
Well that is odd, Dell.com dropped the 80GB Zune…it was there 2 weeks ago. #
http://snurl.com/1ymiu "Why can’t I own Canadians?"…highly amusing. #
Would you think less of me if I told you I was having a Bordeaux with my shrimp scampi? #
@chrisbrogan I still prefer RTM because I needed an online component that Things lacked. #

Twitter Posts for 2008-01-29

http://snurl.com/1ygzw Firefox 3 native UI screenshots for WinXP and OSX. No Vista just yet… #
Wow, where did this day go? …time for dinner I suppose. #
gee, who else has absolutely no intention of listening to Bush lie to us yet again during the state of the union speech? Sorry, tired of BS. #
Finally had a chance to watch "Thank You for Smoking". It was definitely quite amusing. #
Thank god we don’t have to listen to that idiot lie through another state of the union. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out #
http://snurl.com/1yhcl upgrade your jailbroken ipod touch over the air…no computer required. #
http://snurl.com/1yhdu Nissan GT-R … um, yes please? #
Headed off to class. it’s a grey rainy day, but I am certainly not complaining. #
gotta love running into the prof of the class you were "sick" for yesterday *cough* *cough*…still sick 😛 #
Nothing quite like writing documentation that a 4 year old could follow, except that it’s actually for senior VPs. #
each time you actually use the documentation you write you’ll usually find something to add/tweak/improve. #
@steelopus I am from Rochester as well. Hi neighbor! #
definitely ready to go home…another 1.5 hours. ugh #
Random thought: I’d buy a Mac if Apple didn’t get any of the profits. #
The Mets got Santana…wow, didn’t quite see that one. #
@legirl profs usually understand the need for "mental sick days", or in your case — other commitments. It’s bound to happen. #
My number is 44. How many feeds do you follow? #

Twitter Posts for 2008-01-28

@Matthom I agree. I am ready for baseball to start again…once the Superbowl is over I’ll be quite bored. #
Thinking about watching The Bourne Ultimatum. I (obviously) haven’t been in much of a rush to see it yet. We’ll see. #
@Matthom I’d love to see my Giants win (retribution), but I’ll be happy as long as it’s a close game. Hopefully we get good commercials too. #
wiping my Treo…yet again. Hopefully it feels like working this time. #
I am testing a wireless mouse for some company (NDA), they didn’t think to send us a battery charger. Um, stupid? No more testing for me. #
Watching the X Games super pike finals. Borne Ultimatum was alright…*shrugs* #
http://snurl.com/1yeen Obama was receiving more than $500,000/hr in donations following the SC victory. That’s incredible. #
a little coffee, a little dog maintenance, and then class for the rest of the day #
Kinda having a hard time finding motivation today. Wish I could just go back to bed. #
oh my god…this girl has said "like whatever" at least 10 times in the past 2 minutes. Can I smack her? Please? #
thinking about turning in my homework early, and then skipping my next class… #
I should be able to detect "taken" or "reserved" as well as "she’s female" with my girl radar. #
Well, and the "taken, but you can persuade me" category. That’s an important one too. #
http://snurl.com/1yg1n game called "Filler" …great way to waste time. #
@ijustine upstate NY – 33 and partly cloudy. At least it’s not snowing so I can’t complain 🙂 #
Oh right, I needed to go to the bank today …totally forgot about that. Headed off now. #
damn, bank was closed. oh well #
18 84 58 A6 D1 50 34 DF E3 86 F2 3B 61 D4 37 74 …it’s the iPhone/Touch SDK key to sign official apps More info: http://snurl.com/1yglq #
Anyone heard of GMX.com before? …looks pretty nice #
@sourjayne I can take a guess at which of those roles was the most satisfying 😛 #

Twitter Posts for 2008-01-27

Wow…Obama did very well in South Carolina! 🙂 #
@jgarber I played with it about 6 months ago, and I had the exact same feeling. #
Wow…Obama’s speech was incredible! #
For the first time in nearly a decade I feel hopeful about this country. I feel like my opinion actually means something. #
glad to see Talib Kweli is getting some air time at this year’s Winter X Games…he deserves the exposure. #
all kinds of homework to do today #
I was thinking about getting an Obama bumper sticker, but then I remembered that I laugh at people with bumper stickers. #
lunch, and then more homework. #
Ted Kennedy will endorse Obama "this week" …wow, that is great news. #
I wish it was easier to find the name of a song in a commercial. Looking for a song from one of the Zune commercials. #
I think it’s the commercial where the guy falls through the screen into the little cubes #
http://snurl.com/1ydcb Found the commercial, and song — The Shins "Sleeping Lessons" #
http://snurl.com/1ydee "A President Like My Father" by Caroline Kennedy — Why Barack Obama needs to be our next president. #
checking items off my to do list always feels quite satisfying…regardless of how small the task actually was. #
gonna be a close finish for the Celters vs Orlando game… #
http://www.box.net/p/xxdesmus my Box.net public folder…feel free to peruse. #
it’s been quite the productive day. Time for some relaxing, dinner eventually, and some trashy television. #

Twitter Posts for 2008-01-26

http://30boxes.com/iphone.php Wow! That is how a mobile calendar should look. Looks great guys! #
I am the top result for "how to get media player ten without validation" …should I feel special? #
http://snurl.com/1y9f2 What is blacker than black? New material that absorbs 99.9% of all visible light…crazy. #
http://snurl.com/1y9t2 Apple, Nokia, RIM, Sprint, AT&T, HP, Motorola, Helio, HTC, Sony Ericsson, UTStarcomm, and Samsung… being sued. #
@Matthom grab the update 🙂 Firefox just alerted me. #
@Matthom It’s funny how we get so used to something that isn’t supposed to technically be there. They really need to add a native task list. #
@Matthom I like the RTM extension, but I can’t stand the RTM website. It’s so horribly designed – so clumsy and difficult to navigate. #
coffee, and all kinds of reading this morning. Need to drop my parents off at the airport later. #
I sure have a lot of Cat Power considering I haven’t really listened to her all that much…maybe I should do that. #
I wish I could de-dog-hair my entire room. I can’t seem to keep up with my dog’s shedding. #
just watched Sweeney Todd … not bad, and certainly was dark. #

Twitter Posts for 2008-01-25

http://snurl.com/1y6rh Microsoft posts $16.37 Billion Revenue in Q2 …wow…um…not too bad huh? #
@Aubs did you try Kayak.com? #
http://snurl.com/1y6xw Is this really Windows 7 M1? who knows… looks pretty legit to me though. #
finally going to watch No Country For Old Men. I’ve heard a lot of positive feedback so far..we shall see. #
No Country For Old Men is really quite boring…definitely not keeping my attention. going to bed. #
headed off to class (coffee is required first), hopefully it won’t be as long as expected, but we’ll see #
Things I hate: Awkwardly sized steps. Too small for 1 at a time, too large for 2 at a time. Drives me crazy! #
I think Gmail broke the Remember the Milk extension…anyone else notice that? #
Thank god for Facebook, and no — I’ll probably never utter that phrase again. #

Interesting Links 1.25.08

PDF Hammer – PDF Hammer is a website that allows you to edit your PDF files online for free.
Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8 – When a new version of that browser comes along and fixes bugs or misinterpretations of the spec (or introduces new ones) or in any way changes behavior, sites break and our clients, bosses, and users get very unhappy.
From Switches to Targets: A Standardista’s Journey -This actually makes browser vendors more susceptible to pressure to fix their bugs, and less fearful of doing so. Thatâ€™s huge, as fundamentally game changing as was DOCTYPE switching, but on an ongoing basis.
Better Email Links: Featuring CSS Attribute Selectors – We can use this similarity between links to our advantage, so that we can apply CSS styling to only email links.
Understanding CSS Colour modes – CSS 2 and 3 offer a number of different ways to pick colours. While everyone knows the hexadecimal notation, fewer people know the RGB notation and colour keywords, and the new colour modes that CSS3 introduces are still a riddle to most.
Draft of HTML 5 Hints at a Brave New Web – HTML 5 presents a major change from HTML 4, and it will still be a long time before youâ€™re likely to see HTML 5 markup in your browser.
HTML 5 – W3C Working Draft 22 January 2008. This is the draft straight from the W3C. Not the easiest thing to read/understand, but certainly a great resource (obviously).
HTML 5 differences from HTML 4 – HTML 5 defines the fifth major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web, HTML. This article describes the differences between HTML 4 and HTML 5 and provides some of the rationale for the changes.
HTML5 Shiv – Assuming that it’ll be a while before most browsers attempt to implement most of HTML 5 we need to start thinking of ways to tackle the creation and rendering of HTML 5 components in the meantime.

Perhaps you figured out the pattern for these links (except for the PDF hammer link)? The HTML 5 draft was finally released on the 22nd of January. The web has been a twitter with this and the fact that Microsoft has said that Internet Explorer 8 will include a “super standards” mode. The key is that this standards mode will require a particular META tag to enable this type of rendering. This has also sent the web into a frenzy because people are claiming that this will destroy progressive enhancement. The truth of the matter, as Eric Meyer points out, is that this will not be a detrimental change. The key moving forward will be that your websites will theoretically continue to work exactly how you coded them for the foreseeable future. In theory, even if we’re all using IE10 your website that was designed for IE6 will still render just fine. The other point that Eric makes is that browser vendors will be able to implement new web standards much more quickly now that they’d no longer need to fear breaking millions of websites. Essentially current websites would remain untouched by new changes to IE’s rendering engine. Unless the developer specifically codes the website to use the new render engine, which we can assume means that the developer has tested the page for issues, it would default to the legacy rendering engine that has proven to work. This is really a good thing for web designers, web standards supporters, and browser vendors.

Twitter Posts for 2008-01-24

http://snurl.com/1y3tc ABC News calls out Hillary on her lying about Barack Obama. I have lost any respect I had for her. #
listening to Billie, working may way through Freud #
have you see that brilliant idea I just had? it just ran away…damn it. #
hell hath no fury like angry nerds…reading more stuff from angry iPod Touch owners (I got over it) #
Adobe CS 3 (Master Suite) runs like a champ even inside a virtual machine…consider me impressed. #
they predicted 6" of snow over night, we didn’t even get 1" …I love our weather people #
coffee – check, shower – check, time for an exciting class and then off to work #
Talib Kweli – Never Been in Love …one of my favorite songs ever. #
my arms are all kinds of sore today…I wonder if I look as uncomfortable as I feel. #
12 hours later than expected – we’re getting the snow they predicted. way to predict weather people…good job. #
the girl standing next to me is wearing the most remarkably unflattering business suit. #
You realize the Superbowl is basically Red Sox (NE) vs. Yankees (NY)? …I hate the Yankees, but I want the Giants. #
Why does soreness get so much worse later in the day? #
contrary to my boss’s opinion, "wiki wiki wiki" is not always the solution to a problem. #
reading about HTML5 for the next hour…I think it’s a good way to spend 1 hour of work. #
IE7 made relatively small steps in the right direction (in terms of web/CSS standards), and they still broke almost 13 million websites. #
Some people will naively try to argue that Microsoft should just switch over to almost complete standards support. That’s just ridiculous. #
Microsoft has the unfortunate task of trying to innovate (with IE8 and ahead), while not breaking the majority of the web. No easy task. #
exhausted, hungry, and glad to be home. #

Twitter Posts for 2008-01-23

catching up on my feeds instead of starting homework…gotta love my priorities. #
so, uh, why did my Treo just decide to stop syncing with my computer… #
my Treo hates me. it’s official. #
is Google Calendar VERY slow for anyone else right now? I can’t even load my week calendar before it times out. #
anyone know how to wipe all the calendar events off a Win Mobile 5 device? I don’t want to format it just yet, just delete all the events. #
It’s a bad sign when you have so many events on most days that they don’t fit correctly if you look at the "month view". #
nothing like a little Bob Marley to get going in the mornin…rocking out to No Woman, No Cry (oops, typo) #
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ … HTML 5 draft! My inner nerd is so excited right now. #
reading some of the HTML 5 draft before my class. Yes, I am that excited about this. #
Coffee is definitely needed before the next 2 classes. At least I don’t have all that homework due tomorrow. #
"but you know what they say….slow motion better than no motion" mmhmm.. #
off to the gym to get buff (no, not really) #
Glad to know my girl-radar still works 🙂 #
7 days, 2.5 hours, until Lost season 4 …not that I am counting. #
Tonight’s wonderfully captivating homework assignment: read more Freud. ugh. #
buying some tunes on Amazon (it’s cheaper, and I refuse to support Apple). #
@legirl I am definitely not a fan of Freud, but maybe you will like him. #
they are estimating 6 inches of snow tonight…(which means we may get 1 inch at most) #