Twitter for Week of 1 June 2008
These are my lightly edited tweets for the week of 1 June 2008. Follow me at
http://twitter.com/conrad_halling.
- 2008-06-01: Bradley Headstone, the obsessed schoolmaster in Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, is one of the world’s first completely socially inept nerds.
- 2008-06-01: See Rosie Redfield’s Rrresearch blog for a great example of how profiling Perl code showed where to optimize it.
- 2008-06-02: At work, when I redock my Dell Latitude D610, it won’t recognize my new Dell E207WFP 20″ monitor, and I have to reboot. I gotta solve this.
- 2008-06-02: Get “MacOS X Security Configuration for Version 10.5 Leopard“. (Thanks to MacResearch.)
- 2008-06-03: I solved my Dell Latitude D610 vs. Dell E207WFP 20-inch monitor problem by downloading and installing latest Intel graphics video driver.
- 2008-06-03: In this week’s New Yorker, I recommend “The Running Novelist: Learning to Go the Distance”, by Haruki Murakami.
- 2008-06-04: I finished listening to “Our Mutual Friend” by Charles Dickens (40 hrs). This book, although it has its weak parts, is a great work.
- 2008-06-05: The new image of our galaxy, generated by the Spitzer Space Telescope, is now available.
- 2008-06-06: A deficiency of Twitter vs. a blog: you can’t embed URLs. When working with just 140 characters, even tiny URLs can be too long.
- 2008-06-06: My audible.com subscription provides daily news from the Wall Street Journal. Does anyone pay attention to the wrong-headed editorials?
- 2008-06-06: Mailund on the Internet writes about when scientists will want to learn how to program instead of using Excel.
- 2008-06-07: I bought a Sears Craftsman electric weed whacker for cutting my lawn. No internal combustion-created pollution, no gas cans in the cellar.
June 08 2008 05:26 pm | Microblog
