These are my annotated tweets for the week of 14 September 2008. Follow my microblog on Twitter at http://twitter.com/conrad_halling, then come here for the expanded version.
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
2008-09-14: I’m reading Brideshead Revisited before I watch the PBS miniseries. Next is Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table, recommended by my wife.
The reviews I read for the new movie of Brideshead Revisited recommended that we watch the PBS miniseries instead. Somehow, I never saw it when it first came out, so I recently bought the series on DVD.
iTunes Genius
2008-09-14: The iTunes 8 Genius feature is going to cost me a lot of money. It keeps finding good songs I’m surprised I don’t already own.
I’m sure that’s the idea.
Slashdot Notices Stack Overflow
2008-09-16: slashdot.org finally noticed stackoverflow.com today, but the original poster didn’t even have the courtesy to get the story correct.
Two-Finger Scrolling
2008-09-18: I’m a Mac, not a PC. I keep trying to scroll my Windows PC with two fingers on the touch pad, but it never works.
And it never will….
Richard Owczarzy
2008-09-18: I spent the day reading papers about how to calculate the Tm of DNA oligos. Richard Owczarzy et al. at IDT do really nice science.
Twitter Has Changed
2008-09-18: Twitter just changed its format. I thought it was bugs until I saw the box that says, “Notice something different? Read about the changes.”
EMBOSS Site Is Hosed
2008-09-19: What’s going on with EMBOSS at sourceforge.net? The site is serving text/x-server-parsed-html files; Firefox chokes on these.
60-Hour Weeks
2008-09-19: So two weeks ago, my manager said he didn’t want me working 60-hour weeks. Since then, it has been, yes, 60-hour weeks.
I’m trying to finish a big project.
Steal This Idea
2008-09-20: GUI windows need a button that maximizes the height of the window without maximizing the width of the window, to enhance readability.
Sometimes I want taller but not wider windows.
Gloria
2008-09-20: I’m listening to 14 different versions of Gloria. Best is by Popa Chubby, but other covers are excellent, too.
I went on a binge and bought these a few months ago on iTunes. But somehow I don’t have the original by Van Morrison.
