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  1. Could you possibly make XML schemas a bit more arcane and complicated next time? Not possible, ya I thought so.. 4:47 AM Apr 5th via web
  2. @cgiffard must have been designed by a standards comittee 9:08 AM Apr 4th via web in reply to cgiffard
  3. @cgiffard @jasongorman They'd mostly be lapsed anyway. Does make you think how he might have fared if he wasn't hounded into suicide though. 2:08 PM Mar 20th via web in reply to cgiffard
  4. @jasongorman @cgiffard his patents were assigned to the imperial trust, (NPL) and would be official secrets. Can you be sure he didn't? 12:36 PM Mar 20th via web in reply to jasongorman
  5. It just might be that today was one of those pivotal days. Ask me in 2 years why. 6:29 PM Feb 27th via web
  6. @kirankaja12 not this year no. other distractions... 6:12 PM Feb 25th via web in reply to kirankaja12
  7. So, all that worry over finding a seat adaptor for this laptop and then BA bumps me to biz where I don't need it. #result 6:01 AM Feb 25th via web
  8. @kirankaja12 Hmm, I think we all know how great standards are at fixing stuff. 9:15 AM Feb 24th via web in reply to kirankaja12
  9. I have 5 bazillion cables to get power from a to b, yet not one that fits this stupid computer. 9:08 AM Feb 24th via web
  10. @cgiffard For what its worth, I was having a bad day. 4am, Twitter, and sick puppies = not a good combination. Back to yr regular programme. 10:45 AM Feb 10th via web
  11. @cgiffard apologies. the hominem i was (side) referring to is not you. I respect your openness and willingness to experiment. 7:00 AM Feb 10th via web in reply to cgiffard
  12. @cgiffard Was a per file cost of 184bytes & 2bytes/cue worth 2.5 years of delay and anguish? Oh and you aren't even done yet. #trueGenius 7:12 PM Feb 9th via web in reply to cgiffard
  13. @cgiffard If terseness were a goal I can write the file in TTML as 1465 characters vs 1253 for VTT, ie 17% and a per-cue cost of 2 ch. 7:07 PM Feb 9th via web in reply to cgiffard
  14. @cgiffard it would be instructive for me to see how VTT handles repeat styles, blank lines in cue text, language indication, & word wrap. 2:54 PM Feb 9th via web in reply to cgiffard
  15. @cgiffard In pursuit of objectivity and passion. I'd like to see an actually equivalent VTT file to compare. #preparedToBeConvinced 2:35 PM Feb 9th via web in reply to cgiffard
  16. @cgiffard But I'm free to interpret as a dislike for what I'M going tho, right... ;) 1:49 PM Feb 9th via web in reply to cgiffard
  17. @cgiffard that verbosity buy's ya: xml = domParser.parseFromString(data, "application/xml"); #noneSoBlind 12:13 PM Feb 9th via web in reply to cgiffard
  18. Snow in the South of France. Chaos ensues.... 2:15 AM Jan 31st via web
  19. Met Mickey Jones' son, got to play his 61 SG. How cool is that. Bananas! 10:05 AM Nov 30th, 2011 via Microsoft
  20. In bris again for dweezil 2:55 AM Nov 28th, 2011 via Microsoft
  • Name Sean Hayes
  • Bio Microsoft media accessibility advocate, coder and general nuisance.
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