Archives February 2006
Awkward to Remember
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
I so seldom touch another
Its awkward to remember
What they expect
When shaking hands
Counting Fractions
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
Part of me worked out fractions
Counting how many times I'd been hugged
Versus a count for the average day
Part of me sang quiet tunes of joy
Listen Carefully
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
If you listen carefully
You can hear the world
Screaming quietly
In your ear
Diamonds or Coal-fires
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
If I write a thousand verses
Will I find a hundred gold
Or will the writing of the thousand
Turn the whole to rotten steel
Would I rather write in diamonds
Crystals pressed from darkest smoke
Or write mountains of dark coal
And wait for pressure from below
Oh the diamonds can be clever
Melting ...
Crouching Teddy
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
He lies in wait
Lovable teddy bear
Searching for victims
To share his unfettered joy
Scanning the crowds
Gift baskets brimming
For some cute vegetarian
Whose heart is pure
Sipping his latte
Of frothy soy
Panther Kitty
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
Panther kitty I want to play
Bat words between our paws
Tease them into tangled strings
Yarns to knit new stories
Beats to play new songs
Yet the audience is there
So we must leave off our play
Others share the stage this day
Eleven Short Words
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
Kindly friend's mother
Touched by three lines
Of eleven short words
Working around Firefox 1.5's SVG target problems (Sure it's simple, but it takes hours to try all the other hacks...)
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
Cinemon, as some of you may know, uses SVG graphics as one of its core navigational mechanisms. Until today we've basically had to have users use either the Adobe SVG viewer or be annoyed by the Mozilla browsers loading the whole site into the iframe where the navigation graphic is displayed. This is because Mozilla ...
Bit of maintenance among the learning tasks... (Or, what I did for the last few days...)
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
I'm continuing to work on making StarPy a decent platform for writing Asterisk applications. In between I'm working on Cinemon administration (and a bit of code) and little bits of the VoIP project that need handling.
Wound up installing FreeBSD, the HotSpot software and Cinemon on a box for one of our partners. Ran into ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.