Archives April 2006

Lots of OpenGL-ctypes hacking (Moving towards a reasonably operational system on Win32)
Written by Mike on April 16, 2006 in Snaking.

Sat down and forced myself to work on the OpenGL-ctypes project today (instead of enjoying the weather). The Linux port is almost there (at least on amd64 and CVS ctypes). The Win32 port is now limping along with missing pieces, rather than being totally nonfunctional.

I've made the C modules for dealing with Numpy/Numarray/Numeric arrays ...

First few pages on "Play" drafted (Nowhere near as much as I should have written these past two days...)
Written by Mike on April 15, 2006 in Design Theory.

I've begun work on the "Play" section of the thesis rewrite. Its a fairly large section, covering 8 or 9 distinct types of play that are important to designers. In two days I only managed to write up two pages of text, along with a lot of false starts and deletions.

Anyway, here's a sample ...

The Used Handkerchief
Written by Mike on April 14, 2006 in Vindaloo.

Tossing away
The used handkerchief
Of true love
Is not a crime
Love forgives easily

Sedimentary Years
Written by Mike on April 13, 2006 in Vindaloo.

Walled within for sedimentary years
Words true but hurtful
Cannot be undone
With wishing hope or tears
From soft-hot tragedies
They form unyielding stone
Beneath the water-breaching weirs

86% Cacao Dark Chocolate (Pretty darn good...)
Written by Mike on April 12, 2006 in Vindaloo.

I'm pretty much over the cold/flu/whatever now. I cough every once in a while, but no other symptoms of note. As I've been working at home (I missed sitting outside at Linux Caffe yesterday :( ) I've been eating some of the chocolate Shane brought on Saturday (we started with 1kg of chocolate, we finished ...

I Ask My Feverish Bed
Written by Mike on April 11, 2006 in Vindaloo.

I just want to wake up in the morning
Build something to last through the ages
Make love to an angel...
... and father a god
Is that too much to ask?
I ask my feverish bed

Should have just stayed in bed today (Better for my health...)
Written by Mike on April 11, 2006 in Snaking.

I've had a persistent problem with a truly trivial little SOAPpy server silently failing with no exceptions, no messages, nothing. So, needing to get this critical feature working ASAP, I created a bog-simple watching script that checked for that SOAPpy server and restarted it when necessary, on the theory that whatever was killing the SOAPpy ...

How Often we Crawl
Written by Mike on April 9, 2006 in Vindaloo.

How often we crawl
Into cold-hewn graves
Or slightly warmer yet
No less lonely beds
With great thoughts unsaid
And great deeds undone

Employees are cool! (My half-day in billables...)
Written by Mike on April 7, 2006 in Snaking.

Spent the first half of the day on technically billable, but effectively unbillable material (because it bills against future sales of a client corporation). After that switched to real billables. Luckily, I have a new employee who spent the whole day on billables... just makes me feel better to know that someone's making money.

I ...

Above My Sleeping City
Written by Mike on April 6, 2006 in Vindaloo.

Clouds hang red
Above my sleeping city
Black over water

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