Author archives: Mike
Getting out of the house is a good thing (Only takes 20 minutes or so to pay for the food...)
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Knight Errant.
Pleasant day in my corner under a plant at Linux Caffe. 7-1/4 hours here, with 6-1/4 hours billable. It's good not to have any temptation to lie down when you're tired/sore. It's also nice having half a dozen different types of drinks available and good food and pleasant conversations here and there. Still don't know ...
You pay for it the next day (Good day may equal poor week...)
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Knight Errant.
Didn't get much past 4 hours yesterday due to hand troubles. Oh well. 4.25 hours is okay, it's just not ideal. Today (if I ever get my posterior in gear) I'm planning to walk down to Linux Caffe and work from there. Mostly I figure I need the exercise.
Good utilisation rate for the day (Not big-company good, but pretty good for someone working by themselves...)
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Knight Errant.
Sacha was mentioning that a certain large corporation's consultants aim for something like 92% utilisation (I may have the number slightly wrong, but it was in that area), that is, in an 8 hour day they want 7 hours and 22 minutes of that billable.
I would think at that point you have to have ...
The Wise Councilor (55-word flash-fiction)
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Vindaloo.
Planning the rise to power the wise councilor had needed a figurehead. Better to be the power behind the throne. Kneeling, watching the King sign his death warrant, he questioned his wisdom. Did a not-quite-so-wise councilor really need a figurehead? If only he had not been quite so wise so long ago.
Garam Masala heals all frustrations (Mmm curried veggies over hot-and-sour rice...)
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I'm feeling much better now. Turns out I was famished, just dove into working this morning and didn't wind up eating anything (though I did have an iced tea). I was going to make a basil stir-fry, but the basil had gone feral (dangerous stuff that feral basil).
So I went for the classic Garam ...
Hardware makes for very frustrating days (Maybe it's the "mushy" feeling?)
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Knight Errant.
We've been stalled on a (trivial) deployment issue for the configs on the VoIP hardware since launching a week ago. Can't for love or money get the stupid things to update automatically. Spent the whole day trying to coax them into doing the update (and eventually just laying out the pathology in the hopes of ...
Quite a few updates to VRML and OpenGLContext (Including remembering to check in the code (finally)...)
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Snaking.
I got the basic routing code for the VRML97 scenegraph written... well... so long ago I don't even recall when... months anyway. However, I never actually checked it into the repository. Oops!
Today, I blew away my old vrml/* checkout and got a fresh version on my workstation... and then all the new features stopped ...
Wow, numpy really is different! (Porting doesn't go quite as well as hoped...)
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Down at Linux Caffe. First little project of the day was getting OpenGL-ctypes running on the laptop again. Turns out most of the problems seem to be with the PyGame install getting corrupted, so started working on making it possible to use numpy for OpenGLContext.
Seems the API regarding types has been altered. Particularly the ...
Chatting the night away (Tech-talk mostly)
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Vindaloo.
Simon didn't show up at the cafe, but big Simon did. We (and Shidan) chatted until the place closed, then headed back here to chat some more. Made me think about what needs to be done in IPTV and VoIP land. I am, however, going to resist the impulse to dive in and write new ...
Urgh, GST goes down July 1st, not June 1st (Have to eat the difference for that last invoice)
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Knight Errant.
Happened across a reference that says the GST reduction (from 7% to 6%) happens on July 1st. I'd thought it already happened (i.e. on June 1st), so my last invoice was off in the calculation. Annoying that I'll have to eat the 1% difference, that's only $24, but still...
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.