Author archives: Mike

Last night was fun!

First batch of fondue I added cheddar... not a good thing, turned into a sort of cheese ball that people were having to poke and prod apart with their veggies (way too hard for use with bread). Second batch was just about right, stuck to the recipe and it had what ...

I've had an idea for a very simple application for the last year or so. It just requires a microphone and reasonable speakers hooked up to a laptop. I think that the OLPC laptop is supposed to have a microphone or microphone jack. Don't know that I'll have time to work on the software, but ...

The bulk of the refactoring started yesterday is now finished. I basically just have a new bit of functionality that falls out as an "of course you'll want that" now that the rest is working. Something about the CRT screen is really bothering my eyes (it's a very good screen, but it's now also very ...

At the Asterisk meeting this evening spent most of the time chatting with Mike Dancy and then Ron Kawchuk. Mike mentioned that there's a small cable company up North that might be interested in one of the projects. Apparently Mike was the provider of the RT31P2 ATA units we're working with.

Ron suggested a number ...

I spent much of the day refactoring rather messy modules that were making it difficult to move forward cleanly (put another way, I ran into a "can't get there from here" this morning because of this). We had three different conceptual objects all using the same class; an order for the object, the inventory object ...

I look into dark-happy eyes
In their nest of laughing lines
Trying to see the hidden mind
Beyond some wet computer
Behind the gentle face
There's something deeper still within
That sparks soft dreams and hopes
Their fires dance hot and bright
Make me want to talk the night

Met (again, but this time we talked) Sacha (a.k.a. Sandra) down at Linux Caffe. We have a considerable number of common friends and she's delightful to talk to. She's constantly active, I don't believe I saw her sit still for even a second. Invited her to the party on Saturday so she can meet the ...

Blog has been down for a day or so. Zope seemed to be very unhappy. Anyway, went to DemoCamp yesterday. 4 demos, FeedCache (RSS caching/querying API from Tucows), BlogScope (keyword frequency analysis for textual data-flows such as blogs), a GenCon social networking app for planning your conference experience, and the BumpTop 2.5D physical-simulation desktop. Nothing ...

I normally walk into Linux Caffe in the morning. It's a pleasant one hour walk down through the little neighbourhoods. This morning, however, as I headed out there were helicopters and planes swarming the place. I kept getting flashes of "distopianism" and feeling the urge to scurry from doorway to doorway to avoid the all-seeing ...

We had about 6 hours between the ceremony and the reception yesterday, so we headed over to Shane and Simon's friend Mia's place. Spent the afternoon discussing politics, social justice and the like with Mia's whole family. The kind of conversation that rekindles the fires in your heart.

I'm just uploading the pictures now. A ...