Author archives: Mike
Finishing off the evening with a little light reading (How to start a business in Ontario...)
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Knight Errant.
Have been spelunking through the various government websites that describe the process of setting up a corporation in Ontario. Whee! Looks like about a week or more to get the whole edifice in place with the ability to pay salary, collect taxes, track expenses and otherwise operate reasonably. Anyway, enough of that for tonight. I ...
The benefits of hindsight (How I would have designed it had I known...)
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Snaking.
I've been sitting here obsessively re-modelling the VoIP control application on paper. Various changes to the spec over the last month or so mean that, were I to start over again today I would have gone for a far more formalised and generic model.
Instead of trying to fit into an existing system (an original ...
Moving forward (Leaps off small businesses...)
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Vindaloo.
Effective the end of May I'll be resigning from VexTech, where I've worked for the last 3 years. It's an amicable exit, I just need more space in which to move.
Most likely I'll be starting my own company and trying to build that into a small contract programming business to run alongside my eventual ...
I'm Pretty Sure
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Vindaloo.
I'm pretty sure this is where I should be scared
Standing on the precipice about to leap
Yet deciding has a way of freeing the heart
Quickening the blood for the coming battles
In the long quest today I shall begin
Gazing over the lands below I stretch
Long folded wings creaking with disuse
As ...
A Woman to Desire
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Vindaloo.
There is a woman to desire
I might say to you some day
Pointing to a plain-looking girl
With mousy hair not-quite fixed
Glasses perched upon her nose
A clutch of books upon her chest
Look, I might say leaning forward
How her mind pokes at the world
Without ego to cloud its vision
See ...
Togl is a PITA (Still segfaults on init)
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Togl is still failing. I'm guessing it's something to do with the stubs code (I seem to recall someone mentioning that it was broken a number of months ago). Of course, I don't have the message around to refer to by now. I'm tempted (again) to just disable the silly thing and let someone who ...
Rote from Other Tongues
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Vindaloo.
Do men in truth seduce
Women with such words
Ripped from other's mouths
By rote from other tongues
Will someday I seduce
Some gentle-leaning lady
Love someone unawares
Whether I Still Can
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Vindaloo.
Watching a couple walk
Down Bathurst yesterday
I was struck by the years
Since last I practiced
Walking hand in arm
And idly I wondered
Whether I still can
Don't forget to reboot your Linux machines every few months (Software upgrades from weeks ago bite me...)
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Tuxedo.
Managed to get the X server into a weird state that just refused to do anything, so I rebooted my workstation. And it could neither find the hardware clock nor start the X server. Apparently I have a new x-org (likely from that security problem a while ago) and the Nvidia driver didn't seem to ...
I'd forgotten just how frustrating the SWIG-PyOpenGL build process is (So long to compile that I get distracted with other projects in the meantime...)
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I'm finally sitting down to do some maintenance for PyOpenGL-SWIG. So far I'm just working on integrating the two major patches for GLUT (the FreeGLUT include patch and the glutTimerFunc patch). I'm really missing the instantaneous change-test cycle of OpenGL-ctypes at this point.
Anyway, have the package building on Gentoo again, going to have to ...
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.