Author archives: Mike

Wednesday I was off on work-related stuff from 8am until almost 1am Thursday. Wound up working on creating a Cinemon screencast until 4:30am before I remembered I needed to be at work for 10am. After a long day on Thursday I just wound up crashing when I got home and waking up late for work ...

Spent most of the day on a Cinemon support on-site call. The installation was only half-finished, and they didn't have anyone who understood routing or network architectures sufficiently to sort out the unfinished setup. They'd spent weeks trying to fix it (not solid weeks, just weeks of back and forth) with the network guy who ...

I see so much beauty
Or does my heart see more
Or does it see more than is there

The editor in the cafe
Sticks in my mind
Playing with words
To make a story
About an editor in a cafe

There are within four feet
Four women I do not know
Will most like never know
But would not mind knowing

I sit on the bus
Rare for me
Typing out poems
In my corner
Where none can see

The baker's van
Beset with pigeons
Who mark it's passage

Fixed some regressions for working with ctypes 0.9.9.3 (I mistakenly changed code so that it would work with CVS head without providing a backward compatibility layer). Added some code to OpenGLContext to deal with slight API differences between PyOpenGL and OpenGL-ctypes (mostly different data-types). Tested a few GLE functions on Linux, seem to work fine. ...

Just got back from Coffee with Shidan. Nice to just sit about and chat. I missing sitting and chatting with people. Anyway, I was planning on getting some OpenGL-ctypes hacking done this evening. I suppose I should do that now if it's going to get done at all.

There is a moment
When you discover
Someone you thought a friend
Is faking it
From politeness or social inertia
Or something else
While despising you
Where your world's river
Shifts and rearranges
Breaking a new bed
Sweeping dried leaves ahead
Wetting parched neglected land
So that in some distant day
The water can run ...