Author archives: Mike
The Pointless Begging
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
Perfect ladies must grow weary
Of the endless pointless begging
For their number or their favour
So I would try not to bother
Yet my heart demands her presence
So I join the pointless crowding
Just another in the chorus
Who would be her solace source
Caught Looking
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
I caught myself looking
And I looked away
But my eye wandered
When I wasn't looking
And was caught again
Written for their Ear
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
They say women love to hear
Poems written for their ear
Yet each line is hard wrought
Skirting stench of something sought
To try to honour the perfect rose
Without the bloom a threat to pose
The Rain
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
What about that woman
Makes me want to talk
Yet stops up my tongue
That any other day
Flows to shame the rain
Sleepy day and a quiet coffee turns in a party (How pleasant it is to see beautiful women...)
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
I was up very late last night pondering the question of how to make form-generation and processing that would be both straightforward and flexible enough to handle the vast majority of forms, both AJAX and POST.
Anyway, when I woke up this morning I realised my eyes were just too sore to work, so I ...
Coding Forms
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
Life is perhaps too short
To spend it coding forms
That anyone might code
Were they bored enough
The Mask of Cartoon Horror
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
The face of the woman
Who almost ran me down
Seemed almost a cartoon
As if she'd realised too late
That she'd run off a cliff
Was madly scrambling back
Against the flow of time
DHCP goes south on the laptop (How did that happen...)
Written by
on
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Tuxedo.
I seem to have lost the laptop's ability to connect to the DHCP server here at home. Everything else is able to get to it, but the laptop just doesn't get through. So much for getting some more work done this evening.
I'm also getting comment spammed by some jerk here on the blog. Cursed ...
Unbelievably annoying when you have to reverse work (I don't want to think about how long that was...)
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
Hit one of those "argh" moments in the VoIP project today. We import CDR files from a backend system. I read the field names and didn't see anything that looked like "destination" (in the sense of a physical location, like a city). So, we write a little subsystem that can guess location from phone number ...
A very pleasant hike down (And I got to see Dan twice...)
Written by
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Snaking.
Hiked down to Linux Caffe this morning. Time held steady from the test hike at 55 minutes or so. That's only 15-20 minutes more than taking the TTC, and bang-on equal if the bus doesn't work out right. I felt rather good, though I obviously need to get a backpack for the laptop if I'm ...
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.