Author archives: Mike
DHCP goes south on the laptop (How did that happen...)
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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...)
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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...)
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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 ...
Forgot to clock in this afternoon (Whole day's work disappears...)
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Snaking,
Vindaloo.
I did a bit of work on OpenGL-ctypes this morning, mostly just reintegrating the win32 changes so that the Linux build still works. I also killed a number of extension-module autogeneration problems. Doesn't actually make them work, but the modules are now valid Python (and correct, just useless until they get some extra code).
Then ...
Lots of OpenGL-ctypes hacking (Moving towards a reasonably operational system on Win32)
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Sat down and forced myself to work on the OpenGL-ctypes project today (instead of enjoying the weather). The Linux port is almost there (at least on amd64 and CVS ctypes). The Win32 port is now limping along with missing pieces, rather than being totally nonfunctional.
I've made the C modules for dealing with Numpy/Numarray/Numeric arrays ...
First few pages on "Play" drafted (Nowhere near as much as I should have written these past two days...)
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Design Theory.
I've begun work on the "Play" section of the thesis rewrite. Its a fairly large section, covering 8 or 9 distinct types of play that are important to designers. In two days I only managed to write up two pages of text, along with a lot of false starts and deletions.
Anyway, here's a sample ...
The Used Handkerchief
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Vindaloo.
Tossing away
The used handkerchief
Of true love
Is not a crime
Love forgives easily
Sedimentary Years
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Vindaloo.
Walled within for sedimentary years
Words true but hurtful
Cannot be undone
With wishing hope or tears
From soft-hot tragedies
They form unyielding stone
Beneath the water-breaching weirs
86% Cacao Dark Chocolate (Pretty darn good...)
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Vindaloo.
I'm pretty much over the cold/flu/whatever now. I cough every once in a while, but no other symptoms of note. As I've been working at home (I missed sitting outside at Linux Caffe yesterday :( ) I've been eating some of the chocolate Shane brought on Saturday (we started with 1kg of chocolate, we finished ...
I Ask My Feverish Bed
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I just want to wake up in the morning
Build something to last through the ages
Make love to an angel...
... and father a god
Is that too much to ask?
I ask my feverish bed
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.