Author archives: Mike

I belive that you only capitalise these things when you are using them as a title, that is "Uncle Jack said something", but "my uncle, Jack, said something".

However, what about when it's used as an adjective? That is "my uncle Jack said" which reads very differently than "my Uncle Jack said". The first has ...

Rosey dropped in yesterday to feed all of my addictions (coffee, pudding, iced tea mix and puppies) and be fed some leftover curry. Turns out she hasn't started the new job yet, it's something like a week and a couple of days away still. She's working weekends with a friend's mother to help set up ...

Well, that was markedly less frustrating. Got the next few boxes on the map worked out, though I haven't figured out an elegant (and efficient) way to make the hierarchy update. I'm actually considering using a single query for each node in the hierarchy so that the group-watcher will reload its own children every X ...

So, for the past 8 hours I've been debugging an error that just makes no sense. I commit changes to a record to the database (using the background thread, as required by twisted), and the record isn't committed a few seconds later. Ages spent assuring that the commit actually occurs, that a refresh is done ...

• I'm told someone reads this blog!
• Also, got a commitment from Shiva and Lisa to go hiking with the Bruce Trail club (and me) sometime in July.
• Made a nice curry, though it was far milder than I'd intended.
• Watched the season finales of Smallville and Enterprise. Think I'll just stop watching Enterprise. Smallville was ...

Spent all of yesterday (after the visit to Tony's) working on the randomised "ping" scanner. Something weird is causing the whole process to be incredibly slow, and I'm beginning to think it's the creation and destruction of database connections in the thread-pool-managed-threads.

Conversation at the pool-hall afterward was quite animated, particularly the rather long discussion of politics, philosophy and whether humans have a future. Have a meeting at 11am tomorrow with Tony, so should head off to bed ASAP.

The presentation is available, as is the small bit of sample code written explicitly for the presentation.

The silly UPS didn't catch the power outage, and somehow the file on disk got corrupted, so the presentation is just plain gone. This is *really* frustrating, I was working on the second-to-last slide already. Now I have to re-start from the beginning with less than 3 hours to complete it! Why doesn't OpenOffice automatically ...

Arlo and Janis tends to have a high proportion of "truth in comics" entries, which I guess is one of the major reasons I really like the comic. Today's strip:

is one of those where you just have to think that the whole purpose of the strip is these little moments of truth. It's a ...