Author archives: Mike

Saw a link in a blog entry today to "Catspaw", which for some reason seemed like a familiar name to me. She's apparently the same woman from UofT who wrote this paper, which I read when it first came out, but that doesn't refer to her as Catspaw.

She also appears to be ...

Just did a significant amount of refactoring to pull all the collection-editing code into one place. Seems to have all worked out. Now, however, I must sleep again (I had a nap earlier). Oh, there's new releases of BasicProperty/BasicTypes and PyTable for those who are interested.

Decided my back just wasn't going to let me keep working, so took a nap in there. Awoken at 3 by the computer starting to record "The Burbs". Obviously, the first thing that popped into my mind was; "how many movies has Tom Hanks been in" and after I'd listed about 15 or so "how ...

There's an article on Wired News this afternoon discussing yet another effect of the huge public/private databases being collected by various firms as a service to Big Brother. What's interesting to me is that the article doesn't even mention the idea of the arrested and/or convicted person having "served their time" or been "rehabilitated".

Well, after all that work last night, the dratted group statistics still aren't working for one CMTS (though they are working for the other four). Going to just load the darn thing and use pdb to debug it.

I'm always kind of surprised just how well pdb works for poking at complex systems (e.g. Zope ...

Well, going on for 19 hours in the day so far, the last 10 hours of that being an exercise in frustration. Turns out an optimisation of the tracking archiver was causing a problem. I'd reduced the set of records it was loading to an easily queried sub-set, letting all other records be found by ...

When we identify with something or someone, we tend to ascribe to it the values that we ourselves hold as important. I'm realising that this is a serious impediment to properly understanding your world (though it does make for more harmonious relationships).

Over the last couple of months I've come to realise that there are ...

Evening has been mostly frustration, and I'm beginning to lose my drive to continue. Finally (I think) got the group-statistics summaries working, but I've discovered 3 or 4 show-stopper bugs in the process (that darn PostgreSQL hang being the biggest one).

On a more interesting note (well, for me), I finally moved up to 20lbs ...

Yes, backups are important Victoria, so like a good little Mikey I tried to back up this blog in XML format, only to find out that somehow lists don't have .extend methods in the version of Python we're running the Zope site on? Weird. I thought we were on 2.3.3.

Completely new bug just popped up where the database hangs trying to do a simple SELECT * FROM log_modem_track; Blah. It's stopping me from actually debugging the missing group statistics (not to mention frustrating me).