Category archives: Vindaloo

Blog has been down for a day or so. Zope seemed to be very unhappy. Anyway, went to DemoCamp yesterday. 4 demos, FeedCache (RSS caching/querying API from Tucows), BlogScope (keyword frequency analysis for textual data-flows such as blogs), a GenCon social networking app for planning your conference experience, and the BumpTop 2.5D physical-simulation desktop. Nothing ...

I normally walk into Linux Caffe in the morning. It's a pleasant one hour walk down through the little neighbourhoods. This morning, however, as I headed out there were helicopters and planes swarming the place. I kept getting flashes of "distopianism" and feeling the urge to scurry from doorway to doorway to avoid the all-seeing ...

We had about 6 hours between the ceremony and the reception yesterday, so we headed over to Shane and Simon's friend Mia's place. Spent the afternoon discussing politics, social justice and the like with Mia's whole family. The kind of conversation that rekindles the fires in your heart.

I'm just uploading the pictures now. A ...

Heading out to suburbia to our friend Brendan's wedding tomorrow. I still haven't figured out what I'm supposed to wear on my head that's "business casual". (It's a traditional Sikh wedding). Neither the suggested scarf nor kerchief seems appropriate. I'm assuming a Red Hat baseball cap isn't suitable either... and that exhausts my rather limited ...

The editor returned and thought
With broad and nuanced gestures
Her heavy ring clicking on her table
And this time we talked a tiny bit
Though I tried not to distract her much
From stories, sites and gentle words
So fun to see her working there
On thoughts to share with all the world
Just ...

Looking out the window it appears that today must have been gorgeous... wish I'd been up for some of it. I'm trying to decide whether to write or play with TurboGears this evening. I probably should write, but if I go for TurboGears we'll have a topic for PyGTA on Tuesday.

I really need to ...

Effective the end of May I'll be resigning from VexTech, where I've worked for the last 3 years. It's an amicable exit, I just need more space in which to move.

Most likely I'll be starting my own company and trying to build that into a small contract programming business to run alongside my eventual ...

I'm pretty sure this is where I should be scared
Standing on the precipice about to leap
Yet deciding has a way of freeing the heart
Quickening the blood for the coming battles
In the long quest today I shall begin
Gazing over the lands below I stretch
Long folded wings creaking with disuse
As ...

There is a woman to desire
I might say to you some day
Pointing to a plain-looking girl
With mousy hair not-quite fixed
Glasses perched upon her nose
A clutch of books upon her chest

Look, I might say leaning forward
How her mind pokes at the world
Without ego to cloud its vision
See ...

Do men in truth seduce
Women with such words
Ripped from other's mouths
By rote from other tongues
Will someday I seduce
Some gentle-leaning lady
Love someone unawares