Category archives: Vindaloo
Discussions of the spice of life, spices, and/or life.
Ah, back to the world of Mikey (Looking back at the week of PyCon...)
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Well, I appear to have arrived back in Toronto. Last day of the conference was nice enough, though I wish the Google keynote had a bit more detail. Got to sit next to a very beautiful woman through it, so I suppose I can't complain too much ;) . As a note on the talk, ...
Laptops that melt and other PyCon trivia (Very pleasant evening eating and hacking once the presentation was done...)
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Went to the business dinner last night, as one of the two VexTech delegates. Was a very pleasant evening, big gathering as normal. After it was done (around 10:00) D'Arcy and I wandered over to the conference centre again to look for people with whom to talk.
Wound up spending the evening hacking on a ...
Hmm, who do I think I am? (Finally she gets the styles changed...)
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Natasha finally got the colours switched for her blog. Apparently she's going for a deep and introspective feel to the text. Number 9 is kinda sad for me. 19 is something I think I have a handle on. 20 is something that she should talk to Shane about (he was the one who was ...
That was the sound of a day popping! (All gone...)
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The meeting didn't go all day, but pretty close. After that I wound up spending an hour writing up notes from it for everyone involved.
Now on to the PyCon packing... but wait... a client has decided to move a fairly large, largely un-tested new project live because there was a snafu somewhere and they ...
Phonecalls can lead to blogging (New blog for an old and dear friend...)
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Called Natasha this evening to wish her a happy 12th anniversary of our meeting. Spent much of the time discussing LavaLife and similar dating sites. Also discussed her attempts to blog on the free sites (I think it was MovableType in particular (they are trying to up-sell you on a paid account by limiting your ...
I love it when there's a problem with a booking (Really, it's such a joy...)
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Called the hotel this evening "just in case", to be sure that they knew about the reservation. They couldn't find me in their database. They couldn't even process the confirmation number hotels.ca had given me.
Interestingly, hotels.ca doesn't seem to have any phone customer support people, so I have to go through their web-form interface. ...
Up at some ungodly hour tomorrow (Today went well, though still no movement on presentation...)
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Today's work was ~1/2 prep for a meeting on Monday about a time-critical, but fairly small project for ACI, and 1/2 cleanup of the Cinemon codebase. I dropped 60+ files from the project that were basically just old-code relics hanging around. There's still a few sub-packages that I didn't remove because I figure I may ...
Oh, and a second cousin once removed? (I lose track of how it works after second cousin...)
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Our cousin's sister-in-law had a baby last month, so we will be heading off to the christening-like ceremony this Sunday, probably take grams along if she feels up for it. Unfortunately, the new mother also had a stroke last month. She's out of hospital now, but apparently it was not a minor stroke (she's a ...
Oops, seem to have lost consciousness there (Luckily I made it to bed first...)
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Apparently still a little wasted energy-wise, did a few hours of work and then just couldn't stay awake, so went back to bed. Don't actually feel any more rested now, but I'm semi-vertical again, and that's the important thing.
Had this nagging itch to call Natasha yesterday. Finally around 3 or 4 in the morning ...
Alive: take 2 (When headaches recede...)
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I think I can tentatively declare myself healthy again. The coffee is even reasonable tasting (yesterday it tasted like dishwater). There's still a bit of a throbbing behind one temple, and every few minutes I have the urge to lie down, but all in all I seem to be human again.
Had a flash a ...
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.