Category archives: Vindaloo
Discussions of the spice of life, spices, and/or life.
Thunderbird for those of us with enough eye strain (Editing a configuration file in the application data directory is something no grandmother should have to do...)
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Thunderbird on Windows always seems to pick up a good default font size for the message-list and tree panes. On Linux it picks some god-awful small font that, after a few hours, starts to make my eyes ache (and when one's sister is just getting over an eye infection, bloodshot, watery eyes tend to make ...
Evening doesn't go as planned (Though hopefully the memory leak is fixed now...)
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Did a bit of work tracking down memory leaks in TwistedSNMP. As Glyph and I had discussed, eliminating the __del__ methods from the Deferred object eliminated the leaks. My fix so far is pretty ugly (introduces two descriptors and a sub-object with a __del__ to provide the functionality, but it does work, so just a ...
More trips down memory lane (Care of Picasa...)
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I've just spent a few hours going through old folders of sketches and projects. Have added quite a few new images to the eye-candy page. Also removed all the second-generation sketches from the graphics page, replacing them with the "new" sketches from the eye candy page. I've left them in the eye candy page 'cause ...
Old rendering projects look so quaint these days (Tim's remarks about wading pools not withstanding...)
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Hmm, just realised that the "workspace" project (which eventually became part of my thesis project) is already in my portfolio, as was the pim project. Oh well, maybe I've already got everything online. The little hourglass was done with AccuRender in AutoCAD back far enough that it took a few days on a really beefy ...
More Picassa goodness (Ooh, look, old projects resurrected...)
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This is an old project I designed way back in the Holodesk days. It was a simple "workshop" space with a demo (a personal information manager display, written using Zope for the non-3D parts of the UI).I rather liked the effect of the space, which was extremely lightweight, but gave a rather rich look ...
Life is so much more fun out there where there are people (May as well post a few pictures to keep the masses happy...)
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This is actually a picture from after having my meeting with Stephen earlier in the week. This is a Smart car, which you can see in Toronto these days. It's a tiny 2-seater commuter car. I'm very seriously considering getting one should I wind up needing a car anytime soon. "Why would anyone really need ...
Distractions, distractions... (Choosing a restaurant for a meeting when you never leave the house is a PITA)
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I seldom get out of the house for a dinner, so choosing a restaurant for our bi-weekly meetings takes me far longer than it should. Especially when restaurants I want turn out not to show up in the phone book at all. There was a great Persian restaurant up at Yonge and Steeles called "North". ...
I need a break (Or an 8 week intensive course on test-fixture-creation...)
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Just downloaded Picasa from Google and let it search my hard-disks for images. Lots of very old projects showed up that never made it to my portfolio. The image to the left is from a (real-world) project way back when I was still thinking of practicing real-world architecture (as well as the virtual kind). It's ...
Rule by the rich (It really is what I said it is...)
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Saw Shane and Lara briefly at Starbucks before I headed home from the meeting. We were sitting around and I mentioned that I though Plutocracy meant "rule by the wealthy", while Shane said that it was Oligarchy that meant "rule by the wealthy".
Plutocracy does means rule by the wealthy.
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Oligarchy seems to mean ...
PyCon paper writing goes well (Though there was a section missing in the outline)
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Started working on writing the paper for my PyCon presentation. Did about 3 pages from the first section (of 5), so likely going to be around 15 printed pages of text, with quite a few code listings as well. Idea is to have the paper provide in-depth exploration and usage details so that the presentation ...
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.