Category archives: Vindaloo
Discussions of the spice of life, spices, and/or life.
Yay, it's a camera! (But I don't have batteries for it)
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Turns out the silly little thing only stores 14 pictures! Obviously they're just trying to get you to buy all the little extras. Figure I'll spring for a 128MB flash card eventually, but buying rechargable batteries and a charger is going to happen tomorrow. Camera is a 2MPixel model. Takes okay pictures, but they are ...
Yay, it's a camera! (But I don't have batteries for it)
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Vindaloo.
Turns out the silly little thing only stores 14 pictures! Obviously they're just trying to get you to buy all the little extras. Figure I'll spring for a 128MB flash card eventually, but buying rechargable batteries and a charger is going to happen tomorrow. Camera is a 2MPixel model. Takes okay pictures, but they are ...
A woman once took issue (So of course I can't sleep thinking about it...)
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Vindaloo.
A woman, on reading I felt lonely,
remarked I could not understand,
nor truly wear a lonely face.
And perhaps she was right,
I do have friends and family,
am not alone in truth, but still I think I know.
It is the pain of sitting with the one you love,
unable to touch their ...
A woman once took issue (So of course I can't sleep thinking about it...)
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
A woman, on reading I felt lonely,
remarked I could not understand,
nor truly wear a lonely face.
And perhaps she was right,
I do have friends and family,
am not alone in truth, but still I think I know.
It is the pain of sitting with the one you love,
unable to touch their ...
Once again back to ground 0 with Linux (I'm getting *so* sick of this)
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Vindaloo.
Today was mostly (after a few hours of work) dedicated to yet another attempt to move from Win32 to Linux. Yet again I have been driven back to Win32 land. This time it was by an apt-get upgrade intended to install a TV-listings viewer (MythTV) failing during an upgrade of a dependency and managing to ...
Once again back to ground 0 with Linux (I'm getting *so* sick of this)
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
Today was mostly (after a few hours of work) dedicated to yet another attempt to move from Win32 to Linux. Yet again I have been driven back to Win32 land. This time it was by an apt-get upgrade intended to install a TV-listings viewer (MythTV) failing during an upgrade of a dependency and managing to ...
Coffee with Lisa (Don't play at legalese with a lawyer!)
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I must admit complete and abject defeat. I sent a mock-legalese threatening letter to Lisa wrt her promise to get together and chat. Got back a perfectly formed legal document with threats of litigation, callouts on various poorly formed legal theories, etceteras (no references to case law, however). Shiver. Long and short of the harrowing ...
Coffee with Lisa (Don't play at legalese with a lawyer!)
Written by
on
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Vindaloo.
I must admit complete and abject defeat. I sent a mock-legalese threatening letter to Lisa wrt her promise to get together and chat. Got back a perfectly formed legal document with threats of litigation, callouts on various poorly formed legal theories, etceteras (no references to case law, however). Shiver. Long and short of the harrowing ...
Look, it's a search box (Turns out you just uncomment it...)
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Frustrated with what look to be weakref crashes in the ping scanner, took a few moments to figure out how to get a ZCatalog-based search installed on the blog here. Built the ZCatalog, added the lexicon and a full-text index, then added in the blog itself... no content indexing occurs... there's no "Coreblog Entry" option ...
Look, it's a search box (Turns out you just uncomment it...)
Written by
on
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Vindaloo.
Frustrated with what look to be weakref crashes in the ping scanner, took a few moments to figure out how to get a ZCatalog-based search installed on the blog here. Built the ZCatalog, added the lexicon and a full-text index, then added in the blog itself... no content indexing occurs... there's no "Coreblog Entry" option ...
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.