Archives March 31, 2005
About viewing Japanese glyphs in Firefox (First you need a font...)
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Tuxedo.
Got a call a few minutes ago from Lua, who had just called a few hours ago inviting me to a party. She wanted to print some things out for the guest of honour (who is Japanese), but she was just getting question marks for the Japanese text.
I don't know if there's a built-in ...
Oh, the day... (Telescoping work)
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Snaking.
Spent the whole working day on documentation, but wound up starting really late due to spending hours on various system administration stuff. Hands are chutneyed, though not as bad as lately, have been consciously trying to reduce the force with which I type. Don't know if it's helping or if I'm just less tense than ...
Weekend filling up too fast! (2 parties plus a visit with grams)
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Vindaloo.
Dan's friend Penelope is having a potluck on Friday. Lua's having a birthday party for her friend on Sunday evening, and I'm visiting grams on Sunday afternoon. It's almost as if I had a life, and we all know how dangerous that can be.
Shane is entirely too generous (And Lara's pretty darn giving too...)
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Vindaloo.
I've said it before, I'll likely say it again, Shane is one of the most generous people I know. He practically showered me with gifts this evening, rather nice dessert plates, chocolate in 4 different forms (and large quantities), and coffee.
Lara found this really elegant card with a Mary Lou Retton quote on it ...
Linux really doesn't like running out of space (And this new CoreBlog (back-end) interface seems strange...)
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Tuxedo.
Need to clean up the root partition on my workstation. I'm going to try using kdirstat, as I believe that's the one Tim recommended a while ago. Tim also upgraded CoreBlog while I wasn't looking. Everything still seems to work, but the entry-editing pages seem to have regressed somewhat, losing their Zope-ish page layouts somehow? ...
Try again on the KDE build (This time with flag to rebuild for new USE flags)
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The new KDE build has been failing on my machine, with what looks like unresolved symbols for an underlying library. Will let that run tonight.
Spent the bulk of the day on documentation, though Tim dropped in to work on debugging a Twisted problem (turns out PyOpenSSL wasn't installed on the new box) for a ...
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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.