Archives July 2005
Academics shouldn't blog? (Though I try to avoid blogosphere auto-wanking...)
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Vindaloo.
I know, I know, who reads this blog for meta-comments about blogging? No one, yet I can't help it...
There's an article on Ars which includes this little quote:
Ultimately, I think the answer to this dilemma is pretty clear: graduate students simply should not blog, and if they do blog they should never do ...
More finishing and polishing (LivePages get a little closer to real-world usability...)
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Day was filled with reversion of some changes on Friday, and then moving forward to get the LivePages looking and working more like the Zope TAL Template wrappers. Quite a bit of housekeeping in there as well. Toward the end of the day I modified the trigger LivePage so that as you enter trigger values ...
Muscles Sliding Under Skin
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Vindaloo.
It's really just muscles sliding under skin
Maybe a well-placed bit of fat
Lush roundness to smooth the curves
Yet it pulls the eye off course
Perfect geometry as line folds into shadow
Folds again into still-hidden geometries
You want to sketch, to freeze that moment
Capture the mind in the transition forever
But then ...
Days of curry and defeat (And slumber)
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Vindaloo.
Had a rather pleasant evening hanging around and chatting with Lara on Saturday. However, went rather late, so I was not in particularly good form come Sunday afternoon for the game with grams. She managed to edge me out and win the tournament 3 games to 2. She snookered me twice on the black! Evil ...
Yay! Lara's coming over! (Thai curry shall not go to waste)
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I tried making a Thai curry for the first time today. It's not spot-on (used Indian curry spices (so it's Yellow Curry), regular ginger, that kind of thing), but it is very tasty. The coconut milk is so rich that it becomes a very forgiving dish (much like Indian curry, come to that).
I decided ...
I need to do *something* tonight (Too pitiful to sit here working all weekend)
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Spent hours last night borking up all my lovely work on Cinemon with an attempt to go way too far way too fast. I should try to back out all the extra stuff this afternoon.
Problem is, I'm in the mood to talk. <Elided> is off visiting her dad. I've invited some people over, but ...
Key words for computer recycling... (Toronto Environment Day)
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I've had some old computer parts (particularly a UPS) sitting in my room waiting to be recycled for ages, but I never got around to figuring out just where I need to take them. So this morning I decided to figure it out (though why I waited until I don't have access to a car ...
What a wonderous thing is integration (Making the enhanced Zope Templates accessible to the Nevow LivePages...)
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Today was largely a "completion" day. I finished the trigger-editing LivePage spike test as a spike test and converted it into a real page in the system. That worked nicely, it was just a matter of changing a few lines to make the right triggers show up when editing instead of always being a temporary/testing ...
Adding handlers to Nevow template tags (How do you keep the code separate from the presentation)
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After a bit of annoyance with nevow:attr, I did figure out how one works with it, but in doing so, I found what seems to me to be a far more reasonable approach. Rather than having an extra nevow:attr tag, with a slot inside it that you fill from your render method, you can simply ...
Bit'a Open Source house cleaning (Working through the backlog of todo items...)
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I have literally hundreds of todo items piling up in the various Open Source projects I run, so I figure I may as well plow through a few tonight. For instance, I fixed a small bug in PySNMP-se (that is, the speed-enhanced version of PySNMP 3.x) and re-released it. Spent quite a bit of time ...
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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.