Archives Aug. 26, 2005
Long day on documentation (Much easier to read now)
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Snaking.
Spent the whole day (modulo a few minutes fixing a bug) on user-level documentation for Cinemon. Looking back it's kind of amazing that I left so much of it in point-form, there's still a number of sections that need fleshing out, but the big topics are now at least discussed in full sentences :) . ...
Sigh... bust (So tantalisingly close!)
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Tuxedo.
I finally got past the block that's been sticking for more than a month (the inability to get a multilib version of both glibc and gcc), and was happily rolling through the automated update script when I hit one of the expected snags. No big deal, obviously others have hit it, and there's detailed instructions ...
Once more into the Gentoo upgrade breach (Multilib or bust (since I can't sleep))
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Tuxedo.
Can't sleep, and don't feel like doing anything that requires deep thought, so I'm going to try (yet again) to update my Gentoo profile from 2004.3 to 2005.0 (and then 2005.1). I've pulled the emul-linux packages from the 2005.1 CD (was never able to get them to build multilib on my 2004.3 system). Am now ...
Sporty Younger Blondes
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Vindaloo.
So mid-life is upon me
I am told by gentle stranger
I'm just not sure I'm ready
For a red phallatial car
Or a sporty younger blonde
I'd hoped youth might stay
Just a few years longer
And join me in old age
Scents on City Streets
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Vindaloo.
Scents unheeded mingle
In crowded city streets
Rushing past on forward errands
Yet pause and breath
You may find the hint of friendship
On chance's gentle breeze
Pools in Shadowed Groves
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Vindaloo.
I'd thought I'd drunk my fill
Of the shy, retiring pools
Yet when I stumble on another
I find my thirst renewed
Cornered Eyes
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Vindaloo.
Too easy to mistake
With arrows flitting past my chair
To whom the point is meant
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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.