Archives August 2005

Nicolas
Written by on in Vindaloo.


You give eternally
So you are loved
Made an icon
To sell cola
Children cry your name
With lists of toys attached
They ignore your power
Darker stories from the past
Of powerful magics
Serving implacable justice
They would rather not know
The force behind their favourite myth
So they imagine you fat and jolly ...

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Millis are metering (Thomas fixes bug, I run into weird bad-pointer exception...)
Written by on in Snaking.


Thomas posted a patch yesterday that seems to take care of the callback deallocation problem I was having with OpenGL-ctypes. Unfortunately, it didn't move me very far forward. I'm now seeing a crash inside the GLUT mainloop, particularly during a call to glFlush().

Only thing I can think of at the moment that would cause ...

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Perilous Reflection
Written by on in Vindaloo.


What we need is not complex
Food, shelter, air and water
Life is simple and direct
Though red of tooth and claw

To feel out what we want however
Takes more than lifetime's span
Of deep thought, somber introspection
and that most perilous reflection

For those who do the most
To conquer this great puzzle ...

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Inkscape seems to have hosed itself (Or maybe some glibc problems...)
Written by on in Tuxedo, Vindaloo.


Can't sleep (too hot, too sweaty, too tired), so thought I'd work on a personal "business" card. That is, one to hand out to people interested in me, for whatever reason (academic, personal), not Vex, or VexTech, or Cinemon. I want the design as minimalistic as possible. Basically just my name, VRPlumber.com, and my telephone ...

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On Invitations Now Passed
Written by on in Vindaloo.


Maybe I could have stretched
Though it's really not my thing
Worn braces and new shoes
Or so my thoughts run now
Imagining the baking clay
And I'll admit it
High-cut skirts and briefer tops
It doesn't seem so bad a day
Weaving back and forth
To have a little play

Don't leave the on/off switch to last (Refactoring and other joys of iteration completion...)
Written by on in Snaking.


Today marked the end of the single-account iteration for the VOIP front-end project. Today was mostly taken up with refactoring, testing, and generally cleaning up the single-account stories. The refactoring was pretty intensive, lots of common code factored into a small set of common, logically meaningful base classes, APIs for what seemed like different things ...

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As the caffeine fades (I realise that night hasn't just fallen, it's been lying unconscious on the floor for a good few hours...)
Written by on in Snaking.


Had two extremely strong largish regular coffees at the management meeting this morning. No breakfast or lunch. Sat down to work at 2 in the afternoon and didn't get up until around 8 at night, when I got myself a couple of pieces of bread with chocolate-hazelnut spread and briefly considered making dinner, but decided ...

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The Night's Caress
Written by on in Vindaloo.


How many have there been?
Those great conversations
Not merely grand, but truly great
Beyond sleep or thoughts of work tomorrow

Rambling thoughts shared
Nights caressed from both sides with gentle words
Minds entralled by learning
As much as mere ideas

How many souls connected and then lost?
I stop counting as I near a ...

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