Archives week 50 of 2005

Lie here with me
On the fresh cleaned floor
Listen to the humming house
Quiet in the folding dark
Stare out the open window
On chill winter's sky
Hold my calloused hand
Or let me touch your softest hair
Let the starlight bathe us
As pine hangs in the air

Normally they are warped splendour
Twisted wreckage of the day
Piled on articles from papers
Digested and forgotten long ago
Forms disolve to truths and passions
Love pokes out from every door
Reality folds ten dimensions
Into our cosy carpet on a floor

Yet last night they wimpered
Rooms merely rooms
All just places for ...

The design is elegant
Not seen day to day
Elongated form
Little extra mass
Throat gently curved
Well detailed
Nape smoothed into crown
Traces on the surface
Ripples in hard metal
Hiding the machinery
Or exposing it
Your mind knows
But doesn't tell your heart
She must be within
Turning an unexpected corner
Arching back ...

I'd thought the housewarming this afternoon, an 'open house', was just a drop in, chat for a few minutes, and then head out thing. It was, instead, a fully-fledged party, with 30 or 40 people, enormous amounts of food, etceteras. Lasted well into the evening (started around noon). Good times, most of the people there ...

Brendan, being a historian by trade and having a prodigious memory to boot, always has fun little tidbits, and this one has been kicking around in my head for a bit:

A grey idealogue fronting for a party of loons

which is actually a quote by a political leader in Canada describing what he doesn't ...

Picked up Lara at the airport yesterday... didn't do much else really, went to bed almost as soon as I got back from doing that (I've been working very late hours all week and wanted to get back to normal-ish). Today's going to be occupied primarily with the mundane details of grocery shopping, cleaning, and ...

Okay, this is a hack written in the middle of the night, so expect there to be problems, but it does seem to basically work. What it is is a collection of three object types.

The first, the ConnectionStats, is a simple utility object that tracks statistics and the semaphor used to throttle the number ...

It really seems there should be something in Twisted that does something along these lines, but I can't find anything quite right:

Create and monitor a pool of pb (twisted.spread) connections (this is to spread a CPU-intensive operation across many servers)

On disconnect or connect failure, do retries (forever), but with scaling frequency (i.e. if ...

Resignation lurks around the corner
Can't see it but you know it's there
Subtle scent of rotting hopes
Hanging in the stagnant air

Lucky you don't have to move
You can hang around all day
Something will happen soon
You'll find a truth to bray

You think you hear it chortle
Something stirs within you ...

Rather than charge back into doing work on Cinemon when it's late, I decided to focus instead on one of the side projects that's been sitting there in the project for a while, namely producing a screencast of basic usage for Cinemon. I'm considering one for the VoIP project as well.

What I want is ...