Archives July 30, 2006
Vacant Demons
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
Why do you keep me waking
When I would be abed
Leave me vacant demons
Full of puzzles full of cares
I would sleep when I lie there
Please Hold my Heart
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
Someone hold my heart for me
It's grown to large to bear
Trapping unsaid
What should be sung
Cherishing pains
Long ago stung
Waiting on bells
That once might have rung
Those I Love
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
Soon I will lose those I love
For they are merely mortal
Mortal life however long
Is bounded in hard measure
They will pass as I know shall I
Possibly before they know
That they are those I love
Little traction this afternoon (Bouncing around between tasks...)
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
I was fully intending to spend the evening on porting OpenGL-ctypes to Win32. However, I realised that the workstation doesn't have the Toolkit compiler set up, which always takes hours, so I thought I'd try wrapping some of the more advanced extensions (vertex shaders, pixel shaders, that kind of thing).
Of course, I don't have ...
On fixing taps (Don't do it until there's a real problem...)
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
Friday I tried to fix the (Windows XP) 3D rendering on the laptop. Now XP simply can't boot (crashes trying to load the AGP module). I need to use an XP Pro disk to repair the installation, but I don't have one of those (the XP instance is the one that came pre-installed on the ...
Previous day
Next day
Archives
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.