Archives week 16 of 2006
April 17, 2006 - April 23, 2006
The Mask of Cartoon Horror
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
The face of the woman
Who almost ran me down
Seemed almost a cartoon
As if she'd realised too late
That she'd run off a cliff
Was madly scrambling back
Against the flow of time
DHCP goes south on the laptop (How did that happen...)
Written by
on
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Tuxedo.
I seem to have lost the laptop's ability to connect to the DHCP server here at home. Everything else is able to get to it, but the laptop just doesn't get through. So much for getting some more work done this evening.
I'm also getting comment spammed by some jerk here on the blog. Cursed ...
Unbelievably annoying when you have to reverse work (I don't want to think about how long that was...)
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
Hit one of those "argh" moments in the VoIP project today. We import CDR files from a backend system. I read the field names and didn't see anything that looked like "destination" (in the sense of a physical location, like a city). So, we write a little subsystem that can guess location from phone number ...
A very pleasant hike down (And I got to see Dan twice...)
Written by
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Snaking.
Hiked down to Linux Caffe this morning. Time held steady from the test hike at 55 minutes or so. That's only 15-20 minutes more than taking the TTC, and bang-on equal if the bus doesn't work out right. I felt rather good, though I obviously need to get a backpack for the laptop if I'm ...
Forgot to clock in this afternoon (Whole day's work disappears...)
Written by
on
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Snaking,
Vindaloo.
I did a bit of work on OpenGL-ctypes this morning, mostly just reintegrating the win32 changes so that the Linux build still works. I also killed a number of extension-module autogeneration problems. Doesn't actually make them work, but the modules are now valid Python (and correct, just useless until they get some extra code).
Then ...
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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.