Archives October 2007
WiFi is Free in Vancouver (Promised land...)
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Vindaloo.
In Vancouver airport, at my departure gate about 5 hours early. Unlike at Pearson (Toronto) airport, the network access is free. Darn right it should be free.
Flight over Canada was non-eventful. Seat-mate was asleep the entire flight. Had a neat encounter on the subway, lady who had a severe brain hemorrhage when she was ...
What to do for 24 hours (Rubbing hands in manic glee... free time (sort-of))
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Knight Errant,
Young Coders.
Have half a dozen different projects that all need my time. Going to have 24 hours to work on them as I get over to Taipei. I'm thinking maybe spend the bulk of the time on a few spike tests for Productive. Control systems, that kind of thing, so we're not going into the Game ...
Only 24 hours to go (Lots and lots to get done...)
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Young Coders.
I leave tomorrow afternoon for Taipei (need to hit the airport around 3pm tomorrow, so need to leave here around 2pm). Finishing up the talk now, pausing to let it settle before reviewing and re-cutting... may try to cut 7 more slides. It's strange how a topic that was a 5 minute presentation a month ...
Oh, they want lots of details (Check the duration of presentations...)
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Young Coders.
Turns out I'm scheduled to give a 2.5 hour presentation tonight (Soni pointed that out yesterday night). Should remember to check these things. Not a big issue, I can talk for days about the project off the cuff, but the slide decks I've been using lately are targeted at a 20-30 minute presentation (or less). ...
OLPC-Toronto Game Jam/Sprint (Participants?)
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Snaking,
Young Coders.
We're thinking of having a Game Sprint on the 16th through the 18th of November (still looking for an appropriate venue). At the moment there's only 2.5 of us. We've got one brainstorm (or a light drizel) of doing a simplified Real-time Strategy game. More powerful downpours welcome.
CMU is going to be doing a ...
That was really fun! (Long and deep conversations with the students and faculty...)
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Young Coders.
Okay, so I admit it, I'm a bit of a philosophy enthusiast. My degree is in design epistomology. I love discussing ideas, and particularly ones surrounding design and intentionality. So tonight was just golden. The OCAD students and faculty were easily the most sceptical group I've yet had the pleasure of meeting. They asked all ...
Excited about Tomorrow (Even if today was a bit of a wash...)
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Design Theory,
Vindaloo,
Young Coders.
Spent the whole day on errands. Found a place to print out photos for my mother in law at $0.17 each (with 300 of them), picked up firewire cables for the video camera, dumped the wedding video to DVD so that she can take that with her too. Bit of a bug-fix for an infrequent ...
Long Hours (and Short)
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Knight Errant.
I really do need long, unbroken hours to work on coding. Little distractions break my concentration and flush me out into side trips, emails, ticket-tracking, that kind of thing. When I'm in the zone I'll churn away for a few solid hours and get all sorts of things finished. When I'm pulled out every once ...
Screenshots for Everyone! (Pictures are effective...)
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Young Coders.
I have a lot of screen shots in my presentations on the OLPC. I spent rather a long time (probably 2 or 3 hours) collecting and capturing them, and since that's all time paid for by the project, the results should be more easily available than having to download the presentations and pull out the ...
Success in Innovation (Recipes for Success in Humanism)
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Design Theory,
Young Coders.
We had a long discussion yesterday about the similarities between "social innovation" and "technical innovation" projects. There was broad general agreement that both of these are aspects of the same process, that is, that all social innovation is a form of a technical innovation, and the obverse.
I tried to make the point, though I'm ...
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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.