Author archives: Mike

Should you need it
In some far off future
Though I cannot imagine why
I will instruct you here
Though I suggest you never try

To drop from joyous mania
Leaping through life
Peace and hope in all you say
Loving each face on the street
Smiling at all you survey

To escape from such ...

Reading the original outline I realised that my definition so far left off a number of key points. So, tack this onto the end (it feels tacked on when you read the whole thing through, will have to edit them into something a little less jarring):


What about “paper designs” or other unrealized plans; does ...

The following is a very rough first draft of rewriting the introduction to my thesis. The summaries of Kant and Hume are a little too brief, I guess I'll have to flesh them out eventually. Anyway, here goes:


The problem with writing about design theory is that by and large designers and artists are mistrustful ...

Today I committed to the PySNMP 4.x approach and began coding in earnest. Amazing how much faster things go when you have a commitment to the approach, you aren't constantly backing up and saying "wait a minute, shouldn't there be a better way", you just plow ahead and let the chips fall as they might. ...

By the time I got down to the Linux Caffe (at 7:15) it was already closed. There were still a few customers hanging out, (including the very quiet girl from UU), but no Python programming workshop that I could see. Very disappointing.

The DNS failures continue to make working on the machine a serious PITA. ...

I've been working on testing the routers for the VOIP project. Somehow, though, the DNS resolution has been hosed in doing it. I gather it was something to do with swapping routers in and out all the time, but whatever caused it I now have DNS service maybe 1/2 of the time, and when I ...

I
Resist
Calling

I wonder why

I
Resist
Feeling

I wonder how

I
Resist
Crying

I wonder how long

I (can)
Resist
Screaming

Rosey got her first call for an interview all of a couple of minutes after the form that makes her an official employee was entered into the computer. Apparently the French teacher shortage is not exaggerated. Good luck with the interview, Rose!

Turns out that annoying image-to-texture failure was actually just a messed up compile on my machine. Anyway, OpenGL-ctypes now has image handling working under OpenGLContext. Spent some time trying to get the GLUT bitmap fonts working. So far no luck.

The GLUT declaration (on GLX machines) looks like this:

	GLUTAPI void *glutBitmap9By15;
	#define GLUT_BITMAP_9_BY_15		(&glutBitmap9By15) ...

Linux Caffe is a very pleasant little environment. I'd been thinking of a very different environment, all little nooks and crannies, with insular little booths and some back-room environment for meetings. It's actually a single room with a long 'working bar' and a set of meeting/talking tables. Very clean-well-lighted family feel to the place.

Rather ...