Author archives: Mike

Had the workstation do a set of upgrades while I was out at the management meeting (one of us should get some work done)... got home to find a failure compiling/installing the emul-linux (Linux32 on AMD64) libraries. Permission failure trying to make the files executable.

Oh well, I can survive a few days without OpenOffice ...

Went for coffee with Dan yesterday. Afraid I monopolised the conversation somewhat (I really do try not to do that). Mostly because I was thinking about thesis stuff, so kept blathering on about it.

It was one of those situations where I realised just how out of practice I've gotten with explaining design and design ...

I've been focussing so much on the OpenGL-in-ctypes project that I've not been spending any "spare" time on PyOpenGL-SWIG maintenance. Tried to get a submitted patch integrated this evening, wasn't functional. There's at least one newly-wrapped extension module in CVS, and probably need to work on a few more.

Probably need 2 or 3 solid ...

Slogged through another day of making administrative interfaces today. I just couldn't help building something that looks a heck of a lot like a framework. When you're faced with a dozen or so virutally identical "edit a table of records" user stories you either wind up with a lot of copy-and-paste or you refactor the ...

Grams was bragging all morning yesterday (again) about how she was going to win the pool tournament. She actually managed to get 2 games ahead at one point, but I rallied back and swept the last 3 games to prove once again that; while you often can offend the karmic balance enough for it to ...

There are men whose deeds ring out across the history books
Centuries, even millenia, after they have died
Giants who molded earth and men

Others the world remembers for a generation's time
Great works for king and country fading
As brilliant medals tarnish and heros age

Yet more ply only fifteen minutes on the stage ...

Their waves of disappointment
Crash over this old stone
And dooming imperfections
Grow with every blow
Making waves rise higher
Until they strike him low
But for today I stand
Against the tidal flow

Spent some time on OpenGL-ctypes this evening. First up was eliminating the crashes in the GLU tessellation code. That was mostly just passing in the wrong values for use as callbacks (I was passing in a cCallbak, it wanted a c_void_p). Unfortunately, the tessellation doesn't seem to work yet, but at least it doesn't kill ...

Topped off the day's work by starting on the account-search mechanism (a.k.a. the phonebook). This is your bog-standard search page, it searches 4 or 5 tables with various inter-relations to produce a set of root records (accounts) that match a search string (or integer).

You can write one that's tailor-made for a given application (from ...

Unchanging life of limits
Pressing in
Without, a single girl