Author archives: Mike

Spent the day pounding away at the VOIP Billing project. It's getting fairly close to functional at the single-account level. Did a couple of significant refactorings during the day and am now seeing a web framework poking it's hoary head out of the contingencies.

Since I'm using BasicProperty for all of the modelling, there are ...

Gave my hands a break, then did a bit of work on the image-handling code for OpenGL-ctypes. Mostly just translating the array-setup functions (SetupPixelRead, SetupRawPixelRead) into Python code, then deciding instead to re-implement them, as they aren't really clear wrt what they're trying to do. Hopefully breaking it down into 4 or 5 functions, each ...

Wrapped up the GLU quadrics code, and the selection-set processing code (along with some other bits and pieces) so that the OpenGL-ctypes code can run PyGame-hosted versions of a number of the OpenGLContext demos. Most notably the selection demos (which use lots of spheres :) ).

Next step is probably to work on the image-handling ...

On the corner I hear them
From my downy bed
With flirty little pillows
Young bucks and does
Philosophy and lycanthropy
Or maybe it's biology
Drives them to stand and talk
Outside my windows
Too loud to sleep
Too soft to make a scene
So I lie on my old poster bed
So many years ...

The steps at night
Quiet even in the daylight
Ask me to sit with them
Gaze down that longest avenue
Where perfect pretty people preen
Upon each other
Shopping for flesh dressed up
To kill
They don't ask me
They want to look beyond
To stars hanging above them
With cool breezes to refresh
And ...

Did I know her
In darker moments
I wonder
What sleight or pain
Poisoned the well
Forgotten enemies and friends
Lying about it
Accusing me
As if I knew her
Or could change it
If I did

Went out for dinner and poker this evening instead of having people over. Discovered I'm not really all that in to poker. Not a bad game I suppose, but not really likely to aid in developing the aspects of myself that I want to improve.

Spent most of the evening "out" (i.e. with no chips), ...

Eventual goal:

• Provide a democratised narrowcast-capable media marketplace
• Content producers must be paid (likely in proportion to the popularity of their work, though a patronage system or the like may also be present to encourage unpopular expression)
• As much as possible, no choke points should be built in to allow control over the forms of ...

Lara asked me to take the Meyers Briggs (Jung) temperament test (she's found her results quite helpful, apparently). So, off I go to write the test. Of course, as I'm answering questions I keep looking for that "both" answer in the middle. Oh well, it is a "sorter", rather than something aiming to really understand ...

Long day today. It is officially the weekend, but I was too tired to go out or do anything this evening. Decided to spend some time on OpenGL-ctypes. Basically just made the GLUT callback code a little more generalised, but in doing so I seem to have tripped up somewhere, as I'm now getting weird ...