Author archives: Mike
On social change (Conversations in a bar)
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Vindaloo.
So, the talk went fine. No new information or insights for me, all stuff we've discussed at length among our group of friends. Still, we obviously weren't the audience, it was targetted at more of a first-year philosophy crowd, a populist work intended to get people questioning Hobbes, Smith (and, though she wasn't mentioned, I'd ...
Greed (Wade Rowland's reading this evening at U of T)
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Vindaloo.
Shane and I are going down to Simon's dad's reading at U of T this evening. I made the mistake of asking him to talk about the book at Simon's party (he was kinda burned out on being asked questions at the time, felt like a bit of a heel for not picking up on ...
Need to create some icons for the homepage (Well, really: need to create some pretty graphics so I don't go nuts...)
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Design Theory,
Tuxedo.
So I sat down fully intending to work on the thesis rewrite. Then I got distracted when I realised there was no link from anywhere save a few old blog postings to the page with the rewrite! There's also nothing from the homepage that takes you directly to the Python 3D Software collection, which is ...
Telescoping days (Meeting turns to meetings...)
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Snaking.
Spent basically the whole day in meetings. First 6 hours or so on a Cinemon management meeting. After that I was cajoled into going to the UU meeting (I've been skipping them for quite a few months now).
I'm entirely non-functional just now, so I think I'll head off to bed fairly soon.
No luck figuring out the OpenGLContext flicker (Why would it render to the wrong buffer?)
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Snaking.
I took a nap around 5:00 and only woke up around 10:00. Looking around for something to do (other than futzing around with getting KDE working again), loaded up some OpenGLContext demos and sat thinking about why they are failing.
No insights appeared. Probably should have used the time to work on finishing the PyCon ...
Just so you don't think I'm going soft on Linux (It's a PITA too)
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Tuxedo.
Tried to download a few pictures from the camera in Digikam today. Oops, managed to crash both Digikam and Myth (which uses Qt for rendering). Any attempt to start Digikam would peg the machine for a few minutes and then silently kill all the open KDE-based apps (e.g. Konsole, MythFrontend).
Turns out there was a ...
Days go quickly when they start unreasonably early, and when you waste them on Windows (A little from column A, a little from column B)
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Snaking.
Bulk of the day was actually spent on finishing the Windows re-install and development-environment setup (including finding the PostgreSQL incantation... ipc is no longer part of it). After that, an hour (well, probably two, but hard to figure what with spending time on the setup at the same time) of packaging and fixing minor bugs ...
Fixed the dual-booting (PostgreSQL setup on Windows still unfinished...)
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Snaking,
Tuxedo.
Something I should have backed up from the previous windows install: how the silly PostgreSQL services were installed. It's been so long since I've installed it that I'm going to have to track down the secret incantation all over again.
Luckily it turns out that there's a very simple GRUB incantation for booting Win2K off ...
Windows is frustrating me! (Make it stop, mommy!)
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So, finished the revision of the Zonez demo this afternoon, went to run py2exe over it to produce a final set of executables for the client... duh! Py2exe requires Windows, so instead of being a 1 minute process, packaging up the project has turned into a 6+ hour one (and, of course, can't bill the ...
ZZZ in the springtime (Plans solidify when you give out credit-card numbers...)
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Vindaloo.
Finally made all the arrangements for my little excursion to ZZZ. Going to be taking along D'Arcy's laptop and doing ~3 or 4 days work during the 6 day trip. Apparently XXX does have internet access, so I should be able to use that. The motel, however, has nothing :( . Guess I'll spend most ...
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.