Author archives: Mike
Sly horse trader that I am (Little side deal to make everyone happy...)
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When JoAnne was over yesterday we made a deal to swap my scanner (which I only use once every 4 or 5 months) for her digital camera (which she doesn't really like compared to her "classic" camera). JoAnne was forced to buy the camera (when she really wanted a scanner) in order to get a ...
Back from the party (Now to sleep)
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Party was fun. Jenny (Irish lass I know) discovered that Roger (one of Simon's friends) went to the same schools (grade and high) in a tiny little town in BC as had she and her sisters. Conversations were wide-ranging, though not so exhaustive or deep as to fire me up for the evening... I seem ...
Simon's party tomorrow (After rebuilding JoAnne's machine...)
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Simon is a neat chap I met at PyGTA and UU, rather fun to talk to all-in-all. He runs a little company, has a couple of neat technologies he's trying to market, and is rather active politically. He shares my love of throwing parties, so tomorrow I get to go out of the house ...
And one of D'Arcy (CEO of our happy little crew...)
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Look! It's a picture of Tim! (The work Tim, not the roommate Tim or Python-dev Tim...)
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Proper capitalisation of uncle and aunt (A question I couldn't answer on Twisted channel)
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I belive that you only capitalise these things when you are using them as a title, that is "Uncle Jack said something", but "my uncle, Jack, said something".
However, what about when it's used as an adjective? That is "my uncle Jack said" which reads very differently than "my Uncle Jack said". The first has ...
Rosey visit yesterday (Noah too!)
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Rosey dropped in yesterday to feed all of my addictions (coffee, pudding, iced tea mix and puppies) and be fed some leftover curry. Turns out she hasn't started the new job yet, it's something like a week and a couple of days away still. She's working weekends with a friend's mother to help set up ...
Think I should sleep... (Goes much faster when you're not spending all your time on stupid errors)
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Well, that was markedly less frustrating. Got the next few boxes on the map worked out, though I haven't figured out an elegant (and efficient) way to make the hierarchy update. I'm actually considering using a single query for each node in the hierarchy so that the group-watcher will reload its own children every X ...
Heisenberg's revenge (Crude measurements mess up the test suite)
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So, for the past 8 hours I've been debugging an error that just makes no sense. I commit changes to a record to the database (using the background thread, as required by twisted), and the record isn't committed a few seconds later. Ages spent assuring that the commit actually occurs, that a refresh is done ...
In other news... (Brief bits)
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- I'm told someone reads this blog!
- Also, got a commitment from Shiva and Lisa to go hiking with the Bruce Trail club (and me) sometime in July.
- Made a nice curry, though it was far milder than I'd intended.
- Watched the season finales of Smallville and Enterprise. Think I'll just stop watching Enterprise. Smallville was ...
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.