Author archives: Mike

Got the Nokia 6301.  I'm underwhelmed, but whatever, it's an included-with-the-plan phone. However, I can't find a good program for working with it over BlueTooth, wammu seems to be the only thing that can talk to it, but it doesn't seem to have any hooks into desktop applications (Thunderbird's what I care about) for sync. ...

Sat down to clean up some dojo widgets for a project today.  Basically these are "explorer" like collections of sets-of-things, with the desire to allow for filtering the set, viewing a detailed-list view, you know, standard stuff.

So I figured I would work on the detail-list stuff.  It's a simple grid control, dojo has a ...

Got distracted writing the presentation this evening.  I wanted a simple set of examples of shader usage, particularly with respect to replacing fixed-function pipeline operations (there's a number of partial solutions in the various OpenGL books I have on my bookshelf, but I haven't found anything that looks like a complete reimplementation, though there are ...

Py3D was hacked together in a few hours.  At some point I need to switch to a submission-and-approval system rather than a manual editing system.  I get very far behind in tracking the various projects.  Ah, the infinite todo list...

[Update] also need to check the address when I hit "reply" on a message on ...

Someone asked me this morning if I'd really be willing to up-roots and move to another country to teach in a university.  This evening I would definitely say yes.  There's something so attractive about taking a block of knowledge and organizing it so that other people can understand it.

Anyway, have been working on the ...

So much for getting a Python-programmable phone.  Fido has only S40 phones AFAICS.  Rogers has reasonable S60 phones, but they're $300 *with* the multi-year contract and then have to add a rather expensive plan.  I've got something like $90 in "Fido Dollars" (a measure of how much I've been suckered so far), so I can ...

Spent the afternoon on Dojo Grid/DataGrid stuff.  Wound up with something that works if and only iff I use the latest svn head and I don't include it in the widgets I need to include it in.  So it seems as though in this case I'll likely be writing my own or going back for ...

If you're planning on going to PyCon and want to take advantage of the early-bird rates you need to get moving.  Corporate rate is just $450 now, rising to $650 at the door.  Hobbyists can register for $250 and students for just $150.

Still need to plan the plane trip and room-sharing.

[Update] Okay, have ...

Have almost finished the replacement of Gentoo on the server/workstation with Kubuntu Intrepid.  Reasonably straightforward install.  Keyboard seems to have been mis-identified, so I don't have a down-arrow, end or home key until I reconfigure the keyboard for each login.  I've seen one crash that appeared to be the nVidia drivers not wanting to go ...

Our main workstation/server at home has been doing "Bad Things"(TM) recently, mostly having KDE crash on login, random KDE applications crash when they were clicked, and generally sucking.

Have spent almost the whole day trying to fix it.  This is a Gentoo box, and I'm afraid we just don't use it as a workstation much ...