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Embrace the Singularity Talk is Up 0 comments
Scotland Street School by Charles Rennie Mackintosh 0 comments
Of Design release 1.0a1 4 comments
Need to rustle up some readers... 0 comments
Backdoors in Academia... 0 comments
Why Play? 0 comments
Writing is slow... 0 comments
Associations and Identification added... 0 comments
"What I wish someone had given me 16 years ago..." 2 comments
Roughing in the Play in Design section 0 comments
Thesis Ten Years Later 2 comments
Is "Boredom" Instinctual? 0 comments
Redefine postmodernism and it gets more interesting... 0 comments
The present is 30 years ago (in design theory) 2 comments
Charles Rennie Mackintosh 2 comments
Job Descriptions (What do I want to be when I grow up?) 0 comments
Learning in Perception (Musings...) 3 comments
Big Ideas on Conflict in the Brain (Interesting "areas of the brain" lecture...) 0 comments
Patterns of Creation (Missing section of the outline...) 0 comments
Cortical Algorithm at PyGTA Tonight (Book precis and implementation discussion) 2 comments
More text in a few areas (Expanding the early modernist and post-modernist sections) 0 comments
Bogging Down in Play (Too big a topic, too quick a treatment, too long an excursion...) 0 comments
On Intelligence (and Of Design) 2 comments
Excited about Tomorrow (Even if today was a bit of a wash...) 2 comments
Success in Innovation (Recipes for Success in Humanism) 2 comments
Messy Jobs are Never-Ending (Clean jobs a disappearing breed...) 1 comment
I want to think (Idle thought as I walked home...) 1 comment
Abandoned building in a park (Machiavelli's palace???) 1 comment
Days in the Italian Countryside (In Florence now...) 0 comments
I really need to set some time aside for thesis work (Juggling act has too many balls...) 0 comments
BarCamp this weekend ("Hacking perception, the core perceptual cycle") 0 comments
Fried Mikey (Don't put on jeans and go for long walks when you're sun-fried) 0 comments
First few pages on "Play" drafted (Nowhere near as much as I should have written these past two days...) 0 comments
Latest version of Of Design uploaded (For those who absolutely have to have the latest version...) 0 comments
Of Design finally checked into SVN (And the section on depth is finished (well first draft of it)...) 0 comments
Epistemology the 10,000m overview (With way too many isms...) 0 comments
New draft of "Of Design" up (Oh what a creative title...) 0 comments
Long term carreer goals (Pleasant little talk at U of T) 3 comments
Okay, finished with the already-published stuff (Garn that took longer than I would have thought...) 0 comments
Finally getting the portfolio cleaned up (Years and years later...) 0 comments
Just what I needed (If not the most productive of days...) 0 comments
Wednesday is the Toronto Philosophy group meeting (Guess that's today now...) 0 comments
Publish Early, Publish Often (PDF export of early drafts...) 0 comments
Depth and Frustration (Or my day in rewrites...) 0 comments
Physical and Intellectual Depth (And the last paragraph of the somewhat reworked Abundant and Refined Depth section) 0 comments
Refined and Abundant Depth (First of the rest of the chapter...) 0 comments
How We Perceive Depth (Section after the introduction from yesterday...) 2 comments
Rewritten Intro to Depth (Probably need another rewrite eventually...) 6 comments
Writer's block masquerading as zest for coding (Will not give in yet...) 4 comments
Intention Matters (Not necessarily in appreciating design, but in designing-as-intention it is central...) 0 comments
Crashing through to the end of chapter 1 (Getting to the point where I need to print it out...) 0 comments
Reworking the Perception Section (Rewrite long overdue...) 0 comments
Sebeok's Introduction to Semiotics (Subway reading...) 0 comments
On Goodness and Desire (Talk by Boyle and Lavin @ U of T) 0 comments
Should have scheduled more time for writing today (Oh well...) 0 comments
I feel like designing something today (Maybe it's just a graphic hangover from last night...) 0 comments
Discussing ideas (I need sounding boards...) 0 comments
Finishing off Dicker's Kant (Quiet Saturday of napping...) 0 comments
Computers are just distractions (Should have been reading this afternoon) 0 comments
Perceptual Fields (and the neurological basis of thought...) 0 comments
On Counting (Example strikes me as "off"...) 0 comments
Kant's object-ivity (Reading on the TTC) 0 comments
Having trouble with describing perception (Don't have a good feel for the audience's knowledge of the subject) 0 comments
Compile farm account (Problems with PyOpenGL on RedHat) 0 comments
Definition of Design pt. 2 (When you forget to read the outline as you type...) 3 comments
Definition of Design (Drafting a better introduction...) 2 comments
Two half books (Neither particularly relevant) 0 comments
A Book to Read (Stumbling through the news-feeds) 0 comments
The Path-and-Place metaphor (Why it doesn't satisfy...) 0 comments
Existence, Space and Architecture (an older book by Christian Norberg Schulz) 0 comments
Harmony versus comprehensibility (Dynamics are more than fibonacci ratios) 0 comments
Finished off Dynamics of Delight (A few little bits and pieces) 0 comments
Dynamics of Delight (by Peter F. Smith) 0 comments
The Question of Conferences (Good question, Bruce) 0 comments
Argument for Proportion (First draft of some ramblings...) 0 comments
Fall of Proportion to Van der Laan (Finishing off the book (and another) at Starbucks...) 0 comments
Further through proportion (Alberti to the fall of proportion...) 2 comments
Generating and Limiting Orders (A quicky thought before I toddle off to bed...) 0 comments
Proportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture ((reading a book by) Richard Padovan) 0 comments
Coffeeshop conversations (Wherein I monopolise the conversation) 0 comments
Brutalism in Design (Conversation in a cafe) 0 comments
I like printing things! (Environmental crisis of conscience) 0 comments
I was going to bed somewhere back there ('pedia makes 2 hours disappear...) 0 comments
Wikipedia editing is addictive too! (Try to create a simple link from a blog post and wind up writing another encyclopedia article...) 0 comments
On Limiting Languages (Old images from my thesis prompt a post...) 0 comments
Wow, a whole day on graphics (I'm so out of practice...) 0 comments
Wiki-addiction takes hold (I was just going to read...) 0 comments
Ironic that post had the real answer within it (I should *read* now...) 0 comments
I should write now (But I feel like sleeping instead) 0 comments
Need to create some icons for the homepage (Well, really: need to create some pretty graphics so I don't go nuts...) 0 comments
A long and involved email will sit in the queue for a good long time (Short and dealing with a single issue or idea I can respond to while tests run...) 0 comments
Setup work for Jelle's project (Install/port radiance to AMD64 Gentoo...) 0 comments
With whom would I like to study? (Pondering question at a party while I can't sleep...) 0 comments
Don't seem to be in the mood to write serious stuff (Ritual in design blathering...) 0 comments
A perfect evening (From the Book of Questions...) 4 comments
The Inexact in Design (Section roughed out now...) 0 comments
Not much done this evening (Began working on "inexactitude" section...) 0 comments
An issue that came up while summarising my thesis (More party thoughts float across the unsleeping mind...) 0 comments
Play in Design: The Ampersand (First draft starts... forgot how interesting this stuff is (well, to me, anyway)...) 0 comments
My subconscious needs dream-writing lessons (Retro dream-style reasserts itself...) 0 comments
Why you can't just flutter the eyelashes anymore (Ruminations on a discussion at PyGTA...) 1 comment
Fascinating article on planning Burning Man (Urban planning for utopias...) 0 comments
Fascinating article on planning Burning Man (Urban planning for utopias...) 0 comments
Where are the radical ideas in computer science? (Radical is not adding functional elements to Python, for instance...) 0 comments
You assume those you like are like you (And, of course, that they like you) 0 comments
A Safe Place to Explore Ideas (Playfulness in design as a mechanism to allow exploration of difficult topics) 0 comments
Perception is mostly expectation (Recent thoughts on constructing perceiving machines...) 0 comments

Knight Errant

Java Jokes 0 comments
Free Million-Dollar Idea of the Day 0 comments
Learning Curves 2 comments
Expanding Micro-Tasks are Demotivators, Communicate your Strategy 2 comments
Back from the Tropics 1 comment
But I just need 1 little function... 1 comment
Channeling... 0 comments
TurboGears Weirdness (Validators don't Run) 0 comments
Mind Numb (22.5 billable hours in two days...) 1 comment
C++ and Accounting (Not as exciting as you might think...) 0 comments
Unexpected 'free' day (More of an "I want to do something else" day...) 1 comment
Formatting and Review for Tutorial Handout (Oh, and some paying work...) 3 comments
Last to Know, Apparently (End of an era...) 1 comment
SNMP Engine for 250,000+ Device Networks (Scaling up...) 4 comments
Giving up on GNUCash (Delegating accounting/bookkeeping) 1 comment
Need some time to work on work too (Inversion of ratio...) 0 comments
What to do for 24 hours (Rubbing hands in manic glee... free time (sort-of)) 0 comments
Long Hours (and Short) 0 comments
Long Day (Schedules mean never having a minute's rest... but you feel really good at the end of the day...) 0 comments
Messy Jobs are Never-Ending (Clean jobs a disappearing breed...) 1 comment
Fixing core structures is a pain (Hindsight realisations...) 0 comments
Bugs and refactoring all day (Yawn...) 0 comments
Promotion didn't go well (Frustrating...) 0 comments
Why is finding an accountant online so hard? (Only half a dozen in Toronto?) 0 comments
Taxes melt minds (Fall-through on accountants causes headaches...) 0 comments
Bashing out code all day (With a 1 hour OLPC break) 0 comments
Very productive day (8.5 hours of extremely focused work) 0 comments
Good day's billables on Friday (Refactoring before the new project...) 0 comments
Billing System Day Tomorrow (All day, all the way...) 0 comments
Abandoned building in a park (Machiavelli's palace???) 1 comment
Just 1.5 days left (Little odds and ends of work...) 0 comments
Reasonable day's work (Despite an afternoon nap...) 0 comments
PyGame wrappers and documentation and new developers (Long-ish day with client stuff too...) 3 comments
Tomorrow is make clients happy day! Yay! (Push through all day to do the non-OLPC stuff) 0 comments
Maybe a bit too clever in the Postgresql usage ("In case I want to do what I never want to do" bites me...) 0 comments
Handling dividends (I am *so* not an accountant...) 0 comments
Handling dividends (I am *so* not an accountant...) 0 comments
Not my day for networking (Locked out of the work svn server...) 0 comments
Not my day for networking (Locked out of the work svn server...) 0 comments
Stabilisation period after a long crunch (A few days of just tracking down anything broken) 0 comments
I hate details (They get in the way of the great plans...) 0 comments
Pause before unleashing the fix (What have I messed up...) 0 comments
This week was just too long (Treading water...) 0 comments
Refactoring fatigue setting in (Upgrade scripts making me sick...) 0 comments
Slept the day away (Up late, 4 minutes of work, jog up and down some stairs, back to bed...) 0 comments
A certain quiet satisfaction (Jobs done and books up-to-date...) 0 comments
Subtle little bug in a library costs me a few hours (Sigh...) 0 comments
I want to do 3D graphics today (No chance though...) 0 comments
That goes reasonably well (Apparently giving up on sleep is the answer...) 0 comments
Oh, I'll just fix that little problem (He says for the hundredth time, knowing as he does it's a mistake...) 0 comments
Really need to get a "too far" alert (Too easy to fix just one figure flaw too many...) 1 comment
Long weekend of work hasn't yet gelled (People seem to want to have a holiday...) 0 comments
Day's slippage (No work done yet of note...) 0 comments
I would have thought this was "normal care" (Hiring and paying someone to do the book-keeping is not enough) 2 comments
A tip for owners of small businesses (If your bookkeeper is unwilling to show you the books, change bookkeepers...) 0 comments
Not much OpenGL hacking this weekend (But I got some general maintenance done and played a couple of games) 0 comments
Falling behind can make you fall behind (When projects slip past hard deadlines...) 0 comments
Turns out it was only 1 (or 2) steps too far (Fear is the mind-killer...) 0 comments
Got too bold in refactoring (Point was to make a first step, not run a marathon) 3 comments
Refactoring makes you bold about refactoring (5 hours head-down refactoring for client) 0 comments
Wow, much easier than I expected... (Done the promotion in under 30 minutes) 0 comments
Feel like taking a week off (May be just messed up sleep schedule...) 0 comments
Sometimes you have to see it to know... (Testing needs to go all the way through the process) 0 comments
That moment of truth (Flipping the switch...) 1 comment
Talk Proposal in for PyCon (Plus an extremely long day for billables...) 0 comments
Buying a printer tomorrow (Brother HL 2070N) 0 comments
At some point you just have to accept it (Changing core assumptions at the last moment doesn't work...) 0 comments
Mail server disappears again (Grr...) 0 comments
That was unbelievably frustrating! (Subversions silliness all day...) 0 comments
Sysadmin Time Warp (Forgotten how much it consumes...) 0 comments
Long day of sysadmin-ing (Yay, a new server...) 0 comments
I'll just get one or two things done before I head down (Dangerous thoughts in the morning...) 1 comment
Apparently I've become somewhat used to A/C (Crash in the heat of the home-office) 0 comments
Procrastination pays (Apparently, with accounting software...) 0 comments
Need to figure out a better name for Better Billing (It's already taken...) 1 comment
Evening on Turbogears (Refactoring doesn't go well...) 5 comments
Crossing the nodal point (Risk-free to ever-so-tiny-risk...) 0 comments
On $250/month coders (Outsourcing and other operations...) 1 comment
Rather intense day of training (Didn't intend it to be that long...) 0 comments
Things I need to buy (And a thing I want to buy...) 0 comments
Printing invoices is somewhat key to cashflow (5 hours of flailing about...) 3 comments
Am I becoming a sleep addict? (Return of dreams makes it so attractive...) 0 comments
Learning and experience days are important (Taking a day to get up close and personal with SQLObject) 2 comments
It's a bad thing when accounting software dumps core (So much for going with the polished consumer-friendly app...) 1 comment
Working the whole day lying down (This laptop gets *hot*!) 1 comment
Doesn't quite make up for yesterday (But a very good day in for billables...) 0 comments
I can see clearly now (The squinting's gone...) 0 comments
Fun errands tomorrow! (First two cheques arrive...) 1 comment
Days at Linux Caffe are just so much more productive (Almost seven billable hours already) 0 comments
A bit under the weather (And way behind on billables for the week...) 0 comments
You pay for quick-and-dirty hacks (In maintenance headaches...) 0 comments
Bogging down a bit on the charge-setup subsystem (Uncharted areas for me to some degree...) 0 comments
Addresses and constrained addresses (Long-term wish-list items...) 3 comments
These are the continuing voyages... (More work on BetterBilling...) 0 comments
Test suites are fun! (Cancelled meetings and working on almost-spec...) 0 comments
My first day with TurboGears (So far so good...) 0 comments
Getting out of the house is a good thing (Only takes 20 minutes or so to pay for the food...) 0 comments
You pay for it the next day (Good day may equal poor week...) 0 comments
Good utilisation rate for the day (Not big-company good, but pretty good for someone working by themselves...) 0 comments
Hardware makes for very frustrating days (Maybe it's the "mushy" feeling?) 0 comments
Urgh, GST goes down July 1st, not June 1st (Have to eat the difference for that last invoice) 0 comments
Week is still very good looking (Even if the day was rather light...) 0 comments
Paper testing is fun (What do I need to create to match current functionality in a general system) 0 comments
Sometimes the universe loves ya (Thanks universe! (You too Bryan!)) 0 comments
Don't forget to restart the server (Stupid little things that take hours to track down and seconds to fix...) 0 comments
The under-tested areas get ya (Day has been pretty much one little failing thing after another...) 0 comments
Yay, it's launched! (At least until tomorrow when the users show up...) 0 comments
Pleasant feeling when a launch goes smoothly (He says, jinxing himself...) 0 comments
Amazing how much simpler it is if you do much less (Reading through an Open Source billing system...) 0 comments
Picking up bits and pieces all day (I prefer deep thought to details...) 0 comments
Setting a timetable is good (Launching and the like) 0 comments
Bootstrapping Material Culture (More thinking about applications for the OLPC project...) 0 comments
Attempting to build sugar (Between the work-times) 4 comments
Productive day (If somewhat long) 0 comments
Thinking out loud dump of requirements for ISP Billing System (Open Source from the start, as they say...) 1 comment
Hitting targets is fun! (No wonder first-person-shooters are popular in business...) 4 comments
Taxonomies of Neighbourhoods (Himy's adventures in community building) 0 comments
An application for the $100 laptop (Voice training for children (or adults)) 0 comments
Refactoring is surprisingly time-consuming (Implications upon implications...) 0 comments
Networking for fun and profit (Night of Asterisk and related conversations...) 2 comments
First day goes well (Cleaning up code that's been hacked up way too much) 0 comments
Learning is fun (Even if it's just accounting...) 3 comments
Finishing off the evening with a little light reading (How to start a business in Ontario...) 0 comments

Polis

Social Cost of Carbon and Ethics 0 comments
What would a realistic Carbon Tax look like? 0 comments
Hyperloop Read-through 0 comments
Why would you delete (valid) pages on Wikipedia? 1 comment
From where the short posts come... 6 comments
50 Year Nukes, Good Governance, Prosperity and Education 0 comments
Something that was dropped in the debate... 2 comments
TED seems skipable 4 comments
Look, but don't worry about them... 0 comments
Nuclear Genies and Racism 5 comments
Guiding Hands 1 comment
Canadian DMCA 0 comments

Pony

Yay, django 1.11 broken frozen/pyc migrations again 0 comments
Finally moving to Django migrations 0 comments
Django Migration Migration Strategy 2 comments
Save/Restore for Django "Embedded" Apps 0 comments
React.js with Django 0 comments
Uploading GBs to Django 0 comments
Nginx upload module 1 comment
pip/pytz fails with 1.4 and 2013b 0 comments
Defaulting a POINT to GeoIP 0 comments
Metaclasses, what are they good for... 0 comments
olwidget show features in the window 0 comments
olwidget templates... 0 comments
GeoDjango is Pretty Straightforward 0 comments
Okay, spammers, you win 1 comment
Save/Restore for Embedded Django? 0 comments
Single Artefact Deployment 0 comments
Linux Refuses to See the HDMI 2 comments
Fail2ban + Django convenient format 4 comments
You got Video in my Django at Django Toronto 0 comments
Do I really need 0-copy? 1 comment
Generic Filter/Sort Tables for Django? 4 comments
Compress your JS/CSS in Django 0 comments
Lazy Caching Proxy Results in Nginx 1 comment

Snaking

Interesting Memory Leak with Python 3.12 for PyOpenGL-accelerate 0 comments
Ubuntu 22.04 Python 3.12 pip is broken 0 comments
What is Pythonic Typing for "There exists some plugin that provides an Adapter for X" 0 comments
PyOpenGL 3.1.7 Building Now 0 comments
Weird regressions in EGL setups 1 comment
Potions with Custom Effects 0 comments
Finally Got Potions (ItemMeta) and Signs (BlockState) working 0 comments
Creating some Pycraft Videos 0 comments
Python Version Support Ideas 0 comments
Cleaning up the PyOpenGL Demos 0 comments
Go Lang Impressions after 2 Months 0 comments
Django Field Rename Migrations and Test Cases 0 comments
PycraftServer Plugin 0 comments
Adding a Certificate Authority to Chrome Trust Store 0 comments
PyOpenGL Build Enhancements 0 comments
RunSnakeRun 3.0.0 Beta 1 0 comments
Listener GUI Started 0 comments
Auto-link a Host-provided Package into a Virtualenv 2 comments
Listener v2, using DeepSpeech for Coding on Linux 1 comment
Playing with EGL+OpenGL Off-screen Multi-Card 0 comments
Started work on getting py-spy/speedscope in RunSnakeRun 0 comments
PyOpenGL 3.1.5 is Out 0 comments
Windows Isn't a Horror Show 0 comments
DRM Names for EGL Enumerated Devices 0 comments
RunSnakeRun for Python3 Out 0 comments
Seems SimpleParse needs work for 3.8 0 comments
PyOpenGL 3.1.4 is Out 0 comments
Updating PyOpenGL Sample Code References 0 comments
Getting Twitch out the Door (but not as Twitch) 0 comments
Protocol Buffer Definitions in Packages 0 comments
Lessons from Implementing from Scratch 0 comments
Yay, django 1.11 broken frozen/pyc migrations again 0 comments
PyOpenGL 3.1.3b1 up on PyPI 0 comments
TTFQuery 2.0.0b1 Up on PyPI 0 comments
PyOpenGL on Travis CI 0 comments
Fast.ai Setup for Google Colaboratory 0 comments
Bit of PyOpenGL maintenance 0 comments
Docker on Centos7 host underwhelms 0 comments
GStreamer Playback Captured mpeg.ts using Timestamps 0 comments
Review: Dell XPS 15 (9550) as a Linux Developer's Laptop 0 comments
PyCon.ca talk on Mistakes in Life/AI is up 0 comments
PyCon Canada running Nov 12-15th 2016 0 comments
nVidia, package cudnn for Ubuntu already 0 comments
mcastsocket broken out into its own project 0 comments
Embrace the Singularity Talk is Up 0 comments
Let's Encrypt Tomorrow 1 comment
PyCaribbean Wow, That's Tempting 0 comments
Going to try AppVeyor for building releases 0 comments
Lazy-calculated Integer Sizes Deprecated 0 comments
Java Jokes 0 comments
Slides from "Embrace the Singularity" 0 comments
Embrace the Singularity: Sunday Bahen 1180 0 comments
Has it really been 18 years since I did Java? 2 comments
That point where you wish you'd asked for an hour 0 comments
Finally moving to Django migrations 0 comments
Multiple "output" parameters in PyOpenGL 0 comments
Talk accepted at PyCon.ca 0 comments
Neural Nets on the CPU Are (as Expected) Pointless 0 comments
Just got my Pycon.ca Ticket 0 comments
Old School GPGPU is Frustrating 0 comments
Raspberry Pi PyOpenGL 0 comments
Another little road-bump on the road to Python 3 0 comments
OpenGLContext is almost on Python3 0 comments
Thinking Out Loud for a PyCon.ca presentation... 0 comments
Every Test 0 comments
Long Night of Porting SimpleParse 0 comments
PyCon.ca Call for Proposals is Out 0 comments
Django Migration Migration Strategy 2 comments
Did I just create another Inotify Interface? 0 comments
PyOpenGL 3.1.1a1 is out 0 comments
Say What is still pretty popular 0 comments
NIST Sphere Format 0 comments
Type Declarations for Python 2.7 3 comments
More Reading and Waiting in Neural Networks 0 comments
Neural Networks Readings 0 comments
Getting a PyOpenGL 3.1.1 release moving 0 comments
Playing with Web Sockets 0 comments
Save/Restore for Django "Embedded" Apps 0 comments
Back to React Learning 0 comments
Eventually Text Munging Gets Nasty 0 comments
First-Light on Dictating Code into Eric 0 comments
Aw, come-on QtDBus, just work already 0 comments
Interpretation of Dictation 0 comments
Using GStreamer AppSink from Python 0 comments
Python-dbus needs some non-trivial examples 0 comments
Seem to need hidden-markov-models for text extraction... 2 comments
Project-to-language model almost working 0 comments
Automatic Language Model Creation Started 0 comments
Create your own virtual keyboard with Python 2 comments
Listener is Crawling Forward 0 comments
GStreamer Level Plugin Monitoring 0 comments
wx in a VirtualEnv (for RunSnakeRun) 0 comments
RunSnakeRun/Squaremap with wxPython 3.0.0 0 comments
PyOpenGL 3.1.0 final is out 0 comments
React.js with Django 0 comments
Found the source of SegFaults on AMD + FreeGLUT 0 comments
Auto-generating Output Declarations 0 comments
Enums and Output Variables 0 comments
So close on py2exe with PyOpenGL 5 comments
PyOpenGL 3.1.0b2 Available for Testing 0 comments
OpenGLContext-full working on Ubuntu Again 0 comments
Almost ready for a beta 2 for PyOpenGL 0 comments
OSMesa Refactoring 0 comments
PyOpenGL Working on the Raspberry Pi 0 comments
Raspberry Pi BCM Window Needs Love 0 comments
GL Arrogance Cleanup is Significant 0 comments
Twisted is really convenient sometimes 3 comments
More consistency in array input/outputs 0 comments
Step 2: Get an amd64-compatible VS 2010 2 comments
Pygame-hosted EGL + ES1 works 0 comments
PyOpenGL 3.1.0b1 Available for Testing 0 comments
Step 1: Get Windows Updated 2 comments
Finally some EGL/GLES in PyOpenGL 0 comments
Voice Dictation Privilege 0 comments
Django CSRF explicitly doesn't trust HTTP when submitting to HTTPS 0 comments
os.write() can hang, apparently 1 comment
Started on Win32 for PyOpenGL 0 comments
Integrated Graphics Really Does Suck 0 comments
So Far the Nexus 5 is a Nice Step Up 0 comments
Testing a Fresh Checkout Encounters Errors 0 comments
PyOpenGL from spec almost there 0 comments
Bit more forward motion on PyOpenGL-from-spec 0 comments
Moving forward with PyOpenGL XML Generation 0 comments
Multicast and Performance Binds 0 comments
My Raspberry Pis Seem Cursed 0 comments
Twitch Lightmaps and (the start of Shaders) 0 comments
Toronto Python Meetup Hack Night Project 0 comments
New RunSnakeRun and SquareMap available 0 comments
Nginx upload module 1 comment
Public Service Announcement PyPI "wx" is not what you think... 0 comments
Py_buffer underwhelms so far 0 comments
PyOpenGL Py_buffer Support Moving Forward 0 comments
pip/pytz fails with 1.4 and 2013b 0 comments
ctypes + PyBuffer? 2 comments
Defaulting a POINT to GeoIP 0 comments
Metaclasses, what are they good for... 0 comments
olwidget show features in the window 0 comments
olwidget templates... 0 comments
GeoDjango is Pretty Straightforward 0 comments
Okay, spammers, you win 1 comment
Save/Restore for Embedded Django? 0 comments
Single Artefact Deployment 0 comments
Linux Refuses to See the HDMI 2 comments
Fail2ban + Django convenient format 4 comments
You got Video in my Django at Django Toronto 0 comments
Do I really need 0-copy? 1 comment
Generic Filter/Sort Tables for Django? 4 comments
Compress your JS/CSS in Django 0 comments
Lazy Caching Proxy Results in Nginx 1 comment
Toronto Django/Python Dates 0 comments
Playing with EGL platform for PyOpenGL 0 comments
QIII Shader File Parser added to Twitch 3 comments
Added Textures to Twitch this evening... 0 comments
Video from PyCon.ca is up... 0 comments
PyCon.ca Tools Sprint wrap-up (a bit late) 1 comment
Where does the time go? 2 comments
Line localtime inadvertantly implemented... 0 comments
Coldshot progress... 0 comments
Profiling for Performance at PyCon.ca 0 comments
Quadratic Bezier Splines 0 comments
PyOpenGL 3.0.2 Released 1 comment
Pycon.ca Talk Submissions Due Monday! 0 comments
PyOpenGL 3.0.2b2 is Out 0 comments
Patch Django Management to allow pyc, so and pyd modules 2 comments
A Day of Fun (QIII BSP File Loader) 0 comments
Really Dumb HTML5 Video Tag Back-end 0 comments
How can an audio server take up 900MB of RAM? 0 comments
Experience has some value... and risk 0 comments
Piping Data Around with Fussy 1 comment
So apparently I don't need to write my own test code... 0 comments
2Day Python (Our Tutorial for Software Carpentry) 0 comments
Announcing the Fussy Firmware Packager 0 comments
Libraries Exposing 8-bit Binary Strings to Python 3, Best Practice? 2 comments
Firmware Upgrade Module? 5 comments
Research in Action 2012 0 comments
Make your nginx-proxied Django site detect SSL (HTTPS) 0 comments
Any LibreOffice/OpenOffice/PyUno Gurus in the House? 0 comments
Django JQuery File Upload 0 comments
Build PIL on a custom Python2.6 on recent Ubuntu 2 comments
First Lessons in Programming, Software Carpentry Review 2 comments
Software Carpentry Collaboration 0 comments
Green Fields are Fun! 3 comments
Phenomenal Enterprise-Grade Messaging: Itty Bitty Message Size 0 comments
Planning to use Numpy Structured Data Types 4 comments
Corner cases do crop up, don't they? 0 comments
Want to display MathML? MathJax 2 comments
pip install --link-system? 7 comments
What to play with? 11 comments
Kid replaced with Genshi for DirectDocs 0 comments
TTFQuery Updated, PyVRML97 Bug-fix 0 comments
Watch your Django field defaults do not load objects if you use South 4 comments
Fake French is Fun! 0 comments
Bad Coder, No Cookie 1 comment
Minor changes to OpenGL.raw 0 comments
Modernising PyVRML97 0 comments
Android 2.2 seems pretty 2.1-like... 2 comments
Android Dev Setup: What is step one, really? 4 comments
SilleScope, a trivial OpenGL oscilloscope-like thingy for kids 0 comments
More porting-to-python-3 notes... 0 comments
Evening Learning; I was hoping to get something done... 5 comments
Cross-database relations in SQLAlchemy? 5 comments
Dreaming of deterministic profilers future... 1 comment
PyCon recordings seem to suffer from link-rot... 5 comments
New release of globalsub is out 0 comments
KDE seems to have stabilized... I suppose I should break it 0 comments
The PyCon Presentation Proposal Deadline is Upon You! 0 comments
Find Equivalent Timezones with pytz? 1 comment
Django Model Forms made easier... 2 comments
PyDispatcher runs on Python 3.2 now... 0 comments
RunSnakeRun begins to get a memory... 0 comments
Python 2.5.6 on Ubuntu Natty... urgh... 16 comments
SimpleParse-pure on Python 3.2, useless, but working 4 comments
PyOpenGL should now support GLE on Python 2.7 0 comments
OpenGL up to 4.2 1 comment
Requests Library is nice 0 comments
Run coverage of your Django test suite... 0 comments
Choices for Foo? 0 comments
FakeLion rides the PyPI 1 comment
Quick Hack to do Psuedo-Localization (l10n) 1 comment
Django + JQuery Mobile Quick Start Tutorial 2 comments
JQuery Mobile Django Baseline 0 comments
Dumb PyDoc Replacement for PyOpenGL 3 comments
Miscellaneous jQuery Mobile + Django tips 3 comments
OpenGL 3.x and 4.x man pages integrated 0 comments
jQuery Mobile + Django gets Pleasantly Out of the Way 0 comments
No luck on GLSLDevil + PyOpenGL yet 0 comments
Playing with extensions in PyOpenGL 0 comments
RunSnakeRun 2.0.1 Released 0 comments
Watch your texture bindings when using FBO attachments 0 comments
bytes(23) this is not your Python2.7 bytes... 11 comments
2.0.1 beta 5 of RunSnakeRun 0 comments
The wonder of writing code you can't run... 0 comments
Columnar Sort of N Columns in 2 Directions, a.k.a. Data-grid Sorting 2 comments
Violating my own principle in PyOpenGL sometimes works 0 comments
Yay, fairly usable meliae loading 2 comments
Meliae support lands, buy more RAM 0 comments
Meliae support lands, but not satisfied 0 comments
Memory exploration pretty much working 2 comments
Meliae is neat, but scary... 2 comments
Convert nosetests xml to html (hack) 0 comments
PyPy hits 3x speed (or 1/12th, or 2.5x depending on the sign-post) 4 comments
First tempting micro-successes with PyPy 2 comments
Forgot how big SimpleParse is... 0 comments
Bellorussian Py3D.py 0 comments
A small enough task to explore PyPy without getting lost 4 comments
Little bit of OpenGL hacking this afternoon 1 comment
I was like, all, let's do uPNP too... then I was like, meh 0 comments
mDNS is kinda fun 3 comments
Flex Devs, KISS, please, for the Love of the FSM 0 comments
All those little spots where you use strings... 4 comments
bzr-svn for those stuck with svn servers... 6 comments
Python 3.x Porting Notes 0 comments
Mocker's hidden gem... 6 comments
Stub/Mock-a-Process Module 5 comments
Anyone with PostgreSQL-on-EC2 recipes that work? 3 comments
Python 2.5 PIL Gone in Lucid? 3 comments
Duh! But upstart on 1.5 year old OS not so great... 3 comments
Upstart seems kinda nice 0 comments
Extract all fields of a DER-encoded PKCS7 file? 5 comments
Generic Binary-Data Pack/Unpack Module? 7 comments
tgext.command 0.2 is out... 3 comments
Don't make me guess, Gentle Spec Writer 0 comments
RunSnakeRun 2.0.0b6 (and SquareMap 1.0.0b25) released 7 comments
Infinite Deployment Docs and OpenID Issues 2 comments
RunSnakeRun gets a basic source-code-view 6 comments
PyOpenGL 3.0.1 Final (Test Please) 0 comments
Much documentation revised 0 comments
EJabberD Configuration some Other Day 0 comments
That didn't go as well as I'd have liked 2 comments
When the Floor is Crooked, You Don't Know How You Dance 0 comments
PyCon Dress Rehearsal Tonight (Tuesday) 0 comments
PyCon Dress Rehearsal rocks the Casbah 0 comments
3D/Graphics Open Track at PyCon 1 comment
The "Shiver" Moment in Presentation Writing 6 comments
Float == Float4, Ya Pythonic Wanker! 0 comments
PyCon Dress Rehearsal in 1 week! 0 comments
Best pattern for "captive" servers in testing? 5 comments
ab is a cruel mistress 0 comments
Specs can really suck the life out of you... 1 comment
Quicky testing TFTP Client (and server) with tftpy 2 comments
Two Weeks to PyCon Dress Rehearsal @ PyGTA 0 comments
Linux is kinda fun... 2 comments
Didn't even think to enable epoll in Twisted+TG 0 comments
Testing and Compressing and Timing, Oh My! 0 comments
Ported back to Twisted (but with TurboGears) 0 comments
Getting close on ChatTrack 0 comments
Making your Twisted resource(s) a url sub-tree of your WSGI resource... 3 comments
TurboGears 2.1b1 0 comments
SQLAlchemy orm join against subquery 2 comments
TurboGears as a Twisted WSGI Application (in 125 seconds) 1 comment
Need to find some PyOpenGL time 1 comment
64-bit Ubuntu Web Devs, don't let Firebug update to 1.5 0 comments
Things I'd like to play with (given enough time) 5 comments
Python's Too Easy 1 comment
Need to find a room sharer for PyCon... 2 comments
Tornado @ PyGTA this month, PyCon Dress Rehearsal next 0 comments
IE6 Can Bite My Shiny 0 comments
Simple Channels for Tornado (rev 0.0.1) 0 comments
Are we having fun yet? 0 comments
More CouchDB Fun... 2 comments
PyCon Dress Rehearsal Confirmed for February PyGTA 0 comments
Tornado, CouchDB Clients, LaunchPad OpenID and other fun explorations... 2 comments
Cross-platform Shaders can be a Pain 0 comments
You don't realize you're addicted to variables... 8 comments
Register Early for PyCon 0 comments
Templated PyDoc-ish Tool? 5 comments
Shader Tutorial Cleanup 0 comments
Cleaning up Shadow Tutorial Code 0 comments
Adding user-authentication to your Twisted web-site (Another HowTo for undocumented features...) 0 comments
Minimal example of using twisted.manhole (Since it took me so long to get it working...) 3 comments
HowTo: Create an SSL web-server in Twisted (Crude approach, but it works...) 4 comments
Framebuffer Object shadows 3 comments
Research in Action 0 comments
Code-dojo seemed to work well 0 comments
Code-dojo on Cython @ PyGTA on Tuesday 0 comments
Shadow Tutorial Up 0 comments
Automating the day away 1 comment
Linking Platform Packages into VirtualEnv (automatically)? 2 comments
PyOpenGL 3.0.1b1 and OpenGLContext 2.1.0a7 0 comments
Asterisk call-to-call daemon (By popular demand...) 8 comments
Getting the old OpenGL.Tk module working again... 0 comments
Any Win64 PyOpenGL devs? 0 comments
TurboGears "offline" processes (crons, command-line commands, etc) 2 comments
OpenID Support in a TG2 Application 3 comments
PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy/TurboGears search 1 comment
Brian's Brain as a brain-teaser... 0 comments
TurboGears Doc Sprint 0 comments
ToscaWidgets JQuery and TinyMCE (Tutorialish-ly) 1 comment
ToscaWidgets JQuery and Flot Plotting (Tutorialish-ly) 1 comment
Wrapping JQuery plugins for ToscaWidgets/TurboGears 1 comment
I forget how advanced TurboGears 2.0 is, sometimes 0 comments
First PyGTA Class Begins to Take Shape 0 comments
Hack to map Vertex Buffer Objects into Numpy arrays... 8 comments
easy_install no longer working with SourceForge-hosted projects? 5 comments
Reminder: Exceptional Conditions at PyGTA this evening! 0 comments
Oh, OpenGL 3.2 in PyOpenGL, PyOpenGL in Python 3.x 0 comments
Add context managers to PyOpenGL? 5 comments
PyGTA on Tuesday: Exceptional Conditions 1 comment
New tutorial(s) up... 3 comments
GLSL tutorial intro to structures and arrays... 0 comments
Code-walkthrough Overkill 1 comment
OpenGLContext Fun 0 comments
Beginning work on OpenGLContext release 0 comments
PyOpenGL 3.0.1a2, for the forward-thinking... 0 comments
Day of Exploring 1 comment
Beginnings of diffuse + ambient shader tutorial up... 2 comments
You tend to forget the stuff under your abstractions... 0 comments
Selenium Setup bores me... 3 comments
Shader convenience module... 2 comments
Win32 Trivia 0 comments
For the Brave: PyOpenGL 3.0.1a1 0 comments
Bashing Tutorials Out 1 comment
zc.buildout at PyGTA on Tuesday 0 comments
Lots of bug-fixes landing in PyOpenGL today... 0 comments
Tentative PyGTA Site Rework 0 comments
Javascript and Namespaces... 1 comment
PyOpenGL Testing on Linux and Win32 Today 2 comments
Contributors verily rocketh 0 comments
Capturing and replaying from easy_install 3 comments
Testing and Point Parameters (sprites) 0 comments
What should networking look like? 8 comments
This evening's pyqnet hacking brought to you by annoying neighbours 0 comments
PyGTA is on Wednesday this month, PyCairo 1 comment
SimpleParse rev'd for Python 2.6 0 comments
One more bug then should do a PyOpenGL 3.0.1 release 1 comment
Cheap User Testing (via Steve Krug) 0 comments
Notes from PyGTA's Programmer Liability Round Table 3 comments
Time to start testing for PyOpenGL 3.0.1 2 comments
Sphere rendering with numpy... 0 comments
Do not use "profile", use "cProfile" 4 comments
Most of the work I planned to do is done... 0 comments
Where are we... 3 comments
Cython for the last couple of days... 2 comments
First step in eliminating GLU quadrics... 0 comments
GL_ARB_compatibility 1 comment
Profiler modules for fun and profit... 0 comments
Silly little Eric4 helper script released... 0 comments
Luck o' the Draw @ World Plone Day 1 comment
A Good Day 2 comments
Scene sorting with numpy... 0 comments
World Plone Day is tomorrow... 0 comments
Years in, it's easy to forget the details... 3 comments
Path Matrix Caching 0 comments
Spike test works... 0 comments
Debug Mode Rendering (or, What you should always have) 0 comments
Texture Atlases for Fun and Profit... 1 comment
Peeling back layers... 0 comments
Videos are up... 2 comments
PyOpenGL 3.0.0 (final) Released 7 comments
SimpleParse ported to Python 2.6 I guess... 2 comments
Almost there, just testing left... 5 comments
RunSnakeRun Python Profiler 2.0.0b4 4 comments
Duh! OpenGL bug squished... 1 comment
Knee-ing video cards part II 2 comments
Bring your video card to its knees... 0 comments
Sat down to generate the PyOpenGL docs today 0 comments
Lists/tuples are so convenient 0 comments
Graphics suck time... indecision more... 0 comments
Reasonable first-run of Profiling talk 3 comments
OpenGL 3.1 Talk Preview at PyGTA on Tuesday 2 comments
Being pushy helps 0 comments
Long day's Dojo into AJAX 0 comments
Fixed bug in generic attribute support 0 comments
Audio Monitor for System Load in CSound (Using CSound from Python) 0 comments
glInterleavedArrays is deprecated... 0 comments
Presentations are Roughed Out 0 comments
Sure, I'm fine, but... 0 comments
Should make the VBO objects act as arrays if no implementation 0 comments
Adding Shader support to OpenGLContext scenegraph 0 comments
Need to make Py3D easier to maintain 0 comments
Teaching is Exhilarating 2 comments
Fido doesn't have a single S60 phone!? 5 comments
Dojo DataGrid 2 comments
PyCon Registration Done 0 comments
(Im)Practical iPhone Application: Biometrics hacking tool 0 comments
Little tweaks all day 0 comments
RunSnakeRun Beta1 is Out 2 comments
PyGTA "Unplugged" on Tuesday @ Linux Caffe 0 comments
PyOpenGL 3.0.0c1 Available for Testing 10 comments
Lazyweb: Best cell phone for Python hacking? 10 comments
Sprinting at PyCon 2 comments
I heart contributors 8 comments
A few UI tweaks for RunSnakeRun 0 comments
Stealing time on the subway 2 comments
Programming CouchDB with Python at PyGTA 0 comments
Open Source Time 0 comments
Closing in on RunSnakeRun 2.0 1 comment
glHistogram and ARB imaging 0 comments
Hoping to make Saturday a PyOpenGL day 0 comments
Neat little feature added to RunSnakeRun 0 comments
Square-map shaping up 0 comments
Profiling looseness... 0 comments
Square-maps in wxPython for RunSnakeRun 3 comments
Javascript's default-global... repressed memories 3 comments
Abstractions and Drowning in Them 4 comments
Two Talks at PyCon 0 comments
Symmetric networking is cool 0 comments
Programming Mantras (Rough Notes) 0 comments
Upload files to a TurboGears web application... 1 comment
Weird little glitch in wrapper code 0 comments
Getting very accustomed to bzr 2 comments
Regression on Lists/Tuples 4 comments
Have to do another beta for PyOpenGL 3 comments
Got a MingW32 Toolchain Set Up 0 comments
Color me impressed with Cython 2 comments
No thrill on Ruby yet 6 comments
Now we need 3 million dollars... 4 comments
Your Million-Dollar Python Project @ PyGTA 8 comments
Million Dollar Ideas Wrap-up from PyGTA 1 comment
Unexpected Optimizations 0 comments
Display-listing Materials Speeds Rendering 2 comments
PyOpenGL Hacking at HackLab 2 comments
Your Million Dollar Python Project @ PyGTA Tuesday 0 comments
Finally got SimpleParse updated to use Py_ssize_t 6 comments
Quality Time with PyOpenGL 0 comments
Profiling OpenGLContext fun... 3 comments
Seems I need to update the video card again 0 comments
Finishing is Good 1 comment
Procrastination is Bad 0 comments
PyGTA Tonight: You got Python in my XML! 2 comments
Stripped pkg_resources out of OpenGLContext and PyVRML97 4 comments
Bit of PyOpenGL on the weekend 0 comments
Where did *that* dependency come from? 2 comments
I rather enjoyed Mochikit 4 comments
New PyOpenGL-Demo demos 0 comments
Need to expand vbo support... and support/contribution emails 0 comments
OpenGL 2.1 manual sources are integrated... 2 comments
Python 3.0 at PyGTA Tomorrow (Tuesday) 0 comments
PyOpenGL 3.0.0b6 (likely the last beta) is up... 0 comments
A few steps forward... 0 comments
Modernizing the Version Control System for PyOpenGL 1 comment
Eliminating pkg_resources 8 comments
Want that tool, but cores are useless without debug symbols 7 comments
Sigh, too far, too fast 0 comments
Mind your Ps, Qs and CCallbacks 2 comments
Code Cleanup Begins 0 comments
Time to Collect PyOpenGL Source Code Samples 1 comment
Next Up: Code Cleanup 0 comments
Porting to PyOpenGL 3.x from PyOpenGL 2.x 0 comments
Almost done the doc generation script 0 comments
Documentation Generation 2 comments
Profiling, Debugging, Testing; Tools, Tips and Techniques 0 comments
Finally clearing the py3d backlog 3 comments
Wow that's a lot of deprecations... 0 comments
Nagging Need for PyOpenGL 3.x 3 comments
Two pings forward... 0 comments
Lazy wrappers around functions 0 comments
Channels and keys and loops, oh my 0 comments
Bit of qnet hacking 1 comment
Whether to tie qnet or not? 3 comments
Sketchy network library... 2 comments
Check explicitly for extension support in OpenGL 0 comments
PyOpenGL 3.0.0b4 available 2 comments
Code Aesthetics Excitement... 0 comments
Reminder Code Aesthetics @ PyGTA Tomorrow 0 comments
RunSnakeRun Python Profile Viewer Updated 0 comments
Toronto Plone Meeting Tonight 0 comments
IndexedFaceSet compilation improving 0 comments
Smooth Movement for OpenGLContext 0 comments
Other 90% of OBJ files still pending 6 comments
Bit more maintenance work on OpenGLContext 0 comments
OBJ loader for OpenGLContext 0 comments
Frame Buffer Objects are Easy (ish) 0 comments
OpenGL Vertex Buffer Objects (VBO) 2 comments
Programming Limits 2 comments
OpenGLContext Updated to wxPython 2.8 (finally) 0 comments
PyOpenGL 3.0.0b3 without a Jukebox 0 comments
Cellestial Jukebox 0 comments
StarPy Unexpectedly a Hot Topic? (Half a dozen inquiries in a week) 0 comments
Time to get off CoreBlog (Scaling issues...) 1 comment
Want to use Pyglet's Generator (Time, time...) 0 comments
PyGTA Web Testing (Forum-ish with an intro to Selenium as kick-start) 0 comments
TurboGears Weirdness (Validators don't Run) 0 comments
Spammers Clobbering the Blog (Killing the server...) 3 comments
Galcon Is Fun (Advertising the crack cocaine of games...) 0 comments
Booth Work (Long day's chatting into night...) 0 comments
Centre of Attention Moving (PyCon in the focus...) 2 comments
Speed up PySNMP for Free? (Upgrade to Python 2.6, apparently...) 0 comments
PyOpenGL is Offline (DMCA takedown notice...) 4 comments
Unexpected 'free' day (More of an "I want to do something else" day...) 1 comment
PyGTA is Tonight (Don't forget...) 0 comments
Room and Flight Booked (Little details...) 1 comment
Catching up with Twisted and Zope (Ressurecting old projects...) 0 comments
Working through bug reports for PyOpenGL (Little fixes here and there...) 0 comments
Cortical Algorithm at PyGTA Tonight (Book precis and implementation discussion) 2 comments
OpenGLContext 2.1.0a1 Installation Streamlining (SetupTools re-cursing...) 0 comments
PyOpenGL 3.0.0b1 is out (Lots of bug fixes...) 1 comment
Nurbs finally fixed in PyOpenGL 3.x (Strange behaviour...) 0 comments
Too many regressions to release PyOpenGL (Way too long since I worked on it...) 1 comment
Argh! Proposals! (Completely forgot them today...) 0 comments
Forgot how fun PyGame is (Been way too long...) 0 comments
OLPC-Toronto Game Jam/Sprint (Participants?) 1 comment
PyGTA Tomorrow (Mind-exploding fun!) 0 comments
Long Weekends, Long Walks (A few days off...) 0 comments
PyGTA tonight! (ctypes and such-alike) 0 comments
PyGTA this Tuesday (ctypes-ing the night away...) 0 comments
Involuntary upgrade (Eric3 install hosed on the work laptop...) 0 comments
Use sys.settrace to animate Python code? (Evil ideas that cross one's mind...) 2 comments
I want the perfect IDE for kids (Or do I?) 5 comments
Eric 4 builds nicely on Gentoo (With some PORTAGEDEV stuff...) 0 comments
Ctypes for C++ is going to be a pain due to politics (Bothering language creators is fun...) 0 comments
Compiled GLE DLL for Win32 (For the compiler-less masses...) 0 comments
PyGTA on Tuesday (CSound for Python) 0 comments
No luck getting OpenGL docs built (Tools just not working...) 0 comments
Should do some work on the PyGTA site (At least replace the front page...) 0 comments
We wait 175x slower, apparently (Benchmarks are fun ways to waste time...) 2 comments
Look, a Soni-blog! (Parallel systems and other stuff...) 0 comments
Getting the PyOpenGL manual updated (It's been ages...) 0 comments
Python in a Strange Land tonight at PyGTA (IronPython and ASP.NET) 0 comments
Bare-bones example of PyGTK2 + Twisted (Because simple is what you need to start...) 0 comments
Probably need to switch blog software (CoreBlog1 causing too much annoyance to hosts...) 6 comments
Probably need to switch blog software (CoreBlog1 causing too much annoyance to hosts...) 6 comments
Talk went okay, met Shane Holloway (Let 100 OpenGL bindings bloom...) 0 comments
Presentations for Fun (Soon to come....) 0 comments
Dallas (FW) veterans, good place to meet for taxi sharing? (Never been there...) 2 comments
PyGTA introduction to Django tonight (Linux Caffe @ 6:30pm) 0 comments
Okay, beginning to feel real (Businesses are so inconvenient sometimes...) 2 comments
Slipping quickly toward PyCon (Doesn't seem real yet...) 0 comments
New release of PyOpenGL is out (PyOpenGL-Demo too...) 1 comment
New release of StarPy is out (Minor fixes and improvements...) 3 comments
Need to do a bit of porting (Where's the time...) 0 comments
More time on distutils/setuptools than ctypes issues (Just a thought that struck me...) 1 comment
Got py2exe + PyOpenGL limping across the line... (Need to add the .egg files to the path) 4 comments
Another try at Sugar (Try Qemu when I get a chance) 1 comment
Gigabytes of comment spam (Annoying blaggards...) 1 comment
I hate it when problems "fix themselves" (Hard to guard against reoccurance that way...) 1 comment
Moving StarPy discussions to the mailing list (Formalizing communications) 0 comments
Just about ready for a new PyOpenGL release (About time...) 0 comments
PyGTA presentation on ctypes this Tuesday (Special sneak preview for the PyCon presentation...) 1 comment
Flight booked but no red-eyes (Have to leave a bit early on the last sprint day) 0 comments
NeHe demo 45 (Vertex Buffer Objects) sort-of working (If it didn't look wrong...) 0 comments
Numeric (legacy) support now working in OpenGL-ctypes (Well, cvs version...) 0 comments
Upgrading pytable's database introspection for postgresql (Code-like output, but egads it's a lot of text...) 0 comments
PyCon hotel room reserved (Still need to get a roomie and a plane ticket) 1 comment
Eric the Python IDE Rocks (Just struck by the need to say this...) 0 comments
Maintaining scripts as their underpinings change (Not what I wanted to do today, but I have Eric back on the workstation now) 0 comments
Ooh, that wasn't a good use of time (Distracted by the desire to listen to Brave New Waves...) 2 comments
Need a decent unit-testing framework for OpenGL (Unit tests are good things...) 0 comments
Magic of unit tests (Pinning down evaluator failure) 0 comments
Okay, I'm really excited about PyCon now (List of accepted talks...) 2 comments
Pulling the restructured code together (Refactoring core assumptions...) 0 comments
What am I missing? (Things to look into on Saturday) 5 comments
Got OpenGLContext 3D text rendering working with numpy (Finally sit down to fix my FontTools fixes...) 0 comments
Apparently ctypes is more interesting than OpenGL (Anti-cool-graphics movement makes its presence felt ;) ) 2 comments
Not much OpenGL hacking this weekend (But I got some general maintenance done and played a couple of games) 0 comments
I sort-of forgot that Asterisk programming could be fun (StarPy reminders...) 1 comment
GLE DLL is a PITA (Seems to be working now...) 0 comments
Need to build a dependencies pack (Grr windows and their stupid lack-of-a-standard-C-compiler...) 0 comments
PyOpenGL-3.0.0a5 hits the shelves (Finally get the release out) 6 comments
Didn't get it out tonight either (Stupid oh-I-should-just-do-that-first-ing) 0 comments
Didn't get the planned release out for PyOpenGL (Testing on Win32 exposes an error) 0 comments
What I'd like for PyGTA (Sugar and the One Laptop per Child introduction) 0 comments
Turns out it was only 1 (or 2) steps too far (Fear is the mind-killer...) 0 comments
Rather a lot of work on auto-generation (Hours and hours to get back to where I was...) 0 comments
Bit of tracker cleanup before serious work begins (Making a "raw" API easily accessible) 1 comment
Week off starts a little slowly (Sleeping half the day is *not* productive...) 0 comments
Getting up early really stretches the day (Maybe too much) 0 comments
Talk Proposal in for PyCon (Plus an extremely long day for billables...) 0 comments
GCCXML seems to want a VC install (Does like the toolkit installation...) 5 comments
Distractions clear the mind (Fog of trying the same thing too many times...) 0 comments
Topic Ideas for PyCon (Brainstorming...) 0 comments
When, precisely, did it become the end of the month? (Urgh.) 0 comments
Some OpenGL-ctypes hacking (Including getting auto-generation working again...) 0 comments
Seneca FOSS conference begins (Keynote and then "artists language" talk...) 0 comments
Off to a conference tomorrow and Friday (Seneca FSOSS conference up at York University) 0 comments
PyMol shows up on a random computer (Didn't I say I wouldn't do this any more?) 1 comment
Another hour of trying to get Eric up (No luck yet...) 4 comments
Getting sip to build on Gentoo Python 2.5 (Or, how to use overlays.gentoo.org for those who don't feel like using "layman") 0 comments
Ah the joys of bundling (Wish I had time to work on it today) 2 comments
Successes and failures trickle in (So far three of them...) 1 comment
Argh, two hours wasted (Testing is useless if the app you're using to record results crashes...) 0 comments
Bit of project maintenance work on OpenGL (Before and after work...) 0 comments
A lesson from years of PyOpenGL (Not quite Zen, but oh well...) 4 comments
Reversal on Ubuntu (I know they don't build from source very often, but really...) 0 comments
A weekend of little tasks (Bits and pieces but no great accomplishments) 0 comments
VRML97 converted to use numpy or Numeric (and setuptools...) 0 comments
Don't get anywhere particularly useful on Win32 (Do get past the particular failure) 0 comments
SimpleParse has a Win32 Python 2.5 binary (Egads what a pain...) 0 comments
Bit of work with TurboGears (Have to work with it more often) 0 comments
Win32 goes reasonably well (With a few annoyances...) 0 comments
Hacking the night away (Optimising with OpenGL-ctypes) 0 comments
Josh, got your messages (No mail-server access here...) 0 comments
Beginning the porting work (Well, began...) 0 comments
Almost done setting up the win32 toolchain (Downloading the last piece now... and for the next few hours) 0 comments
Something sucks in redmond (PITA continues to be a pain) 0 comments
Go egg or go home (Setuptools seduces me...) 0 comments
I suppose I will have to install Windows (Blech.) 5 comments
Hey buddy, looking for an Open Source Python job? (And other miscellany from PyGTA) 0 comments
Ctypes arrays as storage format (Seems natural given the implementation...) 0 comments
Adding a type for documentation in epydoc (ctypes "Functions" as routine data-types...) 0 comments
PyGTA is this Tuesday (Now with added planning!) 0 comments
Running an email server at home is great (Until it gets turned off while you're out...) 1 comment
Need a better documentation-generation system (Pydoc and pydoc2 just don't cut it...) 2 comments
Tweaking the auto-generation (More work tomorrow...) 0 comments
Eliminating the last required OpenGL-ctypes extension (Still two optional ones...) 0 comments
Fixed one regression, another discovered (Don't fix unbroken things...) 0 comments
Something got fixed on my machine (Probably by the gcc and glibc update) 0 comments
Apparently a regression crept in over the weekend (My lunch-break in testing...) 0 comments
Manufacture a bit of time with a bit of sacrifice (OpenGL-ctypes instead of billables...) 2 comments
OpenGL-ctypes time just doesn't materialise (Though my room is cleaner...) 0 comments
What to do with vertex_buffer_objects? (Pushes itself deep into the rest of OpenGL) 0 comments
StarPy patches integrated into CVS (Maybe 20 lines of changes...) 0 comments
Tiniest little bit of StarPy hacking (Pitifully small, really...) 0 comments
GLSL demo ported into OpenGL-ctypes (Cartoon shading is fun!) 2 comments
OpenGL-ctypes play in the margins (Where's the time...) 0 comments
Invoicing with ReportLab (A bit of sample code for the curious...) 6 comments
Making mountains (Molehill demo not working...) 0 comments
Little traction this afternoon (Bouncing around between tasks...) 1 comment
On fixing taps (Don't do it until there's a real problem...) 0 comments
OpenGL-ctypes finally gets tessellation (Read the spec a little more carefully and all becomes clear...) 0 comments
Changing PyGTA's meeting day (3rd Tuesday of the month instead of the 4th) 0 comments
PyGTA this Tuesday, 6:30PM at Linux Caffe (Starting earlier to get finished earlier...) 0 comments
Learning and experience days are important (Taking a day to get up close and personal with SQLObject) 2 comments
Miniscule movement on OpenGL-ctypes (Figured out the problem with the tessellation code) 0 comments
Whether to lug the laptop along (Am I really going to get any work done while there?) 0 comments
Ooh, now I want to play with PyPy (Time slips away in sleep...) 2 comments
Fried Mikey (Don't put on jeans and go for long walks when you're sun-fried) 0 comments
UI stuff just feels more interesting (Simple little navigation widgets for a hierarchic schema...) 0 comments
FormEncode is nice (Validators are so much nicer than coding everything oneself) 1 comment
Select from an inherited table in TurboGears (Since it took me so long to figure this out...) 0 comments
Fits and starts (Little things...) 0 comments
3 hours of procrastination on a 5 minute fix (Well, at least I got my laundry folded...) 0 comments
Where'd that three hours go? (So much for buying my interest with smoothies...) 0 comments
PyGTA Review of web frameworks part 2 this Tuesday... (We will, we will... frame you!) 0 comments
Once you have a schema generator you get lazy (Stalled on TurboGears, sort-of...) 0 comments
My first day with TurboGears (So far so good...) 0 comments
Quite a few updates to VRML and OpenGLContext (Including remembering to check in the code (finally)...) 0 comments
Wow, numpy really is different! (Porting doesn't go quite as well as hoped...) 2 comments
A day "off" with OpenGL-ctypes (It does leave rather a dent in the pocketbook...) 0 comments
What I should probably concentrate on for Open Source (Maximise the value for the world...) 9 comments
PyGTA Review of Python Web Frameworks (Part 1...) 10 comments
PyGTA is tomorrow evening (I should really set an alarm to remind me to send out reminders...) 0 comments
Ever so minor movement on StarMail (Getting the basic record-to-file-then-move-to-directory stuff working) 0 comments
The benefits of hindsight (How I would have designed it had I known...) 0 comments
Togl is a PITA (Still segfaults on init) 0 comments
I'd forgotten just how frustrating the SWIG-PyOpenGL build process is (So long to compile that I get distracted with other projects in the meantime...) 1 comment
Long week-tail (Too few hours in the days...) 0 comments
An inch or so of movement... (Wouldn't want to get anything useful finished) 0 comments
Generic controls for Nevow LivePage (Where are they?) 1 comment
Ooh the temptations of Ajax (So not needed, really...) 0 comments
That darn finish line refuses to stop moving (Meeting collects 20 new launch-stopping tickets...) 1 comment
Tool-sharpening (My evening in coding...) 0 comments
Making menu prompts more flexible (Multiple fragments with support for different "saying" types) 0 comments
New StarPy release up (Minor revision...) 0 comments
Long day of talking (Pleasant that...) 0 comments
Too tired to continue (There may be better ways, but I don't see them yet...) 0 comments
Unbelievably annoying when you have to reverse work (I don't want to think about how long that was...) 1 comment
A very pleasant hike down (And I got to see Dan twice...) 0 comments
Forgot to clock in this afternoon (Whole day's work disappears...) 2 comments
Lots of OpenGL-ctypes hacking (Moving towards a reasonably operational system on Win32) 0 comments
Should have just stayed in bed today (Better for my health...) 0 comments
Employees are cool! (My half-day in billables...) 0 comments
Project is ready to go on SourceForge (StarPy needs developers and users now...) 0 comments
StarPy SVN uploaded to SourceForge (My first SourceForge SVN project...) 0 comments
I should probably set aside a day sometime soon for Open Source stuff (This is just ridiculous...) 0 comments
Good first day at the "office" (Linux Caffe is a good place to work so far...) 0 comments
Have to release a new StarPy soon (One more bug to fix...) 3 comments
Makes for a late day when you start at midnight (Caffeine helps...) 0 comments
Still no nVidia driver (Another couple of burned hours...) 0 comments
PyGTA is tomorrow (Tuesday) (Toronto Python User's group meeting...) 0 comments
Need to speed up PySNMP 3.5.x (PySNMP-se (let alone PySNMP) is still too slow...) 0 comments
Minor TwistedSNMP release is up (0.3.13) 0 comments
Why isn't the inclusion of ctypes the biggest news in 2.5? (I would be sleeping, but the poor little project stared at me with its big brown eyes...) 10 comments
Cleaning up the history of a project (Things you need to do on really long-running projects...) 0 comments
Dratted memory leak appears (Haven't figured out how yet...) 0 comments
Why does accounting software lead to mental gridlock? (When money is involved with poorly-defined operations things go all to heck...) 0 comments
New features a springing (But I managed to break an older one...) 0 comments
Beginnings of work on the Win32 port for OpenGL-ctypes (Unfortunately, can't check the changes into SourceForge) 1 comment
Categorising OpenGL-ctypes performance (Category: pretty good) 0 comments
Tweaks to the laptop configuration (And the glories of graph layout) 0 comments
Of TimeZones and other silliness (There really should be a standard...) 0 comments
Finally get around to installing the Toolkit compiler (Yes, yes, I know, why support a proprietary platform...) 1 comment
TwistedSNMP 0.3.12 released (Latency improvements, first public release of the PySNMP-v4 compatability code) 0 comments
Mmm latency reduction... (Trading raw performance for scalability and responsiveness) 0 comments
Passable talk (Should have prepared more...) 0 comments
Connection decides to take a vacation (So much for demoing tomorrow...) 1 comment
PyGTA is tomorrow (Don't avoid it just because I'm speaking...) 0 comments
Comment spammers suck rocks (But I built a mass-comment manager in response...) 0 comments
Better parallel iteration for Twisted (Annoying to discover the problem is something so simple...) 0 comments
Maybe a signal-based timeout watcher should be in every Twisted app (Just a little something to log any uncaught blocking...) 0 comments
Shidan suggests a predictive dialer app (Doesn't seem hard, but is it what I want to do...) 0 comments
Those features you just want to avoid (Impedence mismatch is a powerful disincentive...) 0 comments
A Ruined Nap (But a very pleasant meal) 0 comments
Getting OpenGL-ctypes to work with ctypes 0.9.9.3 (Done, sorta, but I don't recall these weird array problems before...) 2 comments
SimpleParse 2.1.0a1 released (3 years after the last release...) 0 comments
New StarPy release with channel-tracking example code (About 61 lines of code...) 0 comments
StarPy to the rescue (Or, my day in auditing...) 0 comments
Blocking on system setups (Wasting time trying to work around missing libraries...) 1 comment
Newest StarPy Twisted protocols for Asterisk released (Getting ready to use them for a real world project...) 2 comments
Very long day with 0 billables (And way too much caffeine) 0 comments
Oh, while I'm thinking of it (IRC client for phones...) 0 comments
StarPy grows rudimentary hierarchic IVR menus (UI toolkit for voice?) 0 comments
How did I forget that (Sunday night's not great for thinking, apparently...) 0 comments
Working around Firefox 1.5's SVG target problems (Sure it's simple, but it takes hours to try all the other hacks...) 0 comments
Bit of maintenance among the learning tasks... (Or, what I did for the last few days...) 1 comment
Funky GSM playback with Asterisk 1.2.1 (Load issues, maybe...) 0 comments
StarPy Twisted Protocols for Asterisk AMI and Asterisk FastAGI (Release so early it's not even finished yet) 0 comments
Almost done the FastAGI protocol for Python (Almost as messy as the manager protocol) 0 comments
Cleaning up the Asterisk Manager Interface module (And beginning documentation...) 0 comments
AMI protocol for Twisted (Another one...) 0 comments
PyGTA meeting tonight (Tuesday) 0 comments
Curiouser and curiouser with Asterisk manager interface (pyst doesn't seem to realise that there are event-generating queries) 4 comments
Retrieving information from the Asterisk manager interface (Again, using pyst) 0 comments
Using Asterisk's manager interface to generate calls (From Python using pyst) 4 comments
PyGTA meeting next Tuesday 0 comments
Nurbs working in OpenGL-ctypes (Should have been writing...) 0 comments
Remoting all day (Almost there) 0 comments
Round trip completed (finally) (CAD Views to topological views to CAD views...) 0 comments
More integration (Different product...) 0 comments
Slow getting started today (So much for early-to-bed early-to-rise) 0 comments
Doesn't look like I'll get the nurbs finished this weekend (Darn it) 0 comments
gluTess* working now (Though it's really ugly under the covers...) 0 comments
RunSnakeRun released (finally) (HotShot profile loading/viewing utility using wxPython) 0 comments
Shane's Darwin platform module for OpenGL-ctypes (Test and report bugs...) 2 comments
Well that was cool (For about 5 seconds...) 0 comments
Sometimes the solution needs time to gestate (Sometimes you induce labour...) 0 comments
A bit of paying work (Since I don't seem to be getting anything done on the Open Source stuff) 0 comments
Togl really is a PITA (ebuilding works... sort-of...) 0 comments
Sleep descends disquietly (Comes back for a rematch a few hours later...) 0 comments
It's been too long since I played with graphics (Algebra and geometry is starting to fail...) 0 comments
Rinse, repeat (Another day, just like the last...) 0 comments
Business Plans (and SSL) 0 comments
Dipping a toe into pb connection pooling (Brr, these pools get cold in the Canadian autumn...) 2 comments
PB connection pooling eludes me (Sigh) 0 comments
Around the Corner 1 comment
Screencasting via Gstreamer from Python (Playing with streaming media on Linux...) 3 comments
Change is as good as a rest (As old men like me are want to say...) 2 comments
Sometimes it's just easier to code something new (That's a bad thing...) 1 comment
It's always the code that's a PITA to code... (That turns out to be superfluous) 0 comments
More details (I hate details...) 0 comments
High priority post-launch items (Day of post-launch details...) 0 comments
Graphics take time (Even when you're just throwing them together as placeholders...) 0 comments
For the acrostically curious (Output of a night's run...) 0 comments
Red Pillows 0 comments
Very small coffee and a DVD-RW recorder (Plus some mindless hours on acrostics...) 0 comments
Float 0 comments
Mis-spent youth (I'd rather have been writing...) 0 comments
Patrick's created a new dispatcher package (Plugins and all...) 0 comments
Disappearing hours! (Forgetting to log time is a bad feeling...) 0 comments
That first call (I'll admit it, there was a bit of a magic moment there...) 0 comments
The balance of time (So grand a title for so simple a topic...) 0 comments
That point where you don't want to change anything (Letting sleeping tickets lie...) 0 comments
Long day of dribs and drabs (Hushed mutter of tickets drifting to the ground...) 0 comments
Inch, inch, inching along (Tiny bit of OpenGL-ctypes work...) 0 comments
Good PyGTA Turnout (and other little details...) 0 comments
Slides for this evening (To avoid repeating the PyCon problem...) 0 comments
For the ravening OpenGL-ctypes hordes (A few tweaks and fixes...) 0 comments
Pythonic duct tape (When data imports...) 0 comments
PyGTA this Tuesday! (Probably present OpenGL-ctypes...) 0 comments
To the Philosopher 0 comments
Just kidding (TurboGears template language vs the old-code mess...) 0 comments
Ah, the piquant aroma of well-aged web code (Or, at least aged...) 0 comments
The joys of long-deferred todos (You defer them because they are ugly and nasty...) 0 comments
We need test code (Me writing a test for every extension will be a bit too slow...) 0 comments
Extensions move into CVS (OpenGL-ctypes grows by hundreds of modules in a few minutes...) 0 comments
Extensions start to take shape (A bit of OpenGL-ctypes hacking...) 0 comments
Gentle hush of tickets falling (Moving toward launch as winter settles...) 0 comments
Bit-rot sucks (One must maintain...) 0 comments
Distractions, distractions (8+ hours into the working day without touching item 1 on the todo list...) 0 comments
FreeGLUT support mostly working (Minor problems with the string-rendering...) 0 comments
Finally got the GLUT fonts working in OpenGL-ctypes (Stupid indirection operator...) 2 comments
Happy I did the extra hour last night (I've run out of steam for the VoIP project this week) 0 comments
Details are depressing (Give me mountains to build, not potholes to fill...) 0 comments
Compile farm account (Problems with PyOpenGL on RedHat) 0 comments
Choosing and moving forward is good (TwistedSNMP begins to grow PySNMP 4.x support...) 0 comments
Wires crossed somehow (I could have sworn he said this evening...) 0 comments
Day's productivity crumbles (Stupid router and/or DNS servers make progress halt) 0 comments
Images working in OpenGL-ctypes (Just needed to rebuild the ctypes library cleanly...) 0 comments
PyGTA Meets! (Put the next one on your calendars...) 0 comments
PyGTA this evening! (7pm at the Linux Caffe) 4 comments
Some VOIP-ing to round out the day (Which is now way over my scheduled 9hrs) 0 comments
Ah, that new startup smell (Critical conversations over dinner) 0 comments
I don't use office applications enough (Openoffice eats my business proposal...) 0 comments
Bit of hacking for OpenGL-ctypes (Images or bust... or something like that...) 0 comments
I'm a Lumberjack (Logging the night away...) 0 comments
Why work on details (When your strength is conceptual operations?) 0 comments
Decision gridlock (Bogging down with lack of deciding factors...) 0 comments
First steps to using PySNMP 4.x from Twisted (Transport layer implemented) 0 comments
Numpy no longer going nuts (Was apparently 64-bit problems with 23.7, version 23.8 fixed it) 0 comments
More PySNMP spelunking (Agents of fortune...) 0 comments
Writing SNMP Agents in Python (Investigating options takes longer than I'd hoped...) 0 comments
To PyCon, or not to PyCon? (Priorities?) 1 comment
And the ugly junkies... (Old VRML99 shot from the holodesk display...) 0 comments
Probably need to fork mxTextTools (Need the non-recursive rewrite to be part of the SimpleParse distro...) 3 comments
Pause before the last big feature (Stabilising the code for a few weeks) 0 comments
Little bits and pieces all day (Cleaning up after construction...) 0 comments
First day of the new schedule (Makes for a very long day, even with a pleasant dinner...) 0 comments
Oh, right, PyOpenGL (I did a few minutes of that this afternoon) 0 comments
Numpy goes nuts? (Weird error shows up deep inside OpenGLContext...) 0 comments
Convenience during development (Forgotten during release...) 2 comments
Dribs and drabs (Phone project cleanup, mostly) 0 comments
I was going to stop working a little while ago (Absolute URLs are evil... but oh so nice... but they're evil you said... yes... but evil can be very attractive...) 0 comments
Optimising and bug-fixing and upgrading all day... (Guess I really should produce new PySNMP-SE and TwistedSNMP releases) 0 comments
Need to do something fun (Sitting in my room coding week after week after week is not entertaining...) 2 comments
Tree-editing with Nevow LivePage (A quick hack... erm... demo...) 3 comments
OpenGL-ctypes extensions inching forward (Autogeneration (and working) are the sticky parts...) 0 comments
When graphs attack! (I'm such an OpenGL tease...) 1 comment
Nights of poker and programming gambles (Push the queuing effects lower in the software stack...) 0 comments
A day with Nevow and LivePage (Good news is that the SVN version fixes the bug...) 0 comments
Wow, this feels good (Realisations while boring other people...) 0 comments
Some are merely bronze (nVidia doesn't appear too stable at the moment...) 0 comments
Meetings stretch days (Temporal hamburger helper...) 0 comments
Controllers in Nevow begin to take shape (Now just have to figure out how to make them reusable...) 1 comment
Nevow needs some model:view:controller mechanisms (Gets repetitive coding controls manually for each property...) 0 comments
I seem to have lost all patience with Windows (Should probably get someone else to maintain the toolkit compiler document...) 0 comments
GLE flies the OpenGL-ctypes skies (Along with major reconstruction of the wrapper module...) 0 comments
What to work on when I get back? (GLU, GLE, GLUT, or Win32 and WGL) 0 comments
New ctypes error-handling protocol (Simplifying code here and there...) 0 comments
Full-content feeds for CoreBlog (Haven't yet figured out how to make the stylesheets work properly) 0 comments
Long day's Ajax into night (Nevow livepage for Cinemon) 0 comments
Substrates are important for productivity (Servers, for instance) 0 comments
Well at least the redbook demos work (Running tests is a good thing...) 2 comments
Image-handling code would be more useful if it *worked*, of course (Well, images seem to work fine, it's *textures* that are messed up) 0 comments
Image handling begins to shape up (Wrappers upon wrappers upon wrappers...) 0 comments
Doh! Don't assume constant formatting in GL headers (Not all that surprising it's been failing... though it didn't start magically working yet...) 0 comments
OpenGL works *so* much better when using error checking (But don't forget that you can't use it within glBegin/glEnd) 0 comments
Long day on documentation (Much easier to read now) 0 comments
Guess it's time to start thinking about PyCon2006 presentations (On the assumption that I'll somehow justify a ticket to Texas) 0 comments
Figured out part of the wonkiness (Amazing what happens when you read the XXX comments...) 0 comments
Ooh, look, the day is dying (Where do the dead days go?) 0 comments
I am the programing inchworm (Images creep in (partially)) 1 comment
Have to upgrade the video card soon (Kind of ridiculous writing OpenGL software when the hardware is this out-of-date) 0 comments
Lots of array-handling refactoring (Mmm refactored code...) 0 comments
Array handling moves forward in OpenGL-ctypes (The goal is flexibility...) 2 comments
Why ctypes for OpenGL? (Since Brian asked...) 2 comments
Need to take some time to work on PyOpenGL-SWIG (OpenGL-ctypes has taken far longer than I expected...) 2 comments
Frameworking I go, frameworking I go (Hi-ho the derry-o, I'm about to cry) 2 comments
Victory is mine! (Yay! I defeated a tiny 86 year old woman at pool!) 0 comments
Tessellation doesn't crash any more (But glReadPixels will crash the whole operating system pretty hard...) 0 comments
Yet another search mechanism... (How many of these things have I written over the years?) 0 comments
A day without connectivity is a sad day indeed (Musings on the need for Cinemon...) 0 comments
Inter-page messaging in Django? (Django form-processing module tutorial and sessionMessage()) 1 comment
Tear down the wall! (Or, at least, begin poking holes though it) 0 comments
ctypes-ing the night away (Shake-shake-shake your bootie... though that doesn't move one forward very far...) 0 comments
A little more time with Django (All in all I like it...) 5 comments
Thoughts on BasicProperty in the morning (How to unify the dozens of domain-modelling descriptor libraries?) 0 comments
Playing with Django 3 comments
Millis are metering (Thomas fixes bug, I run into weird bad-pointer exception...) 0 comments
Don't leave the on/off switch to last (Refactoring and other joys of iteration completion...) 0 comments
As the caffeine fades (I realise that night hasn't just fallen, it's been lying unconscious on the floor for a good few hours...) 0 comments
Web frameworks are too dang easy to write (Another bloody one showing up in my code...) 0 comments
Didn't quite manage an inch (Centimeter-ing forward with OpenGL-ctypes) 0 comments
OpenGL-ctypes inches forward (Beginning to look somewhat functional...) 0 comments
Lonely Steps 0 comments
On creative marketplaces (Supporting the content creators...) 0 comments
Ca suffit! (Need to do something other than sit at a computer...) 0 comments
Ach! It grates! (It's been done so many times before...) 0 comments
Impedence mismatch leads to LCD (Or, my day in business-logic programming...) 0 comments
Building observability into BasicProperty (Well, adding a module that provides it, anyway...) 0 comments
Far too long a day (Working with foreign systems is a PITA) 0 comments
Blood on a Bathroom Wall 0 comments
My petard, it is exploding! (glutInit failure was due to an auto-generated wrapper) 0 comments
The joy of infinite rebuilding 0 comments
To work on side-projects (Or to sleep...) 0 comments
Did the sun forget to come up today? (Or did I just miss it?) 0 comments
New PyOpenGL developer (Charles Moad) 0 comments
Grotty low-level coding is nay fun (Lowest-common-denominator does not a happy coder make...) 0 comments
They want Justice 0 comments
It's quite hard to debug past the ctypes layer (Arguments are marshalled at a lower level than GDB seems to understand...) 0 comments
Trial now has a default timeout for test cases (Yes, yes, I know, I wasn't going to work any more this evening...) 0 comments
Another big-ticket item added to the feature-list (Long day's coding, though) 0 comments
More finishing and polishing (LivePages get a little closer to real-world usability...) 0 comments
I need to do *something* tonight (Too pitiful to sit here working all weekend) 0 comments
What a wonderous thing is integration (Making the enhanced Zope Templates accessible to the Nevow LivePages...) 0 comments
Adding handlers to Nevow template tags (How do you keep the code separate from the presentation) 0 comments
Bit'a Open Source house cleaning (Working through the backlog of todo items...) 0 comments
It's so much nicer when you can *see* progress (Get OpenGL-ctypes to the point where something shows up on-screen) 1 comment
Choose between fixing trivial regression bugs and management meetings... (Tough choice, eh-what?) 0 comments
Notes from the Ajax front (Fought a good battle...) 0 comments
Web-client javascript is even worse than VRML-client javascript (And VRML-client javascript was pretty fundamentally broken) 1 comment
One small step for Mikey-kind (One ever-so-tiny leap for OpenGL-ctypes) 0 comments
Shouldn't libglut.so be linked against libGL.so? (Refuses to load on Linux with ctypes...) 0 comments
Datetime goodness (Long overdue todo items for BasicProperty) 0 comments
Floor the accelerator (Module, that is) 0 comments
Features they are a springing (Ajax sneaks in too...) 0 comments
How many (and which) users are active on your (guarded) Nevow site? (Quicky recipe...) 0 comments
Generic repositionable interpreter (Things I should do when I get a chance...) 0 comments
Win32 Python Packages Need EXE Installers (Just too cumbersome otherwise...) 0 comments
Sleep, glorious sleep (Doesn't get much work done, but...) 0 comments
Conference call ambushes me (Weirdest of places...) 0 comments
PyGTA is next Tuesday (Come see the wonder that is Cinemon!) 0 comments
Rosey starts blogging... (While I spend my day on system administration and minor bug-fixing) 0 comments
Gentoo moving to Python 2.4 causes a bit of annoyance (Dependency changes, but the packages don't realise it...) 2 comments
Mental exercise is fun (Paper design for scaling up Cinemon) 0 comments
Little bit of work to round out the day (Still tired from the trip, but trying to keep a normal-ish schedule...) 0 comments
Conference goes remarkably well (Response to Cinemon is far better than even I'd hoped...) 0 comments
Bit a 'GL-ing to relax... (Autogenerating the bulk of the OpenGL.GL wrapper now) 0 comments
Gack! (Enough, the week is finished!) 0 comments
Seem to be caught in a reality loop... (Day limps to a close again) 0 comments
Day limps into the final stretch (Broken and battered, with little to show...) 0 comments
More ctypes goodness (Elegance improves with understanding of ctypes) 0 comments
Test-first giveth (Test-first taketh away...) 0 comments
Ah the glory of web-site design (IE sucks the lichen off the rocks...) 0 comments
I'm really rusty! (Web-site design doesn't go spectacularly well...) 0 comments
Run Snake Run (A Python hotshot profile loading/display GUI) 1 comment
Profile first, then optimise (Surprising what you find with actual measurements...) 0 comments
Wasn't I supposed to stop working back then (Look ma, hour-per-day discipline falling apart...) 0 comments
A day of iconic splendour (Mmm graphics!) 0 comments
That day was way too long ("Finish the (major) feature" isn't a good plan for a day...) 0 comments
Parties take a lot of prep-time (Especially when you've been letting the housework get behind...) 0 comments
Bug turns out to be a logic problem with parallel operation (It only waits until an op is finished, if it finishes instantly it never waits) 0 comments
Neat debugging trick from James Knight (Finding out what's hanging in your Twisted application...) 0 comments
Maybe it's time to add a Bayesian classifier for comments (More spam... evil spam...) 0 comments
Days of marketing splendour (Drat it, how many t's in that word!) 0 comments
Auto-generating ctypes wrappers (Overriding the auto-generation for fun and profit...) 4 comments
We need a pydoc replacement (Modularity and extensibility being the things that are missing...) 0 comments
Enough with the long days already (This one's trying to turn into a run-away) 0 comments
I forgot how pretty Cinemon can be (Windows laptop and a data transfer switch makes it so obvious!) 0 comments
Sleep refuses to come (A little ctypes-ing to calm the mind...) 0 comments
These productive days are killing me (It's not the productivity, it's the length) 0 comments
Very productive day (Major feature finished for 2.0) 0 comments
PyCon audio is up (Not as bad as I'd feared, not as good as I'd been told...) 0 comments
Mmm ctypes goodness and chocolate (Shane gave me dark-chocolate raspberries!) 2 comments
Rework all of the tests? (Or try to make it work...) 0 comments
Was that really only 5 functions? (Hope the rest of it is not this slow...) 0 comments
Hmm, first comment spam invades (Guess I'll have to put something in to stop that...) 0 comments
Long day's hacking (Forgot how fast the time goes when listening to lectures as I work...) 0 comments
Long day's typing (Post-meeting discussions on twisted-list) 0 comments
I should write now (But I feel like sleeping instead) 0 comments
No, it really was that subtle (Moreso than I'd thought...) 0 comments
Happy that the taxes are simpler? (Or depressed that my investment income totalled less than $100 for a year!) 0 comments
Ctypes experiments start well (Characterising the problems...) 0 comments
Garn that was a long day (Booting into Windows seemed to make it so...) 0 comments
Day of learning (Nevow live pages...) 0 comments
Workin' in the free world (Documentation I suppose...) 0 comments
At least it's not *my* code (Oh, wait, that would be easier...) 0 comments
Unfamiliarity makes things look harder than they are... (Debugging Python extensions on Linux easier than Win32) 1 comment
Distracted from the quest for pretty pictures (Delivery mechanism issues sop up an entire night w/ naught to show) 0 comments
Git yer red-hot OpenGLContext (Sweet, juicy release candidate goodness...) 0 comments
Konsole is the source of the OpenGLContext flicker??? (Or at least, it only occurs when the OpenGL window is sitting over the Konsole window) 0 comments
Telescoping days (Meeting turns to meetings...) 0 comments
No luck figuring out the OpenGLContext flicker (Why would it render to the wrong buffer?) 0 comments
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) 0 comments
Fixed the dual-booting (PostgreSQL setup on Windows still unfinished...) 2 comments
Windows is frustrating me! (Make it stop, mommy!) 0 comments
Nevow's templates are quite elegant (Just wish there was some documentation...) 0 comments
Days of raging cleaning (Keeping it managable is just as important as building it in the first place) 0 comments
Long days are made of these (Who am I to disagree...) 0 comments
Need a better book-keeping solution (Tracking down receipts for Ken tomorrow...) 0 comments
Spoke too soon (Wrong-buffer rendering is still happening...) 0 comments
Interesting, ATI extensions missing from radeon driver (libGL.so.1 only has glBlendEquationSeparateATI) 0 comments
Mmm next-gen features... (Expanding Cinemon through refactoring) 0 comments
No 2.0.0 final release (But the context-class-choosing script is working...) 0 comments
Found it (And it was a known bug...) 0 comments
Drat it, nothing has changed! (So why does it fail?) 0 comments
I hate it when I introduce bugs without realising it (How long... has this b'n goin' on...) 0 comments
Should mention that, I suppose (Not that Bryan and Tim read this all that much any more...) 0 comments
Oh, the day... (Telescoping work) 0 comments
Try again on the KDE build (This time with flag to rebuild for new USE flags) 0 comments
Egads that PyOpenGL folder is getting scary (6 dozen todo items before I start working on code...) 0 comments
Links to Nevow examples (Random googled links department...) 0 comments
Oh, about the editor project... (Apparently there are other such projects at the moment) 1 comment
Ah, back to the world of Mikey (Looking back at the week of PyCon...) 0 comments
PyCon presentation (So the magic isn't lost...) 0 comments
Laptops that melt and other PyCon trivia (Very pleasant evening eating and hacking once the presentation was done...) 0 comments
Ah, the grand and glorious day dawns (Suppose I could go down for the keynote...) 1 comment
PyCon 2005 kicks off... (Like there aren't already 300 reports of its birth) 0 comments
Figuring out the PyCon schedule (When exactly do I present?) 0 comments
That was the sound of a day popping! (All gone...) 0 comments
Presentation is in good shape (Most of today's notes integrated, flow working fairly well, length could use some work...) 0 comments
I love it when there's a problem with a booking (Really, it's such a joy...) 0 comments
Presentation draft 1 finished (Seems fairly reasonable...) 0 comments
A day of work, a day of sleep (Back to the presentation again...) 0 comments
Up at some ungodly hour tomorrow (Today went well, though still no movement on presentation...) 0 comments
Why don't I just find some university somewhere that'll give room, board and computer for teaching? (To need only think, teach, and grow... with occasional faculty meetings) 2 comments
Very long first day back at work (Tomorrow likely a write-off...) 0 comments
What about a "we're ignoring this person, so you may as well block them" service (DDOS protection?) 0 comments
Alive: take 2 (When headaches recede...) 0 comments
Tim's been stolen! (Well, forcibly confined (they even took his shoes!)) 0 comments
Bug steals a day and mocks me unresolved (And somewhere in there I lost a few hours...) 0 comments
First 10 slides finished (Fairly snappy presentation so far...) 0 comments
The day stretches out behind me, merciless and inscrutible (Scorching blacktop I will never drive again...) 0 comments
Finally hit my stride on the PyCon presentation (Key is to use paper for designing... you'd think I'd remember that...) 0 comments
Were it not for it being virus infested (This is a day I would have booted Windows up just to get the work done...) 0 comments
Finally book a hotel for PyCon (Procrastination is bad, rising hotel rates are worse...) 0 comments
Caching OIDs for PySNMP (and other bits of trivia...) 0 comments
Just what am I doing up? (Well, in fact, working...) 0 comments
Seem to have lost my descriptors notes in the move to Linux (Oh well, not that hard to find projects using them...) 0 comments
Day goes well until I get back to the question of performance (Though a bug showed up when it went live...) 1 comment
Sleep would be good about now... (It refuses to come, so I think about encryption) 2 comments
I need to write faster (Get the paper done and work on the presentation!) 0 comments
Even with sample code a whole day disappears creating 1 XMLRPC method! (Well, probably 90% of it was getting the server running...) 4 comments
That sickening, sinking feeling... (If you don't run all of your tests every day (at least), this is what happens) 0 comments
Guess I should really just go to sleep (Don't seem to be producing any deep insights for PyCon this evening...) 0 comments
Have to rebuild Windows yet again (It would be *so* nice if the hardware worked in Linux so I could ditch Windows entirely...) 0 comments
What would have been different (If I knew when first writing OpenGLContext what I know now...) 0 comments
Poor little MEC bag (Lost in the wilds of suburbia...) 0 comments
OpenGLContext still not out the door (Trivial little details piled one atop another...) 0 comments
Little fixes and enhancements here and there (OpenGLContext evening...) 0 comments
Hardware is evil (Or, at least frustrating...) 0 comments
Blockage leads to learning (The wild and wacky worlds of VOIP and Web Services) 0 comments
Substrate failures (Source-code control and patch both mess up my day's productivity...) 0 comments
Since it came up this weekend (If people are in the market for contract programmers...) 0 comments
Morning meetings and evening hacking (With a nap in the middle to handle the first and prepare for the second...) 0 comments
PyDispatcher as a source of inspiration... (Now we just need to make it a component people want to use.) 0 comments
Changing strings to tuples has far-reaching effects (PySNMP optimisation might constitute a fork?) 0 comments
Patches suck time (Greedy little performance enhancing vermin that they are...) 0 comments
Presentation paper work... (Only about 1.5 months left) 0 comments
If the box isn't up the program won't run (I'm a software guy... not even an OS guy, really...) 0 comments
I still seem to be working on it (Even though I thought I was stopping after that last post...) 0 comments
How quickly one forgets (Basic algebra and geometry...) 0 comments
Clockwise versus counter-clockwise geometry strikes again (Shadow code is sensitive to the problem as well...) 0 comments
OpenGL just seems so messy (Providing "natural" semantics for a low-level API...) 0 comments
It would be so much easier if I had hardware with these extensions... (Oh well, gives me an excuse ;) ) 0 comments
No way to generate patches (SourceForge's anonymous CVS for "p" projects is down...) 0 comments
It may be worth it to rewrite wxProfile... (Well, actually wxProfile2, as that's what does hotshot loads) 0 comments
Optimising and re-optimising (Deja-vu for PySNMP hacking...) 0 comments
A day on tickets and a night on Numpy (Need food though...) 0 comments
Explanation of sorts for why conversion of Jelle's project didn't work (Tessellation was producing counter-clock-wise geometry...) 0 comments
Think that's it for the week (Use up some of this week's overtime to get a jump on OpenGLContext etc.) 0 comments
Ah, the staccato glory of tickets closing (Or, two days of tweaking...) 0 comments
The days that make it all worthwhile (I'm obviously just hungry for validation of my life of poverty...) 2 comments
Day sucked into the abyss of pair-debugging (Where did it go? It was just here a few minutes ago...) 0 comments
For the Eric3 users out there (Create an Eric3 project from your CVS working directory...) 0 comments
What am I doing up so late (I asks meself I does...) 0 comments
OpenGLContext testing and finishing... (Little fixes here and there and a disturbing failure on Linux...) 0 comments
Messaging systems aren't as fun as you might have imagined (Though if you were you a person inclined to imagine such things maybe they'd be a laugh a minute...) 0 comments
Oh, about those silly slogs (Think its fixed now, will see...) 0 comments
About auto-programming (Genetics as programming isn't quite what it seems to be...) 1 comment
Why isn't the mozsvg project a plugin? (Would seem like the right way to go, no?) 0 comments
Setup work for Jelle's project (Install/port radiance to AMD64 Gentoo...) 0 comments
Long day's hacking (Not much to show...) 0 comments
TV-on-Linux almost working... (Or so I tell myself) 0 comments
Beautiful waitresses are always trying to get me to overdose on caffeine (Unfortunately, I always seem to fall for their tricks...) 0 comments
My punishment for continuing to run Windows (And buying a cheap consumer router/firewall...) 0 comments
Evening doesn't go as planned (Though hopefully the memory leak is fixed now...) 0 comments
More Picassa goodness (Ooh, look, old projects resurrected...) 0 comments
Resetting didn't occur because it wasn't wired up (Still need a test fixture to test the situation...) 0 comments
Finally get history data-recording back in Cinemon (Should learn a better way of doing iterative operations in Twisted one of these days...) 0 comments
IronPython does appear to be a bit moribund (Still thinking...) 0 comments
PyCon paper writing goes well (Though there was a section missing in the outline) 0 comments
Argh! What an incredibly long day! (7 hours to do an hour meeting) 0 comments
Voicemail should just show up in my inbox... (Since I never check it on the phone) 0 comments
Cool! It got accepted! (All those nights tossing and turning were not for nought...) 3 comments
Naps and plans (The weekend completes its disappearing act...) 0 comments
Slow day for productivity... (Staring at a black box doesn't train it well) 0 comments
Rebuilding computers takes way too long (2 day's off-hours sopped up...) 0 comments
A few tiny steps forward in OpenGLContext (So much more relaxing than Cinemon...) 0 comments
Hard limits and heuristics (Or, my day in frustrating revelations...) 0 comments
Long edit-test-debug cycles really are productivity-sapping (While I wait for the simulation to get to the point where it can be run again...) 0 comments
OpenGLContext grows basic Viewpoint support (Really, really basic...) 0 comments
Old VRML never dies (It just gets shunted off to directories called oldstuff/zzserver/vrml) 0 comments
More thoughts on OpenGLContext (Or, I don't think I'm going to sleep, so may as well blog...) 0 comments
Napping isn't very productive... (Or, my day in OpenGLContext) 0 comments
It's annoying when I can't seem to think straight (PyGame font should be so simple... and yet...) 0 comments
Eating, napping and graphics (Good finish to the day I suppose...) 0 comments
Wow, where did *that* day go? (Gotta love meetings...) 0 comments
Mmm... sales (Well, sales documentation...) 0 comments
OpenGLContext grows more Interpolators (Morphing and moving and colouring and fading! Oh my!) 0 comments
Day dissolves (Fragmented work-day doesn't produce much...) 0 comments
A nap and then OpenGLContext (TimeSensor and OrientationInterpolator implemented...) 0 comments
Making the emailing work (Limiting and balancing and hierarchically-ordering... oh my!) 0 comments
Nope, more Cinemoning (No wonder everyone else requires $100,000 servers...) 0 comments
Time to restart the Mikey on Linux project? (Have to get off Microsoft eventually...) 0 comments
Quiet day of Cinemoning (Working on demos) 0 comments
Little fixes here and there (Day vanishes into the air...) 0 comments
Kinda fascinating watching Cinemon work (Though it means I can't update the running copy) 0 comments
No sleep for the over-stimulated (Maybe I shouldn't think about work before bed...) 0 comments
PyOpenGL 2.0.2.01 finally charges into the world (Weeks overdue...) 0 comments
Lots of rewriting to make this work (Pointer handling is pretty deep in the system...) 0 comments
Moving code from C to Python (Maintainability and robustness) 0 comments
This getting up early business sure warps the day... (Working before noon is wrong in some way) 0 comments
New TwistedSNMP goodness heading into the world (Happy little SNMP sprite challenges the darkness...) 0 comments
Test fixtures for fun and profit (Extending TwistedSNMP to allow for more complex Agent-side code) 0 comments
New hierarchy types are fun! (Though we got our collective arses whipped in Cranium...) 1 comment
Histogram turns out to be useless (So switched to working on "political" hierarchy) 0 comments
Seriously considering not working tomorrow (Could use a week to catch up on everything...) 0 comments
Sending email in Twisted (This should *not* be so hard to find...) 0 comments
Day disappears in EFT pair-programming (As the cold (or whatever) takes over my poor lil' body...) 1 comment
Dear silly space-users, just convert to tabs and get it over with (Garn that's mildly frustrating...) 0 comments
To the kitty-kat house I go (Mmm EFT-ing...) 0 comments
Oy, graph layout code takes forever (For any sort of general case) 0 comments
Needing a package for doing graph-layout (Not a graphing package, a graph-layout package...) 0 comments
That almost worked (Too keyed up to sleep, so did a few hours of work on Cinemon) 2 comments
Convincing them to show up is 90% of the battle (Marjan saves me from being the lonely bachelor...) 0 comments
Housekeeping before the storm (My day in major-change preparations...) 0 comments
Ah, the joy of a plan working out (Minimal changes to get the functionality working... even if it is ugly) 0 comments
Do I dare declare? (Approaching the magical 770 minutes of processing time...) 2 comments
Another memory leak found and killed (Yet I feel no joy... 7, almost 8 days tracking down leaks and it's *still* losing memory...) 0 comments
Oh, a few more successes with the Toolkit... (PyGreSQL and PyPgSQL both work...) 0 comments
What's with the SourceForge and Comics.com? (Both decided yesterday to take aeons to load each page (if at all)) 0 comments
New PyTable release (PyGreSQL support added) 0 comments
Most of the day disappears in getting dependencies built (And still it disappears...) 0 comments
Once again, the universe rewards cynicism (Stupid universe.) 0 comments
Don't forget to remove the testing fixtures you've added (Otherwise the test suite goes to heck...) 0 comments
Burned too many times (Can't get happy about finding a leak...) 0 comments
I give up (How the heck can *that* be leaking?) 0 comments
Take a step away from the computer (That's it, nice and easy...) 0 comments
I believe this bug is driving me nutty (But at least I have a date for the staff Christmas party...) 1 comment
Leaks in the test-suite (Bisect OID storage seems to create unreachable tuples...) 0 comments
Oh, yes, the memory-leak safari continues... (Just in case anyone cares...) 0 comments
Doesn't look like it's in any condition to update to using v4 (PySNMP is hard enough to use with full releases...) 0 comments
Seem to have fallen behind in tracking PySNMP (Apparently there's a version 4 now...) 0 comments
Need to put together a PyCon presentation proposal (or three) ("Functional embarrassment to exploding decorators, the creation myth of descriptors") 0 comments
Anyone know a decent tool for finding memory leaks? (Even being able to reliably and automatically determine *if* there's a leak would be good...) 3 comments
Memory leaks in TwistedSNMP (Tracking things down that shouldn't leak...) 0 comments
Words formed from serendipitous (Natasha's obsession...) 0 comments
Still a leak... (Though much slower now) 0 comments
A new PyDispatcher release (Hopefully this fixes the memory leak in Cinemon..) 0 comments
Thinking as I try to find the Cinemon leak... (Considerations as the test-suite trundles) 0 comments
Oh, the day in hotspots (Suppose I should mention the real work...) 0 comments
wxoo fixes (Wooing developers into using BasicProperty, PyTable and wxoo) 0 comments
Linux rises from the grave of the dead tablet (Well, almost...) 0 comments
Hmm, last post sounded very negative... (Don't post before the first coffee of the morning) 0 comments
Feedback on the presentation (Apparently far worse from the other side...) 2 comments
Presentation isn't a total blowout (Going to be moving next time, likely...) 0 comments
All hail the PyGTA presentation (Well, read it anyway...) 0 comments
Free debugging kills another day (Old code adapter grows yet another barnacle...) 0 comments
One goal basically complete (Other not even touched...) 0 comments
Tomorrow's plans (Just to keep myself honest...) 0 comments
Hope they aren't all this slow (First extension for testing goes very poorly...) 0 comments
New PyTable is out girls and boys (0.8.0 adds the PySQLite support) 0 comments
Better pyformat on non-pyformat database support (And the PySQLite driver is basically finished...) 0 comments
8 more unbillable hours (VNC makes things *so* slow...) 2 comments
The remains of the day (Pre-meeting...) 0 comments
Remember to flip the switch (Cinemon bug is so shallow it's stupid...) 0 comments
Too much to hope for (Something triggers a cascading failure again) 0 comments
Long day's bug-hunting into night (Strange little bugs scurry under discovery...) 0 comments
Using pyformat queries on non-pyformat databases (Or, why I was getting frustrated with PySQLite) 8 comments
Report the error with *some* specificity (Getting somewhat tired of "error preparing statement" messages) 0 comments
More work on letting the SIP demo work stand-alone (PyTable driver for PySQLite progresses...) 0 comments
Well, they compile, install, and have the right contents (Of course we have no testing code for any of these 183 extensions...) 0 comments
String-schlepping for fun and profit (Well... not really much fun... and I don't make any money on this...) 0 comments
PyOpenGL 2.0.2.01 nears release... (Could likely finish it if I wasn't writing this blog entry.) 0 comments
PyTable starts growing PySQLite support (Embedded database for contract work...) 0 comments
Merging PyOpenGL's branches (Doesn't go too well...) 0 comments
Somehow it went well (Or so I'm told...) 0 comments
Does anyone else look at cool database hacks and shudder? (RDBMSs are tools of the devil I tells ya!) 0 comments
Stupid bug/feature in Cygwin trashes the SIP demo (Blah and double-blah...) 0 comments
What I would do if I wasn't doing contract work only... (Speculative learning for the short term...) 0 comments
Have to figure out a better billing scheme ($2025 for 1.5 weeks of work just isn't functional...) 0 comments
Oh happy day (maybe) (A pox on relational databases...) 0 comments
Long, fruitless day trying to reproduce an error (And it's only 4-1/2 hours old) 0 comments
BasicProperty boundaries (A simple example of use...) 1 comment
Pair programming twice in one day! (Weird...) 0 comments
PyOpenGL grows FreeGLUT support (And other little post-work tasks...) 0 comments
I've got to do *something* other than work (Just realising that I've not even eaten a proper meal today) 1 comment
Oh, and speaking of billing (Though I try not to do that as much as possible...) 0 comments
Long day with Nevow (SIP project UI redesign...) 0 comments
Hmm, OpenGLUT/FreeGLUT steals my weekend (Well, part of it...) 0 comments
Gee these days are getting a bit too long... (Oh well, SIP project is basically finished...) 0 comments
Should have looked at Shtoom (He realises too late in the evening to do it...) 0 comments
New server is in (Looks much faster than the old one...) 0 comments
Bog, or tar-pit? (Authentication detour goes a bit haywire time-wise) 0 comments
SIP the cool-aide (Little things are so irritating...) 0 comments
Should have spent a day or two just familiarising myself with SIP (But oh well, that's life...) 0 comments
Dratted consumer-level software (Trying to be helpful wastes 1.5 hours of my time...) 0 comments
"To do no real work" (Is actually a pretty hard resolution to keep...) 0 comments
Parnassus, but just for 3D Projects (My day in cgi-land...) 0 comments
Pernicious Influence of Python (Still can't sleep...) 5 comments
Oh, about SIP (Project shrinks as one realises how much is already written...) 0 comments
Tracking down sample-code for PyOpenGL (Documentation enhancements take a long time...) 0 comments
Where did the week go? (Feels like Wednesday, but it's Friday morning...) 0 comments
Amazing what a difference having someone *like* the project makes (Trying to sleep for 5 hours now and just keep popping up to write down new ideas...) 1 comment
Review goes very well (Dan seems to like it...) 0 comments
Think I may have discovered a serious performance flaw (Formatting ignored error message in a very tight speed-critical loop) 0 comments
When you know the app is CPU and memory starved... (Don't add extremely heavy processes to the box and head out to a meeting...) 0 comments
Oops, forgot the pre-coffee work (Most of the day disappears in my shoddy memory) 0 comments
Drafting icons look like c^@9 when rendered in a full-colour environment... (I just work here...) 0 comments
Catcher of last resort (First thing to be created?) 0 comments
A few OpenGLContext bug-fixes (And thus a day disappears...) 0 comments
Tad frustrated with the (lack of) documentation (I mean, I can't even find a single instance of using "sequences" in Nevow!) 0 comments
About motivations and post-mortems... (Why the move from Zope) 1 comment
Speaking of distractions... (Well, some would say it's the more important stuff) 0 comments
Professional Development Day (Or, my day of reading...) 0 comments
OpenGLContext screenshots available (Pretty pictures are the most effective sales tool... especially for a graphics library...) 0 comments
Finally got the baby (PyOpenGL) out the door (No empty-nest syndrome here...) 0 comments
UI Tweaks all day (Mostly making the topological graphics easier to use) 0 comments
Stupid shallow bugs (Almost makes you want a statically-compiled language (well, not really)) 0 comments
Sometimes a day evaporates with nothing to show for it (Oh, and Cinemon seems to be leaking *faster* now) 0 comments
PyOpenGL is just about ready for a release (Two or three bugs fixed, as well as a setup fix for Linux machines) 0 comments
New release of PyDispatcher available (Fixes 2 memory leaks) 0 comments
Don't seem to be firing on all cylinders (Can't seem to figure out how to make the statistics fast enough to be usable...) 0 comments
No panacea in max repetitions (But difficult to really tell what with the CMTS's changing) 0 comments
Cleanliness is next to leak-less-ness (Or rather much-slower-leakish-ness...) 0 comments
New TwistedSNMP available (Allowing you to pass maxRepetitions into your Get Bulk requests) 0 comments
Ruminations on going back to Windows for a day 0 comments
A day passes, only one official 'item' crossed out, and it's not a key one (Spent most of the day in auditing and cleanup trying to find memory leak...) 0 comments
Just to torment me, the Windows install goes flawlessly (Clickety-click, installation trick...) 0 comments
Bleep, that's not what was supposed to happen (What should have been a trivial install of common hardware winds up screwing up core functionality...) 1 comment
Well, that's at least one leak fixed (Now just need to run for 4 or 5 hours to test it) 0 comments
Just because it looks so beautiful... (Well, I think so anyway...) 2 comments
Dratted local minima (Rumours of the leak's demise are unfortunately exaggerated) 0 comments
Ding dong the leak is dead (The wicked leak, the wicked leak... though it's evil sister the database error is still threatening Dorothy...) 2 comments
2-hour test-debug cycles are annoying (Not enough time to do anything significant, not enough to work on another project, but way too much to just sit waiting...) 0 comments
Ah, the wonders of recursive searching (Search-within-a-search just drops in my lap...) 0 comments
That's it for tonight (Didn't get the search functions working yet...) 0 comments
Hmm, and then the simple things decide to bite you... (Installing matplotlib on Gentoo turns out to be a chore) 0 comments
Don't solve all problems that could possibly be... tonight... (Or puzzles that open doorways to hell...) 0 comments
Good day for productivity (But didn't touch the big, evil bug...) 0 comments
Not the most productive day in the world (Plus: Twisted, redirect with Nevow Guard to deep-linked page...) 0 comments
Adapting Nevow's IRequest for Zope Page Templates (TAL) (For those migrating this way...) 0 comments
but 19 hours of sleep makes you a new man (Well, gets you to the point where you aren't sleepy... almost.) 0 comments
4 Hours of sleep does wonders (Well, better than none...) 0 comments
May be hitting point of diminishing returns (2.5 weeks "always on" seems to be reducing my efficiency somewhat...) 0 comments
Little user stories not actually in the spec (Sigh...) 0 comments
That last 24 hours of a project (When things go to heck...) 0 comments
Some more twisted authentication goodness (Authenticating against a postgresql database with PyTable) 0 comments
Close to moved in on Linux (TV, voice dictation, and backup still missing) 0 comments
Oh, and I got a toy today (Wish I had time to play with it...) 0 comments
Another good day (Statistics display for CMTS working) 0 comments
Productive day all-in-all (Didn't touch the speed issue, focussed on user-story completion) 0 comments
Maybe it's slow because all database access goes through the single queue (Or maybe there's just too many deferred's scheduled) 0 comments
Still bites, but not that way (SSL-encrypted connection works, but not regular) 0 comments
Twisted bites me (Oh, how frustrating this is...) 0 comments
That state of fatigue and joy (Where you just can't sleep...) 0 comments
Apparently I'm too tired to think (twisted.web + authentication stymies me...) 0 comments
Why Open Source is neat (It's the little things, like personal contact...) 2 comments
Finally solved that pesky keyboard malfunction (And along the way, got my .xinitrc working...) 0 comments
Trust the simple, general libraries (Don't trust the one-off stuff written for a particular project...) 0 comments
SVG makes the world a wonderful thing (When you get it installed and set up...) 0 comments
Impressive how much faster it goes when you have a working shell (Command history and emerge flags are the source of all good for tonight...) 0 comments
My empire expands (Tendrils sneaking into projects throughout the universe...) 0 comments
Oh I'm randomly rebuilding I am (Randomly rebuilding, I am, I am, I got married to the OS next door...) 0 comments
Day closes, computer compiles, I wait (Well, not really, working while it compiles...) 0 comments
Still trying to get it rebuilt (Looks like it was gpgme getting messed up that caused the problem...) 1 comment
The reason it's compiling so slowly... (Hung bash instances are taking 100% of the processing time) 0 comments
Linux is pretty useless when you can only issue one command in a shell (Re-emerging bash does nothing useful) 3 comments
Rebuilding continues (Less than 20MB of source compiled in 9-1/2 hours) 0 comments
Still rebuilding, bash is hosed (So much for my plan to do a full day's work this evening) 0 comments
Does anyone actually run this thing on Linux? Or do they just build it and see that it loads? (Click on URL to *download and view locally* instead of launching a browser?) 4 comments
Apparently Linux didn't like my taking it for granted (Karked up the sound during KDE 3.2.3 upgrade...) 0 comments
First full day of work on Linux (Though I had to pop into Windows a few times to pick up missing items...) 0 comments
X-session initialisation decides to be a right pain (.xinitrc, .xsession, and the disappearing .bash_profile) 0 comments
Leaving the house once in a while is fun (I like people :)) 0 comments
Oh, another moment of Gentoo magic (Things that get set up in the night...) 0 comments
Interfaces seem to get in the way when refactoring (But that could just be because I'm so close to them...) 0 comments
Faith-leaping in moving onto new server (Typing "emerge -U world" is an act of trust for one violated...) 2 comments
A very productive 11 hours (Sure, it's ugly, but it's working...) 0 comments
Almost have Gentoo setup mastered (After what, 7 or 8 iterations?) 0 comments
Python's C-api mechanism is just horrible (More #defines than the original) 0 comments
A day with PyOpenGL (At last) 0 comments
UU tonight (Suppose I should put in an appearance...) 0 comments
Twisted needs docstrings!!! (When your primary API docs are auto-generated, you *must* put in docstrings) 0 comments
Cinemon gets code back from common applications... (Or, my day in slogging...) 1 comment
Kernel modules need dependency notes (Or... how I got the tablet working) 0 comments
Breaching seems to have worked (finally) (AMD64 seems to be the ticket (GRP helps too)) 0 comments
Breaching leads to madness (Gentoo dives back into the insanity) 0 comments
Breaching going better this time (Don't use USB keyboard and mouse for Knoppix, oh, and use the actual Gentoo CD) 0 comments
A few days of paying work (Just for a change...) 2 comments
Hitting the limits of your tools... (...is limiting.) 0 comments
Breaching from scratch (Let there be isos) 0 comments
Back into the breach (Gentoo setup attempt since I can't sleep...) 3 comments
Twisted web client and ssl (Since it took close to an hour to figure this out...) 1 comment
Change and rests and suchalike (MediaCorp project work for most of the day...) 0 comments
Hacking doesn't cut it yet (CD-ROM is flaky) 0 comments
Ooh, hardware hacking (Almost forgot to mention this... and wouldn't *that* be a trajedy ;) .) 0 comments
Another small step forward for demo-kind (Sure it's a trivial environment, but it's got a certain charm...) 0 comments
What to do about a demo for OpenGLContext (Need free-to-distribute content...) 0 comments
PyGTA this Tuesday (Don't forget!) 0 comments
Parsing for fun and profit (Data importers are *fun* ) 0 comments
Oh, I'm a continuous scanner, I am... (Continuous scanner, I am, I am) 0 comments
Multi-threading with PyPgSQL can be a serious PITA (Another few hours tracking down hangs due to a missing commit...) 0 comments
Rather annoying cutting old code (New scanner code added to old cloth makes some poor seams...) 0 comments
Why do we still have software patents? (Have they helped foster invention? No. Then why grant them?) 1 comment
Extreme Twisted Goodness! (Days are more productive with extreme programming... though having a "User" would be useful) 0 comments
Joy of Twisted (Well, sort of an ennui, really...) 0 comments
Simpler solutions make life simpler... (Abandoning chaining in favour of updating) 0 comments
Chaining OIDStores in TwistedSNMP (Today's little side project...) 0 comments
Day's slogging grinds to a close (Somewhat unsatisfactorily...) 0 comments
Automating page-forwarding, an admin script (Generating silent-forwarding pages for sites...) 0 comments
Panda and Soya 3D (Mr. Radix goes to graphics...) 0 comments
PySpelling for fuzzy matching (Little experiments...) 0 comments
Redefining foreign keys, much easier than I thought (Accessing database over ssh w/ 10 network hops is *very* slow...) 0 comments
Dratted postgresql failures are getting in the way... (I know, I know, if I hadn't poked where I shouldn't have I wouldn't have this problem...) 0 comments
Things to learn... (Functional programming language) 4 comments
PyOpenGL 2.0.1.08 released (Just a minor bug-fix release...) 3 comments
Microsoft Free Compiler Working (Testing builds are operating quite happily) 0 comments
Mole perfection achieved (Well, competence, anyway...) 2 comments
I have to admit there's something magical (Gentoo Linux == feeling like a kid at Christmas (sometimes)) 2 comments
Long day's slog... (Dragged back into the lion's den) 0 comments
Sometimes the silliest little things are the most frustrating (Enough to send one screaming back to urllib...) 2 comments
(Partial) success with the free compiler (mxTextTools-nr and SimpleParse running...) 0 comments
Oh, almost forgot... (There's a new release of OpenGLContext) 2 comments
Microsoft Free Compiler (Free-as-in-not-yet-working-for-me...) 0 comments
GUI Library Evolution (Or, why we have "event" objects...) 0 comments
And so it ends... (Pretty much, anyway) 0 comments
Should I take a week off? (Unpaid, but a chance to catch up on languishing projects...) 0 comments
Cinemon work draws to a close (Hard deadlines focus the mind admirably...) 0 comments
Is Linux an infinite time sink? (Another evening disappears with no progress toward a useable desktop...) 2 comments
PyDispatcher in the wild (Always nice to see work-product get used...) 1 comment
You say you slog? (What a coincidence, old chap, I've been known to slog a bit in my day...) 0 comments
One of those things about which I should probably be excited (Tuple spaces... why?) 0 comments
Slogs on toast (Perched on the edge of the sublime...) 0 comments
I love to slog (Nothing better...) 0 comments
When you find yourself reaching for heuristics (Stop yourself) 0 comments
And so I remember next time (Should have thought of it earlier, but the sketch said to go the other way...) 0 comments
How many support modules, that is the question (PyOpenGL after kebabs...) 2 comments
Python C modules for PyOpenGL (Wow that's a lot of work for little tangible benefit...) 0 comments
Templating joys (Slog, slog, slog, slog-slog-slog, slog, slog, slog, slog-slog-slog, slog, slog...) 0 comments
Emerges for all! (Oh what a geeky life we lead...) 0 comments
Should check all these scripts into local CVS (Noticable amount of effort could be lost) 2 comments
Premature optimisation kills (Well, introduces errors...) 1 comment
Oh, about the slogging (Little forward motion, mostly just learning the limitations of SVG) 0 comments
Moving work into Gentoo (Well, really just a little more work toward it...) 3 comments
I make things *way* too complex sometimes (Laying out 16,000 modems is hard, laying out 80 groups is easy (well easier)) 0 comments
Slogs of war (Layout algorithms...) 0 comments
New TwistedSNMP and PyDispatcher available (Mmmmmm open-source-software...) 2 comments
Weird error showing up (socket.error: (65, 'No route to host')) 0 comments
PyOpenGL *is* now building cleanly on Gentoo (One-line fix...) 0 comments
PyOpenGL isn't building cleanly even on Gentoo (Looks as though SWIG checking needs to get a lot more anal) 0 comments
Think that about wraps up the week (13 hours is too long a time to sit in one spot) 2 comments
A slogging we have gone (And some shopping too...) 0 comments
Hmm, still up (Realised I have to get moving on replacing the computer) 0 comments
Some more things to do for Eric (When I get a chance...) 0 comments
My first ebuild (In glorious black-and-white...) 0 comments
Slog-logs for the fans (What Mikey did today) 0 comments
Slog-logs for the fans (What Mikey did today) 0 comments
Gentoo is dead for the moment (And that darn Tim is a horrible influence on me...) 5 comments
Gentoo is dead for the moment (And that darn Tim is a horrible influence on me...) 5 comments
Today's slogging in glorious text-ni-colour (At least it's working again...) 0 comments
Today's slogging in glorious text-ni-colour (At least it's working again...) 0 comments
Eric3 wins the day (With just a few little nits) 0 comments
Eric3 wins the day (With just a few little nits) 0 comments
This week we tried a few games of pool (I still won ;) ) 1 comment
This week we tried a few games of pool (I still won ;) ) 1 comment
First entry written from within Gentoo (It's still compiling...) 3 comments
First entry written from within Gentoo (It's still compiling...) 3 comments
Gentoo is not for the impatient (More than 12 hours to compile XFree86 and KDE) 3 comments
Gentoo is not for the impatient (More than 12 hours to compile XFree86 and KDE) 3 comments
Days seem to get longer (When you don't stick to ) 0 comments
Days seem to get longer (When you don't stick to ) 0 comments
Back to work with me (Gentoo is built, but not yet booting) 0 comments
Back to work with me (Gentoo is built, but not yet booting) 0 comments
Oooh, slow... (Maybe should have chosen a stage 2 install...) 0 comments
Oooh, slow... (Maybe should have chosen a stage 2 install...) 0 comments
Bleep it, I'm going to play (Gentoo here I come...) 0 comments
Bleep it, I'm going to play (Gentoo here I come...) 0 comments
On the Gentoo installation guide (Great learning experience, horrible user experience) 0 comments
On the Gentoo installation guide (Great learning experience, horrible user experience) 0 comments
I want to play! (Gentoo calls... gosh that's geeky) 0 comments
I want to play! (Gentoo calls... gosh that's geeky) 0 comments
Write this down somewhere I can get to it I suppose (What I want for Linux-mas) 7 comments
Write this down somewhere I can get to it I suppose (What I want for Linux-mas) 7 comments
For those of you following along with the home game (When spec meets reality part LXVIII) 0 comments
For those of you following along with the home game (When spec meets reality part LXVIII) 0 comments
Scanner has been simulating for hours now (No memory leaks, and no crashes evident) 0 comments
Scanner has been simulating for hours now (No memory leaks, and no crashes evident) 0 comments
Harvest moon over Toronto this evening (Once in a while I glance up from the computer...) 0 comments
Harvest moon over Toronto this evening (Once in a while I glance up from the computer...) 0 comments
Looks like PyPgSQL is the culprit (For the crashes, anyway) 0 comments
Think that's enough for today (Dispatcher-based code mostly working) 0 comments
Think that's enough for today (Dispatcher-based code mostly working) 0 comments
OO versus nested_scopes in Twisted code (OO wins (not to spoil the suspense or anything)) 0 comments
OO versus nested_scopes in Twisted code (OO wins (not to spoil the suspense or anything)) 0 comments
Gack this is slow (So many methods, so little progress) 0 comments
Gack this is slow (So many methods, so little progress) 0 comments
Standard test fixture specifying database records? (Frustrating writing these things ad hoc all the time) 2 comments
Simon's party tomorrow (After rebuilding JoAnne's machine...) 0 comments
Think I should sleep... (Goes much faster when you're not spending all your time on stupid errors) 0 comments
Heisenberg's revenge (Crude measurements mess up the test suite) 0 comments
In other news... (Brief bits) 2 comments
Pinging away (Randomised scanning going slowly) 0 comments
Twisted talk went okay (Even with only 2 hours to prepare) 0 comments
Twisted talk trashed by power outage and lack of backup (Arrrrgggghhhh!) 1 comment
Draft finished (Going to sleep on it now... no, not literally...) 0 comments
Are pickles, cookies and yogurt a balanced diet? (Maybe I'm pregnant... oh, wait, I guess that would be a prerequisite... oh, and that too...) 0 comments
PyOpenGL Refactored (C APIs for Python modules...) 0 comments
Simplifications poking up from under the surface (Refactoring is calling...) 0 comments
Sawtooth patterns (Group statistics are this evening's bugbear) 0 comments
Fruitless night chasing performance... (A second or two of gain from 8-1/2 hours work) 0 comments
Drawing graphs with SVG (Using SVGdraw.py) 0 comments
Where are the radical ideas in computer science? (Radical is not adding functional elements to Python, for instance...) 0 comments
Stupid combination of otherwise trivial problems (No network access, local postgresql database unable to restore) 0 comments
Little tweaks and fixes (A day with little big to show for it...) 0 comments
Catspaw (References to names you think you should know...) 2 comments
Well, that feels better (Though I could really use some sleep now) 0 comments
It's all a plot (The computers are watching us and *laughing*) 0 comments
Yes, I'm still here... (Sigh.) 0 comments
Beginning to sag a little (But new weight-level might help) 0 comments
PostgreSQL hangs are a PITA to debug (Wowsa that's a geeky thing to type...) 0 comments
Working tonight (Slept yesterday...) 0 comments
Simplifying and reducing complexity (Rendering objects into tasks...) 0 comments
Finally got the columns working (Far too long on this...) 0 comments
Hey vex.net users, you can create a blog with 4 or 5 clicks of a mouse (Just in case any of you read this one some day...) 0 comments
The glories of web-development (Did two whole days just disappear down this silly thing's gullet?) 0 comments
Well, it looks very nice in Mozilla (But IE is ignoring a lot of the CSS) 0 comments
Time to consider what the EFT server does (Think I'll leave off work until Tim drops in tomorrow) 0 comments
Class cancelled (Apparently our costs + CDI's overhead were too much) 0 comments
Plone tutorial sort of falls apart toward the end (Becomes much closer to point-form) 0 comments
Much more impressive when you can load files from GUI (Presentation is 99% of the problem) 0 comments
Ah, that's elegant (I flatter myself...) 0 comments
Whether 'tis better to update what I don't use (Or play with what I'm interested in...) 0 comments
Plone tutorials for all (What every good little boy or girl wants...) 3 comments
A TwistedSNMP User! (But it's Tim, so not really an external user) 0 comments
Putting it all together (From C++ to Plone in 5 days) 0 comments
PyGTA meeting on Tuesday (GiveX offices, 7pm, same as the last two times) 0 comments
3-1/2 hours wasted on Corrupted Disk (Need to buy a new one once the cheque for training clears) 0 comments
What to do with myself today? (After grams' of course) 0 comments
Best practices in Plone/Archetypes Development (Monkey-see, monkey-do) 0 comments
Argh, wouldn't you know it, Archetypes is GPL'd (So useless for commercial product development) 2 comments
False positives with Bayesian filter in Mozilla! (Following Murphy's law, of course) 0 comments
Ploning alone (It's not half as complex as I was expecting) 0 comments
Garn this is complex (Refactoring isn't going well) 0 comments
Continuing to simplify (And the party-count rises) 0 comments
My that Joey's a useful chap (Perl at minimum...) 0 comments
Mass simplification (Compressing complexity) 0 comments
PyTable and PyTableDA revs (Releasing all the changes over the last month or so) 0 comments
Mmm spam sans spam 0 comments
I'm Mikey the Zope I am (Mikey the Zope I am, I am) 0 comments
A day spent with Zope (Is a day you never get back...) 0 comments
Blocked on ResourcePackage/wxPython conflict (I hate being blocked by silly things) 0 comments
Pleasant afternoon with Golnar (Now back to work (sigh)) 0 comments
Rot13 silliness (Saw a post on rot13 and had to run it...) 0 comments
Minimalism in design (Difficult) 0 comments
Lots of UI tweaks (Feedback at last...) 0 comments
Management meetings, argh! (Just when you're in the middle of debugging) 0 comments
PyDispatcher should be standard... (Just so I can use it everywhere) 0 comments
Testability and code-size (Refactoring statistics-gathering code so I can write unit tests) 0 comments
Auto-conversions and distutils (Or how I spent my afternoon) 0 comments
Kinda late getting started today (Up all night with wxPython migration) 0 comments
Oh yes, that stuff... (In case anyone cares) 0 comments
wxPython is migrating rather fast (Looks like maintenance on the wx projects would be a good idea) 0 comments
The next bug awaits... (Hierarchy properly created, but no record of group's values) 0 comments
Software bugs are most similar to ticks (They suck the blood (time) right out of a project) 0 comments
Shrubbery and such-like (Tree controls developing apace) 0 comments
Growing trees... (Webui gets new controls today) 0 comments
Metaclass presentation & code online (Well, presentation was always there, but the code is just up now) 0 comments
Getting the machine back up to speed (Post-conference blahs setting in...) 0 comments
PyCon wrap-up (Jiggety-jig) 1 comment
Togl rises from the grave yet again (I should really stop fixing the darn thing) 0 comments
Groovy... (But not particularly compelling) 0 comments
Sure, it's easy to install, but 10 times? (Knoppix install goes poorly on messed up hardware...) 0 comments
Ding-dong Metaclass is Dead (Ding-dong the presentation's in...) 0 comments
The work-week beckons (Planning and scheduling and timelines oh my!) 0 comments
Need to look at RoundUp some day soon (We sell an issue tracker ourselves...) 0 comments
Metaclass finishing (At last...) 0 comments
Little things add up (UI issues all night...) 0 comments
Metaclass lovin (Clarity seems to be infusing the presentation) 0 comments
TwistedSNMP 0.2.8 release (Using something is the best way to get the kinks out...) 0 comments
Metaclassing for fun and profit (Sometimes you get too deep) 0 comments
Yay new toy! (Well, just a hard-disk, but important nonetheless) 0 comments
Testing can be a bit of a PITA (But it does tend to make you refactor ugly old code) 0 comments
And there's the cmon instance back (Only 3 levels of seperation left...) 0 comments
Deadlock broken (Yes, gentle readers, the deadlock is broken) 0 comments
Think it's time to declare defeat for the night (Irresistable Mikey meets immovable bug) 0 comments
PyTable Release while I'm screaming (Upgrading and importing, and crashing and importing, and throwing machine out window...) 0 comments
How do I manage to find so many holes in PostgreSQL? (You'd think I was doing something out-of-the-ordinary) 0 comments
And now it's working again (Argh, debugging is hard when the debugged thing stops failing...) 0 comments
Patience sparrow, trust the code (If I'd just waited it would have been a less critical error...) 0 comments
Think I need to take a real break (Writing blogs as I watch the scanner stall isn't helping...) 0 comments
Randian versus Liberal views in Programming (Joey points out debate+followup regarding the ethics of Open Source) 0 comments
This isn't helping much... (Old (running) code is finally showing the cracks that made me replace it) 0 comments
Widgets should be determined w/out if/elif junk (Things you know you should do right in the first place but never get around to...) 0 comments
Decorators for classes and methods/functions... 6 comments
Weirdness and silliness in SNMP (Why do all problems occur simultaneously?) 0 comments
Need to do marketing for projects... (Too much focus on code, not enough on people) 0 comments
The end of the first day (Blogging day one is finished...) 0 comments
Pythius.aop, aspect-oriented toolkit (Maybe I'm missing the point...) 0 comments
PyProtocols needs documentation... (Who am I to throw stones) 0 comments
Yet more licensing silliness... (GPL licensing kills another hour) 0 comments
Flushing... (New specs for old projects...) 0 comments
Metaclasses must be done... (How even licensing screeds seem important when procrastinating...) 0 comments

Tuxedo

First Snap Package Doesn't Impress 0 comments
Ubuntu Upgrades are Magic unless they aren't 0 comments
Ubuntu 20.04 unhappy on the old Dell XPS 0 comments
Windows Isn't a Horror Show 0 comments
Trying out raw Debian on an old Laptop 0 comments
Prime Nvidia can't find GLX (solved) 0 comments
Docker on Centos7 host underwhelms 0 comments
GStreamer Playback Captured mpeg.ts using Timestamps 0 comments
Dell XPS 15 2016 on Kubuntu 15.10 0 comments
Review: Dell XPS 15 (9550) as a Linux Developer's Laptop 0 comments
Dell XPS 15 (9550) Exploding Battery 0 comments
nVidia, package cudnn for Ubuntu already 0 comments
Black Screen on KDE after disconnecting external monitor 0 comments
Trivial bug in synaptics is so frustrating... 0 comments
Let's Encrypt Tomorrow 1 comment
Infrastructure Failures Suck 0 comments
Kubuntu 15.10 seems fine so far 0 comments
Fire Tablet, wow, that's kinda pointless 0 comments
KDE Seems to run on fglrx now! 0 comments
Dockerfiles and Kernel Tools 0 comments
Did I just create another Inotify Interface? 0 comments
Monitor Sinks a Whole Day of Work 0 comments
Eventually Text Munging Gets Nasty 0 comments
First-Light on Dictating Code into Eric 0 comments
Aw, come-on QtDBus, just work already 0 comments
Interpretation of Dictation 0 comments
Python-dbus needs some non-trivial examples 0 comments
Seem to need hidden-markov-models for text extraction... 2 comments
Project-to-language model almost working 0 comments
Automatic Language Model Creation Started 0 comments
Create your own virtual keyboard with Python 2 comments
Listener is Crawling Forward 0 comments
GStreamer Level Plugin Monitoring 0 comments
Nginx Reverse Proxy with Authentication 0 comments
Found the source of SegFaults on AMD + FreeGLUT 0 comments
Create Dummy ALSA Devices (en mass) 0 comments
Ubuntu Configuration for Inspiron 15r Running Hot 0 comments
FGLRX fail again, now on 12.04 0 comments
Is fglrx dead for Ubuntu-current 0 comments
Voice Dictation Privilege 0 comments
Nexus 5 Phone Contacts WTF 0 comments
Integrated Graphics Really Does Suck 0 comments
Updating the Laptop to Kubuntu 13.10 0 comments
My Raspberry Pis Seem Cursed 0 comments
Laptop Presentation Fail Take 2 0 comments
Packaging Ubuntu/Debian is not fun 0 comments
Upgrading the Laptop 4 comments
Create a DKMS DEB for a kernel module 0 comments
Docker is the first thing to make me want to update 0 comments
Linux Refuses to See the HDMI 2 comments
avahi-daemon just works for hostname.local 0 comments
You got Video in my Django at Django Toronto 0 comments
Lazy Caching Proxy Results in Nginx 1 comment
KDE CD Ripping rocks 0 comments
Prevent PulseAudio from becoming the Default ALSA Device 0 comments
Alsa Loopback Devices for Fun, but not yet profit... 0 comments
Kubuntu really does kinda rock quietly... 1 comment
Control Default ALSA Device via Environment Variable 0 comments
Forget "pledges" to release updates and fuzzy timelines 0 comments
Ugh, lost suspend-resume on the laptop... 5 comments
Kubuntu 11.04 Install on Dell XPS 8300 0 comments
IDE without File|Open or File|Save is... painful 0 comments
Kubuntu replacing Unity 0 comments
Unity papercuts getting under my skin 0 comments
Kubuntu Natty Upgrade... Hrm... 0 comments
Replicate live into a throw-away staging/dev db 2 comments
Catty ssh is cool 1 comment
Good news, backups worked, bad news, it's the motherboard 0 comments
Hey, thinks me, maybe I could work on packaging that backup idea... 0 comments
DHClient!!! (think "Kahn!") 0 comments
Oh, SELinux, you complete(ly annoy) me 0 comments
Ouch, overheating machine via Strigi 0 comments
Bug Report Fatigue before I get a single report in... 0 comments
Setting up a DHCP test environment in QEMU 2 comments
Fedora 10 without the Cruft 0 comments
Remote networking is a PITA 1 comment
mDNS service to share apt caches? 4 comments
Karmic Upgrade == working suspend (maybe) 1 comment
Rebuild, rebuild, rebuild 0 comments
Finally setting up the Asterisk server 0 comments
Hard-linking and disk-space... whatever... 1 comment
Further to back up nirvana... 1 comment
rdiff-backup with source-control and mozilla-profile handling... 0 comments
Chromium is nice-ish... 0 comments
Suspend problems... 2 comments
Another round of fixing suspend 0 comments
Sync Thunderbird Contacts to Bluetooth Phone? 3 comments
Kubuntu Limping around the Corner 4 comments
Dependency Heck 0 comments
Yay, 3D and Suspend Working Again 0 comments
Have lost suspend-to-ram functionality on the laptop 3 comments
kvm flies on the laptop 0 comments
Need to figure out key-remapping under KDE/X 0 comments
Infrastructure sucks time 0 comments
Thinking of a W500 0 comments
Sys-adminning in the morning... 2 comments
Ubuntu rejects Soni's old Machine 8 comments
Don't upgrade Dovecot when you're busy (Server configuration completely changed...) 0 comments
That's usable? (I'm not impressed...) 0 comments
Finally got pressure-sensitivity in the pressure-sensitive tablet! (Years later...) 0 comments
WPA supplicant almost working (That's frustratingly close...) 0 comments
Wireless Networking is Kicking My Arse (Whole day's side-project...) 0 comments
Remember to test before un-chrooting (Obvious idea...) 0 comments
Chrooted aufs makes a nice Gentoo addition (Compiling and installing while you are running...) 0 comments
No dual boot on this machine (First Gentoo-only machine (sort-of)...) 0 comments
Linux Caffe has summer hours! (Meetings any day of the week...) 0 comments
Crash-on-save is frustrating (As a feature, that is...) 0 comments
Solution for the portage issue (I think) (From Guillermo's suggestion...) 0 comments
Solution for the portage issue (I think) (From Guillermo's suggestion...) 0 comments
Have to switch accounting packages (GNUCash just fell down on reporting...) 0 comments
Have to switch accounting packages (GNUCash just fell down on reporting...) 0 comments
Silly script forgot to check for a directory... (xorg recompile fails and drags down the whole show) 0 comments
Silly script forgot to check for a directory... (xorg recompile fails and drags down the whole show) 0 comments
Delays and more delays... (Plane and network...) 0 comments
Apparently it's been a while since I used mythtv (Been down for at least 3 days...) 2 comments
Though necessary, hardware is almost always problematic (At least, I only notice the hardware when there's a problem...) 0 comments
WPA setup under Linux is way too complex (It shouldn't take hours for each computer...) 3 comments
I get to work at Linux Caffe today! (Yay!) 0 comments
Beagle and nuvexport working (While I was working...) 0 comments
That goes reasonably well (Apparently giving up on sleep is the answer...) 0 comments
Simple caching DNS client for Linux (DNS delay on Sympatico is driving me nuts) 4 comments
Finally get workstation up to date (DLL hell resolved) 0 comments
That moment of truth (Flipping the switch...) 1 comment
Long day yesterday (Lounging around in bed all day...) 0 comments
Almost have the mail server set up (Stand-alone server that's quiet enough to leave on all the time...) 0 comments
Printer installation goes flawlessly (Modulo one routing issue...) 0 comments
Should have set up Gentoo instead (Package managment falls down...) 3 comments
Something got fixed on my machine (Probably by the gcc and glibc update) 0 comments
Never get too happy about the OS (It'll bite you...) 1 comment
Another Gentoo "magic moment" (And an Ubuntu installation...) 2 comments
It's a bad thing when accounting software dumps core (So much for going with the polished consumer-friendly app...) 1 comment
The best kind of parties (Deep conversations deep into the night...) 2 comments
Unable to get the nVidia card running with AGP (Hours wasted...) 1 comment
Doesn't quite make up for yesterday (But a very good day in for billables...) 0 comments
I can see clearly now (The squinting's gone...) 0 comments
That ol' Gentoo Magic (Two days later...) 3 comments
Good news and bad news in CUPS setup (It worked...) 0 comments
Attempting to build sugar (Between the work-times) 4 comments
Don't forget to reboot your Linux machines every few months (Software upgrades from weeks ago bite me...) 2 comments
Routing is fun (Or my day in un-billables...) 0 comments
DHCP goes south on the laptop (How did that happen...) 0 comments
Seem to have OpenVPN working (But I can't really test it from inside the network...) 1 comment
Twinkle seems to be a decent VoIP Softphone for Linux (Setting up office phone on the laptop for working at Linux Caffe) 0 comments
Fix one break the other... (Grr...) 0 comments
Suspend2/Hibernate working (Almost finished the system configuration...) 0 comments
Getting your KDE sessions to lock on Laptop Lid Close (A quick and hacky script...) 1 comment
ACPI is working (Yay!) 2 comments
ACPI almost working... (Maybe a bit more battery life as a result) 0 comments
Still no nVidia driver (Another couple of burned hours...) 0 comments
The key is to ignore what the package says (Orinoco Gold is actually an Atheros Chipset) 0 comments
No Orinoco Gold love (Silly pcmcia subsystem no longer has an ioctl operation it requires...) 0 comments
No suspense yet (Suspend2 doesn't just magically make it work, apparently...) 0 comments
Apparently joy in technology derives from ownership! (Or at least possession...) 1 comment
Finally get an IMAP server installed (Local network only...) 0 comments
Sad when you get to having a process for some things (Lost address book and side trips...) 2 comments
Enjoyable but entirely too long of a day (Conversations galore...) 0 comments
Tweaks to the laptop configuration (And the glories of graph layout) 0 comments
Laptop is getting closer (About 20hrs total I'm guessing...) 3 comments
Hmm, got a little distracted (Happens sometimes...) 0 comments
The key to Asterisk, it turns out... (Is rebuilding kernels obsessively until you find one that works...) 0 comments
Funky GSM playback with Asterisk 1.2.1 (Load issues, maybe...) 0 comments
MythTV fixed (Missing kernel support for the OSS PCM API) 0 comments
Minor tweak to the kernel a bad idea (ztdummy non-functional, whole system gone for a bit...) 0 comments
Housekeeping is dangerous (Accidentally blow away my only working kernel's source directory...) 0 comments
Quick asterisk tips (Little things that kill ya...) 0 comments
Getting MeetMe running on Gentoo (Key is apparently to specify the "zaptel" use flag when emerging) 0 comments
Quick hint for running Gentoo stable (Without constantly having to upgrade...) 1 comment
Distractions, distractions (8+ hours into the working day without touching item 1 on the todo list...) 0 comments
Distracted again (Setting up DVD player for Rosey's party) 0 comments
nVidia finally runs (But no 3D accelleration) 0 comments
Another couple of hours down its gullet (nVidia still gives a blank black screen on startx) 0 comments
Fumbling towards KDE (Get nVidia driver to load, but just a blank grey screen on startx) 0 comments
Limping nVidia card (Vesa-driver only!) 0 comments
Some month soon I need to get the video card installed (Silly Linux drivers...) 0 comments
ATI TV Wonder Pro under Linux (Works again w/ 2.6.11-r9 kernel) 0 comments
Workstation has almost finished rebuilding itself (Churns away in the background all day...) 0 comments
A perfect dismount (Okay, more like "managed to avoid landing flat on his face") 0 comments
Last breath before the leap (Kind of cool that it's gotten this far rebuilding itself in the background...) 0 comments
Bit of Linux hack-and-slash (Since I can't sleep) 0 comments
Sigh... bust (So tantalisingly close!) 0 comments
Once more into the Gentoo upgrade breach (Multilib or bust (since I can't sleep)) 0 comments
Oh yes, definitely one of those days (DNS aliases make me waste more than an hour...) 0 comments
Looks like it's going to be one of those days (No joy in Linux-land...) 0 comments
Sheesh, easier to run linux binaries on NetBSD than my Gentoo box (I love my 64 bits, but what do they do for me?) 0 comments
Inkscape seems to have hosed itself (Or maybe some glibc problems...) 0 comments
The joy of infinite rebuilding 0 comments
That's enough (Gentoo will remain on the 2004.3 profile until the upgrade process becomes reasonable...) 0 comments
Once more on the upgrade path (Trying to update Gentoo profile again) 0 comments
Conferencing software (Emulation setup should work better when enabled...) 1 comment
Obligatory geekiness (Trying to fix what ever is broken...) 0 comments
Exporting to PDF should *not* take hours and multiple operating systems (Oh, and it should be real PDF, not dozens of images...) 2 comments
Inkscape just keeps impressing me (Can't say the same for Scribus, unfortunately...) 0 comments
My mysqld fails to restart (Mysteriously reconfiguring Linux...) 0 comments
Long day's hacking (Forgot how fast the time goes when listening to lectures as I work...) 0 comments
Display MythTV recording status in system tray (Quicky script just in case someone wants it...) 2 comments
Using the old hardware (Second sound-card just for mythbackend...) 0 comments
Gentoo fairy visits while I'm out (Bouncing baby KDE 3.4...) 1 comment
Sigh, karked Firefox again (1.0.3 still has the broken dialog windows and now the menus are gone too...) 0 comments
The joys of IMAP (Migration isn't as easy as I was hoping...) 0 comments
How many times does it need to recompile? (KDE 3.3 just keeps getting rebuilt) 0 comments
Apparently glsa-check is *not* done automatically with emerge -u (That's surprising...) 0 comments
Give the gift of Gentoo (It really is that Christmas-morning feeling that makes it all worthwhile...) 0 comments
Unfamiliarity makes things look harder than they are... (Debugging Python extensions on Linux easier than Win32) 1 comment
Need to create some icons for the homepage (Well, really: need to create some pretty graphics so I don't go nuts...) 0 comments
Just so you don't think I'm going soft on Linux (It's a PITA too) 0 comments
Fixed the dual-booting (PostgreSQL setup on Windows still unfinished...) 2 comments
Windows is frustrating me! (Make it stop, mommy!) 0 comments
Ah, Windows, I miss thee not at all... (Sandra's computer decides to corrupt itself...) 0 comments
MythTV program database off by one hour [solved] (Write it up even though it's been written up in the mailing list...) 3 comments
MythTV program database off by one hour (Silly Daylight Savings Time...) 4 comments
Yay, Blender builds (The Gentoo gnomes quietly fix another annoyance...) 1 comment
About viewing Japanese glyphs in Firefox (First you need a font...) 0 comments
Linux really doesn't like running out of space (And this new CoreBlog (back-end) interface seems strange...) 1 comment
Try again on the KDE build (This time with flag to rebuild for new USE flags) 0 comments
Firefox annoyances continue... (Profile recreationectomy almost works) 0 comments
Oh, about MythTV (What I like, despite the obvious UI problems) 0 comments
Ah, so this is why people want terabytes of storage (30hrs seems so restrictive when two people are sharing a PVR) 5 comments
Hmm, init.d scripts are more involved than I thought (Refuses to shut down the tv-colour-correcting script) 0 comments
Hmm, nope, have to go ahead now... (Well, don't *have* to, but I don't feel like going in and cancelling all the recordings until tomorrow night) 0 comments
Pause before that final fateful step (Oops, sent my backup drive off with Tim!) 0 comments
A day in Linux is an adventure... (Little fixes and bug reports...) 3 comments
Hmm, what's wrong with the picture settings... (Will be a bit of a pain when recording...) 0 comments
Well would you look (and listen) to that! (Finally get PVR software working...) 4 comments
Too much coffee, not enough Video-for-Linux (Alternative to rebuilding Windows goes rather slowly... but not three-days-of-rebuilding-hell-slowly...) 0 comments
I'm sure this would have been much easier for Unix gurus (Turns out there's a -u flag for cp, but CVS can't really handle DOS line endings copied into a unix checkout...) 2 comments
Have to rebuild Windows yet again (It would be *so* nice if the hardware worked in Linux so I could ditch Windows entirely...) 0 comments

Vindaloo

Groundhog Day: Outside the Burrow 0 comments
Rearview Mirror 0 comments
Why did I feel a desire to open Skype? 0 comments
Blog Rebooted 0 comments
Haven't done much poetry lately... 0 comments
6 Word Sci-Fi 0 comments
Happy (Belated) Solstice! 0 comments
"Wow, what a sale they must be having", I thought 0 comments
Settling In Nicely After a Long Move 0 comments
(S)ick and Yay! 0 comments
Explaining Complex Things 3 comments
Uncle Vanya 2 comments
As You Like It (Other weekend pleasantries...) 0 comments
Dad's Coming Up (Mid-week visit...) 0 comments
Happy Rosey (Yay!) 0 comments
Unsatisfying Weekend (Neither restful nor productive...) 3 comments
Booth Work (Long day's chatting into night...) 0 comments
Formatting and Review for Tutorial Handout (Oh, and some paying work...) 3 comments
Distribute Newspapers to Commuters via Avahi (EBook readers as opportunistic downloaders on local-link...) 1 comment
Sucky things Suck (Enough with the suckage...) 0 comments
Comment Spammers Suck (I know, I know, they don't read this...) 1 comment
Note to Hertz (Nickle-and-diming department...) 0 comments
Clobbered (Soni and I taken out...) 0 comments
Quick "Governance" Visualisation Idea (KDirStat for your (government) budgets) 1 comment
Home and Happy (I Missed Soni) 0 comments
Packing to Go (Other miscellany...) 0 comments
Nova isn't the right model for usb to vga (Many competing little shops...) 0 comments
My Key Phrases (Should have just gone ahead and learned chinese years ago...) 0 comments
Camera's on the Wrong Setting (Everything's blue...) 2 comments
What to see... (Touring the city) 3 comments
Joomla, Wims, Mozilla (Webby...) 0 comments
Pleasant walk around a night market (Very generous hosts...) 0 comments
Quick walk while the process runs (At least I got out of the air conditioning...) 0 comments
Little things to remember (What not to do when travelling...) 0 comments
WiFi is Free in Vancouver (Promised land...) 0 comments
Excited about Tomorrow (Even if today was a bit of a wash...) 2 comments
Bell Canada Labs (Then errands for 4 hours) 0 comments
I want to teach somewhere (Get all this stuff off my plate some day soon...) 1 comment
Long Weekends, Long Walks (A few days off...) 0 comments
Messy Jobs are Never-Ending (Clean jobs a disappearing breed...) 1 comment
Life Management Tools (Need to get using them...) 4 comments
Greater Toronto Airport Authority (Turns back 20 people or so this afternoon...) 2 comments
Off to the Thousand Islands (Out of touch...) 0 comments
Poor day of work (Distractions...) 1 comment
Agenda for Accessibility (This doesn't reflect the views of anyone else...) 0 comments
Cool, I'm married (Ring to prove it...) 1 comment
Fast Approaching Deadline (Fun-fun-fun...) 3 comments
Wow, locked VoIP routers are annoying (Especially when you ask for unlocked explicitly...) 0 comments
Doesn't matter who you are (If you look "different" the close-minded will attack you...) 0 comments
Getting the apartment set up (Internet is up (limpingly)) 5 comments
Half finished, next half up tomorrow morning (Relocating to our own place) 0 comments
New ISP for the new place (Rogers or DSL?) 0 comments
Don't forget to check a new firewall before you leave the house (Oops...) 2 comments
One more big item off the todo list (Brokers beginning to make sense...) 2 comments
Apartment hunting sucks... (Long day's wandering) 0 comments
I'd forgotten how loud normal desktops are! (Rescue machine seems less a gift...) 0 comments
Need some Albanian language radio streams (Keep Soni's mom from being too bored...) 0 comments
Slow weekend for work (Life getting in the way...) 0 comments
Back up (mostly) ($1200 and 18 working hours poorer) 0 comments
Stupid messages from a BIOS (Computer replacement doesn't go well...) 0 comments
Bit of Sightseeing on the Last Day (Amphitheatre in Durres) 0 comments
Talk went reasonably (This trip funded by Soni's dental surgery budget...) 1 comment
Global Warming isn't even on the radar here (And other little observations from Tirana...) 0 comments
Rome fills up cards fast... (3 hours per 500MB) 2 comments
Abandoned building in a park (Machiavelli's palace???) 1 comment
Days in the Italian Countryside (In Florence now...) 0 comments
Off to Italy... (Well, after lunch...) 0 comments
Crashes (Moments out of the stream of life...) 0 comments
Mom and dad came up today (Summer tire delivery...) 0 comments
Per-category and full-content feeds now available (and working) (Stupid-simple TAL hack-up) 0 comments
Power supply on my regular laptop just fried (Always ran hot, now it's shorting out too...) 1 comment
She said yes, by the way (Officially engaged now...) 2 comments
She said yes, by the way (Officially engaged now...) 2 comments
Delays and more delays... (Plane and network...) 0 comments
Need to get to sleep (5am wake-up call) 0 comments
Time to replace the server/workstation (3.5 hours wasted this evening...) 1 comment
A night (and morning) of relaxation (Age of Empires II retro strategy game death matches) 0 comments
Pleasant afternoon with the family (Until I had to get to work...) 0 comments
I like my father (Loving the Universe...) 0 comments
I was soooo wrong (Brave New Waves recording is so worthwhile!) 0 comments
Dad has a blog (Green Party discussions) 0 comments
Not much OpenGL hacking this weekend (But I got some general maintenance done and played a couple of games) 0 comments
Finally get the texts page updated (Wasn't I supposed to be working on something else...) 1 comment
Short Years 0 comments
Outstripped Voice 0 comments
Lost Millionaire 0 comments
Bitter Ashes 0 comments
Not Behind your Band 0 comments
Fall's Rain 0 comments
Washing Clean 0 comments
Piling 0 comments
Half-done 0 comments
Pointy-shoed Woman 0 comments
Advertising Girl 0 comments
Short Fiction (3) 0 comments
Short Fiction (2) 0 comments
Short Fiction (1) 0 comments
His Sandwich 0 comments
That's a bit distracting (Branch falls on our car) 0 comments
A few shots from the weekend (Hiking around Tobermory...) 1 comment
Off to do some Hiking (Could use a break from system failures...) 0 comments
A weekend of little tasks (Bits and pieces but no great accomplishments) 0 comments
On puppy love and training (First session with the trainer) 0 comments
Architecture 0 comments
Chipmunks Wonder 0 comments
Croikeys it's warm here (35+ degrees in my room) 0 comments
Daily Drudgery 1 comment
Heart Shards 0 comments
That wasn't the most productive of days (Good nap though...) 0 comments
Face-planting hurts (And other trivia from last night...) 0 comments
Screaming 0 comments
Green Fields 0 comments
Festooned 0 comments
To His Lips 0 comments
Sometimes you just need to crash (Sleep is good...) 0 comments
No hacking this evening (Plans deferred again...) 0 comments
I need to work on my rock-climbing technique (Way too much stress on my fingers/forearms) 0 comments
I'll just get one or two things done before I head down (Dangerous thoughts in the morning...) 1 comment
Test the interactivity too (Comments are broken on the blog here) 0 comments
New Zope server seems much faster (Thanks Tim!) 0 comments
Maybe I should hire an email secretary (Someone to battle the email-backlog-beast) 0 comments
Relaxing, if somewhat unproductive weekend (Didn't really sit down to do any work...) 0 comments
Grams packs the house one last time (Thank you all...) 0 comments
First day with the little puppy (Alone, at least...) 0 comments
Wild Cowlicks 0 comments
Sharing Her 0 comments
She Glowed 0 comments
Her Lesson 2 comments
The Step of Helen 0 comments
Subsidence 0 comments
Vacant Demons 0 comments
Please Hold my Heart 1 comment
Those I Love 0 comments
Eyes at Midnight 0 comments
Very full day... (Yay!) 0 comments
Am I becoming a sleep addict? (Return of dreams makes it so attractive...) 0 comments
The best kind of parties (Deep conversations deep into the night...) 2 comments
I can see clearly now (The squinting's gone...) 0 comments
Replacing the fried monitor (Rose's little monitor doesn't cut it for all-day working...) 2 comments
Fried Mikey (Don't put on jeans and go for long walks when you're sun-fried) 0 comments
Ebeneezer's Farewell 0 comments
Offerred Water 0 comments
Great way to spend a night (Coffee and cheesecake and hours of conversation...) 0 comments
The Wise Councilor (55-word flash-fiction) 0 comments
Garam Masala heals all frustrations (Mmm curried veggies over hot-and-sour rice...) 0 comments
Chatting the night away (Tech-talk mostly) 0 comments
Week is still very good looking (Even if the day was rather light...) 0 comments
Happy afternoon world! (Oh how music makes me dance...) 0 comments
See Happiness 0 comments
Grounding Me 1 comment
Taxonomy of Joy 1 comment
Stone Levies 0 comments
Dinner and a lightshow (Friends is the bestest entertainment...) 0 comments
Lies and statistics (Haven't looked at this in a while...) 0 comments
Too Sharp 0 comments
Word Daggers 0 comments
A Fugue 0 comments
Fonduing the Night Away (My wasted youth...) 1 comment
Nest of Laughing Lines 0 comments
Oh, that's the way a day is supposed to go (Chatting with intelligent, animated women all afternoon...) 1 comment
Quick review of the downtime (What I've been doing...) 0 comments
Transit strikes are fun! (I've seen too many Vietnam war movies...) 0 comments
A pleasant day (The temple gives you bandanas, incidentally...) 2 comments
Off to the wedding tomorrow (Wedding so huge it's being covered by the local food network...) 0 comments
The Editor Returned 0 comments
Where did today go? (Naps time-warp the day to naught...) 3 comments
Moving forward (Leaps off small businesses...) 2 comments
I'm Pretty Sure 0 comments
A Woman to Desire 0 comments
Rote from Other Tongues 0 comments
Whether I Still Can 0 comments
Does my Heart See More 3 comments
Playing with Words 0 comments
Within Four Feet 0 comments
My Corner of the Bus 0 comments
The Baker's Van 0 comments
Pleasant afternoon of chatting (And pool) 0 comments
River's Breach 0 comments
Gentle Summers 2 comments
Tool-sharpening (My evening in coding...) 0 comments
To the Quick-silver Screen 0 comments
Poor Poems 0 comments
I Have Looked 0 comments
Beauty on My Shoulder 0 comments
The Pointless Begging 0 comments
Caught Looking 3 comments
Written for their Ear 0 comments
The Rain 0 comments
Sleepy day and a quiet coffee turns in a party (How pleasant it is to see beautiful women...) 0 comments
Coding Forms 0 comments
The Mask of Cartoon Horror 1 comment
Forgot to clock in this afternoon (Whole day's work disappears...) 2 comments
The Used Handkerchief 1 comment
Sedimentary Years 0 comments
86% Cacao Dark Chocolate (Pretty darn good...) 2 comments
I Ask My Feverish Bed 0 comments
How Often we Crawl 0 comments
Above My Sleeping City 0 comments
Good People at Home 0 comments
You only think of doing the before-and-after after... (Very nice results...) 1 comment
I still have teeth! (Yay) 1 comment
A Few Hours Walk 1 comment
Lark's Melody 0 comments
Caffeine is good medicine (Or maybe philosophy is...) 0 comments
Shy Dogs 0 comments
With Demanding Passion 0 comments
They Were Meant 0 comments
Enjoyable but entirely too long of a day (Conversations galore...) 0 comments
Some Distant Spring 0 comments
Sticky Electric Ink 4 comments
Where do Saturdays Go 1 comment
Why Not 1 comment
Yesterday's Smile 0 comments
Poetry and food consume the day (No complaints...) 0 comments
Just what I needed (If not the most productive of days...) 0 comments
The Eye's Contention 0 comments
Tired Longings 1 comment
To poetry events this weekend (we go) (Slam on Friday, Meetup on Saturday) 1 comment
When did I lose the joy in playing with new computers? (Not even remotely a hardware guy any more...) 5 comments
To Fix Warm Words 4 comments
Smoke Escapes 6 comments
A Ruined Nap (But a very pleasant meal) 0 comments
The Untapped Well in the Back Field 1 comment
A Perfect Day (rev) 0 comments
All Barmaids are Beautiful 2 comments
Strategic Feathers 0 comments
Sad People on the Train 4 comments
A Few Short Hours 0 comments
My Released Eyes 0 comments
Eyes of the Pretty People 0 comments
A Perfect Day 2 comments
The Heart Behind the Golden Mask 5 comments
The Dancer's Way 10 comments
On Snowy Streets 0 comments
The Last Man 2 comments
My Eye Catches 0 comments
Peter Pan Fathers 0 comments
Interesting, but not particularly productive (Playing with log-files...) 12 comments
About time I thought about organising the poems (A few too many to just list them out...) 0 comments
Dry Athena's Dreams 0 comments
Should I be Amazed 0 comments
Awkward to Remember 0 comments
Counting Fractions 0 comments
Listen Carefully 1 comment
Diamonds or Coal-fires 6 comments
Crouching Teddy 0 comments
Panther Kitty 10 comments
Eleven Short Words 0 comments
Stones of the Present Church 0 comments
She'd Retract It 4 comments
Admonition to the Hyades 0 comments
She'd a Ruler Be 2 comments
Dark Eyes of Fatigue 6 comments
Poetry a Smashing Success 0 comments
Poetry Tonight (Yay!) 0 comments
Captain Word's Lament 2 comments
Tulle Princess 0 comments
Drinking Too Late 0 comments
Mozzies of Mangos 4 comments
Of Mangos 3 comments
Hard Warrior 0 comments
Seeds of Lust 3 comments
Poof 0 comments
Otherwise Mundane 3 comments
Party of Loons 0 comments
Sanctuary with the Blogger's Muse 14 comments
Why no productive output today (I need home for a rest...) 0 comments
Sands in the Doctor's Hands 2 comments
Oil-based Paint 0 comments
Maybe a Draft 0 comments
Of Beige and Tan 10 comments
Hallowed Pillows 0 comments
The Ecstasy of Readers 1 comment
Surviving (Though yesterday was a complete write-off...) 0 comments
Seven, In the Morning? 4 comments
History of Rice Pudding 0 comments
For Someone Else 0 comments
Dark Hair Shorn 0 comments
Lasting Scents 0 comments
Midnight Clocks 6 comments
Best Intentions 0 comments
My Pages 5 comments
Flight 93 0 comments
Cousins you've never known (Family gatherings...) 0 comments
I Remember 0 comments
A few shots from the party (Still working on the best settings for very-low-light operation) 2 comments
End of an Era (Christmas dinners at the Greenhams are no more...) 0 comments
Unwrapped Peeking 0 comments
Safe Across the Table 0 comments
On Nothing Being Said 0 comments
Longer Every Night 0 comments
Reaching Out 4 comments
Happy Solstice Everybody! (It will get light again, I tells ya!) 0 comments
The First Word 0 comments
Rinse, repeat (Another day, just like the last...) 0 comments
Water Clocks 2 comments
Wings of my Heart 5 comments
Black Circles in Blue 0 comments
How parties were meant to be (Long, loud, full of laughter and deep conversations...) 0 comments
Fresh Cleaned Floor 3 comments
Faded Demons 0 comments
Shell Between 0 comments
Social nova bomb on time (Wasn't just a drop in, tour, and drop out thing...) 0 comments
One of those lovely quotes (Brendan is always good for a few...) 0 comments
Lara's back (Yay) 0 comments
Bit of practice with Inkscape (A little guardian lion for the Open Clip-art peoples...) 0 comments
Dinner at the house of pure love (Tre Fontane on Bloor...) 0 comments
String Theory 2 comments
Very small coffee and a DVD-RW recorder (Plus some mindless hours on acrostics...) 0 comments
Four Years Apart 0 comments
Laying Bare 0 comments
Cut Crystal 6 comments
Things were going on, I just wasn't invited yet (Poetry evening at Aleck's, then dropped in on Simon...) 0 comments
Rogers just keeps getting more expensive (Adding unwanted required features and taking away wanted ones...) 1 comment
Fun little Toronto Philosophy meeting (The key is to discuss philosophy...) 0 comments
Flakes Against our Skin 0 comments
Magritte and chocolate and music (Wandering about Toronto...) 0 comments
Plasticised People (Tomorrow's plans...) 0 comments
IT for Africa (Good people gather at Dan's potluck...) 0 comments
Uneventful day (Hospital, philosophy, library, party...) 0 comments
Sebeok's Introduction to Semiotics (Subway reading...) 0 comments
Tricky those plasterers (They spring their presence on you at the last moment...) 0 comments
Pleasant little party (Spend most of the evening talking about philosophy, psychology and academia...) 0 comments
Day in review (What was cool about the day...) 1 comment
Gentle hush of tickets falling (Moving toward launch as winter settles...) 0 comments
Health problems suck more (Distracting...) 0 comments
Pinning Ragged Edges 0 comments
Business plan writing today (Hopefully they get started on the walls!) 1 comment
His Lacquered Head 1 comment
Yay! The walls are getting fixed! (Finally...) 0 comments
Pleasant evening as they played poker (Conversation is so much more interesting) 0 comments
To Escape the Mania 0 comments
I (Can) Resist Her 0 comments
They're waiting to pounce on her! (Calls for interviews start minutes after she's on the list...) 0 comments
Some VOIP-ing to round out the day (Which is now way over my scheduled 9hrs) 0 comments
Architect's Geometry 0 comments
Academia 0 comments
The Blankets 0 comments
Pleasant visit and then coffee (With an annoying traffic ridden commute in the middle) 0 comments
The Flawed Knight 0 comments
I Had Been Free 0 comments
In Hairy Fists 0 comments
Six Billion People Live 0 comments
Over Night 0 comments
A pleasant evening in with friends (Talkin' the night away...) 0 comments
Meeting on a bus (Wherein I find the subject of my best photograph ever) 0 comments
Quiet day reading (And then some poker) 0 comments
Fey Dream Creatures 0 comments
Ladies pouring coffee 2 comments
Stoic temperments 0 comments
Why work on details (When your strength is conceptual operations?) 0 comments
Sudden death pool and a nap (Or, what I did yesterday) 0 comments
Another stellar evening! (Life's joys and wonders... and other topics of conversation) 0 comments
A most pleasant day (Reading and talking and coffee, oh my!) 0 comments
I don't hate poker (I just prefer conversation) 1 comment
For the beauty junkies in the crowd (Snaps of flowers and the like...) 0 comments
A scam 0 comments
The hum 0 comments
Lonely dreams 0 comments
Guess I should buy a Research Reader's card ($150/year for a library card seems high...) 0 comments
A few pictures from Mississauga (Mostly vegetation...) 0 comments
Whisker Rubs 0 comments
Days without blogging! (Luckily nothing happened) 0 comments
Oh, this sucks! (Deleting spam trackbacks deletes the articles but leaves the spam trackbacks!) 0 comments
Some days are pure gold (Happy from early morning to early morning...) 0 comments
First crack at a business card (Feels a bit compositional, but oh well, release early, release often...) 1 comment
Meetings stretch days (Temporal hamburger helper...) 0 comments
Women are fun to hang out with (Though they do tend to inspire melancholy) 0 comments
Hmm, how did that happen? (Was going to be 4 or 5 people in for a quiet dinner...) 0 comments
Why aren't I there? (Because I got the gist of the post but didn't think to read the details...) 0 comments
Now that was pleasant! (Meet new people, friendly people, good people...) 0 comments
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Fates are kind to Mikey...) 0 comments
Off to the movies I go (I really have no great desire to see Star Wars III) 0 comments
Windows steals another 5 or 6 hours of my life (79 trojan horses of various descriptions) 0 comments
Housekeeping (Of the web-site sort) 0 comments
Sporty Younger Blondes 0 comments
Scents on City Streets 0 comments
Pools in Shadowed Groves 0 comments
Cornered Eyes 0 comments
Gorgeous evening at the cafe (Shane pulls together half a dozen people...) 0 comments
Ma petite soeur sont retournee! (Elle sont retournee et *je* droit apris francais?) 3 comments
What's Left of Me 1 comment
Under the Sun (Though the sun is down right now...) 1 comment
Windows just isn't worth the time (Another rebuild of a very old system...) 0 comments
Our Judges 2 comments
Victory is mine! (Yay! I defeated a tiny 86 year old woman at pool!) 0 comments
The Field Guide to North American Stones 0 comments
He Stands 0 comments
Pressing In 0 comments
Before I slip off to sleep (Rosey is alive...) 0 comments
Nicolas 0 comments
Perilous Reflection 0 comments
Twenty Feet Apart 0 comments
Inkscape seems to have hosed itself (Or maybe some glibc problems...) 0 comments
On Invitations Now Passed 0 comments
The Night's Caress 0 comments
Where are the Faerie Ladies? 0 comments
On lightning detection equipment (I know, I know, what does this have to do with anything...) 0 comments
Flirty Pillows 0 comments
In darker moments? 0 comments
On a lighter note... (Poker at a cafe) 0 comments
On creative marketplaces (Supporting the content creators...) 0 comments
Meyers Briggs is a bit absolute... (A few score true/false questions to sort us into piles) 1 comment
Lazy bum! (Get typing already...) 0 comments
Have to get these things backed up! (Websites and the like...) 0 comments
Sweet, simple love 0 comments
False positives suck! (Whitelist malfunctions again) 0 comments
Cleaning is fun (But really, really hot...) 0 comments
So this is age 1 comment
The Rain of Tiny Blows 0 comments
Academics shouldn't blog? (Though I try to avoid blogosphere auto-wanking...) 1 comment
Muscles Sliding Under Skin 0 comments
Days of curry and defeat (And slumber) 0 comments
Yay! Lara's coming over! (Thai curry shall not go to waste) 0 comments
Key words for computer recycling... (Toronto Environment Day) 1 comment
Ping! Pop! Zip! (I feel like running around hugging people!) 0 comments
All ya need is love (Du-du-du-du-du) 0 comments
I need to spend a few years studying philosophy (Wikipedia addiction takes hold again...) 0 comments
Clintonian Virgin (Why hasn't this phrasing taken off?) 0 comments
Messages from Trois Pistoles (Rosey's aquatic excursions...) 0 comments
When women flirt (Men are reduced to sleepless fools) 0 comments
Gentle smiles for fools 0 comments
Literature on a Bus 0 comments
He holds the shirt 0 comments
Coincidence and magic (Plans fall apart, then magically reassemble themselves) 0 comments
Too many cabs to save the girl 1 comment
Joy of Windows (I'm such a sucker for a beautiful face...) 0 comments
Week fills up too fast (Also, messages from Rosey...) 0 comments
Very pleasant dinner (Meet a new friend) 0 comments
Hope for Me 0 comments
Sleep, glorious sleep (Doesn't get much work done, but...) 0 comments
A few pictures from down south (Kind of disappointed about the razorwire ones not being in focus...) 0 comments
On the prisoner's dillema (Is revolution the answer?) 1 comment
Between Truth and Dawn 0 comments
I Miss the Quiet Nights (Conversations with her in my arms...) 0 comments
Why no solstice party? (The crowd asks) 0 comments
Self-censoring (My broken editor...) 0 comments
Sociopathic behaviour escalates (Society does nothing but encourage it...) 3 comments
Little bit of work to round out the day (Still tired from the trip, but trying to keep a normal-ish schedule...) 0 comments
Off I go (Mmm travel...) 2 comments
Oops, another 6 hours disappears into wiki-dom (Just can't stop editing/writing...) 0 comments
Hmm, another of those reality loops (UU goes very late and very caffeinated) 0 comments
Overtired and too much caffeine (So much for sleep...) 0 comments
Day limps into the final stretch (Broken and battered, with little to show...) 0 comments
The Lion in Winter (I think far too much...) 0 comments
That was less disruptive than I thought it would be (Hellos take all of 5 minutes and I'm back to work!) 0 comments
The Children are Coming! The Children are Coming! (Ice-cream delays the arrival, apparently...) 0 comments
A better class of nightmare (Simple, direct, with inventions bonus...) 0 comments
Why am I home on a Saturday night? (This is just pitiful...) 0 comments
Sleep eludes me (Probably just need more exercise) 7 comments
People who are too good (I feel like such a disappointment sometimes...) 0 comments
Parties take a lot of prep-time (Especially when you've been letting the housework get behind...) 0 comments
Urgh, I didn't even notice the trackback spam! (120+ spams likely sitting there for days helping the blaggards...) 0 comments
We all hate dream journals (Yet still I post...) 0 comments
Days of marketing splendour (Drat it, how many t's in that word!) 0 comments
Holy disappearing weekend (Nary a bit of production to be seen...) 0 comments
Ah, the glory of portabellos (Cheap mushrooms!) 0 comments
Ah, conversations (The point of life...) 0 comments
To experiment, to read, or to write? (I'd rather be having coffee with friends...) 0 comments
I've been an ass (Really upset a friend...) 0 comments
Oops, wrong on the tax due date (Are due in 2.5 hours, not 26.5) 0 comments
Happy that the taxes are simpler? (Or depressed that my investment income totalled less than $100 for a year!) 0 comments
Odds and ends as the day ends... (Pleasant all around...) 0 comments
An infectious book meme (Or at least, I'm *told* it's infectious...) 1 comment
Food would be useful (Cookies and crackers and M&Ms don't quite make a balanced diet...) 0 comments
Home again, home again (Nappity nap...) 0 comments
Oh, another idea for assistive technology (Embed RFID chips in all road signs...) 0 comments
Assistance for the blind (Universal bluetooth interfaces...) 0 comments
Thoughts on wish lists... (Je pense...) 2 comments
Ah the joys of car-less-ness in the hinterlands (It gets expensive and/or awkward very fast...) 0 comments
Workin' in the free world (Documentation I suppose...) 0 comments
Just about ready to go (Should be in bed already) 0 comments
The Great Circle of Life and Encyclopedia (Thirst to understand everything...) 0 comments
On social change (Conversations in a bar) 0 comments
Greed (Wade Rowland's reading this evening at U of T) 0 comments
ZZZ in the springtime (Plans solidify when you give out credit-card numbers...) 0 comments
Party passed pleasingly (The popularity of the last-girl-sitting...) 0 comments
Not a day to be inside (Yet here I sit...) 0 comments
Problem is that the writer knows you too well (Pushes buttons better left un-pushed...) 0 comments
Long days are made of these (Who am I to disagree...) 0 comments
Need a better book-keeping solution (Tracking down receipts for Ken tomorrow...) 0 comments
No 2.0.0 final release (But the context-class-choosing script is working...) 0 comments
Encounters on a bus (Seems the city gets smaller the more people I know...) 0 comments
A-pot-lucking-I-go (Hi ho the dairy-o...) 0 comments
Weekend filling up too fast! (2 parties plus a visit with grams) 0 comments
Shane is entirely too generous (And Lara's pretty darn giving too...) 0 comments
Customary belly-button gazing (As age creeps away with my youth...) 1 comment
Wow, that took far longer than it should have (Need to get ZPhotoSlides set up somewhere...) 3 comments
Ooh, look, pictures! (Well, just the ones from yesterday so far...) 0 comments
Long lunches are pleasant, but they push the day quite late (Thai buffet was well worth it, beautiful female companion was icing on the cake...) 2 comments
Ah, back to the world of Mikey (Looking back at the week of PyCon...) 0 comments
Laptops that melt and other PyCon trivia (Very pleasant evening eating and hacking once the presentation was done...) 0 comments
Hmm, who do I think I am? (Finally she gets the styles changed...) 2 comments
That was the sound of a day popping! (All gone...) 0 comments
Phonecalls can lead to blogging (New blog for an old and dear friend...) 2 comments
I love it when there's a problem with a booking (Really, it's such a joy...) 0 comments
Up at some ungodly hour tomorrow (Today went well, though still no movement on presentation...) 0 comments
Oh, and a second cousin once removed? (I lose track of how it works after second cousin...) 0 comments
Oops, seem to have lost consciousness there (Luckily I made it to bed first...) 0 comments
Alive: take 2 (When headaches recede...) 0 comments
It's surprising how often I look down at the keyboard, desk or tablet (Touch typing not-withstanding) 0 comments
Yay! I'm alive! (And the fever brings clarity about a recurring dream...) 0 comments
Still non-functional (And now Rosey's machine is infected...) 0 comments
You'd a thunk I woulda noticed (Fever, muscle and joint pain...) 0 comments
Tim's been stolen! (Well, forcibly confined (they even took his shoes!)) 0 comments
Days are, ironically, shrinking (Or so it seems...) 0 comments
The ability to suspend thought is one I must recover (If I'm ever to sleep properly...) 0 comments
Bug steals a day and mocks me unresolved (And somewhere in there I lost a few hours...) 0 comments
Still awake... (Listening to an audio book to try to get to sleep) 0 comments
Finally hit my stride on the PyCon presentation (Key is to use paper for designing... you'd think I'd remember that...) 0 comments
Pleasant, but not very productive day yesterday... (Friends drop in) 0 comments
Finally book a hotel for PyCon (Procrastination is bad, rising hotel rates are worse...) 0 comments
Human beings are not intended to be getting up at this hour! (Introduces thoughts of mortality into the dreams...) 0 comments
Hmm, did I miss the anniversary? (Sort-of, if leap years didn't count...) 0 comments
The key to happiness is detachment from the things of this world (Or, people are better (but slower) than Bryan assumes they are...) 0 comments
I need to write faster (Get the paper done and work on the presentation!) 0 comments
The day seems to have evaporated (Without much to show for it...) 0 comments
Poor little MEC bag (Lost in the wilds of suburbia...) 0 comments
I'd forgotten just how intense Cranium games get (At least, when Shane and Shademan are playing...) 0 comments
Week fills up rather quickly (Seems like just yesterday it was going to be quiet and productive...) 0 comments
Oh, Marjan is alive (Just doesn't check her email very often I'm told...) 0 comments
Oh, while I'm thinking about it ((I'm not actually *tired*, so I'm procrastinating about going to bed)) 0 comments
A long and involved email will sit in the queue for a good long time (Short and dealing with a single issue or idea I can respond to while tests run...) 0 comments
What the wimmin-folk are up to (Sisters and friends wandering about the place...) 0 comments
That was a fun little party (Even though I do seem to have offended at least one lady...) 0 comments
Another fascinating article from Shane (Apparently Fox News has decided to castigate this chap instead of dealing with the issues...) 0 comments
Siren call of sleep (Day disappears in the pursuit of rest) 0 comments
Most readers are looking for maids and anime porn when they come here (Tim's webalizer fixes allow me to see my *real* constiuency...) 0 comments
In a shameless attempt to boost ratings (Yet more pictures of beautiful women...) 0 comments
Very interesting interview (Shane's forwards often are...) 0 comments
Thunderbird for those of us with enough eye strain (Editing a configuration file in the application data directory is something no grandmother should have to do...) 0 comments
Evening doesn't go as planned (Though hopefully the memory leak is fixed now...) 0 comments
More trips down memory lane (Care of Picasa...) 0 comments
Old rendering projects look so quaint these days (Tim's remarks about wading pools not withstanding...) 0 comments
More Picassa goodness (Ooh, look, old projects resurrected...) 0 comments
Life is so much more fun out there where there are people (May as well post a few pictures to keep the masses happy...) 0 comments
Distractions, distractions... (Choosing a restaurant for a meeting when you never leave the house is a PITA) 0 comments
I need a break (Or an 8 week intensive course on test-fixture-creation...) 2 comments
Rule by the rich (It really is what I said it is...) 0 comments
PyCon paper writing goes well (Though there was a section missing in the outline) 0 comments
Thunderbird goes a little weird... (Just procrastinating before going to bed) 0 comments
Grr, it's the CPU cooler, stupid! (Case exhaust fan was doing just fine, thank-you.) 0 comments
Bonus issue: Has the majority of the United States gone insane? (Warning, political rant...) 0 comments
Just scrape past her... (3 games to 2 and every one of them was close) 0 comments
150 shots in around 9 hours (30 or 40 are usable) 1 comment
Since everyone's always wanted to know (The view out Mikey's window as he works...) 0 comments
Toys are fun! (Finally get around to buying the camera...) 0 comments
Hoarse and deaf, without a decent conversation to show for it (How to discourage intellectuals from hanging out in your establishment...) 0 comments
Rebuilding computers takes way too long (2 day's off-hours sopped up...) 0 comments
Or maybe I'll just blog more (And try to type quietly) 0 comments
She never brings them home for *me* (Rosey & co go out clubbing, so the day ends early...) 0 comments
Wow, Andromeda ends darkly... (Spoiler warning...) 0 comments
Am I a romantic sham? (Tim's hopes withstanding?) 0 comments
Time to restart the Mikey on Linux project? (Have to get off Microsoft eventually...) 0 comments
Remembering (You'd think after 11 years I'd have written it down...) 2 comments
I've said it before... I'll say it again (Ever heard of a broom?) 0 comments
Double standard still exists (Ruminations on oral fixations...) 0 comments
A perfect evening (From the Book of Questions...) 4 comments
No sleep for the over-stimulated (Maybe I shouldn't think about work before bed...) 0 comments
Should have gone shopping this week (New camera was supposed to be picked up during boxing-week sales...) 4 comments
Last minute invite (But not that *kind* of bed party, darn it...) 0 comments
New hierarchy types are fun! (Though we got our collective arses whipped in Cranium...) 1 comment
Not much done this evening (Began working on "inexactitude" section...) 0 comments
Pause admidst the orgy of consumerism... (Last minute shopping often turns ugly) 0 comments
Dang spammers to the deepest, coldest regions of heck! (Another social casualty on the information super-highway...) 0 comments
Day disappears in EFT pair-programming (As the cold (or whatever) takes over my poor lil' body...) 1 comment
Is God a criminal? (Since I can't sleep...) 0 comments
Poor guy, who could ever make ends meet on that salary... (Sometimes you just want to smack people upside the head) 0 comments
Primary purpose of a blog... (Social awkwardness or feelings of guilt?) 0 comments
Solstice dinner goes fairly well (Mole and curry and doughnuts! Oh my!) 0 comments
Just in case she tries to claim she was entirely bored (Tim provides photographic evidence...) 0 comments
Convincing them to show up is 90% of the battle (Marjan saves me from being the lonely bachelor...) 0 comments
On the massaging of the foot... (Was it Shiatsu our friend taught us?) 0 comments
Apparently picked up something at the party (Hit me this afternoon...) 0 comments
Slow day's party into night... (Not a lick of work done) 0 comments
A blowout for grams (I rather sucked at pool this afternoon...) 0 comments
I believe this bug is driving me nutty (But at least I have a date for the staff Christmas party...) 1 comment
Enlightened self interest (Why even bother trying to sleep... well... other than to let my hands rest... which isn't happening with all this blogging) 0 comments
Maybe I should just report when I *can* sleep (Reduce the blog-traffic considerably...) 0 comments
Is stress the prod that gets evolution going (Do chemical alterations in the cell affect the accuracy of DNA replication, producing more mutations?) 0 comments
Natasha finishes her novel (Apparently part of an internet competition...) 0 comments
My subconscious needs dream-writing lessons (Retro dream-style reasserts itself...) 0 comments
Dinner w/ friends (Relaxed night off...) 0 comments
Happens every time I start to teach something (Wondering what I'm spending my life doing...) 0 comments
Bragging beforehand gets you soundly thumped (Or so it seems for grams...) 0 comments
Didn't manage to get to sleep (Guess grams will get a free ride...) 0 comments
Oh, the evening's coffee (Hanging out in Starbucks...) 0 comments
Alexei's new portfolio site (Gee, it's been a while since I've seen him...) 0 comments
Oh, yes, the games (Instant Karma gets her...) 0 comments
A few poems transcribed while waiting for the family (Old notebooks with bad poetry...) 4 comments
Apparently I depress Bryan (Well, my blog does...) 0 comments
Science fiction lectures finish (Things that make you go "where's the beef") 0 comments
Am I really so boring? (Don't answer that...) 0 comments
Why aren't women allowed to notice that other women are "hot"? (Seems like a perfectly reasonable observation...) 0 comments
It's been way too long since I listened to Brave New Waves (Ogg stream reminds me that I've been neglecting experimentalism...) 0 comments
Is my only muse insomnia (Little bit of poetry refuses to leave my mind...) 0 comments
Apparatus for allowing transfer of electrical equipment without service interruption (An idea for those inventors out there who like such things...) 0 comments
Sigh, looks like the collapse is coming... (Myopic, spendthrift policies to continue south of the border) 0 comments
Pleasant coffee with Shane (and Lara) (I got to hold a 7 week old scottie puppy while his owner (cute girl) got her coffee...) 0 comments
Any little excuse to discuss philosophy (Garn I'm getting predictable in my old age...) 0 comments
About super-strings (Lindsey's question in a loud party...) 0 comments
Guess I should try to recover the Gentoo environment (My personal todo list is so long and not very fun looking at this moment...) 1 comment
Hypothesis as I lie here wondering (About losing a beautiful woman's name so easily...) 0 comments
Oh yes, the party (Since you didn't ask...) 0 comments
How to affect change in the world (Zen and the art of making the world a better place) 2 comments
Need to find a way to distract myself (There's not a lot to fire the imagination at the moment...) 0 comments
Take either position, but accept the consequences (If you're going to argue for innate capabilities, follow it through to the end...) 0 comments
Oh, and I got a toy today (Wish I had time to play with it...) 0 comments
That was just too fun (Why do I do this programming stuff again?) 0 comments
DDOS attacks starting again (What's with these people, don't they have spam to send or something?) 0 comments
Philosophy lectures march on (Through the magic of a shuffling algorithms...) 0 comments
Oh, I know it's serious (But egads, isn't this just calling out for a joke...) 0 comments
The minds on the other side (Little article about the new hybrid SUV) 0 comments
What is the measure of a man? (Pondering while the unit-tests run...) 2 comments
Fried moth is NOT a pleasant scent (From the probably-too-much-info department...) 1 comment
North Americans really suck at communication (Maybe the rest of the world too...) 6 comments
Hardware is starting to get on my nerves... (Or at least the drivers for it...) 0 comments
Party goes very well (Pictures for everyone!) 2 comments
Let there be light! (Rosey's excursion to Canadian Tire) 0 comments
What's missing? (Loneliness strikes in the middle of the night...) 0 comments
Power outage as relaxation therapy (Maybe I need more excitement in my life...) 0 comments
The Italian Job and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Flicks in the field) 0 comments
Dinners upon dinners upon movies... (Raining and pouring...) 0 comments
Couldn't give away the MolÃ© (So I just didn't make it tonight...) 0 comments
Confluence of problems kills the week's blogging (And no-one notices...) 0 comments
Package tracking is addictive (I had no idea TigerDirect was a US company...) 0 comments
Look, it's a former girlfriend... (Searching for a chance to use the camera!) 0 comments
Weekend saved by former gf (I'm morally opposed to spending a perfect weekend doing nothing but working...) 0 comments
Beginning move to the new domain (Roger's karking of email prods me into motion...) 0 comments
Firefox and Thunderbird switch... (Switched to fix broken spell-check, now it works in Mozilla but not Thunderbird) 2 comments
Mole perfection achieved (Well, competence, anyway...) 2 comments
Rogers karks up email (Day wasted in the main) 0 comments
A fairly successful party (Though most of the normal crowd was missing...) 0 comments
Spider Man II (This afternoon (or tomorrow, depending on whether today is tomorrow or today)) 0 comments
Malcom X quote in the middle of a song (Plymouth Rock) 0 comments
Just something that keeps coming up (Advice to women) 0 comments
Hiking cancelled (Sleep and work instead...) 0 comments
Oh, a note on Bruce Trail Club etiquette (The activities page doesn't really make this clear) 0 comments
Life of Mikey (Trivialities and planning...) 0 comments
The Conversion of Shane (Red Alert II enthusiasts are born...) 0 comments
Fitting in with people who have normal schedules is a pain (Who ever heard of "call before 9pm"?) 0 comments
More pointless details on Rosey's new machine (Just 'cause I'm waiting for it...) 0 comments
Rosey's moved in (Her computer is a mess...) 0 comments
Why minority parties want proportional representation (For those who are curious) 0 comments
For those too lazy to read Canadian newspapers (Liberals are back in power, but with a minority government...) 1 comment
Changing of the roommates (Lawrence has finished moving out...) 0 comments
How many support modules, that is the question (PyOpenGL after kebabs...) 2 comments
Yes, it's another political rant... (I really do want to know what the NDP are smoking these days???) 0 comments
Oops, forgot about that... (Social engagment this evening means little work on PyOpenGL) 0 comments
Interesting Star article on parties positions wrt copyright reform... (The NDP seems to be smoking crack...) 0 comments
Dates for hiking (Two of them... too bad neither is a date-as-such) 0 comments
Hmm, John Stewart just lost it for a second (Even if I do agree...) 0 comments
If the man telling you to commit suicide isn't dead (Why would you trust him?) 1 comment
Oh, yes, yesterday (Gifts and weddings and such-a-like) 0 comments
Think that about wraps up the week (13 hours is too long a time to sit in one spot) 2 comments
Shopping tomorrow (Can't look shabby at the wedding...) 0 comments
Former gf graduates (With "high distinction") 0 comments
The pernicious influence of puzzles (Almost an hour wasted on this so far...) 16 comments
This week we tried a few games of pool (I still won ;) ) 1 comment
This week we tried a few games of pool (I still won ;) ) 1 comment
Yay, it's a camera! (But I don't have batteries for it) 0 comments
Yay, it's a camera! (But I don't have batteries for it) 0 comments
A woman once took issue (So of course I can't sleep thinking about it...) 0 comments
A woman once took issue (So of course I can't sleep thinking about it...) 0 comments
Once again back to ground 0 with Linux (I'm getting *so* sick of this) 0 comments
Once again back to ground 0 with Linux (I'm getting *so* sick of this) 0 comments
Coffee with Lisa (Don't play at legalese with a lawyer!) 0 comments
Coffee with Lisa (Don't play at legalese with a lawyer!) 0 comments
Look, it's a search box (Turns out you just uncomment it...) 0 comments
Look, it's a search box (Turns out you just uncomment it...) 0 comments
Packed up the scanner (And immediately thought of three or four things I should have scanned before giving it up...) 0 comments
Need an intellectual recharge (Maybe more philosophy this evening) 0 comments
Need an intellectual recharge (Maybe more philosophy this evening) 0 comments
Nice little experiment last night (Ginger stir-fry over anise and mint pasta) 0 comments
Nice little experiment last night (Ginger stir-fry over anise and mint pasta) 0 comments
What is the headache trying to say? (It's a warning signal, but...) 0 comments
What is the headache trying to say? (It's a warning signal, but...) 0 comments
Newest Sasser worm a greater danger (Why do we report things this way) 0 comments
Paid for my Bruce Trail membership (Procrastination ends...) 0 comments
Sly horse trader that I am (Little side deal to make everyone happy...) 0 comments
Back from the party (Now to sleep) 0 comments
Simon's party tomorrow (After rebuilding JoAnne's machine...) 0 comments
And one of D'Arcy (CEO of our happy little crew...) 0 comments
Look! It's a picture of Tim! (The work Tim, not the roommate Tim or Python-dev Tim...) 0 comments
Proper capitalisation of uncle and aunt (A question I couldn't answer on Twisted channel) 1 comment
Rosey visit yesterday (Noah too!) 0 comments
More truth in comics (Hope this is considered fair use...) 0 comments
Poem running through my mind (Darn it I'm trying to sleep!) 0 comments
Are pickles, cookies and yogurt a balanced diet? (Maybe I'm pregnant... oh, wait, I guess that would be a prerequisite... oh, and that too...) 0 comments
Technology makes hunter successful (But doesn't actually result in leaving cave...) 0 comments
Pool cue hunter... (They're not spears, kiddies) 0 comments
Wow, that was just evil! (In the Company of Men) 0 comments
Elegance is needed in teaching physics (It really is elegant...) 0 comments
Mikey's Wish List Version 1.0 (For all you amateur matchmakers out there ;)) 3 comments
Gardening tomorrow (Shiva (& Shademan)'s place) 0 comments
How widespread is John Stewart's reach? (Just wondering how often I'll hear this re-quoted...) 0 comments
The Elegant Universe (Finally picked it up...) 0 comments
Being offline sucks (But had some wonderful dinner in there...) 0 comments
Thirty-some-odd movies (Answer to nagging question that finally woke me up...) 0 comments
No mention of redemption or rehabilitation (Databases meet liability litigation and the stigma of previous criminal behaviour...) 0 comments
You assume those you like are like you (And, of course, that they like you) 0 comments
Beginning to sag a little (But new weight-level might help) 0 comments
Hmm, Zope XML export is broken! (For this site, anyway) 0 comments
So often education is all that's missing (Pool with the kids, snooker with grams) 0 comments
Need to stop thinking about Lisa's thesis (I'm obviously a sucker for a beautiful woman...) 0 comments
There's no point in Thai food if you're not going to share (3 plates of veggie Pad-Thai is just silly) 0 comments
Some of whatever knocked me out is lingering (Waste of time in silly unconsciousness) 0 comments
Pleasant day all around (Grams out, coffee, and a good dinner) 0 comments
Coffee postponed (Lisa's off partying this evening, so do coffee tomorrow afternoon) 0 comments
Now she's at the hospital (Will be there for a few days) 0 comments
Grams too tired to play snooker (She's off at the nurse's office now taking a nap) 0 comments
Using a semen extractor for a woman? (Science shows are weird sometimes...) 1 comment
Hope is Gone (A sweet, mischevious little doggy, past the pain) 0 comments
3-1/2 hours wasted on Corrupted Disk (Need to buy a new one once the cheque for training clears) 0 comments
Puppy is sick (Little Hope is in the hospital) 0 comments
Good lord this month is going slow (PyCon not even a month ago yet) 0 comments
Yesterday's day (Altogether pleasant party...) 0 comments
Hmm, getting started rather late this morning (Was hoping to be up and cleaning 2 hours ago) 0 comments
females aren't fickle; they just change their mind (It's-from-the-CBC-so-it-must-be-true...) 0 comments
Continuing to simplify (And the party-count rises) 0 comments
Rested, fed, and ready to go (Though honestly I could go to sleep right now) 0 comments
Pleasant afternoon with Golnar (Now back to work (sigh)) 0 comments
This just keeps happening (Shouldn't listen to my family...) 0 comments
At least there's something to read (Coming full circle and reading encyclopedias again) 0 comments
Stupid things that cross my desk (Child pornography charges against the child?) 0 comments
Sheesh, $117CDN total income for a year? (I know, I know, I was doing open-source all year, but still...) 0 comments
Inevitabilities... (Chores and taxes...) 0 comments
Two more universities for Rosey (Nipissing and York) 0 comments
Well, I suppose that's one way (Silly things that trip across my desktop...) 0 comments
Correspondence of yesterday (My own little news service...) 0 comments
Joey's Redhead's wish list (Publishing the wish-list on the web, what a novel idea...) 0 comments
Shrubbery and such-like (Tree controls developing apace) 0 comments
Age creeps in... (Should stop thinking about this around now) 0 comments
Back from gram's lickety split (And dinner with Shiva and Shademan) 0 comments
Hmm, days evaporate rather quickly... (Thought I had a half-day in here somewhere) 0 comments
Busy day tomorrow (Rebuilding two computers, dinner, movie, coffee) 0 comments
So that's what life is all about (A beautiful woman chatting about life the universe and curry) 0 comments
Beautiful Golnar coming by for dinner (Persian beauties are wonderful just to be around) 0 comments
Sometimes you have to wonder... (7% of Americans haven't heard of the EU?) 0 comments
Robotics of electro-active polymers for space (Scatterthought ideas on the DARPA race) 0 comments
Sleep should be more restful (Why do my eyes still hurt?) 0 comments
Should be re-installing I suppose (Pausing at the threshold of oblivion...) 0 comments
Timing is important (C drive corruption is sucky) 0 comments
Oh, and mom and dad are coming by on Saturday (They want to visit Pearl, Rosey and I) 0 comments
Shane's Famous! (And he never told me...) 0 comments
Working with faulty substrates (Ruminations as I rebuild the database yet again) 0 comments
Mind wandered for a few minutes (Cheap solar-powered dirigibles for virtual tourism) 0 comments
Ach, overslept! (Well, more like just couldn't get up...) 0 comments
Still no reservation... (Herding programmers and cats) 0 comments
Think I need to take a real break (Writing blogs as I watch the scanner stall isn't helping...) 0 comments
Mmmm halva (or halawa, as the package insists) (Silly modernisation of transliterations...) 0 comments
I should eat some day soon... (The cupboards are bare, the license is expiring, the hard disk is missing!) 0 comments
Giving up on Dia (Exporting just isn't working) 0 comments
OpenOffice Presenter has no style... (Why disable a general mechanism for a specific app?) 0 comments
Rob says hi (Old collegue from Tpresence drops a line) 2 comments
No SVG support for OO Presenter... (Ah, for a standard 2D graphics format that works...) 0 comments

Young Coders

Say What is still pretty popular 0 comments
Back to React Learning 0 comments
PyOpenGL Working on the Raspberry Pi 0 comments
Raspberry Pi BCM Window Needs Love 0 comments
Voice Dictation Privilege 0 comments
Issue tracking for Linux Laptops... 0 comments
Neat, Curriculum discovery mechanism in Gates' TED Talk 0 comments
What to do about education? 8 comments
Audio Monitor for System Load in CSound (Using CSound from Python) 0 comments
OLPC at PyCon Wrap-up (Back in Toronto...) 4 comments
New Tutorial Largely Finished (and other sprinting news...) 2 comments
Booth Work (Long day's chatting into night...) 0 comments
Tutorial Is Finished (In the sense of presented, it probably needs love from you the reader...) 0 comments
Need Patch and Pygame for Tutorial (Xubuntu LiveCD doesn't have them...) 0 comments
Centre of Attention Moving (PyCon in the focus...) 2 comments
State of the Games (Tutorial research...) 2 comments
Handout Finished (1 day early :)) 3 comments
Formatting and Review for Tutorial Handout (Oh, and some paying work...) 3 comments
Telepathy Wrapper Lands in OLPCGames (Network asynchronously from your Pygame-side code...) 2 comments
Distribute Newspapers to Commuters via Avahi (EBook readers as opportunistic downloaders on local-link...) 1 comment
Journal Integration for OLPCGames (inotify (save) and a command line argument (open)?) 0 comments
New Icon for Productive (Blocked on deployment project...) 0 comments
Documenting Broken things Sucks (You know it's going away...) 0 comments
Tutorial on the Cusp (One more registrant to go forward...) 0 comments
Adding more to the Tutorial (Deadline next Friday) 1 comment
GIT is a PITA (Stupid, stupid, stupid source code control...) 11 comments
Gutsy Packages for Sugar Work Nicely (Don't install sugar-jhbuild at the same time, though...) 2 comments
Going to have to find a Maintainer for OLPCGames (Can't keep doing it in my spare time...) 7 comments
Long Day's Wrestling with OLPCGames (Good day, though...) 1 comment
Bit of time on Productive gameplay (Seem to have a bug in the network setup code...) 0 comments
OLPC at PyCon 2008 (For those looking for something meaningful...) 0 comments
Would be nice to have a compile farm (Qemu overlays or the like...) 7 comments
AStar seems to be working (More complex tests need a scenario editor...) 2 comments
Productive hacking for a few hours (Not billable...) 0 comments
Do an OLPC Stream at TOJam? (Idea from a co-speaker...) 0 comments
IGDA Presentation Goes Well (Game development fun...) 0 comments
GObject is everywhere (Sigh...) 2 comments
Examples Wanted (For documentation...) 0 comments
Remora Specialist Wanted (Add-ins == activities...) 2 comments
Documentation and VMWare Builds (Finally automated...) 5 comments
Bit of a Slow Day (Pleasant enough...) 0 comments
Developer's Manual for OLPC (Plus emulation...) 0 comments
Moving a Second Activity Up (Productive, meet Story Builder, your new best friend...) 0 comments
File Formats and Keyboard Navigation (Little "playable" details...) 0 comments
Low Hanging Fruit Picked (Slightly faster rendering...) 1 comment
Faster Rendering, Still lots of Head Room (Snappy productivity...) 0 comments
Need some time to work on work too (Inversion of ratio...) 0 comments
Start Networking Productively (A quick tutorial on how we did basic networking...) 1 comment
Whither Emulation and SDKs (Status updates...) 0 comments
Oh So Tantalizingly Close (Works on sugar-jhbuild, not on the B4) 0 comments
Lowering Spew Volume in Activities (Set the logging level, but what's setting it high?) 0 comments
Productive Running In-situ (Network transmitting information (that's what networks do)) 0 comments
Productively Networking (almost) (A few bugs fixed in olpcgames) 1 comment
What does it take to be "part" of the OLPC project? (On predatory perceptions and porting...) 2 comments
Need to get Develop Developing (Get Productive out the door first I suppose...) 1 comment
Productive Integration Under Way (Longish day of refactoring...) 0 comments
We have a Productive Project (Git tree and everything...) 0 comments
The cold hard world of Productive (Starvation and death states added) 1 comment
A Productive few hours (Little bits and pieces...) 0 comments
Quick-porting Applications via AUFS (Spike test of a sort...) 0 comments
What's in a Map (A square by any other name would play as sweet) 0 comments
Actually Kind of Fun (Even without the movement rules) 0 comments
Python DBUS Needs a Mainloop Function (Eliminating the OLPCGames wrapper-hack) 0 comments
Resource Managers are Good for Games (We'll be releasing ours, of course...) 0 comments
Screenshot of Octy's Takeover (Crude renderer testing the simulation...) 0 comments
Quick "Governance" Visualisation Idea (KDirStat for your (government) budgets) 1 comment
Still in Pieces (But cool pieces...) 0 comments
A Few Hours Behind (So probably right on schedule...) 0 comments
Game Jam Launches (Off to the RTS...) 0 comments
Full-speed Dev Environment that "Just Works" (May be...) 3 comments
Argh! Proposals! (Completely forgot them today...) 0 comments
Poor timing in network operations (I do not heart sugar-jhbuild) 0 comments
Making TicTacToe actually TicTacToe (Not a test suite...) 0 comments
Fun and Game Wrappers (Maintenance coding...) 0 comments
GStreamer seems unhappy with me... (No streaming...) 0 comments
Dev Environment Building (Fun day in compiling...) 0 comments
Game Jam Toronto Plans (Need to make some...) 0 comments
Wasted Time (Evening disappears trying to get networking working...) 0 comments
Learning in the Rain (Using my B4 in Taipei...) 0 comments
Presentation seems to go well (Few questions, though...) 0 comments
Forgot how fun PyGame is (Been way too long...) 0 comments
What to do for 24 hours (Rubbing hands in manic glee... free time (sort-of)) 0 comments
Only 24 hours to go (Lots and lots to get done...) 0 comments
Oh, they want lots of details (Check the duration of presentations...) 0 comments
OLPC-Toronto Game Jam/Sprint (Participants?) 1 comment
That was really fun! (Long and deep conversations with the students and faculty...) 0 comments
Excited about Tomorrow (Even if today was a bit of a wash...) 2 comments
Screenshots for Everyone! (Pictures are effective...) 0 comments
Success in Innovation (Recipes for Success in Humanism) 2 comments
Not quite the group I thought (Interdisciplinary group with focus on design...) 0 comments
Design Conference on MaRS (Feedback expected...) 0 comments
Off to Taipei in 2 weeks (Open Source and inexpensive laptops...) 3 comments
Bell Canada Labs (Then errands for 4 hours) 0 comments
Ontario Linux Fest goes well (I'm a baritone for a few days, though...) 0 comments
RSS as a fundamental educational primitive (Learning from the University of Toroto) 0 comments
Shopping Lists for Researchers (Relevance is a huge motivator...) 2 comments
Long Day (Schedules mean never having a minute's rest... but you feel really good at the end of the day...) 0 comments
What project managers do we need? (Two suggestions...) 4 comments
Generous offer of support (How best to further the project...) 0 comments
Short presentation this evening (Must remember to ask for managers...) 0 comments
Sigh (Has the sky fallen yet?) 1 comment
Missed a ticket on a long thread (Introduction to Bitfrost-limited application development...) 0 comments
Agenda for Accessibility (This doesn't reflect the views of anyone else...) 0 comments
Long Day's Conference (Presentations and consultations...) 0 comments
When someone hasn't heard (You want to put your hand up in the middle of the speech...) 0 comments
What's our porting status? (Just curiousity...) 0 comments
Documentation and Auto-documentation (My day in tracking things down...) 0 comments
Auto-generating Documentation (PyGTA question rises in the middle of the night...) 0 comments
The Turtle-to-interactive-turtle step... (GooCanvas?) 0 comments
Whole day on documenting and automating (Time flies when you have other work to do...) 0 comments
Yay! VirtualBox with sound and networking! (No TamTam though...) 0 comments
Presentation Invites (Very different audiences...) 0 comments
Yay, kernel drivers for all! (Once we get past the activation code...) 0 comments
Storing images between renders not yet working (Colours and larger drawings working somewhat...) 0 comments
542 works in VMWare with pcnet32 driver (Just a post to give a link to the package, really...) 0 comments
VirtualBox seems to have forgotten (Or I did...) 0 comments
Tantalisingly close on VirtualBox for build 542 (Networking works, just doesn't go anywhere) 0 comments
Cairo's slow if you're doing lots of overdraw (Porting in a turtle-graphics sample...) 5 comments
This should not be this hard (Qemu or chroot'd loopback mount...) 6 comments
Turtle now animates (No turtle graphic yet, though) 0 comments
Think I've basically "got" bzr now (We'll see...) 0 comments
Cairo feels a lot like OpenGL (Turtle graphics interpreter spike-test limping along...) 0 comments
How many laptops do we have in the kid's hands? (Estimate in the interview probably too high...) 0 comments
Interview tomorrow on CityPulse24 (The audience is likely a bit geeky...) 2 comments
Developer's Programme Lite (Testing your OLPC applications in Toronto...) 0 comments
Talked myself hoarse last night (4 or 5 interested people...) 0 comments
Need to get developer's images back up and running (Shouldn't have ceded the project so soon...) 1 comment
Getting started on Hare (TurtleGraphics2) (A few little spike tests...) 5 comments
Use sys.settrace to animate Python code? (Evil ideas that cross one's mind...) 2 comments
I want the perfect IDE for kids (Or do I?) 5 comments
How do I re-install kernel-devel and kernel-headers on Fedora 7? (Trying to boost resolution and fix the keyboard...) 0 comments
Wireless Networking is Kicking My Arse (Whole day's side-project...) 0 comments
B3 Arrived Today (Maybe install the B2 at Linux Caffe for developers) 0 comments
Cleanliness is next to DUH! (Don't delete the build directory for no reason!) 2 comments
My XO seems to have lost its touchpad (Well, usability on it, anyway...) 0 comments
Laptops for Nigeria (Different type...) 0 comments
Ontario Linux Fest (Introduction to the OLPC) 0 comments
Reading up on VServer (Hopped up chroot jail, basically...) 0 comments
Bash in Bitfrost (Getting access to your files...) 1 comment
CSound is a bit of a pain to build (Actually, a lot of a pain...) 1 comment
Multi-application communications channels (Where does Jack fit into Bitfrost?) 0 comments
One Beowolf Cluster per Child (Auto-sharing activities and scripting...) 1 comment
Need to understand the dbus security model (Kind of a key requirement to analyse security when everything uses it...) 0 comments
UI Issue: Need a "launch this environment with" button (Eliminate the close, launch, open Journal, choose-last session path...) 0 comments
External storage mechanisms in BitFrost (More use cases to integrate...) 0 comments
No Joy in Fedora-ville (Networking and keyboard issues) 3 comments
Shared storage mechanism (Temporary GBs of ganged storage) 4 comments
Persistent storage in chroot-protected systems (Issue that needs to be dealt with...) 0 comments
I want an auto-journalling overlay file-system (With a searching, sorting, querying journal interface...) 2 comments
Automatic Journal Population (For backup and sharing purposes...) 0 comments
OLPC on CityTV (News at 6 and "international" news program on the all-news channel) 0 comments
Now for the practical side (Setting up tools to do BitFrosted file-systems) 0 comments
Unioned File Systems (Since the security list seems to be borked...) 1 comment
Unioning File Systems for Fun and Profit (Mostly fun...) 1 comment
Catching up on email (And OLPC stuff too...) 0 comments
OLPC Toronto Meetup this Thursday (News, discussions and the like...) 0 comments
Four most common questions (From a question at the talk yesterday...) 0 comments
Librarians Rule (Organised, efficient and effective...) 0 comments
First day of the conference goes very well (Despite being jet-lagged...) 2 comments
Global Warming isn't even on the radar here (And other little observations from Tirana...) 0 comments
Just 1.5 days left (Little odds and ends of work...) 0 comments
Crash-on-start is sub-optimal too (But that's somewhat fixed now...) 2 comments
Long day's documentation (22+ person-hours of work) 0 comments
First Toronto OLPC Developer's Meetup (Should have done a general introduction...) 0 comments
Reasonable day's work (Despite an afternoon nap...) 0 comments
More work on setuptools for sugar (Scripts/entry points for service files) 2 comments
More docstrings, Toronto developer's list and more (Makefiles suck...) 2 comments
PyGame wrappers and documentation and new developers (Long-ish day with client stuff too...) 3 comments
Presentation at the University of Toronto (With long conversation afterward with the Networked Systems group...) 0 comments
Not the second coming of Spectrum (But an nice demonstration nonetheless...) 0 comments
Presentation on Koolu this evening at Linux Caffe (Neat hardware and solutions) 0 comments
Probably going to be one of the more handled laptops... (Lots of bug-finding on the first day...) 0 comments
Yay! A tiny little laptop! (Really very, very tiny...) 4 comments
Documenting again (PyDoc not processing the modules, though) 0 comments
A day of spelunking and documenting (Figuring out how Sugar works...) 1 comment
Day one should be fun (Working code in under an hour as a goal...) 0 comments
Presentations and talking and developer relations (Oh my!) 1 comment
Mutechs don't write themselves (Starting...) 0 comments
Need a good shared object model (Or something like it...) 3 comments
More disks is the answer (maybe) (One for portage and one for sugar...) 2 comments
More disks is the answer (maybe) (One for portage and one for sugar...) 2 comments
Seems the hardware has advanced? (More RAM and Flash, more powerful processor...) 2 comments
Seems the hardware has advanced? (More RAM and Flash, more powerful processor...) 2 comments
PyGTA Presentation Goes Smoothly (New developer commitments (one in critical area)...) 0 comments
PyGTA Presentation Goes Smoothly (New developer commitments (one in critical area)...) 0 comments
Developer's Desktop v2 Out (Cleaned up version of v1) 1 comment
Developer's Desktop v2 Out (Cleaned up version of v1) 1 comment
Solution for the portage issue (I think) (From Guillermo's suggestion...) 0 comments
Solution for the portage issue (I think) (From Guillermo's suggestion...) 0 comments
Playing with the Developer's Image (Random thoughts...) 1 comment
Playing with the Developer's Image (Random thoughts...) 1 comment
Looks like we'll have an XO for the talk on Tuesday (Tentatively present...) 0 comments
Looks like we'll have an XO for the talk on Tuesday (Tentatively present...) 0 comments
Very long day uploading (Upstream seems to suck pretty bad here...) 2 comments
Developer's image is ready (For the first tests, anyway...) 4 comments
Sugar is finally building (As is Inkscape...) 0 comments
Sugar is finally building (As is Inkscape...) 0 comments
Finally done the base OS install (Egads that took forever...) 0 comments
Finally done the base OS install (Egads that took forever...) 0 comments
Silly script forgot to check for a directory... (xorg recompile fails and drags down the whole show) 0 comments
Silly script forgot to check for a directory... (xorg recompile fails and drags down the whole show) 0 comments
Distribution plan (Or thoughts on a plan...) 0 comments
Distribution plan (Or thoughts on a plan...) 0 comments
Gentoo becomes painful under emulation (Just the building, really) 4 comments
Build is underway (System upgrades first...) 0 comments
Build is underway (System upgrades first...) 0 comments
Gentoo build for OLPC developers (It will be a while... (hmm, that should be Gentoo's slogan)) 1 comment
Gentoo build for OLPC developers (It will be a while... (hmm, that should be Gentoo's slogan)) 1 comment
Progress on Developer's Environment for OLPC (Planning an Ubuntu image with everything pre-built...) 0 comments
Getting OLPC images working (Our experiences hopefully will help others...) 1 comment
Something seems to be working against me working on OLPC (Ridiculous set of barriers...) 0 comments
OLPC talk was extremely good (Not just because it backs up some of my talk's points or because I want to work on it (though that helped)...) 0 comments
Slipping quickly toward PyCon (Doesn't seem real yet...) 0 comments
Bootstrapping Material Culture (More thinking about applications for the OLPC project...) 0 comments
An application for the $100 laptop (Voice training for children (or adults)) 0 comments

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