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Design Theory
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Embrace the Singularity Talk is Up
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Scotland Street School by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
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Of Design release 1.0a1
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Need to rustle up some readers...
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Backdoors in Academia...
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Why Play?
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Writing is slow...
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Associations and Identification added...
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"What I wish someone had given me 16 years ago..."
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Roughing in the Play in Design section
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Thesis Ten Years Later
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Is "Boredom" Instinctual?
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Redefine postmodernism and it gets more interesting...
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The present is 30 years ago (in design theory)
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh
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Job Descriptions (What do I want to be when I grow up?)
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Learning in Perception (Musings...)
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Big Ideas on Conflict in the Brain (Interesting "areas of the brain" lecture...)
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Patterns of Creation (Missing section of the outline...)
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Cortical Algorithm at PyGTA Tonight (Book precis and implementation discussion)
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More text in a few areas (Expanding the early modernist and post-modernist sections)
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Bogging Down in Play (Too big a topic, too quick a treatment, too long an excursion...)
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On Intelligence (and Of Design)
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Excited about Tomorrow (Even if today was a bit of a wash...)
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Success in Innovation (Recipes for Success in Humanism)
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Messy Jobs are Never-Ending (Clean jobs a disappearing breed...)
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I want to think (Idle thought as I walked home...)
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Abandoned building in a park (Machiavelli's palace???)
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Days in the Italian Countryside (In Florence now...)
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I really need to set some time aside for thesis work (Juggling act has too many balls...)
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BarCamp this weekend ("Hacking perception, the core perceptual cycle")
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Fried Mikey (Don't put on jeans and go for long walks when you're sun-fried)
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First few pages on "Play" drafted (Nowhere near as much as I should have written these past two days...)
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Latest version of Of Design uploaded (For those who absolutely have to have the latest version...)
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Of Design finally checked into SVN (And the section on depth is finished (well first draft of it)...)
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Epistemology the 10,000m overview (With way too many isms...)
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New draft of "Of Design" up (Oh what a creative title...)
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Long term carreer goals (Pleasant little talk at U of T)
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Okay, finished with the already-published stuff (Garn that took longer than I would have thought...)
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Finally getting the portfolio cleaned up (Years and years later...)
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Just what I needed (If not the most productive of days...)
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Wednesday is the Toronto Philosophy group meeting (Guess that's today now...)
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Publish Early, Publish Often (PDF export of early drafts...)
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Depth and Frustration (Or my day in rewrites...)
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Physical and Intellectual Depth (And the last paragraph of the somewhat reworked Abundant and Refined Depth section)
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Refined and Abundant Depth (First of the rest of the chapter...)
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How We Perceive Depth (Section after the introduction from yesterday...)
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Rewritten Intro to Depth (Probably need another rewrite eventually...)
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Writer's block masquerading as zest for coding (Will not give in yet...)
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Intention Matters (Not necessarily in appreciating design, but in designing-as-intention it is central...)
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Crashing through to the end of chapter 1 (Getting to the point where I need to print it out...)
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Reworking the Perception Section (Rewrite long overdue...)
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Sebeok's Introduction to Semiotics (Subway reading...)
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On Goodness and Desire (Talk by Boyle and Lavin @ U of T)
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Should have scheduled more time for writing today (Oh well...)
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I feel like designing something today (Maybe it's just a graphic hangover from last night...)
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Discussing ideas (I need sounding boards...)
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Finishing off Dicker's Kant (Quiet Saturday of napping...)
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Computers are just distractions (Should have been reading this afternoon)
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Perceptual Fields (and the neurological basis of thought...)
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On Counting (Example strikes me as "off"...)
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Kant's object-ivity (Reading on the TTC)
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Having trouble with describing perception (Don't have a good feel for the audience's knowledge of the subject)
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Compile farm account (Problems with PyOpenGL on RedHat)
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Definition of Design pt. 2 (When you forget to read the outline as you type...)
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Definition of Design (Drafting a better introduction...)
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Two half books (Neither particularly relevant)
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A Book to Read (Stumbling through the news-feeds)
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The Path-and-Place metaphor (Why it doesn't satisfy...)
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Existence, Space and Architecture (an older book by Christian Norberg Schulz)
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Harmony versus comprehensibility (Dynamics are more than fibonacci ratios)
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Finished off Dynamics of Delight (A few little bits and pieces)
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Dynamics of Delight (by Peter F. Smith)
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The Question of Conferences (Good question, Bruce)
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Argument for Proportion (First draft of some ramblings...)
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Fall of Proportion to Van der Laan (Finishing off the book (and another) at Starbucks...)
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Further through proportion (Alberti to the fall of proportion...)
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Generating and Limiting Orders (A quicky thought before I toddle off to bed...)
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Proportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture ((reading a book by) Richard Padovan)
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Coffeeshop conversations (Wherein I monopolise the conversation)
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Brutalism in Design (Conversation in a cafe)
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I like printing things! (Environmental crisis of conscience)
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I was going to bed somewhere back there ('pedia makes 2 hours disappear...)
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Wikipedia editing is addictive too! (Try to create a simple link from a blog post and wind up writing another encyclopedia article...)
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On Limiting Languages (Old images from my thesis prompt a post...)
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Wow, a whole day on graphics (I'm so out of practice...)
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Wiki-addiction takes hold (I was just going to read...)
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Ironic that post had the real answer within it (I should *read* now...)
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I should write now (But I feel like sleeping instead)
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Need to create some icons for the homepage (Well, really: need to create some pretty graphics so I don't go nuts...)
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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...)
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Setup work for Jelle's project (Install/port radiance to AMD64 Gentoo...)
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With whom would I like to study? (Pondering question at a party while I can't sleep...)
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Don't seem to be in the mood to write serious stuff (Ritual in design blathering...)
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A perfect evening (From the Book of Questions...)
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The Inexact in Design (Section roughed out now...)
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Not much done this evening (Began working on "inexactitude" section...)
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An issue that came up while summarising my thesis (More party thoughts float across the unsleeping mind...)
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Play in Design: The Ampersand (First draft starts... forgot how interesting this stuff is (well, to me, anyway)...)
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My subconscious needs dream-writing lessons (Retro dream-style reasserts itself...)
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Why you can't just flutter the eyelashes anymore (Ruminations on a discussion at PyGTA...)
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Fascinating article on planning Burning Man (Urban planning for utopias...)
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Fascinating article on planning Burning Man (Urban planning for utopias...)
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Where are the radical ideas in computer science? (Radical is not adding functional elements to Python, for instance...)
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You assume those you like are like you (And, of course, that they like you)
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A Safe Place to Explore Ideas (Playfulness in design as a mechanism to allow exploration of difficult topics)
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Perception is mostly expectation (Recent thoughts on constructing perceiving machines...)
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Knight Errant
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Java Jokes
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Free Million-Dollar Idea of the Day
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Learning Curves
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Expanding Micro-Tasks are Demotivators, Communicate your Strategy
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Back from the Tropics
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But I just need 1 little function...
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Channeling...
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TurboGears Weirdness (Validators don't Run)
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Mind Numb (22.5 billable hours in two days...)
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C++ and Accounting (Not as exciting as you might think...)
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Unexpected 'free' day (More of an "I want to do something else" day...)
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Formatting and Review for Tutorial Handout (Oh, and some paying work...)
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Last to Know, Apparently (End of an era...)
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SNMP Engine for 250,000+ Device Networks (Scaling up...)
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Giving up on GNUCash (Delegating accounting/bookkeeping)
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Need some time to work on work too (Inversion of ratio...)
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What to do for 24 hours (Rubbing hands in manic glee... free time (sort-of))
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Long Hours (and Short)
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Long Day (Schedules mean never having a minute's rest... but you feel really good at the end of the day...)
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Messy Jobs are Never-Ending (Clean jobs a disappearing breed...)
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Fixing core structures is a pain (Hindsight realisations...)
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Bugs and refactoring all day (Yawn...)
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Promotion didn't go well (Frustrating...)
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Why is finding an accountant online so hard? (Only half a dozen in Toronto?)
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Taxes melt minds (Fall-through on accountants causes headaches...)
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Bashing out code all day (With a 1 hour OLPC break)
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Very productive day (8.5 hours of extremely focused work)
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Good day's billables on Friday (Refactoring before the new project...)
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Billing System Day Tomorrow (All day, all the way...)
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Abandoned building in a park (Machiavelli's palace???)
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Just 1.5 days left (Little odds and ends of work...)
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Reasonable day's work (Despite an afternoon nap...)
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PyGame wrappers and documentation and new developers (Long-ish day with client stuff too...)
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Tomorrow is make clients happy day! Yay! (Push through all day to do the non-OLPC stuff)
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Maybe a bit too clever in the Postgresql usage ("In case I want to do what I never want to do" bites me...)
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Handling dividends (I am *so* not an accountant...)
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Handling dividends (I am *so* not an accountant...)
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Not my day for networking (Locked out of the work svn server...)
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Not my day for networking (Locked out of the work svn server...)
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Stabilisation period after a long crunch (A few days of just tracking down anything broken)
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I hate details (They get in the way of the great plans...)
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Pause before unleashing the fix (What have I messed up...)
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This week was just too long (Treading water...)
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Refactoring fatigue setting in (Upgrade scripts making me sick...)
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Slept the day away (Up late, 4 minutes of work, jog up and down some stairs, back to bed...)
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A certain quiet satisfaction (Jobs done and books up-to-date...)
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Subtle little bug in a library costs me a few hours (Sigh...)
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I want to do 3D graphics today (No chance though...)
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That goes reasonably well (Apparently giving up on sleep is the answer...)
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Oh, I'll just fix that little problem (He says for the hundredth time, knowing as he does it's a mistake...)
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Really need to get a "too far" alert (Too easy to fix just one figure flaw too many...)
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Long weekend of work hasn't yet gelled (People seem to want to have a holiday...)
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Day's slippage (No work done yet of note...)
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I would have thought this was "normal care" (Hiring and paying someone to do the book-keeping is not enough)
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A tip for owners of small businesses (If your bookkeeper is unwilling to show you the books, change bookkeepers...)
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Not much OpenGL hacking this weekend (But I got some general maintenance done and played a couple of games)
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Falling behind can make you fall behind (When projects slip past hard deadlines...)
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Turns out it was only 1 (or 2) steps too far (Fear is the mind-killer...)
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Got too bold in refactoring (Point was to make a first step, not run a marathon)
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Refactoring makes you bold about refactoring (5 hours head-down refactoring for client)
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Wow, much easier than I expected... (Done the promotion in under 30 minutes)
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Feel like taking a week off (May be just messed up sleep schedule...)
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Sometimes you have to see it to know... (Testing needs to go all the way through the process)
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That moment of truth (Flipping the switch...)
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Talk Proposal in for PyCon (Plus an extremely long day for billables...)
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Buying a printer tomorrow (Brother HL 2070N)
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At some point you just have to accept it (Changing core assumptions at the last moment doesn't work...)
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Mail server disappears again (Grr...)
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That was unbelievably frustrating! (Subversions silliness all day...)
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Sysadmin Time Warp (Forgotten how much it consumes...)
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Long day of sysadmin-ing (Yay, a new server...)
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I'll just get one or two things done before I head down (Dangerous thoughts in the morning...)
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Apparently I've become somewhat used to A/C (Crash in the heat of the home-office)
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Procrastination pays (Apparently, with accounting software...)
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Need to figure out a better name for Better Billing (It's already taken...)
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Evening on Turbogears (Refactoring doesn't go well...)
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Crossing the nodal point (Risk-free to ever-so-tiny-risk...)
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On $250/month coders (Outsourcing and other operations...)
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Rather intense day of training (Didn't intend it to be that long...)
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Things I need to buy (And a thing I want to buy...)
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Printing invoices is somewhat key to cashflow (5 hours of flailing about...)
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Am I becoming a sleep addict? (Return of dreams makes it so attractive...)
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Learning and experience days are important (Taking a day to get up close and personal with SQLObject)
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It's a bad thing when accounting software dumps core (So much for going with the polished consumer-friendly app...)
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Working the whole day lying down (This laptop gets *hot*!)
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Doesn't quite make up for yesterday (But a very good day in for billables...)
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I can see clearly now (The squinting's gone...)
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Fun errands tomorrow! (First two cheques arrive...)
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Days at Linux Caffe are just so much more productive (Almost seven billable hours already)
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A bit under the weather (And way behind on billables for the week...)
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You pay for quick-and-dirty hacks (In maintenance headaches...)
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Bogging down a bit on the charge-setup subsystem (Uncharted areas for me to some degree...)
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Addresses and constrained addresses (Long-term wish-list items...)
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These are the continuing voyages... (More work on BetterBilling...)
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Test suites are fun! (Cancelled meetings and working on almost-spec...)
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My first day with TurboGears (So far so good...)
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Getting out of the house is a good thing (Only takes 20 minutes or so to pay for the food...)
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You pay for it the next day (Good day may equal poor week...)
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Good utilisation rate for the day (Not big-company good, but pretty good for someone working by themselves...)
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Hardware makes for very frustrating days (Maybe it's the "mushy" feeling?)
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Urgh, GST goes down July 1st, not June 1st (Have to eat the difference for that last invoice)
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Week is still very good looking (Even if the day was rather light...)
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Paper testing is fun (What do I need to create to match current functionality in a general system)
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Sometimes the universe loves ya (Thanks universe! (You too Bryan!))
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Don't forget to restart the server (Stupid little things that take hours to track down and seconds to fix...)
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The under-tested areas get ya (Day has been pretty much one little failing thing after another...)
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Yay, it's launched! (At least until tomorrow when the users show up...)
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Pleasant feeling when a launch goes smoothly (He says, jinxing himself...)
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Amazing how much simpler it is if you do much less (Reading through an Open Source billing system...)
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Picking up bits and pieces all day (I prefer deep thought to details...)
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Setting a timetable is good (Launching and the like)
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Bootstrapping Material Culture (More thinking about applications for the OLPC project...)
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Attempting to build sugar (Between the work-times)
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Productive day (If somewhat long)
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Thinking out loud dump of requirements for ISP Billing System (Open Source from the start, as they say...)
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Hitting targets is fun! (No wonder first-person-shooters are popular in business...)
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Taxonomies of Neighbourhoods (Himy's adventures in community building)
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An application for the $100 laptop (Voice training for children (or adults))
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Refactoring is surprisingly time-consuming (Implications upon implications...)
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Networking for fun and profit (Night of Asterisk and related conversations...)
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First day goes well (Cleaning up code that's been hacked up way too much)
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Learning is fun (Even if it's just accounting...)
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Finishing off the evening with a little light reading (How to start a business in Ontario...)
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Polis
Pony
Snaking
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Interesting Memory Leak with Python 3.12 for PyOpenGL-accelerate
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Ubuntu 22.04 Python 3.12 pip is broken
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What is Pythonic Typing for "There exists some plugin that provides an Adapter for X"
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PyOpenGL 3.1.7 Building Now
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Weird regressions in EGL setups
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Potions with Custom Effects
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Finally Got Potions (ItemMeta) and Signs (BlockState) working
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Creating some Pycraft Videos
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Python Version Support Ideas
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Cleaning up the PyOpenGL Demos
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Go Lang Impressions after 2 Months
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Django Field Rename Migrations and Test Cases
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PycraftServer Plugin
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Adding a Certificate Authority to Chrome Trust Store
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PyOpenGL Build Enhancements
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RunSnakeRun 3.0.0 Beta 1
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Listener GUI Started
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Auto-link a Host-provided Package into a Virtualenv
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Listener v2, using DeepSpeech for Coding on Linux
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Playing with EGL+OpenGL Off-screen Multi-Card
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Started work on getting py-spy/speedscope in RunSnakeRun
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PyOpenGL 3.1.5 is Out
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Windows Isn't a Horror Show
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DRM Names for EGL Enumerated Devices
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RunSnakeRun for Python3 Out
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Seems SimpleParse needs work for 3.8
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PyOpenGL 3.1.4 is Out
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Updating PyOpenGL Sample Code References
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Getting Twitch out the Door (but not as Twitch)
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Protocol Buffer Definitions in Packages
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Lessons from Implementing from Scratch
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Yay, django 1.11 broken frozen/pyc migrations again
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PyOpenGL 3.1.3b1 up on PyPI
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TTFQuery 2.0.0b1 Up on PyPI
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PyOpenGL on Travis CI
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Fast.ai Setup for Google Colaboratory
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Bit of PyOpenGL maintenance
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Docker on Centos7 host underwhelms
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GStreamer Playback Captured mpeg.ts using Timestamps
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Review: Dell XPS 15 (9550) as a Linux Developer's Laptop
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PyCon.ca talk on Mistakes in Life/AI is up
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PyCon Canada running Nov 12-15th 2016
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nVidia, package cudnn for Ubuntu already
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mcastsocket broken out into its own project
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Embrace the Singularity Talk is Up
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Let's Encrypt Tomorrow
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PyCaribbean Wow, That's Tempting
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Going to try AppVeyor for building releases
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Lazy-calculated Integer Sizes Deprecated
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Java Jokes
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Slides from "Embrace the Singularity"
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Embrace the Singularity: Sunday Bahen 1180
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Has it really been 18 years since I did Java?
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That point where you wish you'd asked for an hour
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Finally moving to Django migrations
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Multiple "output" parameters in PyOpenGL
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Talk accepted at PyCon.ca
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Neural Nets on the CPU Are (as Expected) Pointless
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Just got my Pycon.ca Ticket
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Old School GPGPU is Frustrating
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Raspberry Pi PyOpenGL
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Another little road-bump on the road to Python 3
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OpenGLContext is almost on Python3
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Thinking Out Loud for a PyCon.ca presentation...
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Every Test
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Long Night of Porting SimpleParse
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PyCon.ca Call for Proposals is Out
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Django Migration Migration Strategy
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Did I just create another Inotify Interface?
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PyOpenGL 3.1.1a1 is out
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Say What is still pretty popular
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NIST Sphere Format
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Type Declarations for Python 2.7
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More Reading and Waiting in Neural Networks
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Neural Networks Readings
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Getting a PyOpenGL 3.1.1 release moving
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Playing with Web Sockets
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Save/Restore for Django "Embedded" Apps
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Back to React Learning
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Eventually Text Munging Gets Nasty
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First-Light on Dictating Code into Eric
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Aw, come-on QtDBus, just work already
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Interpretation of Dictation
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Using GStreamer AppSink from Python
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Python-dbus needs some non-trivial examples
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Seem to need hidden-markov-models for text extraction...
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Project-to-language model almost working
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Automatic Language Model Creation Started
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Create your own virtual keyboard with Python
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Listener is Crawling Forward
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GStreamer Level Plugin Monitoring
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wx in a VirtualEnv (for RunSnakeRun)
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RunSnakeRun/Squaremap with wxPython 3.0.0
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PyOpenGL 3.1.0 final is out
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React.js with Django
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Found the source of SegFaults on AMD + FreeGLUT
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Auto-generating Output Declarations
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Enums and Output Variables
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So close on py2exe with PyOpenGL
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PyOpenGL 3.1.0b2 Available for Testing
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OpenGLContext-full working on Ubuntu Again
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Almost ready for a beta 2 for PyOpenGL
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OSMesa Refactoring
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PyOpenGL Working on the Raspberry Pi
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Raspberry Pi BCM Window Needs Love
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GL Arrogance Cleanup is Significant
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Twisted is really convenient sometimes
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More consistency in array input/outputs
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Step 2: Get an amd64-compatible VS 2010
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Pygame-hosted EGL + ES1 works
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PyOpenGL 3.1.0b1 Available for Testing
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Step 1: Get Windows Updated
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Finally some EGL/GLES in PyOpenGL
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Voice Dictation Privilege
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Django CSRF explicitly doesn't trust HTTP when submitting to HTTPS
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os.write() can hang, apparently
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Started on Win32 for PyOpenGL
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Integrated Graphics Really Does Suck
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So Far the Nexus 5 is a Nice Step Up
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Testing a Fresh Checkout Encounters Errors
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PyOpenGL from spec almost there
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Bit more forward motion on PyOpenGL-from-spec
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Moving forward with PyOpenGL XML Generation
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Multicast and Performance Binds
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My Raspberry Pis Seem Cursed
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Twitch Lightmaps and (the start of Shaders)
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Toronto Python Meetup Hack Night Project
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New RunSnakeRun and SquareMap available
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Nginx upload module
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Public Service Announcement PyPI "wx" is not what you think...
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Py_buffer underwhelms so far
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PyOpenGL Py_buffer Support Moving Forward
0 comments
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pip/pytz fails with 1.4 and 2013b
0 comments
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ctypes + PyBuffer?
2 comments
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Defaulting a POINT to GeoIP
0 comments
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Metaclasses, what are they good for...
0 comments
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olwidget show features in the window
0 comments
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olwidget templates...
0 comments
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GeoDjango is Pretty Straightforward
0 comments
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Okay, spammers, you win
1 comment
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Save/Restore for Embedded Django?
0 comments
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Single Artefact Deployment
0 comments
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Linux Refuses to See the HDMI
2 comments
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Fail2ban + Django convenient format
4 comments
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You got Video in my Django at Django Toronto
0 comments
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Do I really need 0-copy?
1 comment
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Generic Filter/Sort Tables for Django?
4 comments
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Compress your JS/CSS in Django
0 comments
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Lazy Caching Proxy Results in Nginx
1 comment
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Toronto Django/Python Dates
0 comments
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Playing with EGL platform for PyOpenGL
0 comments
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QIII Shader File Parser added to Twitch
3 comments
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Added Textures to Twitch this evening...
0 comments
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Video from PyCon.ca is up...
0 comments
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PyCon.ca Tools Sprint wrap-up (a bit late)
1 comment
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Where does the time go?
2 comments
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Line localtime inadvertantly implemented...
0 comments
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Coldshot progress...
0 comments
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Profiling for Performance at PyCon.ca
0 comments
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Quadratic Bezier Splines
0 comments
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PyOpenGL 3.0.2 Released
1 comment
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Pycon.ca Talk Submissions Due Monday!
0 comments
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PyOpenGL 3.0.2b2 is Out
0 comments
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Patch Django Management to allow pyc, so and pyd modules
2 comments
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A Day of Fun (QIII BSP File Loader)
0 comments
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Really Dumb HTML5 Video Tag Back-end
0 comments
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How can an audio server take up 900MB of RAM?
0 comments
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Experience has some value... and risk
0 comments
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Piping Data Around with Fussy
1 comment
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So apparently I don't need to write my own test code...
0 comments
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2Day Python (Our Tutorial for Software Carpentry)
0 comments
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Announcing the Fussy Firmware Packager
0 comments
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Libraries Exposing 8-bit Binary Strings to Python 3, Best Practice?
2 comments
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Firmware Upgrade Module?
5 comments
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Research in Action 2012
0 comments
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Make your nginx-proxied Django site detect SSL (HTTPS)
0 comments
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Any LibreOffice/OpenOffice/PyUno Gurus in the House?
0 comments
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Django JQuery File Upload
0 comments
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Build PIL on a custom Python2.6 on recent Ubuntu
2 comments
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First Lessons in Programming, Software Carpentry Review
2 comments
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Software Carpentry Collaboration
0 comments
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Green Fields are Fun!
3 comments
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Phenomenal Enterprise-Grade Messaging: Itty Bitty Message Size
0 comments
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Planning to use Numpy Structured Data Types
4 comments
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Corner cases do crop up, don't they?
0 comments
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Want to display MathML? MathJax
2 comments
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pip install --link-system?
7 comments
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What to play with?
11 comments
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Kid replaced with Genshi for DirectDocs
0 comments
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TTFQuery Updated, PyVRML97 Bug-fix
0 comments
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Watch your Django field defaults do not load objects if you use South
4 comments
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Fake French is Fun!
0 comments
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Bad Coder, No Cookie
1 comment
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Minor changes to OpenGL.raw
0 comments
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Modernising PyVRML97
0 comments
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Android 2.2 seems pretty 2.1-like...
2 comments
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Android Dev Setup: What is step one, really?
4 comments
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SilleScope, a trivial OpenGL oscilloscope-like thingy for kids
0 comments
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More porting-to-python-3 notes...
0 comments
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Evening Learning; I was hoping to get something done...
5 comments
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Cross-database relations in SQLAlchemy?
5 comments
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Dreaming of deterministic profilers future...
1 comment
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PyCon recordings seem to suffer from link-rot...
5 comments
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New release of globalsub is out
0 comments
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KDE seems to have stabilized... I suppose I should break it
0 comments
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The PyCon Presentation Proposal Deadline is Upon You!
0 comments
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Find Equivalent Timezones with pytz?
1 comment
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Django Model Forms made easier...
2 comments
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PyDispatcher runs on Python 3.2 now...
0 comments
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RunSnakeRun begins to get a memory...
0 comments
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Python 2.5.6 on Ubuntu Natty... urgh...
16 comments
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SimpleParse-pure on Python 3.2, useless, but working
4 comments
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PyOpenGL should now support GLE on Python 2.7
0 comments
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OpenGL up to 4.2
1 comment
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Requests Library is nice
0 comments
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Run coverage of your Django test suite...
0 comments
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Choices for Foo?
0 comments
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FakeLion rides the PyPI
1 comment
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Quick Hack to do Psuedo-Localization (l10n)
1 comment
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Django + JQuery Mobile Quick Start Tutorial
2 comments
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JQuery Mobile Django Baseline
0 comments
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Dumb PyDoc Replacement for PyOpenGL
3 comments
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Miscellaneous jQuery Mobile + Django tips
3 comments
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OpenGL 3.x and 4.x man pages integrated
0 comments
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jQuery Mobile + Django gets Pleasantly Out of the Way
0 comments
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No luck on GLSLDevil + PyOpenGL yet
0 comments
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Playing with extensions in PyOpenGL
0 comments
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RunSnakeRun 2.0.1 Released
0 comments
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Watch your texture bindings when using FBO attachments
0 comments
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bytes(23) this is not your Python2.7 bytes...
11 comments
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2.0.1 beta 5 of RunSnakeRun
0 comments
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The wonder of writing code you can't run...
0 comments
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Columnar Sort of N Columns in 2 Directions, a.k.a. Data-grid Sorting
2 comments
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Violating my own principle in PyOpenGL sometimes works
0 comments
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Yay, fairly usable meliae loading
2 comments
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Meliae support lands, buy more RAM
0 comments
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Meliae support lands, but not satisfied
0 comments
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Memory exploration pretty much working
2 comments
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Meliae is neat, but scary...
2 comments
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Convert nosetests xml to html (hack)
0 comments
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PyPy hits 3x speed (or 1/12th, or 2.5x depending on the sign-post)
4 comments
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First tempting micro-successes with PyPy
2 comments
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Forgot how big SimpleParse is...
0 comments
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Bellorussian Py3D.py
0 comments
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A small enough task to explore PyPy without getting lost
4 comments
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Little bit of OpenGL hacking this afternoon
1 comment
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I was like, all, let's do uPNP too... then I was like, meh
0 comments
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mDNS is kinda fun
3 comments
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Flex Devs, KISS, please, for the Love of the FSM
0 comments
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All those little spots where you use strings...
4 comments
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bzr-svn for those stuck with svn servers...
6 comments
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Python 3.x Porting Notes
0 comments
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Mocker's hidden gem...
6 comments
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Stub/Mock-a-Process Module
5 comments
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Anyone with PostgreSQL-on-EC2 recipes that work?
3 comments
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Python 2.5 PIL Gone in Lucid?
3 comments
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Duh! But upstart on 1.5 year old OS not so great...
3 comments
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Upstart seems kinda nice
0 comments
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Extract all fields of a DER-encoded PKCS7 file?
5 comments
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Generic Binary-Data Pack/Unpack Module?
7 comments
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tgext.command 0.2 is out...
3 comments
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Don't make me guess, Gentle Spec Writer
0 comments
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RunSnakeRun 2.0.0b6 (and SquareMap 1.0.0b25) released
7 comments
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Infinite Deployment Docs and OpenID Issues
2 comments
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RunSnakeRun gets a basic source-code-view
6 comments
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PyOpenGL 3.0.1 Final (Test Please)
0 comments
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Much documentation revised
0 comments
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EJabberD Configuration some Other Day
0 comments
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That didn't go as well as I'd have liked
2 comments
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When the Floor is Crooked, You Don't Know How You Dance
0 comments
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PyCon Dress Rehearsal Tonight (Tuesday)
0 comments
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PyCon Dress Rehearsal rocks the Casbah
0 comments
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3D/Graphics Open Track at PyCon
1 comment
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The "Shiver" Moment in Presentation Writing
6 comments
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Float == Float4, Ya Pythonic Wanker!
0 comments
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PyCon Dress Rehearsal in 1 week!
0 comments
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Best pattern for "captive" servers in testing?
5 comments
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ab is a cruel mistress
0 comments
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Specs can really suck the life out of you...
1 comment
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Quicky testing TFTP Client (and server) with tftpy
2 comments
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Two Weeks to PyCon Dress Rehearsal @ PyGTA
0 comments
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Linux is kinda fun...
2 comments
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Didn't even think to enable epoll in Twisted+TG
0 comments
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Testing and Compressing and Timing, Oh My!
0 comments
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Ported back to Twisted (but with TurboGears)
0 comments
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Getting close on ChatTrack
0 comments
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Making your Twisted resource(s) a url sub-tree of your WSGI resource...
3 comments
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TurboGears 2.1b1
0 comments
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SQLAlchemy orm join against subquery
2 comments
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TurboGears as a Twisted WSGI Application (in 125 seconds)
1 comment
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Need to find some PyOpenGL time
1 comment
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64-bit Ubuntu Web Devs, don't let Firebug update to 1.5
0 comments
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Things I'd like to play with (given enough time)
5 comments
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Python's Too Easy
1 comment
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Need to find a room sharer for PyCon...
2 comments
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Tornado @ PyGTA this month, PyCon Dress Rehearsal next
0 comments
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IE6 Can Bite My Shiny
0 comments
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Simple Channels for Tornado (rev 0.0.1)
0 comments
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Are we having fun yet?
0 comments
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More CouchDB Fun...
2 comments
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PyCon Dress Rehearsal Confirmed for February PyGTA
0 comments
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Tornado, CouchDB Clients, LaunchPad OpenID and other fun explorations...
2 comments
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Cross-platform Shaders can be a Pain
0 comments
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You don't realize you're addicted to variables...
8 comments
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Register Early for PyCon
0 comments
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Templated PyDoc-ish Tool?
5 comments
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Shader Tutorial Cleanup
0 comments
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Cleaning up Shadow Tutorial Code
0 comments
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Adding user-authentication to your Twisted web-site (Another HowTo for undocumented features...)
0 comments
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Minimal example of using twisted.manhole (Since it took me so long to get it working...)
3 comments
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HowTo: Create an SSL web-server in Twisted (Crude approach, but it works...)
4 comments
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Framebuffer Object shadows
3 comments
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Research in Action
0 comments
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Code-dojo seemed to work well
0 comments
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Code-dojo on Cython @ PyGTA on Tuesday
0 comments
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Shadow Tutorial Up
0 comments
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Automating the day away
1 comment
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Linking Platform Packages into VirtualEnv (automatically)?
2 comments
-
PyOpenGL 3.0.1b1 and OpenGLContext 2.1.0a7
0 comments
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Asterisk call-to-call daemon (By popular demand...)
8 comments
-
Getting the old OpenGL.Tk module working again...
0 comments
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Any Win64 PyOpenGL devs?
0 comments
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TurboGears "offline" processes (crons, command-line commands, etc)
2 comments
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OpenID Support in a TG2 Application
3 comments
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PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy/TurboGears search
1 comment
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Brian's Brain as a brain-teaser...
0 comments
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TurboGears Doc Sprint
0 comments
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ToscaWidgets JQuery and TinyMCE (Tutorialish-ly)
1 comment
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ToscaWidgets JQuery and Flot Plotting (Tutorialish-ly)
1 comment
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Wrapping JQuery plugins for ToscaWidgets/TurboGears
1 comment
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I forget how advanced TurboGears 2.0 is, sometimes
0 comments
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First PyGTA Class Begins to Take Shape
0 comments
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Hack to map Vertex Buffer Objects into Numpy arrays...
8 comments
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easy_install no longer working with SourceForge-hosted projects?
5 comments
-
Reminder: Exceptional Conditions at PyGTA this evening!
0 comments
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Oh, OpenGL 3.2 in PyOpenGL, PyOpenGL in Python 3.x
0 comments
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Add context managers to PyOpenGL?
5 comments
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PyGTA on Tuesday: Exceptional Conditions
1 comment
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New tutorial(s) up...
3 comments
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GLSL tutorial intro to structures and arrays...
0 comments
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Code-walkthrough Overkill
1 comment
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OpenGLContext Fun
0 comments
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Beginning work on OpenGLContext release
0 comments
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PyOpenGL 3.0.1a2, for the forward-thinking...
0 comments
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Day of Exploring
1 comment
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Beginnings of diffuse + ambient shader tutorial up...
2 comments
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You tend to forget the stuff under your abstractions...
0 comments
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Selenium Setup bores me...
3 comments
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Shader convenience module...
2 comments
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Win32 Trivia
0 comments
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For the Brave: PyOpenGL 3.0.1a1
0 comments
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Bashing Tutorials Out
1 comment
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zc.buildout at PyGTA on Tuesday
0 comments
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Lots of bug-fixes landing in PyOpenGL today...
0 comments
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Tentative PyGTA Site Rework
0 comments
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Javascript and Namespaces...
1 comment
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PyOpenGL Testing on Linux and Win32 Today
2 comments
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Contributors verily rocketh
0 comments
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Capturing and replaying from easy_install
3 comments
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Testing and Point Parameters (sprites)
0 comments
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What should networking look like?
8 comments
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This evening's pyqnet hacking brought to you by annoying neighbours
0 comments
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PyGTA is on Wednesday this month, PyCairo
1 comment
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SimpleParse rev'd for Python 2.6
0 comments
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One more bug then should do a PyOpenGL 3.0.1 release
1 comment
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Cheap User Testing (via Steve Krug)
0 comments
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Notes from PyGTA's Programmer Liability Round Table
3 comments
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Time to start testing for PyOpenGL 3.0.1
2 comments
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Sphere rendering with numpy...
0 comments
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Do not use "profile", use "cProfile"
4 comments
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Most of the work I planned to do is done...
0 comments
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Where are we...
3 comments
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Cython for the last couple of days...
2 comments
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First step in eliminating GLU quadrics...
0 comments
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GL_ARB_compatibility
1 comment
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Profiler modules for fun and profit...
0 comments
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Silly little Eric4 helper script released...
0 comments
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Luck o' the Draw @ World Plone Day
1 comment
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A Good Day
2 comments
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Scene sorting with numpy...
0 comments
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World Plone Day is tomorrow...
0 comments
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Years in, it's easy to forget the details...
3 comments
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Path Matrix Caching
0 comments
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Spike test works...
0 comments
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Debug Mode Rendering (or, What you should always have)
0 comments
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Texture Atlases for Fun and Profit...
1 comment
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Peeling back layers...
0 comments
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Videos are up...
2 comments
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PyOpenGL 3.0.0 (final) Released
7 comments
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SimpleParse ported to Python 2.6 I guess...
2 comments
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Almost there, just testing left...
5 comments
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RunSnakeRun Python Profiler 2.0.0b4
4 comments
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Duh! OpenGL bug squished...
1 comment
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Knee-ing video cards part II
2 comments
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Bring your video card to its knees...
0 comments
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Sat down to generate the PyOpenGL docs today
0 comments
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Lists/tuples are so convenient
0 comments
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Graphics suck time... indecision more...
0 comments
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Reasonable first-run of Profiling talk
3 comments
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OpenGL 3.1 Talk Preview at PyGTA on Tuesday
2 comments
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Being pushy helps
0 comments
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Long day's Dojo into AJAX
0 comments
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Fixed bug in generic attribute support
0 comments
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Audio Monitor for System Load in CSound (Using CSound from Python)
0 comments
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glInterleavedArrays is deprecated...
0 comments
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Presentations are Roughed Out
0 comments
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Sure, I'm fine, but...
0 comments
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Should make the VBO objects act as arrays if no implementation
0 comments
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Adding Shader support to OpenGLContext scenegraph
0 comments
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Need to make Py3D easier to maintain
0 comments
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Teaching is Exhilarating
2 comments
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Fido doesn't have a single S60 phone!?
5 comments
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Dojo DataGrid
2 comments
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PyCon Registration Done
0 comments
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(Im)Practical iPhone Application: Biometrics hacking tool
0 comments
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Little tweaks all day
0 comments
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RunSnakeRun Beta1 is Out
2 comments
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PyGTA "Unplugged" on Tuesday @ Linux Caffe
0 comments
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PyOpenGL 3.0.0c1 Available for Testing
10 comments
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Lazyweb: Best cell phone for Python hacking?
10 comments
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Sprinting at PyCon
2 comments
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I heart contributors
8 comments
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A few UI tweaks for RunSnakeRun
0 comments
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Stealing time on the subway
2 comments
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Programming CouchDB with Python at PyGTA
0 comments
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Open Source Time
0 comments
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Closing in on RunSnakeRun 2.0
1 comment
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glHistogram and ARB imaging
0 comments
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Hoping to make Saturday a PyOpenGL day
0 comments
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Neat little feature added to RunSnakeRun
0 comments
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Square-map shaping up
0 comments
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Profiling looseness...
0 comments
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Square-maps in wxPython for RunSnakeRun
3 comments
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Javascript's default-global... repressed memories
3 comments
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Abstractions and Drowning in Them
4 comments
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Two Talks at PyCon
0 comments
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Symmetric networking is cool
0 comments
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Programming Mantras (Rough Notes)
0 comments
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Upload files to a TurboGears web application...
1 comment
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Weird little glitch in wrapper code
0 comments
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Getting very accustomed to bzr
2 comments
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Regression on Lists/Tuples
4 comments
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Have to do another beta for PyOpenGL
3 comments
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Got a MingW32 Toolchain Set Up
0 comments
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Color me impressed with Cython
2 comments
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No thrill on Ruby yet
6 comments
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Now we need 3 million dollars...
4 comments
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Your Million-Dollar Python Project @ PyGTA
8 comments
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Million Dollar Ideas Wrap-up from PyGTA
1 comment
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Unexpected Optimizations
0 comments
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Display-listing Materials Speeds Rendering
2 comments
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PyOpenGL Hacking at HackLab
2 comments
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Your Million Dollar Python Project @ PyGTA Tuesday
0 comments
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Finally got SimpleParse updated to use Py_ssize_t
6 comments
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Quality Time with PyOpenGL
0 comments
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Profiling OpenGLContext fun...
3 comments
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Seems I need to update the video card again
0 comments
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Finishing is Good
1 comment
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Procrastination is Bad
0 comments
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PyGTA Tonight: You got Python in my XML!
2 comments
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Stripped pkg_resources out of OpenGLContext and PyVRML97
4 comments
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Bit of PyOpenGL on the weekend
0 comments
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Where did *that* dependency come from?
2 comments
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I rather enjoyed Mochikit
4 comments
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New PyOpenGL-Demo demos
0 comments
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Need to expand vbo support... and support/contribution emails
0 comments
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OpenGL 2.1 manual sources are integrated...
2 comments
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Python 3.0 at PyGTA Tomorrow (Tuesday)
0 comments
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PyOpenGL 3.0.0b6 (likely the last beta) is up...
0 comments
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A few steps forward...
0 comments
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Modernizing the Version Control System for PyOpenGL
1 comment
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Eliminating pkg_resources
8 comments
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Want that tool, but cores are useless without debug symbols
7 comments
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Sigh, too far, too fast
0 comments
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Mind your Ps, Qs and CCallbacks
2 comments
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Code Cleanup Begins
0 comments
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Time to Collect PyOpenGL Source Code Samples
1 comment
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Next Up: Code Cleanup
0 comments
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Porting to PyOpenGL 3.x from PyOpenGL 2.x
0 comments
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Almost done the doc generation script
0 comments
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Documentation Generation
2 comments
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Profiling, Debugging, Testing; Tools, Tips and Techniques
0 comments
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Finally clearing the py3d backlog
3 comments
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Wow that's a lot of deprecations...
0 comments
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Nagging Need for PyOpenGL 3.x
3 comments
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Two pings forward...
0 comments
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Lazy wrappers around functions
0 comments
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Channels and keys and loops, oh my
0 comments
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Bit of qnet hacking
1 comment
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Whether to tie qnet or not?
3 comments
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Sketchy network library...
2 comments
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Check explicitly for extension support in OpenGL
0 comments
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PyOpenGL 3.0.0b4 available
2 comments
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Code Aesthetics Excitement...
0 comments
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Reminder Code Aesthetics @ PyGTA Tomorrow
0 comments
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RunSnakeRun Python Profile Viewer Updated
0 comments
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Toronto Plone Meeting Tonight
0 comments
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IndexedFaceSet compilation improving
0 comments
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Smooth Movement for OpenGLContext
0 comments
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Other 90% of OBJ files still pending
6 comments
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Bit more maintenance work on OpenGLContext
0 comments
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OBJ loader for OpenGLContext
0 comments
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Frame Buffer Objects are Easy (ish)
0 comments
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OpenGL Vertex Buffer Objects (VBO)
2 comments
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Programming Limits
2 comments
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OpenGLContext Updated to wxPython 2.8 (finally)
0 comments
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PyOpenGL 3.0.0b3 without a Jukebox
0 comments
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Cellestial Jukebox
0 comments
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StarPy Unexpectedly a Hot Topic? (Half a dozen inquiries in a week)
0 comments
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Time to get off CoreBlog (Scaling issues...)
1 comment
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Want to use Pyglet's Generator (Time, time...)
0 comments
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PyGTA Web Testing (Forum-ish with an intro to Selenium as kick-start)
0 comments
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TurboGears Weirdness (Validators don't Run)
0 comments
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Spammers Clobbering the Blog (Killing the server...)
3 comments
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Galcon Is Fun (Advertising the crack cocaine of games...)
0 comments
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Booth Work (Long day's chatting into night...)
0 comments
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Centre of Attention Moving (PyCon in the focus...)
2 comments
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Speed up PySNMP for Free? (Upgrade to Python 2.6, apparently...)
0 comments
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PyOpenGL is Offline (DMCA takedown notice...)
4 comments
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Unexpected 'free' day (More of an "I want to do something else" day...)
1 comment
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PyGTA is Tonight (Don't forget...)
0 comments
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Room and Flight Booked (Little details...)
1 comment
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Catching up with Twisted and Zope (Ressurecting old projects...)
0 comments
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Working through bug reports for PyOpenGL (Little fixes here and there...)
0 comments
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Cortical Algorithm at PyGTA Tonight (Book precis and implementation discussion)
2 comments
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OpenGLContext 2.1.0a1 Installation Streamlining (SetupTools re-cursing...)
0 comments
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PyOpenGL 3.0.0b1 is out (Lots of bug fixes...)
1 comment
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Nurbs finally fixed in PyOpenGL 3.x (Strange behaviour...)
0 comments
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Too many regressions to release PyOpenGL (Way too long since I worked on it...)
1 comment
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Argh! Proposals! (Completely forgot them today...)
0 comments
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Forgot how fun PyGame is (Been way too long...)
0 comments
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OLPC-Toronto Game Jam/Sprint (Participants?)
1 comment
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PyGTA Tomorrow (Mind-exploding fun!)
0 comments
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Long Weekends, Long Walks (A few days off...)
0 comments
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PyGTA tonight! (ctypes and such-alike)
0 comments
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PyGTA this Tuesday (ctypes-ing the night away...)
0 comments
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Involuntary upgrade (Eric3 install hosed on the work laptop...)
0 comments
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Use sys.settrace to animate Python code? (Evil ideas that cross one's mind...)
2 comments
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I want the perfect IDE for kids (Or do I?)
5 comments
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Eric 4 builds nicely on Gentoo (With some PORTAGEDEV stuff...)
0 comments
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Ctypes for C++ is going to be a pain due to politics (Bothering language creators is fun...)
0 comments
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Compiled GLE DLL for Win32 (For the compiler-less masses...)
0 comments
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PyGTA on Tuesday (CSound for Python)
0 comments
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No luck getting OpenGL docs built (Tools just not working...)
0 comments
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Should do some work on the PyGTA site (At least replace the front page...)
0 comments
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We wait 175x slower, apparently (Benchmarks are fun ways to waste time...)
2 comments
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Look, a Soni-blog! (Parallel systems and other stuff...)
0 comments
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Getting the PyOpenGL manual updated (It's been ages...)
0 comments
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Python in a Strange Land tonight at PyGTA (IronPython and ASP.NET)
0 comments
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Bare-bones example of PyGTK2 + Twisted (Because simple is what you need to start...)
0 comments
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Probably need to switch blog software (CoreBlog1 causing too much annoyance to hosts...)
6 comments
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Probably need to switch blog software (CoreBlog1 causing too much annoyance to hosts...)
6 comments
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Talk went okay, met Shane Holloway (Let 100 OpenGL bindings bloom...)
0 comments
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Presentations for Fun (Soon to come....)
0 comments
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Dallas (FW) veterans, good place to meet for taxi sharing? (Never been there...)
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PyGTA introduction to Django tonight (Linux Caffe @ 6:30pm)
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Okay, beginning to feel real (Businesses are so inconvenient sometimes...)
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Slipping quickly toward PyCon (Doesn't seem real yet...)
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New release of PyOpenGL is out (PyOpenGL-Demo too...)
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New release of StarPy is out (Minor fixes and improvements...)
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Need to do a bit of porting (Where's the time...)
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More time on distutils/setuptools than ctypes issues (Just a thought that struck me...)
1 comment
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Got py2exe + PyOpenGL limping across the line... (Need to add the .egg files to the path)
4 comments
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Another try at Sugar (Try Qemu when I get a chance)
1 comment
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Gigabytes of comment spam (Annoying blaggards...)
1 comment
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I hate it when problems "fix themselves" (Hard to guard against reoccurance that way...)
1 comment
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Moving StarPy discussions to the mailing list (Formalizing communications)
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Just about ready for a new PyOpenGL release (About time...)
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PyGTA presentation on ctypes this Tuesday (Special sneak preview for the PyCon presentation...)
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Flight booked but no red-eyes (Have to leave a bit early on the last sprint day)
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NeHe demo 45 (Vertex Buffer Objects) sort-of working (If it didn't look wrong...)
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Numeric (legacy) support now working in OpenGL-ctypes (Well, cvs version...)
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Upgrading pytable's database introspection for postgresql (Code-like output, but egads it's a lot of text...)
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PyCon hotel room reserved (Still need to get a roomie and a plane ticket)
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Eric the Python IDE Rocks (Just struck by the need to say this...)
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Maintaining scripts as their underpinings change (Not what I wanted to do today, but I have Eric back on the workstation now)
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Ooh, that wasn't a good use of time (Distracted by the desire to listen to Brave New Waves...)
2 comments
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Need a decent unit-testing framework for OpenGL (Unit tests are good things...)
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Magic of unit tests (Pinning down evaluator failure)
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Okay, I'm really excited about PyCon now (List of accepted talks...)
2 comments
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Pulling the restructured code together (Refactoring core assumptions...)
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What am I missing? (Things to look into on Saturday)
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Got OpenGLContext 3D text rendering working with numpy (Finally sit down to fix my FontTools fixes...)
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Apparently ctypes is more interesting than OpenGL (Anti-cool-graphics movement makes its presence felt ;) )
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Not much OpenGL hacking this weekend (But I got some general maintenance done and played a couple of games)
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I sort-of forgot that Asterisk programming could be fun (StarPy reminders...)
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GLE DLL is a PITA (Seems to be working now...)
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Need to build a dependencies pack (Grr windows and their stupid lack-of-a-standard-C-compiler...)
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PyOpenGL-3.0.0a5 hits the shelves (Finally get the release out)
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Didn't get it out tonight either (Stupid oh-I-should-just-do-that-first-ing)
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Didn't get the planned release out for PyOpenGL (Testing on Win32 exposes an error)
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What I'd like for PyGTA (Sugar and the One Laptop per Child introduction)
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Turns out it was only 1 (or 2) steps too far (Fear is the mind-killer...)
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Rather a lot of work on auto-generation (Hours and hours to get back to where I was...)
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Bit of tracker cleanup before serious work begins (Making a "raw" API easily accessible)
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Week off starts a little slowly (Sleeping half the day is *not* productive...)
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Getting up early really stretches the day (Maybe too much)
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Talk Proposal in for PyCon (Plus an extremely long day for billables...)
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GCCXML seems to want a VC install (Does like the toolkit installation...)
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Distractions clear the mind (Fog of trying the same thing too many times...)
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Topic Ideas for PyCon (Brainstorming...)
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When, precisely, did it become the end of the month? (Urgh.)
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Some OpenGL-ctypes hacking (Including getting auto-generation working again...)
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Seneca FOSS conference begins (Keynote and then "artists language" talk...)
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Off to a conference tomorrow and Friday (Seneca FSOSS conference up at York University)
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PyMol shows up on a random computer (Didn't I say I wouldn't do this any more?)
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Another hour of trying to get Eric up (No luck yet...)
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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")
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Ah the joys of bundling (Wish I had time to work on it today)
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Successes and failures trickle in (So far three of them...)
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Argh, two hours wasted (Testing is useless if the app you're using to record results crashes...)
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Bit of project maintenance work on OpenGL (Before and after work...)
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A lesson from years of PyOpenGL (Not quite Zen, but oh well...)
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Reversal on Ubuntu (I know they don't build from source very often, but really...)
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A weekend of little tasks (Bits and pieces but no great accomplishments)
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VRML97 converted to use numpy or Numeric (and setuptools...)
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Don't get anywhere particularly useful on Win32 (Do get past the particular failure)
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SimpleParse has a Win32 Python 2.5 binary (Egads what a pain...)
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Bit of work with TurboGears (Have to work with it more often)
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Win32 goes reasonably well (With a few annoyances...)
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Hacking the night away (Optimising with OpenGL-ctypes)
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Josh, got your messages (No mail-server access here...)
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Beginning the porting work (Well, began...)
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Almost done setting up the win32 toolchain (Downloading the last piece now... and for the next few hours)
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Something sucks in redmond (PITA continues to be a pain)
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Go egg or go home (Setuptools seduces me...)
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I suppose I will have to install Windows (Blech.)
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Hey buddy, looking for an Open Source Python job? (And other miscellany from PyGTA)
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Ctypes arrays as storage format (Seems natural given the implementation...)
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Adding a type for documentation in epydoc (ctypes "Functions" as routine data-types...)
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PyGTA is this Tuesday (Now with added planning!)
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Running an email server at home is great (Until it gets turned off while you're out...)
1 comment
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Need a better documentation-generation system (Pydoc and pydoc2 just don't cut it...)
2 comments
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Tweaking the auto-generation (More work tomorrow...)
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Eliminating the last required OpenGL-ctypes extension (Still two optional ones...)
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Fixed one regression, another discovered (Don't fix unbroken things...)
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Something got fixed on my machine (Probably by the gcc and glibc update)
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Apparently a regression crept in over the weekend (My lunch-break in testing...)
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Manufacture a bit of time with a bit of sacrifice (OpenGL-ctypes instead of billables...)
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OpenGL-ctypes time just doesn't materialise (Though my room is cleaner...)
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What to do with vertex_buffer_objects? (Pushes itself deep into the rest of OpenGL)
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StarPy patches integrated into CVS (Maybe 20 lines of changes...)
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Tiniest little bit of StarPy hacking (Pitifully small, really...)
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GLSL demo ported into OpenGL-ctypes (Cartoon shading is fun!)
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OpenGL-ctypes play in the margins (Where's the time...)
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Invoicing with ReportLab (A bit of sample code for the curious...)
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Making mountains (Molehill demo not working...)
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Little traction this afternoon (Bouncing around between tasks...)
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On fixing taps (Don't do it until there's a real problem...)
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OpenGL-ctypes finally gets tessellation (Read the spec a little more carefully and all becomes clear...)
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Changing PyGTA's meeting day (3rd Tuesday of the month instead of the 4th)
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PyGTA this Tuesday, 6:30PM at Linux Caffe (Starting earlier to get finished earlier...)
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Learning and experience days are important (Taking a day to get up close and personal with SQLObject)
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Miniscule movement on OpenGL-ctypes (Figured out the problem with the tessellation code)
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Whether to lug the laptop along (Am I really going to get any work done while there?)
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Ooh, now I want to play with PyPy (Time slips away in sleep...)
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Fried Mikey (Don't put on jeans and go for long walks when you're sun-fried)
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UI stuff just feels more interesting (Simple little navigation widgets for a hierarchic schema...)
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FormEncode is nice (Validators are so much nicer than coding everything oneself)
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Select from an inherited table in TurboGears (Since it took me so long to figure this out...)
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Fits and starts (Little things...)
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3 hours of procrastination on a 5 minute fix (Well, at least I got my laundry folded...)
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Where'd that three hours go? (So much for buying my interest with smoothies...)
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PyGTA Review of web frameworks part 2 this Tuesday... (We will, we will... frame you!)
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Once you have a schema generator you get lazy (Stalled on TurboGears, sort-of...)
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My first day with TurboGears (So far so good...)
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Quite a few updates to VRML and OpenGLContext (Including remembering to check in the code (finally)...)
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Wow, numpy really is different! (Porting doesn't go quite as well as hoped...)
2 comments
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A day "off" with OpenGL-ctypes (It does leave rather a dent in the pocketbook...)
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What I should probably concentrate on for Open Source (Maximise the value for the world...)
9 comments
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PyGTA Review of Python Web Frameworks (Part 1...)
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PyGTA is tomorrow evening (I should really set an alarm to remind me to send out reminders...)
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Ever so minor movement on StarMail (Getting the basic record-to-file-then-move-to-directory stuff working)
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The benefits of hindsight (How I would have designed it had I known...)
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Togl is a PITA (Still segfaults on init)
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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
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Long week-tail (Too few hours in the days...)
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An inch or so of movement... (Wouldn't want to get anything useful finished)
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Generic controls for Nevow LivePage (Where are they?)
1 comment
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Ooh the temptations of Ajax (So not needed, really...)
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That darn finish line refuses to stop moving (Meeting collects 20 new launch-stopping tickets...)
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Tool-sharpening (My evening in coding...)
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Making menu prompts more flexible (Multiple fragments with support for different "saying" types)
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New StarPy release up (Minor revision...)
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Long day of talking (Pleasant that...)
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Too tired to continue (There may be better ways, but I don't see them yet...)
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Unbelievably annoying when you have to reverse work (I don't want to think about how long that was...)
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A very pleasant hike down (And I got to see Dan twice...)
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Forgot to clock in this afternoon (Whole day's work disappears...)
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Lots of OpenGL-ctypes hacking (Moving towards a reasonably operational system on Win32)
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Should have just stayed in bed today (Better for my health...)
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Employees are cool! (My half-day in billables...)
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Project is ready to go on SourceForge (StarPy needs developers and users now...)
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StarPy SVN uploaded to SourceForge (My first SourceForge SVN project...)
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I should probably set aside a day sometime soon for Open Source stuff (This is just ridiculous...)
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Good first day at the "office" (Linux Caffe is a good place to work so far...)
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Have to release a new StarPy soon (One more bug to fix...)
3 comments
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Makes for a late day when you start at midnight (Caffeine helps...)
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Still no nVidia driver (Another couple of burned hours...)
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PyGTA is tomorrow (Tuesday) (Toronto Python User's group meeting...)
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Need to speed up PySNMP 3.5.x (PySNMP-se (let alone PySNMP) is still too slow...)
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Minor TwistedSNMP release is up (0.3.13)
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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...)
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Cleaning up the history of a project (Things you need to do on really long-running projects...)
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Dratted memory leak appears (Haven't figured out how yet...)
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Why does accounting software lead to mental gridlock? (When money is involved with poorly-defined operations things go all to heck...)
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New features a springing (But I managed to break an older one...)
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Beginnings of work on the Win32 port for OpenGL-ctypes (Unfortunately, can't check the changes into SourceForge)
1 comment
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Categorising OpenGL-ctypes performance (Category: pretty good)
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Tweaks to the laptop configuration (And the glories of graph layout)
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Of TimeZones and other silliness (There really should be a standard...)
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Finally get around to installing the Toolkit compiler (Yes, yes, I know, why support a proprietary platform...)
1 comment
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TwistedSNMP 0.3.12 released (Latency improvements, first public release of the PySNMP-v4 compatability code)
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Mmm latency reduction... (Trading raw performance for scalability and responsiveness)
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Passable talk (Should have prepared more...)
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Connection decides to take a vacation (So much for demoing tomorrow...)
1 comment
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PyGTA is tomorrow (Don't avoid it just because I'm speaking...)
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Comment spammers suck rocks (But I built a mass-comment manager in response...)
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Better parallel iteration for Twisted (Annoying to discover the problem is something so simple...)
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Maybe a signal-based timeout watcher should be in every Twisted app (Just a little something to log any uncaught blocking...)
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Shidan suggests a predictive dialer app (Doesn't seem hard, but is it what I want to do...)
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Those features you just want to avoid (Impedence mismatch is a powerful disincentive...)
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A Ruined Nap (But a very pleasant meal)
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Getting OpenGL-ctypes to work with ctypes 0.9.9.3 (Done, sorta, but I don't recall these weird array problems before...)
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SimpleParse 2.1.0a1 released (3 years after the last release...)
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New StarPy release with channel-tracking example code (About 61 lines of code...)
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StarPy to the rescue (Or, my day in auditing...)
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Blocking on system setups (Wasting time trying to work around missing libraries...)
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Newest StarPy Twisted protocols for Asterisk released (Getting ready to use them for a real world project...)
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Very long day with 0 billables (And way too much caffeine)
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Oh, while I'm thinking of it (IRC client for phones...)
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StarPy grows rudimentary hierarchic IVR menus (UI toolkit for voice?)
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How did I forget that (Sunday night's not great for thinking, apparently...)
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Working around Firefox 1.5's SVG target problems (Sure it's simple, but it takes hours to try all the other hacks...)
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Bit of maintenance among the learning tasks... (Or, what I did for the last few days...)
1 comment
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Funky GSM playback with Asterisk 1.2.1 (Load issues, maybe...)
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StarPy Twisted Protocols for Asterisk AMI and Asterisk FastAGI (Release so early it's not even finished yet)
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Almost done the FastAGI protocol for Python (Almost as messy as the manager protocol)
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Cleaning up the Asterisk Manager Interface module (And beginning documentation...)
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AMI protocol for Twisted (Another one...)
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PyGTA meeting tonight (Tuesday)
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Curiouser and curiouser with Asterisk manager interface (pyst doesn't seem to realise that there are event-generating queries)
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Retrieving information from the Asterisk manager interface (Again, using pyst)
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Using Asterisk's manager interface to generate calls (From Python using pyst)
4 comments
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PyGTA meeting next Tuesday
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Nurbs working in OpenGL-ctypes (Should have been writing...)
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Remoting all day (Almost there)
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Round trip completed (finally) (CAD Views to topological views to CAD views...)
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More integration (Different product...)
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Slow getting started today (So much for early-to-bed early-to-rise)
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Doesn't look like I'll get the nurbs finished this weekend (Darn it)
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gluTess* working now (Though it's really ugly under the covers...)
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RunSnakeRun released (finally) (HotShot profile loading/viewing utility using wxPython)
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Shane's Darwin platform module for OpenGL-ctypes (Test and report bugs...)
2 comments
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Well that was cool (For about 5 seconds...)
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Sometimes the solution needs time to gestate (Sometimes you induce labour...)
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A bit of paying work (Since I don't seem to be getting anything done on the Open Source stuff)
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Togl really is a PITA (ebuilding works... sort-of...)
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Sleep descends disquietly (Comes back for a rematch a few hours later...)
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It's been too long since I played with graphics (Algebra and geometry is starting to fail...)
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Rinse, repeat (Another day, just like the last...)
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Business Plans (and SSL)
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Dipping a toe into pb connection pooling (Brr, these pools get cold in the Canadian autumn...)
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PB connection pooling eludes me (Sigh)
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Around the Corner
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Screencasting via Gstreamer from Python (Playing with streaming media on Linux...)
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Change is as good as a rest (As old men like me are want to say...)
2 comments
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Sometimes it's just easier to code something new (That's a bad thing...)
1 comment
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It's always the code that's a PITA to code... (That turns out to be superfluous)
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More details (I hate details...)
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High priority post-launch items (Day of post-launch details...)
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Graphics take time (Even when you're just throwing them together as placeholders...)
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For the acrostically curious (Output of a night's run...)
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Red Pillows
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Very small coffee and a DVD-RW recorder (Plus some mindless hours on acrostics...)
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Float
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Mis-spent youth (I'd rather have been writing...)
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Patrick's created a new dispatcher package (Plugins and all...)
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Disappearing hours! (Forgetting to log time is a bad feeling...)
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That first call (I'll admit it, there was a bit of a magic moment there...)
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The balance of time (So grand a title for so simple a topic...)
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That point where you don't want to change anything (Letting sleeping tickets lie...)
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Long day of dribs and drabs (Hushed mutter of tickets drifting to the ground...)
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Inch, inch, inching along (Tiny bit of OpenGL-ctypes work...)
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Good PyGTA Turnout (and other little details...)
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Slides for this evening (To avoid repeating the PyCon problem...)
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For the ravening OpenGL-ctypes hordes (A few tweaks and fixes...)
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Pythonic duct tape (When data imports...)
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PyGTA this Tuesday! (Probably present OpenGL-ctypes...)
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To the Philosopher
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Just kidding (TurboGears template language vs the old-code mess...)
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Ah, the piquant aroma of well-aged web code (Or, at least aged...)
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The joys of long-deferred todos (You defer them because they are ugly and nasty...)
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We need test code (Me writing a test for every extension will be a bit too slow...)
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Extensions move into CVS (OpenGL-ctypes grows by hundreds of modules in a few minutes...)
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Extensions start to take shape (A bit of OpenGL-ctypes hacking...)
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Gentle hush of tickets falling (Moving toward launch as winter settles...)
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Bit-rot sucks (One must maintain...)
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Distractions, distractions (8+ hours into the working day without touching item 1 on the todo list...)
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FreeGLUT support mostly working (Minor problems with the string-rendering...)
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Finally got the GLUT fonts working in OpenGL-ctypes (Stupid indirection operator...)
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Happy I did the extra hour last night (I've run out of steam for the VoIP project this week)
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Details are depressing (Give me mountains to build, not potholes to fill...)
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Compile farm account (Problems with PyOpenGL on RedHat)
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Choosing and moving forward is good (TwistedSNMP begins to grow PySNMP 4.x support...)
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Wires crossed somehow (I could have sworn he said this evening...)
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Day's productivity crumbles (Stupid router and/or DNS servers make progress halt)
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Images working in OpenGL-ctypes (Just needed to rebuild the ctypes library cleanly...)
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PyGTA Meets! (Put the next one on your calendars...)
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PyGTA this evening! (7pm at the Linux Caffe)
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Some VOIP-ing to round out the day (Which is now way over my scheduled 9hrs)
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Ah, that new startup smell (Critical conversations over dinner)
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I don't use office applications enough (Openoffice eats my business proposal...)
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Bit of hacking for OpenGL-ctypes (Images or bust... or something like that...)
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I'm a Lumberjack (Logging the night away...)
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Why work on details (When your strength is conceptual operations?)
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Decision gridlock (Bogging down with lack of deciding factors...)
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First steps to using PySNMP 4.x from Twisted (Transport layer implemented)
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Numpy no longer going nuts (Was apparently 64-bit problems with 23.7, version 23.8 fixed it)
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More PySNMP spelunking (Agents of fortune...)
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Writing SNMP Agents in Python (Investigating options takes longer than I'd hoped...)
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To PyCon, or not to PyCon? (Priorities?)
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And the ugly junkies... (Old VRML99 shot from the holodesk display...)
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Probably need to fork mxTextTools (Need the non-recursive rewrite to be part of the SimpleParse distro...)
3 comments
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Pause before the last big feature (Stabilising the code for a few weeks)
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Little bits and pieces all day (Cleaning up after construction...)
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First day of the new schedule (Makes for a very long day, even with a pleasant dinner...)
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Oh, right, PyOpenGL (I did a few minutes of that this afternoon)
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Numpy goes nuts? (Weird error shows up deep inside OpenGLContext...)
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Convenience during development (Forgotten during release...)
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Dribs and drabs (Phone project cleanup, mostly)
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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...)
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Optimising and bug-fixing and upgrading all day... (Guess I really should produce new PySNMP-SE and TwistedSNMP releases)
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Need to do something fun (Sitting in my room coding week after week after week is not entertaining...)
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Tree-editing with Nevow LivePage (A quick hack... erm... demo...)
3 comments
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OpenGL-ctypes extensions inching forward (Autogeneration (and working) are the sticky parts...)
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When graphs attack! (I'm such an OpenGL tease...)
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Nights of poker and programming gambles (Push the queuing effects lower in the software stack...)
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A day with Nevow and LivePage (Good news is that the SVN version fixes the bug...)
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Wow, this feels good (Realisations while boring other people...)
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Some are merely bronze (nVidia doesn't appear too stable at the moment...)
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Meetings stretch days (Temporal hamburger helper...)
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Controllers in Nevow begin to take shape (Now just have to figure out how to make them reusable...)
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Nevow needs some model:view:controller mechanisms (Gets repetitive coding controls manually for each property...)
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I seem to have lost all patience with Windows (Should probably get someone else to maintain the toolkit compiler document...)
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GLE flies the OpenGL-ctypes skies (Along with major reconstruction of the wrapper module...)
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What to work on when I get back? (GLU, GLE, GLUT, or Win32 and WGL)
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New ctypes error-handling protocol (Simplifying code here and there...)
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Full-content feeds for CoreBlog (Haven't yet figured out how to make the stylesheets work properly)
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Long day's Ajax into night (Nevow livepage for Cinemon)
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Substrates are important for productivity (Servers, for instance)
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Well at least the redbook demos work (Running tests is a good thing...)
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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)
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Image handling begins to shape up (Wrappers upon wrappers upon wrappers...)
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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...)
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OpenGL works *so* much better when using error checking (But don't forget that you can't use it within glBegin/glEnd)
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Long day on documentation (Much easier to read now)
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Guess it's time to start thinking about PyCon2006 presentations (On the assumption that I'll somehow justify a ticket to Texas)
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Figured out part of the wonkiness (Amazing what happens when you read the XXX comments...)
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Ooh, look, the day is dying (Where do the dead days go?)
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I am the programing inchworm (Images creep in (partially))
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Have to upgrade the video card soon (Kind of ridiculous writing OpenGL software when the hardware is this out-of-date)
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Lots of array-handling refactoring (Mmm refactored code...)
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Array handling moves forward in OpenGL-ctypes (The goal is flexibility...)
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Why ctypes for OpenGL? (Since Brian asked...)
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Need to take some time to work on PyOpenGL-SWIG (OpenGL-ctypes has taken far longer than I expected...)
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Frameworking I go, frameworking I go (Hi-ho the derry-o, I'm about to cry)
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Victory is mine! (Yay! I defeated a tiny 86 year old woman at pool!)
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Tessellation doesn't crash any more (But glReadPixels will crash the whole operating system pretty hard...)
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Yet another search mechanism... (How many of these things have I written over the years?)
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A day without connectivity is a sad day indeed (Musings on the need for Cinemon...)
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Inter-page messaging in Django? (Django form-processing module tutorial and sessionMessage())
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Tear down the wall! (Or, at least, begin poking holes though it)
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ctypes-ing the night away (Shake-shake-shake your bootie... though that doesn't move one forward very far...)
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A little more time with Django (All in all I like it...)
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Thoughts on BasicProperty in the morning (How to unify the dozens of domain-modelling descriptor libraries?)
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Playing with Django
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Millis are metering (Thomas fixes bug, I run into weird bad-pointer exception...)
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Don't leave the on/off switch to last (Refactoring and other joys of iteration completion...)
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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...)
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Web frameworks are too dang easy to write (Another bloody one showing up in my code...)
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Didn't quite manage an inch (Centimeter-ing forward with OpenGL-ctypes)
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OpenGL-ctypes inches forward (Beginning to look somewhat functional...)
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Lonely Steps
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On creative marketplaces (Supporting the content creators...)
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Ca suffit! (Need to do something other than sit at a computer...)
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Ach! It grates! (It's been done so many times before...)
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Impedence mismatch leads to LCD (Or, my day in business-logic programming...)
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Building observability into BasicProperty (Well, adding a module that provides it, anyway...)
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Far too long a day (Working with foreign systems is a PITA)
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Blood on a Bathroom Wall
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My petard, it is exploding! (glutInit failure was due to an auto-generated wrapper)
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The joy of infinite rebuilding
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To work on side-projects (Or to sleep...)
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Did the sun forget to come up today? (Or did I just miss it?)
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New PyOpenGL developer (Charles Moad)
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Grotty low-level coding is nay fun (Lowest-common-denominator does not a happy coder make...)
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They want Justice
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It's quite hard to debug past the ctypes layer (Arguments are marshalled at a lower level than GDB seems to understand...)
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Trial now has a default timeout for test cases (Yes, yes, I know, I wasn't going to work any more this evening...)
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Another big-ticket item added to the feature-list (Long day's coding, though)
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More finishing and polishing (LivePages get a little closer to real-world usability...)
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I need to do *something* tonight (Too pitiful to sit here working all weekend)
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What a wonderous thing is integration (Making the enhanced Zope Templates accessible to the Nevow LivePages...)
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Adding handlers to Nevow template tags (How do you keep the code separate from the presentation)
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Bit'a Open Source house cleaning (Working through the backlog of todo items...)
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It's so much nicer when you can *see* progress (Get OpenGL-ctypes to the point where something shows up on-screen)
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Choose between fixing trivial regression bugs and management meetings... (Tough choice, eh-what?)
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Notes from the Ajax front (Fought a good battle...)
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Web-client javascript is even worse than VRML-client javascript (And VRML-client javascript was pretty fundamentally broken)
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One small step for Mikey-kind (One ever-so-tiny leap for OpenGL-ctypes)
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Shouldn't libglut.so be linked against libGL.so? (Refuses to load on Linux with ctypes...)
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Datetime goodness (Long overdue todo items for BasicProperty)
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Floor the accelerator (Module, that is)
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Features they are a springing (Ajax sneaks in too...)
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How many (and which) users are active on your (guarded) Nevow site? (Quicky recipe...)
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Generic repositionable interpreter (Things I should do when I get a chance...)
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Win32 Python Packages Need EXE Installers (Just too cumbersome otherwise...)
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Sleep, glorious sleep (Doesn't get much work done, but...)
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Conference call ambushes me (Weirdest of places...)
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PyGTA is next Tuesday (Come see the wonder that is Cinemon!)
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Rosey starts blogging... (While I spend my day on system administration and minor bug-fixing)
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Gentoo moving to Python 2.4 causes a bit of annoyance (Dependency changes, but the packages don't realise it...)
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Mental exercise is fun (Paper design for scaling up Cinemon)
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Little bit of work to round out the day (Still tired from the trip, but trying to keep a normal-ish schedule...)
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Conference goes remarkably well (Response to Cinemon is far better than even I'd hoped...)
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Bit a 'GL-ing to relax... (Autogenerating the bulk of the OpenGL.GL wrapper now)
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Gack! (Enough, the week is finished!)
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Seem to be caught in a reality loop... (Day limps to a close again)
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Day limps into the final stretch (Broken and battered, with little to show...)
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More ctypes goodness (Elegance improves with understanding of ctypes)
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Test-first giveth (Test-first taketh away...)
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Ah the glory of web-site design (IE sucks the lichen off the rocks...)
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I'm really rusty! (Web-site design doesn't go spectacularly well...)
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Run Snake Run (A Python hotshot profile loading/display GUI)
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Profile first, then optimise (Surprising what you find with actual measurements...)
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Wasn't I supposed to stop working back then (Look ma, hour-per-day discipline falling apart...)
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A day of iconic splendour (Mmm graphics!)
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That day was way too long ("Finish the (major) feature" isn't a good plan for a day...)
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Parties take a lot of prep-time (Especially when you've been letting the housework get behind...)
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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)
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Neat debugging trick from James Knight (Finding out what's hanging in your Twisted application...)
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Maybe it's time to add a Bayesian classifier for comments (More spam... evil spam...)
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Days of marketing splendour (Drat it, how many t's in that word!)
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Auto-generating ctypes wrappers (Overriding the auto-generation for fun and profit...)
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We need a pydoc replacement (Modularity and extensibility being the things that are missing...)
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Enough with the long days already (This one's trying to turn into a run-away)
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I forgot how pretty Cinemon can be (Windows laptop and a data transfer switch makes it so obvious!)
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Sleep refuses to come (A little ctypes-ing to calm the mind...)
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These productive days are killing me (It's not the productivity, it's the length)
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Very productive day (Major feature finished for 2.0)
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PyCon audio is up (Not as bad as I'd feared, not as good as I'd been told...)
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Mmm ctypes goodness and chocolate (Shane gave me dark-chocolate raspberries!)
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Rework all of the tests? (Or try to make it work...)
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Was that really only 5 functions? (Hope the rest of it is not this slow...)
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Hmm, first comment spam invades (Guess I'll have to put something in to stop that...)
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Long day's hacking (Forgot how fast the time goes when listening to lectures as I work...)
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Long day's typing (Post-meeting discussions on twisted-list)
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I should write now (But I feel like sleeping instead)
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No, it really was that subtle (Moreso than I'd thought...)
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Happy that the taxes are simpler? (Or depressed that my investment income totalled less than $100 for a year!)
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Ctypes experiments start well (Characterising the problems...)
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Garn that was a long day (Booting into Windows seemed to make it so...)
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Day of learning (Nevow live pages...)
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Workin' in the free world (Documentation I suppose...)
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At least it's not *my* code (Oh, wait, that would be easier...)
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Unfamiliarity makes things look harder than they are... (Debugging Python extensions on Linux easier than Win32)
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Distracted from the quest for pretty pictures (Delivery mechanism issues sop up an entire night w/ naught to show)
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Git yer red-hot OpenGLContext (Sweet, juicy release candidate goodness...)
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Konsole is the source of the OpenGLContext flicker??? (Or at least, it only occurs when the OpenGL window is sitting over the Konsole window)
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Telescoping days (Meeting turns to meetings...)
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No luck figuring out the OpenGLContext flicker (Why would it render to the wrong buffer?)
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Days go quickly when they start unreasonably early, and when you waste them on Windows (A little from column A, a little from column B)
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Fixed the dual-booting (PostgreSQL setup on Windows still unfinished...)
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Windows is frustrating me! (Make it stop, mommy!)
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Nevow's templates are quite elegant (Just wish there was some documentation...)
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Days of raging cleaning (Keeping it managable is just as important as building it in the first place)
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Long days are made of these (Who am I to disagree...)
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Need a better book-keeping solution (Tracking down receipts for Ken tomorrow...)
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Spoke too soon (Wrong-buffer rendering is still happening...)
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Interesting, ATI extensions missing from radeon driver (libGL.so.1 only has glBlendEquationSeparateATI)
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Mmm next-gen features... (Expanding Cinemon through refactoring)
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No 2.0.0 final release (But the context-class-choosing script is working...)
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Found it (And it was a known bug...)
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Drat it, nothing has changed! (So why does it fail?)
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I hate it when I introduce bugs without realising it (How long... has this b'n goin' on...)
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Should mention that, I suppose (Not that Bryan and Tim read this all that much any more...)
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Oh, the day... (Telescoping work)
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Try again on the KDE build (This time with flag to rebuild for new USE flags)
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Egads that PyOpenGL folder is getting scary (6 dozen todo items before I start working on code...)
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Links to Nevow examples (Random googled links department...)
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Oh, about the editor project... (Apparently there are other such projects at the moment)
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Ah, back to the world of Mikey (Looking back at the week of PyCon...)
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PyCon presentation (So the magic isn't lost...)
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Laptops that melt and other PyCon trivia (Very pleasant evening eating and hacking once the presentation was done...)
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Ah, the grand and glorious day dawns (Suppose I could go down for the keynote...)
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PyCon 2005 kicks off... (Like there aren't already 300 reports of its birth)
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Figuring out the PyCon schedule (When exactly do I present?)
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That was the sound of a day popping! (All gone...)
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Presentation is in good shape (Most of today's notes integrated, flow working fairly well, length could use some work...)
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I love it when there's a problem with a booking (Really, it's such a joy...)
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Presentation draft 1 finished (Seems fairly reasonable...)
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A day of work, a day of sleep (Back to the presentation again...)
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Up at some ungodly hour tomorrow (Today went well, though still no movement on presentation...)
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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)
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Very long first day back at work (Tomorrow likely a write-off...)
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What about a "we're ignoring this person, so you may as well block them" service (DDOS protection?)
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Alive: take 2 (When headaches recede...)
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Tim's been stolen! (Well, forcibly confined (they even took his shoes!))
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Bug steals a day and mocks me unresolved (And somewhere in there I lost a few hours...)
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First 10 slides finished (Fairly snappy presentation so far...)
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The day stretches out behind me, merciless and inscrutible (Scorching blacktop I will never drive again...)
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Finally hit my stride on the PyCon presentation (Key is to use paper for designing... you'd think I'd remember that...)
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Were it not for it being virus infested (This is a day I would have booted Windows up just to get the work done...)
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Finally book a hotel for PyCon (Procrastination is bad, rising hotel rates are worse...)
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Caching OIDs for PySNMP (and other bits of trivia...)
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Just what am I doing up? (Well, in fact, working...)
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Seem to have lost my descriptors notes in the move to Linux (Oh well, not that hard to find projects using them...)
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Day goes well until I get back to the question of performance (Though a bug showed up when it went live...)
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Sleep would be good about now... (It refuses to come, so I think about encryption)
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I need to write faster (Get the paper done and work on the presentation!)
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Even with sample code a whole day disappears creating 1 XMLRPC method! (Well, probably 90% of it was getting the server running...)
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That sickening, sinking feeling... (If you don't run all of your tests every day (at least), this is what happens)
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Guess I should really just go to sleep (Don't seem to be producing any deep insights for PyCon this evening...)
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Have to rebuild Windows yet again (It would be *so* nice if the hardware worked in Linux so I could ditch Windows entirely...)
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What would have been different (If I knew when first writing OpenGLContext what I know now...)
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Poor little MEC bag (Lost in the wilds of suburbia...)
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OpenGLContext still not out the door (Trivial little details piled one atop another...)
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Little fixes and enhancements here and there (OpenGLContext evening...)
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Hardware is evil (Or, at least frustrating...)
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Blockage leads to learning (The wild and wacky worlds of VOIP and Web Services)
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Substrate failures (Source-code control and patch both mess up my day's productivity...)
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Since it came up this weekend (If people are in the market for contract programmers...)
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Morning meetings and evening hacking (With a nap in the middle to handle the first and prepare for the second...)
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PyDispatcher as a source of inspiration... (Now we just need to make it a component people want to use.)
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Changing strings to tuples has far-reaching effects (PySNMP optimisation might constitute a fork?)
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Patches suck time (Greedy little performance enhancing vermin that they are...)
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Presentation paper work... (Only about 1.5 months left)
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If the box isn't up the program won't run (I'm a software guy... not even an OS guy, really...)
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I still seem to be working on it (Even though I thought I was stopping after that last post...)
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How quickly one forgets (Basic algebra and geometry...)
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Clockwise versus counter-clockwise geometry strikes again (Shadow code is sensitive to the problem as well...)
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OpenGL just seems so messy (Providing "natural" semantics for a low-level API...)
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It would be so much easier if I had hardware with these extensions... (Oh well, gives me an excuse ;) )
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No way to generate patches (SourceForge's anonymous CVS for "p" projects is down...)
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It may be worth it to rewrite wxProfile... (Well, actually wxProfile2, as that's what does hotshot loads)
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Optimising and re-optimising (Deja-vu for PySNMP hacking...)
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A day on tickets and a night on Numpy (Need food though...)
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Explanation of sorts for why conversion of Jelle's project didn't work (Tessellation was producing counter-clock-wise geometry...)
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Think that's it for the week (Use up some of this week's overtime to get a jump on OpenGLContext etc.)
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Ah, the staccato glory of tickets closing (Or, two days of tweaking...)
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The days that make it all worthwhile (I'm obviously just hungry for validation of my life of poverty...)
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Day sucked into the abyss of pair-debugging (Where did it go? It was just here a few minutes ago...)
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For the Eric3 users out there (Create an Eric3 project from your CVS working directory...)
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What am I doing up so late (I asks meself I does...)
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OpenGLContext testing and finishing... (Little fixes here and there and a disturbing failure on Linux...)
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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...)
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Oh, about those silly slogs (Think its fixed now, will see...)
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About auto-programming (Genetics as programming isn't quite what it seems to be...)
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Why isn't the mozsvg project a plugin? (Would seem like the right way to go, no?)
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Setup work for Jelle's project (Install/port radiance to AMD64 Gentoo...)
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Long day's hacking (Not much to show...)
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TV-on-Linux almost working... (Or so I tell myself)
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Beautiful waitresses are always trying to get me to overdose on caffeine (Unfortunately, I always seem to fall for their tricks...)
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My punishment for continuing to run Windows (And buying a cheap consumer router/firewall...)
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Evening doesn't go as planned (Though hopefully the memory leak is fixed now...)
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More Picassa goodness (Ooh, look, old projects resurrected...)
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Resetting didn't occur because it wasn't wired up (Still need a test fixture to test the situation...)
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Finally get history data-recording back in Cinemon (Should learn a better way of doing iterative operations in Twisted one of these days...)
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IronPython does appear to be a bit moribund (Still thinking...)
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PyCon paper writing goes well (Though there was a section missing in the outline)
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Argh! What an incredibly long day! (7 hours to do an hour meeting)
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Voicemail should just show up in my inbox... (Since I never check it on the phone)
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Cool! It got accepted! (All those nights tossing and turning were not for nought...)
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Naps and plans (The weekend completes its disappearing act...)
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Slow day for productivity... (Staring at a black box doesn't train it well)
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Rebuilding computers takes way too long (2 day's off-hours sopped up...)
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A few tiny steps forward in OpenGLContext (So much more relaxing than Cinemon...)
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Hard limits and heuristics (Or, my day in frustrating revelations...)
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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...)
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OpenGLContext grows basic Viewpoint support (Really, really basic...)
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Old VRML never dies (It just gets shunted off to directories called oldstuff/zzserver/vrml)
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More thoughts on OpenGLContext (Or, I don't think I'm going to sleep, so may as well blog...)
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Napping isn't very productive... (Or, my day in OpenGLContext)
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It's annoying when I can't seem to think straight (PyGame font should be so simple... and yet...)
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Eating, napping and graphics (Good finish to the day I suppose...)
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Wow, where did *that* day go? (Gotta love meetings...)
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Mmm... sales (Well, sales documentation...)
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OpenGLContext grows more Interpolators (Morphing and moving and colouring and fading! Oh my!)
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Day dissolves (Fragmented work-day doesn't produce much...)
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A nap and then OpenGLContext (TimeSensor and OrientationInterpolator implemented...)
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Making the emailing work (Limiting and balancing and hierarchically-ordering... oh my!)
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Nope, more Cinemoning (No wonder everyone else requires $100,000 servers...)
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Time to restart the Mikey on Linux project? (Have to get off Microsoft eventually...)
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Quiet day of Cinemoning (Working on demos)
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Little fixes here and there (Day vanishes into the air...)
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Kinda fascinating watching Cinemon work (Though it means I can't update the running copy)
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No sleep for the over-stimulated (Maybe I shouldn't think about work before bed...)
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PyOpenGL 2.0.2.01 finally charges into the world (Weeks overdue...)
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Lots of rewriting to make this work (Pointer handling is pretty deep in the system...)
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Moving code from C to Python (Maintainability and robustness)
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This getting up early business sure warps the day... (Working before noon is wrong in some way)
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New TwistedSNMP goodness heading into the world (Happy little SNMP sprite challenges the darkness...)
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Test fixtures for fun and profit (Extending TwistedSNMP to allow for more complex Agent-side code)
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New hierarchy types are fun! (Though we got our collective arses whipped in Cranium...)
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Histogram turns out to be useless (So switched to working on "political" hierarchy)
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Seriously considering not working tomorrow (Could use a week to catch up on everything...)
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Sending email in Twisted (This should *not* be so hard to find...)
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Day disappears in EFT pair-programming (As the cold (or whatever) takes over my poor lil' body...)
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Dear silly space-users, just convert to tabs and get it over with (Garn that's mildly frustrating...)
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To the kitty-kat house I go (Mmm EFT-ing...)
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Oy, graph layout code takes forever (For any sort of general case)
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Needing a package for doing graph-layout (Not a graphing package, a graph-layout package...)
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That almost worked (Too keyed up to sleep, so did a few hours of work on Cinemon)
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Convincing them to show up is 90% of the battle (Marjan saves me from being the lonely bachelor...)
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Housekeeping before the storm (My day in major-change preparations...)
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Ah, the joy of a plan working out (Minimal changes to get the functionality working... even if it is ugly)
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Do I dare declare? (Approaching the magical 770 minutes of processing time...)
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Another memory leak found and killed (Yet I feel no joy... 7, almost 8 days tracking down leaks and it's *still* losing memory...)
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Oh, a few more successes with the Toolkit... (PyGreSQL and PyPgSQL both work...)
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What's with the SourceForge and Comics.com? (Both decided yesterday to take aeons to load each page (if at all))
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New PyTable release (PyGreSQL support added)
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Most of the day disappears in getting dependencies built (And still it disappears...)
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Once again, the universe rewards cynicism (Stupid universe.)
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Don't forget to remove the testing fixtures you've added (Otherwise the test suite goes to heck...)
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Burned too many times (Can't get happy about finding a leak...)
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I give up (How the heck can *that* be leaking?)
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Take a step away from the computer (That's it, nice and easy...)
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I believe this bug is driving me nutty (But at least I have a date for the staff Christmas party...)
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Leaks in the test-suite (Bisect OID storage seems to create unreachable tuples...)
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Oh, yes, the memory-leak safari continues... (Just in case anyone cares...)
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Doesn't look like it's in any condition to update to using v4 (PySNMP is hard enough to use with full releases...)
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Seem to have fallen behind in tracking PySNMP (Apparently there's a version 4 now...)
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Need to put together a PyCon presentation proposal (or three) ("Functional embarrassment to exploding decorators, the creation myth of descriptors")
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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...)
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Memory leaks in TwistedSNMP (Tracking things down that shouldn't leak...)
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Words formed from serendipitous (Natasha's obsession...)
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Still a leak... (Though much slower now)
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A new PyDispatcher release (Hopefully this fixes the memory leak in Cinemon..)
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Thinking as I try to find the Cinemon leak... (Considerations as the test-suite trundles)
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Oh, the day in hotspots (Suppose I should mention the real work...)
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wxoo fixes (Wooing developers into using BasicProperty, PyTable and wxoo)
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Linux rises from the grave of the dead tablet (Well, almost...)
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Hmm, last post sounded very negative... (Don't post before the first coffee of the morning)
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Feedback on the presentation (Apparently far worse from the other side...)
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Presentation isn't a total blowout (Going to be moving next time, likely...)
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All hail the PyGTA presentation (Well, read it anyway...)
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Free debugging kills another day (Old code adapter grows yet another barnacle...)
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One goal basically complete (Other not even touched...)
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Tomorrow's plans (Just to keep myself honest...)
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Hope they aren't all this slow (First extension for testing goes very poorly...)
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New PyTable is out girls and boys (0.8.0 adds the PySQLite support)
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Better pyformat on non-pyformat database support (And the PySQLite driver is basically finished...)
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8 more unbillable hours (VNC makes things *so* slow...)
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The remains of the day (Pre-meeting...)
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Remember to flip the switch (Cinemon bug is so shallow it's stupid...)
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Too much to hope for (Something triggers a cascading failure again)
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Long day's bug-hunting into night (Strange little bugs scurry under discovery...)
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Using pyformat queries on non-pyformat databases (Or, why I was getting frustrated with PySQLite)
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Report the error with *some* specificity (Getting somewhat tired of "error preparing statement" messages)
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More work on letting the SIP demo work stand-alone (PyTable driver for PySQLite progresses...)
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Well, they compile, install, and have the right contents (Of course we have no testing code for any of these 183 extensions...)
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String-schlepping for fun and profit (Well... not really much fun... and I don't make any money on this...)
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PyOpenGL 2.0.2.01 nears release... (Could likely finish it if I wasn't writing this blog entry.)
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PyTable starts growing PySQLite support (Embedded database for contract work...)
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Merging PyOpenGL's branches (Doesn't go too well...)
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Somehow it went well (Or so I'm told...)
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Does anyone else look at cool database hacks and shudder? (RDBMSs are tools of the devil I tells ya!)
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Stupid bug/feature in Cygwin trashes the SIP demo (Blah and double-blah...)
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What I would do if I wasn't doing contract work only... (Speculative learning for the short term...)
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Have to figure out a better billing scheme ($2025 for 1.5 weeks of work just isn't functional...)
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Oh happy day (maybe) (A pox on relational databases...)
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Long, fruitless day trying to reproduce an error (And it's only 4-1/2 hours old)
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BasicProperty boundaries (A simple example of use...)
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Pair programming twice in one day! (Weird...)
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PyOpenGL grows FreeGLUT support (And other little post-work tasks...)
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I've got to do *something* other than work (Just realising that I've not even eaten a proper meal today)
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Oh, and speaking of billing (Though I try not to do that as much as possible...)
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Long day with Nevow (SIP project UI redesign...)
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Hmm, OpenGLUT/FreeGLUT steals my weekend (Well, part of it...)
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Gee these days are getting a bit too long... (Oh well, SIP project is basically finished...)
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Should have looked at Shtoom (He realises too late in the evening to do it...)
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New server is in (Looks much faster than the old one...)
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Bog, or tar-pit? (Authentication detour goes a bit haywire time-wise)
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SIP the cool-aide (Little things are so irritating...)
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Should have spent a day or two just familiarising myself with SIP (But oh well, that's life...)
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Dratted consumer-level software (Trying to be helpful wastes 1.5 hours of my time...)
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"To do no real work" (Is actually a pretty hard resolution to keep...)
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Parnassus, but just for 3D Projects (My day in cgi-land...)
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Pernicious Influence of Python (Still can't sleep...)
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Oh, about SIP (Project shrinks as one realises how much is already written...)
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Tracking down sample-code for PyOpenGL (Documentation enhancements take a long time...)
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Where did the week go? (Feels like Wednesday, but it's Friday morning...)
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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...)
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Review goes very well (Dan seems to like it...)
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Think I may have discovered a serious performance flaw (Formatting ignored error message in a very tight speed-critical loop)
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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...)
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Oops, forgot the pre-coffee work (Most of the day disappears in my shoddy memory)
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Drafting icons look like c^@9 when rendered in a full-colour environment... (I just work here...)
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Catcher of last resort (First thing to be created?)
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A few OpenGLContext bug-fixes (And thus a day disappears...)
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Tad frustrated with the (lack of) documentation (I mean, I can't even find a single instance of using "sequences" in Nevow!)
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About motivations and post-mortems... (Why the move from Zope)
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Speaking of distractions... (Well, some would say it's the more important stuff)
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Professional Development Day (Or, my day of reading...)
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OpenGLContext screenshots available (Pretty pictures are the most effective sales tool... especially for a graphics library...)
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Finally got the baby (PyOpenGL) out the door (No empty-nest syndrome here...)
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UI Tweaks all day (Mostly making the topological graphics easier to use)
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Stupid shallow bugs (Almost makes you want a statically-compiled language (well, not really))
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Sometimes a day evaporates with nothing to show for it (Oh, and Cinemon seems to be leaking *faster* now)
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PyOpenGL is just about ready for a release (Two or three bugs fixed, as well as a setup fix for Linux machines)
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New release of PyDispatcher available (Fixes 2 memory leaks)
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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...)
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No panacea in max repetitions (But difficult to really tell what with the CMTS's changing)
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Cleanliness is next to leak-less-ness (Or rather much-slower-leakish-ness...)
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New TwistedSNMP available (Allowing you to pass maxRepetitions into your Get Bulk requests)
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Ruminations on going back to Windows for a day
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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...)
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Just to torment me, the Windows install goes flawlessly (Clickety-click, installation trick...)
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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...)
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Well, that's at least one leak fixed (Now just need to run for 4 or 5 hours to test it)
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Just because it looks so beautiful... (Well, I think so anyway...)
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Dratted local minima (Rumours of the leak's demise are unfortunately exaggerated)
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Ding dong the leak is dead (The wicked leak, the wicked leak... though it's evil sister the database error is still threatening Dorothy...)
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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...)
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Ah, the wonders of recursive searching (Search-within-a-search just drops in my lap...)
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That's it for tonight (Didn't get the search functions working yet...)
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Hmm, and then the simple things decide to bite you... (Installing matplotlib on Gentoo turns out to be a chore)
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Don't solve all problems that could possibly be... tonight... (Or puzzles that open doorways to hell...)
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Good day for productivity (But didn't touch the big, evil bug...)
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Not the most productive day in the world (Plus: Twisted, redirect with Nevow Guard to deep-linked page...)
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Adapting Nevow's IRequest for Zope Page Templates (TAL) (For those migrating this way...)
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but 19 hours of sleep makes you a new man (Well, gets you to the point where you aren't sleepy... almost.)
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4 Hours of sleep does wonders (Well, better than none...)
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May be hitting point of diminishing returns (2.5 weeks "always on" seems to be reducing my efficiency somewhat...)
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Little user stories not actually in the spec (Sigh...)
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That last 24 hours of a project (When things go to heck...)
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Some more twisted authentication goodness (Authenticating against a postgresql database with PyTable)
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Close to moved in on Linux (TV, voice dictation, and backup still missing)
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Oh, and I got a toy today (Wish I had time to play with it...)
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Another good day (Statistics display for CMTS working)
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Productive day all-in-all (Didn't touch the speed issue, focussed on user-story completion)
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Maybe it's slow because all database access goes through the single queue (Or maybe there's just too many deferred's scheduled)
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Still bites, but not that way (SSL-encrypted connection works, but not regular)
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Twisted bites me (Oh, how frustrating this is...)
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That state of fatigue and joy (Where you just can't sleep...)
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Apparently I'm too tired to think (twisted.web + authentication stymies me...)
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Why Open Source is neat (It's the little things, like personal contact...)
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Finally solved that pesky keyboard malfunction (And along the way, got my .xinitrc working...)
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Trust the simple, general libraries (Don't trust the one-off stuff written for a particular project...)
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SVG makes the world a wonderful thing (When you get it installed and set up...)
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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...)
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My empire expands (Tendrils sneaking into projects throughout the universe...)
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Oh I'm randomly rebuilding I am (Randomly rebuilding, I am, I am, I got married to the OS next door...)
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Day closes, computer compiles, I wait (Well, not really, working while it compiles...)
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Still trying to get it rebuilt (Looks like it was gpgme getting messed up that caused the problem...)
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The reason it's compiling so slowly... (Hung bash instances are taking 100% of the processing time)
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Linux is pretty useless when you can only issue one command in a shell (Re-emerging bash does nothing useful)
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Rebuilding continues (Less than 20MB of source compiled in 9-1/2 hours)
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Still rebuilding, bash is hosed (So much for my plan to do a full day's work this evening)
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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?)
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Apparently Linux didn't like my taking it for granted (Karked up the sound during KDE 3.2.3 upgrade...)
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First full day of work on Linux (Though I had to pop into Windows a few times to pick up missing items...)
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X-session initialisation decides to be a right pain (.xinitrc, .xsession, and the disappearing .bash_profile)
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Leaving the house once in a while is fun (I like people :))
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Oh, another moment of Gentoo magic (Things that get set up in the night...)
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Interfaces seem to get in the way when refactoring (But that could just be because I'm so close to them...)
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Faith-leaping in moving onto new server (Typing "emerge -U world" is an act of trust for one violated...)
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A very productive 11 hours (Sure, it's ugly, but it's working...)
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Almost have Gentoo setup mastered (After what, 7 or 8 iterations?)
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Python's C-api mechanism is just horrible (More #defines than the original)
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A day with PyOpenGL (At last)
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UU tonight (Suppose I should put in an appearance...)
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Twisted needs docstrings!!! (When your primary API docs are auto-generated, you *must* put in docstrings)
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Cinemon gets code back from common applications... (Or, my day in slogging...)
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Kernel modules need dependency notes (Or... how I got the tablet working)
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Breaching seems to have worked (finally) (AMD64 seems to be the ticket (GRP helps too))
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Breaching leads to madness (Gentoo dives back into the insanity)
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Breaching going better this time (Don't use USB keyboard and mouse for Knoppix, oh, and use the actual Gentoo CD)
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A few days of paying work (Just for a change...)
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Hitting the limits of your tools... (...is limiting.)
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Breaching from scratch (Let there be isos)
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Back into the breach (Gentoo setup attempt since I can't sleep...)
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Twisted web client and ssl (Since it took close to an hour to figure this out...)
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Change and rests and suchalike (MediaCorp project work for most of the day...)
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Hacking doesn't cut it yet (CD-ROM is flaky)
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Ooh, hardware hacking (Almost forgot to mention this... and wouldn't *that* be a trajedy ;) .)
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Another small step forward for demo-kind (Sure it's a trivial environment, but it's got a certain charm...)
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What to do about a demo for OpenGLContext (Need free-to-distribute content...)
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PyGTA this Tuesday (Don't forget!)
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Parsing for fun and profit (Data importers are *fun* )
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Oh, I'm a continuous scanner, I am... (Continuous scanner, I am, I am)
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Multi-threading with PyPgSQL can be a serious PITA (Another few hours tracking down hangs due to a missing commit...)
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Rather annoying cutting old code (New scanner code added to old cloth makes some poor seams...)
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Why do we still have software patents? (Have they helped foster invention? No. Then why grant them?)
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Extreme Twisted Goodness! (Days are more productive with extreme programming... though having a "User" would be useful)
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Joy of Twisted (Well, sort of an ennui, really...)
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Simpler solutions make life simpler... (Abandoning chaining in favour of updating)
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Chaining OIDStores in TwistedSNMP (Today's little side project...)
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Day's slogging grinds to a close (Somewhat unsatisfactorily...)
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Automating page-forwarding, an admin script (Generating silent-forwarding pages for sites...)
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Panda and Soya 3D (Mr. Radix goes to graphics...)
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PySpelling for fuzzy matching (Little experiments...)
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Redefining foreign keys, much easier than I thought (Accessing database over ssh w/ 10 network hops is *very* slow...)
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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...)
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Things to learn... (Functional programming language)
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PyOpenGL 2.0.1.08 released (Just a minor bug-fix release...)
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Microsoft Free Compiler Working (Testing builds are operating quite happily)
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Mole perfection achieved (Well, competence, anyway...)
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I have to admit there's something magical (Gentoo Linux == feeling like a kid at Christmas (sometimes))
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Long day's slog... (Dragged back into the lion's den)
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Sometimes the silliest little things are the most frustrating (Enough to send one screaming back to urllib...)
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(Partial) success with the free compiler (mxTextTools-nr and SimpleParse running...)
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Oh, almost forgot... (There's a new release of OpenGLContext)
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Microsoft Free Compiler (Free-as-in-not-yet-working-for-me...)
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GUI Library Evolution (Or, why we have "event" objects...)
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And so it ends... (Pretty much, anyway)
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Should I take a week off? (Unpaid, but a chance to catch up on languishing projects...)
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Cinemon work draws to a close (Hard deadlines focus the mind admirably...)
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Is Linux an infinite time sink? (Another evening disappears with no progress toward a useable desktop...)
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PyDispatcher in the wild (Always nice to see work-product get used...)
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You say you slog? (What a coincidence, old chap, I've been known to slog a bit in my day...)
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One of those things about which I should probably be excited (Tuple spaces... why?)
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Slogs on toast (Perched on the edge of the sublime...)
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I love to slog (Nothing better...)
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When you find yourself reaching for heuristics (Stop yourself)
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And so I remember next time (Should have thought of it earlier, but the sketch said to go the other way...)
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How many support modules, that is the question (PyOpenGL after kebabs...)
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Python C modules for PyOpenGL (Wow that's a lot of work for little tangible benefit...)
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Templating joys (Slog, slog, slog, slog-slog-slog, slog, slog, slog, slog-slog-slog, slog, slog...)
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Emerges for all! (Oh what a geeky life we lead...)
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Should check all these scripts into local CVS (Noticable amount of effort could be lost)
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Premature optimisation kills (Well, introduces errors...)
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Oh, about the slogging (Little forward motion, mostly just learning the limitations of SVG)
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Moving work into Gentoo (Well, really just a little more work toward it...)
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I make things *way* too complex sometimes (Laying out 16,000 modems is hard, laying out 80 groups is easy (well easier))
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Slogs of war (Layout algorithms...)
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New TwistedSNMP and PyDispatcher available (Mmmmmm open-source-software...)
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Weird error showing up (socket.error: (65, 'No route to host'))
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PyOpenGL *is* now building cleanly on Gentoo (One-line fix...)
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PyOpenGL isn't building cleanly even on Gentoo (Looks as though SWIG checking needs to get a lot more anal)
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Think that about wraps up the week (13 hours is too long a time to sit in one spot)
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A slogging we have gone (And some shopping too...)
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Hmm, still up (Realised I have to get moving on replacing the computer)
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Some more things to do for Eric (When I get a chance...)
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My first ebuild (In glorious black-and-white...)
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Slog-logs for the fans (What Mikey did today)
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Slog-logs for the fans (What Mikey did today)
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Gentoo is dead for the moment (And that darn Tim is a horrible influence on me...)
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Gentoo is dead for the moment (And that darn Tim is a horrible influence on me...)
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Today's slogging in glorious text-ni-colour (At least it's working again...)
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Today's slogging in glorious text-ni-colour (At least it's working again...)
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Eric3 wins the day (With just a few little nits)
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Eric3 wins the day (With just a few little nits)
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This week we tried a few games of pool (I still won ;) )
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This week we tried a few games of pool (I still won ;) )
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First entry written from within Gentoo (It's still compiling...)
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First entry written from within Gentoo (It's still compiling...)
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Gentoo is not for the impatient (More than 12 hours to compile XFree86 and KDE)
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Gentoo is not for the impatient (More than 12 hours to compile XFree86 and KDE)
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Days seem to get longer (When you don't stick to )
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Days seem to get longer (When you don't stick to )
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Back to work with me (Gentoo is built, but not yet booting)
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Back to work with me (Gentoo is built, but not yet booting)
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Oooh, slow... (Maybe should have chosen a stage 2 install...)
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Oooh, slow... (Maybe should have chosen a stage 2 install...)
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Bleep it, I'm going to play (Gentoo here I come...)
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Bleep it, I'm going to play (Gentoo here I come...)
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On the Gentoo installation guide (Great learning experience, horrible user experience)
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On the Gentoo installation guide (Great learning experience, horrible user experience)
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I want to play! (Gentoo calls... gosh that's geeky)
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I want to play! (Gentoo calls... gosh that's geeky)
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Write this down somewhere I can get to it I suppose (What I want for Linux-mas)
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Write this down somewhere I can get to it I suppose (What I want for Linux-mas)
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For those of you following along with the home game (When spec meets reality part LXVIII)
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For those of you following along with the home game (When spec meets reality part LXVIII)
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Scanner has been simulating for hours now (No memory leaks, and no crashes evident)
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Scanner has been simulating for hours now (No memory leaks, and no crashes evident)
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Harvest moon over Toronto this evening (Once in a while I glance up from the computer...)
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Harvest moon over Toronto this evening (Once in a while I glance up from the computer...)
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Looks like PyPgSQL is the culprit (For the crashes, anyway)
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Think that's enough for today (Dispatcher-based code mostly working)
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Think that's enough for today (Dispatcher-based code mostly working)
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OO versus nested_scopes in Twisted code (OO wins (not to spoil the suspense or anything))
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OO versus nested_scopes in Twisted code (OO wins (not to spoil the suspense or anything))
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Gack this is slow (So many methods, so little progress)
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Gack this is slow (So many methods, so little progress)
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Standard test fixture specifying database records? (Frustrating writing these things ad hoc all the time)
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Simon's party tomorrow (After rebuilding JoAnne's machine...)
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Think I should sleep... (Goes much faster when you're not spending all your time on stupid errors)
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Heisenberg's revenge (Crude measurements mess up the test suite)
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In other news... (Brief bits)
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Pinging away (Randomised scanning going slowly)
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Twisted talk went okay (Even with only 2 hours to prepare)
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Twisted talk trashed by power outage and lack of backup (Arrrrgggghhhh!)
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Draft finished (Going to sleep on it now... no, not literally...)
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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...)
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PyOpenGL Refactored (C APIs for Python modules...)
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Simplifications poking up from under the surface (Refactoring is calling...)
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Sawtooth patterns (Group statistics are this evening's bugbear)
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Fruitless night chasing performance... (A second or two of gain from 8-1/2 hours work)
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Drawing graphs with SVG (Using SVGdraw.py)
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Where are the radical ideas in computer science? (Radical is not adding functional elements to Python, for instance...)
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Stupid combination of otherwise trivial problems (No network access, local postgresql database unable to restore)
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Little tweaks and fixes (A day with little big to show for it...)
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Catspaw (References to names you think you should know...)
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Well, that feels better (Though I could really use some sleep now)
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It's all a plot (The computers are watching us and *laughing*)
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Yes, I'm still here... (Sigh.)
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Beginning to sag a little (But new weight-level might help)
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PostgreSQL hangs are a PITA to debug (Wowsa that's a geeky thing to type...)
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Working tonight (Slept yesterday...)
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Simplifying and reducing complexity (Rendering objects into tasks...)
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Finally got the columns working (Far too long on this...)
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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...)
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The glories of web-development (Did two whole days just disappear down this silly thing's gullet?)
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Well, it looks very nice in Mozilla (But IE is ignoring a lot of the CSS)
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Time to consider what the EFT server does (Think I'll leave off work until Tim drops in tomorrow)
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Class cancelled (Apparently our costs + CDI's overhead were too much)
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Plone tutorial sort of falls apart toward the end (Becomes much closer to point-form)
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Much more impressive when you can load files from GUI (Presentation is 99% of the problem)
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Ah, that's elegant (I flatter myself...)
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Whether 'tis better to update what I don't use (Or play with what I'm interested in...)
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Plone tutorials for all (What every good little boy or girl wants...)
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A TwistedSNMP User! (But it's Tim, so not really an external user)
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Putting it all together (From C++ to Plone in 5 days)
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PyGTA meeting on Tuesday (GiveX offices, 7pm, same as the last two times)
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3-1/2 hours wasted on Corrupted Disk (Need to buy a new one once the cheque for training clears)
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What to do with myself today? (After grams' of course)
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Best practices in Plone/Archetypes Development (Monkey-see, monkey-do)
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Argh, wouldn't you know it, Archetypes is GPL'd (So useless for commercial product development)
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False positives with Bayesian filter in Mozilla! (Following Murphy's law, of course)
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Ploning alone (It's not half as complex as I was expecting)
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Garn this is complex (Refactoring isn't going well)
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Continuing to simplify (And the party-count rises)
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My that Joey's a useful chap (Perl at minimum...)
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Mass simplification (Compressing complexity)
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PyTable and PyTableDA revs (Releasing all the changes over the last month or so)
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Mmm spam sans spam
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I'm Mikey the Zope I am (Mikey the Zope I am, I am)
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A day spent with Zope (Is a day you never get back...)
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Blocked on ResourcePackage/wxPython conflict (I hate being blocked by silly things)
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Pleasant afternoon with Golnar (Now back to work (sigh))
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Rot13 silliness (Saw a post on rot13 and had to run it...)
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Minimalism in design (Difficult)
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Lots of UI tweaks (Feedback at last...)
0 comments
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Management meetings, argh! (Just when you're in the middle of debugging)
0 comments
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PyDispatcher should be standard... (Just so I can use it everywhere)
0 comments
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Testability and code-size (Refactoring statistics-gathering code so I can write unit tests)
0 comments
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Auto-conversions and distutils (Or how I spent my afternoon)
0 comments
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Kinda late getting started today (Up all night with wxPython migration)
0 comments
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Oh yes, that stuff... (In case anyone cares)
0 comments
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wxPython is migrating rather fast (Looks like maintenance on the wx projects would be a good idea)
0 comments
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The next bug awaits... (Hierarchy properly created, but no record of group's values)
0 comments
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Software bugs are most similar to ticks (They suck the blood (time) right out of a project)
0 comments
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Shrubbery and such-like (Tree controls developing apace)
0 comments
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Growing trees... (Webui gets new controls today)
0 comments
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Metaclass presentation & code online (Well, presentation was always there, but the code is just up now)
0 comments
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Getting the machine back up to speed (Post-conference blahs setting in...)
0 comments
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PyCon wrap-up (Jiggety-jig)
1 comment
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Togl rises from the grave yet again (I should really stop fixing the darn thing)
0 comments
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Groovy... (But not particularly compelling)
0 comments
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Sure, it's easy to install, but 10 times? (Knoppix install goes poorly on messed up hardware...)
0 comments
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Ding-dong Metaclass is Dead (Ding-dong the presentation's in...)
0 comments
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The work-week beckons (Planning and scheduling and timelines oh my!)
0 comments
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Need to look at RoundUp some day soon (We sell an issue tracker ourselves...)
0 comments
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Metaclass finishing (At last...)
0 comments
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Little things add up (UI issues all night...)
0 comments
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Metaclass lovin (Clarity seems to be infusing the presentation)
0 comments
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TwistedSNMP 0.2.8 release (Using something is the best way to get the kinks out...)
0 comments
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Metaclassing for fun and profit (Sometimes you get too deep)
0 comments
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Yay new toy! (Well, just a hard-disk, but important nonetheless)
0 comments
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Testing can be a bit of a PITA (But it does tend to make you refactor ugly old code)
0 comments
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And there's the cmon instance back (Only 3 levels of seperation left...)
0 comments
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Deadlock broken (Yes, gentle readers, the deadlock is broken)
0 comments
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Think it's time to declare defeat for the night (Irresistable Mikey meets immovable bug)
0 comments
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PyTable Release while I'm screaming (Upgrading and importing, and crashing and importing, and throwing machine out window...)
0 comments
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How do I manage to find so many holes in PostgreSQL? (You'd think I was doing something out-of-the-ordinary)
0 comments
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And now it's working again (Argh, debugging is hard when the debugged thing stops failing...)
0 comments
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Patience sparrow, trust the code (If I'd just waited it would have been a less critical error...)
0 comments
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Think I need to take a real break (Writing blogs as I watch the scanner stall isn't helping...)
0 comments
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Randian versus Liberal views in Programming (Joey points out debate+followup regarding the ethics of Open Source)
0 comments
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This isn't helping much... (Old (running) code is finally showing the cracks that made me replace it)
0 comments
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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
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Decorators for classes and methods/functions...
6 comments
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Weirdness and silliness in SNMP (Why do all problems occur simultaneously?)
0 comments
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Need to do marketing for projects... (Too much focus on code, not enough on people)
0 comments
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The end of the first day (Blogging day one is finished...)
0 comments
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Pythius.aop, aspect-oriented toolkit (Maybe I'm missing the point...)
0 comments
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PyProtocols needs documentation... (Who am I to throw stones)
0 comments
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Yet more licensing silliness... (GPL licensing kills another hour)
0 comments
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Flushing... (New specs for old projects...)
0 comments
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Metaclasses must be done... (How even licensing screeds seem important when procrastinating...)
0 comments
Tuxedo
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First Snap Package Doesn't Impress
0 comments
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Ubuntu Upgrades are Magic unless they aren't
0 comments
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Ubuntu 20.04 unhappy on the old Dell XPS
0 comments
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Windows Isn't a Horror Show
0 comments
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Trying out raw Debian on an old Laptop
0 comments
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Prime Nvidia can't find GLX (solved)
0 comments
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Docker on Centos7 host underwhelms
0 comments
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GStreamer Playback Captured mpeg.ts using Timestamps
0 comments
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Dell XPS 15 2016 on Kubuntu 15.10
0 comments
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Review: Dell XPS 15 (9550) as a Linux Developer's Laptop
0 comments
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Dell XPS 15 (9550) Exploding Battery
0 comments
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nVidia, package cudnn for Ubuntu already
0 comments
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Black Screen on KDE after disconnecting external monitor
0 comments
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Trivial bug in synaptics is so frustrating...
0 comments
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Let's Encrypt Tomorrow
1 comment
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Infrastructure Failures Suck
0 comments
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Kubuntu 15.10 seems fine so far
0 comments
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Fire Tablet, wow, that's kinda pointless
0 comments
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KDE Seems to run on fglrx now!
0 comments
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Dockerfiles and Kernel Tools
0 comments
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Did I just create another Inotify Interface?
0 comments
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Monitor Sinks a Whole Day of Work
0 comments
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Eventually Text Munging Gets Nasty
0 comments
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First-Light on Dictating Code into Eric
0 comments
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Aw, come-on QtDBus, just work already
0 comments
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Interpretation of Dictation
0 comments
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Python-dbus needs some non-trivial examples
0 comments
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Seem to need hidden-markov-models for text extraction...
2 comments
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Project-to-language model almost working
0 comments
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Automatic Language Model Creation Started
0 comments
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Create your own virtual keyboard with Python
2 comments
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Listener is Crawling Forward
0 comments
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GStreamer Level Plugin Monitoring
0 comments
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Nginx Reverse Proxy with Authentication
0 comments
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Found the source of SegFaults on AMD + FreeGLUT
0 comments
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Create Dummy ALSA Devices (en mass)
0 comments
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Ubuntu Configuration for Inspiron 15r Running Hot
0 comments
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FGLRX fail again, now on 12.04
0 comments
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Is fglrx dead for Ubuntu-current
0 comments
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Voice Dictation Privilege
0 comments
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Nexus 5 Phone Contacts WTF
0 comments
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Integrated Graphics Really Does Suck
0 comments
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Updating the Laptop to Kubuntu 13.10
0 comments
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My Raspberry Pis Seem Cursed
0 comments
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Laptop Presentation Fail Take 2
0 comments
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Packaging Ubuntu/Debian is not fun
0 comments
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Upgrading the Laptop
4 comments
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Create a DKMS DEB for a kernel module
0 comments
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Docker is the first thing to make me want to update
0 comments
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Linux Refuses to See the HDMI
2 comments
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avahi-daemon just works for hostname.local
0 comments
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You got Video in my Django at Django Toronto
0 comments
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Lazy Caching Proxy Results in Nginx
1 comment
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KDE CD Ripping rocks
0 comments
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Prevent PulseAudio from becoming the Default ALSA Device
0 comments
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Alsa Loopback Devices for Fun, but not yet profit...
0 comments
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Kubuntu really does kinda rock quietly...
1 comment
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Control Default ALSA Device via Environment Variable
0 comments
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Forget "pledges" to release updates and fuzzy timelines
0 comments
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Ugh, lost suspend-resume on the laptop...
5 comments
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Kubuntu 11.04 Install on Dell XPS 8300
0 comments
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IDE without File|Open or File|Save is... painful
0 comments
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Kubuntu replacing Unity
0 comments
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Unity papercuts getting under my skin
0 comments
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Kubuntu Natty Upgrade... Hrm...
0 comments
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Replicate live into a throw-away staging/dev db
2 comments
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Catty ssh is cool
1 comment
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Good news, backups worked, bad news, it's the motherboard
0 comments
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Hey, thinks me, maybe I could work on packaging that backup idea...
0 comments
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DHClient!!! (think "Kahn!")
0 comments
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Oh, SELinux, you complete(ly annoy) me
0 comments
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Ouch, overheating machine via Strigi
0 comments
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Bug Report Fatigue before I get a single report in...
0 comments
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Setting up a DHCP test environment in QEMU
2 comments
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Fedora 10 without the Cruft
0 comments
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Remote networking is a PITA
1 comment
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mDNS service to share apt caches?
4 comments
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Karmic Upgrade == working suspend (maybe)
1 comment
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Rebuild, rebuild, rebuild
0 comments
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Finally setting up the Asterisk server
0 comments
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Hard-linking and disk-space... whatever...
1 comment
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Further to back up nirvana...
1 comment
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rdiff-backup with source-control and mozilla-profile handling...
0 comments
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Chromium is nice-ish...
0 comments
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Suspend problems...
2 comments
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Another round of fixing suspend
0 comments
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Sync Thunderbird Contacts to Bluetooth Phone?
3 comments
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Kubuntu Limping around the Corner
4 comments
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Dependency Heck
0 comments
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Yay, 3D and Suspend Working Again
0 comments
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Have lost suspend-to-ram functionality on the laptop
3 comments
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kvm flies on the laptop
0 comments
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Need to figure out key-remapping under KDE/X
0 comments
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Infrastructure sucks time
0 comments
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Thinking of a W500
0 comments
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Sys-adminning in the morning...
2 comments
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Ubuntu rejects Soni's old Machine
8 comments
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Don't upgrade Dovecot when you're busy (Server configuration completely changed...)
0 comments
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That's usable? (I'm not impressed...)
0 comments
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Finally got pressure-sensitivity in the pressure-sensitive tablet! (Years later...)
0 comments
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WPA supplicant almost working (That's frustratingly close...)
0 comments
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Wireless Networking is Kicking My Arse (Whole day's side-project...)
0 comments
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Remember to test before un-chrooting (Obvious idea...)
0 comments
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Chrooted aufs makes a nice Gentoo addition (Compiling and installing while you are running...)
0 comments
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No dual boot on this machine (First Gentoo-only machine (sort-of)...)
0 comments
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Linux Caffe has summer hours! (Meetings any day of the week...)
0 comments
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Crash-on-save is frustrating (As a feature, that is...)
0 comments
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Solution for the portage issue (I think) (From Guillermo's suggestion...)
0 comments
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Solution for the portage issue (I think) (From Guillermo's suggestion...)
0 comments
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Have to switch accounting packages (GNUCash just fell down on reporting...)
0 comments
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Have to switch accounting packages (GNUCash just fell down on reporting...)
0 comments
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Silly script forgot to check for a directory... (xorg recompile fails and drags down the whole show)
0 comments
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Silly script forgot to check for a directory... (xorg recompile fails and drags down the whole show)
0 comments
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Delays and more delays... (Plane and network...)
0 comments
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Apparently it's been a while since I used mythtv (Been down for at least 3 days...)
2 comments
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Though necessary, hardware is almost always problematic (At least, I only notice the hardware when there's a problem...)
0 comments
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WPA setup under Linux is way too complex (It shouldn't take hours for each computer...)
3 comments
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I get to work at Linux Caffe today! (Yay!)
0 comments
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Beagle and nuvexport working (While I was working...)
0 comments
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That goes reasonably well (Apparently giving up on sleep is the answer...)
0 comments
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Simple caching DNS client for Linux (DNS delay on Sympatico is driving me nuts)
4 comments
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Finally get workstation up to date (DLL hell resolved)
0 comments
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That moment of truth (Flipping the switch...)
1 comment
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Long day yesterday (Lounging around in bed all day...)
0 comments
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Almost have the mail server set up (Stand-alone server that's quiet enough to leave on all the time...)
0 comments
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Printer installation goes flawlessly (Modulo one routing issue...)
0 comments
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Should have set up Gentoo instead (Package managment falls down...)
3 comments
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Something got fixed on my machine (Probably by the gcc and glibc update)
0 comments
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Never get too happy about the OS (It'll bite you...)
1 comment
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Another Gentoo "magic moment" (And an Ubuntu installation...)
2 comments
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It's a bad thing when accounting software dumps core (So much for going with the polished consumer-friendly app...)
1 comment
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The best kind of parties (Deep conversations deep into the night...)
2 comments
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Unable to get the nVidia card running with AGP (Hours wasted...)
1 comment
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Doesn't quite make up for yesterday (But a very good day in for billables...)
0 comments
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I can see clearly now (The squinting's gone...)
0 comments
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That ol' Gentoo Magic (Two days later...)
3 comments
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Good news and bad news in CUPS setup (It worked...)
0 comments
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Attempting to build sugar (Between the work-times)
4 comments
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Don't forget to reboot your Linux machines every few months (Software upgrades from weeks ago bite me...)
2 comments
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Routing is fun (Or my day in un-billables...)
0 comments
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DHCP goes south on the laptop (How did that happen...)
0 comments
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Seem to have OpenVPN working (But I can't really test it from inside the network...)
1 comment
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Twinkle seems to be a decent VoIP Softphone for Linux (Setting up office phone on the laptop for working at Linux Caffe)
0 comments
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Fix one break the other... (Grr...)
0 comments
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Suspend2/Hibernate working (Almost finished the system configuration...)
0 comments
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Getting your KDE sessions to lock on Laptop Lid Close (A quick and hacky script...)
1 comment
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ACPI is working (Yay!)
2 comments
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ACPI almost working... (Maybe a bit more battery life as a result)
0 comments
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Still no nVidia driver (Another couple of burned hours...)
0 comments
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The key is to ignore what the package says (Orinoco Gold is actually an Atheros Chipset)
0 comments
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No Orinoco Gold love (Silly pcmcia subsystem no longer has an ioctl operation it requires...)
0 comments
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No suspense yet (Suspend2 doesn't just magically make it work, apparently...)
0 comments
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Apparently joy in technology derives from ownership! (Or at least possession...)
1 comment
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Finally get an IMAP server installed (Local network only...)
0 comments
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Sad when you get to having a process for some things (Lost address book and side trips...)
2 comments
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Enjoyable but entirely too long of a day (Conversations galore...)
0 comments
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Tweaks to the laptop configuration (And the glories of graph layout)
0 comments
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Laptop is getting closer (About 20hrs total I'm guessing...)
3 comments
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Hmm, got a little distracted (Happens sometimes...)
0 comments
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The key to Asterisk, it turns out... (Is rebuilding kernels obsessively until you find one that works...)
0 comments
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Funky GSM playback with Asterisk 1.2.1 (Load issues, maybe...)
0 comments
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MythTV fixed (Missing kernel support for the OSS PCM API)
0 comments
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Minor tweak to the kernel a bad idea (ztdummy non-functional, whole system gone for a bit...)
0 comments
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Housekeeping is dangerous (Accidentally blow away my only working kernel's source directory...)
0 comments
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Quick asterisk tips (Little things that kill ya...)
0 comments
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Getting MeetMe running on Gentoo (Key is apparently to specify the "zaptel" use flag when emerging)
0 comments
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Quick hint for running Gentoo stable (Without constantly having to upgrade...)
1 comment
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Distractions, distractions (8+ hours into the working day without touching item 1 on the todo list...)
0 comments
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Distracted again (Setting up DVD player for Rosey's party)
0 comments
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nVidia finally runs (But no 3D accelleration)
0 comments
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Another couple of hours down its gullet (nVidia still gives a blank black screen on startx)
0 comments
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Fumbling towards KDE (Get nVidia driver to load, but just a blank grey screen on startx)
0 comments
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Limping nVidia card (Vesa-driver only!)
0 comments
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Some month soon I need to get the video card installed (Silly Linux drivers...)
0 comments
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ATI TV Wonder Pro under Linux (Works again w/ 2.6.11-r9 kernel)
0 comments
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Workstation has almost finished rebuilding itself (Churns away in the background all day...)
0 comments
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A perfect dismount (Okay, more like "managed to avoid landing flat on his face")
0 comments
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Last breath before the leap (Kind of cool that it's gotten this far rebuilding itself in the background...)
0 comments
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Bit of Linux hack-and-slash (Since I can't sleep)
0 comments
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Sigh... bust (So tantalisingly close!)
0 comments
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Once more into the Gentoo upgrade breach (Multilib or bust (since I can't sleep))
0 comments
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Oh yes, definitely one of those days (DNS aliases make me waste more than an hour...)
0 comments
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Looks like it's going to be one of those days (No joy in Linux-land...)
0 comments
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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
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Inkscape seems to have hosed itself (Or maybe some glibc problems...)
0 comments
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The joy of infinite rebuilding
0 comments
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That's enough (Gentoo will remain on the 2004.3 profile until the upgrade process becomes reasonable...)
0 comments
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Once more on the upgrade path (Trying to update Gentoo profile again)
0 comments
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Conferencing software (Emulation setup should work better when enabled...)
1 comment
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Obligatory geekiness (Trying to fix what ever is broken...)
0 comments
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Exporting to PDF should *not* take hours and multiple operating systems (Oh, and it should be real PDF, not dozens of images...)
2 comments
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Inkscape just keeps impressing me (Can't say the same for Scribus, unfortunately...)
0 comments
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My mysqld fails to restart (Mysteriously reconfiguring Linux...)
0 comments
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Long day's hacking (Forgot how fast the time goes when listening to lectures as I work...)
0 comments
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Display MythTV recording status in system tray (Quicky script just in case someone wants it...)
2 comments
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Using the old hardware (Second sound-card just for mythbackend...)
0 comments
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Gentoo fairy visits while I'm out (Bouncing baby KDE 3.4...)
1 comment
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Sigh, karked Firefox again (1.0.3 still has the broken dialog windows and now the menus are gone too...)
0 comments
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The joys of IMAP (Migration isn't as easy as I was hoping...)
0 comments
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How many times does it need to recompile? (KDE 3.3 just keeps getting rebuilt)
0 comments
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Apparently glsa-check is *not* done automatically with emerge -u (That's surprising...)
0 comments
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Give the gift of Gentoo (It really is that Christmas-morning feeling that makes it all worthwhile...)
0 comments
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Unfamiliarity makes things look harder than they are... (Debugging Python extensions on Linux easier than Win32)
1 comment
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Need to create some icons for the homepage (Well, really: need to create some pretty graphics so I don't go nuts...)
0 comments
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Just so you don't think I'm going soft on Linux (It's a PITA too)
0 comments
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Fixed the dual-booting (PostgreSQL setup on Windows still unfinished...)
2 comments
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Windows is frustrating me! (Make it stop, mommy!)
0 comments
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Ah, Windows, I miss thee not at all... (Sandra's computer decides to corrupt itself...)
0 comments
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MythTV program database off by one hour [solved] (Write it up even though it's been written up in the mailing list...)
3 comments
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MythTV program database off by one hour (Silly Daylight Savings Time...)
4 comments
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Yay, Blender builds (The Gentoo gnomes quietly fix another annoyance...)
1 comment
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About viewing Japanese glyphs in Firefox (First you need a font...)
0 comments
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Linux really doesn't like running out of space (And this new CoreBlog (back-end) interface seems strange...)
1 comment
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Try again on the KDE build (This time with flag to rebuild for new USE flags)
0 comments
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Firefox annoyances continue... (Profile recreationectomy almost works)
0 comments
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Oh, about MythTV (What I like, despite the obvious UI problems)
0 comments
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Ah, so this is why people want terabytes of storage (30hrs seems so restrictive when two people are sharing a PVR)
5 comments
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Hmm, init.d scripts are more involved than I thought (Refuses to shut down the tv-colour-correcting script)
0 comments
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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
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Pause before that final fateful step (Oops, sent my backup drive off with Tim!)
0 comments
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A day in Linux is an adventure... (Little fixes and bug reports...)
3 comments
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Hmm, what's wrong with the picture settings... (Will be a bit of a pain when recording...)
0 comments
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Well would you look (and listen) to that! (Finally get PVR software working...)
4 comments
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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
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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
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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
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Groundhog Day: Outside the Burrow
0 comments
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Rearview Mirror
0 comments
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Why did I feel a desire to open Skype?
0 comments
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Blog Rebooted
0 comments
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Haven't done much poetry lately...
0 comments
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6 Word Sci-Fi
0 comments
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Happy (Belated) Solstice!
0 comments
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"Wow, what a sale they must be having", I thought
0 comments
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Settling In Nicely After a Long Move
0 comments
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(S)ick and Yay!
0 comments
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Explaining Complex Things
3 comments
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Uncle Vanya
2 comments
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As You Like It (Other weekend pleasantries...)
0 comments
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Dad's Coming Up (Mid-week visit...)
0 comments
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Happy Rosey (Yay!)
0 comments
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Unsatisfying Weekend (Neither restful nor productive...)
3 comments
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Booth Work (Long day's chatting into night...)
0 comments
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Formatting and Review for Tutorial Handout (Oh, and some paying work...)
3 comments
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Distribute Newspapers to Commuters via Avahi (EBook readers as opportunistic downloaders on local-link...)
1 comment
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Sucky things Suck (Enough with the suckage...)
0 comments
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Comment Spammers Suck (I know, I know, they don't read this...)
1 comment
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Note to Hertz (Nickle-and-diming department...)
0 comments
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Clobbered (Soni and I taken out...)
0 comments
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Quick "Governance" Visualisation Idea (KDirStat for your (government) budgets)
1 comment
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Home and Happy (I Missed Soni)
0 comments
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Packing to Go (Other miscellany...)
0 comments
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Nova isn't the right model for usb to vga (Many competing little shops...)
0 comments
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My Key Phrases (Should have just gone ahead and learned chinese years ago...)
0 comments
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Camera's on the Wrong Setting (Everything's blue...)
2 comments
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What to see... (Touring the city)
3 comments
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Joomla, Wims, Mozilla (Webby...)
0 comments
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Pleasant walk around a night market (Very generous hosts...)
0 comments
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Quick walk while the process runs (At least I got out of the air conditioning...)
0 comments
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Little things to remember (What not to do when travelling...)
0 comments
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WiFi is Free in Vancouver (Promised land...)
0 comments
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Excited about Tomorrow (Even if today was a bit of a wash...)
2 comments
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Bell Canada Labs (Then errands for 4 hours)
0 comments
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I want to teach somewhere (Get all this stuff off my plate some day soon...)
1 comment
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Long Weekends, Long Walks (A few days off...)
0 comments
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Messy Jobs are Never-Ending (Clean jobs a disappearing breed...)
1 comment
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Life Management Tools (Need to get using them...)
4 comments
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Greater Toronto Airport Authority (Turns back 20 people or so this afternoon...)
2 comments
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Off to the Thousand Islands (Out of touch...)
0 comments
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Poor day of work (Distractions...)
1 comment
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Agenda for Accessibility (This doesn't reflect the views of anyone else...)
0 comments
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Cool, I'm married (Ring to prove it...)
1 comment
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Fast Approaching Deadline (Fun-fun-fun...)
3 comments
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Wow, locked VoIP routers are annoying (Especially when you ask for unlocked explicitly...)
0 comments
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Doesn't matter who you are (If you look "different" the close-minded will attack you...)
0 comments
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Getting the apartment set up (Internet is up (limpingly))
5 comments
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Half finished, next half up tomorrow morning (Relocating to our own place)
0 comments
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New ISP for the new place (Rogers or DSL?)
0 comments
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Don't forget to check a new firewall before you leave the house (Oops...)
2 comments
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One more big item off the todo list (Brokers beginning to make sense...)
2 comments
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Apartment hunting sucks... (Long day's wandering)
0 comments
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I'd forgotten how loud normal desktops are! (Rescue machine seems less a gift...)
0 comments
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Need some Albanian language radio streams (Keep Soni's mom from being too bored...)
0 comments
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Slow weekend for work (Life getting in the way...)
0 comments
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Back up (mostly) ($1200 and 18 working hours poorer)
0 comments
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Stupid messages from a BIOS (Computer replacement doesn't go well...)
0 comments
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Bit of Sightseeing on the Last Day (Amphitheatre in Durres)
0 comments
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Talk went reasonably (This trip funded by Soni's dental surgery budget...)
1 comment
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Global Warming isn't even on the radar here (And other little observations from Tirana...)
0 comments
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Rome fills up cards fast... (3 hours per 500MB)
2 comments
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Abandoned building in a park (Machiavelli's palace???)
1 comment
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Days in the Italian Countryside (In Florence now...)
0 comments
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Off to Italy... (Well, after lunch...)
0 comments
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Crashes (Moments out of the stream of life...)
0 comments
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Mom and dad came up today (Summer tire delivery...)
0 comments
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Per-category and full-content feeds now available (and working) (Stupid-simple TAL hack-up)
0 comments
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Power supply on my regular laptop just fried (Always ran hot, now it's shorting out too...)
1 comment
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She said yes, by the way (Officially engaged now...)
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She said yes, by the way (Officially engaged now...)
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Delays and more delays... (Plane and network...)
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Need to get to sleep (5am wake-up call)
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Time to replace the server/workstation (3.5 hours wasted this evening...)
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A night (and morning) of relaxation (Age of Empires II retro strategy game death matches)
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Pleasant afternoon with the family (Until I had to get to work...)
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I like my father (Loving the Universe...)
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I was soooo wrong (Brave New Waves recording is so worthwhile!)
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Dad has a blog (Green Party discussions)
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Not much OpenGL hacking this weekend (But I got some general maintenance done and played a couple of games)
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Finally get the texts page updated (Wasn't I supposed to be working on something else...)
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Short Years
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Outstripped Voice
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Lost Millionaire
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Bitter Ashes
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Not Behind your Band
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Fall's Rain
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Washing Clean
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Piling
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Half-done
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Pointy-shoed Woman
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Advertising Girl
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Short Fiction (3)
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Short Fiction (2)
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Short Fiction (1)
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His Sandwich
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That's a bit distracting (Branch falls on our car)
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A few shots from the weekend (Hiking around Tobermory...)
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Off to do some Hiking (Could use a break from system failures...)
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A weekend of little tasks (Bits and pieces but no great accomplishments)
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On puppy love and training (First session with the trainer)
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Architecture
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Chipmunks Wonder
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Croikeys it's warm here (35+ degrees in my room)
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Daily Drudgery
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Heart Shards
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That wasn't the most productive of days (Good nap though...)
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Face-planting hurts (And other trivia from last night...)
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Screaming
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Green Fields
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Festooned
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To His Lips
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Sometimes you just need to crash (Sleep is good...)
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No hacking this evening (Plans deferred again...)
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I need to work on my rock-climbing technique (Way too much stress on my fingers/forearms)
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I'll just get one or two things done before I head down (Dangerous thoughts in the morning...)
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Test the interactivity too (Comments are broken on the blog here)
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New Zope server seems much faster (Thanks Tim!)
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Maybe I should hire an email secretary (Someone to battle the email-backlog-beast)
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Relaxing, if somewhat unproductive weekend (Didn't really sit down to do any work...)
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Grams packs the house one last time (Thank you all...)
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First day with the little puppy (Alone, at least...)
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Wild Cowlicks
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Sharing Her
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She Glowed
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Her Lesson
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The Step of Helen
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Subsidence
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Vacant Demons
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Please Hold my Heart
1 comment
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Those I Love
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Eyes at Midnight
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Very full day... (Yay!)
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Am I becoming a sleep addict? (Return of dreams makes it so attractive...)
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The best kind of parties (Deep conversations deep into the night...)
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I can see clearly now (The squinting's gone...)
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Replacing the fried monitor (Rose's little monitor doesn't cut it for all-day working...)
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Fried Mikey (Don't put on jeans and go for long walks when you're sun-fried)
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Ebeneezer's Farewell
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Offerred Water
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Great way to spend a night (Coffee and cheesecake and hours of conversation...)
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The Wise Councilor (55-word flash-fiction)
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Garam Masala heals all frustrations (Mmm curried veggies over hot-and-sour rice...)
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Chatting the night away (Tech-talk mostly)
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Week is still very good looking (Even if the day was rather light...)
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Happy afternoon world! (Oh how music makes me dance...)
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See Happiness
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Grounding Me
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Taxonomy of Joy
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Stone Levies
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Dinner and a lightshow (Friends is the bestest entertainment...)
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Lies and statistics (Haven't looked at this in a while...)
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Too Sharp
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Word Daggers
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A Fugue
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Fonduing the Night Away (My wasted youth...)
1 comment
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Nest of Laughing Lines
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Oh, that's the way a day is supposed to go (Chatting with intelligent, animated women all afternoon...)
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Quick review of the downtime (What I've been doing...)
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Transit strikes are fun! (I've seen too many Vietnam war movies...)
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A pleasant day (The temple gives you bandanas, incidentally...)
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Off to the wedding tomorrow (Wedding so huge it's being covered by the local food network...)
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The Editor Returned
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Where did today go? (Naps time-warp the day to naught...)
3 comments
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Moving forward (Leaps off small businesses...)
2 comments
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I'm Pretty Sure
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A Woman to Desire
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Rote from Other Tongues
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Whether I Still Can
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Does my Heart See More
3 comments
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Playing with Words
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Within Four Feet
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My Corner of the Bus
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The Baker's Van
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Pleasant afternoon of chatting (And pool)
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River's Breach
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Gentle Summers
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Tool-sharpening (My evening in coding...)
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To the Quick-silver Screen
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Poor Poems
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I Have Looked
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Beauty on My Shoulder
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The Pointless Begging
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Caught Looking
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Written for their Ear
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The Rain
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Sleepy day and a quiet coffee turns in a party (How pleasant it is to see beautiful women...)
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Coding Forms
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The Mask of Cartoon Horror
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Forgot to clock in this afternoon (Whole day's work disappears...)
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The Used Handkerchief
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Sedimentary Years
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86% Cacao Dark Chocolate (Pretty darn good...)
2 comments
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I Ask My Feverish Bed
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How Often we Crawl
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Above My Sleeping City
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Good People at Home
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You only think of doing the before-and-after after... (Very nice results...)
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I still have teeth! (Yay)
1 comment
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A Few Hours Walk
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Lark's Melody
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Caffeine is good medicine (Or maybe philosophy is...)
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Shy Dogs
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With Demanding Passion
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They Were Meant
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Enjoyable but entirely too long of a day (Conversations galore...)
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Some Distant Spring
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Sticky Electric Ink
4 comments
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Where do Saturdays Go
1 comment
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Why Not
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Yesterday's Smile
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Poetry and food consume the day (No complaints...)
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Just what I needed (If not the most productive of days...)
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The Eye's Contention
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Tired Longings
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To poetry events this weekend (we go) (Slam on Friday, Meetup on Saturday)
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When did I lose the joy in playing with new computers? (Not even remotely a hardware guy any more...)
5 comments
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To Fix Warm Words
4 comments
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Smoke Escapes
6 comments
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A Ruined Nap (But a very pleasant meal)
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The Untapped Well in the Back Field
1 comment
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A Perfect Day (rev)
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All Barmaids are Beautiful
2 comments
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Strategic Feathers
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Sad People on the Train
4 comments
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A Few Short Hours
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My Released Eyes
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Eyes of the Pretty People
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A Perfect Day
2 comments
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The Heart Behind the Golden Mask
5 comments
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The Dancer's Way
10 comments
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On Snowy Streets
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The Last Man
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My Eye Catches
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Peter Pan Fathers
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Interesting, but not particularly productive (Playing with log-files...)
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About time I thought about organising the poems (A few too many to just list them out...)
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Dry Athena's Dreams
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Should I be Amazed
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Awkward to Remember
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Counting Fractions
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Listen Carefully
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Diamonds or Coal-fires
6 comments
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Crouching Teddy
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Panther Kitty
10 comments
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Eleven Short Words
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Stones of the Present Church
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She'd Retract It
4 comments
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Admonition to the Hyades
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She'd a Ruler Be
2 comments
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Dark Eyes of Fatigue
6 comments
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Poetry a Smashing Success
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Poetry Tonight (Yay!)
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Captain Word's Lament
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Tulle Princess
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Drinking Too Late
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Mozzies of Mangos
4 comments
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Of Mangos
3 comments
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Hard Warrior
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Seeds of Lust
3 comments
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Poof
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Otherwise Mundane
3 comments
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Party of Loons
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Sanctuary with the Blogger's Muse
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Why no productive output today (I need home for a rest...)
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Sands in the Doctor's Hands
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Oil-based Paint
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Maybe a Draft
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Of Beige and Tan
10 comments
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Hallowed Pillows
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The Ecstasy of Readers
1 comment
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Surviving (Though yesterday was a complete write-off...)
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Seven, In the Morning?
4 comments
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History of Rice Pudding
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For Someone Else
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Dark Hair Shorn
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Lasting Scents
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Midnight Clocks
6 comments
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Best Intentions
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My Pages
5 comments
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Flight 93
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Cousins you've never known (Family gatherings...)
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I Remember
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A few shots from the party (Still working on the best settings for very-low-light operation)
2 comments
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End of an Era (Christmas dinners at the Greenhams are no more...)
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Unwrapped Peeking
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Safe Across the Table
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On Nothing Being Said
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Longer Every Night
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Reaching Out
4 comments
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Happy Solstice Everybody! (It will get light again, I tells ya!)
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The First Word
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Rinse, repeat (Another day, just like the last...)
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Water Clocks
2 comments
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Wings of my Heart
5 comments
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Black Circles in Blue
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How parties were meant to be (Long, loud, full of laughter and deep conversations...)
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Fresh Cleaned Floor
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Faded Demons
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Shell Between
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Social nova bomb on time (Wasn't just a drop in, tour, and drop out thing...)
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One of those lovely quotes (Brendan is always good for a few...)
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Lara's back (Yay)
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Bit of practice with Inkscape (A little guardian lion for the Open Clip-art peoples...)
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Dinner at the house of pure love (Tre Fontane on Bloor...)
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String Theory
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Very small coffee and a DVD-RW recorder (Plus some mindless hours on acrostics...)
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Four Years Apart
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Laying Bare
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Cut Crystal
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Things were going on, I just wasn't invited yet (Poetry evening at Aleck's, then dropped in on Simon...)
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Rogers just keeps getting more expensive (Adding unwanted required features and taking away wanted ones...)
1 comment
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Fun little Toronto Philosophy meeting (The key is to discuss philosophy...)
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Flakes Against our Skin
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Magritte and chocolate and music (Wandering about Toronto...)
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Plasticised People (Tomorrow's plans...)
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IT for Africa (Good people gather at Dan's potluck...)
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Uneventful day (Hospital, philosophy, library, party...)
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Sebeok's Introduction to Semiotics (Subway reading...)
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Tricky those plasterers (They spring their presence on you at the last moment...)
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Pleasant little party (Spend most of the evening talking about philosophy, psychology and academia...)
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Day in review (What was cool about the day...)
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Gentle hush of tickets falling (Moving toward launch as winter settles...)
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Health problems suck more (Distracting...)
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Pinning Ragged Edges
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Business plan writing today (Hopefully they get started on the walls!)
1 comment
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His Lacquered Head
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Yay! The walls are getting fixed! (Finally...)
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Pleasant evening as they played poker (Conversation is so much more interesting)
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To Escape the Mania
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I (Can) Resist Her
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They're waiting to pounce on her! (Calls for interviews start minutes after she's on the list...)
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Some VOIP-ing to round out the day (Which is now way over my scheduled 9hrs)
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Architect's Geometry
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Academia
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The Blankets
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Pleasant visit and then coffee (With an annoying traffic ridden commute in the middle)
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The Flawed Knight
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I Had Been Free
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In Hairy Fists
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Six Billion People Live
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Over Night
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A pleasant evening in with friends (Talkin' the night away...)
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Meeting on a bus (Wherein I find the subject of my best photograph ever)
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Quiet day reading (And then some poker)
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Fey Dream Creatures
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Ladies pouring coffee
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Stoic temperments
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Why work on details (When your strength is conceptual operations?)
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Sudden death pool and a nap (Or, what I did yesterday)
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Another stellar evening! (Life's joys and wonders... and other topics of conversation)
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A most pleasant day (Reading and talking and coffee, oh my!)
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I don't hate poker (I just prefer conversation)
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For the beauty junkies in the crowd (Snaps of flowers and the like...)
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A scam
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The hum
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Lonely dreams
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Guess I should buy a Research Reader's card ($150/year for a library card seems high...)
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A few pictures from Mississauga (Mostly vegetation...)
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Whisker Rubs
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Days without blogging! (Luckily nothing happened)
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Oh, this sucks! (Deleting spam trackbacks deletes the articles but leaves the spam trackbacks!)
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Some days are pure gold (Happy from early morning to early morning...)
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First crack at a business card (Feels a bit compositional, but oh well, release early, release often...)
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Meetings stretch days (Temporal hamburger helper...)
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Women are fun to hang out with (Though they do tend to inspire melancholy)
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Hmm, how did that happen? (Was going to be 4 or 5 people in for a quiet dinner...)
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Why aren't I there? (Because I got the gist of the post but didn't think to read the details...)
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Now that was pleasant! (Meet new people, friendly people, good people...)
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Fates are kind to Mikey...)
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Off to the movies I go (I really have no great desire to see Star Wars III)
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Windows steals another 5 or 6 hours of my life (79 trojan horses of various descriptions)
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Housekeeping (Of the web-site sort)
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Sporty Younger Blondes
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Scents on City Streets
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Pools in Shadowed Groves
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Cornered Eyes
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Gorgeous evening at the cafe (Shane pulls together half a dozen people...)
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Ma petite soeur sont retournee! (Elle sont retournee et *je* droit apris francais?)
3 comments
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What's Left of Me
1 comment
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Under the Sun (Though the sun is down right now...)
1 comment
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Windows just isn't worth the time (Another rebuild of a very old system...)
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Our Judges
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Victory is mine! (Yay! I defeated a tiny 86 year old woman at pool!)
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The Field Guide to North American Stones
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He Stands
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Pressing In
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Before I slip off to sleep (Rosey is alive...)
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Nicolas
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Perilous Reflection
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Twenty Feet Apart
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Inkscape seems to have hosed itself (Or maybe some glibc problems...)
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On Invitations Now Passed
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The Night's Caress
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Where are the Faerie Ladies?
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On lightning detection equipment (I know, I know, what does this have to do with anything...)
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Flirty Pillows
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In darker moments?
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On a lighter note... (Poker at a cafe)
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On creative marketplaces (Supporting the content creators...)
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Meyers Briggs is a bit absolute... (A few score true/false questions to sort us into piles)
1 comment
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Lazy bum! (Get typing already...)
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Have to get these things backed up! (Websites and the like...)
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Sweet, simple love
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False positives suck! (Whitelist malfunctions again)
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Cleaning is fun (But really, really hot...)
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So this is age
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The Rain of Tiny Blows
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Academics shouldn't blog? (Though I try to avoid blogosphere auto-wanking...)
1 comment
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Muscles Sliding Under Skin
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Days of curry and defeat (And slumber)
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Yay! Lara's coming over! (Thai curry shall not go to waste)
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Key words for computer recycling... (Toronto Environment Day)
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Ping! Pop! Zip! (I feel like running around hugging people!)
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All ya need is love (Du-du-du-du-du)
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I need to spend a few years studying philosophy (Wikipedia addiction takes hold again...)
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Clintonian Virgin (Why hasn't this phrasing taken off?)
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Messages from Trois Pistoles (Rosey's aquatic excursions...)
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When women flirt (Men are reduced to sleepless fools)
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Gentle smiles for fools
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Literature on a Bus
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He holds the shirt
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Coincidence and magic (Plans fall apart, then magically reassemble themselves)
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Too many cabs to save the girl
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Joy of Windows (I'm such a sucker for a beautiful face...)
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Week fills up too fast (Also, messages from Rosey...)
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Very pleasant dinner (Meet a new friend)
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Hope for Me
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Sleep, glorious sleep (Doesn't get much work done, but...)
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A few pictures from down south (Kind of disappointed about the razorwire ones not being in focus...)
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On the prisoner's dillema (Is revolution the answer?)
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Between Truth and Dawn
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I Miss the Quiet Nights (Conversations with her in my arms...)
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Why no solstice party? (The crowd asks)
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Self-censoring (My broken editor...)
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Sociopathic behaviour escalates (Society does nothing but encourage it...)
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Little bit of work to round out the day (Still tired from the trip, but trying to keep a normal-ish schedule...)
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Off I go (Mmm travel...)
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Oops, another 6 hours disappears into wiki-dom (Just can't stop editing/writing...)
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Hmm, another of those reality loops (UU goes very late and very caffeinated)
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Overtired and too much caffeine (So much for sleep...)
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Day limps into the final stretch (Broken and battered, with little to show...)
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The Lion in Winter (I think far too much...)
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That was less disruptive than I thought it would be (Hellos take all of 5 minutes and I'm back to work!)
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The Children are Coming! The Children are Coming! (Ice-cream delays the arrival, apparently...)
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A better class of nightmare (Simple, direct, with inventions bonus...)
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Why am I home on a Saturday night? (This is just pitiful...)
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Sleep eludes me (Probably just need more exercise)
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People who are too good (I feel like such a disappointment sometimes...)
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Parties take a lot of prep-time (Especially when you've been letting the housework get behind...)
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Urgh, I didn't even notice the trackback spam! (120+ spams likely sitting there for days helping the blaggards...)
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We all hate dream journals (Yet still I post...)
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Days of marketing splendour (Drat it, how many t's in that word!)
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Holy disappearing weekend (Nary a bit of production to be seen...)
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Ah, the glory of portabellos (Cheap mushrooms!)
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Ah, conversations (The point of life...)
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To experiment, to read, or to write? (I'd rather be having coffee with friends...)
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I've been an ass (Really upset a friend...)
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Oops, wrong on the tax due date (Are due in 2.5 hours, not 26.5)
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Happy that the taxes are simpler? (Or depressed that my investment income totalled less than $100 for a year!)
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Odds and ends as the day ends... (Pleasant all around...)
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An infectious book meme (Or at least, I'm *told* it's infectious...)
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Food would be useful (Cookies and crackers and M&Ms don't quite make a balanced diet...)
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Home again, home again (Nappity nap...)
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Oh, another idea for assistive technology (Embed RFID chips in all road signs...)
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Assistance for the blind (Universal bluetooth interfaces...)
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Thoughts on wish lists... (Je pense...)
2 comments
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Ah the joys of car-less-ness in the hinterlands (It gets expensive and/or awkward very fast...)
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Workin' in the free world (Documentation I suppose...)
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Just about ready to go (Should be in bed already)
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The Great Circle of Life and Encyclopedia (Thirst to understand everything...)
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On social change (Conversations in a bar)
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Greed (Wade Rowland's reading this evening at U of T)
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ZZZ in the springtime (Plans solidify when you give out credit-card numbers...)
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Party passed pleasingly (The popularity of the last-girl-sitting...)
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Not a day to be inside (Yet here I sit...)
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Problem is that the writer knows you too well (Pushes buttons better left un-pushed...)
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Long days are made of these (Who am I to disagree...)
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Need a better book-keeping solution (Tracking down receipts for Ken tomorrow...)
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No 2.0.0 final release (But the context-class-choosing script is working...)
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Encounters on a bus (Seems the city gets smaller the more people I know...)
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A-pot-lucking-I-go (Hi ho the dairy-o...)
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Weekend filling up too fast! (2 parties plus a visit with grams)
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Shane is entirely too generous (And Lara's pretty darn giving too...)
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Customary belly-button gazing (As age creeps away with my youth...)
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Wow, that took far longer than it should have (Need to get ZPhotoSlides set up somewhere...)
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Ooh, look, pictures! (Well, just the ones from yesterday so far...)
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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
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Ah, back to the world of Mikey (Looking back at the week of PyCon...)
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Laptops that melt and other PyCon trivia (Very pleasant evening eating and hacking once the presentation was done...)
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Hmm, who do I think I am? (Finally she gets the styles changed...)
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That was the sound of a day popping! (All gone...)
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Phonecalls can lead to blogging (New blog for an old and dear friend...)
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I love it when there's a problem with a booking (Really, it's such a joy...)
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Up at some ungodly hour tomorrow (Today went well, though still no movement on presentation...)
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Oh, and a second cousin once removed? (I lose track of how it works after second cousin...)
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Oops, seem to have lost consciousness there (Luckily I made it to bed first...)
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Alive: take 2 (When headaches recede...)
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It's surprising how often I look down at the keyboard, desk or tablet (Touch typing not-withstanding)
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Yay! I'm alive! (And the fever brings clarity about a recurring dream...)
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Still non-functional (And now Rosey's machine is infected...)
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You'd a thunk I woulda noticed (Fever, muscle and joint pain...)
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Tim's been stolen! (Well, forcibly confined (they even took his shoes!))
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Days are, ironically, shrinking (Or so it seems...)
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The ability to suspend thought is one I must recover (If I'm ever to sleep properly...)
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Bug steals a day and mocks me unresolved (And somewhere in there I lost a few hours...)
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Still awake... (Listening to an audio book to try to get to sleep)
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Finally hit my stride on the PyCon presentation (Key is to use paper for designing... you'd think I'd remember that...)
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Pleasant, but not very productive day yesterday... (Friends drop in)
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Finally book a hotel for PyCon (Procrastination is bad, rising hotel rates are worse...)
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Human beings are not intended to be getting up at this hour! (Introduces thoughts of mortality into the dreams...)
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Hmm, did I miss the anniversary? (Sort-of, if leap years didn't count...)
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The key to happiness is detachment from the things of this world (Or, people are better (but slower) than Bryan assumes they are...)
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I need to write faster (Get the paper done and work on the presentation!)
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The day seems to have evaporated (Without much to show for it...)
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Poor little MEC bag (Lost in the wilds of suburbia...)
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I'd forgotten just how intense Cranium games get (At least, when Shane and Shademan are playing...)
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Week fills up rather quickly (Seems like just yesterday it was going to be quiet and productive...)
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Oh, Marjan is alive (Just doesn't check her email very often I'm told...)
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Oh, while I'm thinking about it ((I'm not actually *tired*, so I'm procrastinating about going to bed))
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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...)
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What the wimmin-folk are up to (Sisters and friends wandering about the place...)
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That was a fun little party (Even though I do seem to have offended at least one lady...)
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Another fascinating article from Shane (Apparently Fox News has decided to castigate this chap instead of dealing with the issues...)
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Siren call of sleep (Day disappears in the pursuit of rest)
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Most readers are looking for maids and anime porn when they come here (Tim's webalizer fixes allow me to see my *real* constiuency...)
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In a shameless attempt to boost ratings (Yet more pictures of beautiful women...)
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Very interesting interview (Shane's forwards often are...)
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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...)
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Evening doesn't go as planned (Though hopefully the memory leak is fixed now...)
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More trips down memory lane (Care of Picasa...)
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Old rendering projects look so quaint these days (Tim's remarks about wading pools not withstanding...)
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More Picassa goodness (Ooh, look, old projects resurrected...)
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Life is so much more fun out there where there are people (May as well post a few pictures to keep the masses happy...)
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Distractions, distractions... (Choosing a restaurant for a meeting when you never leave the house is a PITA)
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I need a break (Or an 8 week intensive course on test-fixture-creation...)
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Rule by the rich (It really is what I said it is...)
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PyCon paper writing goes well (Though there was a section missing in the outline)
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Thunderbird goes a little weird... (Just procrastinating before going to bed)
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Grr, it's the CPU cooler, stupid! (Case exhaust fan was doing just fine, thank-you.)
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Bonus issue: Has the majority of the United States gone insane? (Warning, political rant...)
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Just scrape past her... (3 games to 2 and every one of them was close)
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150 shots in around 9 hours (30 or 40 are usable)
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Since everyone's always wanted to know (The view out Mikey's window as he works...)
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Toys are fun! (Finally get around to buying the camera...)
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Hoarse and deaf, without a decent conversation to show for it (How to discourage intellectuals from hanging out in your establishment...)
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Rebuilding computers takes way too long (2 day's off-hours sopped up...)
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Or maybe I'll just blog more (And try to type quietly)
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She never brings them home for *me* (Rosey & co go out clubbing, so the day ends early...)
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Wow, Andromeda ends darkly... (Spoiler warning...)
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Am I a romantic sham? (Tim's hopes withstanding?)
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Time to restart the Mikey on Linux project? (Have to get off Microsoft eventually...)
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Remembering (You'd think after 11 years I'd have written it down...)
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I've said it before... I'll say it again (Ever heard of a broom?)
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Double standard still exists (Ruminations on oral fixations...)
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A perfect evening (From the Book of Questions...)
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No sleep for the over-stimulated (Maybe I shouldn't think about work before bed...)
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Should have gone shopping this week (New camera was supposed to be picked up during boxing-week sales...)
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Last minute invite (But not that *kind* of bed party, darn it...)
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New hierarchy types are fun! (Though we got our collective arses whipped in Cranium...)
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Not much done this evening (Began working on "inexactitude" section...)
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Pause admidst the orgy of consumerism... (Last minute shopping often turns ugly)
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Dang spammers to the deepest, coldest regions of heck! (Another social casualty on the information super-highway...)
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Day disappears in EFT pair-programming (As the cold (or whatever) takes over my poor lil' body...)
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Is God a criminal? (Since I can't sleep...)
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Poor guy, who could ever make ends meet on that salary... (Sometimes you just want to smack people upside the head)
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Primary purpose of a blog... (Social awkwardness or feelings of guilt?)
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Solstice dinner goes fairly well (Mole and curry and doughnuts! Oh my!)
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Just in case she tries to claim she was entirely bored (Tim provides photographic evidence...)
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Convincing them to show up is 90% of the battle (Marjan saves me from being the lonely bachelor...)
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On the massaging of the foot... (Was it Shiatsu our friend taught us?)
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Apparently picked up something at the party (Hit me this afternoon...)
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Slow day's party into night... (Not a lick of work done)
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A blowout for grams (I rather sucked at pool this afternoon...)
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I believe this bug is driving me nutty (But at least I have a date for the staff Christmas party...)
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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)
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Maybe I should just report when I *can* sleep (Reduce the blog-traffic considerably...)
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Is stress the prod that gets evolution going (Do chemical alterations in the cell affect the accuracy of DNA replication, producing more mutations?)
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Natasha finishes her novel (Apparently part of an internet competition...)
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My subconscious needs dream-writing lessons (Retro dream-style reasserts itself...)
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Dinner w/ friends (Relaxed night off...)
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Happens every time I start to teach something (Wondering what I'm spending my life doing...)
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Bragging beforehand gets you soundly thumped (Or so it seems for grams...)
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Didn't manage to get to sleep (Guess grams will get a free ride...)
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Oh, the evening's coffee (Hanging out in Starbucks...)
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Alexei's new portfolio site (Gee, it's been a while since I've seen him...)
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Oh, yes, the games (Instant Karma gets her...)
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A few poems transcribed while waiting for the family (Old notebooks with bad poetry...)
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Apparently I depress Bryan (Well, my blog does...)
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Science fiction lectures finish (Things that make you go "where's the beef")
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Am I really so boring? (Don't answer that...)
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Why aren't women allowed to notice that other women are "hot"? (Seems like a perfectly reasonable observation...)
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It's been way too long since I listened to Brave New Waves (Ogg stream reminds me that I've been neglecting experimentalism...)
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Is my only muse insomnia (Little bit of poetry refuses to leave my mind...)
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Apparatus for allowing transfer of electrical equipment without service interruption (An idea for those inventors out there who like such things...)
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Sigh, looks like the collapse is coming... (Myopic, spendthrift policies to continue south of the border)
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Pleasant coffee with Shane (and Lara) (I got to hold a 7 week old scottie puppy while his owner (cute girl) got her coffee...)
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Any little excuse to discuss philosophy (Garn I'm getting predictable in my old age...)
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About super-strings (Lindsey's question in a loud party...)
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Guess I should try to recover the Gentoo environment (My personal todo list is so long and not very fun looking at this moment...)
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Hypothesis as I lie here wondering (About losing a beautiful woman's name so easily...)
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Oh yes, the party (Since you didn't ask...)
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How to affect change in the world (Zen and the art of making the world a better place)
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Need to find a way to distract myself (There's not a lot to fire the imagination at the moment...)
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Take either position, but accept the consequences (If you're going to argue for innate capabilities, follow it through to the end...)
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Oh, and I got a toy today (Wish I had time to play with it...)
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That was just too fun (Why do I do this programming stuff again?)
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DDOS attacks starting again (What's with these people, don't they have spam to send or something?)
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Philosophy lectures march on (Through the magic of a shuffling algorithms...)
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Oh, I know it's serious (But egads, isn't this just calling out for a joke...)
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The minds on the other side (Little article about the new hybrid SUV)
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What is the measure of a man? (Pondering while the unit-tests run...)
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Fried moth is NOT a pleasant scent (From the probably-too-much-info department...)
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North Americans really suck at communication (Maybe the rest of the world too...)
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Hardware is starting to get on my nerves... (Or at least the drivers for it...)
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Party goes very well (Pictures for everyone!)
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Let there be light! (Rosey's excursion to Canadian Tire)
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What's missing? (Loneliness strikes in the middle of the night...)
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Power outage as relaxation therapy (Maybe I need more excitement in my life...)
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The Italian Job and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Flicks in the field)
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Dinners upon dinners upon movies... (Raining and pouring...)
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Couldn't give away the Molé (So I just didn't make it tonight...)
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Confluence of problems kills the week's blogging (And no-one notices...)
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Package tracking is addictive (I had no idea TigerDirect was a US company...)
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Look, it's a former girlfriend... (Searching for a chance to use the camera!)
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Weekend saved by former gf (I'm morally opposed to spending a perfect weekend doing nothing but working...)
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Beginning move to the new domain (Roger's karking of email prods me into motion...)
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Firefox and Thunderbird switch... (Switched to fix broken spell-check, now it works in Mozilla but not Thunderbird)
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Mole perfection achieved (Well, competence, anyway...)
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Rogers karks up email (Day wasted in the main)
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A fairly successful party (Though most of the normal crowd was missing...)
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Spider Man II (This afternoon (or tomorrow, depending on whether today is tomorrow or today))
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Malcom X quote in the middle of a song (Plymouth Rock)
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Just something that keeps coming up (Advice to women)
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Hiking cancelled (Sleep and work instead...)
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Oh, a note on Bruce Trail Club etiquette (The activities page doesn't really make this clear)
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Life of Mikey (Trivialities and planning...)
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The Conversion of Shane (Red Alert II enthusiasts are born...)
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Fitting in with people who have normal schedules is a pain (Who ever heard of "call before 9pm"?)
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More pointless details on Rosey's new machine (Just 'cause I'm waiting for it...)
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Rosey's moved in (Her computer is a mess...)
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Why minority parties want proportional representation (For those who are curious)
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For those too lazy to read Canadian newspapers (Liberals are back in power, but with a minority government...)
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Changing of the roommates (Lawrence has finished moving out...)
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How many support modules, that is the question (PyOpenGL after kebabs...)
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Yes, it's another political rant... (I really do want to know what the NDP are smoking these days???)
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Oops, forgot about that... (Social engagment this evening means little work on PyOpenGL)
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Interesting Star article on parties positions wrt copyright reform... (The NDP seems to be smoking crack...)
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Dates for hiking (Two of them... too bad neither is a date-as-such)
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Hmm, John Stewart just lost it for a second (Even if I do agree...)
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If the man telling you to commit suicide isn't dead (Why would you trust him?)
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Oh, yes, yesterday (Gifts and weddings and such-a-like)
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Think that about wraps up the week (13 hours is too long a time to sit in one spot)
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Shopping tomorrow (Can't look shabby at the wedding...)
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Former gf graduates (With "high distinction")
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The pernicious influence of puzzles (Almost an hour wasted on this so far...)
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This week we tried a few games of pool (I still won ;) )
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This week we tried a few games of pool (I still won ;) )
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Yay, it's a camera! (But I don't have batteries for it)
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Yay, it's a camera! (But I don't have batteries for it)
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A woman once took issue (So of course I can't sleep thinking about it...)
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A woman once took issue (So of course I can't sleep thinking about it...)
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Once again back to ground 0 with Linux (I'm getting *so* sick of this)
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Once again back to ground 0 with Linux (I'm getting *so* sick of this)
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Coffee with Lisa (Don't play at legalese with a lawyer!)
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Coffee with Lisa (Don't play at legalese with a lawyer!)
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Look, it's a search box (Turns out you just uncomment it...)
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Look, it's a search box (Turns out you just uncomment it...)
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Packed up the scanner (And immediately thought of three or four things I should have scanned before giving it up...)
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Need an intellectual recharge (Maybe more philosophy this evening)
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Need an intellectual recharge (Maybe more philosophy this evening)
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Nice little experiment last night (Ginger stir-fry over anise and mint pasta)
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Nice little experiment last night (Ginger stir-fry over anise and mint pasta)
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What is the headache trying to say? (It's a warning signal, but...)
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What is the headache trying to say? (It's a warning signal, but...)
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Newest Sasser worm a greater danger (Why do we report things this way)
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Paid for my Bruce Trail membership (Procrastination ends...)
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Sly horse trader that I am (Little side deal to make everyone happy...)
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Back from the party (Now to sleep)
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Simon's party tomorrow (After rebuilding JoAnne's machine...)
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And one of D'Arcy (CEO of our happy little crew...)
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Look! It's a picture of Tim! (The work Tim, not the roommate Tim or Python-dev Tim...)
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Proper capitalisation of uncle and aunt (A question I couldn't answer on Twisted channel)
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Rosey visit yesterday (Noah too!)
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More truth in comics (Hope this is considered fair use...)
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Poem running through my mind (Darn it I'm trying to sleep!)
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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...)
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Technology makes hunter successful (But doesn't actually result in leaving cave...)
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Pool cue hunter... (They're not spears, kiddies)
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Wow, that was just evil! (In the Company of Men)
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Elegance is needed in teaching physics (It really is elegant...)
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Mikey's Wish List Version 1.0 (For all you amateur matchmakers out there ;))
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Gardening tomorrow (Shiva (& Shademan)'s place)
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How widespread is John Stewart's reach? (Just wondering how often I'll hear this re-quoted...)
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The Elegant Universe (Finally picked it up...)
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Being offline sucks (But had some wonderful dinner in there...)
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Thirty-some-odd movies (Answer to nagging question that finally woke me up...)
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No mention of redemption or rehabilitation (Databases meet liability litigation and the stigma of previous criminal behaviour...)
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You assume those you like are like you (And, of course, that they like you)
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Beginning to sag a little (But new weight-level might help)
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Hmm, Zope XML export is broken! (For this site, anyway)
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So often education is all that's missing (Pool with the kids, snooker with grams)
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Need to stop thinking about Lisa's thesis (I'm obviously a sucker for a beautiful woman...)
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There's no point in Thai food if you're not going to share (3 plates of veggie Pad-Thai is just silly)
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Some of whatever knocked me out is lingering (Waste of time in silly unconsciousness)
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Pleasant day all around (Grams out, coffee, and a good dinner)
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Coffee postponed (Lisa's off partying this evening, so do coffee tomorrow afternoon)
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Now she's at the hospital (Will be there for a few days)
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Grams too tired to play snooker (She's off at the nurse's office now taking a nap)
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Using a semen extractor for a woman? (Science shows are weird sometimes...)
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Hope is Gone (A sweet, mischevious little doggy, past the pain)
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3-1/2 hours wasted on Corrupted Disk (Need to buy a new one once the cheque for training clears)
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Puppy is sick (Little Hope is in the hospital)
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Good lord this month is going slow (PyCon not even a month ago yet)
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Yesterday's day (Altogether pleasant party...)
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Hmm, getting started rather late this morning (Was hoping to be up and cleaning 2 hours ago)
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females aren't fickle; they just change their mind (It's-from-the-CBC-so-it-must-be-true...)
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Continuing to simplify (And the party-count rises)
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Rested, fed, and ready to go (Though honestly I could go to sleep right now)
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Pleasant afternoon with Golnar (Now back to work (sigh))
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This just keeps happening (Shouldn't listen to my family...)
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At least there's something to read (Coming full circle and reading encyclopedias again)
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Stupid things that cross my desk (Child pornography charges against the child?)
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Sheesh, $117CDN total income for a year? (I know, I know, I was doing open-source all year, but still...)
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Inevitabilities... (Chores and taxes...)
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Two more universities for Rosey (Nipissing and York)
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Well, I suppose that's one way (Silly things that trip across my desktop...)
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Correspondence of yesterday (My own little news service...)
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Joey's Redhead's wish list (Publishing the wish-list on the web, what a novel idea...)
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Shrubbery and such-like (Tree controls developing apace)
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Age creeps in... (Should stop thinking about this around now)
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Back from gram's lickety split (And dinner with Shiva and Shademan)
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Hmm, days evaporate rather quickly... (Thought I had a half-day in here somewhere)
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Busy day tomorrow (Rebuilding two computers, dinner, movie, coffee)
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So that's what life is all about (A beautiful woman chatting about life the universe and curry)
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Beautiful Golnar coming by for dinner (Persian beauties are wonderful just to be around)
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Sometimes you have to wonder... (7% of Americans haven't heard of the EU?)
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Robotics of electro-active polymers for space (Scatterthought ideas on the DARPA race)
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Sleep should be more restful (Why do my eyes still hurt?)
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Should be re-installing I suppose (Pausing at the threshold of oblivion...)
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Timing is important (C drive corruption is sucky)
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Oh, and mom and dad are coming by on Saturday (They want to visit Pearl, Rosey and I)
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Shane's Famous! (And he never told me...)
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Working with faulty substrates (Ruminations as I rebuild the database yet again)
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Mind wandered for a few minutes (Cheap solar-powered dirigibles for virtual tourism)
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Ach, overslept! (Well, more like just couldn't get up...)
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Still no reservation... (Herding programmers and cats)
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Think I need to take a real break (Writing blogs as I watch the scanner stall isn't helping...)
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Mmmm halva (or halawa, as the package insists) (Silly modernisation of transliterations...)
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I should eat some day soon... (The cupboards are bare, the license is expiring, the hard disk is missing!)
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Giving up on Dia (Exporting just isn't working)
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OpenOffice Presenter has no style... (Why disable a general mechanism for a specific app?)
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Rob says hi (Old collegue from Tpresence drops a line)
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No SVG support for OO Presenter... (Ah, for a standard 2D graphics format that works...)
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Say What is still pretty popular
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Back to React Learning
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PyOpenGL Working on the Raspberry Pi
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Raspberry Pi BCM Window Needs Love
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Voice Dictation Privilege
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Issue tracking for Linux Laptops...
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Neat, Curriculum discovery mechanism in Gates' TED Talk
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What to do about education?
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Audio Monitor for System Load in CSound (Using CSound from Python)
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OLPC at PyCon Wrap-up (Back in Toronto...)
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New Tutorial Largely Finished (and other sprinting news...)
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Booth Work (Long day's chatting into night...)
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Tutorial Is Finished (In the sense of presented, it probably needs love from you the reader...)
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Need Patch and Pygame for Tutorial (Xubuntu LiveCD doesn't have them...)
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Centre of Attention Moving (PyCon in the focus...)
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State of the Games (Tutorial research...)
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Handout Finished (1 day early :))
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Formatting and Review for Tutorial Handout (Oh, and some paying work...)
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Telepathy Wrapper Lands in OLPCGames (Network asynchronously from your Pygame-side code...)
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Distribute Newspapers to Commuters via Avahi (EBook readers as opportunistic downloaders on local-link...)
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Journal Integration for OLPCGames (inotify (save) and a command line argument (open)?)
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New Icon for Productive (Blocked on deployment project...)
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Documenting Broken things Sucks (You know it's going away...)
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Tutorial on the Cusp (One more registrant to go forward...)
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Adding more to the Tutorial (Deadline next Friday)
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GIT is a PITA (Stupid, stupid, stupid source code control...)
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Gutsy Packages for Sugar Work Nicely (Don't install sugar-jhbuild at the same time, though...)
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Going to have to find a Maintainer for OLPCGames (Can't keep doing it in my spare time...)
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Long Day's Wrestling with OLPCGames (Good day, though...)
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Bit of time on Productive gameplay (Seem to have a bug in the network setup code...)
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OLPC at PyCon 2008 (For those looking for something meaningful...)
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Would be nice to have a compile farm (Qemu overlays or the like...)
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AStar seems to be working (More complex tests need a scenario editor...)
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Productive hacking for a few hours (Not billable...)
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Do an OLPC Stream at TOJam? (Idea from a co-speaker...)
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IGDA Presentation Goes Well (Game development fun...)
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GObject is everywhere (Sigh...)
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Examples Wanted (For documentation...)
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Remora Specialist Wanted (Add-ins == activities...)
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Documentation and VMWare Builds (Finally automated...)
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Bit of a Slow Day (Pleasant enough...)
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Developer's Manual for OLPC (Plus emulation...)
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Moving a Second Activity Up (Productive, meet Story Builder, your new best friend...)
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File Formats and Keyboard Navigation (Little "playable" details...)
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Low Hanging Fruit Picked (Slightly faster rendering...)
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Faster Rendering, Still lots of Head Room (Snappy productivity...)
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Need some time to work on work too (Inversion of ratio...)
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Start Networking Productively (A quick tutorial on how we did basic networking...)
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Whither Emulation and SDKs (Status updates...)
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Oh So Tantalizingly Close (Works on sugar-jhbuild, not on the B4)
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Lowering Spew Volume in Activities (Set the logging level, but what's setting it high?)
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Productive Running In-situ (Network transmitting information (that's what networks do))
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Productively Networking (almost) (A few bugs fixed in olpcgames)
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What does it take to be "part" of the OLPC project? (On predatory perceptions and porting...)
2 comments
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Need to get Develop Developing (Get Productive out the door first I suppose...)
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Productive Integration Under Way (Longish day of refactoring...)
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We have a Productive Project (Git tree and everything...)
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The cold hard world of Productive (Starvation and death states added)
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A Productive few hours (Little bits and pieces...)
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Quick-porting Applications via AUFS (Spike test of a sort...)
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What's in a Map (A square by any other name would play as sweet)
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Actually Kind of Fun (Even without the movement rules)
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Python DBUS Needs a Mainloop Function (Eliminating the OLPCGames wrapper-hack)
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Resource Managers are Good for Games (We'll be releasing ours, of course...)
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Screenshot of Octy's Takeover (Crude renderer testing the simulation...)
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Quick "Governance" Visualisation Idea (KDirStat for your (government) budgets)
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Still in Pieces (But cool pieces...)
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A Few Hours Behind (So probably right on schedule...)
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Game Jam Launches (Off to the RTS...)
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Full-speed Dev Environment that "Just Works" (May be...)
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Argh! Proposals! (Completely forgot them today...)
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Poor timing in network operations (I do not heart sugar-jhbuild)
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Making TicTacToe actually TicTacToe (Not a test suite...)
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Fun and Game Wrappers (Maintenance coding...)
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GStreamer seems unhappy with me... (No streaming...)
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Dev Environment Building (Fun day in compiling...)
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Game Jam Toronto Plans (Need to make some...)
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Wasted Time (Evening disappears trying to get networking working...)
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Learning in the Rain (Using my B4 in Taipei...)
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Presentation seems to go well (Few questions, though...)
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Forgot how fun PyGame is (Been way too long...)
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What to do for 24 hours (Rubbing hands in manic glee... free time (sort-of))
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Only 24 hours to go (Lots and lots to get done...)
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Oh, they want lots of details (Check the duration of presentations...)
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OLPC-Toronto Game Jam/Sprint (Participants?)
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That was really fun! (Long and deep conversations with the students and faculty...)
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Excited about Tomorrow (Even if today was a bit of a wash...)
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Screenshots for Everyone! (Pictures are effective...)
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Success in Innovation (Recipes for Success in Humanism)
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Not quite the group I thought (Interdisciplinary group with focus on design...)
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Design Conference on MaRS (Feedback expected...)
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Off to Taipei in 2 weeks (Open Source and inexpensive laptops...)
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Bell Canada Labs (Then errands for 4 hours)
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Ontario Linux Fest goes well (I'm a baritone for a few days, though...)
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RSS as a fundamental educational primitive (Learning from the University of Toroto)
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Shopping Lists for Researchers (Relevance is a huge motivator...)
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Long Day (Schedules mean never having a minute's rest... but you feel really good at the end of the day...)
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What project managers do we need? (Two suggestions...)
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Generous offer of support (How best to further the project...)
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Short presentation this evening (Must remember to ask for managers...)
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Sigh (Has the sky fallen yet?)
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Missed a ticket on a long thread (Introduction to Bitfrost-limited application development...)
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Agenda for Accessibility (This doesn't reflect the views of anyone else...)
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Long Day's Conference (Presentations and consultations...)
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When someone hasn't heard (You want to put your hand up in the middle of the speech...)
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What's our porting status? (Just curiousity...)
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Documentation and Auto-documentation (My day in tracking things down...)
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Auto-generating Documentation (PyGTA question rises in the middle of the night...)
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The Turtle-to-interactive-turtle step... (GooCanvas?)
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Whole day on documenting and automating (Time flies when you have other work to do...)
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Yay! VirtualBox with sound and networking! (No TamTam though...)
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Presentation Invites (Very different audiences...)
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Yay, kernel drivers for all! (Once we get past the activation code...)
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Storing images between renders not yet working (Colours and larger drawings working somewhat...)
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542 works in VMWare with pcnet32 driver (Just a post to give a link to the package, really...)
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VirtualBox seems to have forgotten (Or I did...)
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Tantalisingly close on VirtualBox for build 542 (Networking works, just doesn't go anywhere)
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Cairo's slow if you're doing lots of overdraw (Porting in a turtle-graphics sample...)
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This should not be this hard (Qemu or chroot'd loopback mount...)
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Turtle now animates (No turtle graphic yet, though)
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Think I've basically "got" bzr now (We'll see...)
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Cairo feels a lot like OpenGL (Turtle graphics interpreter spike-test limping along...)
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How many laptops do we have in the kid's hands? (Estimate in the interview probably too high...)
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Interview tomorrow on CityPulse24 (The audience is likely a bit geeky...)
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Developer's Programme Lite (Testing your OLPC applications in Toronto...)
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Talked myself hoarse last night (4 or 5 interested people...)
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Need to get developer's images back up and running (Shouldn't have ceded the project so soon...)
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Getting started on Hare (TurtleGraphics2) (A few little spike tests...)
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Use sys.settrace to animate Python code? (Evil ideas that cross one's mind...)
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I want the perfect IDE for kids (Or do I?)
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How do I re-install kernel-devel and kernel-headers on Fedora 7? (Trying to boost resolution and fix the keyboard...)
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Wireless Networking is Kicking My Arse (Whole day's side-project...)
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B3 Arrived Today (Maybe install the B2 at Linux Caffe for developers)
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Cleanliness is next to DUH! (Don't delete the build directory for no reason!)
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My XO seems to have lost its touchpad (Well, usability on it, anyway...)
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Laptops for Nigeria (Different type...)
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Ontario Linux Fest (Introduction to the OLPC)
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Reading up on VServer (Hopped up chroot jail, basically...)
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Bash in Bitfrost (Getting access to your files...)
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CSound is a bit of a pain to build (Actually, a lot of a pain...)
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Multi-application communications channels (Where does Jack fit into Bitfrost?)
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One Beowolf Cluster per Child (Auto-sharing activities and scripting...)
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Need to understand the dbus security model (Kind of a key requirement to analyse security when everything uses it...)
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UI Issue: Need a "launch this environment with" button (Eliminate the close, launch, open Journal, choose-last session path...)
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External storage mechanisms in BitFrost (More use cases to integrate...)
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No Joy in Fedora-ville (Networking and keyboard issues)
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Shared storage mechanism (Temporary GBs of ganged storage)
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Persistent storage in chroot-protected systems (Issue that needs to be dealt with...)
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I want an auto-journalling overlay file-system (With a searching, sorting, querying journal interface...)
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Automatic Journal Population (For backup and sharing purposes...)
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OLPC on CityTV (News at 6 and "international" news program on the all-news channel)
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Now for the practical side (Setting up tools to do BitFrosted file-systems)
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Unioned File Systems (Since the security list seems to be borked...)
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Unioning File Systems for Fun and Profit (Mostly fun...)
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Catching up on email (And OLPC stuff too...)
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OLPC Toronto Meetup this Thursday (News, discussions and the like...)
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Four most common questions (From a question at the talk yesterday...)
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Librarians Rule (Organised, efficient and effective...)
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First day of the conference goes very well (Despite being jet-lagged...)
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Global Warming isn't even on the radar here (And other little observations from Tirana...)
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Just 1.5 days left (Little odds and ends of work...)
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Crash-on-start is sub-optimal too (But that's somewhat fixed now...)
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Long day's documentation (22+ person-hours of work)
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First Toronto OLPC Developer's Meetup (Should have done a general introduction...)
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Reasonable day's work (Despite an afternoon nap...)
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More work on setuptools for sugar (Scripts/entry points for service files)
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More docstrings, Toronto developer's list and more (Makefiles suck...)
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PyGame wrappers and documentation and new developers (Long-ish day with client stuff too...)
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Presentation at the University of Toronto (With long conversation afterward with the Networked Systems group...)
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Not the second coming of Spectrum (But an nice demonstration nonetheless...)
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Presentation on Koolu this evening at Linux Caffe (Neat hardware and solutions)
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Probably going to be one of the more handled laptops... (Lots of bug-finding on the first day...)
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Yay! A tiny little laptop! (Really very, very tiny...)
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Documenting again (PyDoc not processing the modules, though)
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A day of spelunking and documenting (Figuring out how Sugar works...)
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Day one should be fun (Working code in under an hour as a goal...)
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Presentations and talking and developer relations (Oh my!)
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Mutechs don't write themselves (Starting...)
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Need a good shared object model (Or something like it...)
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More disks is the answer (maybe) (One for portage and one for sugar...)
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More disks is the answer (maybe) (One for portage and one for sugar...)
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Seems the hardware has advanced? (More RAM and Flash, more powerful processor...)
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Seems the hardware has advanced? (More RAM and Flash, more powerful processor...)
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PyGTA Presentation Goes Smoothly (New developer commitments (one in critical area)...)
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PyGTA Presentation Goes Smoothly (New developer commitments (one in critical area)...)
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Developer's Desktop v2 Out (Cleaned up version of v1)
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Developer's Desktop v2 Out (Cleaned up version of v1)
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Solution for the portage issue (I think) (From Guillermo's suggestion...)
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Solution for the portage issue (I think) (From Guillermo's suggestion...)
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Playing with the Developer's Image (Random thoughts...)
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Playing with the Developer's Image (Random thoughts...)
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Looks like we'll have an XO for the talk on Tuesday (Tentatively present...)
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Looks like we'll have an XO for the talk on Tuesday (Tentatively present...)
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Very long day uploading (Upstream seems to suck pretty bad here...)
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Developer's image is ready (For the first tests, anyway...)
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Sugar is finally building (As is Inkscape...)
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Sugar is finally building (As is Inkscape...)
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Finally done the base OS install (Egads that took forever...)
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Finally done the base OS install (Egads that took forever...)
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Silly script forgot to check for a directory... (xorg recompile fails and drags down the whole show)
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Silly script forgot to check for a directory... (xorg recompile fails and drags down the whole show)
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Distribution plan (Or thoughts on a plan...)
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Distribution plan (Or thoughts on a plan...)
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Gentoo becomes painful under emulation (Just the building, really)
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Build is underway (System upgrades first...)
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Build is underway (System upgrades first...)
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Gentoo build for OLPC developers (It will be a while... (hmm, that should be Gentoo's slogan))
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Gentoo build for OLPC developers (It will be a while... (hmm, that should be Gentoo's slogan))
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Progress on Developer's Environment for OLPC (Planning an Ubuntu image with everything pre-built...)
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Getting OLPC images working (Our experiences hopefully will help others...)
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Something seems to be working against me working on OLPC (Ridiculous set of barriers...)
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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)...)
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Slipping quickly toward PyCon (Doesn't seem real yet...)
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Bootstrapping Material Culture (More thinking about applications for the OLPC project...)
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An application for the $100 laptop (Voice training for children (or adults))
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