Older blog entries for jaq (starting at number 13)

You should come to Sydney sometime. I'd like to buy you a beer.

hypatia got it almost right... I just got a dyslexia attack as i copied my fingerprint from screen onto my legacy notebook (the paper one). It was funny, in a bitterly ironic way.

I've also noticed that I've been certified by people that I have no idea who they are. Objdub: Crazy!

I've just completed a pile of stuff for a keysigning party to be held at the next SLUG meeting. fingers crossed that it all goes well. Now to get back to uni assignments.

In other news, my band, Halfdave is playing at the Northpoint Tavern on Wed, 1st August, in a weeks time. If you're close to North Sydney, you should all come along :)

meatspace

I had my last exam of the semester this morning. That's 'had' in the 'it was scheduled', not the 'I have done' sense. Seemingly coincidentally, there was a fatality on the train lines this morning, when some clown decided that their last contribution to society would be to cause chaos on the train lines. 3000+ people were held up at Gordon Station as CityRail closed the line between Gordon and Chatswood, replacing it with bus services. This would all be well and good, except for the fact that the bus services didn't show up for an hour, and then had to drive through peak hour traffic.

Needless to say, I got to uni 45 minutes after the exam had started. University policy says that once an exam has started, you can't enter it -- i.e. don't be late.

I now have a Request for Special Consideration form, in the hope that I don't get penalised and receive an Automatic Fail for not showing up on time.

Did I mention how much I hate CityRail? Shit, they're constantly and consistently screwing up, and the fares are always increasing. I'd be happy with that if the service was getting better, but all they're getting better at is giving the commuters a good servicing.

Meanwhile, I'm going to drown some sorrows, then head off to the SLUG meeting tonight. Tridge is going to be there, so it should be cool. Then off to the pub for more sorrow riddance.

hax0ring

I've been really slack lately (well, just busy with work and uni) and put off a lot of things I want to do; beefmail, flotilla, a key-signing tool for the Palm, and some ideas i've had involving a 3D shell/environment and lots of eye-candy -- all these are on the back burner, which I'd really like to be working on. *sigh*

rupert:

Damn straight, CID blocking is something I've wished for on phones for a long time. Screw phone games, lets see some *useful* features.

So we're sitting around at the spankyhouse, eating some jdub style gourmet pizza, and looking at what liedra, hypatia, spiv, nick and mark have done with their in-house wikiweb pages -- the most interesting being a collection of Markov generated texts seeded from their quotes file. I think out loud, "Mmm, IRC Markov bot," and within an hour, XFire has cobbled together some perl linking jwzs dadadodo with Net::IRC, and put her in #slug on OPN as jackie.

I've just spent most of the day researching random text generators, whilst jdub has been seeding jackie from #gnome... and meanwhile, she's becoming almost sentient :) I think she needs an advogato page, like ReadMe has.

Meanwhile, Cantanker had passed out on the couch.

I've just gone thru the People list and certified all the names that rang a bell: people I recognised from mailing lists, people who's code I've knowingly used. I deliberately didn't certify rms, however... a web of trust relies on you certifying other people as well as letting hundreds certify you as a master.

on the way home from the SLUG meeting tonight, I got harrassed by some drunk fsckwits on the bus for wearing my thinkgeek.com "got root?" cap. Made a real nice end to this shithouse week I've been having.

Oh yeah, saw anti-trust on Wednesday with Liedra, Nick, XFire, hypatia, and some others - friends of the above; then I saw it again on Thursday night with benjl. I actually enjoyed it... despite the obvious wrongness of it all, it was very entertaining. The screenings were probably the high point of my week.

it's been happening, but nothing worth writing home about... so i'll write it here instead. Relearning C++ for my OO Dev class; this OO project will take some time away from hacking fun stuff, like flotilla and lump. Real Soon Now, I tell you.

RyanMuldoon

I'd like to email you, but there ain't no email address on your personal page :) I'd like to hear your ideas though: mail to jaq at spacepants point org

ta

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okay, so my part time sysadmin job has finally decided to start paying me again. this is a good thing. I've also finished the bulk of some PHP based website I'm contracting on, which is even better, because the fscker was taking time away from more fun things like coding free software...

hax0ring

I've been working on my panelcam some more, and then started to write a GNOME gnutella client.. gtk-gnutella was okay, but I'm making some improvements (it's a complete rewrite, based on the same interface). Webpage for it up RSN.

FWIW, I used Glade again to build the interface. What Glade needs is a way to write snippets of code to link widgets together, like gtk_main_quit() on the exit menu, or showing the prefs window when that menu item is selected. I'm finding that I will spend a good day or so working on the interface, exporting the code, adding small bits, building; but those small bits of code get overwritten when you re-export the code :( I'm aware of the "don't overwrite this file" options, but that doesn't help when you add widgets/callbacks/signal handlers, and rename some others :)

I rewrote about 90% of the autogenerated code anyway :) (personality clash with the autogen code maybe? :)

Anyway, it's 2am, i'm tired, and i've got to get up at 7 :( G'nite all

Telsa wrote:

Someone was complaining about #gnome ignoring auto* questions and the lack of auto* docs. They too have a link to their home page and I can't find an email address, so in case they didn't know: the ORA-published auto* book is also online. Hope it helps. I tend not to answer questions I don't know answers to on #gnome. Sorry. :)

$DEITY bless the recent diary entries list... this was at the bottom of the page, and I'm glad I didn't miss it. Either my visual grep is buggy or google didn't return this link; Telsa, thank's heaps. That Journeyer status is well deserved. Let's hope that this one is more newbie friendly than the info pages.

As for #gnome, it was middle of the night UK time, so I'll give you that. The thing that irked me was that conversation occurred around my question, and yet there was no ACK that people didn't know the answer. Is that a trait of the channel? Here in .au, people tend to give a NAKs as often as ACKs. Maybe I'll come and lurk for a while.

Oh, and as for the personal page info, I've filled in all the fields, email address inclusive, but that doesn't get put onto the page. FWIW, my email address is on my homepage (which as you've said, is linked to from my personal info), right there on the front page.

meatspace

Gah, what a weekend. Friday night, coding until 0130. Saturday, up early to drive to Mt Tomar (2 hours away) for a wedding, then back to Pennant Hills for a 21st... again, not into bed until 0130 :) Sunday, up early again for rehersals and then onto the Regional Rover Council AGM... until 2315. Thank $DEITY for Mondays. "And on the first day, Jaq rested."