BTW, congratulations on taking French lessons! I did that this spring too. I was born and bred in southwestern Ontario, where I was a lot more likely to hear Dutch than French. So while I took French in school for years, I never got to use it -- until I got here, and figured I'd better brush up. Bonne chance!
Hacking: Bézier curves in Haskell
Tonight: James Brown -- get up!
dyork, zeevon: there are an awful lot of us Ottawans here, aren't there? Seems the numbers are growing.
ottawaDave: curious to see what you do with the Ottawa Python Authors Group. I've been hacking Python for a while now, and use it lots with my current gig. I'd be curious to see what else people are doing with it.
hacking: a quick parser for a small subset of Oracle DDL SQL using a great parser generator. Good fun. Now, to think more deeply about the various issues with modelling data for RDBMS storage, and modelling it for XML storage...
Don't think about this too much before trying to go to sleep. Makes for weird dreams...
Woo! Nothing like a foot of freshly-fallen snow to make one feel Canadian! I'm sure I left my car in front of the house, but I don't see it...
Wrapping up a DocBook SGML -> HTML translation project. Definitely ready to move on to the next thing...
Lucky you -- looks like you'll be getting here just in time for a charming Ottawa winter. 8^)
Saturday: Toronto Festival of Beer. Death by a thousand cups...
Yep, ciphersabre is kinda neat. I went and did one. It was fun.
Inika came back from Australia this weekend, bearing wonderful gifts:
It was good to be back in Toronto on such a gorgeous weekend. Nothing better than wandering around on a sunny afternoon drinking quality beer.
I continue to spend large portions of my day hacking OmniMark code.
Biked along the Ottawa River for a bit this evening -- watched the sun go down over the Gatineaus. Beautiful...
Note to self: treat Sambal Oelek with a little more respect next time.
I like Python a lot, but writing code generators for it seems markedly unpleasant because of the indentation thing. Or am I going about things the wrong way?
Just for yuks the other day, I revisited Sam Rushing's asynchronous sockets library for the first time in a few years. I forgot how impressive this stuff is: it's simple and it's very cool. Glad to see that it's gotten worked into Zope via Medusa. More stuff to distract me, I guess.
Ankh, did you make it to the TPM meeting?
The ants are winning. The conflict escalates...
It would appear that I'm sharing my apartment with a (very) extended family of big black ants. This is not optimal. If they go after my food, then they're out: my days of putting up with moochy roommates are over.
Gorgeous weather in Ottawa the last few days. Turns out that this is a great city for bicycling.
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That's it, world. Have a good one.
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