Well, I've finally got around to moving this blog to PyBlosxom. I've written my own plugin to generate the archives at the top of the page; I'm also now running on Nginx as a web server, which talks to Python Paste via FastCGI. So the blog is now dynamically generated. The next thing is to try and integrate the Disqus comments plugin.
The other thing I need to do is move the rest of my personal site(s) to this server.
I have lots of things I'd like to blog about; it's great to finally have this sorted out.
And yes, it's been another very busy year. Since my last post my third child was born (Hi Theo!), my oldest has started school (Hi Bethany!) and we've moved half-way around the world for a while... so stay tuned for more news (OK, maybe "news" is the wrong word).
OK, in an attempt to keep this weblog better updated, I'm just going to list a few things that have been happening lately.
Anyway, back to work now. Time for another coffee. (Arse, my MPEG video works in VLC and Windows Media Player but not QuickTime.)
Oh wow, there's this cool site called YouTube. I've put up the version with sound and no caption.
Argh, so I did only manage one blog post for the whole of last year... Well, it was very, very busy. And this one looks like it's going to rush past just as quickly.
I've been thinking about Blosxom (that I use for this blog):
<img> tags automagically would be nice.I have a lot of projects to tackle this year, and I intend to blog about them on the way. So what's the minimally sufficient structure? Hmmm...
svn: bdb: Program version 4.2 doesn't match environment
version
The solution (via the
Subversion Users mailing list):
$ svnadmin create --fs-type bdb newrepos $ cd newrepos/db $ rm *s __db.* log.* $ cd ../.. $ cd oldrepos/db $ for dbf in *s ; do db4.1_dump $dbf | db4.2_load -h ../../newrepos/db $dbf ; done $ cd ../.. $ svnadmin verify newrepos $ svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs fsfsrepos $ svnadmin dump newrepos | svnadmin load fsfsrepos
I think that many of Mr. Nielsen's guidelines are worth reading. I should probably look at updating my homepage designs, also.
It's good to see Chris Double posting to his blog again.
Bernadette and I are getting married in fifteen weeks time. We both hope to have lost a bit of weight by then. ;)
Well, you might've thought that five weeks holiday would've been
enough, but despite (or perhaps because) of that, I've needed most of
the last three weeks as well before I've felt sufficiently
"reinvigorated" to want to do much work.
However, I'm now feeling much better. Not that I was feeling really down, but I was having some difficulty feeling positive about things for a while there. And then plink, suddenly I'm rearing to go...
I did resolve not to feel guilty about it, which helped. Plus I'm getting into the meditation a bit more, and I'm hoping that will help me cultivate my equanimity in future.
'You think I'm experiencing a mood swing, Slick?''Yeah.''I'm enjoying a mood swing.'
Shit, have I really been working for myself for almost four years? Fortunately I now find it fairly easy not to freak myself out about this fact, but I admit I dread having to describe to anyone exactly what I've been doing all this time.
But still, I am (fairly) happy with where I am now and how I'm doing. Obviously I would like to be further forward than I am, but then I was even more willfully naïve about the problems I had to tackle when I started than I thought at the time.
So I'm still short on the "actual working software" front, but I'm pleased with my design, I've learnt a lot, I'm working better now than I ever have, and in the meantime the IT world is slowly moving towards the point where something like the Ngake VR IDE application in all its glory could actually have something like a receptive market waiting for it. So there.
Which isn't to say that a bit of a break working with some other talented, motivated people on some suitably interesting project for a decent lump of cash wouldn't be worth a go for a while. Stay tuned...
I've tidied up this blog, mainly as a procrastination exercise. Note the
"archives" at the top, and the use of CSS to make it look exactly like
it did before. A pleasant distraction, until I had to break out my
mouldy Camel book, which was a sign that it was time to get back to some
real work. After lunch...
I also found some groovy PDF quick reference cards here: CSS1, bash, vim etc.
I've finally released all the programs (and even some
documentation!) to South Park, so that they can start their
acceptance testing in earnest. Huzzah!
Now I'm free to do, ooh, all sorts of stuff:
At least I've got rid of the millstone that was the old ThinkPad 760 I foolishly bought; I hope David actually gets some useful benefit from it while he's overseas...
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