Less restless today, but perhaps a little bored. Spent some time responding to Kabalak's observation that gwvedit won't build on systems without consolehelper. Determined to keep this feature after sweating over getting it working, so hacked up a --enable-consolehelper=no build-time option which was surprisingly less painful than expected. Much updating of the site yesterday morning, including the CV. Lazed about talking and drinking (rather a lot of) wine in the sun yesterday afternoon, which was really good and somewhat unexpected. Technically finished all the course material for T171 tonight too. Last module pretty interesting. Despite this early finish, what are the bets that my essay (due 31st August!) is still late...
Reached a gtkdial related crossroads. To fix a silly bug with maximising the window (discovered by a user with 50 ISP POPs in his wvdial.conf file!), I need to rethink the user interface a bit. I could move to a GtkCList simply enough. However, I feel the lure of the Etree and Etable. The upside would be lots of cool features for free (sorting the list, etc.). The downside would be making gtkdial depend on GAL - which is by all accounts a rapidly moving target! Otherwise kept busy by wandering over to Burnham for a couple of hours to see parents settled in new flat. Later marvelled at the triumph of Open Government that is the Canadian Customs and Revenue Agency website - found everything I needed in a couple of clicks.
First supervision session of new job today. It seems (and experience has taught me to exercise caution in such matters) to be going pretty well. I suppose my previous experience and general way of thinking about stuff lends itself to this work. Perhaps - as noted by a certain local govt. financial manager - the maxim about rising to the level of one's incompetence holds true for me? In any case, I find myself reasonably happy about work right now. Resigned myself to the likelihood of Pix never returning today. Not an easy or pleasant realisation. It was part of a generally troubled and worrisome evening. The recent gtkdial release resulted in me consuming unheard of levels of Demon's bandwidth - 70mb over 24hrs on Wednesday. Need to sort out the project's complete move to Sourceforge I suppose.
Finally released gtkdial 0.3.8 and made all the usual announcements. Abandoned search for Pix after another night of wandering about likely places. Have pretty much exhausted the options, and given the range of her previous wanderings she could be almost anywhere! She is much missed here however, having been a constant companion during my time off work. Latest essay returned, yielding a decent mark considering how speedily it was assembled.
Lost::MikeGTN
I've had a home on the web for more years than I care to remember, and a few kind souls persuade me it's worth persisting with keeping it updated. This current incarnation of the site is centred around the blog posts which began back in 1999 as 'the daylog' and continued through my travels and tribulations during the following years.
I don't get out and about nearly as much these days, but I do try to record significant events and trips for posterity. You may also have arrived here by following the trail to my former music blog Songs Heard On Fast Trains. That content is preserved here too.
