Preliminary course materials for T171 arrive. Mainly a bunch of "How to use Windows 95" stuff. After playing with the various things they expect of us students I don't think there is anything I can't do with my 'non-standard' operating system! Decided best start on Gtkdial 0.3 was to clean up the code. Now trudging through the spaghetti I've been routinely generating and trying to make sure I've not broken anything... Busy afternoon running errands, which was actually fun - time pressure having not been much of a factor in life here lately.
Took Pix to the vet again for her injections, and then treated her for fleas and coaxed her into taking her worming tablet. Hence the mood was somewhat surly here this morning! Released Gtkdial 0.2.23 which sees the completion of development on the 0.2.x code branch! Its gone from a dodgy Perl prototype, to an equally dodgy GTK/GNOME application, but amazingly still does what I originally meant it to! So tomorrow, work starts on 0.3.... Welsman Massive once again venture down to Weston for "Winterval" celebrations, including a bhangratastic rendition of "In A Gadda Da Vida" at the Curry Garden!
The more I use Evolution, the more obsessive I'm becoming about it! Spent much of the past couple of days messing with a variety of forms of Interprocess Communication to rewrite bits of Gtkdial, finally settled on a non-blocking FIFO which I'm currently struggling with...Why do people only mention possible Christmas presents a few shopping days before the event?
Evolution 0.8 day. As ever the usual heartstopping process of huge downloads, long compiles and tentative launching. 0.8 looks and performs amazingly, aside from some packaging problems which have foxed most users. This leads to me hacking around with gtkhtml a bit, with surprisingly useful results! Christmas lunch Brit Style.
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.
