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Hmm, in a quick look to see what the current version of Pidgin was; I found this psting in the news page: Why I Hate “Modern” IM

This reminds me of why I stopped using the official AIM client from AOL, they turned it into a massive pile of horse-shit lol. MSN Messenger which was my first IM-technology, I gave up on Microsofts clients around 7.something. XFire is a balance between “acceptable” and “Good”, but still lacks a lot of the more, ehh… “I use this thing all day” kind of bonuses.

In my experience, all instant messengering clients are piles of garbage, taped together with a pretty face. Pidgin is just a bit more bearable then most; I use pidgin daily on Windows XP and FreeBSD, ranging from AIM to XMPP support. It sucks plenty, but it sucks less then Kopete, and it’s more portable then any other such app I’ve met :. And it’s still better then any IM client I’ve used. The only decent clients I’ve used, the very minimalist GoogleTalk client, the version of AIM that was out when I was a Potentional Recruit for [SAS], Pidgin, and Kopete, but all leave much to be desired… But they still beat the ever loving, flying, freaking heck, out of the last version of AIM I downloaded from AOL looool.

Now if only there was that perfect IM client….

If such a thing were even possible

Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead!

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Time for a rest, I can’t go no more with out hitting the mental afterburners.

I’ve kicked out most of the code base for this program, and filed todos for things that are just to rough to implement immediately. And I have the necessary springboards to finish up what remains. All in all, the past 2 runs of coding, has been more productive for this project, then since the last project meeting; and that only consisted of an overview on the flow-charts! lol.

I think I’m going to hit daemonforums.org, then power down and hit the PS2 before dinner. Find a game to play, that reminds me of this.

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Hole in Adobe software allows free movie downloads

This reminds me, the Flash v7 plugin for Linux, stores it’s files in a common format until the plugin exits; that can be easily played in with mplayer /tmp/plugintmp-

That reminds me, I’ve still need to write a cronjob to nuke the temp files, since one of the music streams I use, is flash based, and /tmp is nly ~512mb lol.

Run sleepy, run forever

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Sigh… Thanks to interruptions, I ain’t got as much done as I desired… Still, it is about 3 or 4 * the amount of work I’ve gotten done in the past few months lol.

almost 0530Q, I could keep on coding until around 0700, but my stomach is to damn hungry… and I keep typing hhhhh every time I need to move my cursor to fix a typo. I need to find a quick snack, and hit the hay. And resume coding tomorrow, when I can still pay attention without /having/ to look up things in the flowcharts.

Sleep… food…. sleep… sleep

h = vi movement key for moving the cursor to the left one space

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After a massive interruption, I managed to catch the end of the War of the Roses. Now that, is what I would call, the divorce from hell lol. The movie is funny, but it’s not pretty.

The whole thing goes to pot, when the husband thinks he’s having a heartattack and is rushed to the hospital. The wife is feels ‘happy’ at the thought of being free of him; never mind the sweet deathbed note he wrote, thinking he was dying lol. Which in turn leads to the divorce, both want the house and won’t give it up… To the point, that they’ve worked on a system for dividing the house between them, in the words of the lawyer, “Does this seem rational to you both?”, “I have more square footage >_>”.

She denies him pills, he runs over her cat trying to drive to the store. She locks him in the sauna, he ‘snots’ the soup at her dinner party and pisses on the fish course (lmao!). She runs him over, monster-trucking over his Morgan with her big-ass SUV. Attempts to patch it up fail, ending with a waging war across the house (and a couple $100,000 in damage)… Including her trying to drop the chandelier on him, him trying to rape her turning into a more ‘natural’ moment, until she tries to bite his dick off loool (stupid bastard, should’ve seen it coming!). And more destruction of property, until finally they both end up sitting in the chandelier, as friends come to the rescue……

The cables holding the chandelier up, give way, since she loosed the cable, and they both fall to their death before help arrives.

If I ever get married, remind me to never get divorced!

Coding like a drunken spider-monkey

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Finally home from work, with (hopefully) a three day weekend free — TGIF !!!

The plan of attack is to take these days off regualr ps, and go ape on my task list. Because if I don’t, I’m never going to get to work on homework lol.

  1. Operation BlackWidow: An overdue project that a few of us at forums.pcbsd.org have planned
  2. Operation Rooster: Finish the site mock ups for Rouge

    3. .

  3. Operation CleanSweep: Tidy ${HOME}, add more stuff to CVS as needed, revise my SOE scripts, and deploy necessary code in the right places

    4. .

I’ve always found it easier to name a project, then have to stop and think, The “uh X,Y, to the Z, and whatever” thing; both in mind and notation!

I’ll be posting my absence message on SAS shortly, along with my cntact data. My primary goal, is to work on my own projects and standing SAS-projects. I really need to keep my head out of the servers, and on what I’m doing… So it’s best if I essentially, lock myself in front of the laptop for the weekend lol. I figure, get the work done, get the stuff that’s building up done, maybe watch a bit of TV for a change (when my head needs a rest).

This is as close to a vacation as I’m going to get, and it’s a coding vacation lol.

The way this day heads up

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So far, I’ve been hit in the face with a falling mirror. It almost scored a perfect T-Shot, right between the eyes… Then slide halfway down my noise before I had hands free.

Hit in the head with the Vacuum — don’t ask lol.

And spun out of a fall, that almost twisted an ankle :

I think I’m going to sit down, and not move, until work tomorrow!

Slithering around an aging question

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Hmm, it seems if I can sort a suitable SQL-interface (beyond the standard issue sqlite3 module) that Python will become my primary language.

It seems, no matter how much I try to circumvent it, Python is the best choice all around : And I’ve tried to knock it down to size lool.

Pythons str and list classes, I actually quite like; although I don’t care much for dict (Pythons associative array class), that might change come Python 3. Most of the stuff built into Python, I like using. The regular expression support, well what can I say… I don’t like any stuck on OOP or procedural interfaces, after having used Perl. The =~, s//, [m]//, and related $symbolic_vars in Perl are just to useful!!!! But Pythons ‘re’ module is good enough for stuff, I guess. Between the built in xml.* and the third-party lxml interface to libxml2, that routes pretty much a snap. I get along well with Pythons IPC offerings about as well as I do with posix’s C offerings. The zlib, gzip, bz2, zipfile, and tarfile modules are enough for the compression/archive formats I may eventually need to operate on. For network related operations, Python provides a lot of stuff plus a familiar sockets interface; I don’t have no problems with sockets programming (although I rarely get a chance to use it in C), I just don’t have time to say, implement FTP! For GUI toolkits, basically offered is TKinter, GTK+, WxWidgets, and Qt. And it looks like GTK+ will probably be my new default kit… The epydoc program also seems to provide the style of documentation I’m used to (Javadoc-style) with good options hehe.

Not to mention the best parts of using Python as my standard language (I and II)