Random comments on technology, politics and fnord
I was in the car with my six year old daughter, Tara, in the back seat. She was doing one of those word search puzzles.
She says to me, “Daddy, I found the word ‘tax’ in my word search. T-A-X.”
“Good,” I reply. I don’t think that was one of the words on the find list, but […]
I keep stumbing over the same thing in different contexts: namespacing and how to address particular objects. It’s very context sensitive, and I’m not quite grokking it yet, especially on the ‘pythonic’ way to do it. The documentation is not very clear on a first reading of how to deal with it.
Here’s an example of […]
Alright. I felt guilty even admitting that I was writing code without using any version control. I created a repository and now have it and my workspace backing up to a second machine every day.
Also, I’ll probably be storing all my data files in xml, and using the xml.dom.minidom package. Seems pretty straight-forward.
1.0 Hour of […]
It’s been two weeks since I last reported on the NoName game. There’s not that much to report.
I’ve probably spent about 30 hours over the past couple weeks working on this project. `wc` reports that I have exactly 555 lines of code. And that includes sql and test scripts, and probable some code […]
For about the past six months, I haven’t been very active in the Libertarian Party. I’ve decided to continue that trend. I still believe strongly in the libertarian movement and philosophy, but I just can’t keep stomaching the anarchist element of it.
Alright, while I’m in the writing mood, I created a new category on the blog specifically for game related posts, as I think it’ll be occupying my mind for a while. I also created a status page on my wiki for it at the NoName Game page.
Like the status section says: there is “no status […]
Picking up where I left off earlier about learning python…
Normally, I wouldn’t write about a few-days-old project I’m working on — one that still has a very chance of going nowhere before I get interested in the next shiny object.
The reason I decided to write about it is because I read the A Django website […]
Up until about 10 days ago, I didn’t know anything about python other than “it’s a computer programming language a little bit like perl,” and I decided to learn the language. I’m starting a new individual project, and I’m going to do it in python.
What’s the project? I’m going to write a game.
Background: I play […]
