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More knifework.

Ice on Utah Lake

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
"By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?

Rime of the Ancient Mariner via Project Gutenberg

Fun With CouchDB

I'm learning to use CouchDB. It's a fun way to keep track of stuff. You can put JSON documents in the db, and you can attach files too. I've always like the idea of having a template in the cloud that you can use to build a working environment on any given computer. I'm setting one up now. You download a single script from CouchDB that will install other tools and create folders and so on.

gsl

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Originally uploaded by kd7mvk.

It's a rock, on a rock.

What was I thinking?

My dwarves have been busy digging an underground empire.

I watched Rise of the Fallen with William. This is a Transformers movie.

We also watched GI Joe together. That's a fun movie.

Cindy went to Arizona with her mom. She came back with a cold.

Image via Wikipedia

I've been using Enso on my computer. I'm liking it.

My go development box is a virtual machine

I've been playing around with the new go language from Google. It is a very interesting computer language. It is currently only supported on Linux and MacOSX. I've been watching the #go-nuts IRC channel on freenode.net the past few days. A lot of the messages there are pleading for a Windows implementation. I also saw complaints about the mercurial source code version control system used (Oh no, not another version control system...).

Haven't any of these people heard of virtual machines?

I set up a Gentoo Linux image in Qemu and use that for learning Go. It doesn't matter that my laptop is running Windows, the tools I need for Go are right there in the vm. Install mercurial? All I had to do was emerge it. And since I wasn't installing it on my primary machine I didn't think twice.

With all the work I've done on embedded systems and Processing I just don't care so much about what OS or device some software will run on. I have the tools to connect the different platforms. This early release of Go seems especially suited for running network services, and I can whip up a Processing GUI for that, no problem. I do think that a ready-built vm image, either for Qemu or a VMWare appliance, would be a great thing.

Google Go Language