I just cracked something about time.
While I was on my holidays I read Faster by James Gleick.  It was the perfect moment to read that book, as my life had become more and more a blur over the preceding year, and more and more backlog was piling up, from bathroom fixes to washing up to [...]

Here we have a module that proxies another.
The proxied module:

# module: b
a_list = [ 'a','b','c']

def print_list():
print a_list

The proxying module:

#module: a
from b import *

The user’s script:

#/usr/bin/python -tt
import a

print a.a_list
a.a_list=[]
print a.a_list
a.print_list()

Now when we run it:

$ python run.py
['a', 'b', 'c']
[]
['a', 'b', 'c']

The second list shows we successfully modified a.a_list to []. But then [...]

It all started to get a bit much on Sunday, what with three of the five rooms in the house plus the stairs being in a real state, and the two remaining rooms being full of crap resulting from the emptying of the rooms being fixed.  So I made a stand. I decided it didn’t [...]

Well, it must have been the solar winds or something, but my plans to take a significant amount of leave at Christmas and make something of it (i.e. spend it making a big dent in the — now 1 year old — bathroom job) fell apart.  Certainly would repeat the taking leave part of the [...]

Well, blimey, this has been an interesting n weeks, where n>5.  Did 20-odd hours over the weekend, and haven’t had a two-day weekend as far back as I can remember, which is only 10 hours on account of having a frazzled brain.  Last night I was in t’office trying to fix a test and write [...]

1) Suggested the idea of taking off every Wednesday in June.  Although this June was a funny one, I can see this becoming a regular fixture for me.
2) Pointed out what a great thing it is to pad around your house in the mornings drawing the curtains, and to do the reverse at night.  This [...]

Buddhism tells us that material possessions are only a burden and that happiness is found by renouncing material things. Yeah, right! EVERYbody knows they would rather be miserable on a yacht than in a ditch!
But today I discovered a case for the Buddhists. I’ve been sorting the junk room and I filled [...]

Another resurrected draft, this one from Nov 11 2005.

To appreciate is to increase in value, opposite of depreciate. You don’t tend to think of it in this sense when it appears in phrase like “appreciating art”. But it still applies. The more people appreciate a painting, the greater its value, both monetary [...]

This is what I need to learn right now. When your pride is deflated (I got marked as “unsatisfactory” on “Leadership Strength” despite not actually having anyone to lead), when your work is genuinely futile (completing delivery of a cancelled product), and when you’ve just been given your year’s personal measureable objectives 10 months [...]

Question #1
I decided to call myself sweavo after the lead character in “sweevo’s world” because I couldn’t get steve, stevec, steve.c, steve-o, steveo, or a billion other variants on yahoo or something. But I spelled it wrong.
The name sweavo is NOT pronounced sway-voe
Question #2
I constantly anticipate the imminent collapse of society: this is true, [...]