dscas1 (my pet cas platform) is getting along very nicely. I had to divert my attention temporarily from the python plugin system in order to finish some work on dscas1 that's been scheduled for Tuesday. Watch this space for screenshots.

Yesssss!!! It works! With the help of David Gobbi, I have a proof of concept of python vtk pipelines integrating seamlessly with c++ vtk pipelines. Interpreted run-time modifiable plugins, here we come!

Now I know stuff about MR angiography and physiological MR spectroscopy and imaging too! After all of this, I'm quite a fan of MRI in general; it's a really amazing technology.

"All your base are belong to us" seems to have become the motto of this generation. For some entertaining background, click here.

Today was a good day (not that it's completely over yet). I managed to finish most of the pipeline<->parameter linkage. Concurrently, I'm trying to see what possibilties there are w.r.t. integrating python vtk pipelines with existing C++ pipelines. If this can happen in a elegant way, this visualisation platform is going to rule!

Urk, I can't seem to decide which digital camera to get... there are so many available now and each one of them has something different to offer. This is probably going to take longer than I thought.

Tomorrow I work at home, so I'll be able to get some serious RealWork(tm) done. This is a good thing, seeing that I have to be an Utrecht again on Friday.

Whee, in spite of suffering from severe time for RealWork(tm) today, I managed to squash two of the nastiest remaining bugs in David Pont's fltk->vtk mixture. Hopefully we'll be able to make this available to the rest of the community.

BIG WHOOHOO, our 2-strong household just got one super-career richer today!!

A little bit of this and a little bit of that... have a look at this website. It's the virtual home and diary of a friend of mine who's spending 15 months of his life on the Antarctic. The diary is mostly a fun read and has pretty pictures too!

The MRI course was very good. Given some glue and a few bits of wood I should be able to build an MRI scanner of my own now. :) Today I also realised that this week and the next are going to be VERY busy... this means some careful juggling in order to keep everybody happy.

Yummy Sunday. One whole day of sitting around and playing with stuff. It seems my brain was working behind my back, because the one really convoluted paper I had to review suddenly became very understandable, in spite of the authors' insistence on making everything as difficult as mathematically possible.

My pet project is slowly taking shape. Fortunately, with all that open source around, it's going much faster than it would've otherwise. Obviously, if I even half-finish it, it'll be open source too. Maybe one or two crazy people will find it useful.

Meeup, tomorrow I get to go to Utrecht again, this time to have all the secrets of MRI revealed by probably Mr MRI himself.

The Hague can get VERY busy on a Saturday... it was fun walking around there though. We did get everything we needed, and I even got to look at some digital cameras, although none of the ones that I'm actually interested in.

At the moment I'm busy rebuilding the xfree86 4.0.2 -7 debs for potato. These should work on the firewall machine, so then there's an extra graphical terminal.

Wheeee! I've had a great idea for a (teensy weensy little) pet project. This might start taking shape very soon. Suffice to say, it's a useful (to a geek) thing and it's quite unique. *think think*

I'm going to town today in order to pick up an extra keyboard and mouse to go with the new Whiskey-Monitor. It's a really beautiful day for being outside...

Yaaay... yet another jed upload done. rgrep has been changed to jgrep so as not to conflict with rgrep in package grep.

Today I swapped a bottle of whiskey for a friend's monitor... actually, he gave me the monitor and the bottle was just my way of saying thanks. It's a really cool little 14" which I can now connect to my firewall machine... it's hard to believe that this firewall machine used to be my "main" machine just a short while ago. It is still a Celeron 450 (one of those OC'd 300s, Mendocino core, i.e. 128K L2 on-die) with a Matrox G400 32MB...

Two rather hardcore papers to review for submission to a not-so-local conference (my understatement of the day). I seem to be getting quite good at this, although these are probably going to take muuuuch longer than lunchtime. BTW, my inbox is empty for the first time in months. This makes me an incredibly happy and balanced person.

The conflict has been resolved and the new packages have been uploaded. Chalk one up for the programmer of the wild frontier!

The bugs have been fixed (although the one fix could cause a conflict with one of the other packages, this is being looked into), my inbox is back down to 1 (one) mail, yaaaaaaaay, and my new 2.4.2-ac7 is compiling as I speak; let's see if it does anything w.r.t. stability (the sysrq thingy should also help if I have some more weird behaviour).

Last night was great fun. Also, I received the mail I was waiting for which meant that I spent the day in Utrecht and that I will be going there regularly for the next two weeks. Most of the day was spent hearing all there is to hear about ultrasound medical imaging.

I got home at about 16:45 and after a bit of relaxing started eating at my bloated inbox (it had only one mail in it just yesterday). Lots of admin, including one or two new bug reports on my debian packages. These will be fixed tonight. My main machine also does weird (semi-unstable) things of late... I suspect something is awry with the power-saving.

The paper review is done (admittedly it took a bit longer than lunch), I had a long discussion with my advisor (always interesting) and then there was the practicum... today assisting was actually fun. The students come up with all kinds of pretty renderings sometimes.

I am still trying to get hold of the powers that be in Utrecht to be able to take part in their course on the physics of medical imaging. People are either ill or on their way to far-off places.

Hmmm, as we have some social goings-on tonight, it doesn't seem like I'll get any "real" work done after all.

Erk, it seems a deadline has crept up on me. This deadline is today... I have to review a paper for submission to a local conference. I'll have this done before lunch (the work is more or less in one of my (older) areas of expertise) as I have to assist with a practicum this afternoon. Maybe laaaater today I can get some real work done. :)

Meep! I have it setup so that a cgi on my website (cpbotha.net) sucks my weblog from blogspot.com when it gets accessed.

The time zone is now set correctly. This means that I will no longer seem like the vampire weblogger.