Domestics, Scripts, Duolingo
The past several days have been thoroughly enjoyable, both in terms of time spent in fine company (especially that of the lovely lei_loo) and in terms of getting some of my home environment organised. Whilst normally a public and external person, I will confess to also rather preferring a clean, and neat home environment. Part of that this past few days I've upgraded all the awful and cheap plastic Venetian blinds in the house for ten years to some rather nice curtains, and I have nothing but praise for them. Cool in summer, warm in winter, the window billows through them creating beautiful movements and dancing shadows which are a rather stark contrast to the banging sound that one gets, at best, with the blinds. The kitchen is getting more organised, cleaner, and neater (new kitchen appliances pending), and the bathroom has been given a good scrub and there's a bit of sparkle there. I would like to get the entire house in such a state, alas it's all a bit big for me to do, and always has been.
Today was the first day back at work after what was close to two weeks of end-of-year leave. I managed to resist the urge to logon to the cluster or even look at my work emails. Surprisingly, the quantity that had stored up in the days past was not nearly as large as I had expected, small mercies. I added a small vector addition program for OpenCL to the cluster's repository and spent much of the rest of the day working on a workflow for pan-genomic analysis on everyone's friend, E.coli. Currently, I have a problem with one of the applications (a) failing to run as expected and (b) deleting everything in the directory whilst it runs. It is just as well that I am keeping a backup of the code and data, as well as having a defensive directory structure.
Somewhat related, several days ago I wrote a script for batch processing watermarks for image files. This evening I wrote a couple of minor modifications, ran some final tests and posted it. I am sure it will be quite a time-saver for people who need such things with regularity. Finally, the day also witnessed me start the year by topping the diamond league in Duolingo, which is the second time I've done that in the past year, although they have added a small mountain of French lessons for me to catch up on. It's weird to hear that some people cheat for such win. What for? Having a fake language skill is not exactly going to be helpful in foreign lands, which really is the purpose of such training. This entry was originally posted at https://tcpip.dreamwidth.org/308983.html.
Today was the first day back at work after what was close to two weeks of end-of-year leave. I managed to resist the urge to logon to the cluster or even look at my work emails. Surprisingly, the quantity that had stored up in the days past was not nearly as large as I had expected, small mercies. I added a small vector addition program for OpenCL to the cluster's repository and spent much of the rest of the day working on a workflow for pan-genomic analysis on everyone's friend, E.coli. Currently, I have a problem with one of the applications (a) failing to run as expected and (b) deleting everything in the directory whilst it runs. It is just as well that I am keeping a backup of the code and data, as well as having a defensive directory structure.
Somewhat related, several days ago I wrote a script for batch processing watermarks for image files. This evening I wrote a couple of minor modifications, ran some final tests and posted it. I am sure it will be quite a time-saver for people who need such things with regularity. Finally, the day also witnessed me start the year by topping the diamond league in Duolingo, which is the second time I've done that in the past year, although they have added a small mountain of French lessons for me to catch up on. It's weird to hear that some people cheat for such win. What for? Having a fake language skill is not exactly going to be helpful in foreign lands, which really is the purpose of such training. This entry was originally posted at https://tcpip.dreamwidth.org/308983.html.