Offi­cially what I’ll be try­ing to acquire when I buy Shake­speare from now on. I have their The Winter’s Tale title, and it is noth­ing less than spec­tac­u­lar. It even includes as an Appen­dix the com­plete text of Pan­dosto. The Tri­umph of Time. (the pri­mary source text for Shakespeare’s play). Pages 181 – 225 are devoted to this text alone… very cool. I do won­der if they do the same with texts such as Ros­alynde as appro­pri­ate, or if this par­tic­u­lar edition’s edi­tor was feel­ing par­tic­u­larly benevolent!

Either way… highly rec­om­mended editions.

Also to acquire when next book shop­ping: Alice in Won­der­land, for some opium-fuelled hol­i­day read­ing. And per­haps Hitchhiker’s Guide to see if I can endure it nine years from when I last tried… less likely fuelled by opium, but from all reports it sounds bizarre enough to war­rant sus­pi­cion of the involve­ment of some other mind-altering substances!

Hol­i­day read­ing = after June 22nd, where­upon my last exam occurs. Then, off to lead on a study camp (per­haps time for read­ing? I can jus­tify Alice as being in sup­port of the HSC Eng­lish ‘jour­neys’ core!) for a week, three days back home in Syd­ney (undoubt­edly to be insanely busy) before going away to New Zealand from the 4th to 16th of July. My how time flies. I may or may not be at uni­ver­sity in an equal capac­ity next semes­ter due to a whole bunch of things, pri­mar­ily related to its per­ceived impor­tance and myr­iad other oppor­tu­ni­ties that are crop­ping up all over the place. It would be, for exam­ple, nice to have some money in exchange for funny hours in the form of more work (which I think I pre­fer to reg­u­lar and bor­ing hours) and not have to pur­sue use­less assess­ments (I speak of one par­tic­u­lar sub­ject that has copped flak on this blog over the past few months) around this.

The CYIADA thing is pro­gress­ing nicely. Michael came on board about a month ago as chief code mon­key, which has been nice coz I’ve been spend­ing a bit more guilt-free time in Pho­to­shop. There is a two-fold rea­son for that, first of which being I don’t feel like I need to try and pro­to­type any­thing on my own, and the other is that now he’s devel­op­ing stuff, there’s an immi­nent need for front-end to make this thing saleable! We’re close to land­ing on a new name that doesn’t sound like some­thing you’d use to gas peo­ple with.

There’s a meet­ing tomor­row arvo wherein we will speak of many things (except per­haps for shoes and ships and ceil­ing wax and cab­bages and kings), involv­ing a progress update, an exten­sive argu­ment about names and inclu­sive­ness, prayer, another argu­ment about launch dates and where/how it’s going to be hosted, who’s pro­vid­ing SMS, how much money we’re plan­ning on los­ing and for how long, how we’re going to pro­mote it, open sourc­ing things we write, and lots lots more.

I should really update the CYIADA project blog, too, but we haven’t got stag­ger­ingly good read­er­ship over there any­way (well, not com­pared to here, though per­haps more after South­ern Cross’ cov­er­age — at the end of that arti­cle, which is effec­tively buried online, though less so in print… iron­i­cally we need online read­ers far more than print ones!) so hope­fully that will wait until we set­tle on a new name (and asso­ci­ated domain name acqui­si­tions take place).

Oh and in unre­lated news, my cam­era turned up. It wasn’t in Selo’s car. This is a good and a bad thing… good because I have no money to spend on a still cam­era right now, bad because I have no rea­son to buy a new one even if I did :P It’s still got another six months of life left in it I think, though it’s look­ing pretty abused. Still takes decent pic­tures. I’m so happy with its per­for­mance over the last two and a half years (link goes to first pho­tos I took with it), seri­ously. I will strug­gle to make up my mind when it dies about what kind of cam­era to get… a larger SLR would be more use­ful for pro­duc­tion stuff and night time things, but this is so portable… I don’t know.

And there is a decent sized blog update.

Now, I should stop pro­cras­ti­nat­ing and pre­pare to kick off some fairly press­ing free­lance work when I get back from uni tonight! Uni assess­ments, also, are prov­ing to be rather wor­thy of pro­cras­ti­na­tion. Ahhhh… I keep remem­ber­ing “one more thing” to write about: 28 Weeks Later proved to be a seri­ously scary zom­bie flick. Saw it with Ben and Tori last night. Was ulti­mate year 10 flash­backs, only with added alco­hol and late nights with­out con­cerned parentals! We went to Pizza Hut all you can eat after­wards… its so dis­gust­ing but such good fun :P

As for the movie… it’s quite messy. But it was spec­tac­u­larly pro­duced… I need to re-watch the first one, but I’m pretty sure it was much more in-your-face sus­pense­ful. It sets up for a third film at the end, which vaguely irri­tates me, but… well, rumours have it that it’ll be capped at a tril­ogy only. And this was a really good sequel, so I don’t think it’ll mat­ter too much. Wikipedia has full spoiler detail for 28 Weeks Later… See the film first instead if you can nor­mally han­dle that sort of thing.