18 Aug 2005
This looks really cool, and logically [the absence of letter markings] makes more sense than perhaps it first seems. Enforced dependence upon memory will remove the need for any consultation with the markings on the keyboard in a fairly short period of time. The creator likened it to the absence of key labellings on a piano, which is… only semi-valid, I guess, as there are only 7 keys on a piano that repeat according to a visible pattern, whilst there are 104 keys on any standard keyboard. Having said that, I completely buy the thinking behind the weighted keys argument, that’s great stuff.
It’s also USB, so anyone wanting to use one with an Apple Mac mini is in luck. But then, it’s black. Not to be racist or anything, but black just doesn’t go with shiny white Apple gear.
Soooo… $US79.95 plus an airfare (they don’t ship to Australia, so I’ll have to ship to them!)… hmm. Tempting, but strangely not, at the same time.
17 Aug 2005
17 Aug 2005
I took these photos over the last night or two with my digital camera. The reason the moon is this large/detailed is (mostly) that I’ve cropped the images to this size, and was using maximum optical zoom on the camera itself when I took the photos (which is why the third is so blurry, I guess!)
The third image, as well as the last two, were shot through a filter (not a later digital filter, but optical) — I’m not entirely sure why the colours are so different, truth be told!
The second and third photos are just overexposed — the only difference is that I held my hand adequately steady for the second, whilst in the third it slipped a bit. I’m noticing a resemblance to the Lucidien brand in how that photo came out, but their logo is produced with Photoshop effects, not taken from a photo. But hey, a cool look nonetheless!
16 Aug 2005
Their website sucks. Really, a lot. Muchly. I don’t care about the markup: it’s just plain unusable. Form submission times out without warning that there is a time limit on applications, copy flaws abound: the website is just crap, in every sense of the word (well, okay, the design is mediocre, not crap, but everything else is crap. Very.)
16 Aug 2005
I’ll probably juggle the order a bit, later on, but I just wanted to get it in and done!
- Bachelor of Arts (Advanced) at University of Sydney
- Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications) at University of Sydney
- Bachelor of Arts at University of Sydney
- Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications) at University of New South Wales
- Bachelor of Education (Sec: Humanities & Social Sciences)/Bachelor of Arts at University of Sydney
- Bachelor of International Studies at University of New South Wales
- Bachelor of Arts at University of New South Wales
- Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Education at University of New South Wales
- Bachelor of Arts in Communication (Media Arts & Production) at University of Technology, Sydney
UNSW’s education programme looks pretty… something not great. And the UTS course is really just a filler to make up nine. Other than that, I think I’d be pretty happy with any of those courses (heh, marks almost certainly won’t permit most of them, but ah well). As an aside, I did sort of succumb to the temptation to put higher-mark courses first, but… meh!