2 November 2007 – 8:06 am
It’s the last day for DECO1200! Then blessed freedom! If only I could find the reset button for my brain. I’m still seeing the Maya interface when I close my eyes and trying to apply a circular fillet to things that don’t quite fit together!
Right now, my biggest worry isn’t actually my website submission. It’s actually the rumble of thunder above my house. I need compy to have power for a few more hours yet! Especially given the state of the power-grid down here… If the power dies before 5:00 I’m going to be very annoyed.
In other news, Apple did actually update the MacBooks. Very quietly indeed - i.e. they’re shipping with no announcements. They’ve been bumped to the new(er) Intel Santa Rosa chipset with the new X3100 graphics card. So do I want to go and buy one now?? They’re very nice… Although I’m freaked out by the concept of spending $1700 on a computer (spending $1200 on a ski-trip is fine…). On the other hand, it means no more updates for 6 months…
30 October 2007 – 2:41 pm
…can’t be this dumb… can they? (Obviously they can be)
I was looking for news coverage of the Swann/Costello debate and had to take this screenshot of the front page of the Daily Telegraph website.
The banner which I’ve circled in blue is an attack on protesters who held up a sign but got the letters around the wrong way.
Apparently this is big news for the Daily Telegraph, pointing out that handful of protesters had made an error, a big enough deal that they labelled it a “shame”. This caught my attention first as I couldn’t believe they felt like this was news worthy.
But then, I scrolled down the page to the part I’ve marked with a red circle and saw how they’d spelt Howard!
Surely even the Daily Telegraph can’t be that dumb?
29 October 2007 – 8:58 pm
No, I’ve not forgotten about blogging (seeing as I still have 6 days before the subject is “over”). Although, don’t expect this post to be coherent. It won’t be.
On the DECO1200 front, Minisite 3 is progressing nicely. I’ve just got to decide where to put what… Not fun. But the design is done, and it’s looking exceptionally shiny (Apple eat your heart out!).
Speaking of Apple, there are rumours floating about of new MacBooks being released tomorrow… With faster CPUs and better graphics cards courtesy of Intel. The only problem for me is should I a) buy now, have a cool toy for the holidays and figure out how to use MacOS X before uni goes back; or b) wait until just before uni goes back, wait until other people work out the bugs inherent in 1st Generation Apple hardware (not to mention Leopard), benefit from the 9 cents of interest I can earn until February and then grab myself a Mac? Decisions, decisions.
In other news, I’m still waiting on bloody Australia Post to deliver my copy of Half-Life 2: Orange Box. I’ve finally got my desktop stable (my Radeon x1950 Pro killed motherboards). It apparently shipped last Monday from Brisbane. I want Portal dammit!
26 October 2007 – 7:06 pm
Today was our last day of classes for the semester. Hooray! I’m sleeping in the morning without the guilty feeling of doing work.
We also handed in the evil final DECO1008 3d modelling render today, it was worth 80%. Hopefully Steven and Marc think it’s as shiny as I do. I’m actually quite proud of it, and it’s developed a fair bit in the past few days. Thanks to Kaz for his comments and suggestions - although I never did get the “crapification” layer to look right.
Now, the only assignment left is DECO1200 Minisite 3. It will blow your mind!
Thanks too to Rob for being one of the few lecturers we’ve had who has given useful comments, actually been interesting to listen to and hasn’t been abusive towards us (well, only 1 lecturer falls into that category). Cheers!
26 October 2007 – 12:02 pm
I’ve posted the final assignment for DECO1008 online, you can view the very shiny (literally and figuratively) final rendered image on the DECO1008 page. Or below, for those who are lazy 
23 October 2007 – 11:17 am
I thought I’d post this up here anyway, my final portfolio website for DECO1005 is now online. Go forth and explore, it’s got videos
http://devslashtux.monproductions.com/static/2007/deco1005/index.html
18 October 2007 – 8:56 pm
I’m just testing out a feature I’ve noticed in my brand new install of Office 2007 which lets you use Word as a blogging client. This post has no real point, it’s just seeing how bad the code Office spits out could possibly be.
Here’s a picture of a penguin:
So far, I’ve noticed that this doesn’t support the new tagging system in Wordpress 2.3 – which I only actually enabled this afternoon, so it’s not actually quite as useless as I previously thought. Anyway, this is rapidly losing its novelty.
I’m also not entirely sure why I’d use Office as a blogging client… Oh well, it was only $75 
18 October 2007 – 7:35 pm
Yes! It’s real! It’s exciting enough to make me briefly speak 1337speak!
Apple have given in, there will be a real iPhone/iTouch API coming out next February. On the Apple Hot News page, Steve himself (or one of his minions claiming to be Steve) states:
Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful hardware and advanced software architecture, we believe we have created the best mobile platform ever for developers.
16 October 2007 – 9:26 pm
Given the recent plethora of surveys doing the DECO rounds, I thought this recent post at Worse Than Failure (WTF!) to be particularly apt. Take a close look at question 4.
Also, it’s good to know Apple have confidence in OS X.
12 October 2007 – 2:00 pm
I’ve attached a bunch of sketches I’ve drawn (unfortunately, I’ve also lost quite a few). It shows some ideas developing from the initial sketch to the final prototype (now updated!). It also shows a few things that haven’t changed much at all. Perhaps that’s not a good thing… Read More »
