Please don’t ask me to elaborate on specifics just yet, I will once I’m safely enrolled somewhere else.
Wednesday 17th March 2010
Saturday 06th February 2010
Jonathan Schwartz’s departure from Sun has inspired me to write my own departure note as it were. Hey I like that segue, I’m going to run with it. After a few [non-consecutive!] semesters in Adelaide I’ve decided to transfer to Canberra. For those who really care about the angst of a 20-something student (no, really), feel free to read.
Tuesday 01st December 2009
As I sit here in the dark late this evening playing some Michael Franks holiday music and drinking a frosty glass of water, I’m reminded of late October when I said November was going to be terrible and it couldn’t end soon enough. Well it’s ended, and I’m so relieved I’m giddy :).
Saturday 28th November 2009
Our (albeit government sponsored) university fees at work (or lack thereof). Fortunately all my lecturers from this semester have continued to go above and beyond by answering my emails and returning assignments with detailed and friendly comments. I wonder if others have had less luck?
Wednesday 25th November 2009
Merlin Mann from 42 + 1 folders once suggested in a podcast that if you want to apply yourself too some creative writing you should start typing and refuse to use the backspace key; just pretend it’s not there. I’m far to obsessive compulsive to follow this advice verbatim because typos freak me out like breakfast cereal without soy milk, but that compulsion aside I’m going to give it a try.
Wednesday 18th November 2009
For a change of atmosphere after my exam, instead of going to the Boatdeck Cafe where I spend much of my Adelaide life, I decided to stay in the city and park myself at the Cibo Espresso in Rundle Mall. I’m a wild guy!
Logging onto one of the shared computers at the UniSA Mawson Lakes campus this morning I got this error message. Again.
Tuesday 17th November 2009
Some disturbing news about the state of tertiary education in South Australia being reported by Suzanne Tindal on ZDNet Australia. Flinders University and TAFE SA (similar to a polytechnic for my Singaporean and Malaysian readers) have adopted Microsoft Exchange based Live@Edu for a three year contract. While on the surface the features actually sound cool, the potential ramifications of adopting this expensive system are scary.
Monday 02nd November 2009
My home is back in Singapore and I’m studying in Adelaide, and in both places over the years I’ve collected huge collections of computer books, like these ones! Computer books are bulky and heavy just by themselves, so carrying a few dozen of them between cities in luggage is completely out of the question. What I need are ebook versions.
Sunday 01st November 2009
I’ve started using TextMate more on my Macs for editing code because It Just Works™ and has some really useful features. It just has one nagging little problem to do with files; every single time I create a file outside a project and go to save it, the Save As dialog box ignores where other open files are located and defaults to the root of my primary hard drive to save the file. Every. Single. Time!
I don’t want to have to create projects for each set of files that I’m working on once and forgetting about, is there any way to modify this default behavior? Even having it default to my home directory would be a start.
