Music has always been a part of my life since early childhood. Being blind, it is a stereotype that I would be musical [that’s another story]. I was one of the lucky people in this world to be musical and blind. Originally I planned to do an audio series with interviews of pedagogues from the [...]
So I am trying this thing because Matt recommended it. And it’s sooo great! We are on Skype and talking embarrassing stuff. It’s much fun! So I am trialling this blogging client, MarsEdit, for 30 days and hopefully I will blog more frequently in order to get the most out of it.
So now I have mail issues. It will receive but it won’t send.I called telecom and they told me all this stuff andI did that but occasionally it still doesn’t send.This is driving me nuts. I am awaiting John at Uni. Semester is over-how great! Just one more to go.
So the other day I spent hours on the phone with Apple who were very helpful but could do nothing. I called telecom and they said move my Wireless router. But I don’t even know where it is in the house-somewhere near the modem? So, my safari issue is not resolved. In other news I [...]
After I connected to WiFi at Uni, Safari started going slow. It opened really slowly and then took ages to load pages.I tried the whole clearing cache thing and it still goes slow.What is up with it?
Now I am borrowing Uni Wifi as I have paid for it and never use it. I am listening to E type and i think of some random things. * Why is it that he and me always end up here together? This place is usually amad house on Wednesday.* Why the hell did I [...]
Home rule is the art of minding your own business well. Unionism is the art of minding somebody else’s badly Tom Kettle Westminster MP for ireland c1900.
Was reading this book the other day. A sea story by Nicholas Monsarat, an ex-navalman during the WWII. The novel is called the cruel sea and is about a naval ship of 150 crew that set out in 1939 to catch Nazis in the Atlantic.But the interesting thing was what was at the start of [...]
The anthem of the Suzuki movement sung by voice students in Melbourne earlier this year.
The RocHCI group are working on some exciting projects. I heard of them when I googled “blind photography” iPhone [exactly like that]. Up came an article, Supporting Blind Photography which talked about an app for the iPhone called EasySnap. What EasySnap did is give aural feedback to a blind person as they positioned the iPhone’s [...]