My Acoustic Guitar

This is a little tune I made up the other day called 'ro1 in the desert'. That's my acoustic guitar, but this sound is from my trusty electric.

Speed trap.

I exceeded my throughput limit. My high speed broadband has been stopped in it's tracks. Before that happens I'm supposed to get a notice from my ISP - however I didn't get any notice. I spent half the morning waiting to talk to them about how they accidentally deactivated my primary email, then the rest of the day trying to figure out why the system was going so slow. After reconfiguring my network several times, changing all passwords, removing a few gigabytes of excess data - I found out I had exceed my limit. I've tried to check it several times over the last few weeks, but they've been working on their website and it doesn't actually function anymore. Thanks alot - 'Just say the word!'..... Only one word coming to mind and I know it's not what they intended. They play those horrible jingles repeatedly telling you how great they are... So you struggle with the urge to smash your phone... potentially exacerbating any communication problems you already had, before seeking 'assistance'.
As much as I'd like to be adding to my blog - I think I'll try to avoid the internet almost completely until they give me back my speed.

Hey look at this tree!

Rapido Video Tutorial 1

Rapvidtut1 from rapido1 on Vimeo
I prepared this tutorial last week and lost most of the segments when there was some problem removing my flash drive from the computer. I had quite an in-depth and nicely formatted presentation, but I lost it. This exercise needed to be completed by a deadline so here is a scaled back version. It's not great, but it's a quick example of the potiental of videocasting as a training tool.
For this exercise I prepared a title and conclusion page in MS Powerpoint, and then used 'Camtasia' software to make a videocast of the active window while I adjusted the Layers in Photoshop. I put down an audio track afterwards to talk the viewer through what's happening on the screen. I uploaded the resultant .mov file to vimeo.com and embedded to this blog.

Photoshop Tutorial

In this exercise I created an audio tutorial, which is also available as a Podcast along with another from Zorrow. The Podcast player is located further up this page on the right. I produced this audio in Garageband, and exported the large .bnd file to iTunes where I converted it to Mpeg and uploaded it to the host site Divshare.com Then I embedded it to this blog from Divshare.

2 Tonnes

I shoveled and hauled 2 tonnes of dirt today , starting at about 8am and going through until about 1.30pm - I was in a hurry so I could do some revision. I felt knackered all day, and I'm here looking at the computer at 9.10pm
I found three black widow spiders and photographed one of them walking along the ground - to be uploaded tomorrow.....
I spent quite a while trying to get odeo.com to work with no success, but I do have some podcasts ready to go. I think it's something to do with Mac Vs PC.
Remeber to look here tomorrow....
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