aisyalam

Continuing to work on the Technopoetry Rising interface design programming, and not a whole lot else to report about. Today I made about 20 new sub-pages, which came out well—the work involved making html files, modifying the page information, inserting the correct information, drawing links between files. Only found one major technical problem, a Flash file that was not linking correctly to an html file (which was/is in fact missing altogether & needs to be located). Not enough time to work on the organizational image map, as we decided to attend the assembly at Stella’s school, a celebration of Chinese New Year (a last hurrah) that included a wonderfully noisy Lion Dance. Then wild clouds and rain (& tonight loud frogs and bugs)...

I’m expecting to get higher quality scans of some images from the essays included with the project from Lucio Agra via email on the weekend, and will continue to jam on the cd-rom / e-book project, which I hope to have more or less done in a week’s time. My lecture schedule commences Monday morning, and will continue on a weekly basis for about 7 weeks or so. This will demand some attention, as I still have about 6 lectures to prepare.

The MMU Appreciation Dinner was excellent. It is the 10 year anniversary of the school, so a special video had been prepared – which was very informative - & everyone was highly dressed and in great spirits. I sat next to a new friend, Mustaza, a VR specialist from Pakistan with whom lively conversation was shared. Great food, company, institution, location: I couldn’t have been much happier. The former PM didn’t make it, but it hardly made a difference—twas a wonderful celebration nonetheless. &, among the amazing aspects to the party is not a drop of alcohol was imbibed (it being a largely Muslim group). Well, I just posted a few pictures at the flickr site if you want to take a look at the crowd gathered.

Otherwise, heading to KL tomorrow, to see some sights and take-in a multimedia (dance, music, etc.) at KLPac - & looking forward to everything, as always...