JavaScript is the biggest f**king tease there is!!!!
Just when you think… yep, got it… it throws something else at you. There you are thinking, yep got it all working nicely, I’ll just add a few bells and whistles, now that I’ve got it all, and nope… you end-up feeling like a spoon, when it asks you for a “)” when there seems no possible need for one! Grrrr!
Well as I said earlier in this blog, I’m somewhat terrible at keeping these things, so here’s an entry to ‘get me into it’. It’s technically Saturday morning… about 4 am actually, and I’m getting peeved by the fact that I’m becoming more and more nocturnal!
We had a rather kewl idat 101 thing today. Not a lot to show for it though… well not in a case of notes or print-outs any way! That’s the thing with this module though… There’s not a lot you can dispay to someone about thought, not your own thought anyway… I think this module, along with idat 103 are going to be the hardest to excel in. There’s (hopefully) obviously a lot of though that goes into creativity and generation, but how much of that goes un-noticed-even by the creator? Sometimes, when you make something, or generate an idea, how much of the process, that made-up that idea are actually concious decisions? Sometimes the choices you make are sub-concious, and these in turn result in sub-concious affects upon the user. To take a step, back and sit down and realise all these intricate little creations, and how they form ‘a whole’ takes quite a bit of mastering.
There’s also the whole concept of interpretation. You may make something, that in your own mind generates one, complete statatic image or notion… But to someone else, the same proccess may result in an equally un-yeilding, yet totally different concept. The mind is a strange (yet beautiful) thing. In which case, if someone were to try to transmit a truly fantastic notion or idea, and the recieving party did not (or could not) see their vision, would they be simply dismissed?
Hmmm, so may questions!! Maybe I should have done philosophy?? 
Hmm, maybe not… it’s a lot more difficult to spell than DAT!!
G’night.
Hmm, well just finished my idat103 thang!! not too happy about the text on the right, but can’t seem to find the font/size that I want 
It’ll do! the colouring seems to be quite consistant and contemprary, so I’m happy with the overall result.
Hmmm I’ve got a 9 o’clocker tommorow, and it’s now abt quarter past 2!! Grrrr, damn photoshop for making it sooooo difficult to achieve the affect I wanted!
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is on telly atm, which has been on the background as I’ve been working. If we ever do a film, I hope we manage to make it to a better quility than this!!
tis weird btw, how so many of us in DAT know each other to see and maybe even to talk to, but don’t know names… I don’t think it helps that I’m soooo bad with names though!! Methinks we all ought to either have name tags, or arrange a night out, so that we can all get to know each other a lil better!
well, g’night journal type thing… I’m off to try and get some sleep, so I can wake-up ‘bright eyed and bushy tailed’ for tommorow’s early start… It ain’t gonna happen is it?
Hmm, well this is my first post… I think I should have posted something on here earlier, but I’m terible at keeping journals / blogs/ diaries… Whatever you want to call them.
Ho hum, well I suppose I’d best give an overview of what’s happened so far in DAT so far.
Well, for a start, I’m really enjoying the course, and all the modules have their own appeal, whilst all being totally different. One thing that has thrown pretty much all of us in group 2, was the fact that we all missed a library induction session for idat 104, and the lecture later on, on the same day… the day that Mary Newman got closed. We all turned up at Scott Gym for 14:00, as on the timetable we all had, but apparently we should have been in the library! We checked the timtable later on and found the room had changed for the later lecture, and found we were in a room that no-one knew where it was! With no key to the rooms on the timtable, and with no map of the campus on the student portal, or on the main uni web site, or in the student handbook or prospectus, we didn’t know where on earth it was! :/
That aside though, everything has been really fine. The fact that all slide shows / lecture notes are available on the portal to download and print before the class is a really helpful feature. I find it particularly helpful to have hard copy in class to annotate and follow through, to accompany the lecturer’s presentation.
The workflow is managable as well, with all subjects starting from a base level that isn’t too simplistic, whilst still managing to cover some of the more basic aspects of the module, then building-up to more and more complex theories, ideas and solutions.
So in a nutshell, I’m enjoying the course so far, and am impressed by the structure, organisation and implementation of the course!
See ya in my next blog!
Ken.
