Conference

• 8th September 2003 at 21:55

It is the end of the first day of the conference.

So what has happened since I last updated properly? Probably quite a bit. Let's see.

Well, I restructured the tonbschl site again (that will probably relaunch sometime later this year). I think it still needs a bit of work, but it's a lot better. They want a redesign next, so since that I've working on a few ideas in between my work for the conference.

Went to the pub on Thursday with Jared for the first time (Mr P, the computer/electronics technician I have spent most of my free time with since the start of lower sixth) - it was fun. He beat me at pool, although I suck so that's not much of an achievement.

Friday I packed my bags and left for Bath. Arrived at about 8, went to the co-op, went back and ate tacos. Fantastic. Saturday, we had a meeting about the conference in the afternoon then went to the pub and had pizza, and Sunday I went up to campus in the morning and spend the rest of the day working on the timetable display thinger.

I know I have mentioned the timetable display thinger before (or at least I think I have) - it is a web page that is displayed on a large screen in reception. It's powered by javascript, which loads data from a perl script, and is quite cool. However, I spent about a week and a half on it at the start of the holiday, and I spent friday night, saturday morning, saturday evening, all of sunday (apart from the indian meal with the other student volunteers), and I started working on it at about 7.30 this morning. I finally got it working to a state where it could be run on the screen by about 1PM. And then spent most of the afternoon fixing new bugs as they arose. And I'm about to start working on it again.

And this is just the screen for monday and tuesday. It needs a different one for wed->fri.

Anyway, this is a HCI conference. We have lots of fun toys to play with. For example, my timetable thing is displayed on two extremely large plasma screens, and I spent some of my afternoon playing on a tablet PC, surfing the internet and playing a kick-ass game called inkball. It rocks.

So that's most of what has happened.

Interesting, huh?

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