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Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.

And for my next trick...

Well, I think it's done! Pending some more proof-reading, I think I've finished my report. For those of you having problems finishing it, here's a helpful little trick I picked up, which really sped up the process:

  1. Find a chapter you haven't written yet
  2. Delete all reference to it
  3. Go to 1 until the project is complete
Result!

So, anyway, for your viewing pleasure, here are the last two videos. I stuck a camera above my monitor, and one to the left of it, and put the following picture on full-screen:

I then recorded me moving ...

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Better late than never!!

My tracking code works! Sweet sweet cheesy beans!

Here's a couple of the resulting videos. I tried compressing them, but they didn't really get any smaller.

My hand (380kb)

A Post-it (484kb)

Warning: several minutes download, for under a second of video. But still, its quite cool. In case you're wondering what you're looking at, the big white thing is the screen, the big pink thing is my hand, and the little purple circle is where the computer thinks the tip of my hand (or post-it note) is.

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Dissertations Can Be Fun!

With 5 days and 22:45:00 remaining, it could be going better. Of course, that's when it's actually due, I have to print and bind it well in advance, so really it's more like 3 days. Woo.

We had an HCI group meeting today, and we've nearly finished. For some strange and unknown reason I volunteered to print and bind it. What am I doing?

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