Month: April 2007

  • A Week and Two Days Left

    Reading Time: < 1 minute There are about nine days left before the deadline and I’m up to revision five of my dissertation and I’m feeling fairly happy about it. i’ve spent two days working off the printed copy before transferring these changes back to the electronic version. I’ve got almost everything I wanted to…

  • Saw The Film Shooter And Really Enjoyed it

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Last night I was feeling good about how my dissertation was going so I got my shoes on and walked to the cinema, feeling good about what I had achieved in the day. I went from my dissertation being a collection of words on the computer to it being printed…

  • Dissertations Are Demanding

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Spending almost all of the time when you’re awake to complete your dissertation is hard, especially when you slept no more than six hours after a good night out. I’ve spent almost all the time I’ve been awake working on my dissertation and it’s progressing well but there is still…

  • On walking more than five minutes

    Reading Time: 3 minutes person “you walk fast” me “I like to walk” person “I thought you were rushing somewhere” me “nope, just stride as I walk” On average every step I take is two and a half times longer than most people therefore I cover distances in half the time it takes others to…

  • Finalising the dissertation

    Reading Time: < 1 minute At the moment I’m re-reading the dissertation and going through every paragraph individually to make sure that the content is good. It’s currently floating at about 9900 words and I’m feeling fairly confident with the content. there is still work to be done but within the next three or four…

  • How is the word dissertation progressing through the blogopshere

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Here’s the result when looking up three terms for dissertation on blogpulse

  • It feels really great

    Reading Time: < 1 minute For the past hour or more, I’ve been listening to music and working on my dissertation and I’ve just hit 9500 words on my dissertation (disso as it’s affectionately referred to) and it feels great. I’m so happy that I have two weeks in which to proofread, re-write, and improve…

  • Ijustine and Laporte have demonstrated how to use twitter

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Karina Stenquist of Mobuzz tv is confused by the notion of twitter as anything other than a means by which to distribute brainfarts, a term used by a few people. Do you remember Swatch and Swatch time? The idea was to create a universal timekeeping format which would be the…

  • A Typical Day Two Weeks Before Uni’s End

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Just put on some music and now I’ll tell you about a typical day, just two weeks before the end of uni life for me. My phone is set so that it rings every morning at 9 am and the reason it gives me is “catch a flight” because I had…

  • Facebook And Technological Determinism – A Case Study

    Reading Time: 2 minutes What’s the worst thing about being a student. The stress never disappears. What’s the best thing about being a media student? As long as you can find the theoretical background that goes with an activity you love you can justify doing a case study on the topic. I’m fresh back from…