ISPs PISS Me Off

Here’s one more reason not to go with ADSL. I thought Tiscali were a great ISP but it turns out they’re the same as all the rest. The part I’m worried about is “…Tiscali has indicated it wants to place a full block on peer-to-peer applications…” They say “…at peak times during the evening.” but… Read more →

Bandwidth STILL Not Enough….!!

I’m sitting here trying to browse the web… but I’m finding it VERY difficult. Its just soo slow for no apparent reason. Rob and I experienced this the other day whilst trying to play Xbox Live. uTorrent = Off (Was only downloading at 7kb/s anyway :S) Outlook = Unable to send emails (which is all… Read more →

OFFICIAL: All Ties Severed

Today we had a meeting with Flo and Greg and while I arrived late for it, I caught the tail end. The result was that Will was still single-minded and even Greg seemed to be frustrated by his conversation with Will about communicating. So the only option was for the tutors to declare all bets… Read more →

Tis The Season…But Who Is Jolly?

I’ve just realised that as much as I want this term to be over and the Berlin project to be far far away, when we have finished this…I might actually start learning something. Russell offered to give us some flash tutorials which I’m sure will have more real world applications than what Reinhard showed us… Read more →

Where Theres No Will Theres A Way

Today I had a brief meeting with Omari and Yuki, only for about half an hour but we cleared a lot of things up and we all have stuff to be getting on with. I will be using my new found illustrator skills to mock up a few concepts for various aspects of the confirmed… Read more →

What Is This Interaction Malarky Anyway?

Would someone please tell me what the hell interaction is supposed to be?! It keeps changing depending on who I speak to, what department they’re in, what time of day it is and what temperature it is outside. For PPD I was told that interaction designers are ‘facilitators’ for other disciplines…cough BOLLOCKS cough… I want… Read more →

A Group, Fractured: Back to Square One

So today we had our formative assessment. Yet again we produced two distinct presentations – paper printouts and PowerPoint. Not that it mattered, we knew we were incredibly unprepared for it considering that we had no sketches…no ideas until 5pm last night and that was only thanks to a 10 minute meeting with Latent. So… Read more →