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And I'm (Finally) Done!

Just handed up my folio for school, and what a relief it is to be finished for the year study-wise! There were a number of briefs that had to be completed, and I am pretty happy with my solutions to each of them. But it wasn't all smooth sailing. At various stages last night (and into the early hours of this morning)

1. the hard drive on the iMac carked it (not really too surprising as it is over 10 years old and cost me $200)
2. the backup I had was (ahem) somewhat out of date
3. For a brief moment I saw my entire year's efforts flash before me, and I began to panic
4. the iMac came good again, I did not hesitate to retrieve everything from it that I could
5. the iMac carked it again. It is now sitting in the corner of the room in shame.
6. the CD-burning software on my PC (it should be called F%$#@!*g Difficult Media Creator, rather than Easy Media Creator) got its knickers in a knot, refused to uninstall, refused to allow itself to be reinstalled, but chose to launch the (broken) installation program every time I so much as copied a file in Windows Explorer. Aaargh!

So yes, it was a very late night stuffing around with the technology and trawling the discussion forums for other people that have had this problem (luckily there were plenty). And of course when you print something out there is always one little annoying thing that you miss when viewing the file on the screen that you need to go back and fix (which is why it pays to print in black and white first - cheaper!)

Here's one of those submissions, the one for our final brief for the year which was entitled "Type In Society". It involved photographing the letters of the alphabet (from signage on the street) and arranging them into a theme of my choosing. Radiohead fans out there will immediately recognize the source of inspiration. The white weathered look around the edges is actually a custom Photoshop brush based on the hull of a rusty ship!

Tomorrow is my first day at SitePoint, which I am excited about. After last night's efforts I'll need an early night to catch up on sleep before my first day!