DoNotTouch.org - A really cool project!

Click here for your curser to be part of a crowd-sourced music video! It's a really cool idea, it tells you where on the screen to point and it records your mouse moves and adds your cursor to the video! It's so cool to see all the mouses working together to create a smiley face- Even though the users cannot communicate with each other!

Of course, there are some people who like to feel special and so they try to stand out by not putting the curser where it should go. Well done you. 

I'm not sure if it's just my computer or if everyone experience this, but I found that the other cursers started moving before the instructions flashed up on screen. So this annoyed me a bit.

I wish I'd seen it when there weren't many cursors involved at all though...

It's that time of year again... Study, study, study...

I hate exams and I hate assignments. It's a wonder that I've managed to do six consecutive years in university now! I'm currently gearing up to finish the college-based part of my Msc and I'm desperately trying to rescue my grade up to an acceptable level.

I've set up my desk with everything I need: Laptop, pens, paper, water, coke zero etc...

I find one way to motivate myself is to have all my deadlines visually represented in front of me. It's a lot easier to get scared of an upcoming assignment due date if I can see it on a calendar rather than thinking "Oh, I've got five more days before I need to start that!". 

'To Do' lists are always a great help also! This is my to do list for the next few weeks in general.

My Calendar with Deadlines Marked and To Do List

I also like to 'drill down' into my to do list to make it more attainable. For example, I also have a daily to do list. I find that it's very motivational to see things being checked off your list so I always add a few things that I know I'll definitely get done, such as have a shower! It makes me feel better!

Also if I have a very large job I'll break it down into parts. I've done this with some videos on Backbone.js that I need to watch, There are four of them and each one is at least half an hour long. By ticking off each one as I got it motivates me to tick off the whole assignment on my daily to do list!