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2008 Semester 2 Calendar

Tuesday, 5 August 2008 in The Sydney Grind, University by Enoch Lau | No comments

I’ve created my own wall calendar for semester 2, 2008, and you are free to use it if you like it. It’s big enough to see it at a desk’s depth away and to jot down important events and assessments. The calendar is correct for the University of Sydney, and I’m not sure whether it would be suitable for use at other universities.

I have other monthly calendars and a computer-based calendar to do all my actual event scheduling, but being able to see the entire semester in full does put everything into perspective - a semester really is quite short! (I’m crossing off the days as they go by - a ticking time bomb!)

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Cheaper than super-cheap Tuesday: watching films at the Library

Friday, 25 July 2008 in The Sydney Grind, University by Enoch Lau | No comments

Yes, you read the title right. The University of Sydney Library has a vast collection of feature films, in a variety of languages to boot. The collection is mainly at Fisher AV Reserve and at Roselle, but there will be enough at Fisher to keep you busy without having to trek over to the Sydney College of the Arts. If you have a library card, you will be able to borrow videos from Fisher AV Reserve for three hours at a time.

To explore what is out there, visit the Library Catalogue and bring up the Advanced tab:

Library Catalogue advanced search, showing important fields

Step 1: Enter the search as “feature film”.

Step 2: Select the DVD/VIDEO/SLID material type.

Step 3: Optionally, select the language that you want.

Step 4: Hit Search!

Alternatively, go to the Subject Search and enter “feature film”; all feature film subject categories begin with “Feature Film”, and you will then be able to narrow down your search by country of origin.

So there you have it! Many hours of viewing pleasure, for free, if you don’t mind the less-than-cinematic experience of sitting on library chairs and watching it on small television sets.

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Free wallpaper

Tuesday, 10 July 2007 in Meta, Photography, Wikipedia by Enoch Lau | No comments

I’m pleased to announce the availability of high quality wallpaper on my site. The wallpaper images are free — both free as in free beer, as well as free as in free speech. Series 1 contains 16 high quality images from the Wikimedia Commons, a sister project to Wikipedia, where all the images are either in the public domain or licensed under a copyleft licence — and I’ve been happily using images from there for my wallpaper for quite some time. What I’ve done is I’ve resized and cropped the images all to common screen resolutions, so you don’t have to do it yourself.

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