Author Archives: Richard Graham

I think my computer’s melting…

Today was spent fixing up final edits on the parts of the DVD and then rendering them. My computer has now been working solidly for several days now and I think it’s melting! It’s only 1 cm thick but is getting soooo hot. So I had to put a pack on frozen broccoli under it…

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What a relief

For the first time in ages I felt some of the stress go away today!! I’d spent all night finishing off the “What’s your name?” DVD lesson and I think I’ve finished it!!!! Yeah!!!!! Usually when I look at something, if it’s not perfect, I have to go back and change it, even it’s the…

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Still going and Open Source

Spent the day ploughing through more DVD editing. I also had to remix the What’s your name? song which took quite a while to do. It takes a long time to edit DVDs because computers are still too slow. So I often have 5 minutes break where I can’t do any work as the computer’s…

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Left and Right

After a few hours sleep I decided to throw out “Left and Right” and start again from scratch. It has now turned out very different from the live shows, and now has a lot more music and stuff in it. It’s not quite the same Genki English, but it is looking good!

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It’s got to be perfect

I can’t get the Left and Right video to work right. “How are you?” is just about finished, and “What’s your name?” is looking really good, but Left and Right just doesn’t jive. Hmm. After trying lots of different things I gave up (no use working with no motivation) and did some work on the…

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No batteries

Went out to work at Seattle’s Best again today. Except that I couldn’t use the electric socket, so only got 3 hours work done before my battery died. But I had a plan! I brought my music computer along to do some music work. But when I switched that on the batteries also died. Hmmm….

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