Why am I doing this?

Some of the reasons why I'm getting involved in this project:

1. Feeling quite isolated as a correspondence student, I thought this might be a golden opportunity to get involved in an interesting project.
2. I have also been looking for opportunities to get more experience in academic writing.
3. I love programming.
4. I am all for community involvement in projects. It provides opportunities for those who would like to contribute.
5. An opportunity to learn more about something I didn't know before, ie the Processing IDE and Computational Art.
   

Chunk 83

So I think I'm down for Chunk 83. Now how did that happen again?

I think it was mainly because the chunks are described in reverse order in the Book Fragments Blog. As I started reading the blog my eye caught something about "buttons" and I wondered whether I would be able to do the button thingy in Processing. So when that turned out not to be rocket science I thought I should be able to cope with that section.

I don't know what the difference would be between a button, an advanced button 1 and an advanced button 2. I guess I'll have to wait for the book to discover that.

Introduction

I'm terrible at keeping my blogs active ... I've started a few but after a couple of posts I usually forget about the thing for months on end. I always blame it all on my kids. So I guess I have another eight years or so of excuses and then I'll have to find something or someone else to blame when I forget or don't get around to doing things!

Maybe this blog, being part of the mass writing project will be more structured and force me to update it more frequently.

I'm currently working on my research project and dissertation (M801) with the Open University and that is how I found myself on the mailing list requesting volunteers for the exciting but whacky project!

When not busy with the above, I work full-time and I'm a single mom. I do some other stuff but I can't remember what they are right now ...