Well, actually I live higher up on the coast now.  I moved up 6 months ago
and I'm slowly fitting in.  Gympie was a pretty bad place to live, as the
name suggests, it hasn't really got too much going for it...  The floods
were highly over-rated actually.  I have some friends there still which I
keep in contact with through ICQ.  Floods in Gympie are a regular thing, so
no one was surprised... The media just got a hold of the idea that it was
the worst flood in a century (well, it was), and then said it was
devastating for the town, which it really wasn't.  My oldest brother who is
in London at the moment even said that he saw a short story on Gympie's
floods on Sky News!!!  Now I'm living on the coastline of Australia in the
Fraser Island area.  (HINT:  I can see Fraser Island from here).  The
sunsets are great here too.  Oh yeah, and sorry to everyone that I just
disappeared over the last week or two.  I'm back at school now so I don't
get much time to get on the net.  Especially with the homework I'm getting
from the subjects I'm doing!!!

At least I've finished Certificate III in Arts now for Digital Art, that
should take a little pressure off.  Now I've just got to contend with
English, Math B, Math C (they're the the hardest math subjects), Physics,
Information Processing and Technology (programing, artificial intelligence
etc) and Commercial Art and Design (full computer design for me, the other
people in my class have to slave away with Traditional Media, while I get to
use NT workstations ;-).

I'm lucky that the school I'm going to has huge computer orientation.  The
Art computers are great.  They have a network of over 250 computers in the
school with Proxy Internet access and full access to their Intranet (which I
must say needs a facelift).  I've just started another large project for
Commercial Art and Design.  My last project was a 30 seconder fully
generated in MAX.  I've just finished the rendering of the final 720x576 PAL
TV 25-FPS version for output to video through a Perception Drive and Speed
Razor.

My newest project however is a multimedia CD-ROM career guide called
Horizonz.  It's aimed at getting people of my age interested in what they're
actually going to do with the rest of their lives!!!  I've only just started
doing the interface design for it.  There will be 5 interfaces in the
program, all based around specific themes.  It's certainly going to be a
challenge, but of course it will be really fun!!!

The other thing that has kept me from the net the last few days is my Rio
MP3 player.  I've just got it and it's really cool (it's a portable MP3
player about the size of a cassette tape, actually, it's smaller).

So, in conclusion, sorry to everyone that I haven't been online much
lately!!!  Over the next few days I'll be in Brisbane too so I won't be on
(at least not in news groups).  I think I'll be online pretty much all day
today, I'm helping someone beta test their FTP server.

Gee, that was a pretty big message...

Lance (here to stay!!!)


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