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Recent work: Elemental HumanScapes
Prints for Sale at artist|rising
, a division of art.com
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to the web site of Ali Kayn,
a freelance writer, photographer and artist
living in Melbourne, Australia.
What's happening?
 Prints of several paintings
and pastel sketches are becoming available at artist|rising, a division of art.com.
Several short pieces of fiction
are now available here, plus the opening of my novel, Salely.
Electronic Records Management: As I struggle with the process of digitising my libraries, I'm blogging. Alizandria
is my library blog where I talk about all kinds of time and records management and, one of my favourite things, something-to-put-them-in, storage systems.
I am in year four (!!) of digitising my video library, which coincidentally is almost as long as I have been working on the Cat-a-Logue -- a multimedia catalogue I use for tracking anything and everything. It has a traditional library emulation with catalogue cards and all; is smart enough to launch digital materials, ask for removable media like DVDs, and has a separate annexe that provides a graphical user interface for my media PC.
Websites: I am currently converting Festivale Online Magazine to CSS
. Right now I'm working through the movie reviews, I have about 300 more to recode and reload. (Pass me the smelling salts) I'm in month six of a two-month project. Yep, love those browser variations. The word is out that future versions of browsers won't be able to read SIMPLE websites. You know, nice, clean, fast HTML pages.
It's back to university for me, one subject at a time. This year it's Spanish for beginners. As some of you know, I wrote a feature and several related reviews on Computer Aided Language Learning and supporting resources. Despite textbooks and online resources and podcasts (I recommend Radio Lingua's Coffee Break Spanish and related titles), I've never broken the back of the problem of learning a new language. So I'm at the University of Melbourne fighting the tide of high-speed teaching. In the long term I would like to release my own supporting material to help people learn new languages.
The thing with languages is that so many people want to learn a language, but it's not something one can learn two hours a week in the evenings.
How about a free Beau the Birman Cat wallpaper or calendar
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