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Day two of the three day virtual course done and dusted. The instructor leaves a bit to be desired. He does have experience using the software but it feels like he's just reading the course material and it feels like he sometimes doesn't know what he's doing or telling you. Just sometimes. And sometimes he gets messing around looking for things or trying to make something work and I end up cursing. I can do that because the audio is muted so that there's no background noise from all the students. we can break in and ask a question or type a question in a chat box. I managed to ask a question this morning that had him wandering around for about 15 minutes trying to find the answer (unsuccessfully) and another question that had him again doing some digging and demonstrating. *sigh* I don't dare ask anything else complicated!!
The course is mainly him demo-ing different things that you can do and then us doing labs of pretty much the same thing. If I was teaching it, I'd be using some real life examples while explaining. A lot of this I know how to do but the version of the software is different so things are in new places. That alone makes it useful. It doesn't seem to be quite as powerful or customizable as the other version but it might be to an extent, I just have to dig around a bit more.
88 - Silver Bay - Jojo Moyes
A corporation wants to build a resort near a bay in Australia where the local community has a small economy based on the local sea life, whale watching and such. There are concerns about how the development is going to affect the whales. A representative stays at an old family run hotel and gets to know the family and the community and naturally, by the time he has realized the corporation is making a mistake and decides to change things, they all find out he's working for the company that's trying to ruin their community. It's a fairly standard plot, you know there's a love story involved and you know it's going to come out ok. I like Ms. Moyes' books. These ones I've read so far this year are all her earlier ones before the book made into a hit movie "Me Before You" so I haven't read that one yet.
89 - Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
A classic. I read it in school many moons ago, thought I'd reread it after enjoying a hardy book a few months ago. This was good, too, but I enjoyed it a little less. Still ok though.
90 - What Dies Inside (novella) - James Craig
Short novella from earlier in the career of DI John Carlyle.
91 - A Man of Sorrows - James Craig
Carlyle deals with a paedophile priest and the Catholic Church in addition to a jewellry heist.
92 - Legends - Robert LIttell
I saw the first series based on this book so decided to read the book. Aside from a very basic concept, the two are not the same at all. This jumps around in the timeline of the main character, a bit like series 2 of Legends is doing. It's not bad.
93 - The Lake House - Kate Morton
A female DI got too close to a case and was upset when her instincts told her there was more to it than a mother walking out on her child. She's been told to take some leave so is in Cornwall with her Grandfather and stumbles on a 70 year old cold case of a missing child, the baby brother of a well known mystery author who lived in a beautiful old house nearby. She digs into the old case, determined to find out what happened. The story is told in the 1933 timeline whent he disappearance happened and in the present 2003 timeline, from the point of view of both the inspector and the author, now in her 80s.
The course is mainly him demo-ing different things that you can do and then us doing labs of pretty much the same thing. If I was teaching it, I'd be using some real life examples while explaining. A lot of this I know how to do but the version of the software is different so things are in new places. That alone makes it useful. It doesn't seem to be quite as powerful or customizable as the other version but it might be to an extent, I just have to dig around a bit more.
88 - Silver Bay - Jojo Moyes
A corporation wants to build a resort near a bay in Australia where the local community has a small economy based on the local sea life, whale watching and such. There are concerns about how the development is going to affect the whales. A representative stays at an old family run hotel and gets to know the family and the community and naturally, by the time he has realized the corporation is making a mistake and decides to change things, they all find out he's working for the company that's trying to ruin their community. It's a fairly standard plot, you know there's a love story involved and you know it's going to come out ok. I like Ms. Moyes' books. These ones I've read so far this year are all her earlier ones before the book made into a hit movie "Me Before You" so I haven't read that one yet.
89 - Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
A classic. I read it in school many moons ago, thought I'd reread it after enjoying a hardy book a few months ago. This was good, too, but I enjoyed it a little less. Still ok though.
90 - What Dies Inside (novella) - James Craig
Short novella from earlier in the career of DI John Carlyle.
91 - A Man of Sorrows - James Craig
Carlyle deals with a paedophile priest and the Catholic Church in addition to a jewellry heist.
92 - Legends - Robert LIttell
I saw the first series based on this book so decided to read the book. Aside from a very basic concept, the two are not the same at all. This jumps around in the timeline of the main character, a bit like series 2 of Legends is doing. It's not bad.
93 - The Lake House - Kate Morton
A female DI got too close to a case and was upset when her instincts told her there was more to it than a mother walking out on her child. She's been told to take some leave so is in Cornwall with her Grandfather and stumbles on a 70 year old cold case of a missing child, the baby brother of a well known mystery author who lived in a beautiful old house nearby. She digs into the old case, determined to find out what happened. The story is told in the 1933 timeline whent he disappearance happened and in the present 2003 timeline, from the point of view of both the inspector and the author, now in her 80s.