James Cameron

I'm a software engineer, and I work from home on a farm north of Tooraweenah.

Interview, One Laptop Per Child, ABC Western Plains, Andrew Dunkley

• One Laptop Per Child web site,
• One Laptop Per Child on Wikipedia,
• Test Results (technical directory),
• January Photos, 1.6km Range Test,
• February Photos, 2.2km Range Test,
• April Photos, Critter Detection Teaching Idea,
• Wireless Institute of Australia, amateur radio association,
• Computer Camp,
• james@tooraweenah.com is my e-mail address.

Interview, Orana Arts, ABC Western Plains, Andrew Dunkley

My Work

• the musical compositions on my main web site, in PDF, OGG, with explanatory text notes,
• three of the compositions in MP3 format:
  • Opus 2 Ellipsis (2.0Mb),
  • Opus 4 Elliptic (2.2Mb),
  • Opus 5 Nanduhirion (4.0Mb), mentioned in interview,
• production notes and screen shots from my computer with my Opus 5 Nanduhirion open,

Inspiration

• The Lord of the Rings ... my Opus 5 is called Nanduhirion which is the Sindarin elvish name for Dimrill Dale, the valley through which the fellowship walked just after losing Gandalf in Moria,
• an artistic friend in Gilgandra,
• Computer Camp, a volunteer camp for high school kids run by Scripture Union Queensland where we taught beat mixing last year and music looping this year,
• exercise walking through paddocks scorched by drought,

Licensing

• the open license I've used, many podcasts use the same license, which lets me give away my music,
• the ABC has an explicit waiver from me to allow them to alter or transform these compositions and broadcast (redistribute) as part of the interview,

Technology

• listening setup instructions for people who use Windows computers and want to hear the Ogg files,
• the Ogg file format, for digital audio, a replacement for MP3,
• why Wikipedia uses the Ogg format,
• Wikipedia article on Rosegarden, the open source digital audio workstation program,

Interviewer

• Andrew Dunkley,
• ABC Western Plains NSW, Breakfast with Andrew Dunkley,
• Orana Arts Inc. Regional Arts Board,

Redirection

• Quozl's web pages in Australia
• Quozl's web pages in the United States of America