I, Michael Damien Curran, was born to the parents of Chris and Debbie Curran on the 11th August, 1983 in Victoria Australia. And this web site strives to give you, (the poor sole who stumbled across this page), a little insight in to my life.
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I, Michael Damien Curran, was born to the parents of Chris and Debbie Curran on the 11th August, 1983 in Victoria Australia. And this web site strives to give you, (the poor sole who stumbled across this page), a little insight in to my life. |
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I was born at 1:47 PM (on the day stated above... can I be bothered typing it again? what the hell) 11th August, 1983 with a host of medical problems including:
I bet your brain has just rebooted over that yes? in short I was born with problems with my left eye, no right eye, my main heart valve was on the wrong side, I have too many ribs (for a male) and I was born with my oesophagus not joined in the middle (with the bottom of it traveling up and connecting with my Trakea --- wind pipe). Right! I'm glad we've covered that.
Despite being blind, and having the other problems with my throat etc, I still learn to get on with life and be thankful that I am alive.
Read all about my interests and hobbies, facts about me, education, groups I am apart of etc).
Find out how I really perceive the world with my sences. Apart from being totally blind, I also see color when I hear things, and see color when I feel temperature. This phenomenon is called synaesthesia.
I have always been a musical person. (I sing, play a little piano, and have playd the drums). Though because of my interest in sound mixing/editing, I now have a very large quantity of recordings. Everything from Me as a seven year old singing to the family , to my album, 'One Breath Left'.
One of my interests on the computer side of things is programming. In here you can find a few programs I have written myself, or with others. Languages I use mostly are C, Perl, Java, the Bash scripting language, and the Jaws scripting language.
Since my last post in June, I must say my life has changed quite some what. I am now working on my latest project pretty much full-time, and I must say it is going quite well. The project is called Nonvisual Desktop Access (or NVDA for short).
NVDA Is a free and open source screen reader written in the Python programming language, for MS Windows. It may not be as fully featured, or as stable as the more common commercial screen readers, but it is certainly getting there, and because of its open source nature, has the capability of being anything it wants.
I have decided to completely ditch university for good and just work on NVDA and other community based things.
Well, over the last few weeks I have been deep in programming mode, working on my latest project called audiobraille.
audiobraille enables a user who does not own a refreshable braille display to read electronic braille using audio frequencies, rather than using a screen reader to read out ascii character equivalents.
I have written a text editor, and a small console-based program. Both of these programs produce sound from braille using my audiobraille library.
Go to the audiobraille project page to find out more.
Other than that, I have been working very heavily on the youth officer project for Blind Citizens Australia and also been working on the committee that is looking at majorly updating BCA's website.