[ALUG] Blender Tutorial - Thanks!

[Martijn Koster]

A big thank-you to Richard Bensley for this tutorial, and to Richard
Lewis for arranging a venue. I never knew I was a spaceship designer and
human sculptor! Okay, perhaps I'm not, but I had a lot of fun, and it
was very interesting to play with something outside my usual use of
Linux. And Richard explained this tricky material both well and with
enthusiasm.

I think the format worked well: The presenter instructed the class and a
helper with a computer on the projector, the class brought laptops, and
the presenter could use the whiteboard, walk around to troubleshoot etc.
With tea and biscuits, what more could you want :-)

Tip: Blender uses the numeric keypad heavily, so make sure it works, or
for best effect use an external keyboard. Mine didn't work, fortunately
I could do a hardware swap with Joe (ta!). I managed to fix my laptop
this morning with this voodoo:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_get_special_keys_to_work#NumLock
The other problem my laptop encountered was a box mode select graphics
card driver issue (just like
http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/3593/problemtj6.png)
that I haven't fixed yet.

-- Martijn