QUESTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet?
-I’m not to sure about this answer, but I’ve got a feeling they don’t search through every website in existence.

Who, or what, makes one page (that you might get in your search results) more useful than another one, so that it is put at the top of your search results?
-Money!

What are some of your favorite search engines? Why do you like one more than others?
www.searchaol.com
www.google.com

What did Alan Turing wear while riding his bicycle around Bletchley Park?
Answer I found – Alan turing is actually very interesting! Broke the German U-boat coade, but he was the one riding a bicycle down the street wearing a gas mask.
Search Engine I Used- www.dogpile.com
Rating of Search Engine - * * *

On what date did two computers first communicate with each other? Where were they?Answer I found - September 1969 BBN had developed and delivered the first IMP to the Network Measurement Center located at UCLA
Search Engine I Used- www.bing.com
Rating of Search Engine - * * * * 2 minutes

What is Bill Gates’ birthday and what age was he when he sold his first software?Answer I found – Birthday October 28th 1955, and developed his first computer, 1973 he developed BASIC, and 1975 started working on Microsoft
Search Engine I Used- www.altavista.com
Rating of Search Engine – * * * * 1 minute

Where was the World Wide Web invented?
Answer I found – The Web was created at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1981..
Search Engine I Used- www.yahoo.com
Rating of Search Engine – * * * ½ 3minutes

How does the power of the computer you are working on now compare with the power of a personal computer from 30 years ago?
Answer I found - For one thing the first computers weighed 24 pounds, the size was huge! Technology now something a whole generation can rely on.
Search Engine I Used- www.ask.com
Rating of Search Engine - * CRAP!

What is the weight of the largest parsnip ever grown?
Answer I found – This was the hardest thing to find!! Longest parsnip: Richard Hope (UK) 520.7 cm (17ft 1in), 2003 Heaviest parsnip: Norman Craven (Canada) 5.7 kg (12lb 9oz), 2004
Search Engine I Used- www.Lycos.com
Rating of Search Engine - *** hard seach though! 15minutes

When did Queensland become a state and why is the Tweed River in New South Wales?
Answer I found – 1859, June 6th. Tweed river is in New south Wales, but why I don’t know, possibly because 85% of nsw suger cane grows on it?
Search Engine I Used- www.metacrawler.com
Rating of Search Engine - **** but I still couldn’t find that answer… 15 minutes

What was the weather like in south-east Queensland on 17 November 1954?
Answer I found - Tropical Cyclone
Search Engine I Used- www.alltheweb.com
Rating of Search Engine - ** 5 minutes – ended up going to a government search engine

Why is Lord Byron still remembered in Venice?
Answer I found -. He proudly claimed to have enjoyed the company of a different woman on 200 consecutive evenings in Venice. Yet between bouts of Venetian libertinism, he managed to write the final cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgramage, the poem Beppo, large parts of his memoirs, sundry other lyrics, some verse drama, dozens and dozens of letters, and the first sections of his masterpiece Don Juan. The most notorious Romantic poet and satirist, Byron created his own cult of personality, the concept of the 'Byronic hero'
Search Engine I Used- www.aolsearch.com
Rating of Search Engine – ***** 2 minutes GREAT!

What band did Sirhan Chapman play in and what is his real name?\
Answer I found - He played vocals/keyboards in the black assassins, and his real name is Stephen Stockwell.
Search Engine I Used- www.search.netscape.com
Rating of Search Engine - ***1/2 10 minutes not toooo bad but annoying

Week 3 Lecture
Unfortunately I missed this week’s lecture, due to the Ekka Wednesday public holiday, something us Queenslanders are proud of. I’m happy to say that I didn’t mind missing the lecture for some Ekka day horse racing, which I enjoyed quite a lot!
What I did happen to miss was an interesting lecture about Cine-Speak, the Language of the Cinema. I was fortunate to understand a lot of this doing around about 8 years of acting.
I did how ever learn how the camera can deliver a message through the position it holds, without words or music backing it up. Example, stressing about the question when to go, the camera can get a shot of the clock into view.

The slides went through camera views answering the possible questions going through an audiences mind, for example, who, what, when, how, why and where. The next interesting thing was the proportions of head room an actor should receive in order to have the correct and suitable head room, and talking room, All of this using proportions in thirds and to the correct degree (e.g.180). The lecture slides finished up with an explanation of inserts and cutaways, and the conclusion that every shot needs to drive the narrating. Without this valuable information, most of the greatly loved films and advertisements would be quite boring.

I found this on the net today, and it made me think how often it is these days that children are getting more sucked into new technology now at a younger age. I remember my very first mobile, a 3315 ("the brick") when I was in my first year of high school. Sadly I only got it because everyone else had one, and I wanted to be cool too. Children these days are getting them as young as 10! I know Generation Y runs on technology, but this is just a little too much for me.

Its not just Mobile phones though, our generation is obsessed with computers, and it’s not such a bad thing until we realize that we've been on face book for 3 hours+. Now don’t forget MSN, that’s what started it all. I started that up when I was in grade 6, and have been on it since! It’s the best way to keep in touch, faster than e-mail, cheaper than the phone, and your display picture can look good 24/7! Its also faster and involves less effort then writing an letter, which to me is only ever used to add more of a personally and meaningful touch to a message.

Unfortunately, the problem now is how much these programs threaten your privacy. Not to forget the warnings from ACA and Today Tonight about all the old men sitting online waiting to talk to young girls. Personally I think there’s only one solution; it’s about being smart and knowing what to put up and who you allow to see it. This may limit you to meeting people online, but that’s taking the reality out of life in my opinion. I wont even back up dating sites for that matter, meeting someone online is abnormal, and you will never have a true confirmation until you see them in person, and if that’s possible why bother talking on the internet.

Task 2, something funny i found on youtube. Has anyone ever had problems with tiny mobile phone keys? i have, not with my current iPhone, but definetly with past nokia phones. Lets just hope that technolodgy doesnt follow the path that it gets as tiny and irritating as it does in this video.

The History of Computers and the Internet

Lecture 2 - The History of Computers and the Internet

Charles Babbage, Alan Turner and Ada Byron (Lady Lovelace)started it all, and if most of gen Y knew who they were I’m about 90% sure they'd erect statues and temples in there name. The first computer although was really only used for mathematical equations and decoding German codes in WW2. It wasn’t until IBM, led by Gordon Moore, in the 1950s created the first commercially produced computer that it really got cooking. If anyone complains about slow computers or broadband, it should definitely not be to him (maybe Kevin Rudd though?).

Moving on in 1975, we get to Bill Gates, he dropped out of University and started Microsoft in his garage, and worked on writing a language called BASIC for the Altair, so that it could be used for simple applications like word processing, basic accounting and some games.

Getting to my favorite part of the lecture was definitely talking about the nerds Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. These men in my mind are geniuses, and I would not have known that had I not changed from PC. I always viewed Mac technolodgy as something strange and hard to understand, but in reality it is quite the opposite. Apple works on the concept that nothing should be more than 3 clicks away, and that simplicity in my opinion had led to the success of their company, that and its concepts in design. I found it unbelievable that they only sold 50 copies of the first computer, then again it had no keyboard, no case and mouse …and today they make the ultimate computers and technology and are worth over $100 million!

Unfortunately I was not enthusiastic about listening about IBM and Microsoft, especially since I changed my laptop for a Mac book. PC’s just make me furious with all the viruses and constant problems, I have none of that with Mac. Anyway, back to the lecture, all in all IBM needed a language and operating systems, and in the end turned to Microsoft instead of Kildall, although the actual operating system (Kudos) was largely based on Kildalls system. During the time of there first PC, Apple was on the fall due to Steve Jobs dropping out, but he came back and apple soared in the market place again when the iMac line was started.

Moving on to the Internet, and although it causes huge problems around the world and large amounts of crime we could not live without it today, god knows Generation Y couldn’t. It was RAND Corporation’s idea in 1960, and the World Wide Web was established 1990 due to the idea that the internet might be a good idea for communications. Thus leading to E-mail!!! Which lead to viruses and deleting chain mail for 5 minutes every time I get my e-mail off the web.

And finally we came to file FTP which is File transfer protocol (which really is just uploading files), IRC internet relay chat which is allowed people to type to each other in real time and... GAMES! My favorite part of computers! Also the downfall of my Mac, although some games may be played and there’s chess right?? In the lecture we talked about MUD’s MOO’s and MUSHes, which really were the first of the internet massive multiuser online role playing games, in which were texted based and you gave orders such as “go north” and “pick up sword”. They eventually lead on to games like World of War Craft, Everquest and Age of Empires (very good game).

More recently things added to the world of ever changing technology was the ever so addictive Myspace, Facebook, twitter, msn, MP3’s, and Skype.

Cocaine

Cocaine Jesus is thrilling from start to finish. Watching, one has no idea what to expect, but your imagination runs with the storyline as the words change at the speed and thrill of the story line. The music by Cruel Sea called “Cocaine” ties in with the storyline and drama of the scene and keeps the audience lively, active and “on your The choice of music was perfect and set the mood, and although there were no pictures, the font spoke enough character and stirred my imagination just enough. It also changed pace to tie in with the increase of thrill and pressure the main character was going through. All in all this was a great video, everything came together in the end pulling you along an un-expected path leading to an exciting and also interesting finish.