Who was the creator of the "lovebug" virus? www.ask.com
Onel de Guzman is the suspected author of the LoveBug virus which originated in the Philippines.
Who invented the paperclip? www.ideafinder.com
John Johan invented the paper clip and William D middlebrook inveted the machine that created the paper clip. 1899, November 9.
How did the Ebola virus get its name? www. stanford.edu
The Ebola virus was named after the small river in Northern Zaire, Africa near the village where the first isolate of the virus was obtained in 1976. More cases occurred in Zaire in 1977 and in Sudan 1979.
What country has the largest recorded earthquake? www.ask.com
1960 - Chile. This eartquake caused death and destruction as far as Japan and the Philippines and had an estimated magnitude of about 8.
How many kilobytes in a terabyte? www.ask.com
One terabyte is equal to 1.073742E+09
Who is the creator of email? www.digpile.com
Ray Thomansen
What is Storm worm and how many computers were infected by it? www.ask.com
Storm worm is a backdoor trojan that takes over you computer, denies access to services, identity theft, email span, shuts down security defenses on desktop, sends out copies of itself to your contacts and has effected anywhere between 250,000 to 1 million computers.
What is the best way to contact the Prime Minister of Australia? www.ansearch.com.au
Via Australia Post
What does the term Web 2.0 mean? www.ansearch.com.au
Web 2.0 is a second generation of available web services that allows people to collaborate and share information online
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Communicating With Friends And Family
When communicating with friends and family it's often more convenient to write a quick email, post a myspace comment or write on their facebook wall. We all get busy so when these technologies came along it became a lot easier to keep in touch with everyone. This is all very well but what ever happened to sitting down to write a letter or better yet sitting down in person to spin a yarn? Shock Horror! I must admit I am one of the 100 million people who uses MySpace as means of communicating with friends and especially family overseas but you hear of these kids who spend every waking our on these sites. They're on there posting photos of themselves to see how many comments they can get, or adding thousands of random people to say that they have this many friends. It's a bit sad that these kids look for confidence boosts and so called "friends" in this way.
There is a huge difference to knowing someone on the web and really knowing someone in person. These people may not even be who they say they are which can be a dangerous aspect to these sites. I personally don't add random people who I haven't met in person and this is a privacy thing for me. I use myspace to keep in contact with my friends from not only my school but other schools also. Most importantly though it allows me to keep in contact with my beautiful family in Canada.
I caved in to the Myspace peer pressure at the end of 2006 and I've been happy with it so far. I was influenced to join the "MySpace team" because everyone was doing it- although I put up a good fight in the begining. Privacy has not been an issue for me using MySpace because I'm smart about it. My profile is private, I accept adds and add people myself only if I know them and I don't put any personal details such as my phone number or address. These new communication technologies have many advantages and disadvantages - it all depends on how you use it.
I would much rather socialise with friends at a bbq with a few bevvies and a mean feed but MySpace does allow me to organise such an event :)
There is a huge difference to knowing someone on the web and really knowing someone in person. These people may not even be who they say they are which can be a dangerous aspect to these sites. I personally don't add random people who I haven't met in person and this is a privacy thing for me. I use myspace to keep in contact with my friends from not only my school but other schools also. Most importantly though it allows me to keep in contact with my beautiful family in Canada.
I caved in to the Myspace peer pressure at the end of 2006 and I've been happy with it so far. I was influenced to join the "MySpace team" because everyone was doing it- although I put up a good fight in the begining. Privacy has not been an issue for me using MySpace because I'm smart about it. My profile is private, I accept adds and add people myself only if I know them and I don't put any personal details such as my phone number or address. These new communication technologies have many advantages and disadvantages - it all depends on how you use it.
I would much rather socialise with friends at a bbq with a few bevvies and a mean feed but MySpace does allow me to organise such an event :)
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Personal Introduction
My name is Lauren Benedet and my mum thinks I'm a maddogg.
I'm seventeen years old and I was born on the Gold Coast.
My old man is Canadian so I also have citizenship for Canada. Recently I completed my thirteen years at A.B Paterson College -thirteen years too long - where I grew as a person and developed my knowledge and interests. I adore my family and friends. I enjoy all sports, - particularly dancing and snowboarding - travelling, partying, art and literature; oh and partying. I'm a loud and energetic person although at times I'm quiet and attentive. I'm studying at Griffith University to obtain a Bachelor of Communication - where I go from there, I have no idea.
I'm seventeen years old and I was born on the Gold Coast.
My old man is Canadian so I also have citizenship for Canada. Recently I completed my thirteen years at A.B Paterson College -thirteen years too long - where I grew as a person and developed my knowledge and interests. I adore my family and friends. I enjoy all sports, - particularly dancing and snowboarding - travelling, partying, art and literature; oh and partying. I'm a loud and energetic person although at times I'm quiet and attentive. I'm studying at Griffith University to obtain a Bachelor of Communication - where I go from there, I have no idea.
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