S S S Searching....

Answer these questions without using google or wikipedia! Try some different sources. Write a post in your blog with the answers, and include the source of the information. How do you know that the place you got the answer is accurate?

1. Who was the creator of the infamous "lovebug" computer virus?

Onel De Guzman

Yahoo Answers - http://computerbytesman.com/lovebug/index.htm

2. Who invented the paper clip?

Johan Vaaler

Dogpile Search - http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpaperclip.htm

3. How did the Ebola virus get its name?

It was named after a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) in Africa, where it was first recognized
Dogpile Search engine -http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/ebola/qa.htm
4. What country had the largest recorded earthquake?
Chile, 1960

Ask Jeeves - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/10_largest_world.php

5. In computer memory/storage terms, how many kilobytes in a terabyte?
1073741824

Dogpile Search - http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/

6. Who is the creator of email?

1971,Ray Tomlinson
Live Search-http://au.encarta.msn.com/media_461532659/Important_Inventions_and_Discoveries.html

7. What is the storm worm, and how many computers are infected by it?

The Storm worm is a backdoor, Trojan horse that affects computers using Microsoft operating systems as many as 250, 000 and 10 million computers as of September 2007.

Yahoo Answers - http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Asz9CdYgvLIAmc9re4Ajv0QjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20071201163655AA8cWhV

8. If you wanted to contact the prime minister of australia directly, what is the most efficient way?

By letter. Whats the point you'll never get a reply! Not in a million years

Dogpile Search - http://www.pm.gov.au/contact/index.cfm

9. Which Brisbane based punk band is Stephen Stockwell (Head of the School of Arts) a member of?

Stephen played keyboard for Brisbane punk band, the Black Assassins! I now think of him so much differently.

Anzwers Seach engine - http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/staff/stockwell.htm

10. What does the term "Web 2.0" mean in your own words?

To put it shortly.Sharing information over the Internet.

http:// courtneysbraintrust.com

Technology..is technical

Do you have friends whom you only know from the Internet and have never met in person? Is this different to people that you know in person? Describe the difference.
How long have you been using these communication technologies?
What influenced you to start using these particular technologies?
Is privacy an issue for you when using new technologies? (How do you deal with issues around privacy?)

Interesting, you may think? All I can think about at the moment is when I will be able to eat something and have a power nap, but for the purpose of grades I will stop thinking about my belly!



To start, privacy on the Internet is clearly not an issue for me, because I wouldn't have posted a story about my life in a blog for everybody to read, the only way I deal with privacy issues is I don't put my address or phone number ANYWHERE. Why do young girls always post their mobile numbers in comments on a strangers page on Myspace? I've come to the conclusion that they must have no life and enjoy prank phone calls.

Myspace is pretty much a place for stalkers not friends! When you see your profile views jump considerably after uploading new photos and don't have 1 single damn comment you know that people are being nosy. So if I had an issue with this I would not have Myspace, its far too amusing!



New communication technologies never cease to amaze me and I mostly use these technologies to keep in contact with friends and family and to study. I still have no idea how to do most things on the Internet (like a template for my blog because clearly this current one is putrid, and that is why I enrolled in this class.)The Internet has never been a place for me to talk to complete strangers who I am never going to meet because I think that is such a waste of time and energy unless you are learning something new from this stranger. However I have made a really lovely friend who I adore, and I'll admit it, it was purely through the Internet. Mon was moving to my hometown and saw me on a mutual friends page and emailed me on Myspace, we met up and fell in love haha not in love but we got along heaps well.Now I talk to her every week and miss her with all of my insides.



I use the Internet everyday just about and have been using a computer and the net since about year 7 so since 2000. I think what influenced me to use these technologies was to progress with the world and to keep in touch with everyone, but what I really used it for when I was younger was to chat on MSN because that was how you initiated a date back in the younger days but...when mobile phones became popular and your parents actually supplied the funds for you to buy a mobile phone, MSN was ditched for SMS as a way to overcome your shyness and lack of confidence and you were actually able to talk to a boy without going bright red. Well that was my tips and hints for dates, not really but if it wasn't for new communication technologies I'm pretty sure I couldn't get through Uni and I would not be able to keep in touch with my family who live 7 hours away. So I thank the new communication technologies and hope that after this subject I will be more in touch with the world and its forever changing technology. Amen!

Courtneys brief life story

Greetings!

My name is Courtney and I'm 20 and I'm an alcoholic. Not Really!

Welcome to my first ever blog. First year in uni, I was a bit daunted to start with but I am beginning to realise I might actually have some fun studying again(Shock Horror).I moved to Queensland from Port Macquarie, a beautiful little coastal town and I miss it so much. Queensland is over rated! I can't wait to move already, but I'll stop talking negative and tell you the more brighter things about me.

I'm a lover not a fighter ha ha that should be the new token Supre shirt (vomit) not a fan of Supre at all. (It doesn't even deserve a capital). Pretty much a bookworm I'm always reading and listening to music, I don't like sleeping much, I can't sleep in or fall to sleep easy. I like to give blood every 3 months I see it as my good deed and that I will be rewarded one day! I am a bit of a procrastinator and I have trouble making decisions like what packet of lollies I want to buy, generally to do with food choices. On that note I am always hungry and I cant cook which makes it hard and makes me appreciate my mother very very much.

I just recently bought a harmonica which I am starting to practice, Bob Dylan is my inspiration and David Bowie is my idol.I love my friends and family to death,I get nervous when it comes to public speaking but what baffles me is that I am completely comfortable when it comes to performing in front of large audiences. Can't find the logic in that.

Meeting new people and making new friends comes pretty easy for me and I am so very affectionate when it comes to the people I love and also when I've had a few glasses of wine.

I find it difficult to sum myself up in a blog box so this is only a little chunk about me and my life. Keep reading and you may find more clues on who Courtney is.