Flavor Flav has got to be one of my favourite celebrities; from Public Enemy he’s obsest with having a clock round his neck.
Apr
17
Oscar, as you all know is my trusty friend and I thought of using the same image but, give him a tasty bone this time.
Apr
15
Because of the recent news that all British telephone boxes are to become obsolete, I have chosen this communication devise. Notice the sign has been changed to obsolete.
Apr
01
I have found that using Gmail and Ficker, to host my images via pages.google.com is an easi yethod. This site has a tool called Page Creater, and is very quick and user friendly for hosting your pictures. Just to let you know that when you first open a Gmail or Flickr account, it can take several minutes for the image to up load.
I will be posting some more photo very soon…
Apr
01
Here we are again, Monday morning, sat in the lab with construction noises from the ground work maintainence and no available tutorial content on the learning@griffith!! It’s all good, because it’s easter week and we have a long weekend available to chill out before our mass influx of due assignments. My weekend is going to consist of partying, but not drinking, as I work for Wicked party Tours will be pumping this weekend and i’ve gotta motivate the sales team to perform well.
If any of you enjoy writing with html, here is my first Writing for the Web assignment available for your perusal. “Check this out!”
Mar
25
Sailing through the Panama Canal has to be a pretty slow and unconventional way to pass through a country!! This was taken from a friends camera and I’m not sure of the model.
I enjoy my summer walks along Nobby’s Beach. Taken from my Canon Finepix S5500.
Here is my little friend Oscar… Very cute!!!! Taken with my Finepix.
Uni life is cool fun, get to hang out some great people. I’ve taken the opportunity to recruite some uni students also. This is Scott and Christina with myself posing for a Wicked energy picure for our portfolio. Taken with my Finepix.
It was the worst news ever. The Tsunami killed so many people. Would you believe that I was in Phuket Island when this happened! Taken from www.flickr.com
Check out this hi-tech toilet. Technology seems to have no limits! Taken from Flickr.com
Lecture Notes
Wow! The content of this lecture was amazing… to use these examples of Plato to say Cyberspace is Platonism as a working product, brilliant. Also the comparison of the shift in the communication culture 2,500 years ago, that is comparitable to todays technological evolution in Socrates theories. Clever guy!
Now thinking about the difference between public and commercial broadcasters, as much as i’m currently studying a course in marketing, I really despise commercials and turn the TV over instantly (when I get a chance to watch it that is). So having the option of watching TV via the internet an fully choosing your program suits me just fine!
As for those 3D glasses, I remember watching Jaws (showing my age) when you have to wear those rediculous blue and red lensed goggles, and you either had a head from the vision or hitting your head against an object behing, thinking the shark was going to eat you lol…
When browsing through the list of VR applications, a thought of VR Fitness camr to mind. When the lag time is reduced to zero, a simulated sports enviroment could be programmed and encorage peole to partake in virtual sports. Some people lack the facilities, knowledge or even the confidence to go out and excercise. A full training session could be animated in the VR head set. Even an advance level to fine tune professionals performance. I’m first for the womens volley ball tournament!!!!
Mar
19
Alphaville
A black and white science fiction movie representing the distopia in another planet in the future. I didn’t look very futuristic to me though, but what do you expect as it was made in the 60’s!! I like the trench-coat too, very imaginative and futuristic!! The hero caled himself a Guadalcanal veteran.
After brainstorming a variety of ideas from some controversial issues, I am considering basing my essay topic on
File Sharing on the internet or VR.
I’m using pro-quest on the library website and the 3 academic articles relating to this topic are as follows;
2006 – The year that P2P comes in from the cold?
Mass video broadcasting over the Internet was legitimised by the Warner Bros Group with a service called In2movies.
Rex Winsbury. Intermedia. London: Apr 2006.
From http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1041562641&sid=3&Fmt=4&clientId=13713&RQT=309&VName=PQD
P2P traffic still dominates the ‘Net
CacheLogic’s global monitoring network shows 60% of all Internet traffic is the result of peer-to-peer file-sharing…
Jason Meserve. Network World. Framingham: Aug 29, 2005.
From http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=891822131&sid=3&Fmt=3&clientId=13713&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Bringing the Web And TV Together
A system called Veoh Networks enables TV viewers to choose their own channels.
Brian Morrissey. Adweek. New York: Feb 27, 2006
From http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=998407781&sid=3&Fmt=4&clientId=13713&RQT=309&VName=PQD
These 3 three academic articles have given me more of direct goal on my written assignment and I will look more into the social issues of file sharing.
Mailing List
We had some other tasks to carry out during tutorial 4, and one of them was to look at mailing lists and relate them to
some of the things we study in New Comm. Tech. I discovered you can set up your own blog sites and also have
state your opinion on a website forum. They also give you handy tips with HTML and other useful computing advise.
www.bravenet.com
Scavenger Hunt
What is the weight of the worlds biggest pumpkin?
Grown by Ron Wallice, the biggest was 1502 pounds!
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/ViewArticle.asp?id=161&gid=49 via http://au.acer.yahoo.com/
What is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact Grant Hackett?
gali@granthackettonline.com via http://au.acer.yahoo.com/will get you through to his personal assistant.
What is the length of a giraffe’s tongue?
27″ long
http://www.qeok.com/other/2843-qeok.html via http://au.acer.yahoo.com/
How would you define the word ‘ontology’? In your own words, what does it really mean?
It is the study of exsistance.
http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/kst/what-is-an-ontology.html via http://au.acer.yahoo.com/
What was David Cronenberg’s first feature film?
It was made in 1969 and was called Sterio.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereo_%28film%29 via http://au.acer.yahoo.com/
When was the original ‘Hacker’s Manifesto’ written?
The Conscience of a Hacker was its other name and was written in Jan 8 1986 by The Mentor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_Manifesto via http://au.acer.yahoo.com/
Why do numbers in all Hollywood films begin with ‘555′?
One of the main reasons the prefix exists is to avoid accidentally using real phone numbers in movies and television programmes – as there are many cases of people trying to call the numbers used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_telephone_number via http://au.acer.yahoo.com/
What is the cheapest form of travel from Crete to Rhodes?
Swim, unless you have a friend with a boat!
What song was top of the Austalian Pop Charts this week in 1965?
I’ll Never Find Another You, The Seekers
http://www.onmc.iinet.net.au/topspot/1965.htm via http://au.acer.yahoo.com/
Which Brisbane band includes Stephen Stockwell on keyboards and vocals?
Black Assassins
http://74.6.146.244/search/cache?p=stephen+stockwell+brisbane&ei=UTF-8&fr=ace2&vst=0&vs=www.griffith.edu.au&u=www.gu.edu.au/school/art/staff/stockwell.htm&w=stephen+stockwell+brisbane&d=Wiu2FhIeOdPo&icp=1&.intl=au via http://au.acer.yahoo.com/
Some more questions
What is a search engine?
A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system, such as on the World Wide Web.
How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet?
Hypertext Individual Topic Selection (HITS) is a link analysis algorithm (a finite set of well-defined instructions) that selects web pages web pages for their authority and hub value. Developed by Jon Kleinberg.
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?
Keywords are typed into a database, the file relating to these keywords is then placed at the top of the list. In most cases company’s pay for superior ranking on their web-sites through Search Engine Optimisation SEO company’s.
http://seo.mitash.com/search-engine-optimisation-seo/index.htm
What are some of your favourite search engines?
I have, for a long time been using ASK.com for most of my searching and also enjoy the vast knowledge of the wikipedia.com site, because of its vast amount of links.
Can you find some current stories about search engines?
Visit www.couriermail.com to read more about the Microsoft giant accusing Google’s of copywriting, saying “Google appears to be trying wherever possible to skirt copyright law’s boundaries,” as found in a Financial Times opinion section, by Mr Rubin, Microsofts associate general counsel for intellectual property. Googles chief legal officer says everything was legal.
Lecture Notes
WWW to Internet! I certainly didn’t know the difference until now, I just thought, like all the rest of the computer dullerds that they ment the same thing, nice one Griffith lol.
Now, on the subject of ‘Cyberspace’ and ‘Convergence’, if there was ever to be a nuclear fall-out or a virus that could destroy the majority of the human race, then we would see ourselves in a dialectic disaster of communicating without face to face contact. Then the word ‘Netiquette’ would take on a whole new meaning, it would become the only way, and then follows new rules and dialectics, Netpolice cracking down on the ‘crackers’ and so on 
As for viruses, I wonder if someone from the security services is actually sending them out in order to sell more products #( Any thing is possible these days :0
In all fairness, sinse i’ve been learining more about the comm. tech. society, my netiquette has improved, emailing more often to my good friends, that is 
As for the copyright and the opportunity to infringe it’s policy, the internet holds a great opportunity to look at other products and improve on their quality. This is, I guess the dialectic in a converging economic market. The competition just got even more competitive, fine tuning their products, just like the latest mobile phone can do almost everything.
I remember watching a program called Tomorrow’s World on BBC England (Google it) and they once sayed that one day your mobile phone, could do anything from play TV programs to compute like a PC. Now, looking back and remembering the size of the phone in her hand, looking like a house brick, I think to myself; is that all it can do as it’s bloody big!!!!
Mar
13
Here is what i’ve learned for a use of technology, press the button to access another site…
Mar
12
As a handy guide to how I connect links to this blog, I have given a website… Check it out!
Click here for a handy link on the World Wide Web, it’s a fun guide to html.
Mar
12
Some more examples of my use of technology. Here is the website of the company I manage…
