Parents Monitor Students

I recently read the New York Times article, "Parents Monitor Students." It told of a program being used by some schools in which, "parents can check pending assignments; incomplete assignments; whether a child has been late to class; discipline notices; and grades on homework, quizzes and tests as soon as they are posted. They can also receive e-mail alerts on their cellphones." Theese sites are updated every time a new update about the student occurs. For example: The seccond a teacher calculates a student's grade on a test, it will be posted on the site. I had mixed feelings about this. It is a good program because it prevents kids from lying about grades or detentions etc. so their parents can make them study more or have better behavior. It's bad because the student's privacies are violated by this and there might be an error on the site that gives the child a failing grade when he/she really got a 100.

Great And Evil Leaders In History

Great:
1. JFK
2. George Washington
3. General Patton

4. Chuck Norris
5. Dali Lama
I chose theese leaders because they are completely free of corruption and did everything in the best intrests of human kind and/or their country, such as how General Patton freed Europe from evil.

Evil:
1. George Bush
2. Adolf Hitler
3. Kim Jong Ill
4. Joseph Stalin
5. Osama Bin Laden
I chose these leaders because they are full of corruption or did everything in the best intrests of themselves, not taking into account annything moral or just, like George bush killing thousands of soldiers and civilians trying to get oil.

Cellphone Novels

Recently, many would-be authors in Japan have typed entire novels on thier cell phones. (Their thumbs must have really been sore after that.)

Yahoo

Because of fear of competetors and a decline in Yahoo's visitors from twenty-two milion to less than five million, Yahoo cheif executive Jerry Yang displayed a prototype version of Yahoo's e-mail server that had been turned into a "powerful communications hub". Jerry Yang, as well as some shareholders, are turning to this to help keep Yahoo alive and booming. This new communications hub could do things such as tap into social networks to give higher priority to messages coming from senders with close ties to their recipients, and use developers’ programs to help organize a dinner for a group of people. Theese are some of the many functions Yahoo shareholders and buisiness men are relying on to save their company. http://www.yahoo.com/, http://www.google.com/, http://www.facebook.com/, and http://www.microsoft.com/ are all competing against eachother, hoping to take their visitors and maintain the highest population out of the rest, untill they are the one and only site of their kind.
Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press


At the Consumer Electronics Show, Edward J. Zander, left, chief executive of Motorola, announced a partnership with Yahoo, through which Yahoo’s mobile software would be made available on Motorola handsets.

As you can see, Yahoo is trying to keep up their renown and avalable technology to keep users in their grasp.

I think Yahoo's e-mail-communications hub plan will be successfull, because the new system they are trying to create can really save time and energy for business workers, but I don't think it will pull them over the top of the food chain. This plan will buy them time and money, but will not get them out of the competition.

My Creativity Environment

I am a very creative person, but there are times and places when I am more creative, and certain objects and people that inspire me to be very creative. I tend to be most creative when I am not busy or stressed, and when I have nothing to worry about. The time of the day also plays a role, since at 4 in the morning i'd rather sleep than be creative. I am very creative when I am anywhere that is not chaotic, but relaxing, or just cool. I have a cool pen made 100% of blue glass, that you dip in ink to write with, and a really cool green leather notebook, that really help my creative side come out. My brother also really helps me bring out my creative side.

From Fustration to Learning

One problem I had during the creation of a website was when my tables or images weren't alligning how they were supposed to. I looked at my notes, but I still couldn't figure it out. Then I asked my teacher, Mr. Fink, and he helped me out postioning the tables and pictures. If you can't figure something out, always ask your teacher for assistance, and your work will look great, no matter how messed up you are.

html Training Video

I recently watched a video on Youtube called Basic HTML Tutorial, and it taught the extremely bare basics of making a webpage. It told readers how to make a webpage; you would use the 'notepad' feature of your computer, type the open and close html commands, type your message in between, save the file as .html, access the webpage, and use the the bold command. It did not include anything else, and was extremely shallow, but it was a good and not-confusing way for beginners to start using html.