Wikipedia

I added the school webpage to the Andover High School page on wikipedia

I also categorized the Taggart page. That can be seen here.

Finally I added a picture of the coral beaches to the Fitzroy Island page

Host My Site

We had the CEO of hostmysite.com come in today to talk to us about the business and the evolution of internet websites. It was cool to hear about the evolution of websites from somebody who experienced it all first hand. It's amazing to see how they've evolved from basically a brochure with spinning dollars signs to an interactive expanse of information. As the internet evolves we get a better understanding of its true ability, the ideas of limitless information (the only trouble of course being how to find it but google has made that much easier). It seems every company has a website now with valuable information beyond who they are and what they do.


On a completely different subject I just have to have a little rant about academics today and the internet. For one of my classes I have to do this project and part of it includes writing a paper. Like so many papers do, it requires some research. And like so many papers before it, our reference/citation sheet has to have more than just internet websites on it. Now I know that there is a lot of information to be found in the library, actual books and magazines and all, however when doing a project on a rather new form of technology (for my group, it's about the iPod) there aren't a whole lot of books out. 3 in fact, in the whole library. So where else are we to get our info? I know we shouldn't look past the valuable resource that is the library but in today's day and in my generation where many of our textbooks are not only offered in online stores but also word for word on some publishers websites it seems fairly ridiculous that teachers still insist we visit the library. What is so horrible about citing websites as long as they are credible ones? When will that day come when teachers don't specify how many books must be cited and just accept that the internet is there filled with more and more valid information everyday? But most annoyingly why isn't citing wsj.com as good as citing a printed article from The Wall Street Journal?

Micorosoft Zune

I read an article on our Slashdot feed about the new Zune coming out soon. You can read about it here. I guess I'm not really surprised that Microsoft is making changes to their Zune since technology is always changing, but I am surprised that they are doing it so soon. Their product didn't hit the market till fairly recently but against the iPod I doubt it has been doing very well. Apple took the first mover advantage and ran with it with very little competition. It seems a little late in the game for Microsoft to even bother with their own version. I do like how the Zune can share music wirelessly but that would require having a fellow user nearby and with so few around that feature is basically useless. We kind of talked about it in class a couple days ago, how networks are more valuable when more people are involved in it and that holds true for the main feature of the Zune player. Microsoft is going to have to work a lot harder to get a decent market share and I doubt a newly sized model will do the trick without a heavy advertising campaign.

Taggart Crest

I had some time to waste so I just added a picture of my family crest to the Taggart Wikipedia page. It's kind of blurry but its good enough and certainly better than nothing. Now I gotta run to dinner but at least I did something kind of productive with my evening.

stiuqxela

Back from spring break and we have our first assignment: to blog the key word stiuqxela. The link leads to the Packers webpage but as a Pats fan, having a link to the Packers site on my blog just seems wrong. Nonetheless I suppose this could prove to be a good experiment since clearly stiuqxela has nothing to do with football but it will be interesting to see how google works and what it takes to get a higher rating.