Speakeasy.net

Speakeasy [http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest] is a site on which one can view how fast their internet connection speed is. My own results displayed as 4866 kilobits per second for download speed, and 479 kilobits per second for upload speed.

Twilight; Bad Turn For The Vampire Generation

Although Twilight seems to be a good love story, the movie adaptation looks like a slap in the face. The movie did have good effects, however, the book had several flaws on displaying vampires. Vampires should not be portrayed as glittering, human's blood-vegetarians. What is the most annoying factor of Meyer's vampire is that they actually have no fangs. What kind of vampires have no fangs?! Vampires should resemble the originals, blood thirsty demons, not a diamond sparkly creature whos only resembelence to the original vampires is their white skin, immortality, and semi-thirst for blood.

Edward Cullen (Left) Real Vampire (Right)

In short; Vampires with no fangs = Fail.
Kthxbye.
/Ends rant

Microsoft Announces New Operating Systems

Yesterday [October 27,2008] Microsoft unveiled details of two new operating systems. Currently the most commonly used Microsoft operating systems are Windows XP and Windows Vista. Although frequently criticized, often by those who never use it, Vista is actually a very stable, rich environment in which to work, particularly when used with up to date machines.

Nevertheless, Microsoft has decided to press ahead with successors for Vista. In late 2009 Windows 7 will be released. It will be much like Vista. Around the same time Microsoft will release Windows Asure, an operating system that lives on Microsoft servers and not on your computer. This is called Cloud Computing, the "Cloud" being the Internet. Basically this means that you won't need an operating system or programs: they will all live in the "Cloud."

Whether this works out or not remains to be seen. However, many companies are already trying this, both with Microsoft and with Google products.

"Cloud Computing" is one of the most used technology buzz words at present.

ICT 12 Student Blogs (2008-09)

Ava Balingit
Ryan Battistel
Sofia Busse
Nicole Ceralde
Nathan Chiu
Jonathan De Maeseneer
Danila Di Giacinto
Lia Estrellado
Kimberly Francisco
Dilantha Geekiyanage
Nikko Henderson
Nikka Komisarski
Steffani Mastromonaco
Caitlin Nery
Conner Olenick
Andrea Strazzullo
Adam Troczynski
Nikko Tagle
Alannah Villella
Jason Wong

These are the blog urls for my Ict 12 class colleagues.

The class is using Blogger throughout the year to record information about various programs and techniques.

This list will be updated to include several blog urls not presently available.

iGoogle

Today I signed up for the iGoogle service and made a couple of minor custom changes. I added a custom widget to display my IP address.

ICT 12

In our class I will be working with several different programming languages, such as; Turbo Pascal, Javascript, etc...