unkowns...

I am a big fan of music, particularly hip hop, and my friend told me about this artist, wiz khalifa,
and I had no idea who he was. So I checked him out on youtube, and he has multiple videos with over a million views. He has not even came out with an album yet, but he still have a very large following. It kind of shows how fast word can spread about a certain artist or musician. The power that youtube brings to the world is unbelievable, it can just catapult people into the mainstream. If anyone is interested, there is a link below.

wiz khalifa

another one down...

Finally classes are done, and now the finals begin. Boy do the finals ever come quick, I have 5 finals in 3 days starting Monday. I am not looking forward to that at all, but there is nothing I can do. I am thinking coffee will become my best friend.

At the conclusion of this semester comes the conclusion of our group project. I had some doubts, when I heard there was a group project, just because so many things can go wrong. Thankfully I was paired with really nice, and responsible people. We did not have any trouble with anything, and it was a good experience overall, I even learned new stuff myself. Everybody took responsibility for their own part, and everyone contributed, which was one of my concerns coming in. Thanks all my group members.

Video sharing

Video sharing has become more and more popular with the continuing development of youtube, and other websites. There are a bunch of different video sharing websites, each with different capabilities, and different advantages. By far the most popular one, everyone of us has spent hours watching videos on, is youtube. I personally think youtube is great. It allows us to see everything which in some eyes may be good or bad. If we shouldn't be seeing it, it is usually taken down very quickly, but it does more good then bad. It lets us see funny videos, stand up acts, watch music videos, but most importantly it can get crimes out in the public and criminals put away. There is a link to a story below.

link

public or private

The semester is almost done, and once again the last of the assignments being are piled up. It seems like this happens every semester. As the term nears an end I start to get lazy, and slack off, and let the assignment gather. Every year its the same too, I say I will get the assignment done early and does not happen. I should really start actually following through on what I say, its hard to maintain it though, the summer is so close. Its beautiful outside, and I do not want to be inside doing homework. Whats my excuse for the end of the fall semester? I can't think of one right now.

online shopping...

A group did a presentation on online shopping today, and I was particularly interested because online shopping is something I have always been tempted to do. There are a lot of legitimate and trustworthy sites, but unfortunately I have been too afraid too. I know there are a lot of people trying to scam and rip people off, and the thought of that has always had me unwilling to purchase goods online. There are so many possibilities that things good go wrong, the product could get damaged in shipping, something with the transaction could go wrong, or if its not what i ended up wanting will I be able to get the money back. As the presenters said said though, take precautions, keep records, and it is much more straight forward and easier than you think. I think i may give it a try and see how it goes. Here is some online shopping information from the presentation.

online shopping

editing...

Today we started our group presentations and the first group discussed photo editing, which I think is a very interesting topic. They showed us how easy they could do it, and even photo of famous dictators that were editing, and celebrity photos that had been edited as well. It got me thinking though, and how much is real in today's age, and not altered in any way. My guess is very little, and it was even illustrated by that group. They showed a dove commercial which showed a woman, then fast forwarded through all the makeup and computer altering they had done to her. The dove commercial touched on other topics but it did show us how pictures are altered. In todays age where software has advanced so much, and companies want to present us with the best looking product, they will alter images to give us that. I would be willing to guess that almost everything that is shown in magazines, and on tv are edited to show us the best. I found this video on youtube, which demonstrates some "fake" advertising on some famous tv shows. I think thats the biggest thing to, were being fooled into believing this is real. See for yourself.

link here

ur courses

We recently discussed the layout of urcourses, and the old webct. Most of the class was not happy with ur courses and I would have agree with them. I do not remember webct really because it was a while ago, but i dont remember it being like ur courses. UR courses is pretty crowed layout, and it seems like there is plenty of useless stuff that jus crowds the interface. It works though so, really the complaints are not all that important. It would be nicer if it was different but o well. Thats the problem with open sourcing software, sometimes it not dependable. There can be many different opinions of how stuff should be done, and thats the problem.