Archive for July, 2007
This is the forth part of series of posts about life at university and my thought on my first year. The first post in the series just had some general thoughts I had coming straight back from Portsmouth. This post is entitled “The internet“.
When I think of my life at the University of Portsmouth can not seem to imagine what it would be like without the internet. It is such a big part of how I interact with the world and the people around me. It is how I relax by watching funny videos, how I research work problems and where I talk to my friends at the end of the day.
So here is my top ten useful sites
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Continuing on the University life series, is a book you must read if you are a student. In my first month at uni I was really depressed and I hang home alot. My mum knew that I was in a bad way and was looking for a way to cheer me up. So you ordered this book for me and sent straight to my halls. I must admit that it is one of the best books that I have ever had a chance to read. It is so funny and I know now that so much of it was true.
There are some really good bits in like the bit about lost weekend on page 198.
Lost weeks are so dubbed because they are periods in which, due to overrindulgence, once loses everything – money, sense, dignity, memory, coordination and bowel control. There are not necessarily limited to a weeked , and can last as long as a month, depending on how dedonistic and out of balance your life has become.
You can buy it on Amazon.co.uk and at time of writing was only �6.71. You can find it use ISBN which is 0 95361 1035.
You can also find more cheeky guides at their official website.
Whether you�re still deciding where to go or just two weeks from your finals, this book is an absolute must.
The new and cool thing on the internet is something called Micro-blogging. Basically Micro-blogging is a form of blogging that lets you write brief text updates (usually less than 200 characters) about your life on the go. It always people to quickly update their friends without sitting down for ages to write a long post. There are lots of sites there that do this like Jaiku and Twitter.
Facebook has also added status update which gives 160 character field to write a small little place to wite a personal update. This status is shown in the News feed and can also be outputted as an RSS feed. As I spend lots of time updated this, so I thought I would add to this site. The new feature which I am currently testing at the moment appears on the right hand sidebar, under the heading, My status. It adds a personal touch to the site and adds a new element to page.
I would like to know what you think of it, so please comment.
This blog has been running for nearly a year and I thought that I would talk about blogging itself. I really enjoy writting this blogs in general and the act interests me so much, I thought that I would be a little Self-reference. I must admit, I really do not write enough and keep this page as updated as I should but I do try. It really is a matter of what on earth should I write about? There are lots of sites out there that report news like the BBC, so I am not going to try and be one of those. I don’t like sites that rereport news and normally there is a just a hyperlink to the page and no useful new information. If you really want to find cool news stories, than why not have a look at the social linking sites, like Digg or del.icio.us.
I have been known to do a bit of rereporting but I don’t think that is the real focus of this site. The point of this site is that is doesn’t really have a point. I can write what I feel interests me and share that with the rest of the world. But reading this blog you get a chance to look in my head and see the kinds of things that interest me. It makes this blog very personal to and you get insight into my mindset by reading it. Having said that it is very personal, I don’t really write about my life. There are lots about blogs out there about people’s lives, their girlfriends and parents that are getting on people nurves. For the most part, all of these are rubbish and are completely boring to read. I find it hard to believe that anyone but the people who these blogs are write about would find Joe Blogs and his cats at all interesting. I try and write about accessable topics that interest the world at large. What the problem lots of us weblogger have is, how do you keep the quality level to a high standard. The question you have to got ask yourself before sitting down in front of your computer is this, “Why I am blogging this?”. If it is for a good reason, to write something of use, that would help the world, like a blog about you dealing with a problem, then fine. But if I have to read another blog post about the Iphone, I think I am going to go mad.
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- Facebook
This is the second part of series of posts about life at university and my thought on my first year. The first post in the series just had some general thoughts I had coming straight back from Portsmouth. This post is entitled “faceboking“.
As a student at university, prepare yourself to spend hours of your life on this web site. I have heard facebook discribed as, “Like crack”. If you walk around a computer room in any university campus, you will see many screen with this site on it. I know that I personally have spend hours, tagging myself in photos, search for friends and reading other people walls. But many do not understand this phenomenon. Why is facebook so good?
The site seems to understand that people want to know what their friends are doing and share information easily. The site was orignally designed for students and even now when it is open, it still has that at it’s core. It understand that MySpace is different market, that facebook users don’t care about what look of their profile and that not everyone in the world should be able to see your profile. So other people on your network can see your profile. Your network can be a workplace, region, high school or college. For example, I am member of London and Uni. Portsmouth ’10. Only people that live in london or are currently going to Portsmouth. This is very useful and cuts down on spam friendship requests.
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