I have just finished creating the slides for the summative assessment. Adapting from the formative slides, a few are the same but most have been edited or completely changed. A few new sections have been added in, the most funny of which is the ‘Scenarios’ slide. Detailing a series of events about the txt alert [...]

I have just completed my contextual studies essay! I wrote about the peer-to-peer network and how the government has no idea what they are doing with regard to trying to shut down illegal file sharing. I left out the illegal part mostly and focused on comparing the monitoring of data to the tapping of phones [...]

The following is an essay I wrote as a polemic as part of a Contextual Studies elective. Peer To Peer is an internet distribution network allowing users to share content without using dedicated servers or utilizing bandwidth. The users share information directly with each other using a centralised ‘tracker’ which directs the relevant information to [...]

Today started by playing around with various databases to be able to connect, retrieve data and add data. After a few teething problems (me not knowing anything) I was able to add information to a database and retrieve it. Yay. Dave and James kindly worked out a way to simulate the journey planner. From that [...]

This is the single best use of anyone’s time… becoming the worlds best YoYo…er(?) All credit to the guy, he is bloody good. He goes really fast at some point and his hands are just a blur, I imagine if Superman YoYo…ed(?) then this is what it would be like. The sad thing is… I [...]

An article from Tech Radar says French technology company Bell Labs have revealed they have managed to break the record for data transfer. They managed to optically transfer 16.4TB/s over a distance of 2550km. That’s 100 HD movies EVERY SECOND! What would the download limit be on this… kinda puts test to the ‘fair usage [...]