A great video i found

I found a great video on YouTube today about the American presidential campaign:

A joke for today

Here is a joke which i really like:

Keen to let the world know he was still alive, Osama bin Laden sent Bush a letter in his own handwriting. Opening the letter, Bush saw only a coded message: "37OHSSV-O773H". Bush couldn't fuigure it out se he asked Dick Cheney what it ment. Cheney didn't know either but suggested sending it to Donald Rumsfeld..
After scratching his head for a few minutes, Rumsfeld said: "Why now try Condi? She has a doctorate, which means she's smart."
Dr Rice studied the letter beut she was baffled too.
As Bush continued to ponder the mysterious message lying on the desk befor him, a White House cleaner enterd the Oval Office. Reading the message, the cleaner asked: "Sir, where did that come from?"
Bush said: "Supposedly it's a message from Osama bin Laden. But what the hell does "37OHSSV-O773H" mean?"
The cleaner cleared her throat and said: "Mr President, I think you've been looking at the message upide down..."

What is a Wiki??

Wikis, they are all over the web nowadays, everyone uses them and almost everyone has copied a last Minuit prep off Wikipedia,

but do we really know what they are?

Well, say if a group of people wanted to collaborate on a single document on the web without having to all be on 1 computer or having to send multiple e-mails. A Wiki is online and can be edited by anyone, with the right security settings. It means that you can all edit and save a document as a web page very easily and efficiently. A useful video to grasp the simple concept of a Wiki is:

Wikis in plain English.

Another useful use for Wikis can be to create a site dedicated to one item, usually something you have a real passion in but cannot find other people to share it with. this is another video on this kind of Wiki

Wetpaint Wikis in plain English

The first wiki was called "WikiWikiWeb" it was designed and produced by Ward Cunningham. He got the idea from the Wiki-Wiki shuttle bus in Honolulu international airport, he took Wiki to be another way of saying quick, and so a WikiWikiWeb to him would be a quick way of looking at the web or quick quick Web.


A wiki is basically a web page or collection of web pages which can be edited by virtually anybody, quite often they are used for collaborative documents.
I have found that wikis are very useful, both to students for collaboration, and for research, or just for planning something without any need for endless e-mails.

The Apple iPod Touch

For Christmas i got an iPod Touch. Apple have made a huge success, the iPod Touch is fantastic! It has a sleek design and is easily accessible.

The iPod touch comes with a huge range of features:

1. It can be used as an iPod through the music player, either through the built in speakers or headphones or external speakers.
2. Video player, with the large 3.5 inch multi-touch touch screen it makes viewing videos enjoyable.
3. On the iTunes store there is a section where you can download special applications designed for the iPod Touch, they use the build in motion censers and touch screen. Not all the applications are games, many are useful as a utility.
4. On the iPod Touch there is a WiFi Receiver which can pick up your local wireless network and allows you to brows the web, view YouTube, or even to go on the iTunes store and download songs, videos or even applications straight onto your iTouch.

I found that the iTouch was really amazing, it allowed you to do virtually everything that a computer could do at a single touch. Another product that Apple launched which was very similar to the iTouch was the iPhone. This is almost the same as an iTouch but it has: a camera, Internet connection anywhere, a phone (obviously) and a microphone.

The iPhone is probably the most useful to people who are very busy and need to organise their life, as the iPhone is a Phone, Diary, iPod, Camera, has email, and web browser. This means that they have their who life organised on a hand-held device.

So all in all the iPhone and the iPod Touch are extremely useful, fun, enjoyable and easy to use.

Google Earth, Google Sky & Google Maps

Google Earth is a free, downloadable program by Google. It allows you to view the Earth from pictures taken by satellites. It is quite useful as you can view any place in the world and there are no limits to the ways in which you can view the images of Earth.

There are many features of Google earth, For example you can turn on 3D buildings to see large buildings in cities; you can also take pre-made tours of historical places or Landmarks. Also there is a hidden bonus: A flight simulator. The Flight simulator is quite cool as you can fly over your own town or city and see your house from the air.

One of the newer features of Google Earth is Google Sky. This allows you to see the sky at night as if you had a telescope. With this you can view constellations, Nebula, Galaxies or Planets. Microsoft has also put out a competing program called The WorldWide Telescope, this is a collection of all the best satellite photographs and is very similar to Google Sky.

Another online program by Google which is similar to Google Earth is Google Maps. This Allows you to view maps of areas and also allows you to see satellite pictures.

Google Earth and Google Maps are very useful for allowing people to see the World and to navigate around it. This is changing the way how we can see the World as it is interactive and allows you to do what you want with just a click of a button. They are both interesting to use because of the many features that they have and the numerous ways in which you can view the World from above.

So in short Google Earth, Google Sky & Google Maps are all really good.