Monday, February 8, 2010

She is my East and my West, my compass. would be my favorite metaphors of time, as it tells of a friend i know. Also, it tells of the directions i should be taking in EIR, making steps forward in my life.


A paragraph that summarize my findings would be the effects of eating disorders on teenagers would very much be very serious, both on the psychological and psychical aspects of a teenager; if a teenager has an eating disorder, obvious psychical effects are seen. But also, the psychological effects, which are usually the first thing that causes this disorder in the first place are the most serious as it leads to the disorders. Psychological effects can be such as anxiety, depression and many many more. Do watch out if you have any psychological issues and be wary as they may lead to other much worst problems.
image taken from http://www.google.com.sg/imglanding?q=bahamas&imgurl=http://www.cruises-4-u.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/bahama-imagee.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cruises-4-u.com/bahama-island&h=300&w=400&sz=46&tbnid=hFfTCTpcyHakdM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbahamas&usg=__Wa1m0FRZIFxiz9_mRkkY7wuA_XM=&ei=ZT5wS9TJHs6TkAXcw6jUBw&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=4&ct=image&ved=0CBsQ9QEwAw&start=0#tbnid=SDSHT1UGhqsd1M&start=6

http://www.bahamas.com/

I chose the criteria of coverage. To see how in depth is the site and how much it can tell me about my dream holiday place so that i can know as much as i can about the place. The website is all in all good, as it links to 2 other sites and also the explanations are very detailed and comprehensive.
I chose the bahamas becuase it is the islands with the most beautiful beaches and sceneries in the world and i would very much like one day to step on it's soil. Also, i have heard only the rich going there and would like to go there in any case.

Purpose. I chose this criteria as it incorporates intended audience, aims, intended coverage and objectives. I chose this criteria for stomp in particular as I, in the first place, do no know the actual purpose of Stomp.com as is it a site based on happenings, flaws of humans and a social networking forum. By finding out if the purpose of the website, I can tell whether a website is going to be useful for my research in the future. Lessons learnt would be that no real privacy hangs over stomps, people can post things about people that they want and this shows that the website does not have high privacy levels.

I feel good about sharing my views as wiki turns out to be an outlet i can share my many ideas and philosophy to the whole world easily and to check if anyone agrees with them.

I think, actually, search engines are more effective than the invisible web databases as databases like those are hard to find and the one that are available to us has only simple information, not detailed. Also, more results are churned out by the other search engines, which is not always a bad thing as even though by getting limited and relevant sources, the sources might not have all the information or might be inaccurate. By leveling down the refining through just search engines and etc, can give you enough results that are both relevant and have high detail and come in numbers so I can use more than one resource.

I may and may not use it for research in my own Diplomas. It depends on a lot of factors. Them being, whether normal search engines cannot find the resources I need(if they can, why bother going all the way to these databases?) and if the normal engines and etc cannot get me informative enough sources.

I have learnt, that wiki, although extremely fun and interactive, cannot be trusted to a great extent as people can edit the entries anytime and at a time if searching for information and that wiki has been edited by someone with misleading and inaccurate information, would make wikis very hard to rely on.
Yes, i was truly impressed by the functions of Google search and its other features. It has so many functions that i did not know of previously, it has functions like AND, NOT and OR to help redefine my search a lot more and to churn out lesser but more relevant results in terms with my search query.

Also, another reason i was impressed is that the Google search engine had search suggestions pop up so if in any case that i did not know how to spell a particular word it will help.Also, if it has a phrase/word I am looking for i can simply click on that and it would save a lot of time typing and save time that was previously consumed by typographical errors and what have you.


I do not feel any particular feelings. It is very helpful towards my search and thanks to my friend who had helped me get to post and get information from the forum sites because she is an expert on internet forum it only took her like 20minutes to figure out how to use the forum and post! Also, i do not feel anxious as they do not know how I am and i am safe behind my computer screen. I must do citations and bibliography because it is correct to credit the owners of the copyright of the material of the things i am doing or not it would be considered plagarism
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Monday, October 19, 2009

Introduction

A.
Sanchez Barry, from Financial Business informatics.
Favorite Past Times: Playing guitar, playing soccer, skating and playing computer.
Favorite Singer: Taylor Swift cause she's hot. I don't listen to her music.
TV programme: Teletubbies.
Favorite Internet sites: www.youtube.com
I don't have a favorite hang out. I go wherever the wind blows.
B.
I am passionate about playing the guitar. One tip about this skill/hobby is to have good posture. A link to find out more about this skill is obviously a guitar website; www.ultimate-guitar.com.