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Social Website HW8

2006-11-13T07:16:00.000-08:00

I chose Google for my social website because it is a very popular website that most everyone with an Internet connection uses. A person goes to Google and types in key words that they want Google to search for, then Google provides links to websites that contain information that a person is looking for. Google obtains this information through algorithims that look at how how the indegree is for a website. Then Google shows the title of the page to the searcher and gives a few sentences with the words the person searched, so the person can click on the site he wants. A competing website is Yahoo. Yahoo and Google are relatively similar except Yahoo provides related searches, where Yahoo shows what other people have searched.

Go to Lucia's blog

2006-10-17T17:30:00.000-07:00

So, I linked to Lucia's blog (vice versa) and all I have to say is, her blog is pretty awesome. Correctly titled, random musings, her blog is really entertaining (in an awesome way). Go check it out. Thanks, Lucia!

Blog Traffic

2006-10-10T15:41:00.000-07:00

Here is my blog traffic as of October 10, 2006.

Date Range	Visits	Pageviews
10/3-10/9	2	4

Connections

2006-10-03T20:49:00.000-07:00

For homework 4, I chose Starbucks and Sprint. I chose Starbucks, because frankly, I like Starbucks and I wanted to see what else the company was connected to. For my second company, I chose Sprint because I have a Sprint phone and I wanted to see if Starbucks could actually connect to Sprint, even though their products are completely unrelated. I noticed that the companies that connected Starbucks and Sprint were as unrelated as these two. Starbucks connects to the Gap, a company known for clothing. The Gap then connects to an energy company which connects to another company, finally bringing me to Sprint. The path was relatively short, with only three companies between my two. Also, one director, Edward J. Kelly, III ., was the director of four companies and he easily becomes the "hub" of the path connecting my companies.

George Dubya Bush

2006-09-26T16:42:00.000-07:00

Awesome Bookmarks

2006-09-25T18:17:00.000-07:00

I added these bookmarks:

BU Calendar

Maddox

I added the BU Calendar because I thought it would be very helpful for others to plan their schedules, especially since most people are busy all the time.
Then, I added Maddox's page because I read a few of his articles and thought they were hysterical. While reading them, I remembered the highly cynical, yet hilarious, cartoon that is Foamy the Squirrel. While Foamy is really funny, he does have a bit of a mouth, so I wouldn't recommend watching the cartoons on family night.

Security

2006-09-25T17:04:00.000-07:00

I chose the Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike license from CreativeCommons. This license basically allows other people to take the material on my website and modify it and use it, so long as they aren't earning money for it and they let other people use the material in the same way. I chose this license because I feel that other people should be able to share and use my material but shouldn't be allowed to profit from it, since I don't.

Procrastination

2006-09-18T18:41:00.000-07:00

So, I'm pretty big on homework-avoiding, and I've found some pretty awesome sites that help me succeed in my goal. The biggest one I use is Addicting Games. It has everything type of online game you can think and, as the title implies, most of them are quite addicting. Be warned, however, that on a PC there are a lot of pop-ups. Another fun site is MySpace. Not for stalking people and being creepy, but for the coding. I've spent hours making my own backgrounds and teaching myself how to use HTML, which of course, helped me avoid homework.

Ticket?! WHAT?!

2006-09-12T16:54:00.000-07:00

February 2006

I got my first ticket today!!!! *tear*

So, I was driving to my friend, Cate's, house (for a study group that wasn't even necessary for me to go to!) and I wasn't paying attention to my speed. And I see this popo (Texas slang for police) sittin' on the inside of a curve. So I thought "crap!" and I looked down at my speedometer and thought "shit!". Because, I was doing about 60 in a 45. I was about to put my foot on the brake to slow down before I passed the cop, but then my Dad's voice popped into head saying, "Don't brake when passing a cop, because then he'll know you were speeding." (how lame is that?) So, what did I do? I didn't brake! I merely let my foot off the gas, which only got me down to about 55 when I got closer to the guy. So, before I even pass the cop, he had his lights on! I was like "OH NO!!! NOOOOO! NOT ME!!!" But he pulled up right behind me and so I put on my blinker and pulled over.

Then, I turned my music off, got my purse ready, and rolled down my window, because that's what they do in the movies and TV shows, so it must be right, right? Anyway, so after what seemed like forever, the guy finally got out of his car and came up and shined his little flashlight down at me (it was at dusk) and said (as if he were reading a piece of paper) "I'm Mr. Deputy So-and-So here to bust you, blah blah blah, mah radar detected that you were going 56 in a 45 speed zone, blah blah blah lemme see your license and proof of insurance."

So, I gave him my license and luckily I had just put my insurance card in my purse a couple days earlier so I actually had it. He looked at my insurance, gave it back, said he was gonna give me a citation (fancy legal term for ticket, dunno why they don't just say ticket) then walked back to his car to enter it in the computer and whatnot. So, I got to sit in my car, anxiously waiting.

I swear, I must have been in shock, because I had always said the first time I got a ticket, I probably would start crying but I all could do was think, "Hah, hah, my heart! It's beating so fast! Hah, hah! This is so weird! Hah, hah! So exciting! Hah, hah! I got pulled over! Oh, god! Wait! I got pulled over? WHAT?!..... Hah, hah!"

Finally, after another excruciatingly long period of time, the popo came back with my little ticket. He said was it was, told me I had to go to court before this date so I could plead guilty and then told me to sign the paper. I did and he gave me a copy and another slip of paper and then told me to "Drive safe" to which I automatically responded, "Okay, thank you!" all peppy-like, of course.

Then as I was driving off, still in shock, I thought, "Why the hell did I said thanks? I practically thanked him for giving me a ticket!" and I continued my nervous chuckling until I got to the next light and looked at the other slip of paper. It turned out to be a list of the prices of tickets at various speeds over the speed limit and whatnot. Which was when it finally hit home that I had gotten a ticket, so then I started crying. A really inopportune time to start crying really, I mean, if I had only started crying earlier, I might have gotten away with only a warning!

So, now I have to go to court. Although I plan on doing the driving course thing so the ticket doesn't get put on my record. But still! This has been a scarring experience for me! And I have to go to court!!!!!

So, on that note...the moral of the story is....

GET A RADAR DETECTOR!