Week 5 Photos

High-Tech

The F-16 fighting falcon is considered to be one of the most advanced fighter jets that serves the US AirForce. With a fly-by-wire system, such a plane can be kept in stable flight, its instability kept in check by the flight computers. The aircraft is capable of controlling 73 percent of the functions on board the jet. So basically its High Tech :)



Summer


This is the famous surfers paradise beach in the Gold Coast where many many people go only during the summer. It is one of the worlds biggest tourist attractions and is known for its summer beaches. :)



Friends


These are all my mates who i met at Griffith University about a year back when i first moved to aussie and theyve pretty much been around ever since and that was in the middle of surfers somewhere :). I used a 3.2 megapixel Canon digital camera to take this picture.



Unconventional



This goes out to all that were killed and hurt at virginia tech. May God bless your souls

University Life



This is one of the many learning centers at Griffith University. Everyone is sittin and chatting up while doing their assignments. this represents univversity life. This is picture was also taken with a 3.2Megapixel Canon digital camera.

Scavenger hunt Week 4

Okay so here goes... for my essay i have chosen to write about 'Violent video games and its effect on todays youth'. I havnt really got a lot of infrmation at the moment but do have a basic idea of the topic and hopefully will do well :)
Heres the scavenger hunt.. some of the questons were quite a mission but the rest were prettyy straight forward and easy to find.
1. World's biggest pumpkin weighs an incredible 1502 pounds.source: http://www.pumpkinnook.com/giants/record.htm
2. Easiest way to contact Grant Hackett wouls be to probably ring him or mail him unfortunately i could not find any info on him whereabouts.
3. An adult Giraffes toungue is 27 inches long.source: http://www.qeok.com/other/2843-qeok.html
4. An ontology is like a formal specification of a program and a description of the concepts and relationships that can exist for an agent or a community of agents.source: http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/kst/what-is-an-ontology.html
5. David Cronenberg's first feature film was called 'shivers' and was also known as "the oarasite murders' and 'they came from within'.source: http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/11/30/cronenberg/
6. The origianl Hacker's manifesto was written in 1986.source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto
7. All phones start with '555' in Hollywood in order to prevent the real subscribers from being harrassed by people trying out the number quoted on the screen as no english place has a name that uses all the three lettlers on the number '5' and thats how numbers used to be given out earlier in the United States.sources: http://www.omegarobot.com/article/555.html
8. Buses are the cheapest form of transportation to get from Crete to Rhodes.source: http://www.theplaka.com/travel/getaround.htm
9. The top song in the Austrlian Pop Charts in 1965 was Que Sera Sera by Normie Rowe and The Playboys.source: http://www.onmc.iinet.net.au/AUST/65.htm
10. Stephen Stockwell played keyboards and vocals for a punk band named 'The Black Assasins".source: http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/staff/stockwell.htm

Okay now the second part...

A search engine is a database situated on the internet that basically helps you search the entire web for a particular topic. By typing words and sentances into the search engine you can easily access anything over the entire internet.

The ranking of a search engine works by using any the combination of the words typed in to obtain the most informable websites. I personnally like Google search engine the best simply because i find it the easiest to access and use.

WHEW.... now time for a ciggy :)

Week 3

I was 11 years old when my dad bought me my first PC. it was like a whole new thing for me... all i did was sit on my computer playing games and using ICQ at the time. From that day on, the "computer" has been the most essential part of my life. In all probability Ive used the computer everyday in the last 8 years.
I have met people on the Internet that i haven't met in person but no great stories for me. But i know this guy back home who actually started talking to this one girl online for a bout 2 years and ended up hooking up with her and then getting married to her. When he told me at first i thought he was joking till he actually showed me conversations and then made me meet the girl. i didn't know whether it was like an awesome love story or was it just weird n random. but at the end of it he was happy and so the story ends there.
Today i have myspace and facebook which helped me track down and meet all the friends Ive ever had i think and its so good to catch up with them now after all these years n why can we do that ?.. the Internet :)
so basically new comm technologies have helped the world develop and made things easier for many people and hopefully will come out with something cooler soon so things can get even better. yay to new comm tech

week 1 - introduction

Hi Adam,
my name is Shawn Khambatta. Im an international student originally from India doing a bachelor of communication here on the gold coast campus. Ive lived in dubai all my life where my dad heads an advertising agency which "one day" i hope to join. Ive always gone to his office and learnt a lot about the advertising and creative world and hopefully this course will help me widen my knowledge. i have also done courses in Photoshop and illustrator and learnt alot about what you can actually do with a computer and intend to learn more through this course has.
So far after reading the course outline and going to the first lecture and tutorial, i'm actually looking forward to the rest of the course.
take care and looking forward to being a part your class