A few weeks ago, alot of bloggers talked about Wolfram Alpha, stuggling to find its usefulness. Some even went as far as listing pointless joke questions to ask the powerful yet young computational search engine. Things like “What is the meaning of life?” dont belong in this engine. What is both interesting and fun at the same time are often the simplest.
I typed in my birthday, “18 April 1990″ into WolframAlpha to find that the date was 6999days ago. Tomorrow I turn 7000 days old. Or 1000 weeks. Or if you really want to be boring 19 years old and 2 months.
Some other info about that day 7000 days ago:
- sunrise : 6:31 am GMT/IST
- sunset : 8:39 pm GMT/IST
- duration of daylight : 14 hours 8 minutes
I also learned that I have the same birthday as Conan O’ Brian, and America Ferrera (Ugly Betty).
So you see, Wolfram Alpha may only be for mathematicians and idiots for now, but you can get some use out of it. Just dont ask “Why did the chicken cross the road?”
Twitter has become a definitive service for the online community. While there is no doubt Twitter’s main demographic is 20 – 35, there has been a surge in the number of young visitors, and whether it is to catch up on the latest tech, sport, news or celebrity talk, I wanted to find out why. So I asked them.
Tommy Collison is the self-proclaimed “Irelands youngest blogger”, but he is also one of the most personal too. He writes on his blog TrustTommy.com daily and at 14 years of age he became an award-winning blogger at the Irish Blog Awards. He tweets about his non-chocolate diet, his drumming and toasters.
Kevin Coleman is Irelands newest young blogger, and at 16 years of age, he set up KevinColeman.ie a blog about sport, social networks and all things funny. He’s an extremely popolar tweeter with just over 500 followers.
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Its refreshing to see an honest scammer in world, especiallly with people like Bernie (made off with all your money) Madoff
As some of you might know, I am 6 months into my 4 year course in Tipperary Institute. In those six months I’ve never been so busy as I am this following week.
So far this week, I have
- Exam on Computer Operating Systems and Architecture for Multimedia Technology
- A project due to hand-up on Wednesday delivering a JavaScript-based game of Tic-Tac-Toe. None of us have this done.
- I also have a web development assignment to get stuck into
- A take home assignment on Lecture 1- 8 of Multimedia Technology
- I have to have a storyboard drawn of an animation that touches on the environment topic.
- And I have to study a piece of animation and talk about how the 12 principles of animation are used in it.
Such a looong week! I’ll manage (I hope)
I rarely talk about my Cerebral Palsy online, mainly because I don’t see it as "relevant" information on here. I think the reason why I chose a career path that involved the web, is mainly due to the fact that I can be whoever I want to be online. I don’t mention it on social networks because usually there is no way you are going to see people personally from the online world in reality.
I am not denying that people should not be curious. I have lived with this long enough to know that if I walk in public, people are going to glance. But some days you just want a day off. And that’s where the internet comes in.I can be who I truly am, without succumbing to social pressures. It levels out the playing field.
I don’t try to be someone else online, I just try to be treated normally online. Something I have with a very select group of people in reality. Hopefully these things will change in the future, until then I shall find comfort in the fact that ignorance is bliss.
