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Friday, 7 April 2006
Today I was thinking about how school and the basic objectives of school has changed. To me school is there to give us a taste of life and to develop our skills such as task and problem solving skills. It's there so that we can learn something, have fun and enjoy what we are doing (including projects and so on). But now, it's just marks. Marks. That's it!A while ago our Science teacher was explaining the things that we were supposed to do for our science fair. Of course we were given a hand out. And it looked that the original booklet that the hand out was photocopied from was about 25 years old (I suppose some people are just too lazy to type things out themselves). In that there was a line that said, "You are doing this to know more and have fun." However instantaneously our teacher said, "You are not doing this for fun you are doing it for marks." Is that something that us grade 9 students have to worry about? No. Is that something that is going to help us? No. Except for passing marks don't have any value... At all. It's just there to see if you are doing work or not.
Teachers seriously have to stop bickering about project due dates and marks and just give us projects so that we can learn. So that we can get more organised and pace our selves to handle the pressures of work environments. But only a few teachers seem to understand that... And the numbers are getting less day by day, or atleast that's what I think.
May be it's just my school (or perhaps only this teacher in particular) and not other schools, or other teachers, but still... Marks are not the most important thing in school!
Thursday, 6 April 2006
I usually love photoshopping using my photoshop, but when it comes to elements (especially version 1 at my school) it just doesn't cut it. The image at a left, which was supposed to be an iPod, which now looks like an advetisement for Apple (if any Apple guys are reading this please please hire me!) If you look at the image from far away it looks like an iPod, but if you look at it from a close distance you'll notice that it's screwed up read bad. Now may be the time given to me (about an hour and a half to do this thing) was a bit too less and that's why it looks like this and it isn't Photoshop Elements. For example for the blending options in CS2 you cn just right click and select blending options however in elements you need to 3 steps. Select the layer style. Click on the logo and then change the settings which is sort of laborious and isn't a good thing when time is limited. Oh well I guess there's nothing I can do about it now is there?
Wednesday, 5 April 2006
Interestingly enough Apple has finally created their long awaited software to make Macs boot windows. Which can only mean one thing... pc manufacturers watch out. Chances are that people are going to be getting Macs a lot more as opposed to the PC because the look better, and of course Apple makes one of the best windows computers. And they've also have a cool Windows logo now. So much for the 12, 000 dollars spent... trying to get XP on a mac. (by the way did they hire Dave Chappelle for the tagline?)Macs do Windows, too.
Monday, 3 April 2006
Well I'm sure that I'm not the only one (definitely sure after reading the article) who experiences 'the strange falling sensation' while sleeping. In-fact I was thinking about that today itself when I was falling asleep. Pretty interesting to know how it happens.
This strange falling sensation and muscle twitch is known as a hypnagogic myoclonic twitch or 'hypnic jerk' If this has happened to you on more than one occasion, don't worry, you are not alone. Close to 70 percent of all people experience this phenomenon just after nodding off, according to a recent study at the Mayo Clinic.It usually happens while I'm tired (after not sleeping for about 20 hours or so) and when my muscles are sore from playing a lot of soccer. I used to think that it was just something that the brain was recalling from your falls whenever you fell, because they do seem to be quite exactly how you might have experienced it in real life. Oh well I guess there's nothing that you can do about it, except think about it after you get up... heh now I can safely sleep knowing that I am not falling down from a 1000 story building in real life.
Sunday, 2 April 2006
) to make my rig a bit faster (for example since there's more space the drive can be defragmented more and get . I'll make sure to document the whole process, just in case any one wants to replace their drives but are a little afraid that they'll wreck their computer.Saturday, 1 April 2006
This year there seems to be a long list of stuff for April fool's day, and apparently I think not so many feel like doing it every single year, so my guess is that it's probably going to reduce every year. But since I'm an optimist and april fools lover, let's just hope that doesn't happen. At least not the big pranks hazardous kind of pranks that some have come across (in some point of their lives) might not be continued (unless it's a tradition).Wikipedia has a long list of things done on 'April 1, 2006' which is most likely going to get longer as the day progresses. I seriously can't stop laughing after going through the list. If you want more, then I suggest you might want to keep an eye on digg, you never know what news is going to get posted over there.
Another one of my favorites is the 'Google Rooms' one, absolutely hilarious, I'm surprised why Google doesn't have a April fool's doodle... and think geek gets a honorable mention as well (here's a screenshot, since I figure, they are going to remove the page sooner or later), sometimes I wonder if they could get any funnier. Now let's just wait and see what comes up later on today... the day is still young (at least over here right now it's 10:49 EST)
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