Oprah

Today i watched this video for religion extra credit about Oprah's Out of Africa Christmas kindness project. Oprah went to some cities in south Africa and gave the poor kids there presents with clothes, food, shoes, toys, and school supplies.

OLPC

OLPC means one laptop per child
It is this organization that gives each
child in 3rd world countries a laptop.
The laptops are rugged, low-power,
low-cost so they are good for the kids
living conditions.

Shazam

Yesterday i computer architecture we talked
about Shazam. It is this thing on your cell
phone where it listens to music and then it
tell you the name of the song and who sings
it. If you have an iphone it will also let you
buy the song or see the music video.

TWILIGHT!!

I saw the twilight movie on saturday. It was so good! I hadn't read the book yet before i saw it. I liked the movie ALOT! So then I borrowed the first two books (twilight and new moon) from my friend and read them both over the thanksgiving holidays. They were really good and i can't wait until the next movies come out

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Smartpen

I saw a video about this Livescribe Smartpen. It is a pen and you write your notes down but it takes pictures of the notes so you can transfer them to your computer. It also can record your voice so you can listen to your notes.

Quizlet

Today in computer architecture Devin told me about a website called Quizlet. It is a website where you sign up and you can make tests to study and flashcards online.

Chainless Bicycles

I saw this article on CNN.com today about chainless bicycles.
The manufacturer which is Trek is making a production of bicycles
that don't have the chain that always gets caught. They are making
belt driven bikes so you don't have to deal with the chain anymore.

Blackberry

Obama might have to give up his blackberry because he is the president.
They are saying that if he doesn't want his email to be public than he shouldn't email at all.
They don't want him to have a private email address and there can be security issues about carrying around a traceable cell phone

RSS

Today i read about RSS Feeds
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication
It is used for delivering regularly updated information using the internet
You can look at all the news from a bunch of different websites

Flickr

Today i read about Flickr, It was one of the first photosharing websites and it started off the whole photosharing thing. It became the fastest growing photosharing website. Flickr was one of the first websites to use tagging.

Elections

Today is the presidential elections. It is Obama (democrats) vs. McCain (republican)
In civics class we are having a fake presidential debate. One person is Obama and one is McCain and they are going to debate some things.
I want the elections to be over and McCain to win!

Hoaxes

Some email messages are hoaxes that try to get you to do things to your own computer. The email would say something like its warning you and telling you how to get rid of a virus but when you do what it says you actually give yourself the virus. Click here to go to a site that tells you more about a hoax

HALLOWEEN!!

today is halloween!! me and my friend are dressed
up as play-doh! she is pink and i am green. some
of my other friends are the game twister. and some of my other friends are dressed as cavemen. the
people that won the contest in our lunch period
was the lions, the sound of music, peanut butter
jelly time, and an old man. today was really fun!

Storybook Plus

Today me and gabby went to a meeting in the bologna lobby during 6th hour. It was about the program storybook plus. You can use it to make scrapbooks on your computer and then you can print them out. You can do a lot of other things with the program like make 4x6's and make desktop backgrounds. The program sounds good and I want to buy it.

Blocked

Today they blocked all the game websites. They just blocked them last period though. Because at 4th hour lunch i was playing a game and it was fine. Then at the end of 5th hour i tried again and it said access denied. I am not happy that they blocked them because I like to play games at school when there is nothing else to do. They didn't only block game websites though, they blocked alot of other ones that shouldn;t have been blocked.

Candlelight Ceremony

Today we have the candlelight ceremony. After me and my big sister group are going out to eat at Macaroni Grill after. Then me and my friend Jessica are going to work on our Halloween costumes for friday!

Kindle

I heard about this thing in computer architecture today called Kindle
It can read, buy, and find books instantly
You can download books in less than a minute
It costs $359 and the books cost less than a real book would cost

Two days ago we made this video. Gabby got in a recycling bin and you can watch the rest.

Mario Forever

I played Mario Forever today. I got to world 6. Its kind of hard. You have to go through this stage and its like a maze with all the pipes. It's really hard and I haven't beaten the stage yet.


My cousin's wedding is tomorrow and i am a bridesmaid in it. I'm excited because I've never been in a wedding before.