Unkept promises in 1st life

Here I am again, should have been logging once a week as I solemnly promised but have let another module (Software Technologies for the Web) get the better of me. It is fast approaching the deadline and the merciless tutor just keeps changing the goalposts (well, straightening them!) -
Still it is no excuse this is the final year and the purpose of this blog is to record what is happening around me. One thing that I have really noticed on the final year is that you have to write everything down and get it transcribed and organised immediately if you are to have any chance of making future reference to it. In the two week (I'll be honest 2.5) weeks since my last entry I have skipped class and generally not applied myself to this module as well as a few other (bloody, Internetics!)

Still here's the resume of last Fridays class: It was just Ivan and myself present

Firstly we enjoyed a video from Google telling us about their company policy with regards to 20% time, if you work for google you can spend 20% of the time doing what you want. (Is that how orcut came about?)

Moving swiftly on through the music site shazam (I didn't know the Opera text browser had a built in text to speech converter) then on to data structures for social networks. It seemed amazing that whatever diagrams we did pull up they managed to miss the vital link between two people, the basis for a social network.

If you've got the time and want to blow your mind read this article about google

Finally, for this post I spent an hour with Chris watching him "play" second life. I thought it was a place for, well I don't know what but UWE have got some land there and they want to erect a building with interactive whiteboards and all, what ever next...