Responce to post on Tuesday May 6th

Today due to a new program called ParentConnect parents get daily emials about all aspects of their kids school lives. The parents find about about childs grades, cuts, lates, and misbehaviors. Teachers and Parents praise the program as a informational guide and a lie detector for kids. There are also studies to show how parents knowing a kids grades will improve the kids academic achievement. The article is located at the New York Times website, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/fashion/04edline.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1. Kids, on the other had, are no wheres neaar as fond as the new program ParentConnect as the parents and teachers. They feel it is nothing more than a breach on their comfort and privacy. Kids complain of the stress that their parents are giving them now that they know their grades is unbearable. There are also parents who refuse to check it and driven kids who do nothing but check it. My stance on this software is that it should be discouraged since it is up to the student to choose his or her level of academic success and in doing that their own destiny.

Good and Bad leaders in history

Hitler- killed millions of people who he deemed unworthy
Jesus- Jesus was awesome
FDR- Led us through tough times in our country
Darth Vader- He was a pretty bad dude, for the most part
The Marlboro Man- Led many to start smoking
Eliot Spitzer-...............
Papa Smurf- Led the smurfs to freedom
Ronald Mcdonald- Is more pimp than you
Martin Luther King Jr.- Got equal rights for all

Cell phone novels

The newest fad in Japan is CELL PHONE NOVELS!!!!!!!!!!! The novels are made on cell phones, in case you couldn't figure it out. Most artists write them while commuting to work. Many cell phone novel writers only use on name, one of them being Rin.

Yahoo's new plan

Yahoo was once a very very popular search engine. It still is, but is starting to lose its former flame. It was once unimaginable that Yahoo would lose a good portion of its users, but that thought is easy to concieve now. Yahoos plan is too make Yahoo more orginized and more personel. Yahoos biggest competitors are myspace, facebook, and the most popular search engine, Google. Yahoo also plans to create a front page based on popular searches to help save time. To me, this seems insignifigant due to google's homepage, iGoogle. iGoogle lets people design their webpages based on your personality, so everyone can save time by making their front page suited to what they're own likes and dislikes are.
Yahoo plans to start an application service like Facebook. But I think that even if both sites have applications, facebook still has ultimately more to offer than Yahoo. So even if Yahoos applications surpass that of Facebooks, Facebook will still be more popular due to things like status's, the wall, and groups.

One hope left for yahoo is in their e-mail service. Part of the new plan for Yahoo is updating their e-mail to make it much easier, more efficent, and more advanced. You will be able to drag e-mails with an address onto a map service to recieve directions and other things too. A demo of this was shown to an audience of people and co-founder David Filo stated “We are not that far away from a lot of this.”

Tough Times

I once had a lot of trouble reading this one book, it was immensly difficult and I struggled for quite some time, however when I was done with the book I felt greatly relieved and proud of myself because I did it!

Youtube video guide

I watched this video on how to make and HTML on youtube. I found this video very informational and allthough I have already learned most of the things presented in it, as a begginer to HTML's I would have been exetremely thankul for this video. The video gave step by step instructions on how to make an HTML with a video demonstration and it was great.

Laura's Twenty five days to make a difference

Laura, age ten, who lives in new york started a blog about how she had twenty five days and wanted to make a difference each day. This is her blog: http://twentyfivedays.wordpress.com/
Laura has done many good things including cleaning her fish bowl, canning and donating the money to charity, and helping to make her dads birthday dinner. But while it is very nice to read, I think that you shouldn't do good deeds to tell the world, you should do them because they are the right thing to do. I also fail to see how cleaning a fishbowl makes a real difference in the world. If you have a pet, you've got a responsibility, you can't just leave its bowl there uncleaned, you have to keep your fish safe. I also think that Laura should use spell check or something because I had some trouble reading it because it seemed like every third word was mispelled. And many people do nice things during the christmas season. All the people collecting money and food aren't telling the world about it because they know that they are doing the right thing for the sake of doing the right thing. I plan on donating money to the salvation army ringers, and I am going to be playing the tuba for a christmas pagent, but I'm not going to make a blog about it.