Thursday, 16 August 2012

One Note, or many?

Group work has never been my forte, and I probably won't be the first to admit that working on a document at the same time that anyone could edit or add to isn't exactly in my comfort zone either. It was good though to be able to see others working on other parts of the document which was shared without having to correspond through email. The program itself was useful though, if was much more flexible than a Word Document, in the fashion that you could create several pages that you could easily skip to. That being said, the Word Processing capabilities were poor, every time I wanted to change the text size or bold a particular item using the ribbon, I would have to pick on the button to show it. I'm sure though that there was a way of doing it that was easier, but I just didn't see it.

But, onto the subject matters at hand. It was fairly basic principles that we dealt with really - not opening suspicious emails which might contain viruses is something that we should really all be doing. There are plenty of people out there that for some reason, want nothing more than to infect the worlds computers with an insidious virus for no more pleasure than making the world pull their hair out.

DAMN YOU PERSON I'LL PROBABLY NEVER MEET!
There were other important subjects to think about, such as how not to use your email. How many people actually know that there are laws which restrict how or when you can send spam, and what is considered spam? I didn't know the legalities behind it, at least. Who knew that if you didn't have a clearly marked unsubscribe button, you'll be penalised for it?

And a final almost unrelated thought; I really need to get out of this bad habit I seem to have kept since my High School days. Assignments don't need to be crammed in the last minute - there are entire weeks set aside for them. Why I procrastinate until the last possible moment, in the wee hours of the morning, is completely beyond me. I really need to get better at this.

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