Today is ”International Safer Internet Day 2010”. It is a plead for more security and a stronger awareness on the web. A very important and note worthy topic, as I think!
Next to the many positive sides of the Internet development, one should not forget the negative sides, too. In today’s social network and computer age, children and young adults experience many sites, pictures and topics, which are not appropriate for their age. Furthermore, they are not aware of who can read their private information they put online, or how it possibly is used from third parties.
With this background, this year’s topic was chosen: ”Think B4 U post”. In this way children and young adults are supposed to be given a fair warning that before they post something online, they think about possible consequences and handle their information with care. Thereby it is also referred to the possible security settings especially on social networks like Facebook. There for example, one can adjust in small detail, who can see what on your profile and what not. This can be found via the ‘Account’ tab on the top right and then via ‘Privacy Settings’ and ‘Profile Information’.
For further information, please check the official website of this campaign: Insafe
There is not really any reason why this song was my most listened track of the week. Last.fm simply put this into my personal music station in the most. Dashboard Confessional is one of my favorite bands and I think it is highly unfortunate that they are not popular in Germany.
This week (01 – 07 Feb) I listened to Dashboard Confessional’s ”The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most” four times (*click*).
Alright, so on Tuesday the Oscar Nominees were presented. While sitting at work, I was following online, who was nominated in which category and which movies are represented most. The amount of movies in the category ”Best Picture” was increased to 10 movies this year, in order to offer higher possibilities for ‘other’ movies like animation films. I think it is a great idea, but a the same time it gives me more movies to choose from, which might make my decision more difficult. Here is a list of my favorites of the some categories I chose.
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New month, new movies. And again I know I will be running into problems, since there are many great movies coming out. Here is my Febuary filmlist – hopefully I will be able to see all of them. Maybe that is a good idea for an evening out during my semester break? (Again, these are the opening dates for German movie theatres. For your country, please check your countries listings, I recommend www.imdb.com)
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My third student discovery: Time. Or better: No time. Last week it was very quiet here on my blog, in my university life therefore it has been much busier. My last two weeks of the semester have started and with that together the stress before exams, deadlines, tutorials (…). I could continue the list endlessly – as many other students would agree with me. Meanwhile, I only run between Home – University, Home – Job, University – Library, Library – Work and vice versa. And everywhere it is work, study, work, study. And when you come home, you just crash half dead on the couch in front of television and think it is an effort to even switch the channel. Or you fall directly into a deep sleep. Two more weeks and then my semester break begins. Until then it will be work, study, work, study. With these words I also offer my apologies for future dry spells here on the blog. Sorry, I was looking for my time out.
After stubling over my SATC (Sex and the City) DVDs on a relaxing wednesday evening, I ended the evening at 2am in the morning after watching several episodes of the last season and watching the SATC movie for my I think now fifth time. In the following days I listened to the soundtrack up and down, down and up, which made one of the songs my most frequent heard song of the week.
Last week (Jan 19 – 31) I listened to Jennifer Hudson’s ”All Dressed In Love” four times (*click*).
