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Hello everyone!  It seems I’ve gotten the blog up and running! Once my instructor posts the topic, I should be ready to rock and roll on blocking!

This week we learned of the creators of the modern computer; how it evolved from a basic mechanical machine to Microprocessor, Memory, and Drive controllers.

Hello, I’m Ash, and this is my blog for my developmental writing class. I’m a first year student at PSCC, and I hope to enter a career in broadcast journalism. I’m counting on a strong foundation in writing to help me accomplish this goal. I look forward to adding to this format on a regular basis.

Well here we are week 2 never thought I would be saying this but really I like binary always have. Just never really knew what all the sequences meant.  I never thought it was that simple but now I know. Now just to use it in a real application will be the thing I wonder what we will be able to do with it or if this is as far as it goes just learning about it. I guess I sound pretty geeky but hey it is what it is. I really have to say I look forward to the coming weeks in this class. To see what we can learn that I didn’t know before. I hope to have a good understanding of the things we should know when going into our perspective fields. Really looking forward to next week. Hardware yeah!

First journal coming soon on friday

9 Sept. 2010

Well, for the only class meet for this week, we talked about binary (and a bit of hexidecimals and octals). Binary came to me like first grade math. The only thing that gets me is the covertion to and from hexidecimals. Although the whole lecture was a little bit boring and tiring, but I pretty much got it all.

As for binary, I think I pretty much got the hang of converting to and from binary. What I wish I could do mostly during the lecture is to take notes on the computer. Well, it does kind of beats trying to stay awake during the same lectures. I’m more of a Interactive/Hands-On/Visual student. I have to have something (other than to take notes on paper) to do with my hands during the lecture.

On the other news, I have to do a blog in my ‘Intro To Media Tech’. I just need to find the site to do the blog.

My name is Michael Adam Buck, I grew up in Clearwater, Florida. I relocated to Jamestown, TN during my high school years  and graduated from Alvin C. York Institute in 1998. I spent many years after high school working construction and working in factories. In 2004, I moved back to Florida and enlisted in the Navy. I spent 4 years  active  duty working on the USS Kearsarge. I worked as an aviation boatswain mate (aircraft handler). I met my wife while I was in the Navy, and decide to to get out of the Navy, when my time was up. My wife is from this area, so that is why we moved back to Knoxville. I always wanted to go to school, and my wife encouraged me to go to college and get a degree in computer science. I have always enjoyed anything to do with computers and decided that working with computers was something that I would enjoy doing. So, now I am at Pellissippi State taking classes to get my degree in Computer Science -in networking. Some of my hobbies include paintball, skiing, and hiking.  I also enjoy working on my car.

Here is some websites that I particate in or use:

http://www.techimo.com/

http://www.r3vlimited.com/

http://www.pbnation.com/

Welcome Mat

Welcome all to who may lay eyes upon these pages (Thanks for visiting). Started my own blog here as per request of our writing instructor here at Pellissippi State. Hope to add many more pages here that will entertain, thrill and seduce (no, really).

Well in the wild world of computers it turns out that every computer is driven by a simple 1 or 0, The odds that a machine that is so complex that might be able to take its on evolution in its self out of a bank of 1′s and 0′s is almost mind blowing. When the end of the day comes down to it, all you need to know is how to link one number to another basicly. If you can take small numbers and watch them double like 1-2-4-8-16-32-64-128?-256 youll basicly be on your way. Finding out how to read it is only the hard part. This lesson was one where you would almost think your about to be totally lost, But in the end its not that bad.
Song of the day: Frank Sinatra – That’s Life
That’s life
I tell ya, I can’t deny it,
I thought of quitting baby,
But my heart just ain’t gonna buy it.
And if I didn’t think it was worth one single try,
I’d jump right on a big bird and then I’d fly

Fortunately (or is that unfortunately?) I was very familiar with binary before taking this course. This was a short week, so we covered things more quickly than we would have otherwise. I still found myself bored. A textbook in comic format isn’t very useful to me… or even very easy to understand. I don’t really “speak picture” in the first place, and even if I did the layout is just difficult to follow. It doesn’t hold my attention at all, and keeping it up on the projector like that (and not being able to pull it up at my seat) ensures that I couldn’t work ahead even if I wanted to.

Like last week, this week I very much wanted to. Yes, I could have skipped class, but there was the slim chance that we might have covered something I didn’t already know. I’m not sure I could have sat through two classes of this; we moved at an impossibly slow pace. I’m looking forward to the chapters after hardware and software, although I anticipate a little bit of trouble: I don’t hand write my notes. I can’t read my own handwriting around half the time anyway, so what would it help?