A few questions...


1. Who was the creator of the infamous "lovebug" computer virus?
A: Onel de Guzman (found at http://computerbytesman.com/lovebug/thesis.htm via dogpile.com)
2. Who invented the paper clip?
A: Johan Vaaler (found at http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpaperclip.htm)
3. How did the Ebola virus get its name?
A: named after a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) in Africa (found at http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/Fact_Sheets/Ebola_Fact_Booklet.pdf)
4. What country had the largest recorded earthquake?
A: Chile (found at http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0763403.html)
5. In computer memory/storage terms, how many kilobytes in a terabyte?
A: 1073741824 (calculated at http://www.beesky.com/newsite/bit_byte.htm)
6. Who is the creator of email?
A: Ray Tomlinson (not an exact answer from http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html)
7. What is the storm worm, and how many computers are infected by it?
A: Storm Worm is an emailed virus.A PC infected with Storm will either be used to blast out millions of junk e-mails advertising Web links that when clicked attempt to download a copy of the worm, or it will serve as the destination for that link -- essentially hosting the latest copy of the worm for download. A Microsoft tool removed storm from 274,372 computers. (http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/10/the_storm_worm_maelstrom_or_te.html)
8. If you wanted to contact the prime minister of australia directly,
what is the most efficient way?
A: Send him a message via http://www.pm.gov.au/contact/index.cfm
9. Which Brisbane-based punk band is Stephen Stockwell (Head of the School
of Arts) a member of?
A: The Black Assassins (http://live-wirez.gu.edu.au/Staff/Stephen/default.html)

10. What does the term "Web 2.0" mean in your own words?
A: A stupid term that was stupid 4 years ago and its stupid now. It tries to make it sound like the web has all of the sudden evolved out of no where, when really it has never stopped evolving and never will.

Onto some writing

Google first ranks results by sponsorship, then by relevance. Relevance usually just means the amount of times the thing that you searched is mentioned, but this isn't always true if the page is talking about your search word in a different context.

I obviously use Google the most, one because it's on the Firefox home page, and two because it gets the job done, can't say that its failed me before. Not much more to it than that!