What Makes A Community?

There are just so many right answers to this question, but I'll try to break it down to the five that I think are the most crucial for a community to exist. I think that in order for a community to exist, there needs to be communication so that members of the community can interact and discuss things/interests. But in order for communication to happen, there must be people that make up the group that communicate. I think people are the most important piece of a community. In order for the group to form a community and exist in an orderly environment there has to be some sort of rules established. There also needs to be security for a community to interact so that the members can feel that they are safe. Also, reproduction is important for a community because there needs to be a way for the community to grow and not just disappear after the first generation. These five properties are the best foundation for a group that comes together to create a community.

Net Worth...Am I Worth Anything?

I found it somewhat challenging to calculate my net worth. It's difficult to track down every single credit card whether its a visa/mastercard or just a credit card for shopping stores like Macy's and JCPenny's. The first place I started was my wallet, and from there I could gather a list of all cards I physically have. But then I went online to try and log in to these different credit cards and found it a pain to try and remember what login I had set up for each. Also, not everything I have credit for has an actual credit card that I keep in my wallet. The next place I looked was my back account to see what things I had auto payments set up for. I found a few lines of credit there that I went to their websites and logged in to check my balance. Probably my biggest debt would be the mortgage I have out on my house but that was pretty easy to figure out. I just logged into the website for the bank that gave me the mortgage. Overall though, I would say its pretty easy to gain access to all my information because it was all available online. But its kind of hard to get all the log in information correct. So if I have trouble getting logged in, wouldn't someone whose trying to steal or hack my account have a hard time?

Presentations in front of a class

Doing presentations in front of a class is always a challenge for most people including myself. Although I can usually pull it off without any problems, but picking a topic to talk about is the most challenging part. I tried to think of something that I am familiar with and I came up with torrent downloading. Now torrent downloading of copy written material is illegal, I usually only download things to see if they are something I would like when it comes to movies. If the artist turns out to be good, I usually go out and purchase their CD. After all, they are not going to make any more music unless people purchase their album. Torrent downloading can also be used for videos as well however I don't even bother with it. Especially since half the movies are some person sitting inside a movie theater with a little hand held camera trying to get a copy of the newest movies and the quality ends up being poor. I would rather pay the $10 to go to the movies or wait for them to come out on Redbox and rent it for $1. Especially since I have a sound system and big enough television at home to get the whole "theater" experience with my own popcorn that doesn't cost $8!

Shopping Online versus In Store

So with today's numerous websites that are involved in e-commerce it's very hard to say which ones I could trust with my credit card information. However, I do feel comfortable with shopping at certain websites such as newegg.com or amazon.com and even bestbuy.com. These websites I feel comfortable purchasing electronics such as computer parts, cameras, and computer accessories like keyboards or headphones. I also feel safe shopping at Amazon since they have a respectable reputation with little history of fraud and I can find certain textbooks I need at a decent price.
Things I feel most comfortable shopping for at a real store would be food, clothing, and showering products. I think that food is a bad idea to shop for online since the condition of the food may not be guaranteed, and who knows how long it will last. However, if I go to the store, I can check produce myself to make sure there are no rotted parts to them. Clothing is something that I don't think I will ever be able to shop for online since sizes differ per designer, and something that looks good on a model may not look good on me. I like to physically try on the clothing to make sure its comfortable and looks good before purchasing it. Showering products are best shopped for at the store since you can smell the different fragrances of shampoo and conditioner and deodorant. Otherwise, if you buy it online, you may end up with some smelly products that make you want to puke. And no one wants that.

HTML

So this was my first attempt at HTML. I have never done any web page designing, although my dad used to do it all the time. However he used a webpage editor and never had to write the basic HTML code from scratch. It looked kinda boring when he would put together different pages of his website. I think the basic HTML code would be hard to master since there seems to be so much different things that can be coded. My HTML code looked like this
<html>

<head>

<title>Best Web Page Ever!!!</title>
<body><body style="background-color:#00FF00">This is a test page to see how <br> many people will actually read this.<br> All of your IP's are being tracked!!! <br><br><br><br><br> <marquee>WARNING! WARNING! Virus or Spybot detected!!!</marquee>


</html>
Feel free to copy this text and save it to see what the webpage looks like. It's pretty basic, so I could understand if you didn't want to waste your time. But what can I say, it's my first time doing HTML!