BCIT

first week of bcit finally over... despite already being a bit behind :(

... bcit servers wont allow downloads so no pictures..

Cloning an Extinct Species

Pyrenean ibex, a kind of Spanish wild goat, has been extinct for 9 years. The last one to live died from a falling tree. That is, until just recently when the species became 'un-extinct' for a brief seven minutes before dying of a severe lung defect. Scientists from the Centre of Food Technology and Research of Aragon were the ones responsible for the achievement. At that time, they implanted embryos into fifty-seven surrogate goats. The result of this was seven pregnancies and one live birth. Exactly why the species have gone extinct in the first place is unknown. Now there are other scientists who are trying to clone other extinct species such as mammoths, and the Tasmanian

Hong Kong's HUGE Computer Fair

Thousands and thousands of people are attending the the Sham Shui Po Computer Festival. Sham Shui Po is well-known as a computer hotspot. A few of the products sold there include components like motherboards, RAM, and CPU's, complete systems, and various peripherals, along with other technology related gadgets and gizmos. Not only are the prices cheap, but because right now the Computer Fair is taking place, everything is heavily discounted on top of the already cheap price. The fair lasts for four days, ending this coming monday. Yesterday an estimated 120,000 people visited the fair, and today is expected to bring more people looking for some hi-tech toys.


Right: The digital hub logo of Sham Shui Po

Python

This week the ND ICT12 class started programming in the Python language at school. At home we had to install Python 2.6 but for those encountered problems, installed Python 2.5 instead. So far we are in the middle of a Temperature Calculation Program. It is to be finished Friday.