Week 4: Part 1!

Below is the question and answers for this weeks blogging task. I obtained my information from various sources which I had previously had experience with. I found news sites, scientific sites and answer sites the most useful in finding the answers. I could never be absolutely sure that these answers were 100% accurate but by sticking to highly appraised sites such as answers.com, news sites such as CNN.com and science research sites such as ebola.emedtv.com I am able to be fairly confident that these answers are correct.

1. Who was the creator of the infamous "lovebug" computer virus?
Onel de Guzman -
http://edition.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/29/philippines.lovebug.02/index.html

2. Who invented the paper clip?
Johan Vaaler -
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpaperclip.htm

3. How did the Ebola virus get its name?
From the name of a river where the virus was first recognized -
http://ebola.emedtv.com/ebola-virus/from-what-place-did-the-ebola-virus-get-its-name.html

4. What country had the largest recorded earthquake?
Chile on May 22, 1960 -
earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/kids/facts.php

5. In computer memory/storage terms, how many kilobytes in a terabyte?
1 terabyte = 1 073 741 824 kilobytes -
http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/

6. Who is the creator of email?
Ray Tomlinson -
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/1408411

7. What is the storm worm, and how many computers are infected by it?
It is a Trojan virus that infects a computer and accesses its email log book and keeps sending spam emails. It is unsure how many computers the virus has infected as it is sent out to millions of users everyday. However some experts have put an estimate of storm worm infected computers at 10 million. -
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?
On his website -
www.pm.gov.au

9. Which Brisbane-based punk band is Stephen Stockwell (Head of the School
of Arts) a member of?
Black Assassins - https://secure6.ozhosting.com/brisbanewritersfestival/2005/content/standard.asp?name=StockwellS

10. What does the term "Web 2.0" mean in your own words?
Is a term given to the second generation of of the World Wide Web -
http://www.answers.com/topic/web-2-0?cat=technology