Report 1:

My Travel Through G1 & G2

All comments and suggestions are welcome `here!`
My home page Dr. James' home page HEADING In searching through Generation One, I was attracted to a very cute penguin on Michelle Ota's home page. I then decided on discussing about her work on Netscape. One thing that I didn't like about her page is that she put many linksbefore her heading. It will side-track readers. I personally think that heading should be the first line of the page; this is why it is called 'heading'. My Topical Index: Links to other interesting sites My web site: I can't stop being impatient and seeing other cars as just inconvenient obstacles in my way Contributions: Stories of traffic from visitors STARTING EARLY Iagree with Michelle about starting early. This is the first time for me to construct a home page and also for most people. There are many times that you will run into problems that you don't know what to do through this construction. As Michelle had said that getting start early, you will have the time to solve the problems before getting overload with new homework. Also don't be ashamed when something you don't understand came up or when you get stuck, get help from fellow classmates, from previous generations' students or from Dr. James. The sooner the better, because you wouldn't want to get stuck and hold all of your works back with new homework coming from Dr. James at the same time. Everyone learn through by getting their problems solved. So be BRAVE and ADMIT when there is something which you don't understand or have problems, there is only gain. Report 2: My adapting to Internet Report 3: My driving personality makeover plan Report 4: Resistance to Traffic Psychology LINKS I think it is not necessary to keep putting the same link after each paragraph. It is too close together. It might be better to put some other links so that the readers will have more choices to go to and to repeat each link several paragraphs later. This can be very handy for the readers because they then don't have to go all the way to the beginning for the link. Generation One of Traffic Psychology: Students of G1 Generation Two of Traffic Psychology: Students of G2 Generation Three of Traffic Psychology: Students of G3 MODEM?! In her week 4 assignment, she mentioned about getting a modem is a very worthy thing to do. Well, it might have been true a year ago that having a modem at home is very convenient, but as for now, more and more people are using the net through modems, it is not as easy as before to get through the phone line anymore. Being in the 3rd generation of traffic psychology, I found it very hard to do my work at home even having a modem. There have been several times that I couldn't get through the phone line for more than two hours, and errors jammed in that disconnected my line before the limited time runs out. The sudden disconnection cost me many extra hours and sleep because I didn't save my work in time. I admit that I was very upset and frustrated. I even wanted to swear, but it was my carelessness. I should have saved it every so often. Here is a suggestion to everyone who is doing work on the computer and through modem, SAVE your work often before it is too late! Although I have a modem at home now, I still recommend people to do as much work in school as possible, because there are many other frustrating and weird problems which you will run into when working through a modem. It is best to eliminate all the problems and time-wasting by using the computers in school. Plus even when you run into any problems, there is also someone to get help from when you're in school. My home page Dr. James' home page Top of this page FRUSTRATION How do you deal with frustration? Especially when you are trying so hard to get things done, but due to the lack of knowledge of working with the computer ,and all other time-limitation and connection error, you get to nowhere after hours and hours. I bet, at this point, that you just wanted to smash the computer with a baseball bat and wish that you will never have to deal with it ever again. But unfortunately, this can only happen in your fantasy. After all, you wouldn't want to destroy your computer after spending so much money getting it. So what do you do?! Do some exercise? Or go to sleep? Or maybe call one of your friends up and pour out your frustration? Here is something from Shane Akagi's Week 4 Report (starting from the third paragraph) and from Claudia Kaneshiro in Generation One. I think their ways of combating frustration and depression are pretty useful. Also you will find out that you are not the only one feeling this way (including myself, but not including the cursing part!) about this class. Check them out and feel better about this! My Topical Index: Links to other interesting sites My web site: I can't stop being impatient and seeing other cars as just inconvenient obstacles in my way Contributions: Stories of traffic from visitors EXCUSES FOR SELFISH DRIVING ATTITUDES Many of us as drivers don't really pay attention to ourselves when we are on the road. Instead, we pay only to what's on the road blocking our ways. We tend to deny that other cars and people have their rights on the road as well. As what Jae Isa says, most drivers don't analyze their driving habits and drive like how cattle move. As a driver myself, I sometimes have this problem especially when I am in a hurry. I think that I have all the rights to the road and no one else does. Yes, I am denying the rights of others and my selfish driving attitude. Who doesn't? This is a question which drivers love to use to make it acceptable to keep such selfish driving attitude. It is just another way to provide an excuse for the drivers. Drivers are conscious of their driving attitudes, I think, but subconsciously they choose to become unconscious because human beings are naturally born selfish. Selfishness is one of our nature, unless we train ourselves or learn from a loving and thoughtful model. Otherwise, we are basically very selfish creatures. Report 2: My adapting to Internet Report 3: My driving personality makeover plan Report 4: Resistance to Traffic Psychology CAUSES OF SPEEDING Drivers speed for several reasons...in a rush, keep up with the flow, pure enjoyment, save self-image and ego... Shane says that people speed because of some mental disorders and one's nature. I agree with him that some people are very quick and do things in a rush. For example, my mother is always rushing no matter what. She says that time goes by really fast and that things are never done like house chores, her job and her duty as a mother. I am glad that she doesn't drive or, otherwise... Some people speed just because they don't want to slow down the rest of the traffic. Well, this is very common to most drivers, but sometimes drivers speed just to show others that their car can goes as fast as others'. It's due to our ego that make us speed as Josephine Allen says, and I agree to this. Car racing, motorcycle racing...for fun and for excitement...are most loved in Macau. There are a lot of drivers speed for the fun of it. I know many friends own sport cars and motorcycles. It's for the self-image as well as for the excitement. They feel very proud when they are speeding. They feel that they look very handsome and charming when they do that. One of them had a motorcycle accident and broke his left shoulder, but he continued to ride motorcycle after his recovery. He said that he enjoys the excitement it brings. I can't believe that they risk their lives just to look charming and to enjoy the excitement. After all, it's the same as the night when I went to Prince's concert. It was very cold and windy that February night, but many girls dressed very sexily and with very little materials on their bodies. They really looked funny because most of them had their whole body very tight up and at the same time was trying to look at ease from the freezing blows of wind. This proved self-image is more important than life to some people. Generation One of Traffic Psychology: Students of G1 Generation Two of Traffic Psychology: Students of G2 Generation Three of Traffic Psychology: Students of G3 ANCHORING Other than the appearance of the pages, efficiency and convenience to track down a certain topic is also very important. On Berna Collado's report one under each topic, there are several paragraphs without anchoring. Each paragraph talks about different opinions and experiences about a topic from different people, for example: Shane's opinion on speeding. Let's say that I want to go to the paragraph where she talks about Shane Akagai's opinion on speeding. Because she didn't anchor each separate paragraph, I must mouse down from the top of her report one to find Shane's paragraph which is the seventh paragraph. This is very troublesome and very inconvenience for readers. If I am the reader, I might not want to look for it this way to save my time. I think this is something for the future generations to pay attention to and to avoid. It is important to always remember that what we are doing is not only for ourselves but for the benefit of our readers as well. My home page Dr. James' home page Top of this page SAMPLE HOME PAGES I have mentioned in my report two about my opinion on home page. Although home page is a personal thing, but since this is for class, we have rules to follow. Doing home page for this class is not too hard. First and most important thing is its readability and then how fast can one get accessed into it and its content. The fancy things to improve home page appearance is less important. Most of us would probably think that the attractiveness of our home page is very important, but not to Dr. James. He says if the fancy icons make your home page takes longer than 10-15 seconds to appear on screen, then it should be taken off. It is because it will discourage readers since no one wants to wait so long for something. I agree to this. Here are a few sample home pages from Michelle Ota, Jae Isa, Alan Furukawa, and Nancee Aki. My Topical Index: Links to other interesting sites My web site: I can't stop being impatient and seeing other cars as just inconvenient obstacles in my way Contributions: Stories of traffic from visitors TOO CLOSE!! Personally I dislike people who tailgates. I think it is so stupid to do so. Alan Furukawa mentions that he tailgates people to teach others a lesson when that someone cuts him off while driving. Obviously he tailgates when someone got him angry. To this, I can understand where he is coming from. But I don't think this is the best way to teach someone a lesson. In fact he is putting himself in danger by tailgating. If the one whom he is tailgating brakes all of a sudden, Alan might not be able to brake in time from hitting the rear-end of the car which he tailgates. Now who pays for the lesson. Report 2: My adapting to Internet Report 3: My driving personality makeover plan Report 4: Resistance to Traffic Psychology NATURE OF SPEEDERS I call people who speeds 'Speeder'. Joleen says that people who tailgates usually wear sunglasses or big shades to conceal their identities. I feel that's not the case. In my opinion, almost all speeders wear some kinds of shades when they are in their cars or (of course) on their motorcycles, and it doesn't matter it's day or night. They have it on just to look cool. A desire to look cool is just part of their nature. Alan has something to say about this too. Generation One of Traffic Psychology: Students of G1 Generation Two of Traffic Psychology: Students of G2 Generation Three of Traffic Psychology: Students of G3 WHO'S THE DRIVER?! In Cynthia Yap's report, she says that she hates to have back seat driver in her car. I bet everyone does. In a normal circumstance, people are usually not willing to take demands and orders when they feel they are in charge of the car. It is sometimes a really a bad matter because the yelling and demands of a back seat driver can only make one more nervous and unable to concentrate on the road. Speaking from experience, I was driving on freeway with three friends in my car. One of my friends in the back was repeatedly telling me to get off from King Street exit. I was trying to look out for cars so that I could change lanes in order to get off, but that friend kept tapping my shoulder to remind me to get off from King Street exit. This really irritated me, and I couldn't concentrate on other cars. The exit was getting closer, and my friend's voice was getting louder and faster. I felt as I was out of control and all I thought of doing was to get off the freeway from King. I sped up and changed lane. At the same time, another car was changing to the same lane, but instead he was coming from the right while I was from the left. Somehow, we were so close that the right rear of my car hit the left front of his car. All of my friends quieted down including that friend. It is true that sometimes the passenger just wanted to make sure that the driver is aware of the driving, but for most of the time, back seat drivers just increase the degree of danger. 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