Week 11: Finding Your Name.
11/07/95
Curtis Nakao
PSY. 409
Dr. James

Section 2.

How difficult was this week's task?

Very easy 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very hard
This week's rating= 1

How much negative emotions did it cost you, all in all?

Very little 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very much
This week's rating= 3

How valuable for later use is this knowledge or skill going to be for you?

Not useful 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very useful
This week's rating= 9

How likely is it that you'll be getting good at this week's tasks?

Not likely 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very likely
This week's rating= 10

How Satisfied are you with the computer and Internet systems?

Not satisfied 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very satisfied
This week's rating= 9

How hard did you try to get through this week's tasks?

Gave up 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Refused to give up

This week's rating= 9
Section3.

This week's tasks were pretty simple. All we had to do this week was to look up our own name in Lycos and report on what we found.

There were only a few negative emotions to speak of. The first one being the fact that for some reason it was very difficult to log in from homr this week. The server seems to be very busy even at 3:00 in the morning. The second one has to do with the winsock program that we were given. This version appears to have a lot of bugs in it because several times the connection either came up garbled or wouldn't be connected even if I received an IP address. The third source of negative emotions came from t he list that appeared after the query was used. The list was very long and had links to only two sources. My Psy. 409 Home Page and the student directory to the Psy. 409 Home pages. What happend to the rest of my files?

I next tried just my first name and then just my last name but I got the same results. Hmmmm...

I thought that maybe another search engine would give me better results so I decided to use the Excite Netsearch but to my surprise, there were no matching results.

It might just possibly be that I didn't look through the list of sites as thoroughly as I could have but after looking through a couple of hundred links, out of over ten thousand, I think that most "humans" would give up and try something else. Oh well, I guess I'm not as popular as I would like to be. Darn it!

I'll try the Galaxy Search next week and I wil try to update this as soon as I can. Bye for now....

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