Working Hard.

Today I finally sat down properly and did dissertation reading.
I'm finding it difficult to find the types of books I can actually get some good information from, but it's all interesting to me.
What I find worrying is how many books are on the Internet which detail in great length how to hack into computers, spread viruses, and other malicious computer or web-based activities. And I found these on ebrary: a reputable e-book website. I wonder as to why they were considered the type of material to be made accessible. Or in fact, written in the first place, and published in some sense! Clearly there must be a market for this kind of thing, as I read the third book in a series of similar publications. Worrying.

What I have discovered through looking for some decent material, is that there isn't much on censorship on the Internet - especially concerning film. Downloading has become a bigger and bigger problem in recent years; there now being endless single 'file-sharing' as well as torrent sites set up that users can downloads full-length movies on in a matter of hours. And these can be accessed by anyone that has the competence to use torrent website. These days this could be anyone, including children. They have access to all kinds of films and materials on the Internet, with no-one governing the sites because they in themselves are illegal. Even if there was some kind of age-restriction for users, there is nothing stopping users from lying about their age.
I for one know that my sister puts in my date of birth when having to claim to be 18.


Dissertations are one thing, minors are another. Two of my first shoots are looming this weekend, with mine in just over a week. I'm tyring to keep things in perspective - that our minor is only 20 credits. Obviously I want to get a good mark but I'm not going to burn myself energy or money wise on this project. I want to work hard on other people's projects too so as not to let them down.

We'll see how this term pans out...