Weather

I have been asked to look at the weather on a website, I am going to look at the BBC website.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/

Thursday 11th October 2007
Predicted:
Sun
Highest temperature: 15’c (daytime)
Highest temperature: 10’c (night)
Wind: 2
Visibility: Very poor
Actual:
Sunny but quite mild
Morning started with fog.
No wind

Friday 12th October 2007
Predicted:
Cloudy but sunny
Highest temperature: 18’c (daytime)
Highest temperature: 11’c (night)
Wind: 3
Visibility: poor
Actual:
Sunny
Bit mild

Saturday 13th October 2007
Predicted:
Cloudy
Highest temperature: 17’c (daytime)
Highest temperature: 13’c (night)
Wind: 7
Visibility: Moderate
Actual:
Rain
Mild

Sunday 14th October 2007
Predicted:
Cloudy
Highest temperature: 17’c (daytime)
Highest temperature: 14’c (night)
Wind: 9
Visibility: moderate
Actual:
Warm
Mild
Windy

Monday 15th October 2007
Predicted:
Light rain and clouds
Highest temperature: 16’c (daytime)
Highest temperature: 14’c (night)
Wind: 13
Visibility: moderate
Actual:
Warm
Windy
Mild later on in the day

Investigating eBay

Main Purposes
I am looking at EBay; the main purposes of EBay are to buy or to sell goods. The site allows you to search for anything that you want, all you have to do is type in the specific item or you can type in a key word. You can buy things through an auction which is a quick sell or you can sell it through the advanced sell. This allows you to sell it through an auction, where it might only get a couple of pound for it. If you sell it through the advanced sell then it might get a lot for it, although it does take a much longer time to actually sell.



Target audience
The target audience is everyone; there are different things for all ages to appeal to everyone. This is good because all ages can buy or sell things.

Auction Process
In the auction process you enter the amount you want to bid on the particular item that you have chosen, it gives you the information of the starting bid, how long you have left to bid, the postal costs, where the item’s location is and how many bids the item has had. You can also watch the bids on the item so you can keep yourself updated so you can see if anyone has out bid you.

How it fulfils the purpose
It fills the purpose of the audience because they can search for an item that they are looking for, it may not cost a lot either – depending on how much people have bid and the starting bid price.

Benefits and limitations
There are many benefits to eBay, these are:
The audience can search for any item that they are looking for.
Easy navigation around the pages.

There are also many limitations for eBay, these are:
The audience may bid for something that they want to buy but they can be out bid.
Might not be any item that they are looking for

Why it is successful
The website is successful because it sells almost everything that people are looking for; the website has a wide range of items that are on sale. It appeals to all ages as well; this is good because you will get a wider range of items to buy.

Real Time Information

In activity 10 we have been asked to create a route to get to Tottenham Court Road from Oakmead College of Technology. I will look at the time, costs, dates and sources used. We are looking at planning the journey by car and railway.

Travelling by car
Source I used: (http://theaa.com/travelwatch/inc/planner_places_redirect.jsp)
From: BH11 9JJ, Bournemouth.
To: Tottenham Court Road, London
I used the AA route planner, the miles that are covered in the journey is 105.5 (kilometres) and 169.8 (miles). The journey will take about 2 hours and 14 minutes, depending on how long it will take you at the service station etc. There are service stations and petrol services on the way to Tottenham Court Road so you will be able to have a break and refill on petrol. There are also speed cameras on the way to the destination.

Travelling by train
Source I used: (http://ojp1.nationalrail.co.uk/en/pj/tt)
From: Bournemouth
To: South Tottenham
I used the National Rail Company, the train departs at 12:59pm and arrives at the destination at 16:16pm. The journey will take about 3 hours and 17 minutes and you need to change trains 3 times. You then need to get a taxi to Tottenham Court Road and it will take about 28 minutes.
The source I used to get the information for the taxi http://www.london-taxi.co.uk/taxi/londontariff.htm. At the most it will cost you £20.

Haiku Poem

A haiku poem consist of a 5 line syllable, 7 line syllable and then 5 syllable line. Haiku is one of the most important form of traditional Japanese poetry.

My Poem is:-

It’s a dark cold night
But the sun is shining bright
I have made no sense

In sms form:-

It’s a drk cold nite
Bt da sun is shinin brite
I ave mde no sense