Driving directions - 26/09/2012

Driving directions to Tottenham Court Rd, London, UK

Journey time: 1h 20mins

Cost: £11.83

Leave Tyne Crescent towards Westrope Way

 - 0.4 mi - Turn left on to Avon Drive - 0.4 mi

 - 280 ft - At roundabout, take 3rd exit on to B660 / Kimbolton Road

 - 1.6 mi - Turn left on to A4280 / Goldington Road

 - 0.1 mi - Turn right to stay on A4280 / Goldington Road

 - 0.3 mi - Turn left on to A6 / High Street

 - 0.6 mi - At roundabout, take 3rd exit

 - 1.8 mi - At roundabout, take 4th exit on to sliproad

 - 0.4 mi - Merge on to A421

 - 7.6 mi - Take sliproad left towards Woburn / Ridgmont / Ampthill

 - 0.4 mi - Turn left on to A421

 - 0.2 mi - At roundabout, take 2nd exit on to sliproad

 - 0.3 mi - Merge on to M1

 - 38.3 mi - Keep right on to Staples Corner

 - 0.3 mi - Bear left on to road

 - 422 ft - Enter roundabout

 - 111 ft - Exit roundabout at 1st exit on to Edgware Road

 - 0.2 mi - At junction Edgware Road, take sliproad right

 - 438 ft - Bear left on to A5 / Edgware Road

 - 4.8 mi - Bear left on to A5204 / Seymour Street

Entering Congestion Charge Zone. ,Applies Monday to Friday - 7am to 6pm.

Stop for toll booth

 - 0.7 mi - Keep left to stay on A5204 / Cavendish Place

 - 0.5 mi - Turn left on to A400 / Tottenham Court Road

 - 312 ft - Arrive at Tottenham Court Road, United Kingdom

The last intersection is Chenies StreetIf you reach Alfred Mews, you've gone too far

 

The route from MK41 7XF to Tottenham Court Road, London, by car - Bing Maps

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Bedford [BDM] to Tottenham Court Road London Underground

Journey time: 1h 42mins

Cost: £22.50

Thursday 27 September 2012

 

- Walk to Brickhill, opp Marlow Way

About 1 min (404 ft)

- Brickhill, opp Marlow Way

Bus towards Bedford, Bus Station

15:06 - 15:18(12 mins, 10 stops)

- Bedford, opp Lansdowne Road

Walk to Bedford, o/s North Parade

About 3 mins (8 mins to make transfer)

- Bedford, o/s North Parade

Bus towards Bedford, Bus Station

15:26 - 15:27(1 min, 1 stop) Service run by Stagecoach in Bedford

- Bedford, Bedford Railway Station (Stop R3)

Walk to Bedford

About 2 mins (22 mins to make transfer)

- Bedford

Corby to London St Pancras (Domestic) Train towards London St Pancras (Domestic)

15:49 - 16:29(40 mins, 2 stops) Service run by East Midlands Trains - Buy tickets

- London St Pancras (Domestic)

Walk to King's Cross St. Pancras

About 6 mins (12 mins to make transfer)

- King's Cross St. Pancras

Hammersmith & City Line Underground towards Hammersmith

16:40 - 16:42(2 mins, 1 stop)

- Euston Square

Walk to Tottenham Court Rd, London, UK

About 9 mins (0.4 mi)

Tottenham Court Rd

London, UK

 

The route from MK41 7XF to Tottenham Court Road, London, by train - Google Maps

 

Email - 19/09/2012

Email (Electronic mail)

Email was invented in the early 70's. Ever since then, the use of it has been growing, especially when the internet developed. The way that email works is actually quite simple. The mail sent to an individual, online post box on the mail server like Google mail or Hotmail. The mail client then picks it up. A mail client is a program like Outlook Express which is used to receive and look through your email. There are also browser-based clients, which are provided by websites like Yahoo. For both clients you need internet access. With the recent development of technology, email can now also be used on mobile phones as long as you're connected to internet.

The email system has been very popular among people because of it's practicality and multiple uses.
Your email allows you to:

• See all your messages that have been sent to you. It shows you who sent it and the exact time and date that it was sent
• View every message seperately
• Write up your own messages and send them to any other email address
• Send attachments together with your emails and save attachments that have sent to you

The message is usually written in a seperate window within the mail client. It can be edited in any way. Text can also be copied and pasted from another application into that editing frame. Generally messages are text based however now it can also be HTML based.
Messages are sent SMTP server and are received using a POP3 or an IMAP.

Email risks

However email does have some disadvantages. It's very easy to use and access and therefore they be easily hacked or infected with viruses, worms or trojans.
 
Spoofing and Spamming - a spoofing attack is a situation in which one person or program successfully covers up as another and sends messages containing potentially dangerous data. The receiver is mislead by the fake address and can easily mistake it for a different person. A spamming attack. Spam is the use of email to send unsolicited bulk messages, especially advertising, indiscriminately.

Virus - virus is a computer program that attaches itself to other programs or files. It can replicate itself and spread from one computer to another.

Worm - worms are a specific type of virus that are very dangerous because once opened they are capable of replicating in greater volumes and can dig deep into the systems allowing its creator to take control of that computer systems remotely.

Trojan - a trojan is another form of virus in the form of a code. It is usually spread using emails. They're hidden in the attachment of an attractively looking message. Once it's installed on the systems it carries on spreading, attaching itself to other programs and files and can do damage by taking control of it.

Statistics - 17/09/2012

AS ICT

Today was my first ICT lesson. I created this blog in order to record my work and share it with other people. Blogs are easy to access and operate therefore I'll be able to use mine almost anywhere, as long as I have internet access. In the lesson we also found out a bit about search engines. We compared 4 different search engines: AskJeeves, Bing, Yahoo and Google. We checked how many results each search engine came up with after typing the same phrase in each one. In turned out that Google is indeed the best and the most reliable search engine.

Statistics

For our first study I had to look at the internet usage in the UK and how it changed over the years. This is the website I used for my study - http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/index.html.



Internet Access in the UK/GB from 1998 to 2012 - ons.gov.uk

In 1998, the internet access in the UK was only 9%. This number fired up in the first couple of years, almost doubling from 1999 to 2000. Since then it has been gradually increasing every year by about 2-5%. At the moment in 2012 the internet access has grown to 80% and based on the pattern it will keep increasing in the future years.