Books
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Willem Frederik Hermans Volledige Werken Volledig!
Ever since I had to read a few books from Willem Frederik Hermans in high school I have been a fan of his work. I bought and read a number of his books over the years but when the project to publish all his works started and the first volume came out in 2005 I…
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The Creation of the Universe, George Gamow (ISBN 9780486438689, Dover)
I bought this book not so long ago when I found a reference to it in another book. It originally came out in 1952 but the Dover edition is a reprint from 2004. The dedication of the book reads ‘To fellow cosmogonists of all lands and ages’. Although the book contains little mathematics, it is…
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Hollywood Boulevard. Een Eeuw Filmsterren, Steven de Foer (ISBN 9789463101516, Uitgeverij Polis)
This book came out in 2016 and I bought it after reading a review in the paper De Standaard. The author is a journalist that worked and wrote for De Standaard covering among other things American politics for quite a while. He is also a film enthusiast and he wrote numerous movie reviews for De…
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HTML For the World Wide Web, Elizabeth Castro: Part 4
Chapters 6 & 7. Page Layout & Hyperlinks Chapter 6 is about styling the layout of your page without css using attributes of for example the <body> tag to set the background colour. All of this is no longer done and this particular example didn’t work in my browser. Some other tags that are no…
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HTML For the World Wide Web, Elizabeth Castro: Part 3
Chapter 4 & 5: Creating Images and Using Images Chapter 4 about creating images you can ignore. It still deals with antiquated hardware limitations with respect to connection speed and monitor colour depth. Today, with connections allowing to stream video and online gaming the connection speed is not the same concern it was in 2000.…
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HTML For the World Wide Web, Elizabeth Castro: Part 2
Chapter 3: Styling Text Chapter 3 about styling text is really obsolete. You can still use almost all tags mentioned in the chapter but many are no longer part of HTML5 and should be replaced by styling with CSS. From that point of view this chapter is not a good guide. A short list below.
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HTML For the World Wide Web, Elizabeth Castro: Part 1
Chapters 1 & 2. Building Blocks of HTML and Starting Your First Web Page Chapter 1 introduces the general syntax of HTML tags. It covers the concept of beginning and closing tags, tag attributes, the difference between block level and inline level tags, urls, absolute and relative, and how to write special symbols on your…
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New Books Added to My Reading Pile
Some new arrivals, bought based on references or tips. isbn Title Author Genre 9780801472893 Whole World on Fire. Organizations, Knowledge, & Nuclear Weapons Devastation Lynn Eden History, Political Science 9781475767599 The Little Book of Stars James B. Kaler General Science, Astronomy
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HTML For the World Wide Web, Elizabeth Castro (Peachpit Press)
I read this book in 2003 when the web was still young. I used it to teach myself html (and a little css) so that I could create my own first personal web page. I like to read so it had short summaries of books I had read, plus pictures to share with the family…
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Serendipity
Back in 2003 I learned myself html by reading the html 4 for the worldwide web, a visual quickstart guide from Elizabeth Castro and then wrote my first website. Castro is an American tech writer who wrote numerous books about certain aspects of website development. She is also active in the Catalan independence movement. After…
