Technology
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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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HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator
Very long ago, when I was in high school I got my first hp calculator from my dad: a HP-15C. He gave it to me because I had issues with brackets on a standard calculator and with RPN you don’t need brackets. I believe this was in third grade. When things got a bit more…
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Thinking Small. The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Beetle, Andrea Hiott (ISBN 9780345521422, Ballantine Books)
I read about this book in the newspaper when it originally came out in Dutch in 2012. When I was young an uncle had a Beetle and I liked driving around in the car. The boxer motor really generates a unique sound. As a result this book caught my interest and I bought it. But…
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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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Understanding URL Encoding: W3Schools Guide
Every now and then I copy a hyperlink and it gives me back these encoded strings. I then have to go looking for what they mean every time. So I wanted to copy a hyperlink to this table I found on W3Schools but for some weird reason I couldn’t copy the hyperlink (kept linking to…
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MagSafe Compatible Quadlock Case
Recently my phone case broke and I needed to get something new. I was stalling a bit because the phone colour does look nicer without a case. At the same time I was looking for a way to attach my phone on my speed pedelec handlebar. I have used Quadlock mounts on some of my…
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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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Emojis in WordPress on Mac to creating keyboard key images in CSS
In a recent post I wanted to add a smiley to a blog post and thought I could simply type 🙂 but this didn’t work. According to a search on the internet this should work in some cases but not for me as you can see. Searching a bit more I found other suggestions. One…
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