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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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Top Finalists of 2026 Queen Elizabeth Concours Shine at Leuven’s Cello Concert
On Thursday we went to 30cc in Leuven to listen to the number 1, 2 and 3 finalists of the 2026 cello Concours. We saw Leland Ko, Tae-Yeon Kim and Ettore Pagane each play a piece individually with the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra and then at the end they played a short piece, the 3 of…
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Dutch Mountain Trail Hike Preparations
As mentioned in another post we are planning to walk part of the Dutch Mountain Trail this year. So; not the complete 100km but a little over half of it during 3 days. And we will walk sections, returning to our hotel every day. Some of the preparation started with a hotel found in Heerlen…
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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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Growing Peppers in the Auk Mini: Tips for Success
A while ago I posted about how my peppers and chillis were not producing much. I went over to the Auk site and read about growing peppers in the Auk Mini. I learned that I should have put maximum 1 or 2 plants in the Mini and not the 3 I have now. The combination…
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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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Half Past Dead
After watching 2 Chuck Norris movies I decided it was turn to another ‘icon’ in the genre: Steven Seagal. Seagal is an atypical action movie star because he is an aikidoka and so doesn’t kick and punch like a typical karate practitioner. The fighting style with a lot of close combat grappling and limb crunching…
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