Once a year we are given this special day to make our father feel extra special. As we celebrate father’s day today, June 20, 2010 I hope you get to show your father how special they are to you in any way you can.
And to my dearest father, Happy Father’s Day! I will always love you!
Yesterday, I watched the movie Julie & Julia at home. I did not have any idea of what the movie was before watching it except that Amy Rose (as Julie Powell) and Meryll Streep (as Julia Child) were starring in the movie. Of course, I could have searched for the story on the Internet. Good thing I did not have an internet connection at that time. There was a problem with the LAN cables we have here at home. And so, the element of surprise was still in-tact while watching the movie.
Not having an internet connection was in-fact the reason why I had to watch a movie in the first place since I don’t have anything else to do without being “online”. I did try reading the TIME Magazine Special Double Issue which I borrowed from my brother but I wasn’t really enjoying it that much. So, I had to resort to watching a movie. And I have chosen the movie Julie & Julia for no particular reason at all.
While watching, I was amazed to know that Julie was a blogger and that the movie was based on her true story and of Julia Child, an author and a cook. I was eager to see Julie’s actual blog featured in the movie which she wrote to document her progress on a challenge she put on herself, to cook every recipe in Julia Child’s cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
But then again, I did not have an internet connection last night so I had no other choice but to wait ’till our home network was fixed. I slept early hoping that the next day the network problem will be fixed.
And yes, our home network was fixed this morning. I just had to connect and disconnect some cables, turn on and off some devices, a sort of trial and error process.
I was able to visit Julie Powell’s blog featured in the movie entitled THE JULIE/JULIA PROJECT.
Julie started her blog on the THE JULIE/JULIA PROJECT on August of 2002, her first blog was on the 25th. Her last entry on this blog entry was on the 13th of October, 2004.
If you intend to visit THE JULIE/JULIA PROJECT, you can start reading her entries from the very beginning or start from the last ones.
Since she stopped writing at THE JULIE/JULIA PROJECT, Julie now maintains a blog entitled WHAT COULD HAPPEN? where she started writing on August of 2005 and continues to write until now.
I’ll be reading her 2 blogs hoping to get to know more about her, get a glimpse of her experiences and learn from her as a blogger. I am hoping I could find what I love and blog about it just as she did on THE JULIE/JULIA PROJECT which I think was marvelous!
HTML or HyperText Markup Language, the predominant markup language for web pages, has gone through a lot of changes and adaptations. The latest version of which is HTML5.
According to html5.org,
HTML5 is a new version of HTML and XHTML. The HTML5 draft specification defines a single language that can be written in HTML and XML.
It attempts to solve issues found in previous iterations of HTML and addresses the needs of Web Applications, an area previously not adequately covered by HTML.
Two groups are working on HTML5, the WHATWG or Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group and the W3C or World Wide Web Consortium.
It’s worth noting that these two groups initially did not get along well. With one being a “rebel” group founded from the other. In A Brief History of Markup, Jeremy Keith tells us this side of the story.
A rebellion formed within the W3C. The consortium seemed to be formulating theoretically pure standards unrelated to the needs of web designers. Representatives from Opera, Apple, and Mozilla were unhappy with this direction. They wanted to see more emphasis placed on formats that allowed the creation of web applications.
Things came to a head in a workshop meeting in 2004. Ian Hickson, who was working for Opera Software at the time, proposed the idea of extending HTML to allow the creation of web applications. The proposal was rejected.
The disaffected rebels formed their own group: the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, or WHATWG for short.
So, how did these two opposing group come to work together? Mark Pilgrim tells us how at Dive Into HTML5′s – A Quite Biased History of HTML5.
For several years, the W3C and the WHAT Working Group largely ignored each other. While the WHAT Working Group focused on web forms and new HTML features, the W3C HTML Working Group was busy with version 2.0 of XHTML.
But by October 2006, it was clear that the WHAT Working Group had picked up serious momentum, while XHTML 2 was still languishing in draft form, unimplemented by any major browser.
In October 2006, Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the W3C itself, announced that the W3C would work together with the WHAT Working Group to evolve HTML.
As the saying goes, two heads are better than one! So with the two groups getting along and moving forward, when can we expect HTML5 to be ready? When can we start using HTML5?
Jeremy Keith has this as an answer,
What really matters is when browsers start supporting features. We began using parts of CSS 2.1 as soon as browsers started shipping with support for those parts. If we had waited for every browser to completely support CSS 2.1 before we started using any of it, we would still be waiting.
It’s no different with HTML5. There won’t be a single point in time at which we can declare that the language is ready to use. Instead, we can start using parts of the specification as web browsers support those features.
And there has been a good number of sites that have been implemented using HTML5. A collection of which can be found at the HTML5 Gallery. If you want to see HTML5 in action, visit the gallery and see how people interpreted and implemented the HTML5 specification in their websites.
A few days ago, I attended the first ever blog camp in Cebu. I was very excited to share what transpired during the fun-filled event and I was very eager to talk about what I learned from the keynote speakers. I even posted on Facebook that I would write a post about it on my blog, on that same day.
I was tired and hyped at the same time.
I didn’t mind about being tired and sleepy. I didn’t care if my eyes were only half open. The increasing tension on my neck and shoulder didn’t bother me. I didn’t care about anything else except writing about the event — at once!
My thinking cap wouldn’t fit.
I spent a couple of minutes forcing my thinking cap on but it wouldn’t fit. I couldn’t put my ideas into words, perhaps my ideas where just too incomprehensible at that time that even I couldn’t get it. The harder I pushed my mind into deep thinking and concentration, the fuzzier the ideas get.
Hold it back until it’s ready — a sound decision.
Finally, after wasting more time and exhausting my self further, I stopped and decided to get some sleep. Rather than hurriedly produce a blog post with terrible content, I decided to hold it back until it was ready.
If I had stayed up and published what I’ve written that night, I could have been the first one to blog about the event but — I could also have given you something not worth reading.
P.S.
I got the title (and inspiration) of this post from Jeffrey Zeldman’s Write When Inspired which I was able to find through reading Tiffani Jone’s Reminder to Write When Inspired.
A beta version for Encrypted Google Web Search, which uses SSL technology, has been launched. This allows you to search over Google without other people intercepting what you’re searching for – secured search.
Have you noticed web addresses starting with “https” or those with a browser lock icon? These sites use a technology that is called Secure Sockets Layer or simply SSL. SSL connections are used to encrypt information that travels between your computer and a website.
Head over to https://www.google.com (don’t forget the S) and search more securely with encrypted Google web search.
