NMP Workshop

My tutor, Pirate Guy, has instructed us to blog about some of the topics up on Moodle. And that's exactly what I'm gonna do. I'll see if I can cover them all in the hour we've been allocated.

The First on the list is HTML and CSS: I get it. You don't. Semantic Mark up is that guy who debates particulars called Mark who has just taken an ecstasy pill.

But seriously, not only do i understand HTML I think its great. I see it as a brand new tool for my creative juice to swill around in. And my heart goes out to CFAR who has recently blogged about how frustrating he finds it. (PS: Thanks for commenting, CFAR. And you are possibly on the Autistic Spectrum and possibly have Asperger's Syndrome. You can't be on the Asbperger's Syndrome. Sorry to be pedantic but I'm an aspie and had to either tell you or have an anxiety attack) The dawning of realisation that i felt when i first started playing around with the medium only a few weeks ago was akin to the moment i realised that short stories and novels weren't the only way I could tell a story (this was when Doctor Who Confidential series one convinced me to write for TV and film). And to make it all the better is that i have recently become addicted to several websites. Namely a variety of entertainment and miscellanea related wiki's and video hosting pantheons such as TGTW. And now i can do it myself; so, as i have said before, SQUEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

As for this non-semantic markup language, I imagine it is to semantic markup language what non ripe oranges are to ripe oranges.
To clarify; semantic markup language defines what an item *is* rather than what an item looks like. For example, I've got a menu on my website and I want it to be green. The semantic markup language will tell programs (mainly search engines, i would assume) that its a menu and the non semantic markup language will tell the programs (mainly browsers i would assume) that its green. I think that the semantic mark ups make it easier for programs to properly understand the structure of the site.
I would think that the majority of what most of us have written thus far has been non semantic. I know my assignment contains little or no semantics, which is something i will have to work on methinks...

And the beautiful big C in CSS is for cookie and that's damn well good enough for me.

Or, perhaps it stands for cascading. Lets assume it does and just go with it, yeah?

Well I'm not going to cheat and google what Cascading means in this context I'm just gonna use my (rather large, if i do say so myself (that's what she said)) Internal Dictionary.
Cascade; as in the action of a water after it breaches the brink and topples into free-fall and beautifully spills into chaotic opacity. Or when you piss.
Also a descending and repetitive sequence.
Also a descending and repetitive sequence.
Also a descending and repetitive sequence.
Also a descending and repetitive sequence.
Also a descending and repetitive sequence.

And in windows XP, you had the option to cascade files when you opened lots at once and they, well... cascaded.


I'm going to go out on a dangerous limb and say that t refers to the relationship the StyleSheet has with the HTML that is linked to it. In that the single CSS file will style all of them the same, the style does, in effect, cascade through all the linked HTML. Good answer? Good Answer. Yeah.

Proplems... um... a few. Just with the assignment, i want to include an API in some way and also i think I'll have to make my menu better and also include some semantic mark ups... But I've got some time to do that and its kind of fun so it shouldn't be too hard.
Also still don't quite get APIs... but i will! One Day! Soon! Possible Tomorrow After Creative Writing! Or Friday After Community Service! But Definitely By The End Of The Weekend!!!

Censorship! Yay!
I think the Truth is the thing i want the most (as far as abstracties go). So keeping info from stings like a bitch. But yeah, keeping kids safe and destroying the business appeal of child pornography are a big deal. But i can think of far better ways to do it than Censorship.
As for this Clean Feed. Well...
FUCK U! FUCK U! FUCK U!
Not yo personally, the Men In Black and their even deadlier cohorts the Women In Aprons. Its a borderline fascist idea that i have covered before so see below for my thoughts on the matter.

APIs. See above. I'm working on it.

Assignemnt 1. Well into it. Kinda proud of it so far, but pride comes before as spider gets squashed so I'll keep working on it...