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Weblog of a cyber-geek

XHTML is a web programming language defined by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), as an eventual successor to the HTML programming language. The W3C now recommends that you code in XHTML rather than HTML, as that’s the way most sites are now going, with the ability to combine XML and HTML into a more useful programming language.

However, if you haven’t learnt XHTML yet, don’t despair! The differences between the two languages are fairly small and you can quickly pick up XHTML if you already know HTML. In this post, I’m simply going to guide you through writing a short, but valid, XHTML document. So let’s begin! (more…)

Mount Everest
Few people get to climb Mount Everest, and a lot of people wouldn’t want to anyway, but now we know what we’re missing! Panoramas.dk allows you to take a 360 degree panoramic view from the summit of Mount Everest. The site also has plenty of other spectacular navigable 360 degree photos

Going under water
Undersea photography by Andrej Belic gives us an insight into what we would see if we all lived in submarines!

Cityscapes and landscapes
Forrest Croce, a photography based in Seattle has taken hundreds of photos of landscapes and cityscapes, and has written several articles about improving your photographic skills.

Top left Pixel
An amazing photo blog, with some particularly interesting flash-enabled entries

The Earth at night
An interesting photo showing the Earth during the night. I’m suspecting that this was taken over a 24 hour period and patched together since when it’s night in some parts of the world, it’s daytime in others!

After the extremely long summer holiday (end of June till now), I’ve finally started college. I’m studying a BTEC National Diploma in IT, Level 3. I had an induction day today as well of yesterday, part of which was spend building a bridge from Lego (educational value?!) while a lot of the rest was spent working on a mini-assignment, writing a shopping list of PC components for an imaginary person.

In contrast, something infinitely more interesting is the story of me missing the bus home from Hereford (local city where the college is). Well it goes like this:…. (more…)