Wednesday, August 21, 2013

I wish I may I wish might.

Today my heart aches like very other day,
my soul cries a river of tears that never seems to dry up.
I wish I may I wish I might,
have the wish I wish tonight.
As far back as I can remember I have desired my soul mate if such a thing exists.
I don't know how much longer I can hold on.
The fortress walls are crumbling around me.
I doubt whether you exist,
I wish for you every time I think of of my pain.
I have a kind heart, and I look for the other half.
I have been to bars, their hearts are stained with accepted sin.
I have looked online they are insincere.
I have been watchful my whole adult life,
I have not found you.
I search for you every day,
I don't know where you are.
The struggle I know,
you cannot understand.
I fight to keep myself standing,
but the walls around my fortress are crumbling.
Would you say I am less of a man because this war is destroying me?
I am alone,
I have fought my whole adult life.
I am in my late 20's now and the horizon looks bleak.
Not like me, I am always strong and hopeful.
But this war rages on,
I am weakening.
I am still alive,
they tried to snuff me out
But I am still alive.
It is days like these when I look at myself and think"what is wrong with me"
When I am with a woman and I have affection I am comforted.
I am slower to all things,
when single
with no woman to comfort me
an angry violent beast
a recording plays inside my head
Designed to bring destruction
I will smite you all.
Like a time bomb with a self destruct.
It will blast it all away.
Wreck less?
Yes.
Helpful?
No.


Saturday, August 17, 2013

What is HTML? For absolute beginners.

Hello everyone,
This is going to be one of the best blogs I have ever written. I began my quest to learn HTML not long ago and with the help of www.codeacademy.com I learned some important principles. These principles I am going to share with you as I understand them.

So, What is HTML? It stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. You can find this out easily anywhere online. It is good to know if you want to have a technical understanding of HTML.

So, What is Hyper Text Markup Language anyhow? This describes the name of the language in which your web browser "speaks". Try speaking Spanish to an English speaker, how far will you get? Not very far!

A web browser is the program (Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome) that allows your computer to communicate with the internet. Look at it this way, let us say there is 5 people that want to talk to each other but they all speak different languages..The Frenchman wants to communicate with the Mexican, who in turn wants to communicate with the Japanese man. They need some way to communicate, here enters the translator. The computer wants to communicate with the web. Like anything else, it has to have a means in which to complete this desired function.

All right, so we now know we need to know HTML to communicate to a web browser. It is the language we must learn in order to really get mr browser to do what we want. HTML is a language, therefore it uses elements like the English language. The alphabet, we use letters to form words and words to form sentences which conveys what we want. In the same way the web browser understands HTML, but we use TAGS. Here is an example of a TAG-->     <b>   <---see that b in those brackets? yep that is a TAG.
This tag represents the meaning "hey mr browser I want the following text to be a bold font".
Not so fast there slick, there is more to this!
Just like a sentence we use a period to indicate the statement is complete. In HTML language to end the "statement" we use a closing TAG instead of a period like in the English word. The closing TAG looks like this:
</b>
So, If I wanted to tell the browser to make my text bold I would type:  <b> Make me bold Mr Browser </b>
This is basic HTML.
REMEMBER! There are many HTML TAGS that we use to create a web page. Before you can walk you gotta crawl. It is my belief if you understand the concept of HTML you will learn better and retain more.

I won't add more to this as I don't want to overwhelm you. This is like learning your ABC's I am not going to explain how to spell dog, if you don't even know the alphabet yet.

Now that you are equipped with this knowledge, head on over to www.codeacademy.com they have good tutorials there on coding.