Sunday 26 January 2014

Anew Returner

No one in the room paid me any special attention. No one stared or even seemed to notice I was there. My presence must have been an entirely natural event. For some reasons, I only wanted to be invisible, to exhibit my impossible powers of optical fluoroscopy.

This was nothing special. It constantly occurs to me.
Things weren't always so grim, you know? We had our moments, and even when our own world fell apart we still had fun. Every year, we make a list of resolutions, though we create our resolve we don't always follow it. The way things are right now, I mean, everything's so uncertain.

When new year comes, I mold my resolve. The first time, it's in my head. I dub this reflecting. I walk around, I reminisce, and think my brains out. I strengthen whatever principle is developing out of this serious thinking, and sometimes I put those words on paper. When I'm finished, I have an outline of my new self, and I may just claim it if I do wish to change my old ways.

It's more like a canvas. I mean, molding one's resolutions is like concentrating on an unfinished painting; hence, you form resolutions to complete or fill in what you lack. But this is, nonetheless, unobligatory since one may stay just the way they are. I describe everything that I would want and would not want to happen, and I try to explore the mood and atmosphere and ideas of every scene that I put myself into, and I would decide if I should change myself in some cases or not. All this is hard since those imaginations would not exactly happen as you want them to be. Then I make principles. Promises that should not be broken. In other words, the set of rules that I shouldn't violate. It takes great discipline to flow with these, and to be able to enter the next chapter of life.

On the last day of December, I started working on these principles.
I renewed some, but I retained most.
I'll continue adhering.
This 2014, I have returned anew.

Monday 13 January 2014

Contemplation III

Thanks first and foremost to our ICT professor. Without her combined brilliance and generosity in documenting and sharing solutions I wouldn't be able to make things I'm even slightly proud of on the Web.

In this chapter, we've learned what image and anchor tags are, how to include them in our htm files, and how they can help our quest to create a responsive web design. We've also learned how to creatively connect different elements of a multimedia presentation using colored or underlined text or a small icon—with the hyperlink!
So far, so good!

We've been working actively in this field for the past 2 or 3 weeks, the
last week concentrating on our blogs and basics for Microsoft Frontpage.

If you think you need to create a webpage with notepad—think again!
I didn't at all think that using Microsoft Frontpage would be easier than Notepad. You'll have to type and type whatever you want in that app and include the tags, unlike the Frontpage, it will effortlessly respond to the size of the user's screen, providing the best experience possible for both today's and tomorrow's browsers!

So, there are n numbers of people browsing the Internet, and the web pages that these browsers have typically been thrown to check on almost "look the same."
So why do we, as frontend designers and developers, need to take any further action?

Now, we're armed with everything we need to start appreciating the best that the Microsoft Frontpage has to offer. Surely we can do better!

Sunday 5 January 2014

Essenza di Natale




  If someone asked me what the essence of Christmas is, I definitely would not hesitate to say: the Birth of our Lord Christ.

We shouldn’t just celebrate December 25th with a feast, since it is the birth date of Christ, we should offer thanks and praise! It’s not just a remembrance of his birth, every year on that same day, he is reborn within our hearts. Not all Christians recognize or acknowledge this date. I say, "Praise the Lord."

One thing's sure and nothing's surer:
Jesus Christ is the complete essence of Christmas.


But when I considered all these, I wondered if these are all what Christmas is all about. It is certainly more than these. What then is the main reason for the celebration? Jesus Christ is the complete essence of Christmas. 25th Dec is the accepted birthday celebration of our Lord Jesus Christ and it has been named Christmas. This is a celebration that is honoured mostly by Christians.

- Ifeoma

But there’s more! For non-Christians, the essence of Christmas is love. This may be true for some, and wrong for the others, but I consider both. Even if it happens to turn into one of those, I will be happy. I hate to use such a platitudinous line, but I imagine that by the time anyone lays eyes on these words, I hope they realize the real essence of Christmas. I hardly need to remind the reader about Christmas. The complete meaning should come from their own minds. Their own perspective;  pathetically mature way of thinking. Looking back, I can only surmise that God smile down on us even if we don't consider his son as the real essence of Chrsitmas. Perhaps he only wanted him to be remembered. Perhaps we will know that someday. Who knows? I, for one, consider every little thing, call it love or happiness, birth or death, as essences of Christmas.