· June 23, 2008 at 5:12 am · Odds & Ends
Time you learned how to defend yourself, isn’t it? The only catch this time around is you must have a walking stick with you at all times. Ok, so maybe we don’t all do that anymore but after reading this article on the issue I am looking at the idea of bringing it back into style! Here is some more on the topic:
It will be seen that the figure on the right is exposing his body in order to insure his adversary attacking him there, and to be prepared with an immediate defence.
Directly the man with the alpenstock attempts to bayonette him, he diverts the blow by turning sideways, and making a circular downward cut, which hits the alpenstock and causes it to glide slightly upwards and sideways — a guard known in sword play as "Septime envelopé." The moment the blow has been diverted, the man with the stick must seize the alpenstock with his left hand, and, stepping in, strike his assailant a blow across the face.
At least you can say you had an entertaining start to your week now.
· November 16, 2007 at 5:58 am · Web Development
Everybody and their grandmother have at least seen one of those semi-anoying Apple “Why I switched” advertisements before. It usually shows some drab person standing in front of a pale background blabbering on about why PC’s sucked till they found the joy of Apple computers.Well, I recently switched, but it wasn’t from my trusty HP Pavilion to a Mac, oh no. I recently jumped into the world of Cascading Style Sheets, or better known as CSS.
Do not get me wrong, I have been working with HTML codding for the past five or six years. Doing each layout on each page manually, calling up the font colors sizes and text over and over again became tedious at best.
The bad thing about plain old HTML codding is that you end up with really large file sizes for your web pages. Larger file sizes lead to slower download times, which leads to unhappy visitors for your web site. Learning about CSS will help you reduce the clutter.
To start, lets define CSS. A Cascading Style Sheet is a string of data or code that sits internally or externally on your server that will tell your pages how to format certain parts of your website. Read the rest of this entry »
Time you learned how to defend yourself, isn’t it? The only catch this time around is you must have a walking stick with you at all times. Ok, so maybe we don’t all do that anymore but after reading this article on the issue I am looking at the idea of bringing it back into style! Here is some more on the topic:
