Orb

I swear that this is the way to stream media. This is what you do. Go to http://www.orb.com. Download the software from the downloads page. (Direct link to downloads here.) Install the software. Create an account. Login from PC web browser at my.orb.com to test. Next use the Wii's web browser to go to my.orb.com, login and enjoy! You can now access all of your drives and file from any internet connection as long as Orb is running on your home PC. I recommend using the File Browser if you have NAS because all of the pictures, music and videos on NAS don't show up when you go to Videos, Audio or Photos. You should tweak the settings both on your PC by right clicking on the Orb icon in the system tray and clicking Configuration and by changing the settings online by clicking on settings. I love this and I spent 2 hours yesterday watching TV shows I recorded on my big screen.

DX10 for XP?

Anyone who has listened to the the latest Buzz Out Loud from CNET will already know the rumors, but an inside source at Microsoft has said that SP3 for XP might include DirectX 10. I suppose Microsoft has finally realized that the only appeal of Vista to the average consumer is DX10 and that its not worth over $100.

Also flying around is the fact that XP SP3 performs faster than SP1 for Vista by at least twofold. A benchmarking test on Vista took 80+ seconds to complete whereas it only took 35 on Xp.

Many people have been rolling back to XP for this very reason as highlighted by some of the new Mac vs. PC commercials. Another email on BoL pointed out , however, that some people are rolling back to Mac OSX Tiger from Leopard because of lack of third party support.

Although the Mac probably has less compatibility issues because of Apple's tight hold on hardware, the point that all new OS's have problems is noted. But come on Microsoft, its been almost a year now, shouldn't that be enough time to get your act together?

Vista is starting to look like the second Millennium Edition, an operating system so bad that XP had to replace it post-haste. Will that happen to Vista? The same caller seems to think so as he also says that his source has pinpointed the date of the next Windows iteration in October of next year?

Hopefully this one won't be so bad that it has to be split up into five affordable but retarded versions and a crazy-expensive Ultimate Edition.

If Programmers Made a Plane

Metal Pen

Grand Illusions Ltd. sells a pen that essentially never runs out of ink. This is because, although it may appear normal, the special writing utensil is a specially crafted shaft of metal. Here is the original story:

A stainless steel pen, 8cm long. However when you unscrew the top, the 'nib' is a solid piece of metal. There is no ink, yet this pen will write on virtually any type of paper. This is what it looked like when we tried it on a piece of normal paper...



How does it work?

In the Medieval period, artists and scribes often used a metal stylus in order to draw on a specially prepared paper surface. Generally known as Metalpoint, or Silverpoint when the stylus was made of silver, artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer and Rembrandt all used this technique. http://www.silverpointweb.com/index.html gives a lot of information about how it works.

The pens we sell are a modern version (and do not use silver). The solid metal 'nib' consists of a metal alloy, that leaves a mark on most types of paper. If you use the sort of paper typically used in printers and photocopiers, the pen leaves a mark that looks as if it was made by a pencil. However the line will not smudge, and cannot be rubbed out.

Since there is no ink, there is nothing to dry out, so the pen will work just as well in 25 years time as it does today. And of course it never needs sharpening!

I would guess that in time the nib would begin to wear down, as you are leaving a small amount of metal on the page. However this has got to be a much slower process than with a pencil, which wears down pretty quickly.

If you are planning to write the definitive 21st century novel, I would recommend a regular pen. However as a scientific curiosity, we like this pen a lot.

The pen comes in a very smart, circular, silver colored metal presentation tin, and would make a very unusual gift.

The pen retails for $31.48 before tax.

Humorous Captchas

Seriously, how did these captchas even get generated?

Weird Error Message

Apparently if one's cpu fan fails while running windows, the computer may start randomly playing classical music. I have a hard time believing that this article is not a joke.

Digg

If you don't know about digg I'd like to say that you probably live under a rock, but the internet doesn't work that way. Even though digg is the largest social bookmarking site, lots of people don't know about it. I prefer digg because many of the stories posted there are actually interesting, not just lolcats or stupid videos, and that its hard to digg up a story thats not good by bribery. So, from now on, all of the blog posts will have a "digg this" button.

Anti-Helium and Magical Boats

HEADSHOT!!

Never juggle bowling balls.

And yes, this is fake.

"The Cosmopolitan"

Squirrels RULE the world..and WIKIPEDIA!

Overclocking

Hey guys,

I just wanted to let you know that I wont be posting very much, as I am meticulously overclocking my primary computer for the holiday gaming season.

I've managed to bring my water-cooled 2.4 GHz stock q6600 to 3 GHz but I am going to try for 3.2 GHz. Then I am going to be overclocking my 8800 GTS.

CYA!

Some Great Music!

The music on the left was made by me and my friend, the other side is just some of my favorites!

Hypocrite!

I'm sure he only doing it for the My Coke Rewards...

frogger

I found this picture
SAVE THE FROGS FROM THEIR EVIL TORTURE!!!

Vista Sucks

Click here to find your why Vista sucks. (Yes Alex, Vista DOES suck!)

Office Poltergeist

Office Poltergeist is a program that allows you to take limited control of another's computer and prank them.
It allows you to:

1. Play spooky sounds
2. Open or close CD drives
3. Transmit text through your victim's keyboard
4. Make windows shake
5. Turn monitors on and off
6. Move windows slightly left and right
7. Send popup alert messages

All you have to do is set up the client on their computer and it will give you their ip address.
Office Poltergeist is open-source and released under the GPL.

There is also a Firefox extension which is even easier to install and adds the option to replace text and open webpages.

Aliens!

Aliens exist! View Story.

New planet may be home to aliens

Excited astronomers have discovered a new planet that could be home to alien life, they revealed tonight. The world is orbiting a nearby star like the Sun in its so-called "habitable zone" - just the right distance for liquid water to exist.

A Nasa artist's impression of the 55 Cancri solar system. It is the fifth planet to be identified in orbit around the star 55 Cancri, a star very similar in type and age to our own Sun, making it a virtual twin of our own solar system.

The star, which is dimly visible to the naked eye in the constellation of Cancer, now holds the record for the number of worlds in orbit, after our own Sun. It lies just 41 light-years away - right on our cosmic doorstep.

Scientists said the new planet is 45 times the mass, or size of the Earth, and has a year 260 days long - the time it takes to orbit 55 Cancri. It was found by measuring the tiny wobble it causes to the star as it orbits. Detecting this was a triumph for the astronomers and took them 18 years of study from Lick Observatory, California, because it had to be separated from the effects of the other planets.

The planet is 72.5 million miles from 55 Cancri, a little less than the distance of the Earth from the Sun, but at an ideal distance for the warmth that life as we know it would need to exist. Computers had previously identified the star as an ideal candidate to house Earth's twin.

Geoff Marcy, of the University of California, said last night: "The discovery has me jumping out of my socks. We now know that our own Sun and its family of planets is not unusual."

He said that if there is a moon going around this new planet, it would have a rocky surface. Water could form lakes or seas and produce the conditions for life to begin. But he added: "Then all bets are off as to how life could evolve on that moon."
Fellow discoverer Debra Fischer, of San Francisco State University, said she expected that other Earth-like planets could exist in the star's habitable zone. She said: "I bet that gap is not empty."

She added: "55 Cancri is very much like our own sun. It is about the same size and the same age. It is a solar system that is packed with planets. It has profound implications for how we search for Earth-like planets."

She went on: "The gas-giant planets in our solar system all have large moons. If there is a moon orbiting this new, massive planet, it might have pools of liquid water on a rocky surface."

In April, astronomers revealed they had discovered a planet resembling Earth in the habitable zone of a dwarf planet called Gliese 581 in the constellation of Libra.
Nasa associate administrator Alan Stern said: "It is amazing to see our ability to detect extrasolar planets growing. We are finding solar systems with a richness of planets and a variety of planetary types comparable to our own."

Answering questions, Debra Fischer said the new planet was more massive than Uranus or Neptune but less massive than Saturn, "so we don't know what it will look like."
Geoff Marcy said that, although it was speculative to say there were moons in orbit around the new planet, there were moons around ALL the giant planets in our own solar system.

He felt that, if the planet was like one of the giant planets in our solar system, then it was unlikely to be home to life itself, but conditions on one of its moons could be suitable.

Water has already been discovered a steam in the atmosphere of another giant planet beyond the solar system. And last month, results from the Spitzer space telescope revealed that a planet like Earth could be forming around a further star.

Pac-Man

One of my favorites

OH, The Huge Manatee

Don't Die

The true life cycle of a project!

View it here

I wish I could do that!

It is pretty good. Yay for StumbleUpon!

Fun Game for a Geography Whiz

It pretty fun. I got 325,400 points. Beat that!

The Double-Slit Experiment

Yay! Quantum Physics FTW!

Some of My Favorite Webcomics

Sometimes I'm too lazy to go out and pick up the newspaper to read the comics. Webcomics are so much easier to find and view, so I've compiled a list of my Top 8 Webcomics. And yes, I found these through Stumbleupon, the greatest time-waster ever.

1. Ctrl+Alt+Del
2. Questionable Content
3. Penny Arcade!
4. Dueling Analogs
   
5. xkcd
6. the WAREHOUSE
7. Explosm.net - Cyanide and Happiness
   
8. VG Cats
   

Note: These are not in order

JNS News: The Official Cotton Dog of Easter

Due to the extreme boredom of the commercial christening artists, yet another new item of note has been titled the "Official Cotton Dog of Easter." The general public says that they have no idea what a Cotton dog is, and many, due to the picture shown at the right, say they are anxious to get their own dog from the Cotton breed.

The cute pink ears are roughly two and a half inches long, and the body has the proportions of a Chihuahua. The Easter dog, in answer to our question, 'Are you mutated?' stated, "Yes, of course I am. You'd better watch where you step cowboy, or I'll rip your innards out." The reporters did not reveal any other questions of note to us.

Undoubtedly, this is one of the cutest, sweetest dogs there is, and the general public has good reasons for wanting this breed of dog. The Cotton breed, the officials urge, does not exist, giving the general public yet another reason to hate the government. This is Josh, at JNS news, signing off. Have a great night!

JNS News Notice: As of the publishing date of November 14, 2007, the Official Cotton Dog of Easter has been destroyed due to unnecessary violence.

Cats gone wild!

Owned.
More here

Picture of the Day

Griffin's Photoshop Tip of the Day

Hi all,
I thought I would share a little Photoshop magic with you today. Here is a tutorial on how to make realistic water from scratch.

The photo above is the permutation that
fits across two pages that will be put in the yearbook I am editing.

	Let's start with a new document 500x500 pixels Press "D" to reset your color palletes to black and white. Create a new layer, then apply the following filter: Filter->Render->Clouds
	Apply: Filter->Blur->Gaussian Blur Set: 6 Apply: Filter->Blur->Motion Blur Set: Angle: 90, Distance: 80
	Now go to Image->Image Size Set: width: 300pixels (UNTICK the "Constrain Proportions" option ) then click ok. So now your document should be 300 width and 500 high.
	Next, go to Filter->Artistic->Plastic Wrap Set: Highlight Strength: 15, Detail:10, Smoothness:10 Apply Filter->Sketch->Chrome Set: Detail:0, Smoothness: 8
	Go to Edit->Fade Chrome Set: Opacity:100%, Mode: Hard Light
	Now go to Image->Image Size Set: height:800 pixels, leave all other settings, and make sure the "Constrain Proportions" is NOT checked.
	Now go to Edit->Transform->Warp Move the anchors around, inward, up and down, just play with it to shape it like running water. Now, just add some gradient color to the background layer, and change it's water layer's blending mode to "Hard Light."

JNS News: Fatal Crime Against Endangered Stuffedo Bear

On Monday, November 12, police discovered trails of bloody hair leading to a house in Carmel, Indiana. Says Officer Boot, "We were far too late. I just wish there was something we could have done." Officer Boot's team had discovered the body of a bear named Ragen lying on a bed upstairs.

Ragen was brutally emasculated and then impaled with two large knives which the criminal had bought at a hardware store prior to the homicide.

The bear had also lost a lot of blood and died a slow, painful death, knowing full well that he could never have offspring even if he survived. But, Boot still has hope for the search. "I think he is out there waiting for us to discover him, but right now scientists are tracking him down."

Boot shared his condolences with us and Ragen's family. Boot left us with, "He will be found, and justice will be served." The criminal will be executed when the police find him, as the emasculation and murder of the rare Stuffedo Bear are both deep felonies. This is Josh, at JNS news, signing off. Have a great night!

The font tag, the p tag, and tables

Anyway, today we're going to talk about the font tag. It can only be used in HTML, not XHTML. CSS is better for this sort of thing, but i prefer the font tag. The font tag has three parts, face, color, and size. Each of these comes after the tag and can be separated by commas, but i don't like the commas.

Well, I wrote the story about tutor.com below, by the way, it's on my website as well. It seems the Internet isn't down today, which is...well...take it how you want to take it. Continuing with our HTML theme, the tag is only available in non-XHTML, HTML webpages, meaning only in HTML, in case you didn't figure that out. Yes, well, call me someone with bad jokes, but I bet you think something as simple as shouting "rabies" during class is funny, you shallow, crass individual. Anyway, the tag is what I must use for every web page, until I start using more CSS, though I did a great deal of editing with it to my homepage already, which Alec initially provided (personally, I might add, it's not the same template he posted online, it's just similar).

The p tag can best be used only for non-pictured texts, just plain text. The align = left, right, center, or justify can be used as well, but justify and center are the only ones you should use. If people with high rezzes are viewing your page, text aligned to the left or the right can look very strange. justify evens out the text across the screen, making it the best option, or for small titles center can be used, which obviously centers the text at the middle of the screen.

If you have have pictures and text, the p tag cannot be used very well, and it will look bad for people with high rezzes, so tables can be used. Tables can be made in MS Word and then saved into HMTL, or you can look it up. My HTML code will just disappear again, thank you. This is Josh, signing off.

Don't Show Your Parents

There is a problem with pcworld.com's spellchecker, misspelled words are in red.

Young Xbox 360 Gamers Face Restrictions
Forthcoming Xbox 360 controls will let parents limit the number of hours played by uoung gamers.

GamePro staff
Saturday, November 10, 2007 7:00 AM PST


In addition to restricting the type of games played, Xbox 360 will soon be able to limit the total number of hours played by younger gamers.

"As the customer base broadens, the demand for these kinds of capabilities does increase," said Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's entertainment and devices division.

Not unlike a similar feature found in Microsoft's Windows Vista operation system, the new timer will grant care-takers the ability to restrict total hours played on either a daily or weekly basis. Once the time limit is reached, the console will automatically turn off.

According to Bach, a restriction timer was the number-one most desired feature by parents in a recent study conducted by Microsoft.

News of an Xbox 360 timer was first rumored in early September.

Meet the Solider

Team Fortress 2 Trailer:



The end has an interesting twist.

Australian Government to Execute Anarchist Horses

YDNEY (AFP) - An Australian state government's plans to shoot more than 10,000 wild horses to protect the environment were Sunday attacked by some animal rights activists as inhumane. ADVERTISEMENT



The Queensland government had attempted to keep the cull of the horses, or brumbies, a secret because of fears of a public outcry.

But government documents confirming the cull were obtained by the media while the Save the Brumbies charity reproduced photographs it said are of the cull on its website.

One of the images shows a foal standing over its dead mother while the second shows a horse left to die with a wound to its rump and gut.

Get the rest of the story here.

Antlions

I shall be posting here. As of now, I have nothing to contribute except coloured antlions:

TAC Launcher - IN ACTION!

This is what a TAC launcher does. Enjoy ;)

Ultra-Short Pulse Lasers

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University have developed a laser that pulses in femtoseconds, or one millionth of a nanosecond. The laser can be customized to the resonant frequency of any bacteria or virus and will destroy any specific type of organisms in the body of the person it is pointed at. They are currently testing the laser on HIV and Hepatitis with positive results. Moreover, an FDA official estimated that ultra short-pulse lasers (USPs) could have hundreds of medical uses from laser eye treatments to destroying tumors cell-by-cell. USPs also appear to have no negative effect on human cells, although live trials are a long time away.

Full story can be found here

Relativity in Insanity

The topic sounds nice doesn't it?

Regardless, I have arrived.

I shall be one of the select few sources of concentrated humor. (I do parties too!)

For my first trick, I shall reveal the anatomy of a balloon animal (results may vary).

Hello, I am now posting too. I provide the randomness, yo, that dis here site needs! Anyway, the Internet, I hear, is going to be down on Sunday, which is tommorrow, so if you are ACTUALLLY reading this, it's probably after Sunday, lol.http://members.iquest.net/~cbooth/ourhomepage.html

my website, enjoy the geekiness.

A Great 'ol Yarn

A great true story from my friend:

The site known as tutor.com can be a very fun place, as I found out. It's a site where you connect with real people and they help you with your school work. The interface has a web browser, a chalkboard, and a chat box. Here are three stories pertaining to my adventures on this site.

The first topic I chose was 8th grade social studies.

"When was the Treaty of Paris?' I asked.

"Well, do you have a textbook to look in?"

"Yes, I think it is called Freedom."

"Well, did you look it up?"

"It wouldn't tell me the answer. I asked it several times."

"Here's a site that might help."

The site pulled up, and the headline was right there, The Treaty of Paris of 1783.

"Oh, that's okay, I found the answer."

"Okay."

"It was in 1738."

"No, it was in 1783."

"No, I'm certain it was in 1738. Look it up."

"1783."

"Thank you for your help, goodbye."

The second topic I chose was 9th grade mathematics.

"Hello, I want to know if COS is a cognitive function," my friend Kevin asked, or something like it.

"Well, do you have a textbook to look in?"

"No. I mean yes."

"Did you look it up?"

"Yes, I found the answer, but I don't believe it."

The lady ignored that and proceeded to draw two very exquisite triangles, with lines and curves placed accurately. Before she could explain the diagram, I took matters into my own hands, rather the mouse, and erased two-thirds of the first triangle she had drawn. There was a small pause.

"Please don't erase."

"Oh, sorry, that was my baby brother. She can be so annoying sometimes."
"I see."

"Thank you for your help, goodbye."

The last topic I chose was college physics. This is the best one. We were speaking with someone named Christopher.

"Hello, I want to know how phyglonomy works in bicycles."

"Phyglonomy?"

"Yes, phyglonomy."

"My dictionary doesn’t have this word, are you sure you spelled it right?"

"Yes, phyglonomy."

"My other dictionary can't find it either, are you sure that's how it's spelled?"

"Yes, I would like to know how phyglonomy reacts with bicycle metal when it experiences extreme friction and has kinetic ruptures."

There is a pause; he is obviously trying to look up something.

"I want to know about phyglonomy with the lymonies."

"Lymonies, are you sure you spelled that right?"

"Oh, I'm so sorry, it's lynomies."

"I can't find that, are you sure you spelled it right?"

"Hold on, I have an equation for you."

Kevin had drawn Hi Chris on the chalkboard.

"Okay, look on the chalkboard."

A pause.

"All I see is hi Chris."

Kevin erased it and drew the pressure formula, P=F/A.

"Okay, we have a real equation this time."

"Oh that's the formula for pressure."

"No, it's phyglonomy equals lynomies over area."

"What? No, it's pressure equals force divided by area."

"Yes, I would like to know about the phyglonomy."

He went into jargon about the pressure formula."

"I want to know about phyglonomy!"

"Maybe I should connect you to someone else."

"Yes, please do that."

We logged out, laughing hysterically.

By Josh, visit my website at http://members.iquest.net/~cbooth/ourhomepage.html for more of my stuff.

Cows Gone Bad

Cows aren't as friendly as they seem...
I love this video.

Roller Coaster Tycoon Slaughter

Here's an awesome video featuring They Might Be Giant's Older.

The abbr tag

The abbr tag is somewhat useful. Look for your self. Example:

CSS

The title attribute is the thing that make the hover over effect.
'nuf said.

Wallpaper Changer - revised post

Today I'd just like to put out a review of WPchanger:

Wpchanger is a compact program that allows you to specify the amount of time between automatic wallpaper changes. You can save lists of wallpaper, and cycle through them in however short time you may want. The free trial is unlimited, but lacks features of the pro version like dual monitor streching wallpaper; it still applies the same wallpaper to each screen.

WPchanger gets my seal of approval.

The a Tag

The a tag is one of the most used tags in all of XHTML and HTML for that matter. The a means anchor and it links between XHTML pages or other files like PDFS or downloads like executables. When people click on them it sends them to the linked file. The browser knows to interpret files like .html .xhtml .xml .htm .php. aspx .asp and on until the cows come home. However, when the browser encounters a file that it doesn't know what to do with it gives you a popup box like this:

But what do you write to get the a tag to go where you want? The href attribute tells it where to go. Example:

<a href="http://cnn.com">Click Me</a>

The href part is the attribute and http://cnn.com is the value of the attribute.

The official name is a hyperlink but it is more commonly known as a link. I personally find this particular tag quite useful.

NOOOOO!!!

I just found out there will never be a real gPhone.
All this hype for naught.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2212431,00.asp

WTF?

I came upon a story on stumbleupon today (Stumbleupon FTW!!) that talked about how a kid got suspended for 5 days because he drew a picture of a hand laser with smiley faces on it. The following story can be found at The Deadly Computer Blog

What could have happened

You see that drawing above. Notice how it vaguely resembles a badly drawn gun with happy faces on it and stick figure people playing on it, and a row of apartments in the middle? Well in case you didn’t see that, and all you did see was this:

Let me assure you, it is a badly drawn gun with happy faces on it and stick figure people playing on it, and a row of apartments in the middle. I hope the bold hammered it into your head, cause as long as you can understand that little line of factual information, you are instantly smarter then the principal at Payne Junior High School in Arizona.

You see, a student there was drawing aimlessly and for whatever reason, drew a “fake laser”. A teacher passing by however thought it posed a threat, took the picture away from the student, sent him to the principal who in turn suspended him for 5 days.

School officials claim it “absolutely” posed a threat. Well, school officials, the day a “fake laser” drawn on a fucking piece of paper can “absolutely” pose a threat will be the same day that I take over the world.

All I would have to do is hijack commandeer a newspaper company for a day, and instead of printing actual news for a change, just printed a picture of a gun on every page. That way, I would have an army of literally billions, and it would be so easy to take over the world, because everyone would be scared of the guns on the paper.

Then, I would come out, and say, pledge allegiance to me and I will provide you with the means to combat this new unstoppable army. And I would provide free matches to all who join my real army. Then, I will be unstoppable. My army of legions will bow before me lest I forget to give them matches for the day to stop my Newspaper company from, printing pictures of guns.

Yes indeed, The pen is mightier then the sword my good friend, and I have won.

Really though, these school officials need to be, I don’t know, shot for:

1. thinking that a drawing of a gun posed an “absolute” threat
2. believing that a drawing of a gun posed an “absolute” threat
3. punishing a kid for his drawing abilities

When that happens, there will be 2 less dumb people in places of power in the world, only a few billion more to go…

I just have to say... seriously WTF?!?!
Our government is so f'ing screwed up.

Crysis Demo

I recently got my hands on the Crysis demo, and I am giddy about the upcoming release in under a week. The graphics look amazing even in XP, although I have an 8800, and the combat system is realistic. The fighting style is more guerrilla warfare, not tearing through scores of enemy forces like some other games are. It requires tactics, I had to cloak myself, grab an opponent and throw him at his comrade, and then shoot the other man with a sleeping dart and punch him to death because I was out of ammo.

The power suit you wear, which gets damaged in the first scene and I assume will slowly regain its abilities, a subtle throwback to Metroid Prime, consists of 5 modes:

• A speed enhancing mode which increases your walking speed and allows you to sprint for a short time at superhuman speeds.
• A strength mode which allows you to pick up large objects and people, jump higher, and increases your punching damage.
• The default Maximum Armor mode, obviously
• A cloaking mode, it degenerates faster when you move faster, and only works if used with the tactics and the utmost caution from my experience.

Just another game to put on my Christmas wish list.

Astronauts repair torn solar panel in seven hour spacewalk

Read the article here.

One comment: That would not be fun. However the comments on that page are fun to read!

XHTML

Here are all the XHTML Strict tags in alphabetical order. Once per day I will write about one of these tags starting with the a tag and working my way down to the var tag. I will describe each tag, tell what it does, give my two cents on it and show some examples. But first you might ask, "What is XHTML and how is it different than HTML. Is it better? Why or why not?" I will answer those questions right now. XHTML stands for Extensible HyperText Markup Language. From Wikipedia:

Whereas HTML is an application of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), a very flexible markup language, XHTML is an application of XML, a more restrictive subset of SGML. Because they need to be well-formed, true XHTML documents allow for automated processing to be performed using standard XML tools—unlike HTML, which requires a relatively complex, lenient, and generally custom parser. XHTML can be thought of as the intersection of HTML and XML in many respects, since it is a reformulation of HTML in XML. XHTML 1.0 became a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation on January 26, 2000. XHTML 1.1 became a W3C recommendation on May 31, 2001.

Here are the basic of XHTML

1. Declare a DOCTYPE
2. Declare an XML namespace
3. Declare your content type
4. Close every tag, enclosing or non-enclosing
5. All tags must be nested correctly
6. Inline tags can't contain block level tags
7. Write tags in lowercase
8. Attributes must have values and must be quoted
9. Use encoded equivalents for left brace and ampersand

Here is the list.

• a
• abbr
• acronym
• address
• area
• b
• base
• bdo
• big
• blockquote
• body
• br
• button
• caption
• cite
• code
• col
• colgroup
• dd
• del
• dfn
• div
• dl
• DOCTYPE
• dt
• em
• fieldset
• form
• h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, and h6
• head
• html
• hr
• i
• img
• input
• ins
• kbd
• label
• legend
• li
• link
• map
• meta
• noscript
• object
• ol
• optgroup
• option
• p
• param
• pre
• q
• samp
• script
• select
• small
• span
• strong
• style
• sub
• sup
• table
• tbody
• td
• textarea
• tfoot
• th
• thead
• title
• tr
• tt
• ul
• var

Me Too!

I will be posting too!

First Post!

This is The Cipher
Its purpose is to inform readers of technology or science related (with the occasional odd topic) content and interesting developments in the world. We hope to be interesting and informative while being highly entertaining and thought-provocative.

Griffin