Thursday, December 8, 2011

HTML

What I wrote in HTML:

<html>
<body>

<h1>My First Heading</h1>

<br>My first paragraph.<br>

<em>My first italics!<em>

<p>My second paragraph!<p>

<li>My first list!<li>
end list

<h2>My second heading<h2>

<b>BOLD<b>

</body>
</html>

What I saw:

My First Heading

My first paragraph.
My first italics! My second paragraph!

My first list!

end list
My second heading
BOLD

Cool huh?? ;)

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

ELECTRIC VIOLIN!

I play the electric violin and I'm sure that most of you will never have heard of one until now. I've decided that my presentation will be on how they are made and what they look like as playing one is a hobby of mine.

Here is a bit of information about them:

An electric violin is a violin equipped with an electronic output of its sound. The term most properly refers to an instrument purposely made to be electrified with built-in pickups, usually with a solid body. It can also refer to a violin fitted with an electric pickup of some type, although "amplified violin" or "electro-acoustic violin" are more accurate in that case.

Electrically amplified violins have been used in one form or another since the 1920s; jazz and blues artist Stuff Smith is generally credited as being one of the first performers to adapt pickups and amplifiers to violins. The Electro Stringed Instrument Corporation, National and Vega sold electric violins in the 1930s and 1940s; Fender produced a small number of electric violins in the late 1950s. There has been a great deal more commercial success of well known manufacturers of electric violins since the 1990s for both well known, established companies and new makers too.

I can't wait to make my presentation!

Thursday, December 1, 2011

HACK !!

http://poof.hksr.us/urkbxkxy

Thursday, November 24, 2011

MY SUPREME HACKING SKILLS ;)

Two Videos for Prep

The first of the two videos for prep talks about how the internet has built up and focuses mainly on 60 Hudson Street which is a main node for internet connectivity. I found it interesting because you can see the makeshift "heart" of the internet.

The second video tells us how mobiles have integrated themselves into our modern day life and how they have become standard and common now. To not be "connected" is now uncommon and it makes you realise how much the world has moved on and how quickly things have changed.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

WOW!

THE PACE OF CHANGE

In Matt Edgar's blog, we learn how quickly the world is changing and how it is changing. For example: if someone came up to you and said "Do you think our world is changing?" I'm pretty sure you would say "yes of course" but I am also sure that if the person who asked you the original question then said "did you know that it took the radio 40 years to reach a sale market of 50 million, did you also so know that it took the iPod only 5 years and YouTube only 6 months to reach this same milestone!" I think these point (as examples) show clearly how quickly things are moving on and thus show us the "Pace of Change."

Sunday, October 2, 2011

O YEAH

Monday, September 26, 2011

RWC!!!!

Thursday, September 22, 2011

What's a browser?

Browsers

A chronological listing of some of the influential early web browsers that advanced the state of the art is provided below:

WorldWideWeb. Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first web browser on a NeXT computer, called WorldWideWeb, finishing the first version on Christmas day, 1990. He released the program to a number of people at CERN in March, 1991, introducing the web to the high energy physics community, and beginning its spread.

libwww. Berners-Lee and a student at CERN named Jean-Francois Groff ported the WorldWideWeb application from the NeXT environment to the more common C language in 1991 and 1992, calling the new browser libwww. Groff later started the first web design company, InfoDesign.ch.

Line-mode. Nicola Pellow, a math student interning at CERN, wrote a line-mode web browser that would work on any device, even a teletype. In 1991, Nicola and the team ported the browser to a range of computers, from Unix to Microsoft DOS, so that anyone could access the web, at that point consisting primarily of the CERN phone book.

Erwise. After a visit from Robert Cailliau, a group of students at Helsinki University of Technology joined together to write a web browser as a master's project. Since the acronym for their department was called "OTH", they called the browser "erwise", as a joke on the word "otherwise". The final version was released in April, 1992, and included several advanced features, but wasn't developed further after the students graduated and went on to other jobs.

ViolaWWW. Pei Wei, a student at the University of California at Berkeley, released the second browser for Unix, called ViolaWWW, in May, 1992. This browser was built on the powerful interpretive language called Viola that Wei had developed for Unix computers. ViolaWWW had a range of advanced features, including the ability to display graphics and download applets.

FIRST WIDELY USED WEB BROWSER:

Mosaic. Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina from the NCSA released the first version of Mosaic for X-Windows on Unix computers in February, 1993. A version for the Macintosh was developed by Aleks Totic and released a few months later, making Mosaic the first browser with cross-platform support. Mosaic introduced support for sound, video clips, forms support, bookmarks, and history files, and quickly became the most popular non-commercial web browser. In August, 1994, NCSA assigned commercial rights to Mosaic to Spyglass, Inc., which subsequently licensed the technology to several other companies, including Microsoft for use in Internet Explorer. The NCSA stopped developing Mosaic in January 1997.

RWC 2011

The 2011 Rugby World Cup is the seventh Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. TheInternational Rugby Board (IRB) selected New Zealand as the host country in preference to Japan and South Africa at a meeting in Dublin on 17 November 2005. The IRB Council eliminated South Africa in the first of two rounds of voting.

It will be the largest sporting event ever held in New Zealand, eclipsing the 1987 Rugby World Cup, 1990 Commonwealth Games, 1992 Cricket World Cup, 2003 America's Cup and 2005 British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand. The organisers expect 95,000 visitors from overseas to travel to New Zealand for the event.

The schedule of games runs over seven weeks starting on 9 September 2011. The final will be played on Sunday 23 October 2011, a date chosen because it falls on a long weekend caused by the New Zealand public holiday of Labour Day (Monday, 24 October 2011). The final is scheduled to be played in Auckland at Eden Park.

After speculation that the number of participating teams would be reduced to 16, the IRB announced on 30 November 2007 that the 2011 tournament would again feature 20 teams. Twelve teams qualified as a result of finishing in the top three in each pool in the 2007 tournament. The remaining eight berths were determined by regional qualifying tournaments. Of the 20 countries that competed in the previous World Cup in 2007, there was only one change – Russia replaced Portugal.

THANKS FOR READING AND ALL THE BEST :D

TOBY :@

LOVE THIS VIDEO!

Thursday, September 15, 2011

HOORAY

my first blog :D

Toby's Blog