Tuesday, 29 March 2016

Well dear reader, it is March.  Dunedin is getting colder and there are more tasks I need to do on this blog.  However, have you seen this picture of Donald Trump?  It's actually no that bad a photo:




I'm sorry, this blog really shouldn't get political.  I may have sensitive readers, who knows?

It IS a good picture though.

Anyway, i'm up to task 17!
Task 17 requires me to read the blog post of my Lecturer (found here) that begs the question:
"What is the best browser to use on the internet?  Why is it not my favorite?"  So the winner of the 2013 best browser championship was Firefox.  Cool.  Now I use Google Chrome every day because I have personalized it heavily with apps, themes, bookmarks and extensions that enhanced my web browsing experience.  I was first attracted to Chrome by its superiority over default web browsers such as Internet Explorer and Safari.

The article linked in the blog post linked previously was authored by Craig Buckler who compared the memory usage, load times for a single tab, boot up time, load times for multiple tabs, security and support available to users.  Firefox came out on top.  And while Chrome and even Internet Explorer won some categories Firefox was always second or third when it did not come first.  Chrome did come first in some categories such as performance; however the browser came dead last in memory usage when a lot of tabs are open.

So Firefox wins overall.  I do not agree that it is the best browser in the web browsing scene because I have personalized Google Chrome with my preferences I have set over the years.

17A:
Exercise one
 <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<p style="color:blue">This is a paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>
Exercise two
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body style="font-family:courier;">

<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>
Exercise three
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<p style="text-align:center;">This is a paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>
Exercise four
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<p style="font-size:50px;">This is a paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>
Exercise five
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body style="background-color:yellow;">

<h1>This is a heading</h1>

<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>
Exercise 6
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body style="text-align:center;">

<h1>This is a heading</h1>

<h2>This is also a heading</h2>

<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

<p>This is also paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>
18
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<p><sub>H12N3O4P</sub></p>
</body>
</html>
19.
There is no number 19.
20
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body style="font-family:times new roman;">
<H1 style="text-align:center;"> Jonathon</h1>
<h3 style="text-align:center;"> The Man With The Dragon Tattoo</h3>
<p>I was born in a small town near New Zealands capital called Lower Hut, not to be confused with Upper Hut.At the age of one my family moved to <b>Invercargill</b> where I grew up.  From a very young age I have been passionate about technology and grew to love the video game medium; over time exposing myself to more and more examples of videogames as art.  One such game is Journey.  The first video game in history to be nominated for a Grammy, Journey is proof that videogames can be art.  Released in 2011 it became the fastest selling PSN game worldwide and won numerous awards including best art direction, best musical score, best level design, best graphics and game of the year from many outlets including IGN and Gamespot.</p>
<!--This is a hundred of my own words-->
</html>
Exercise number

All done.

Friday, 11 March 2016

Off Topic: 10 Cloverfield Lane Review




"10 Cloverfield Lane" Review:  A Hell of A Ride!

DISCLAIMER:  For some reason the font and size won't stay fixed.  Sorry for any inconvenience 

Here is some advice:  Close this tab in your browser, book tickets at whichever cinema outlet you please, buy tickets for the earliest showing available (seeing this film with friends is not necessary but highly recommended) and relish the superb approach director Dan Trachtenberg took to telling this movie's mystery.  Do not watch the trailer, just go and enjoy this enticing psychological horror/mystery before you hear any details at all.

However, if my advice isn't good enough for you at face value, allow me to explain why 10 Cloverfield lane is my favourite movie of the year.  (So far).


Still here?  Okay.  10 Cloverfield Lane is not a direct sequel to the 2008 monster movie Cloverfield.  I assure you, this is not a monster movie using a tired found footage format chronicling horrific experiences of one dimensional 20 year olds.  Instead, this movie is presented to the viewer with the same mysterious form classic The Twilight Zone episodes are famous for and brilliant, suspense inducing twists that Hitchcock is known for.


The movie opens when Michelle, played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, is packing her bags as fast as she can and leaves the city.  Just like Hitchcocks Psycho.  While driving, Michelle is distracted by her phone and partakes in a car accident and we see the opening titles.  She wakes in an unidentified room and discovers she is chained to the wall.  Bloodied and bruised she is greeted by her "saviour" Howard, played wonderfully by John Goodman, who informs her that the world above ground has been destroyed by chemical and nuclear attacks.  


As the progresses, we bare witness to a mystery full of intrigue and uncertainty right until the very end.  Yes, a side plot about Howard's daughter is never properly resolved and people are not wrong for criticising the lack of connection to Cloverfield implied by the title.  However, 10 Cloverfield Lane is better off focusing more in the events set in the bunker rather than outside it and following the events of the first and second act the third act loses steam.  


The first 90 minutes is a fun ride of uncertainty and danger that will have you on the edge of your seat and is nothing short of amazing.  However, the last half hour was just fine. It completely changed the tone of the movie from classic Hitchcock to something that I won't spoil but was disappointing.  I suppose they had to tie in the movie to Cloverfield somehow.



The Verdict:


10 Cloverfield Lane is a remarkable film from a first time director and a fantastic film in general.  While it didn't end the film in the best way possible, I still felt very satisfied by the end credits as most of the story was all tied up nicely.  John Goodman really steals the show as a creepy, miserable, sad lonely man who was prepared for the worst.

See this film, it's really good.





                              9/10

Monday, 29 February 2016

Why hello, dear reader!  Welcome again to my Blog.  This post will showcase the fantastic and intriguing language that is Html.  However, first this is a picture of a special Cat:




If you feel confused, please remember that it IS 2016.  If this Velociraptor identifies himself as a cat then it is not wrong.  (And an argument between two Vegans would be called Tofu)


Logic.


In the previous post I showed you a code (in part 10) that if run through browser told a sad story.  Now, however, in part 11 and 12 the code will be demonstrating my understanding of paragraphs and headings in Html 5 format.

11.  The following, if ran through browser embodies the internet in all its glory:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<p>The hr tag defines a horizontal rule:</p>
<hr>
<p>This is a paragraph.  Shocking I know.</p>
<hr>
<p>This is a paragraph.  Much characters.  SO amazing.  Wowowow.</p>
<img src=http://cdn.meme.am/instances/56035837.jpg width="400" height="400">
<hr>
<p>Life quote.  </p>
<img src=https://secure.static.tumblr.com/707beaa74ba4e3be1eea1ded249a0d75/w70p8xa/kQunm2mjh/tumblr_static_tumblr_static_d6n65zkyphs80sckgskss0k08_640.jpg width="480" height="270">

</body>
</html>

12.  The following code will make little to no sense if you are under the age of 25.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<p><h1>Never gonna give you up.</p></h1>
<p>Never gonna let you down.</p>
<p>Never gonna run around.</p>
<p><h1>And desert you!</p></h1>

</body>
</html>

13.  I will be the first to discuss a tag in front of the class. I will be talking about the <img> tag.

14. Notepad ++ is an HTML editor that is frequently used by casual and professional programmers alike.  The mentality is simple to learn but difficult to master.  Overall, the editor is pretty easy to navigate.  However, the amount of options and potential the program has on offer, the program justifies it's popularity with professionals.



Another HTML editor that is popular is Square Space.  Square space boasts in its popularity with hundreds of businesses and over a million customers.  So it's, you know, popular.  What people like about Squares Space is how easy creating a website is.  Regardless if you know nothing about coding.  Here is a link to a website made by Square Space: Here!  

15.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<p><h1>Why hello, my new years resolution is <b>realizing </b>stuff.</p></h1>
<br><p><i>However, Italics are also important too.</i></p>
  <u>Titanic was, honestly, an okay movie.</u>
</body>
</html>

16.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h1>This is to damn big!</h1></p>
<h2><p>Over the hills and far away</h2></p>
<h3><p>Another quote from a famous piece of literature.</h3></p>
<h4><p><b>THIS IS SPARTA</b></h4></p>
<h5><p>I do not care for David Bowies music.</h5></p>
<h6><p>The man could not sing.</h6></p>
</body>
</html>

Tuesday, 23 February 2016

Hi again!  So today I want to be almost completely up to date with my lecturer's blog!  (Found here.)
So this post is primarily published to show that i'm up to date.


Do you enjoy the cats?  I do.  Anyway!  The tasks are as follows:

6.  In html, a Tag is a keyword that is preceded and followed by < and >.  An element is the content in between tags.  Such as <p>Jonathon is Great</p>.  Html attributes give more specific details about elements and are declared in the beginning of the Html document.  A specific detail could be what language the text is going to be in which is important for search engines.  For example: <html lang="en-US"> 

7.  Running "<p>Hello world!</p>" through Google Chrome shows me a blank webpage entitled "Hello world!"

8.  Running the original code from my lecturer's blog shows the text "My First Page" as the page name in the tab.  Now changing the title to have my name shows the text I have replaced "My First Page" with.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Jonathon Tulett is Amazing!</title>
  </head>
</html>

10.  I figured out how to insert an image and re size it.  The code is below:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<img src=http://www.lvmobsquad.com/gallery/albums/Comedy/Save%20Yourself%20From%20The%20Zombies%20Kitten.jpg width="485" height="533">

</body>
</html>
Class is over now, I better get home.  Super hungry.  Will blog soon.

Monday, 22 February 2016

Firstly, here's a picture of a cat.

Now that's out of the way, here is an update on my amateur and embarrassing blog.
So, my lecturer insists that we examine a tutorial on HTML located at this website here.  Apparently it's the "best on the internet" so this will be very educational.  I hope you check it out.  Did you know, HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language? Hmmmmmm...

So here's a few lines of random HTML code I found at W3schools.com:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>

<h1>This is a Heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>

Are you not entertained?
Class is over now, so I must leave.  This HAS been fun though.  I don't know, dear reader if you are a fan of history?  There is a series made by Discovery channel called NASAS' unexplained files.  Check it out if you're curious.  There's a link to a snippet of an episode about the moon here.






Sunday, 21 February 2016

This is Jonathon's Blog for blogger.  I enjoy the more elegant components of our culture such as heavy metal and Michael Jackson.  The picture below sums up my personality quite perfectly I like to think:

Ha.  Amazing.


Regarding the Moodle Powerpoint outlining the protocols of classroom edict I figure three aspects are more important than the rest.


  1. The no typing rule
  2. The no cell phone rule
  3. The on time rule.
All students paying attention to the lecturer is important.  If there is a foreign noise fighting for attention then I will miss something crucial to my assignments.  That would be annoying.  

The no cell phone rule is great as well.  I do find that i'm constantly checking my phone everywhere I go.  To get the full experience, it's got to go.

Punctuality wasn't my strongest point at school.  I want to change that.  I don't want to miss anything important.  

Thursday, 18 February 2016

Hello.  This is my Blog.  I am testing it out you see, so this post is highly irrelevant.  Please ignore it.  Good day.