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>_{H₁₂N₃O₄P}</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.

Off Topic: 10 Cloverfield Lane Review

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

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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