New Studies V

Use W3C Resources

This morning I have been looking at a new channel on YouTube. I can not Emphasize enough to check videos on YouTube. Look at, and examine the written material provided by W3schools, but videos are a lot more fun. This new channel I have connected with is great. Have viewed at least 10 -15 of his videos more than once. An excellent video instructor. Am beginning to think, because of the way this information is being shared and being taught that "transitional" really does apply because there is html 4.01,html5 (new elements for a/v), xhtml 1.0 (which is older) and CSS 2.0. Am thinking I have found the correct page to learn and read the current W3C "All Standards and Drafts" articles. Am going to start reading these myself, and for instance, there are articles on the best practices to use when authoring stuff.

Have decided to eat. Might fall asleep. Anyway, Do not have much more to say today except with emphasis Use your W3C resources. This is not easy yet using the resources makes this very fun... and to be honest, I do not see much of that except when capturing images and playing around on the computer (which is good actually). As I was just texting that statement, the thought of less fortunate hungry folks in Africa with HIV and AIDS with no money and no access to clean water popped into my head. So photography, computer work, and clean drinking water... isn't so boring after all. As far as the emphasis on resources... here is some trivia. In order to memorize something, it only has to be done 22 times while focused. And if the task is used once in a while to re-inforce the memory... we do not forget it. Simple trivia. Have added a link or two over to the side for W3Schools. Their site is very helpful and have noticed that color schemes hold a lot of importance to will be looking for a site that can help.

New Studies IV

List Of My Cacti

The next phase of the tutorial videos available on You Tube (wiki) are teaching list creation and list usage inside webpages. Am going to list my cactus species inside this post in order to learn the list elements of html. Was having difficulty trying to build and to develop a webpage to exhibit what is being taught. Not anymore!! Am an avid gardener. Around the apartment I call home, both inside and outside, there are quite a few specimens to list in keeping with the theme, "New Studies." Am going to do some footwork. Will return to this blog in a few minutes.

Have decided to feature my cacti in this post because there are quite a few varieties and they are interesting to read about. And will be able to use the list elements, properties, and rules that I have been learning to use with css and will be able to use html also. While outside looking, noticed that the plants need a bit of TLC. To repeat myself will BRB. Sheesh. Sweeping the front porch did me for a loop. The heat outside is around 114 degrees F. Was just barely moving and am pouring sweat. Will start noting the time as I come back to the log.(1715hrs PDT). Did some yard work outside to prepare my cactus for this blog: have decided to use images that have already been captured. When I wake up from my nap (1750hrs).

My Cactus

• Peanut Cactus



Added a unordered list and an image that was re-sized smaller to this post. Looking very amateur, so need to continue from where I left off last night. Woke up at 1100hrs. The area of "New Studies" to get a better grip: Adding images and creating lists. Figured it out... the videos are teach style and to create the lists the way I would like am going to study deeper into just plain hypertext markup language.

Captured a few images of this species yesterday on Monday, 29 August 2016. I have two huge containers out front. Anyway, here below are two new images.



These are two of the best macro images I have captured of Echinopsis chamaecereus


• Thimble Cactus



Just uploaded this second image. Might be making this either a bit more complicated than it should be or might not know what I am talking about. Will just continue onward 0130hours. Time sure flies when having fun. This image above is showing the first blooms ever by one of my peanut cactus. The Summer season heat is really tearing up my garden.

• Bunny Ear Opuntia Cactus- White Polka Dot Prickly Pear



Have kept at least one specimen of this cactus in my garden since the beginning. The cactus is so easy to grow with almost no special care. Have never had a flower because my plants have never gotten old enough to bloom. Where there would normally be spines this cactus has glochids...tiny almost microscopic pricklers (dangerous to the eyes and lungs).

• A hybrid Opuntia



This is one of the plants I use as a barrier. The pears are literally covered in mean aggressive thorns. Take a close look and you will see for yourself.

• Cow's Tongue Opuntia



Am making certain to have a current photo of my cactus collection in flickr. Cactaceae Opuntia engelmannii. Have quite a few photos of this prickly pear cactus in the album "Plants- Cactus, Yucca, and Succulents." This particular pad was found at the same location and it had been shed by one of the plants. So I picked it up, put it in my backpack, brought it to my new apartment and planted it into the soil. Believe it was planted some time in October or November 2014 and this "pear" has just recently sprouted these buds on the side. Am not sure if the buds are going to be flowers or new paddles. Do know the flowers are bright yellow and very attractive to bees as you can see in the other album if you are interested.This cactus is three to four months growing in my garden. It has started a third generation of paddles as you can see. Am going to locate some more images of this plants parent.

• Bunny Ear Opuntia Cactus- Red Polka Dot Prickly Pear

New Studies III

Third Post In A Row

Am learning just how much the creation of the World Wide Web actually altered our lives. For me, am in front of a computer most of the time every day! The link above connects to Wikipedia.org which shows just the languages in order to move further into their knowledge base. Available in English, there are well over 5 million individual articles. Pure knowledge. A huge library at my fingertips.

Today, I have spent quite a bit of time just setting the text in this post into html. The time is 1900 hrs, and am planning to spend the rest of the evening studying. Am learning the importance, and convenience also, of software written just so people would not need to learn html to share their knowledge. It is very difficult for me to fathom how incredible it is for me to have access to this knowledge. Even, this Blogger site is set up so that folks can share. Am off to study, it was important to text the format of this post, even though tedious. Over and over and over... this is what I have learned today during my "New Studies." Looks as though this blog may end up as a sort of diary?? Am getting hungry and will remember to share an image of breakfast.

Photography and an ability to share my images in a proper fashion, is the benchmark of this whole series, "New Studies," and, "Going Native."

New Studies II

Daily Perseverance

This will be my second entry into this log of daily "New Studies" to learn the World Wide Web. It may seem simple to some that know how to use this hypertext mark up language, yet for me, am a fifty-year old man. Have been hit in my head a lot over the years, I smoke, used to drug, and used to drink. So my mind is just about shot in comparison to a young fresh brain. Will give it the old college try to complete this journey. For instance, last night I glanced at the W3C site. And specked out something new. Java scripting. Actually added a working "button" to a blank page using the "codes" that were given to me. Along with all of the vocabulary that needs to be learned, there are rules about what can be used and what cannot be used when texting this stuff into Blogger. Will learn slowly and steadily.

I am able to toggle back and forth between this page which is a draft and a preview page provided by Blogger. For this particular post, my style had to be triple checked in order for the preview to look the way I would like. The text property of the paragraph element was missing a word, and the line-height I have set to 200% because the default value keeps text too close line-by-line. This is great fun and I hope to learn how to do the really "neat" stuff. Am using Notepad-plus-plus as a text editor because it is free. Am not a rich man and I can afford free. This software (Notepad-plus-plus) is licensed by GNU Operating System and is sponsored by the Free Software Foundation (fsf) . Am not sure how all of this works so far, but I plan on learning slowly yet steadily during my "New Studies." Hopefully in a few years I may be able to qualify to contribute to the endeavors of these folks that have kindly organized all of the "stuff." I really do hope that all of the links used are giving the proper credits to the people involved. If there is an error, please, inform me. This stuff is really cool and do not want to mess up. It is very important, what I just texted, and it has made me hungry for a snack. Am going over to the local market for some excellent snacks.

The reasoning behind my efforts to add these links is two-fold. In the lessons, the teachers say that including links in your page creates connectivity which is the core idea inside the World Wide Web Consortium (W3.org). And secondly, this will allow access any information needed as I work through each of these posts. Pretty neat. Possibly Blogger could become my homepage along with my browser. Yaaaay. This idea just popped into my head because learning this mark-up syntax for source code is going to become a serious project as my "New Studies" develop. Am going ahead with publishing this because of my journey to get sugar donuts and grape soda. Might take a while. May not be able to complete this post tonight, and am bound and determined to blog each day using html, style, and in a few days script. Had more posts included in this blog, but decided to delete them because the posting was intermittent and disorganized. Am hoping the steps that I am taking will encourage me to focus on blogging. Will not be able to snack as often as this post implies yet the sugar donuts and grape soda is one of my very most favorite snacks.

Finally! Got home with this snack. So darn delicious. Gave the address to this blog to Omar, the cashier, and asked him to take a look at the blog and to please leave a comment. Hope he gets the chance.