Happy New Year!

Another year gone, another coming, I have many goals for this year they are far and ranging between technical goals to emotional goals.

This will be the year That i hopefully go back to my school to finnish my AS levels and A2’s. I Hope to go back to Lord Williams and the Chinnor Unit, I want this to happen so much, to be back with my freinds to be back with what i know. This is my main goal for the year.

I also want to be more useful to pentangle, and to help the web standards comunity. I believe i have somthing to give to the comunity and i want 2007 to be the year when this happens. I want to expand the work of other, and help develop the web of the world.

I want this year to be happier, I want this year to be the year when i start to feel comfortable as jamie, Autism and all. This year i will look who i am, and i will learn the skills to be alone for my life. I hope to be able to get the help to understand those things i do not understand. and i hope to be able to make more progress in my chosen feilds.

i hope that a happy new year is had by all, over the next few day i will be making my predictions and my rule and patterns for the year.

Published: 1 January 2007 | Categories: Permalink

A visit from a freind, leaving one behind.

For the last couple of days i have been staying with Sue, however today was my last day there. I was awake VERY late last night (more specifically this morning) I was sorting out Sues Vaio for her. Its an amazing machine, I REALLY like the vaio zone which is a media center system. I like it so much so that I am using a vaio launcher clone and I have downloaded a media center piece of software – still figuring it out – look for more posts coming soon.

but on with todays post,

Although, there were some issues (stupid register keys hiding in a protected state) but I go the anti-virus running, and made it find all of her media.

I am glad, that I spent the days with her and poly, i am really looking forward to going back soon.

Now, for the other big news today is that Alun came and visited me. He arrived at Sues just before 12 noon, and we spoke for a some time while i was packing my stuff.

From there Alun came back to the hell hole (future post on this place) and we were looking to go to Haynes motor museum, so after a quick trip back to Sue (i forgot my super bowl and hoddie – d’oh) we headed towards the motorway being guided by the TomTom.

The TomTom, was an interesting experience, it was easy to see how it gt confused, but it was interesting to note how it used its data to make the wrong decisions. when we eventually got to the motorway, we headed towards spark ford.

After lots of traffic and Alun rapidly running out of time, we decided we would stop for a bite to eat and then head back, he has said he will visit me again and we will go to the museum. Yay

I had a nice day with Alun, Its surprising how much fun and how many interesting convocations you could have in a car! I am looking forward to when he come again.

So, to sum it up, i had a great Xmas, and am looking forward to seeing these people again soon. So Alun, Sue, poly and penny thanks for a great few days.

As a final note, I have been moving some stuff on my “microformats quick start guides� website.

No back to the grim reality of trenchard park gardens.

Published: 28 December 2006 Permalink

Tags, Tags, Tags

Okay, what is a tag? a tag is, a way of marking up the content of a blog post or page to enable services like technorati to spider them and sort them. You might ask why this is different to a normal search engine. Here is why:

A normal search engine only “spiders” your site for new content every few weeks at most. With blogs and other regularly updated content this means there couple be 10 or more posts on the site before a traditional search engine would spider them, this mean that the search engines index would be come old very quickly. So how was this solved?

This was solved with a system known as “pinging”, pings have been used online for a while to check connection (for an example, on windows to go start > run > type cmd into the box, then when the command window opens type something like “ping google.com” this will then ping google) these pings are slightly different (they contain different types of data in something called XML-RPC and this ping alerts the search engine or ping service to your update.

Now we know how pinging works i can start to explain about tags. The tags proper name is a rel-tag microformat this is a microformat which is used so show the relationship of content to other content.

Rel-tags can also be used to show the relationship on links (for example, I can link to my own website and rel-tag it with “me” to show that the relationship my relationship to that link is that it is me!) In this way, when I add a tag link my journal i use the rel=“tag” attribute which tells services when they I ping them what sort of information i have on my site.

To get tag onto this site was quite an effort, but i will save that for another post another day!

Published: 24 December 2006 | Categories: , Permalink