Goody Beads (45) WhatBird | identify birds | bird identification guide | north america HTML and CSS: An Absolute Beginner's Guide [HTML & XHTM This article was written in 2009 and remains one of our most popular posts. If you’re keen to learn more about HTML and CSS, you may find this recent article on the future of HTML of great interest. So, you’re ready to take the plunge and begin to learn how to build your own web pages and sites? Fantastic! We’ve got quite a ride ahead, so I hope you’re feeling adventurous. This information is an excerpt from my recently released book, Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, 2nd edition. In the following pages, I’ll show you how to set up your computer — be it PC or Mac — so that you’re ready to build a site. Then, we’ll meet XHTML and walk through the details of how to structure a web page correctly. Finally, we’ll turn to the topic of Cascading Style Sheets, which we’ll use to change the way elements of your web page look. Don’t worry if some of these terms are unfamiliar — this excerpt, like the book itself, assumes that you have no knowledge about building web pages.
Primate Info Net Home If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system Mercury Venus Earth You Are Here Moon Mars Jupiter Io Europa Ganymede Callisto Saturn Titan Uranus Neptune Pluto(we still love you) That was about 10 million km (6,213,710 mi) just now. Pretty empty out here. Here comes our first planet... As it turns out, things are pretty far apart. We’ll be coming up on a new planet soon. Most of space is just space. Halfway home. Destination: Mars! It would take about seven months to travel this distance in a spaceship. Sit back and relax. When are we gonna be there? Seriously. This is where we might at least see some asteroids to wake us up. I spy, with my little eye... something black. If you were on a road trip, driving at 75mi/hr, it would have taken you over 500 years to get here from earth. All these distances are just averages, mind you. If you plan it right, you can actually move relatively quickly between planets. Pretty close to Jupiter now. Sorry. Lots of time to think out here... Pop the champagne! We're always trying to come up with metaphors for big numbers.
So you want to be a consultant...? Or: Why work 8 hours/day for someone else when you can work 16 hours/day for yourself? I've been a consultant of one form or another since 1985 when I started my old company, V-Systems, with a friend from college, and actually did bits and pieces of consulting as early as 1982. I have been asked often about the business, and I decided to write this up. Please note that I am providing observations from my own personal experience, but I am not providing tax or legal advice. You need to pay somebody for that, and I'm not qualified. Furthermore, I am not even attempting to make this a comprehensive guide for everything required by one in or contemplating the consulting business. These sections (except the last) aren't in any particular order. There are many ways of structuring a self-employed practice, and I'll touch on two that are at different ends of the spectrum. Contracting Consulting Consulting maxim: You must give the customer The Warm Fuzzy Feeling™ Anecdote: Have "customers", not "clients"
Welcome to BugGuide.Net! Carter Vanderbilt's Suicide Discussed by Anderson Cooper, Gloria Vanderbilt By Dahvi Shira UPDATED 09/19/2011 at 11:00 AM EDT • Originally published 09/19/2011 at 09:00 AM EDT It's been more than two decades since Anderson Cooper's brother Carter Vanderbilt Cooper flung himself from the 14th-floor terrace of his family's NYC penthouse apartment. In a rare interview, Anderson, 44, sat down with his mom, Gloria Vanderbilt, and recalls that tragic day in 1988 when Carter, then 23, took his own life. "When he went … I thought he was going to come back, but he didn't," Vanderbilt, 87, remembers in the one-on-one conversation that airs Monday on Anderson's syndicated talk show. "He let go, and there was a moment when I thought I was going to jump over after him." But the former fashion designer says Anderson, who was 21 at the time, gave her a reason to continue living. "I thought of you and it stopped me from [jumping]," Vanderbilt tells her son, whose eyes brim with tears. "You have survived so many things," Anderson says. "It hasn't made you tough," he continues.
Is Star Trek Science Fiction or a Look Into the Future? By John P. Millis, Ph.D One of the most popular science fiction series of all time is Star Trek. In it, future inhabitants of Earth take off on quests to the far reaches of the galaxy. Using advanced technologies like warp drive and artificial gravity, the occupants of the starship Enterprise explore strange new worlds. Well, it turns out that the technologies used in films like Star Trek have varying levels of real science behind them. Occasionally, the technology will be in agreement with our understanding of physics, but is highly improbable to ever exist for various reasons. So let's look at each of these broad categories and see where the technologies fall. continue reading below our video Play Video