Random Quote
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow
it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
---- Sam Levenson
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Web Design My column
I’ve added 1 new category and 3 subcategories related to web design to this blog: Web Design - CSS - javascript/JQuery - XHTML. I’ll be using these categories to write about what I’m doing in my drive to improve my web design/development skills. To keep the footprint a minimum on the blog I’ll include 95% of the entries in the extended entry and create a separate RSS feed just for those three categories as well as removing them from the regular RSS feed - but that will have to wait until I catch up on grading.
So far I have read Principles of Beautiful Web Design, CSS Mastery (twice), and ordered Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax: From Novice to Professional.
I found Principles of Beautiful Web Design to be an excellent book. I particularly enjoyed the chapters on color theory and typography. CSS Mastery is really well written, reading it a second time has really helped to clear up some of the principles that I hadn’t really gotten the first time around and I’m looking forward to putting them into practice. I know nothing about Javascript and am looking forward into learning this language and what it can do - hopefully this book is as good as it sounds and an engaging read as well.
In other news I’ve just been informed that my next two columns for the Korea Herald are slated to be 1000 words each. I’ll probably write on motivation for one and on professional development for the other.




