Wednesday, January 24, 2007

I'm Here and That's All That Matters

I'm here and that's all that matters. Today I accomplished at least 20$ worth of words. After requesting pay I discovered that I'm getting paid 2$ an article which is 0.01-0.005 cents a word. I feel a little gyped. But my writing style is improving, I believe. Becoming ever more clear and concise.
Another project I'm working on; I'm now learning HTML and XHTML, the computer languages of the internet. It's pretty basic (pun intended). They use tags to tell you what a certain object does. I've learned about the body and heading tags already.
You may have heard of HTML, but not XHTML. They are almost the same programming language. XHTML uses Extensible Markup Language, or XML which makes it possible for users to create their own tags. There's a standard for HTML, sort of. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is supposedly responsible for creating this standard. There are several versions of this standard we use today. More on what I've learned later in the week.
I'm also reading the MLA (Modern Language Association) Handbook for Writer's of Reseach Papers. So far all I've learned is that research papers suck. Not really, it's amazing what people can compile from primary and secondary sources, what ideas they can create. So far, not any new information, however.
So I'll leave you with a quote from Bob Edwards, "A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad."

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