Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

Anthony J. D’Angelo

Back in 2004, I only heard about 2 blogging engines, Movable Type and WordPress. I didn’t choose those, because I have the mindset about mySQL and the PHP. Not sure why, probably because I was a noob back then. I registered as a blogger in Blogger instead.

After a few round of checking around the web, working on some funny web projects and selling them off, making me wonder what did I learn all those years. I was thinking to take things a bit more serious, so I joined the WordPress community.

However, I wasn’t that serious on web back then. It was advertising field that I’m hunting toward. Until 2 years ago, I started to develop WordPress and understand how it works.

There is this little problem I find with WordPress – update (or upgrade whichever you like to call it). It is both good and bad on the update. I got more secure and knowing that WordPress is still running on the net, and I get to learn more detailed features of the version.

This WordPress learning alone has already took me more than 10 hours per week!

The same old thing happen in my personal life too. You see, it is totally different when you compare a single person with a person with spouse. Whatever you can mention are not exactly what it will looks like, it’s more than that. Learning to adopt that is… Still weird for me. Think about having another 2 families going to form after a marriage, 1, in-law, 2, your own. There are a lot more situation to get use to and changes happen too. Starting to get formality for myself, top wrinkle creams are in my shopping list, gym is weekly must-go place and etc. A lifetime of learning…

Whatever I do, I can’t stop, especially getting use and learning some extra point in life and career. Even if I stop, I will have to pick it up again from the point I stopped, why bother???

I’ve done a few simplest explanation about the hosting and domain. Some people still haven’t really get around with the idea of visiting a domain that point to an IP address that belongs to a computer that online 24/7/365.

So I made a simple illustration on it. Show it to them. Here are some replied I’ve got:

So that is my computer? I don’t turn on my computer for 24 hours.

Ok… Why is there an IP address?

Why don’t you just place my website at your computer?

I have to pay for those? But it looks simple, shouldn’t cost that much right?

Ok, start bang head on wall…

I still can’t believe my eyes with how HTML5 can do. It is beyond a website now. That’s the evolution from 1980 by Sir Tim Berners Lee.

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However, I hate it! I hate the updates and all. I started web when it was HTML4, we all happily using HTML4 and enjoying how fast it can be finished. Normally I would go for 2 tables or less, because the myth about too much table will slow down the loading speed was in my head too much. Anyway, it took me half year to get use with XHTML1 and 2. Lucky I get used to CSS a long time ago, so it wasn’t that hard to bear with it.

Now that HTML5 is coming, though it is still nunder developing, but a lot of browsers started to support it. After reading through the whole documentary about HTML5, I really do have problem understanding and memorise them all. Seriously, let me just keep with XHTML2 at the moment. Like many developer suggest, as long as XHTML2 strict is applied, I don’t need to do any changes yet… Until it is officially launch.