Movies <-this-> Week (Jun 08 4th Quarter)

Hard Boiled [1992] - A John Woo film starring Chow Yun-Fat as a no-nonsense detective.
Cleaner [2007] - Samuel L. Jackson stars as an ex-detective turned crime scene cleaner who "cleans" some evidence by accident and got himself into trouble.
Kung-Fu Panda [2008] - A martial arts animated film with voices of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Jacky Chan, Ian McShane, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross, and many others.
Semi-Pro [2008] - Starring Will Ferrel as Jackie Moon, a one-hit singer who bought a basketball team to be the playing coach.. with ambitions to take his team to the big league, the NBA.
Street Kings [2008] - Keanu Reeves and Forest Whitaker in another cop drama.
The Incredible Hulk [2008] - Edward Norton stars as the marvel character Dr. Bruce Banner in the Hulk's latest installment. You can see Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) in the last part of the film, a preview for the next Hulk movie where the classic Marvel battle with the Hulk and Iron Man might be taken into consideration.
Be Kind Rewind [2008] - With Jack Black and Mos Def in this comedy about making "sweded movies".
Vantage Point [2008] - Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox and Forest Whitaker in this action-drama about assassinations and conspiracies in the U.S. goverment taking place in another country. The story is told in different perspectives about the assassination attempt for the US president visiting Salamanca, Spain.

JL Trish V4.2 now in Poser Format

I have just updated my free character head morph for Victoria 4.2 to poser format. JL Trish V4.2 only requires Victoria 4.2 Base and is free to download at JLee 3D. I packed it in 7-zip compression format which WinRAR and 7-zip could extract, so if you have Victoria 4.2 Base, Poser or DAZ|Studio, and either WinRAR v3.71 or 7-zip then you may be able to get her in her own download page. Head morph only with no supplied textures, eye mats and hair. Enjoy!

BSG's Gayatri Mantra

ॐ भूर्भुवः स्वः ।
तत् सवितुर्वरेण्यं ।
भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि ।
धियो यो नः प्रचोदयात् ॥

OM bhūr bhuvah svah
tat savitur varēnyam
bhargō dēvasya dhīmahi
dhiyō yō nah pracōdayāt

Translations (wiki):

• om The mystical Om syllable.
• bhū "earth"
• bhuvas "atmosphere"
• svar "light, heaven"
• tat "that"
• savitur devasya "of Savitr, the god" (genitives of savitr-, 'stimulator, rouser; name of a sun-deity' and deva- 'god' or 'demi-god')
• varenyam accusative of varenya- "desirable, excellent"
• bhargo "radiance, lustre, splendour, glory"
• dhīmahi "may we attain" (1st person plural middle optative of dhā- 'set, bring, fix' etc.)
• dhiyaḥ naḥ "our prayers" (accusative plural of dhi- 'thought, meditation, devotion, prayer' and naḥ enclitic personal pronoun)
• yaḥ pracodayāt "who may stimulate" (nominative singular of relative pronoun yad-; causative 3rd person of pra-cud- 'set in motion, drive on, urge, impel')

Syllabic Pronounciation in the (All New) Battlestar Galactica Theme:

• Ooommm (prolonged OM)
• bur-bu-va-ah-su-vah
• tat-sa-vi-tur-va-re-en-yam
• bar-go-de-vas-ya-ah-di-ma(h)i
• di-yu-yu-na-ah-pra-cu---day-at

W3C Validation Linking Tips

W3 in W3C stands for the World Wide Web (W3 or WWW) and the C part is for Consortium, or as a whole: the World Wide Web Consortium. What's the use of these validations? Well, having a valid html/xhtml page ensures you that your page will load properly (and that means how you want or expect your page to display) in all browsers especially those browsers who are W3C compliant. Take note however that not all browsers conform to the W3C standards and you may have to add certain "hacks" on your page to display them right. Rest assured however that major browsers comply to these standards, among them is Mozilla FireFox. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 does comply to these except for XHTML's mime type "application/xhtml+xml" (as of this writing, if I am not mistaken) which your page must change to "text/html" whenever it is browsed by IE, but maybe an update from Microsoft will fix it someday.

Anyway, to get to the linking tips.. for an HTML/XHTML page you may validate to W3C's Online Markup Validation or to W3C's Online CSS/Stylesheet Validation page or to both. To validate to W3C easily, just add a text or image link in your page to:

• "http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer" for the markup validation.
• "http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer?profile= css3%26usermedium=all%26warning=2%26lang=en" for the CSS3 validation.

Notes: Due to maximum width, the above link was broken into the next line. Make sure there are no spaces or newlines within your <a> (link) tags. Always use lowercase for your tags. For URLs, replace '&' with '%26' or '&amp;'.

When following these links, it will automatically validate the current page you placed the validation link, hence the 'referer' (referrer) parts in the links. If your page does not validate, errors and warnings are listed so you can correct them. The markup validation also has an option to clean up your code so you will know how to correct them, just toggle the "Clean Up With HTML Tidy" option in the validation page.

Currently, this blog is not yet W3C compliant, and is because I used a default template from blogger plus the widgets. But once I get to finish my W3C compliant website then I will concentrate on my blogger accounts. View the html source of my 3D site to learn more on how I linked to W3C.

Visitor Map

Visitor Map for Do or Die! - June 7, 2008

Ubuntu

Guess what came from the mail yesterday?

My Ubuntu Desktop CD.. has just arrived.. unfortunately the Ubuntu Server CD that is suppose to come with it is missing! The package reads One Ubuntu Desktop CD and One Ubuntu Server CD. I don't know whether it is an error from Ubuntu or from the post office. I've waited almost a month for the CDs to arrive..

Well anyway, I'm gonna have to make do with the Desktop Edition. Now to find enough disk space for the installation..

HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1

Finally converted the index page of my site to XHTML 1.1 and HTML 4.01, depending on what browser the page viewer is browsing from. Since the index is in PHP, I can manipulate the headers so it will display HTML 4.01 on Internet Explorer users or XHTML 1.1 (default) for viewers who use Mozilla Firefox (v2 or later) or any browser that supports XHTML. All stylesheets used are CSS3 validated.

Since there are google ads on my pages, I decided to revert the mime types to text/html instead of application/xhtml+xml since most if not all of the javascript ads like adsense does not support xhtml yet. There are a lot of sample PHP code to do this and after gathering enough examples I have created my own. Here is what my script provides:

1. If XHTML is supported, send XHTML (with XML) headers to the page but retain text/html as the mime type, and make sure the XML tag is placed on the first line and column of the page.
2. If XHTML is forced to be the markup language, use application/xhtml+xml as mime type, thereby disabling ads that don't support XHTML and browsers with no support for this mime type will not be able to display the page properly, i.e. some of the page styles are lost.
3. If XHTML is not supported, HTML 4.01 will be used for the headers with text/html as mime type plus all closing tags "/>" are converted to ">".
4. If HTML is forced to be the markup language, all HTML 4.01 conditions (see no. 3) will be enabled.
5. If validation from W3C, the default markup language (XHTML 1.1) and mime type (application/xhtml+xml) is used.

You can validate the markup of your pages at the W3C Markup Validation Service. You can validate your stylesheets at the W3C CSS Validator.

The Forbidden Kingdom [2008]

The Forbidden Kingdom (April 2008)

With Jet Li as the Monkey King and the Silent Monk. Long ago, the monkey king was tricked by the Jade Emperor's General, the Jade Warlord portrayed by Collin Chou. The Jade Warlord turned the Monkey King into stone, but before that, the Monkey King banished his staff to the mountains in the hope that someone will find it to free him from his imprisonment.

It also stars Jackie Chan as the drunken immortal Lu Yan and the Old Hop; Michael Angarano as Jason Tripitikas, the kung-fu fanatic destined to free the Monkey King; Yifei Liu as Golden Sparrow, orphaned by the Jade Warlord and vows revenge; and Li Bing Bing as the mercenary Ni Chang who was promised the Immortality Potion if she can bring the Monkey King's staff to the Jade Warlord.