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27 September 2007

How to Start Essay Writing

	Posted by Hungry Lion at 9/27/2007 2:22:00 PM
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Essay writing can be tedious and laborious especially if you don’t know what you doing. Your school years in English or maybe in collage can fly by if you apply these simple steps.    

When given a task to write an essay you will be given topics to write about. Your 1^st step is to take your topic and do research, there no way you can write about a topic you have no knowledge about! You can look though books form the library and the Internet like our website Web Hosting and Dedicated Servers for information for your essay.

You will need to analysis the information you have found and understand different arguments from different authors and create your own idea of what you understand. You then have to brain storm come up with something diverse from the rest, by looking deeper into the information and coming up with original ideas making your essay different from the rest.

Now you have you plan your essay almost like an outline it needs to be arguable, not just full of data you have to be specific and detailed as well as avoid listing, as that is not pleasant to read in a essay. You want to think of a title and headings and what points you will have in each paragraph. Make sure your thoughts are clears and logical.

You want the 1^st sentence of your essay to capture the reader by the nose hairs so he’s engulfed by what he reads. Your 1^st sentence has to be powerful and only then can you start with your essay.

Then in your paragraphs stick to an idea until you have developed it, don’t jump around; you want to make your paragraphs clear and understandable. Let the reader know were you are going with your topic.

In your conclusion you want recap, keep it short and leave an impression on the readers mind as you come to your end. You then read over it making sure of no plagiarism, repetitions or information that is useless, and then check your English grammar making sure of no mistakes.  

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27 September 2007

Five Lessons About the Way We Treat People

	Posted by Hungry Lion at 9/27/2007 12:54:00 PM
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1 - First Important Lesson - Cleaning Lady.

During my second month of college, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions until I read the last one:

"What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times. She was tall, dark-haired and in her 50's, but how would I know her name?

I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Just before class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our quiz grade.

"Absolutely, " said the professor. "In your careers, you will meet many people.  All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say "hello."

I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. So, how you think, did you notice our site name: Web Hosting and Dedicated Servers.

2. - Second Important Lesson - Pickup in the Rain

One night, at 11:30 p.m., an older African American woman was standing on the side of an Alabama highway trying to endure a lashing rain storm. Her car had broken down and she desperately needed a ride.

Soaking wet, she decided to flag down the next car. A young white man stopped to help her, generally unheard of in those conflict-filled 1960's. The man took her to safety, helped her get assistance and put her into a taxicab.

She seemed to be in a big hurry, but wrote down his address and thanked him. Seven days went by and a knock came on the man's door. To his surprise, a giant console color TV was delivered to his home. A special note was attached.

It read:
"Thank you so much for assisting me on the highway the other night. The rain drenched not only my clothes, but also my spirits.  Then you came along. Because of you, I was able to make it to my dying husband's bedside just before he passed away... God bless you for helping me and unselfishly serving others."

Sincerely,
Mrs. Nat King Cole.

3 - Third Important Lesson - Always remember those who serve.

In the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less, a 10-year-old boy entered a hotel coffee shop and sat at a table. A waitress put a glass of water in front of him.

"How much is an ice cream sundae?" he asked.  
"Fifty cents," replied the waitress.

The little boy pulled is hand out of his pocket and studied the coins in it.

"Well, how much is a plain dish of ice cream?" he inquired.

By now more people were waiting for a table and the waitress was growing impatient.

"Thirty-five cents," she brusquely replied.

The little boy again counted his coins.

"I'll have the plain ice cream," he said.

The waitress brought the ice cream, put the bill on the table and walked away The boy finished the ice cream, paid the cashier and left.  When the waitress came back, she began to cry as she wiped down the table.  There, placed neatly beside the empty dish,
were two nickels and five pennies..

You see,  he couldn't  have the sundae, because he had to have enough left to leave her a tip.

4 - Fourth Important Lesson. - The obstacle in Our Path.

In ancient times, a King had a boulder placed on a roadway.  Then he hid himself and watched to see if anyone would remove the huge rock.  Some of the king's wealthiest merchants and courtiers came by and simply walked around it.  Many loudly blamed the
King for not keeping the roads clear, but none did anything about getting the stone out of the way.

Then a peasant came along carrying a load of vegetables.  Upon approaching the boulder, the peasant laid down his burden and tried to move the stone to the side of the road.  After much pushing and straining, he finally succeeded. After the peasant picked up his load of vegetables, he noticed a purse lying in the road where the boulder had been. The purse contained many gold coins and a note from the King indicating that the gold was for the person who removed the boulder from the roadway.  The peasant learned what many of us never understand!

Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve our condition.

5 - Fifth Important Lesson - Giving When it Counts...

Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at a hospital, I got to know a little girl named Liz who was suffering from a rare &serious disease.  Her only chance of recovery appeared to be a blood transfusion from her 5-year old brother, who had miraculously survived the same disease and had developed the antibodies needed to combat the illness.  The doctor explained the situation to her little brother, and asked the little boy if he would be willing to give his blood to his sister.

I saw him hesitate for only a moment before taking a deep breath and saying, "Yes I'll do it if it will save her."  As the transfusion progressed, he lay in bed next to his sister and smiled, as we all did, seeing the color returning to her cheek. Then his face grew pale and his smile faded.

He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice, "Will I start to die right away".

Being young, the little boy had misunderstood the doctor; he thought he was going to have to give his sister all of his blood in order to save her.

Most importantly.................. "Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like you do when nobody's watching."

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27 September 2007

CSS Work Out, Implement Table Style

	Posted by Hungry Lion at 9/27/2007 1:27:00 AM
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Note that some of the examples in this lecture are using table formatting that does not normally carry over into print or that may be specific to only certain browsers. This means that certain examples will not appear correctly in many instances. This does not affect document readability.

Styling Tables

You can use either style sheets or attributes to style documents. Both have benefits and drawbacks. Style sheets have more flexibility and are in accord with new standards, but they are also not backwardly compatible. Many table attributes have been deprecated in favor of style sheets, and many only work in certain browsers, however, they are backwardly compatible.

A common recommedation is to use both. Style sheets will override the attributes values on newer browsers that understand them.

Borders

HTML provides the border attribute to put borders around table elements. It is an all or nothing deal that takes the size of the border as its value. Internet Explorer adds the frame attribute to draw frames around the table and the rules attribute to draw lines between cells and other distinct table elements. These take keywords to specify which lines are to be drawn.

CSS also provides border properties in the form of the border property. There are also three sub-properties.

border-width

This allows you to specify the width of the border. Normally the width is specfied in the number of pixels.

border-style

This allows you to specify the style of the border. This takes a keyword, such as solid, or dashed. Check the W3C documentation for the complete list.

border-color

This allows you to specify a color for the border. As with all other color properties in style sheets, it is preferred that you use a hexadecimal value to set the color.

When you set border properties, they apply to the element selected, not for everything in the table. Therefore, you can define styles for cells, rows, and the entire table separately. The simplest way to set the border is to just set it for all four sides. For instance, if you wanted to set the border around the table to a two pixel, solid red line, you could code:

<table style="border: 2px solid #ff0000;">

The "px" in the above statement says that the measure is in pixels. The line is a solid line and is pure red. The values need to occur in that order and all need to be present for the command to work. If you just want to set one value, then use the sub-properties.

If you wanted borders around everything, then what you need to do it as a document level style rule, instead of inline (unless you want to repeat it for every single cell):

table, th, td { border: 2px solid #ff0000; }

If you want to specify properties for only some of the sides, there are a few ways to do it. One is to specify border-left, border-right, border-top, or border-bottom. These work the same way as the border attribute.

Another method is to specify the values using the sub-properties. border-width, border-style, and border-color all take up to four values each, one for each side of a table or cell.

The values are listed out in a space separated list as follows:

style="border-width: 2px 4px 6px 4px;"

The above statement sets the top border to 2 pixels, the left and right border to four pixels each, and the bottom border to six pixels.

Now, as stated before, you can have up to four values. What happens if you don't have all four. This can get rathe confusing, but it works like this.

border-width: width1;

Sets all four sides to the size specified.

border-width: width1 width2;

Sets the top and bottom border to width1 and the left and right borders to width2.

border-width: width1 width2 width3;

Sets the top border to width1, sets the left and right borders to width2, and sets the bottom border to width3.

border-width: width1 width2 width3 width4;

Sets the top border to width1, sets the right border to width2, sets the bottom border to width3, and sets the left border to width 4.

There are also properties for the individual sides by sub-property. For instance, you could specify the four widths with individual properties using the following.

 

• border-top-width
• border-right-width
• border-bottom-width
• border-left-width

Size

There are corresponding height and width style properties that match the attributes of the same name. They can take an absolute value in pixels, a relative value, normally based on em-units (a typographic measure), or a percentage value. If using a percentage, beware that some browsers treat is as a percent of the table or available space after margins and others as a percent of the page.

The recommended method for setting width is to specify an absolute width for some columns and have others that have no size defined and expand to fill in the extra space. For instance, you could set an absolute value for a menu bar and then let the content fill the rest of the screen. Browsers will also ignore your size specifications at times to fit things on the screen.

When you specify a width, you specify a maximum width. This will only be overridden if the contents of the cell or table are too wide to fit in that space. For instance, while text will wrap to fit available space, if you set a cell width to 400 pixels and then try to put an image that is 600 pixels wide in it, then the cell will expand to fit the image.

You only need to specify a width once in a given column. All the cells in a column are the same width unless you are spanning columns.

It is generally not recommended you specify a height, but when you do, it sets the minimum height for that element. You only need to set height once in a row.

Spacing and Padding

Cell spacing is the space between cells in a table. Cell padding is the extra space inside a cell between the contents and the border of the cell. You can set these values with the cellspacing and cellpadding attributes, which take a value representing the size in pixels, or you can use style sheets.

The style sheet equivalents of cellspacing and cellpadding are border-spacing and padding.

The padding property can take one to four values to specify the padding, or the space within the cells. If you use more than value, then the same rules apply as with specifying individual border sides above. You can also specify an individual side by specifying padding-side. For instance, padding-left, or padding-bottom.

The border-spacing property is a little more limited in its use. It can only be applied to the table as a whole and is an all or nothing affair. In other words, you have to have the same amount of spacing between every element in the table.

This is not particularly versatile, but then again, if you are using a browser that understands the border-spacing property in the first place, then you are using a browser that understands how to use CSS for positioning. In other words, you are in an environment where you shouldn't be using tables for fancy page layout, but rather CSS.

In any event, IE does not yet support the border-spacing property, while Netscape 7 and Opera 7 do. So you still need to use the old HTML method for the majority of the market.

Note that on newer browsers, there is an automatic margin of 2 pixes inserted between each cell. This can cause problems if you are working with borders, and each semester students tear a few hairs out trying to figure out how to get rid of the gaps between their table cells. There are two fixes for this. The old fix and the new fix.

The old fix. Use HTML attributes to crunch out the margin. Using both attributes covers your bases, since older browser default to a border but no margin, and newer browsers default to a margin but no borders.

<table border="0" cellspacing="0">

The new fix. Use CSS to specify that the table has no space between the cells.

table { border-spacing: 0px; }
[or]
table { border-collapse: collapse; }

The border-collapse property takes one of three values:

• collapse -- Put no space between adjacent cell borders.
• separate -- Put some space between adjacent cell borders. In this mode you can then use border-spacing to specify how much space.
• inherit -- Inherit this property.

This property will work for other elements as well, but is really only useful for tables. It is better supported than border-spacing, and appears to work in all three major browsers. If both border-spacing and border-collapse, then border-collapse overrides border-spacing when it is assigned a value of "collapse".

Color

The background-color property is well-supported and is preferred to the bgcolor attribute in tables. Both can be a little quirkish in Netscape 4.x. The background-color property can take a color name or color value, but, since CSS only officially recognizes 16 color names, it is a good idea to use the hexadecimal color values.

Empty Cells

CSS also provides a means by which to control what to do with empty table cells in terms of formatting. This is useful if you have table cells with visibility set to "hidden", since browsers will treat such hidden content as no content. It also means you don't have to use the   trick to make sure there is something in cells.

The property is empty-cells and takes a value of "show", "hide", or "inherit". The supports and defaults, of course, get complicated:

• Netscape 7 -- supports property, default is show.
• Opera 7 -- supports property, default is hide.
• IE (all) and older browsers -- does not support property, default is hide. You need to use the   trick.

Aligning Tables and Table Contents

Alignment is tricky business in tables. For starters, the same attribute that aligns the table itself aligns the contents of the table in different contexts. You can also align things in both dimensions.

Aligning the table

By using the align attribute in the <table> tag, you can align the table on the page. If the value is set to center, then the table will be centered. However, if it is set to left or right, then the table will be floated to the left or the right and other content will flow around it.

The easiest way to center a table with style sheets is a two step process. First, put the table in a division and use the text-align property to center (text-align: center;) the contents of the division. Then set the margins of the table to auto. This will cover your bases for almost all newer browsers.

To mimick moving the table to the left or right, you want to use the float property on the table itself. For instance, to float it to the right, you could do the following.

<table style="float: right;">

Aligning the contents

Contents can be aligned by applying attributes or properties to individual cells or to the entire row or table division (i.e., header, body, footer). To align cell contents horizontally you can use the align attribute or the text-align property. Both take a value of left, right, center, or justify. Justification is not well-supported on the Web.

The default alignment for content cells is left aligned. The default alignment for header cells is centered.

You can also align cell contents vertically with the valign attribute or the vertical-align property. The vertical-align property is not as well supported as the align property, but it is getting there.

Both of the vertical alignment elements can take any of the following values.

top

Aligns contents with the top of the cell.

middle

Aligns contents with the middle of the cell. In other words, it centers it vertically.

bottom

Aligns contents with the bottom of the cell.

baseline

For right now, this can be treated the same as bottom, though it is slightly different.

The default vertical alignment on a cell of any kind is middle.

Sample alignments

Attributes	Style Rules	Code Samples
This cells is entirely default values.	This cell is entirely default values.
This cell is aligned to the left using attributes.	This cell is aligned to the left using style sheets.	<td align="left"> <td style="text-align: left;">
This cell is aligned to the right using attributes.	This cell is aligned to the right using style sheets.	<td align="right"> <td style="text-align: right;">
The contents of this cell are centered using attributes.	The contents of this cell are centered using style sheets.	<td align="center"> <td style="text-align: center;">
The contents of this cell are justified using attributes. This value does not always work for attributes.	The contents of this cell are justified using style sheets. Newer browser should know how to process this value for style sheets, but it does not render well with short lines.	<td align="justify"> <td style="text-align: justify;">
The contents of this cell are vertically aligned to the top using attributes.	The contents of this cell are vertically aligned to the top using style sheets.	<td valign="top"> <td style="vertical-align: top;">
The contents of this cell are vertically aligned to the bottom using attributes.	The contents of this cell are vertically aligned to the bottom using style sheets.	<td valign="bottom"> <td style="vertical-align: bottom;">
The contents of this cell are vertically aligned to the middle using attributes.	The contents of this cell are vertically aligned to the middle using style sheets.	<td valign="middle"> <td style="vertical-align: middle;">
The contents of this cell are vertically aligned to the baseline using attributes.	The contents of this cell are vertically aligned to the baseline using style sheets.	<td valign="baseline"> <td style="vertical-align: baseline;">

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11 September 2007

Considered Career Paths

	Posted by Hungry Lion at 9/11/2007 8:48:00 AM
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1. Career Profile: Vice President of Technology

Vice Presidents of Technology play a lead role in determining the technological direction of their organizations. Their duties include planning, implementing and maintaining an information technology infrastructure, directing IT investments, providing leadership for the organization’s IT planning and budgeting for projects and programs. They direct the hiring and supervision of information technology managers, workers and support staff. They also provide vision and strategic plans for their organization to utilize information technology as a competitive tool.

2. Career Profile: Database Administrator

Database Administration involves ensuring that an organization's databases are running efficiently and reliably. A Database Administrator (DBA) may be involved in the physical and logical design of a database, and is usually responsible for evaluation, implementation and maintenance of the Database Management System (DBMS) software, as well as configuring security and access permissions.

DBAs often write and run queries, ensure database availability and performance, manage backup and recovery, write code that provides an interface to the database, or work with other programmers who are writing software to access the database, etc. DBAs can also be responsible for costing, budgeting and projecting future expansions.

3. Career Profile: Computer Security Specialist

Computer Security Specialists plan, coordinate, and implement security measures for information systems. Their primary objective is to regulate access to data, thereby preventing unauthorized modification of information, destruction or deletion of files, or disclosure of private and confidential information. They are usually employed by large organizations and governmental agencies where the need for security of information is extremely high. As well, Computer Security Specialists may work independently, providing consulting services to departments and organizations.

Computer Security Specialists often have related duties that may include training users of the system, as well as implementing additional security measures in situations where there has been a change in the business needs, or when there is a potential threat to system integrity. To be successful, they must keep up to date with rapidly changing security threats, trends and technologies.

4. Career Profile: IT Management Professional

Information Technology Management Professionals are adept at applying expert managerial and specific technical expertise and knowledge from within one or more of a wide range of information technology fields. The IT Management Professional has a wide range of responsibilities which often include developing and implementing strategies for the future direction of information technology within their organization; advising management on methods for using technology to help achieve policy objectives; assessing needs for custom application and database development; planning and implementation of IT projects; and managing the development, implementation, installation and operation of information and functional systems. IT Management Professionals are often also very hands-on with respect to employee hiring and development, conflict resolution, and determining equipment and training needs.

In summary, IT Management Professionals assemble and lead technical teams, manage the project development process, and produce corporate presentations and promotional strategies.

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