What do file types stand for?

We use them all the time but do you know what they stand for?

.jpeg
Joint Photographic Experts Group
It is pronounced "jay-peg". JPEG is a colour image compression technique. It can reduce files to about 5% of their original file size. However, the more you compress a jpeg the more detail is lost.

.tiff
Tagged Image File Format
Much like the JPEG, TIFF files are used to compress images. It was developed to standardise desktop scanner file formats. The format was developed by Aldus (which has since been acquired by Adobe Systems) in the mid-80s and is now the most common form of image storage.

.png
Portable Network Graphics
It is an approved file format by the World Wide Web Consortium as an alternative to GIF files

.bmp or .dip
Bit Map Picture or device-independent bitmap
This is pronounced bitmap. This is the standard bit-mapped graphics format used in the Windows environment

.gif
Graphical Interchange Format
This is pronounced giff (hard g). It is bit-mapped graphics file format used extensively on the World Wide Web. GIF supports color and various resolutions. It also includes data compression, but because it is limited to 256 colors, it is better used on scanned images such as illustrations rather than color photos.

ok so here are a few. I may add a few more. It funny how when you are under pressure to remember something you use every day your brain freezes up i really struggles to get past JPEG!

R.I.P Disneyland

55 years after Disneyland opened, Disneyland still claim that no one has ever died in their land.

This may not be so true, as Disneyland actually transport people who have died off their property before proclaiming them dead!

All in the vein attempt to keep Disney a dream world.

MacMacMac

It is a well known fact that Apple are the most stable of computers as they rarely crash and they dont get viruses, mainly down to the fact that for every 14 computers there is one Apple computer. That in itself is a pretty cool fact.



Today i was informed that apple; the untouchables are going to release an anti virus which is big news for all us mac users as they may soon become as unstable as PCs.

I have added a brief time line for apple.... for all you geeks out there

Boys Watch and Learn

It was a beautiful day in Worthing today. I woke up late which rocked!

I went into town with my wife; we went to a friends birthday; we then met up with my wife's family and then met up with some friends.

The latter part of the afternoon we sat in our friends garden, drinking pink lemonade and eating Mars ice creams. We got onto the conversation about the internet and i said i was doing a blog. After explaining what this blog was about and why I was doing it, they started to tell me things that they had learnt; which is exactly what i hoped doing this blog would do. They told me about sayings such as 'the wrong end of the stick' and 'coffee pot calling the kettle black'.

One of them is a teaching assistant and was telling me about everything he is learning.... which made me a little jealous as I had just been saying how hard it was to find something I had learnt day in day out. Even after all the interesting, disturbing and weird things I found out, one conversation stuck out for me.

One of the converations was about giving birth; this freaks my wife out and I completely understand that! Our friend was regaling us with her horror story of giving birth, whilst i watched my wife's face turn an odd shade of off white, i heard our friend say "boys watch and learn" and she told us how eleven student doctors turned up to watch her give birth.

Now this may seem like an odd post but what i learnt in real terms today is that bad/painful stuff can happen and you may feel like there is no light at the end of a tunnel but good can always be found. In this case, hours of labour, complications and a stubborn baby but at the end of it a child that they love dearly

This is something i have been told time and time again but it just clicked today!

The rule of thumb

This will be a short one.

I enjoy sayings and play on words...so i have made it a small task of mine to try to find out the meanings behind them.

My first one is a cheat. I have know this for a while but i was reminded today!

"A rule of thumb"
This is a victorian saying. It is a measurement for what thickness of cain you are allowed to hit your wife with! so if it is a thumb in diameter or less you are ok to hit her, any more than that and you are not allowed.

This is a fairly dark subject but not as dark as the one my wife suggested "the black dog". Here is a little competition: who coined the phase "the black dog" and what does it reference?

Its getting hot in here, so hot! so learn what extinguishers to use!

Ever thought what are the different classes of fire? well here they are.

Class A fire = solid fire e.g. wood
Class B fire = liquid Fire
Class C fire = gas fire
Class D fire = metal fire
Class E fire = electical fire
Class F fire = cooking fat

I'm not sure how i managed to get so far in my life with out knowing where a basic full stop should go

So for people that don't know me, I am terrible at punctuation and spelling. Not that kind of bad that is just forgetting every so often, but that kind of bad that leads me to think "I'm not sure how i managed to get so far in my life with out knowing where a basic full stop should go". I did Primary, Secondary and multiple colleges and still i am apparently at a basic primary school level.

This has been my main avenue of focus for a while and most of it goes in one ear and out the other but i think im going to try bit by bit. So my first is the semi colon; it is used when the second statement is along the same lines as the first statement but the first statement in itself could be a complete sentence.

So im opening this up does any one have any other reasons for using it?

I'm sure there will be more punctuation based blogs so get swatting!

This is hard

Is finding this learning thing harder than i thought. But i have learnt alot today, so here is my learning.

Setting yourself a target makes you accountable to yourself, to people who know you set a target and people who may join in later in the target.

this may seem lame but this is how im feeling right now and it is only day 2

Ok day 1

So already im feeling the pressure of writing this, but im excited too.

Ok...i am one of three children. My mum is profoundly deaf and both my sisters and I are hearing. Whilst at church i was introduced to a lady who is married to a deaf man. During the conversation she refered to me as a 'Coda'; a term i have never heard before in my 25 years of being alive. I finally swallowed my pride and asked "what is a 'Coda'?". She smiled, as if i was asking just to be polite to the people around me from hearing families, and said 'Coda means Child Of Deaf Adult'.

Its odd i have always felt different, being part of two cultures, both hearing and deaf. Now i know that i have a title, i feel part of a small club that i have never seen or heard about. I have since found forums, websites and support groups for 'Codas'.

I think its wierd that something that is so normal e.g. being the child of my mum warrents having a little sub culture.

This is the start, but not the beginning

This is an exciting day for me.

I am starting a blog which i have never done before; i have bought a new wedding ring, to replace my original one which i managed to keep hold of for all of 5 weeks! and it is a beautiful day outside.

This blog will hopefully be updated daily, with things i have learnt that day, or things i am looking into. There will also be images, links and video's of intrest.

As the Title says this is the start, but not the beginning i am writing this on a sunny thursday and i will start this on the following monday which will be the 21 June.

I hope this will be of intrest to other people, but untill monday this is where i will leave it!

Lots of love