Monkey's Blog - with a little help from Alice

New Title! And it's Easter!

Vera                                            Alice

As you may have noticed, we've changed the title of the blog so, hopefully, there's less confusion about Vera and Alice.

If you want to check out the story of their relationship with me, and with each-other, it's in this post here.

The address is still the same, that's "http://veras-monkey.blogspot.co.uk" - but if you've got us on a bookmark (or favourite) you won't need to type all of that in.

Some of Google's "tubes"

Did you know that the "http" stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol? It tells your browser (Firefox, or Internet Explorer, or whatever) that it's to translate the file it finds, at the rest of the address, into a web page, 'cause it's written in "html", which is Hypertext Markup Language.

And if you want to know what that looks like, take any web page, and right click on anything that's not a link or image, and select "View Page Source." Looks like a load of old goobledygook? Well, it will, if you've not learnt how to write it. But the magic thing is that it's all in unformatted text, which takes up hardly any room at all in the "tubes" (actually wires and cables) of the internet, so it travels nice and fast between one server and another. Images, however, are a whole other kettle of fish. . . Alice wrote a "technical digression" about such stuff in this post here.

And now it's Easter! Alice says it's vulgar to use so many exclamation marks - in the heading too - but I think it fits the feeling. My feeling, anyway. I love the fun, the eggs, the chocolate bunnies, the flowers.

Of course if you're a Christian, then Easter is about Jesus rising from the dead - as several other gods are reported to have done, by the way.

But for an atheist, like Alice (though she believes some quite way-out stuff too) or a bit of a pagan like me, it's a very ancient feastival [that was a typo, but I think it should stand!] about the goddess Oestre, fertility, the Spring, and new life of all sorts. Hence the various celebrations.