straight sets

That's how Federer won the final of Australian Open tonight. The first set lasts about 65 minutes and it was quite entertaining and thrilling to see. Both players try to outbeat each other. Based on my impression from the first set, it seems Gonzalez somehow able to penetrate into Roger's armor. Roger made few unforced errors in the first set which was unlike him at all. I think this can be blamed to the wind ;).

Federer eventually raised his game and shows his superb performance. Gonzalez have tried almost every technique yet Federer is able to beat that. I'm speechless. He is truly a brilliant guy and no wonder he still hold the world No 1 and almost untouchable. Federer is simply too good for Gonzalez.

Gonzales enter the final....

The semi tonight was a bit better than last night. Even though Gonzalez managed to dominate the match, Tommy Haas had at least managed to exploit his opponent weaknesses. At least, Tommy Haas does not easily give up and put up a good fight. It was interesting to watch and there were times where Gonzalez managed to steal a point even he was in the most difficult position. Now, all of Chileans will be celebrating all over Melboure :D. Now, there is one B.I.G question for Gonzalez to answer. Will he able to beat the reigning world champion, Federer?

Brilliant Federer

I was hoping the match between Andy and Roger to be a challenging contest and last 3-4 hours but I was wrong. The world No 1 beats Andy Roddick straight sets in less than 2 hours. I was dissappointed to see one-sided match tonight. Roger Federer plays the match brilliantly and Andy couldn't cope with the pressure and does not keep up with the challenge. Federer played it almost flawless and the sheer brilliance displayed by him amazed me again and again. Now, who will be against Federer in the final? Will it be Haas or Gonzalez....

speedy Gonzalez

Gonzalez managed to beat Nadal in three sets. Somehow the strong Nadal is beaten and the match clearly shows how Gonzalez controlled the tempo of the match. I love to see how he hit the ball in front of the net. It is extremely fast and an excellent technique to be performed. And speaking of fast, the match is concluded around two hours only and to think Nadal is No 2 in the world...

Now, I wonder who are going to be for the final?

validity

I'm not sure whether you have noticed it or not, but I have changed the layout of this template few days ago. The links used to be in the form of drop-down menu which is based on javascript and I changed it to the standard bullet list. The list certainly used up a lot more spaces than the previous one though.

The main reason I choose the bullet list is to get this blog validated :). Somehow if I used javascript, this blog fails the validation. Now, this blog is a valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional blogspot B). You can check the yellow icon at the footer below.

For those unfamiliar with the term, this is actually referring to how do you write up the language behind the layout and how much do you write it according to the standard set up by The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). To check whether any web is valid or not, go here. There is another part of the validation service which involve CSS and for the moment, the CSS script written by Blogger caused my failure as you can see below.
Is it important to get the validation? Personally, I don't think it is not that important to get the validation but by doing this, at least you know what mistakes occur while coding the layout. The best reason not to get the validation is many major websites do not follow the standard by W3C. Even google, yahoo and microsoft failed the validation :). The second reason would be that the main internet browser, Internet Explorer, does not follow the web standard too as you can see below. This is tested against Acid 2 Test.
Compare this with Firefox 2.0
If the browser followed the web standard rigorously such as Opera 9, the picture should look something like this
p/s: Right now, I am waiting for the match between Fernando Gonzalez and Rafael Nadal. This match will be quite interesting to see :)