Monthly Archives: July 2006

Udra: My RPG Campaign History in Several Parts

Posted on July 28, 2006 by Pace Arko

The Early Years Image needs to be recovered. I started playing Dungeons and Dragons back in the summer of 1978 (After having been introduced to the concept in late 1977 by my friends Greg and David.) after getting the garishly … Continue reading →

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Science link roundup

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Pace Arko

China is getting into superconductors in a big way. Next month they intend to conduct an experiment in controlled fusion and soon they plan to build a maglev train line in Dalian. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have estimated … Continue reading →

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AJAX and other web accessibility stuff

Posted on July 26, 2006 by Pace Arko

Like I said, I’ve been out of the loop for a while and, apparently some folks out there are designing some bad interactivity because, there’s been a tonne of articles over the last seven months on how to make AJAX … Continue reading →

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While we are on the subject of accessibility–

Posted on July 23, 2006 by Pace Arko

So I’ve been out of the loop for a while and, during that time, there have been a few good articles about web accessibility that I figured I’d link to for posterity. If you’re web designer, you’ve probably run into … Continue reading →

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Tips on how to create accessable javascript

Posted on July 23, 2006 by Pace Arko

So in this world of hype about AJAX, how do you design client-side scripts so they actually enhance accessibility and degrade gracefully when scripting is turned off for accessibility reasons? Let’s think about how to make AJAX work with screen … Continue reading →

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Movable Type 3.31 and Ubuntu 6.06

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Pace Arko

So there’s been a lot of extensive, yet subtle change over the last few weeks here at the mighty, mighty Farlops Industries: After a period of stasis for 7 months, I moved all of my site’s legacy content into Movable … Continue reading →

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I browse, I link, I'm back.

Posted on July 12, 2006 by Pace Arko

So I’m quoted, or rather my alter-ego is quoted, talking about drugs that boost certain limited aspects of intelligence. This, in all things, in Spin Magazine–tsk, tsk. Ah me, famous at last. DARPA researchers develop a method to accelerate our … Continue reading →

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The Emergence of Sapience from the Internet

Posted on July 5, 2006 by Pace Arko

A week ago I read a short story by Tad Williams about the spontaneous emergence of sapience from the Internet. It wasn’t really that good. Arthur Clarke did it many decades earlier and did it much better. Anyway, uninformed amateur … Continue reading →

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The Neverending Battle Against Bloatware

Posted on July 1, 2006 by Pace Arko

Spent all of last night and early morning making revisions to my test installation of MT3.2. Made good progress. Going to see Superman Returns later today, which sort of suggested this entry’s title. This entry is really a test to … Continue reading →

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