Author Archives: Pace Arko

The Emergence of Sapience from the Internet

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

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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Another MLK Day

Actually this entry is sort of bogus since I’m writing it on my staging server. I haven’t yet finished adjusting my new installation of MT3.2 but, I wanted to mark the passing of this day. As stated before, it’s a … Continue reading

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So what's the hold up?

So I’m working transferring nearly all of my site pages into MT3.2 and abandoning GM and the Google search form entirely. Most of this migration is being done on my test server and it’s not ready for primetime yet. This … Continue reading

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Harnessing diatoms to build stuff for us.

I had posted something here about using diatoms in micromachines three or so years ago but, WorldChanging has pointed me to an update on using diatom shells as parts in microelectromechanical systems. Apparently empty diatom shells can be “doped” in … Continue reading

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How the little folks can do their part

Okay, those of us who’ve been paying attention to search engine results lately have noticed something new: splogs. A splog is blog generated by a robot that searches other stable and long lasting blogs and sites searching for content that … Continue reading

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Milk

If I were wise, I would have drunk the Kool-Aid at Microsoft years ago and taken their offer of full employment. But I didn’t. At the time, it didn’t feel right and I was just leery of commitment. That was … Continue reading

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We'll muddle through

After swapping out the power supply and CPU fan with higher quality models, one of my desktops is finally quiet enough to contribute to the SETI at Home. This project is a small way I can contribute to science without … Continue reading

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Software makes all game rules transparent

One of the nice things about including the subject of games on this site is, when I’m at a loss in other subjects, I can always rant about gaming pilpul and hairsplitting. Anyway, one of the endless unsettled disputes among … Continue reading

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I'm waiting for this shoe to drop

In the light of yesterday’s post, I wondered about progress in attempts to combine microelectromechanical systems and scanning probe microscopy. I looked in this direction because I had learned that it took the team at Rice eight years to figure … Continue reading

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