Author Archives: Pace Arko

Time wasted on vitalism

Living things are complex machines. The mind is a process that occurs with the machine of the brain. There is no magical life substance or mind substance. There is no division between life and death, mind and mindlessness. It’s all … Continue reading

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It's weird to see things revive

Now I’m truly old. I’ve lived to see punk and thrash return to the station formerly known as KCMU. I guess the kids think it’s hip to be angry again. I’m glad! I was getting completely, aardvarkly sick of the … Continue reading

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Should I shut this thing down?

The trouble with writing things here is that I want to use it for at least three different purposes: As a lab notebook for web design, XML and such. Vague thoughts of the future of technology and society. I suppose … Continue reading

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I have decided I don't like MT

On March 13th around 5:55 in the morning, I had just finished installing MovableType. It’s actually a well written piece of software, at least by my naive technician’s eyes, but, I simply don’t like the way the URLs are implemented. … Continue reading

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Well, so long GreyMatter

It’s been fun. It’s been nearly 4 years since I installed Greymatter and then extensively changed it to meet my needs. But now that I see that the Fish was able to install version 3.1 of MovableType and we share … Continue reading

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The Bakafish Joins the 21st Century

With a small amount of help from me, Baka has been working on a layout-table-free, semantic and pure CSS facelift for his site. He had just sent his penultimate draft to me last night. I looked it over and it … Continue reading

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MSN takes the plunge into standards

As I’ve mentioned repeatedly, back in the late Nineties I was the webmaster for Microsoft’s accessibility pages. Back in those days IE for Windows was really the only game in town for CSS support but, I’d read about the WaSP, … Continue reading

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For Future Web Design Reference

My news feeds are getting out of hand. I now have more wonderful stuff to read than I have I have time. So in a effort to follow these things up later, when the Web hits a dry patch, I … Continue reading

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Is this some horror unknown?

So let’s see if I can add a new entry with the XStandard editor! Yes, I can. Later, upon entry revision, I see that if I add something to the extended area but later erase it, XStandard retains a nonbreaking … Continue reading

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day

"Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can … Continue reading

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