Author Archives: Pace Arko

Nothing you do really matters

Posted on June 10, 2003 by Pace Arko

Ten to the tenth to the one-hundred and eighteenth power meters away, there is in exact duplicate of you doing exactly the same thing as you are now. Assuming that a level one multiverse exists outside our hubble volume, this … Continue reading →

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More thoughts about African Cyberpunk

Posted on June 4, 2003 by Pace Arko

As I mentioned earlier, Gibson and Stephenson got it wrong: The place where all the technology will be churning in the decades to come will not be Asia. China and India are already sort of established and old hat now. … Continue reading →

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We are in the XXI century!

Posted on May 29, 2003 by Pace Arko

So I am writing code at 4 in the morning, listening to KEXP (which I’ve already mentioned and linked to elsewhere in my site. Go look for it Sam!), and I hear something that makes absolutely plain that the XXI … Continue reading →

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Probing the Geosphere in a Blob of Molten Iron

Posted on May 14, 2003 by Pace Arko

By way of Slash and the Beeb, someone over at CalTech has imagined to explore deeply into the Earth’s crust and mantel by embedding a robot probe in jacket of several million tonnes of molten iron. This iron would then … Continue reading →

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Computers and paper-based RPGs

Posted on May 10, 2003 by Pace Arko

As I’ve been playing NWN over these last few months (I’ve owned a copy since mid-summer of 2002.), I’ve been thinking of ways to tie it into paper RPGs. Simple examples of this would be a tool that exports a … Continue reading →

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Bad Mojo for Internet Explorer

Posted on May 3, 2003 by Pace Arko

I just read on Slash today how a piece of valid markup can crash Windows Internet Explorer 4 and later. This includes many applications that use Trident, a dynamic link library that is the markup rendering component of IE–this means … Continue reading →

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The music of computer games

Posted on May 2, 2003 by Pace Arko

It occurred to me last night, as I was playing NWN with some friends, that the background music of computer games has improved a great deal over the last 15 years. No more tinny, grating MIDI files being played on … Continue reading →

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The REAL reason support for print media CSS is so poor

Posted on April 30, 2003 by Pace Arko

Imagine if people didn’t have to use Acrobat or Word to print out legible, neatly organized documents? Well, they almost can. They almost could if there was good support of CSS rules and attributes related to print media. Mozilla does … Continue reading →

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How the semantic Web influenced my writing style

Posted on April 24, 2003 by Pace Arko

Other folks have probably written essays on how hypertext has influenced writing style in other media. Here I’d like to briefly discuss how working with and correcting document markup to make it conform to the semantic intent of the W3C … Continue reading →

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Accessible data table attributes

Posted on April 22, 2003 by Pace Arko

Even though many screen readers and Web browsers don’t support them yet, I put accessibility attributes in all the data tables I put on sites. (Don’t know how to build an accessible data table? Use the accessible table builder.) The … Continue reading →

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