Author Archives: Pace Arko

Jetbike! African cyberpunk! Robot economists!

Get on your bad motor scooter and ride! As I said a few months ago, I think Africa should be the setting for cyberpunk fiction. It’s burgeoning urban sprawl has all the right feel. Not a year seems to pass … Continue reading

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A 1000 Hours of AOL Free!

Despite the fact that AOL/TW knows they’ve saturated the US market and have got all the customers they’re gonna get here, they still keep sending out those stupid disks. Just today I got the AOL 7 disk, unsolicited, in the … Continue reading

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Son of Linkage

Macromedia claims that Flash objects are now fully accessible but, there are still legions of web designers that need to learn how to design code that is accessible from the start. There’s money in thinking about computer security and recovering … Continue reading

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Various Linkage

There is serious academic study of legacy code accumulation, mission creep and feature bloat in the halls of computer science. Some claim that Google’s refusal to play by basic marketing rules may hurt it in the long run. I think … Continue reading

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Two Interesting Links

The Business benefits of accessible web design. Okay, here is something that will be even more distracting to motorists than mobile phones!

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Paper in the Information Age

When I had my last contract job at The Company that Must Not be Named a lot of my officemates would print out and photocopy almost everything. This always struck me as a wasteful slaughter of trees for the sake … Continue reading

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The Stop Button for the Internet

Sure, it’s a joke, but in truth, the Internet ultimately depends on the hierarchy of the Domain Name System, which is, ultimately, controlled by eight server farms in Europe, Asia and North America, which in turn depend on updates every … Continue reading

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Another Minor Milestone

I got Linux running the way I want on my LAN now. Still lots of things to be done though. Need to upgrade all the appropriate pieces of the OS–starting with the default Red Hat 6.2 distribution. Need to get … Continue reading

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Factory Floor is One Year and Three Days Old

I guess I should mark this occasion: One year of using the Greymatter script. Before, Factory Floor was just a vague way of referring to the site’s root page without saying, “home page.” Before, Factory Floor was just a site … Continue reading

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Silly Scientist Tricks!

Today there are a lot of links to very interesting articles on Nanodot. For example, the use of diatom shells in MEMS or as drug delivery capsules. Another interesting one is about the construction of three-dimensional polymer crystals (Think of … Continue reading

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