Author Archives: Pace Arko

Yes, I know it's late

Macromedia is planning an evangelizing tour to tout the new accessibility features of Flash MX. Considering the legions of Flash designers out there that probably may never learn how to design Flash objects accessibly one wonders if an upgrade and … Continue reading

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Links!

Web advertising just gets uglier and more in our face as time goes on. Good thing I got Internet Junkbuster to cut through all this junk. Take a look at the Small Times site, it’s a good source for nanotech, … Continue reading

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Okay. This is just too nifty to pass up

Wolfram Research has a form that lets you enter equations and have them integrated. This is really really neat! Takes me back to my old calculus days. Obviously it’s a drag to do this all in ASCII. This means that … Continue reading

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Holovision!

I guess this is some contradiction to my earlier post about all the unrealized dreams of science fiction but, I just came across a company that makes three-dimensional viewing systems. This isn’t merely three-dimensional rendering on a CRT or LCD … Continue reading

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The W3C Rejects RAND!

The World Wide Web Consortium today rejected the RAND proposal I spoke of here a few months ago. This means that key Web protocols, standards and technologies will remain royalty free and open for all users. The little folks win … Continue reading

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Why I Don't Read Science Fiction Anymore

When I read stuff about giant arcologies and I note that hardware stores still don’t sell robot housekeepers or personal jet packs, I just sigh. Hopefully I’ll see these things before I die.

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Yes, CSS-based layout is better

Despite what older and supposedly wiser heads say, layout tables are evil.

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The cyberpunk movement got it wrong

Asia will be old hat, along with Europe and North America, when nano and AL really get going. I predict the real interesting technological churn will happen in the finally developed, finally stable countries of Africa. Think I’m nuts? Stranger … Continue reading

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Lego: The Best Toy in the World

When I was a kid back in the Seventies, they just started to import these really neat robot toys and models from Japan. This was about twenty years before the word anime came into the common English. Anyway there’s this … Continue reading

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Reducing the Chance of Greymatter Script Hacks

The Greymatter script, while excellent in almost every aspect (A tip of the Farlopsian hat to Mr. Grey!), needs a little help so that, after installation, it runs in a secure fashion. For example, many of the forms it uses … Continue reading

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