Author Archives: Pace Arko

More on Accessible Web Design

Every site should have a good site map. There are many reasons for this but one is accessibility: What is a user going to turn to when all your dHTML hootenanny doesn’t make any sense in a screen reader? That’s … Continue reading

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One of the Few Holidays I Care About

In the same month I was born, he gave that speech. We still have a long way to go in meeting the ideals and examples, he and Malcolm proclaimed. That’s why this holiday is necessary; it reminds us of how … Continue reading

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The New Year Brings in Big Change

Last Wednesday I self-installed DSL so, now I am downloading with the best. The following day, prior to departing for his fact finding tour of the ATO, the Baka shipped us some truly scary hardware to work with. Currently our … Continue reading

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Web Accessibility Update

Zapping around on the Web, I came across an article on improving the accessibility of web logs. Because the Farlops Industries site is built to W3C standards, I would argue that my log, Factory Floor is already AA compliant with … Continue reading

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Two neat pages I just couldn't pass up.

Remember wrist rockets? They were hand catapults braced against the wrist for better leverage. Anyway, there is now a company that sells wristwatches with tiny catapults that fire tiny copper beads. Playing with one of these in a company meeting … Continue reading

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Pop Psychology

When I was a toddler, I was diagnosed as an autistic. In the many years that have passed since then, I’ve always dismissed that judgement as a misdiagnosis. Now I am not so sure. It was true: That I didn’t … Continue reading

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Links! Links! Links!

Remember when I mentioned the solar chimney? Well it’s in the news again. Found another article about bringing the Internet to the citizens of developing countries. While at the same time many problems remain. Scientists figure out a way to … Continue reading

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Why Pander to Netscape 4.x?

A List Apart has a good article this week that pretty much sums up why all the sites I build look bland in Netscape and IE 4.x (all platforms).

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"…the hours in an offhand way."

Another link round up: Yahoo bought GeoCities and got WebRing as an afterthought. Now, a year later they’ve sold WebRing. Not that anybody really cared being that lots of imitations sprung up after Yahoo bought it. People decided that the … Continue reading

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Ho. ho. ho.

I notice that I am not a daily poster in this web log. I tend to hold off on things until I have something interesting to write about and even then most of the links here are dreck anyway. I … Continue reading

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