Author Archives: Pace Arko

A Slow News Day While Tweaking XP

A nice simple article about what I mean when I say “semantic HTML“. Macromedia, responding to ongoing pressure from Web accessibility advocates, continues to improve the accessibility of it’s products. Good. If people insist on using it, at least make … Continue reading

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Site Update Tonight

As my file server grinds through a big defragmentation, I’m updating many of my older pages, some of my style rules and removing some link rot tonight. Probably the most significant changes will be my links page as I have … Continue reading

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Some Interesting Stuff My Friends Sent Me

The Mir incinerated many months ago but a friend sent me an old page about about a mold that lived off the glass, metal, cosmonaut detritus and synthetic materials of the Mir station. I remember reading about a mold that … Continue reading

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Links! Links! Links!

Most of this I already know but for you, here is a primer on how to use proxies to hide the IP address of your machine. Reuters released a story about beakers full of DNA used in parallel computing processes, … Continue reading

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Yet another link round up

After a brief flurry of interest in the early nineties, haptics, telepresence and VR have continued to quietly advance. Of course the Department of Defense has been spending a lot of money on this research. In order to buy itself … Continue reading

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Theology

It’s been a while since I’ve said anything so, before I go to sleep tonight, I’d like to provide a statement about why I remain mostly closed mouth about Microsoft or other religious disputes. I will only state the following: … Continue reading

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Their robot planes were no match for our music!

Like that subject title? Got it from Man or Astroman?. UC Bezerkley engineers make a micromechanical flybot. Not one to be outdone, MIT engineers invent a bot that can be kicked around. Lego Mindstorm appears to be the chassis of … Continue reading

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Insomnia

I found all these links over the last month or so. I couldn’t sleep so I decided to post them here. I don’t own a mobile phone. I don’t get enough calls to merit the expense. But I found an … Continue reading

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May I have water, no ice, please?

Maybe the folks I hang with are hipper than I think. A few years ago, a friend of mine, may have started a trend of sorts. He took to ordering water with no ice whenever asked which beverage he wanted … Continue reading

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Another Useless Word

After a day of dinking around with PHP script on one of my client’s servers and just a few minutes ago after reading a page, I came across the the word “technologist.” I realized then that I hated this word. … Continue reading

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