Author Archives: Pace Arko

Web Bugs

Posted on August 15, 2001 by Pace Arko

If you need a reason to install an ad and cookie blocker, to spoof your referrer information and to shut off all client side scripting except for trusted domains, web bugs are that reason.

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The Battles That Remain, A Reprise

Posted on August 15, 2001 by Pace Arko

Now that the browser makers are finally playing by the rules, we must see to it that HTML editing programs generate W3C valid markup. It’s time for round two of the standards wars.

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Counterexamples to Tech Myths

Posted on August 15, 2001 by Pace Arko

Charles Mann, who wrote The Heavenly Jukebox, wrote another thoughtful article on Internet regulation. I only take issue with his assertion that hardware affords better protection against illegal copying than software. For example, if print media, music, movies and so … Continue reading →

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And On a Personal Note–

Posted on August 13, 2001 by Pace Arko

I just celebrated my birthday on Saturday! I’m now 38! Probably hard to jibe this site with that age, eh? Well, what can I say? “I’ve lead a very weird life.”

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You Learn Something New Everyday

Posted on August 13, 2001 by Pace Arko

There turns out to be a valid way of hiding style rules from Internet Explorer 4 for Windows. I just tested it myself last night as I installed Windows 98 for the umpth time. You just write:@import “filepath/filename.css”; as opposed … Continue reading →

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CMS, Web annotations

Posted on August 10, 2001 by Pace Arko

Web content management systems are usually a set of server scripts and applications that automate many of the tasks of administrating and updating a web site. eGrail is a company based on the premise that these tools will one day … Continue reading →

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FORTRAN, fungus and nanocomputers

Posted on August 10, 2001 by Pace Arko

Today many sites are running stories on the twentieth birthday of the IBM PC. Rather than rehash a story that has been rehashed a million times ever since Microsoft broke with IBM on OS/2, this site will remind folks that … Continue reading →

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The Stem Cell Hubbub

Posted on August 10, 2001 by Pace Arko

President Shrub decided to take the easy way out by compromising on stem cell research today. Not surprisingly this news drove down biotech stocks and for the past few months some researchers have left the US for the UK where … Continue reading →

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As a Nerd, Of Course I HAD to Go to This.

Posted on August 9, 2001 by Pace Arko

Just yesterday I went to the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence to see the RoboCup competitions. There I met some friends and spent eight or so hours gawking at the robots, browsing dense technical literature, making bad jokes … Continue reading →

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Progress as Entertainment

Posted on August 3, 2001 by Pace Arko

I’ve changed my mind in the last few years. I’ve always found some of the political and economic ideology of the extropians, transhumanists and their ilk objectionable but now, I think some of them are getting a little too religious. … Continue reading →

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