Category Archives: Science and Engineering

Just added trackback to my site

It still has a few bugs and I may decide to remove it if spam starts linking to my site, but I’ve installed Movable Type’s trackback module to supplement my Greymatter installation. In theory this means I’ve joined the hip … Continue reading

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I'm such a cheapskate and stuff about Greymatter

So I bought myself an electric trimmer today and cut my hair. No more 15 bucks for Supercuts! Considering it’s my first self-inflicted haircut, it doesn’t look too bad. In truth it’s hard to mess this up, because ever since … Continue reading

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New Year's Cleaning

After spending a few hundred dollars on a used laptop (Of the same model as my old one with a cracked screen and which now stands to be cannibalized for parts.), a roomy drive and an 802.11 (b+g) transceiver, I … Continue reading

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The Best of Use of Business Cards I've Ever Seen!

Hugh Macleod may give us starkly elegant art and cartoons on the back of business cards but, Dr. Jeannine Mosely wants to build a depth three Menger Sponge out of business cards!

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Converting JavaScript to VBScript

Now obviously VBScript isn’t standard but, it seems that there are so many client-side scripts these days to overcome IE6’s increasingly plain shortcomings on Web standards. Most of these scripts are DOM compliant and are in JavaScript but since they … Continue reading

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Gentlemen and Ladies–

The Business Case for Web Accessibility.

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Molecular Manufacturing

Not that anybody who reads this really cares, but I’ve decided to stop using the word “nanotechnology.” 2003, some might even say that 2002, could be thought of as the year that nanotechnology broke into the mainstream. 2003 could also … Continue reading

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Ball tally clocks

A relative gave me a ball tally clock for Christmas and now my office percolates to the rattle of steel balls marking the advance of time. It sort of sounds like the servomotors inside a video cassette player or sheet … Continue reading

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Space Colonization

I’ve commented on this before but Bush’s recent big promises for piloted missions to the moon and mars prompts me to comment again. This is going to take so long, cost so much money and yield so little permanency, that … Continue reading

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First Post of the New Year

Let’s have a show of hands. How many of you out there think that “Spirit” and “Opportunity” are incredibly stupid names for the rovers now photographing and crawling around Mars? The first one sounds like a glee club from high … Continue reading

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