Category Archives: Science and Engineering

More shop talk.

Continuing in a similar light as yesterday’s post, Mr. Pilgrim points me to more Webbish jiggery-pokery. As I sort of explained in the previous post, I was once a humble web technician at The Company that Shall Not Be Named. … Continue reading

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Forcing FrontPage to generate valid markup

Again this is mostly for my own benefit. Years ago, when I worked at the Company That Shall Not Be Named, I started using FrontPage simply because I didn’t know any better. Go ahead, laugh! We all had to start … Continue reading

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Web Accessibility

This entry is really for my benefit. My RSS news feeds seemed to be full of stuff about web access these past few days so I figured I’d tie all the links together here. As I’ve mentioned before, I used … Continue reading

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The New Greymatter

I just discovered that Greymatter 1.3 is out, copacetic! Since I’ve made very minor contributions to that, I guess I got to try it out.

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Video Phone!

So around noon yesterday, I bought a cheap video capture device. I did this to let someone remotely sit in on one of my gaming sessions. It was pretty fun but also pretty distracting, what with technical hitches and all. … Continue reading

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Longevity appears to be simple.

C. elegans, a roundworm famous in genetics and histology studies, and perhaps the most thoroughly understood multicelluar organism known to science, has taught us a lot about life extension. Recent research has found that by adjusting the genes of C. … Continue reading

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Extensive site revision

Over the last few hours (Hey when you’re in the tao, you work late!), I’ve made extensive revisions to this site. I fixed the style switcher and installed it on all pages on this site. If you pick a style, … Continue reading

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Presentation, semantics and structure in markup

Smarter people than me have been thinking about the separation of presentation and structure in Web documents in the last week. Some of these arguments seem like angels dancing on pinheads. For me it’s simple. The goal should be to … Continue reading

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Installed the style switcher I promised.

There are still a few bugs to work out. For example, it’s not planting a cookie in my browsers. This needs to happen for the selected style to persist. I also have to install it for all the pages that … Continue reading

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US Automobile Companies Look Stupid Again

When California passed its low-emission vehicle laws, I made a prediction: US auto makers would whine and drag their feet and then look really stupid as European and Asian car companies roared ahead with the necessary technology at competitive prices. … Continue reading

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