Look upon what has happened to this site in it’s many incarnations! See how my skills at Web engineering and design improve!
As I said, there a many reasons why I don’t use DHTML on this site. However since the world at large continues to use the suspect stuff, the least I can do is provide examples of how to design client scripts that are accessible. So much DHTML can only work with the mouse and so [...]
Let me explain what I mean by that title. I don’t mean to ask if the creation of superhuman artificial intelligences is a wise decision or not because a lot has already been said about that. Also I am not going discuss or argue about whether it’s even possible to create life, sapience or superhuman [...]
Advertising is everywhere these days. It’s becoming like that Pohl and Kornbluth story, where advertising was even on the wallpaper and toilet paper. I think it’s gone far enough. I think people should be allowed to pay more for no advertising at all. Think about it. You pay for cable right? Wouldn’t you be willing [...]
What is the Industrial States Trust? In Chumbe Bandia, the Industrial States Trust, or simply, IT, is the name of an alliance of economically powerful and highly technological countries who, before the war, ruled the global economy. Most of the world’s multinational corporations had their head offices in these countries. Their sphere of influence contained [...]
“Entry 64 “Things are quiet now and I have a few to jot a note in my diary before before they send us to Prep. Warden Mausa says it’s another sample mission?just routine. That’s a patent lie though. If these things were routine, they wouldn’t send political prisoners to do them. “Like I said before [...]
Or, how a young man was warped by endless exposure to college radio When I was a kid I really couldn’t make up my mind about music. Like a lot of kids, I was a knee-jerk nonconformist and as such couldn’t possibly mellow out enough to admit that I liked the stuff that my friends [...]
I’m a hardcore nerd and, as proof, I relate the following history: I starting playing Dungeons and Dragons back in high school the late Seventies, just as the hardbound rulebooks were coming out. Around the same time, a friend of mine wrote his own versions of ADVENT and Rogue (known to some as Nethack.) which [...]