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Web Accessibility Update
Zapping around on the Web, I came across an article on improving the accessibility of web logs. Because the Farlops Industries site is built to W3C standards, I would argue that my log, Factory Floor is already AA compliant with … Continue reading
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Two neat pages I just couldn't pass up.
Remember wrist rockets? They were hand catapults braced against the wrist for better leverage. Anyway, there is now a company that sells wristwatches with tiny catapults that fire tiny copper beads. Playing with one of these in a company meeting … Continue reading
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Pop Psychology
When I was a toddler, I was diagnosed as an autistic. In the many years that have passed since then, I’ve always dismissed that judgement as a misdiagnosis. Now I am not so sure. It was true: That I didn’t … Continue reading
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Links! Links! Links!
Remember when I mentioned the solar chimney? Well it’s in the news again. Found another article about bringing the Internet to the citizens of developing countries. While at the same time many problems remain. Scientists figure out a way to … Continue reading
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Why Pander to Netscape 4.x?
A List Apart has a good article this week that pretty much sums up why all the sites I build look bland in Netscape and IE 4.x (all platforms).
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"…the hours in an offhand way."
Another link round up: Yahoo bought GeoCities and got WebRing as an afterthought. Now, a year later they’ve sold WebRing. Not that anybody really cared being that lots of imitations sprung up after Yahoo bought it. People decided that the … Continue reading
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Ho. ho. ho.
I notice that I am not a daily poster in this web log. I tend to hold off on things until I have something interesting to write about and even then most of the links here are dreck anyway. I … Continue reading
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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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