Monthly Archives: June 2001

Microsoft drops the Smart Tags feature in IE 6

Actually I wrote this entry about Chris Kaminski’s article last night before I saw the news that MS was dropping the feature. A lot of ink has been spilled over the problems with this feature over the last three weeks … Continue reading

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Just made major revisions to Greymatter

Things seem to be working normally now except one of the client-side editing tools has broken. Considering all that I’ve done, this is surprisingly good news. Things I’ve changed: Fixed the URL strings of the Karma function so that they … Continue reading

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Is there really an electricity shortage?

They are now thinking about using something like packet-switching for the North American power grid to improve the efficiency of electrical distribution. Peter Fairley is a good journalist because he, in addition to talking about the new switching technology, also … Continue reading

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Odinmank Should Like This

Back in the late Eighties, a soon to be old dear friend of mine introduced me to the Flaming Carrot. My sensibilities have been warped ever since.

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A very inspirational day of browsing the Web

Found a lot of good sites on Mozilla’s implementation of the DOM. Something, with lots of good examples, that was very hard for me to find a few months ago. Now, after nearly a year’s procrastination, I can finally start … Continue reading

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And it's not even a very interesting prime at that

According to United States law, certain prime numbers are illegal.

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Neat little single panel Web comic I found.

What I need is some more commentary on this site. Hmm. Maybe I should have two sites. A personal site and professional site. Have to think about that. Anyway, in the spirit of Gary Larson, B Kliban and Gahan Wilson … Continue reading

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Artificial life was just a phrase twenty years ago.

This article is a little old but I didn’t have my journal script in place then. Still, it’s interesting and it’s early in the morning (a little insomnia) so I decided to point to it. Basically biologists and bio-engineers are … Continue reading

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You learn somethin' new everyday

Even in HTML. I consider myself pretty experienced with this stuff but today I found something about the BASE element that I didn’t know before. I found this striking because I have a lot of internal links in my journal … Continue reading

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Some weird links sent to me by friends

Mr. Gamut sent me a story about a boyscout who tried to build a breeder reactor in his mother’s backyard shed. Lord Odinmank sent me the result of using Lego to pry into secrets humanity was not meant to know. … Continue reading

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