Monthly Archives: September 2004

A big setback for accessibility in the US

I just read that an appeals court has ruled that the ADA does not apply to websites. This is amazingly stupid and the judges who made this decision should turn in their robes. The whole point of the ADA and … Continue reading

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Making the switch to Firefox

As a webmaster, I’d been using Mozilla since version 0.7 and Opera since version 3 to design and test with. I’d build for Mozilla first and then tweak things so they worked in Internet Explorer vesion 5, which at the … Continue reading

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YAWDR: Yet another Web design roundup

Over at Digital Web Magazine, there is an article about merging CSS with content managment applications. The article is short on technical detail but does describe various different interfaces and goals to be reached. Opera, Mozilla and Firefox (And for … Continue reading

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Computers in the movies

Computers in the movies are much more noisy and visually exciting than in real life. The truth is that computer crime is visually very boring to watch. The criminal just sits there switching between prompts and editors typing in cryptic … Continue reading

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Portable Nuclear Reactors

The DOE has developed a small, self-contained nuclear power plant called SSTAR. The plan is that these would be sold to developing nations to meet their growing electricity needs while at the same time reducing the danger of nuclear proliferation … Continue reading

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Desalination gets cheaper

Just came across a BBC article about a new desalination technology being used in Israel. This is a good thing, hopefully removing a bone of contention in violent region of the world.

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Living in the future

There was this documentary series I saw on public television back in the early Eighties, I think it was called “Fast Forward” or something. It was terribly prescient and had a very avid view of information technology–computers, networks, telecommunications. Years … Continue reading

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Walking to buy cereal in the morning.

The last few entries were sort of environmental downers. I still stick by them though. In my most ridiculous daydreams, I imagine all of humanity forcibly relocated to space colonies made out of ferrous asteroids. The Earth could then be … Continue reading

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Fab labs: Factories grow still more portable

I haven’t really been paying attention these last few weeks but a lot of interest is being generated on the sites I read (CRN, WorldChanging, Cyborg Democracy) about something called a Fab Lab. As near as I can understand, a … Continue reading

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Nuclear Energy in China

I guess I am a disillusioned environmentalist. I’d like to see the Earth totally unspoiled by any human activity but realistically I know that this is mostly a loosing battle. We may recycle, telecommuting and delivery may allow us to … Continue reading

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