Category Archives: Science and Engineering

XHTML looks terrible in WebTV

All the sites I’ve built look terrible in WebTV. At least I know it’s WebTV’s fault. If everything I make validates as strict XHTML and CSS, then it’s not my fault. Today is a pretty slow day. Yesterday I just … Continue reading

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Baby Screams, Fuel Cells, Paranoia and the Semantic Web

Over the last few weeks I read: About Sonic weapons based on backmastered baby screams. An interesting article critical of the semantic web concept. I, being a markup purist, am a true believer in the semantic web idea. Another interesting … Continue reading

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Take back the Web!

Or at least the dot-org part of it. Over last 5 or so years, ICANN has allowed, without any struggle, the Domain Name System to be dominated by large corporations who use it to enforce, some would say in a … Continue reading

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Africa, Big Buildings, High Speed Trains, Robot Ears and Eyes

Two of the staples of cyberpunk are gleaming superbuildings and crushing inner-city poverty. I just read an article about information technology in Ghana that just oozed cyberpunk. Amtrak must die? Sure but, let’s start thinking seriously about real high-speed rail … Continue reading

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Mark Pilgrim Continues to Drop Science

I know I cited his pages a few days ago but, it just keeps getting better. I feel like an idiot. Mr. Pilgrim is writing about the gritty aspects of improving web accessibility much better than I ever could. Please, … Continue reading

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Molding Chips, Surprising Cybernetics and New Drugs for Nerds

Fearing for its life, a robot escapes the tumult of an artificial ecosystem. Or that’s one way of interpreting something that probably was an accident. Research develops a method that may shrink silicon chip features a hundred fold by eliminating … Continue reading

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Cosmology, Lego and Haptics

New results in eschatological cosmology: it’s good to be in an accelerating universe. As still more evidence on why I think Africa is an ideal place for a cyberpunk novel, I cite Nigeria’s has a straight-to-video film industry. Andrew Lipson, … Continue reading

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Stupid Computer Tricks: Multi-booting NT, 9x and Linux

Again in the endeavor to make this site useful to Web developers, I present the following experiences in making an Intel/AMD multi-boot different OSes and file systems. I plan to revise this article extensively as time goes on and I … Continue reading

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Radio by photolith, forensics, Web comics as unintentional biography

May was a very busy month for me so, most of the entries this month consisted of links with little commentary. (Actually now that I think of it most of my journal consists of this type of entry.) And this … Continue reading

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Nanotech–a cakewalk for piracy? And stupid CSS tricks!

Accessibility: Google adds keyboard accessibility to their interface. In an accessibility setback, naive page designers are incorrectly using CSS to replace of semantically correct markup. I myself complained about related CSS risks over a year ago. Security: No, you are … Continue reading

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