Category Archives: Science and Engineering

More on Accessible Web Design

Every site should have a good site map. There are many reasons for this but one is accessibility: What is a user going to turn to when all your dHTML hootenanny doesn’t make any sense in a screen reader? That’s … Continue reading

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The New Year Brings in Big Change

Last Wednesday I self-installed DSL so, now I am downloading with the best. The following day, prior to departing for his fact finding tour of the ATO, the Baka shipped us some truly scary hardware to work with. Currently our … Continue reading

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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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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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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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Links! Links! Links!

Most of this I already know but for you, here is a primer on how to use proxies to hide the IP address of your machine. Reuters released a story about beakers full of DNA used in parallel computing processes, … Continue reading

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Theology

It’s been a while since I’ve said anything so, before I go to sleep tonight, I’d like to provide a statement about why I remain mostly closed mouth about Microsoft or other religious disputes. I will only state the following: … Continue reading

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Their robot planes were no match for our music!

Like that subject title? Got it from Man or Astroman?. UC Bezerkley engineers make a micromechanical flybot. Not one to be outdone, MIT engineers invent a bot that can be kicked around. Lego Mindstorm appears to be the chassis of … Continue reading

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