Category Archives: Science and Engineering

Made a few minor changes to the journal pages

Posted on July 9, 2001 by Pace Arko

I moved the entry index and search form to the right-hand column on all journal pages to make them easier to get to. Thinking of finally implementing my Chumbe Bandia ideas as an EM-RPG. Thinking this dot-com downturn is finally … Continue reading →

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Microsoft drops the Smart Tags feature in IE 6

Posted on June 27, 2001 by Pace Arko

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

Posted on June 23, 2001 by Pace Arko

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?

Posted on June 13, 2001 by Pace Arko

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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A very inspirational day of browsing the Web

Posted on June 13, 2001 by Pace Arko

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

Posted on June 12, 2001 by Pace Arko

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

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Artificial life was just a phrase twenty years ago.

Posted on June 11, 2001 by Pace Arko

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

Posted on June 7, 2001 by Pace Arko

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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Robots and Page Design

Posted on May 31, 2001 by Pace Arko

MEMS are miniature (centimeter sized) or microscopic (micron sized) robots and machines. MEMS technology can also be thought of as proto-nanotech because many of the control and software issues faced by MEMS engineers are very similar to those that will … Continue reading →

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Ban the use of tables for layout!

Posted on May 30, 2001 by Pace Arko

Dotfile brings us, by way of A List Apart, this list of sites that don’t use tables for layout. Farlops Industries has been free of layout tables since late 1998. The ranks of CSS-only page designers are finally growing! Progress … Continue reading →

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