Category Archives: The Internet

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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Accessibility technology

A researcher over in the University of Maryland dismisses claims that voice input will be the interface of the future. With the release of OS X, Apple begins to take accessibility seriously again. And, Farlops updates his article about accesskey. … Continue reading

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A 1000 Hours of AOL Free!

Despite the fact that AOL/TW knows they’ve saturated the US market and have got all the customers they’re gonna get here, they still keep sending out those stupid disks. Just today I got the AOL 7 disk, unsolicited, in the … Continue reading

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Factory Floor is One Year and Three Days Old

I guess I should mark this occasion: One year of using the Greymatter script. Before, Factory Floor was just a vague way of referring to the site’s root page without saying, “home page.” Before, Factory Floor was just a site … Continue reading

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Yes, I know it's late

Macromedia is planning an evangelizing tour to tout the new accessibility features of Flash MX. Considering the legions of Flash designers out there that probably may never learn how to design Flash objects accessibly one wonders if an upgrade and … Continue reading

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Links!

Web advertising just gets uglier and more in our face as time goes on. Good thing I got Internet Junkbuster to cut through all this junk. Take a look at the Small Times site, it’s a good source for nanotech, … Continue reading

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The W3C Rejects RAND!

The World Wide Web Consortium today rejected the RAND proposal I spoke of here a few months ago. This means that key Web protocols, standards and technologies will remain royalty free and open for all users. The little folks win … Continue reading

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Reducing the Chance of Greymatter Script Hacks

The Greymatter script, while excellent in almost every aspect (A tip of the Farlopsian hat to Mr. Grey!), needs a little help so that, after installation, it runs in a secure fashion. For example, many of the forms it uses … Continue reading

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The Economics of the Internet

Jake repeats his claim that micropayments are the way to go however, Adam Barr disagrees. Cory Doctrow writes an enthusiastic screed (Perhaps in stark denial to what’s happened in the last two years.) about how the Internet is going to … Continue reading

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