Category Archives: The Internet

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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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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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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Business Models Continue to Fail on the Internet

The content here is free. However I get some of this content from other sources which have to pay for it somehow. Advertising, despite becoming more and more obnoxious in its presence, doesn’t seem to be able to cut it. … Continue reading

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