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Net Neutrality, Aero and Linux screen readers

So this is really a bunch of random computery things thrown together into a post. Yes, another boring, “Pace is thinking out loud post.” First, I continue to strike tiny blows to protect network neutrality from the lobbyists of telecommunications … Continue reading

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Testing pictures and Ecto's abilities

I know my new CSS rule works but I just wanted to inform some of you of it. IE6 should see the pictures I have here now. Also I wanted to see just how sophisticated Ecto’s image editing and addition … Continue reading

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Blog Clients for Linux Stink

I envyed envied Ecto on Macintosh and similar solutions on XP (And I guess now Vista.). I wanted a WYSIWYG blog client in Linux. I’ve tried out Drivel, gnome-blog, KBlogger and BloGTK (Which I think is the best of the … Continue reading

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Xenon, Neutron and Nvu

Oh, and by the way, the previous post was the first I’ve made on our new iron. The mighty, mighty Farlopsian bubble is now being generated by some serious hardware: a Dell PowerEdge 2950, running the Red Hat distro and … Continue reading

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Mine is a dying art.

Over the last 8 or so years, blog scripts, site content management systems, site hosting, and desktop web publishing clients have grown so sophisticated that authoring and administering a personal site is trivial these days. If you can deal with … Continue reading

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Sigh, standards support, yet again

There were images in my last post but, many of you probably didn’t see them because Internet Explorer 6 doesn’t support cascading stylesheets as well as it should. Now, you really shouldn’t worry about this because Microsoft Vista is coming … Continue reading

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Makin' the Big Bucks Now!

So I just recently learned that my domain name is worth $10, 400 but my actual site is only worth $564.54. I also learned that I can reasonably demand $30 for each and every text ad that appears on my … Continue reading

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Yes, more stuff about accessibility

By way of Amor Mundi, I found a link to this really interesting site called, the Open Prothesthics Project. This is nifty to me on several levels. It ties into accessibility and assistive technology. It ties into open source engineering. … Continue reading

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AJAX and other web accessibility stuff

Like I said, I’ve been out of the loop for a while and, apparently some folks out there are designing some bad interactivity because, there’s been a tonne of articles over the last seven months on how to make AJAX … Continue reading

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While we are on the subject of accessibility–

So I’ve been out of the loop for a while and, during that time, there have been a few good articles about web accessibility that I figured I’d link to for posterity. If you’re web designer, you’ve probably run into … Continue reading

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