Category Archives: technology

legacy systems

Posted on Thursday, 2004 July 08 by Anton

the Talmud and the gopher protocol

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foo

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 June 08 by Anton

Bad advice, running around loose. In utterly unrelated news: This week I shared an office with someone who sounds to me as if she’s from some unfamiliar part of Australia but is in fact from Derby. Learn something every day.

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domequest

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 June 02 by Anton

My fullerene page was the first webpage I made, in 1998. The C programs whose output is shown there – to enumerate pentagon-hexagon topologies, and to estimate their 3D shapes – were lost years ago; I wanted to improve and … Continue reading →

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those who will not learn from history are frequently reëlected

Posted on Friday, 2004 May 28 by Anton

I’m told that the federal Gun Control Act of 1968 commanded that sales of ammunition be reported to police, and that that provision was repealed circa 1986 at the request of police who were weary of handling data that had … Continue reading →

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retrotech

Posted on Sunday, 2004 May 23 by Anton

The Nixie Tube Wristwatch (cited by Charlie Stross)

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the elusive videophone

Posted on Saturday, 2004 May 22 by Anton

I just had the most clever idea, thanks to watching part of Firefly for the nth time. Now and then you may need to talk to someone on subspace video relay. Each of you is looking at the monitor, not … Continue reading →

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extensible raster

Posted on Thursday, 2004 May 20 by Anton

One standard to change is that of using scan lines in TV. If the electron guns scanned the tube in a Hilbert curve, either the broadcaster or the receiver could double the potential resolution while remaining compatible with the old … Continue reading →

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