Category Archives: technology

life imitates art

Posted on Sunday, 2006 March 05 by Anton

In Bruce Sterling‘s wonderful novel Schismatrix (1985), the spaceship Red Consensus has an interesting feature: The control room . . . had been designed by some forgotten industrial theorist who believed that instruments should use acoustic signals. . . . … Continue reading →

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the real reason

Posted on Sunday, 2006 March 05 by Anton

An acquaintance writes: Eudora remains my client of choice because I’m used to it My attitude is Augustinian: “Make me a LINUX user, but not quite yet.” I love the splash screen, which looks like an insane mailman manically throwing … Continue reading →

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technology marches on

Posted on Thursday, 2006 March 02 by Anton

I had a bitch of a time uploading files for the new version of WordPress. It’s my first update since migrating from the Linux box to the Mac Mini, and the ftp client I have is crap compared to gftp … Continue reading →

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the wonderful thing about standards

Posted on Monday, 2006 February 20 by Anton

is that there are so many to choose from! Elsewhere in the wonderful world of webtoons, how to stand out from the crowd.

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on the design of namespaces

Posted on Wednesday, 2006 January 11 by Anton

My home address is of the form m Rivendell Lane, #n. Rivendell Lane (name changed) is a condo with multiple buildings; each building contains multiple dwellings, each with an outside door. When tradesmen come calling, most of the time their … Continue reading →

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possibly not one of my brightest ideas ever

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 November 23 by Anton

If my new printer’s resolution is 1200 dots/inch, then a sheet of gringo-standard letter paper with half-inch margins can take an image of 9000 by 12000 pixels. As a test, therefore, I rendered one of my most complex Povray images … Continue reading →