Simple webpages present information quickly. A simple world makes sure we get that infomation.
August 31, 2002
1968: The Start of the Technological Revolution: When did the tech revolution really start?
Affordable Rural Broadband: Some high speed access is out in the country, but it's expensive.
All Hand Coded: I enjoy coding things myself despite all the extra work it creates.
Am I Old Fashioned? Thoughts on Change: Andrew writes about his thoughts on a changing world.
As A Computer Programmer: One of a series of essays on different carrer options and what they entail.
Bureaucracies Have Political Cultures: Despite the image of apolitical life in bureaucracy, the people who make government work are often very political.
Bureaucracy: It's Problems: The reality of bureaucratic thought in our society.
Canned Reality: A discussion of video games, and television, and their effects on society.
Criticizing Technological Rationality: A careful analyisis of role of technology and bureaucratic rationality on the world around us.
DTV: Time To Get Rid of Your TV?: They won't work next year, so recycle 'em, and look to other sources of news.
Email and Spam: Many of us just get too much useless information but at least we don't have to dispose of it.
Highly Urbanized Computing: How Windows XP is not unlike our big cities.
Hudson Valley Not Tech Valley: Our future is in diversity, not technology.
In a Computerized World: Are We Humans Anymore?: Andrew asks if in a computer dominated world, if being a person means anything anymore.
Malta's Reality: Far from being a great tech center, it shows the freedom of rural life.
Nation of Managers: Management is not a solution to our problems.
Post-Modernity: Five areas of study that allow us to see beyond the limits of science and technology.
Running out of Freedom: It sometimes seems like that I've seen everything locally (eventhough I haven't), and that finding cgreener pastures is getting harder.
Tech Valley Realities: High Tech in Albany won't just give us jobs, it will also change cultures and increase sprawl.
The Endless Freedom Assault of our Technocratic Society: How somehow our fixes to our problems may actually make things worst.
The Parthenon: Technology and Politics: Reviewing the relationship between technology, politics, and a greater society.
The Story of the Non-Programmer: Sometimes thinking about who you have been, can take the stress off a rough day, and the bad memories that a class may bring back.
Tired of Computers? I Don't Think I'm Alone.: After a long semister of dealing with them, and doing lots of school work, he's just plain tired...
Twitter: A fun way to share what your doing with the world.
Webpages: Keep 'em Simple: We need to have simple webpages that load quickly.
Wireless Internet: Free hotspots make it possible for us to access high speed internet without cost.
Too many webpages nowdays are overformatted, and simply use too much crap. On my PowerMac 4400, with it's 200 MHz 603ev processor, some sites take like a minute to render. That is way too slow. It also doesn't help having a slow modem connection (due to where I live).
Nobody comes here to see how pretty my webpage design is—they most likely come here for more pragamatic reasons. Things like my bio, the fodder and other writings are the biggest reasons for coming here, second only to reading the blog (which is updated almost daily.
I'm serious about that too. Although, I have to be fair, and say that paraphrased from one of the orginal Netscape programmers. The fact is, Netscape 4 (and Netscape 3), are not just up to the job of handling modern webpages anymore—especially in the days of pages that are XHTML and rely more and more on CSS.
Netscape 4 and CSS are an explosive mixature. Sometimes you'll get desired results, but that's kind of unlikely. More likely you will get messed up webpages and quite possibly a crash. Try to design to the standards, and keep Netscape's pages looking decent. It's not possible with lots of hacks.
I like doing things the proper way, fast and efficent. None of those pesky hacks that only sort of work correctly. I've seen some commerical, sluggish loading pages, that bastardize HTML into something it's not suppost to be.
HTML was designed orginally to be fast rendering, and easy reading. Style was orginally designed to be conservatively used with it, and today style should be mostly implemented with stylesheet.
Fast, conservatively designed pages are good. They load fast. They present the info straight forward, with no crap.
Now if more pages followed that line of thinking, the Internet would be so much better...
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