The World According To The Archer

Here is an index of the articles etc. I have written or plan to write about the world around me.

Manifestos (alphabetical)
CDs		What CDs are, and more importantly to today's DRMed world, what they are not
Copyright		Copyright seems to have lost its way, so let's put it back on track
Diversity		Diversity is something to be valued, even in terms of today's technologies
DNS		If only names for computers on the Internet were founded in sanity
DVDs		What DVDs could have been
Hardware		Why the latest and greatest hardware is not necessarily the best
History		Future shapers must always accept the wisdom and reject the folly of what has come before
Introduction (home page)		According to the Archer, what is up with the world?
Network Ecosystem, The		Understanding what makes the Internet (not its applications) great (i.e. its applications)
Software		There is more than one way to write software, and none is more valid than any other
World		What could the world have been like if it had began as a requirements definition?
Informal articles (alphabetical)
And		see "Words, And"
Blogs		I don't do blogs, because blogs are bad
Punctuation	(index)
	the order of	Commas, semi-colons and full stops always with clause before, colons with clause after
	Ellipsis	Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Viz		see "Words, Viz"
Words	(index)
	spelling of	Coz u carnt spel
	And	"And" can be used, without inverted commas, to start sentences
	or	See "And"
	Viz	"Viz" is still a useful word, and you should know what it is for
Formal articles
13th Floor, The		see "Movie References, The 13th Floor"
7½th Floor, The		see "Movie References, The 7½th Floor"
Doh Ray Egon		see "Movie References, Doh Ray Egon"
I'd Like A Ticket To Fiji		see "Movie References, I'd Like A Ticket To Fiji"
Ludicrous Speed		see "Movie References, Ludicrous Speed"
PC Load Letter		see "Movie References, PC Load Letter"
Movie References	(index)
	13th Floor, The
	7½th Floor, The
	Doh Ray Egon
	I'd Like A Ticket To Fiji
	Ludicrous Speed
	PC Load Letter
	Take The Red Pill
Searching		see "Sorting and Searching"
Sorting And Searching		Sort sort sort sort sort
Take The Red Pill		see "Movie References, Take The Red Pill"
Essays (two listed)
Soviet Union, The Rise And Fall Of		A prototype essay I wrote a long time ago
Ultimate Graphical User Interface, The		Another essay I wrote more recently, which marks a point in time when the rot had just started
Thesis (one listed)
Java, Trees Versus Bytes		Abstract once, optimize everywhere
Blatant advertisments (alphabetical)
Acorn And The RISC Machine		Reduce, reuse, recycle
Audio Visual		Read Audiotek
Board Games		Read Play-K
Carey, Mariah		Buy her albums
Domains		Concerned with separation of concerns?
Java		Write once, run everywhere
KaOS		Pay no attention the the man behind Curtains
Kasoft		Buy my software
Keckers		Play Keckers
Monopoly		Read Monopolybase
Typesetting and Typography		Read all about it (provided its set nicely and it's in a nice font)
Typography		See "Typesetting and Typography"
Storybooks (two listed)
Always Be My Baby		A collection of short stories
Make-Believe		An earlier collection of short stories
Novellas (two listed)
Queen Of Hearts		I kissed a girl, and I liked it.
Tale Of Two STEMs, A		I used to be called Kade Hansson.
An Actual Book? (zero listed)
If only I had written one...		Well, you can't have everything.

Last updated: Thursday 29th September 2022