A State of Mind

Some explanations about this site and its purpose:

This is primarily a "virtual classroom" extension to the tutoring classes I give as part of a Workers Continuing Education Program on Computer Information Technologies. Since it is not a commercial site, I have decided to ignore the silly browser wars and identify only with browsers that can currently best show its content to my students. At this moment it is Google Chrome. If you view this page with any other browser, you are likely missing some of the features or getting a degraded representation of this site. I am actually making a point here "that the creator of a website can and should select the browser which will provide the best rendition of his creative vision". It should not be the other way around, but as long as the majority of web designers yield to commercial pressures it will ultimately require more resources, time and money than necessary to create websites.

To the left, you should see the result of my first try using HTML5 and Adobe Edge Preview 3.1 to animate Nasa's collection of satellite-based observations: Scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer of our planet.

For best results, view with Google Chrome. Safari's HTML5 animation is also very smooth but the latest posts tickertape on top of the page does not work. Firefox gives a good rendition but with a slight animation choppiness. Internet Explorer is as usual "useless" with no spinning animation and does not render my page semi-transparent elements.