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Archive for January 2004

Hutton Aftermath

I don't normally write about work here, but I wanted to note that I was one of the 10,000 people who contributed to this - I'm one of the 6,000 whose name didn't appear due to lack of space.

Coaching As Knowledge Creation

I was talking about the coaching process with my Coaching Supervisor. we were discussing the implicit power-relationship in coaching (Expert - Novice) and how we could work with any positive aspects of that and reduce any negative aspects. I wondered if it was useful to think of the coaching process as a form of mutual learning - or indeed as a form of mutual knowledge creation... continued on the wiki

abbr-cadabra

Fixing <abbr> in IE without code

Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See

Pat Holt says 'Like many editorial consultants, I've been concerned about the amount of time I've been spending on easy fixes that the author shouldn't have to pay for.'

Saturday Walk: Constable Country

...and more walking, this time passing the scene of several famous paintings by John Constable

Links Roundup

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2004-1-20 FXRuby – Home Page: Keywords: Development, GUI, Ruby, Software

Links Roundup

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2004-1-19 Persistent Login Cookie Best Practice: Keywords: Development, Security Rolling your own CDATA: Keywords: MoveableType Starkit packaging: Keywords: Development, TCL/TK UK Postcode Coordinates: Keywords: GIS Windows Services for UNIX 3.5: Keywords: Software, Unix, Windows Graphviz: Keywords: Graphics, Open_Source, Software Tcl/Tk Documentation: Keywords: Software, TCL/TK

Finding grid coordinates from UK Postcode

With no guarantees to its accuracy, here you can download a list of UK postcode area codes and their grid coordinates.

Persistent Login Cookie Best Practice

Persistent login cookies are the cookies that are stored with your browser when you click the �remember me� button on the login form [...] The following recipe for persistent cookies requires no crypto more powerful than a good random number generator.

Links Roundup

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2004-1-18 Patients recovering from depression with talk therapy show a ‘distinct’ pattern of brain changes: Keywords: Neuroscience

Saturday Walk: Pangbourne

More walking!

Minimizing Flickering CSS Background Images in IE6

Internet Explorer 6 for Windows is a sore spot for many users of CSS. Besides its countless rendering problems, it has the annoying habit of causing background-image styled elements to flicker when moused over. This article will cover a few things I've found that will eliminate that flicker.

Links Roundup

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2004-1-14 The Future of Business: Keywords: Business_Strategy Bookshelved Wiki: FrontPage: Keywords: Books, Learning, Wiki Creating the atmosphere for jumping in: Keywords: Projects, Teams Technology Predictor Success Matrix: Keywords: Technology

Technology Predictor Success Matrix

Tim Bray: This is the first in a series of essays on a simple but important question: Which new technologies will make it, and which will fail?

Links Roundup

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2004-1-13 Microsoft Access Database using Linux and PHP: Keywords: Databases, PHP Phantom authority: Keywords: Self-Organisation, Social_Software

Klein Bottle Hats

Perfect for people with zero-volume heads!

Links Roundup

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2004-1-12 Count the number of items in your entire mailbox: Keywords: Outlook, Scripting Knowledge-at-work: Making meaning: Keywords: KM integrating javascript into stylesheets: Keywords: CSS, Javascript Styling <abbr> in IE: Keywords: HTML, Javascript

cmsWiki

Welcome to a Wiki Workgroup on Content Management Systems!

CMS Wiki

CMS Wiki is a knowledge base for Content Management Systems.

Integrating javascript into stylesheets

“Integrating javascript into stylesheets”:http://milov.nl/2389

Styling in IE

Internet Explorer for Windows does not support the element that should be used on web pages for proper markup of abbreviations. Marek Prokop has a client-side way of fixing this.

Making meaning

Denham Grey explains how we come to share meaning and the relation between meaning, understanding, ontology and knowledge.

Web Developer extension for Firebird

The Web Developer extension for Mozilla Firebird and Mozilla adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools.

Rake

A simple ruby build program with capabilities similar to make

Saturday Walk: Otford

I keep one of my New Year resolutions about getting out walking and not for the first time wonder about the physics of mud...

Links Roundup

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2004-1-9 Turtle – Terse RDF Triple Language: Keywords: RDF, XML Freedom to Tinker: Insecurity Features: Keywords: MS_Office, Security Entry-Level Unicode for XML: Keywords: XML Lorem Ipsum – All the facts – Lipsum generator: Keywords: Typography Ideas in Technology and Publishing: Seeking good example XML content, DTDs, schemas, XSLT: [...]

Faux Columns

A simple way to make CSS columns appear equal in length, regardless of the content that they contain.

Links Roundup

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2004-1-8 HTML-Kit: Keywords: HTML, devtools

Links Roundup

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2004-1-7 FOLDOC – Computing Dictionary: computing Keywords: system:unfiled Smarty Plugins – SmartyWiki: Keywords: PHP, Smarty Write right for research: Keywords: learning PHP: DOM XML functions – PHP Manual – PHP Freaks: Keywords: DOM, PHP, XML Smarty Forum: Keywords: PHP, Smarty The Ourhouse Weblog: Process, schmocess: Keywords: system:unfiled howtoread.pdf: [...]

Integrated Quicklinks Tutorial

A brief tutorial for MoveableType on combining regular weblog entries with quicklinks (basically, entries from two blogs each using a different template) into one column.

People, Process, and Predicting Project Success

Great people, people with sufficient functional skills and domain expertise can trump process, good or bad. Good process, process appropriate for the context, will help those people. But great people can overcome bad process to deliver a good product.

Clean Language discussion forum

Phil Swallow has pointed me to his new discussion forum for exploring Metaphor, Clean Language, Clean Space and Symbolic Modelling. I quote a couple of definitions of Clean Language, and also cite a critique of the approach from a Neuro-Semantics / Meta-States perspective.

Mandala – Art Psychotherapy

Mandalas are circular designs that can be used in meditation or used as a way for personal growth and spiritual enrichment. The language of mandala is symbolic. The colors and the images in your mandala will reflect your inner self. There is no rule that you have to use certain kinds of color or certain types of material to create your mandala.

IP Address Locator

Enter an IP address to find its location - Lookup Country Region City etc

Links Roundup

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2004-1-5 Nebulose: Atom for MT in Four Easy Steps: Keywords: MoveableType, Syndication, Syndication/Formats/Atom

New pub entertainment

If you had your Christmas party in the local pub and found the jukebox had an unusually high level of choice, you were probably in one of the first boozers to have the world's most advanced music system....

OpenOffice.org XML Essentials

OpenOffice.org XML Essentials�Using OpenOffice.org�s XML Data Format is a book in progress written by J. David Eisenberg for O�Reilly & Associates and submitted to an open review process. The content is currently licensed under a Creative Commons License. The result of this work will be freely available on the World Wide Web under the Free Software Foundation�s GNU Free Documentation License.

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