Synesthesia

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Archive for November 2003

What’s Your Google Number?

Google�s greatest application as an �HR tool� is not in the corporation � it is out among the free agents, consultants and entrepreneurs who live and work by reputation and experience. It is here where �Google numbers� become very important.

Neurobiological basis of romantic love

In new studies, scientists are discovering the neurobiological underpinnings of romantic love.

URI Parsing in XSLT

some named templates, which recursively call themselves to process the URI piece-by-piece

Sliding Doors of CSS

new way of doing tabbed nav in CSS

Jesse’s Bookmarklets Site

Bookmarklets are free tools to help with repetitive or otherwise impossible tasks in your web browser

iSociety Report on Technology in UK workplaces

Recent iSociety report on the state of IT in UK industry.

Marriage is made in hell

American writer Laura Kipnis has provoked a storm in the US with a new book attacking marriage. Here, she explains why monogamy turns nice people into petty dictators and household tyrants

Does Your Career Meet Your Personal Needs?

Career Activism

No Margin for Error

Gotchas with CSS margin collapse

MySQL Gotchas

It's not a bug - it's a gotcha. A "gotcha" is a feature or function which works as advertised - but not as expected.

Integrating weblog aggregation data with enterprise data

A useful idea, no implementation yet...

Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities

Here are some ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. In this context, native means the executables do only depend on the Microsoft C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like that provided by Cygwin tools.