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URI Parsing in XSLT

“URI Parsing in XSLT”:https://lojjic.net/blog/20031127-211048.rdf.html Some named templates, which recursively call themselves to process the URI piece-by-piece

Sliding Doors of CSS

“Sliding Doors of CSS”:https://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors/ new way of doing tabbed nav in CSS

Jesse’s Bookmarklets Site

“Jesse’s Bookmarklets Site”:https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/ Bookmarklets are free tools to help with repetitive or otherwise impossible tasks in your web browser [via Simon Willison]

iSociety Report on Technology in UK workplaces

iSociety, part of The Work Foundation (previously known as The Industrial Society) have published Getting by, not getting on: Technology in UK workplaces. From the abstract: Three quarters of British workers now use a PC or other ICT at work. Over the past decade, new technology has swept across Britain’s workplaces. It has been the most dramatic change in British companies for a decade. But workplaces across the UK are suffering from a low tech equilibrium: they are getting by, not getting on.

Marriage is made in hell

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. [ via Human Nature Daily Review]

Does Your Career Meet Your Personal Needs?

“Does Your Career Meet Your Personal Needs?”:https://www.careers.wsj.com/jobhunting/change/20031002-moses.html [ via The Occupational Adventure]

No Margin for Error

Gotchas with CSS margin collapse: “No Margin for Error”:https://www.andybudd.com/blog/archives/000114.html [via paranoidfish]

MySQL Gotchas

“MySQL Gotchas”:https://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html [via paranoidfish.org]

Integrating weblog aggregation data with enterprise data

“Integrating weblog aggregation data with enterprise data”:https://urlgreyhot.com/drupal/node/view/1312 [via A Klog Apart]

Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities

“Native Win32 ports”:https://unxutils.sourceforge.net of some GNU utilities [via Kenneth Hunt – Tech Observer]