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Flickr Vu

flick•r vu, noun
a feeling of having already seen your current surroundings somewhere on the web.

Case in point, my recent visit to Neal’s Yard, in London.

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Xyle scope

At the recent @Media conference, I was pleased to share a stage with Rachel Andrew and Roger Johansson for a panel titled “Strategic CSS Project Management”.

One of the tools I mentioned during the talk, the $20USD Xyle scope CSS debugger and analysis tool, is something I’ve been using and recommending since shortly after its release. I think it’s high time I got around to writing up why exactly I think it’s so great.

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Gender Issues

Here’s a quick social hack for you. In this ever-increasingly global village we’re living in, having to grapple with foreign names is becoming a lot more common. Especially online, one of the more frequent problems I run into is determining gender based on a name, without even a voice to help clarify.

Google to the rescue. I’ve found that dropping the first name in Google Image Search often answers the question for me. Not 100% of the time, and I’m still loathe to use a gender-specific pronoun without further investigation, but it’s a good guess most of the time.

Now if I could just keep track of which cultures place their family name on the left instead of the right…

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