Jinn of Quality and Risk

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Jinn?
Reportedly an eavesdropper, constantly striving to go behind the curtain of heaven in order to steal divine secrets. Grants wishes.
Bio?
Species: featherless biped, chocolate addict
Roots: born in Sweden — lived also in Switzerland, USA, UK — good genes from Sweden, Norway, India, Germany
Languages: French, English, Swedish, German, Portuguese, Latin, Ada, Perl, Java, assembly language, Pascal, C/C++, etc.
Jobs: factory worker, farmhand, supermarket cleaner, programmer, language lawyer, soldier, lecturer, software engineer, consultant, director of technology, solutions architect, programme manager, methodology lead, quality and risk manager, writer
Projects
Write a book, quickly. Read, more. Sleep, less. Travel in Europe and America, v.soon. Find a job, again.

Friday, February 15, 2002 [this day]

NPR: All Things Considered (RealAudio, Feb-13) ó excellent commentary by David Weinberger on weblogs, re-inventing journalism and public voices. Weinberger is the author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and Small Pieces Loosely Joined. [this item]

A gentle pitch for CSS: it saves and makes you money ó reduced bandwidth, reduced complexity, increased flexibility and liquidity, compliance with standards, and increased functionality. Several people have recently explained why table-based layouts are archaic; see for instance Owen's Design Rant, Dave's "No Tables", James' "HTML tables are pogo sticks", and Sjoerd's "Tables vs Layout"[this item]

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What is this?
A polymorphic publication on quality, risk, and other gems. A weblog, pushing the boundaries of knowledge sharing. An experiment created with an utterly distributed, informal, flexible, independent, and scalable tool — better, faster, cheaper, and smarter...