links for 2008-06-30

Posted on June 30, 2008
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Urban Dictionary: ITYF

“Acronym for ‘I think you’ll find’. Because sometimes FYI just isn’t irritating and smug enough.” NOW I find out about this? Would have been quite useful during the first 10 years of my career.

(tags: urbandictionary corporate language)
Firefox 3 Doesn’t Prompt or Warn to Confirm When Closing Multiple Tabs As Warning Not Working » My Digital Life

The workaround to set Firefox to warn or ask for confirmation before closing window with multiple open tabs, or quit FF application, is to disable session restore by setting Firefox to start up with home page or blank page. There myst be a better way..

(tags: Firefox 3 Tweaks)
Hebrew Date Converter - 26th of Sivan, 5768

Hebrew dates to gregorian dates. via Carlton

(tags: jewish calendar tools converter)
TraderFeed: Four Lessons I’ve Learned From Coaching Hedge Fund Portfolio Managers

Interesting observations on fund managers

(tags: Trading Fund Portfolio Managers Psychology Success)
חדשות nrg - מסמכים רגישים נגנבו מביתו של מזכיר הממשלה

במשטרה הדגישו כי יחקרו את המקרה במלוא הרצינות. Fantastic. What a bunch of idiots.

(tags: Israel News Police Government)
Google’s multi-million dollar welcome to new CFO | Docu-Drama

Begin with a $500,000 signing bonus. Then throw in another $500,000 if he makes it to his six-month anniversary. Give him a $450,000 salary, which is 450,000% higher than his bosses, and set his target bonus at 150 percent of that, or $675,000.

(tags: Google CFO salary)
In the French heartland, the franc lives on - International Herald Tribune

“We lost something with the franc,” said Amrane, the mayor since 2001. “We lost an identity. We moved very quickly into Europe, maybe too quickly.”

(tags: French Euro Franc)

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2 Responses to “links for 2008-06-30”

jeff on June 30th, 2008 1:23 pm

why would anyone want to convert a Hebrew date to a gregorian date? the trick is how to convert a Hebrew date into a hot date
eyal on July 1st, 2008 3:57 pm

Well for one thing a Gregorian date is always younger, by about 3000 years :-)

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