word-wrap:break-word and floats

Oddly, although IE6/7 wrapped text around floats when applying word-wrap:break-word, none of IE8, Firefox, or Chrome does. See my word-wrap:break-word float tests.

done

Hope my teacher likes to get eleven-page papers with three-page data appendices when he asks for twenty pages. Without further ado, Labor Mobility in South and East Asia (.doc). It's poorly written, but I spent a lot of time on it, and it has SQL queries as footnotes. Abstract:

South and East Asia exhibit consistent migration participation rates of only half the global average. Several factors contribute to this result, including the exceptional size of India and China and the rise of outsourcing. However, the large Asian migrant stocks in the Middle East imply that legal restrictions on immigration in most of the developed world are the primary determinants of Asian migration. Evidence on the failure of factor-price equalization by trade and on the effects of migration suggests that these policies lead to significantly inefficient outcomes.

This code delights me. Just wrote it as part of normalizing the Development Research Centre's Global Migrant Origin Database. Works for about 3/4 of them.

$resp = file_get_contents('http://www.google.com/search?q='
  .urlencode('"'.$name.'"').'+population');
if (preg_match('@Population</b>: ([\d,]+)@', $resp, $matches)) {
  $population = str_replace(',', '', $matches[1]);
}

This describes my eating depressingly accurately.



I pretty much eat like Bryan Caplan on vacation all the time.

I've become pretty enamored of Twitter of late. Between my Google Reader shared items and my Twitter feed, most of what I used to put on here is covered, with the bonus of sharing things in real time instead of compiling them over weeks for mega-posts. I dislike Twitter's proprietary nature--I wish Atom or RSS had some kind of "minipost" flag to encourage aggregators not to collapse posts--but I still expect that I'll only be using this for occasional thoughtful posts for the foreseeable future.

"Males of species from each of the main classes of vertebrate animals (including bony fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) have been affected by chemicals in the environment. Feminisation of the males of numerous vertebrate species is now a widespread occurrence." Very interesting read. Seems slightly less worrisome than the reverse, though.

Uh, so there are currently three adorable Rottweilers at the Murray Humane Society. Maybe someone would like one?

Normally, marginal analysis is pretty accurate for my salary: my hourly wage equivalent is about what it would take to convince me to work another hour at the end of the week. However, I'd be willing to work all of Saturday building Ajaxy interfaces at minimum wage. I love you, jQuery. (And yeah, Matt, you're right--event delegation owns. Much more elegant.)