Reading the rental classifieds would make you think that every place offered is much better than the student-infested dump you’re looking to move out of. Alas, it just ain’t so! Like all other advertising, the classifieds (and this includes such things as Craigslist) are crawling with euphemisms: soft words chosen by landlords to ease the [...]
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.” — George Bernard Shaw
In FireFox (and Internet Explorer 7 as well), you can open a link in a new tab by clicking on it with the scroll wheel. Similarly, you can close an open tab by scroll-wheel clicking it. (Push straight down on the scroll wheel rather than rolling it; it functions like a middle, or third, mouse [...]
Today, while looking at one of my old posts, I discovered that RoadFly’s boards — previously a BMW-oriented site, and the home of bimmer.org — have been completely fucked up by some sort of corporate sell-out. This is quite annoying, and naturally broke the link in my old post.
After some digging through the new [...]
I witnessed my first Windows Vista bluescreen today. The box was in the middle of being put into Sleep mode when it was awakened again, and blam: a bluescreen. (It could be said that we had a vista of a bluescreen…) Unfortunately, the bluescreen didn’t stay up long enough for me to actually read it [...]
I finally upgraded my work box to Firefox 2 today. I have to say that the Session Restore feature is pretty cool: all seven of my open tabs were reloaded (including my gmail session) without a hitch.
Of course, it would have been cooler if Firefox hadn’t crashed…
OK, I’ll try allowing comments again. I’m entering commentland this time with the attitude that “yes, I’ll have to do some moderation”. That’s OK, as long as the spam doesn’t get out of hand.