Random burblings since 1999
Well I’m hitting the comment boxes, and emails are being sent, but in case I miss anyone, or you know of anyone I miss…
Scottish Blogmeet, this Saturday, The Hub (on Royal Mile) Cafe bar at 2pm.
If you fancy hanging out with some other bloggers for a couple of hours come and say hi – look out for a BLOGGER logo as I’ll have my hoodie with me, and I’ll make sure the bar staff know where “the bloggers” are.
See you there? Mine’s a Guinness!
A while back (a long while back) when I first discovered tabbed browsing, I moaned that it was affecting the way I used my PC. I have my tabs setup to close when I click on the scroll wheel of my mouse, unfortunately you can’t do the same for applications displayed in Windows taskbar.
Anyway I’ve just noticed another ‘mode of operation’ that I’ve adopted from Firefox into my general PC usage. When I’m using Firefox I usually have at least three or four tabs open at any one time. If I spot something interesting that I don’t have time to look at I’ll open a new tab for it and leave it there until I’m done with it.
This evening I’ve a few little things needing done: a couple of sites to add to Scottish Blogs, the confirmation of the Blogmeet venue to email, some photos to put onto CD, some books to look up on Amazon, and some updated addresses to be added to my contacts.
So I currently have: my HTML editor open (Homesite), two emails containing details of sites to be added to Scottish Blogs, a blank email, a list of confirmed people for the Blogmeet, Picasa (for the photos), a web browser with Amazon loaded, and my contact list. Ohh and iTunes. Of course.
Same process. So I don’t forget to do anything, I just open the application I WILL need and leave it open until I complete the task. Not sure how long I’ve been doing this for but I think it’s.. er.. interesting… in a psychological kinda way… maybe…
Anyway, what was I doing? Ohh yes, surfing for… er… pictures.
You know when you are getting old when:
Your niece contacts you through MSN Messenger and it takes you 10 seconds to figure out what she said:
“heya gordon, see on ur comp culd u plz delete da guest fingy u made cos wen u go into it, it automaticaly signs on to my msn”
And we complain about American English. Sheesh!
Just a wee note to say if you are using any version ABOVE (NOT including) 1.2, then I’d have a look at this and this. The latter is probably a better explanation. Ohh and not trying to be cryptic just don’t want to alert the unwanted to this (you’ll understand what I’m wittering on about if you read those links). There is more ‘discussion’ in the WP forums if you dig for it, although it’s getting a bit messy already.
Hat tip: wee David for bringing it to my, and now your, attention.
You should always keep an open mind,
But not so open that your brains fall out.
I was very generously given a bottle of Southern Comfort last night. It was from Susan, as thanks for video-ing her wedding, and as it’s my favourite tipple it is very much appreciated.
Mind you, I now have three and a half bottles of Southern Comfort. One here on my desk at work, and three bottles at home (one half full). I think I’ve also got a small amount in a bottle at my brother-in-laws house.