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I can't say I was ever particularly familiar with The Almighty's material (they were one of a cluster of early-90's bands all clamouring for my attention, and I couldn't really favour all of them, being a poor student at the time). The gig tonight made me think that maybe I should've paid them more attention at the time. Did I mention that I currently have hearing difficulties? Could've done without the loud-mouthed assholes who invaded the night bus at Muswell Hill, too, but at least they went away again.
A - Accent: Typically British
B - Breakfast Item: Right now? Pancakes!
C - Chore you hate: Ironing
D - Dad's Name: Terence
E - Essential everyday item: Socks.
F - Flavour ice cream: Strawberry
G - Gold or Silver: Gold
H - Hometown: London
I - Insomnia: Occasionally
J - Job Title: Senior Analyst Programmer
K - Kids: Not yet
L - Living arrangements: 1st floor flat with wife
M - Mom's birthplace: Stockport-ish
N - Number of significant others you’ve ever had: One (the current one)
O - Overnight hospital stays: 1
P - Phobias: Nothing specific.
Q - Queer?: Yes, it is, isn't it?
R - Religious Affiliation: n/a
S - Siblings: 2, both sisters, both younger.
T - Time you wake up: 7am-ish, weekdays. Far later weekends.
U - Unnatural hair colors you've worn: Black, once, when I dressed up as Mr Spock for a fancy dress party.
V - Vegetable you refuse to eat: Red cabbage. Or just cabbage. Or broccolli. Or sprouts. Or...
W - Worst habit: Nose-picking.
X - X-rays you’ve had: Several dental, plus one other (connected to my answer to "O").
Y - Yummy: Creamy mashed potato.
Z - Zodiac sign: Capricorn.
B - Breakfast Item: Right now? Pancakes!
C - Chore you hate: Ironing
D - Dad's Name: Terence
E - Essential everyday item: Socks.
F - Flavour ice cream: Strawberry
G - Gold or Silver: Gold
H - Hometown: London
I - Insomnia: Occasionally
J - Job Title: Senior Analyst Programmer
K - Kids: Not yet
L - Living arrangements: 1st floor flat with wife
M - Mom's birthplace: Stockport-ish
N - Number of significant others you’ve ever had: One (the current one)
O - Overnight hospital stays: 1
P - Phobias: Nothing specific.
Q - Queer?: Yes, it is, isn't it?
R - Religious Affiliation: n/a
S - Siblings: 2, both sisters, both younger.
T - Time you wake up: 7am-ish, weekdays. Far later weekends.
U - Unnatural hair colors you've worn: Black, once, when I dressed up as Mr Spock for a fancy dress party.
V - Vegetable you refuse to eat: Red cabbage. Or just cabbage. Or broccolli. Or sprouts. Or...
W - Worst habit: Nose-picking.
X - X-rays you’ve had: Several dental, plus one other (connected to my answer to "O").
Y - Yummy: Creamy mashed potato.
Z - Zodiac sign: Capricorn.
And can anyone explain why, when I c&p some text from a page in Firefox, I'm getting the website's title instead of the text I've highlighted? It's not like I've had problems c&p'ing from Firefox in the past, this has only started happening today. No problem with the same text from IE.
Okay... I highlight a block of text in Firefox, right-click, Copy. I open up Semagic, my LJ client, and do three different things to paste that text.
1. Ctrl+C. Pastes <a href="http://....">{page title}</a>.
2. Edit->Paste Special...->Text. Pastes the text, just as I'd wanted.
3. Edit->Paste Special...->HTML. Pastes the HTML code for the block I copied.
This is quite cute - Firefox not just shunting the text into the clipboard like IE does, but the HTML and presumably page info such as the URL as well. All well and good for pasting into apps that only expect text to be pasted, such as TextPad. But I've set Semagic up to automatically put the <a> tags round a URL when it comes in, so clearly whatever Firefox dumps into the clipboard is confusing the poor thing. Nice feature. Now, to go about switching it off....
1. Ctrl+C. Pastes <a href="http://....">{page title}</a>.
2. Edit->Paste Special...->Text. Pastes the text, just as I'd wanted.
3. Edit->Paste Special...->HTML. Pastes the HTML code for the block I copied.
This is quite cute - Firefox not just shunting the text into the clipboard like IE does, but the HTML and presumably page info such as the URL as well. All well and good for pasting into apps that only expect text to be pasted, such as TextPad. But I've set Semagic up to automatically put the <a> tags round a URL when it comes in, so clearly whatever Firefox dumps into the clipboard is confusing the poor thing. Nice feature. Now, to go about switching it off....
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