Bits & pieces (& Firefox help required)

[juliet]

I now have BLUE HAIR again. A very nice dark blue, although I suspect it'll lighten up rather over the first couple of washes. The post-bleaching blonde was entertaining...

Pete & I went to the Trade Justice Movement night of action on Friday night - I only lasted till around midnight (sat around in Parliament Square for a bit, then watched a film in Central Hall), but Pete stayed up for the candlelit vigil at 4am before catching the night bus home. But I *did* turn out of bed again at 0620 to get back to Westminster for the final march. It was a gorgeous morning, and a really nice atmosphere. Headed to Paddington after that for breakfast and a walk through Hyde Park with my kitty_goth; and then went home & finished making myself a nice black/blue/different blues dress. Which came out surprisingly well, in fact. Hurrah for me. Post-Dr-Who Pete & I went to the pub to catch up with rgl, kauket, & zenithed, among others. This was a Good Thing, especially as I haven't seen Jo in particular for bloody *ages*.

Hyde Park again on Sunday, for a picnic with Pete before going to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition. Pretty things! (and therein my opinion ceases. P spent time peering at the details of which camera & film & whatnot. I went "pretty!" and then sat down to knit for a bit. But they really *were* pretty!) Pottered a bit in the evening, & applied bleach/hair dye; kitty_goth came over for pizza, & we watched Planet of the Apes, which is frankly a bit rubbish.

This afternoon we are off to Ipswich to collect BABY RATTIES. [bounce bounce] So poor lonely Bramble-rat will have company.

Firefox help required
In other news: I have recently moved from Opera to Firefox, now that there's a plugin which remembers all the tabs you had open last time when you restart it (a necessity for my browsing habits). However, it is missing one very useful thing: Opera allows you to middle-click anywhere on the page to load the contents of the clipboard. So you left-select a link, & then just drop it into Opera. To do this on Firefox requires one to empty the address bar (opening a new tab is easiest), select the link, drop it into the address bar, & hit Return (or Go). MUCH MORE WORK. I cannot find a plugin for the behaviour I want - anyone know of anything?
Edit: Have found it. You need to turn it on under 'tabbed browsing' in Preferences. And, as fluffymormegil says below, ctrl+middleclick opens a new tab for it. Good stuff.

Comments

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Don't know about Mozilla Firefox, but my just-plain-Mozilla 1.7 on Debian certainly has "paste to go to new location" on middle-click. It even has "spawn new tab and go..." on ctrl-middle-click.

[juliet]

Aha! Cheers, I have found it - you have to turn it on in the preferences rather than it being there by default.

This is clearly related of the teddy-bear-theory of bugfixing (whereby explaining your bug/problem to someone, or to yr teddy bear, suddenly leads to you realising what the issue is & fixing it), in that actually writing something down/requesting help motivates you to have another investigate for yourself.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

AKA "cardboard programmer effect" and other names...

[card0.livejournal.com]

The Burton Planet of the Apes remake with Markie Mark (which is very rubbish) or the Heston original (which is very dated)?

also

Will there be pictures of baby ratties?

[juliet]

The original. Both dated *&* rubbish, IMO (or at least, very very clunky & with ginormous dropped holes in the plot all over the place).

Yes! to pictures!

You going to be at Whitby, btw?

[card0.livejournal.com]

yep, will be grabbing the train thursday from kings cross (11am which means a proper commuter time trip to the city, urrgh).

[juliet]

Ah, same as us (& practically everyone else...) - see you at some point on the journey, no doubt! Or in the Elsie :-)

[card0.livejournal.com]

yeah, we'll be in there, drunk most likley.

It will be one long train'o'goths, must remember camera for comedy pictures.

[card0.livejournal.com]

And yes it is a bit of a poor film, but remember that when it first came out americans thought that apes had been trained to act. No lie.

[booklectica]

a plugin which remembers all the tabs you had open last time when you restart it

There is? Can you point me at it?

Not that I can get Firefox working at the moment - I downloded a 'critical update' and now it won't load at all. Am using basic Mozilla.

[juliet]

SessionSaver.

Also to be acquired via the Tools -> Extensions -> Get More Extensions thing; although it won't work in Mozilla, I don't think. There might be the same thing for Mozilla, though? Don't know if Mozilla does extensions in the way that Firefox does.

[lovelybug.livejournal.com]

Baby ratties!!!! Want, need etc. Must come see :)

[juliet]

Yes indeed! They are SO VERY SWEET & tiny :-) You should come see them soon before they grow up! (though I'm guessing you'll be too busy to drop past pre-Whitby. Maybe the week after?)

[bootpunk.livejournal.com]

So, does the Trade "Justice" movement advocate the continuance of protectionism and arbitrary sanctions - the latter which may appear to be supportive of the developing world, but more usually are beneficial to organised labour in the western world, who would rather see third world workers starve than see their own members adapt to a changing world? Or do they advocate free trade, which if applied to agriculture alone would lift most of Africa out of starvation.

Just interested ...