knee deep in static

I suppose this is probably something that only really affects me, but generally it’s a bit annoying when you do some action which does something in one browser and…nothing happens because you’re using a completely different web browser.

Petty, I know.

What prompted this you might ask?

Well! Even if you don’t ask, I’m going to talk about it.

In Opera, mouse-clicking on the left edge of the browser window pops up a sidebar filled with all sorts of things - favourites, history, transfers…the rest of it. In Internet Explorer, nothing happens. At all.

Oh I know that there is something kind of similar, where you can click on the star to drop down a favourites or history sidebar, but it’s not the same is it?

And with Opera being my browser of choice, it does grate a bit when I’m forced to use other browsers.

Then there’s the differences which I can’t quite remember between Opera and Firefox and the keyboard shortcuts for scrolling through open tabs. I haven’t even got a clue what the shortcut to do that in Internet Explorer is.

And I’ll probably never find out.

I figured that I should resurrect the hate list - I kept one on my final year project blog and it at least kept me entertained in programming/dissertation purgetory.

So here it is! Ta-da!

…yeah.

Coughing then.

I’ve got some kind of virus, plague whatever and I keep coughing. Not enough to warrant running off to the chemist to get some sort of cough linctus yet and not enough to be painful, but just enough that it makes me feel sick.

It’s annoying to say the least. I can only think that if I just threw up, then the coughing wouldn’t be so bad - but I’m not coughing enough for that. Just ALMOST enough.

Augh.