Like last year I have a birthday party coming up. Like last year, I'm extending the invite to you. Yep that's you, the humble sevitzdotcom reader.

Now I've probably invited most of the people who read SDC already. However if you read my site, and I haven't invited you, or you've been lurking quietly in the background and would like to come, let me know either by email, or in the comments, and I'll send you a proper invite with all the details.

And although I hope their will be loads of friends who are bloggers at the party, this isn't a blogmeet per say. It's a birthday party. Mine. So if you want to come and have laugh, and celebrate my old age let me know. But if you just want to meet people who blog, I'm sure their will be plenty blogmeets this year.

If anyone knows Natalie Portman, your invited. Please bring her.

Here's another handy tip for using FireFox. You know the handy find-as-you -type thing? So for example you search for a recipe on say "grilled salmon" and it opens up into a long page with loads of different recipes, right? So you just start typing salmon and bingbangwang, it just straight to the first occurrence of salmon.

But then what? You want to look for the second occurrence of salmon. Well now there's a problem. Then you have to move your mouse down to the bottom of the screen, click Find Next and repeat through the document. It's a bit of a pain. What's the point of having a handy way of doing things with the keyboard if you need to use the mouse.

Well you don't and the answer was obvious. So obvious there was not much in the way of documentation or information telling you how to do it. Hit F3 and it take you to the next occurrence. The light is so bright is blinding.

Here's a handy tip if you are using Firefox*. You know the form entry fields? Like for comments below where you put in your name? Yes those fields.

Well, you know how they can save details** to make it easier to fill out forms? And you know how they full up with junk and crap from all over the place and stop serving the purpose of being useful as you have so many things in that field? And you know how you try to delete them like you did in IE by pressing the delete key and nothing happens? And you know how annoying and frustrating that is?

Well the trick is to press shift-delete.

Glad to server.

* And you really should be using it, because it's great (I said so) and IE sucks monkey butt.
** Tools, Options, Privacy, Saved Form Information

Apparently McDonalds are going to sue Apple over the name Mini Mac.

Once again, emphasis is mine.

A church-going couple where horrified when they settled down to watch a Doris Day DVD and a blue movie appeared on screen. Alan Leigh-Browne, 67, and his wife Anne were expecting to see The Pyjama Game but instead saw Tettone che Passione - an explicit Italian film featuring naked blondes. 'We watched it through and it was absolutely disgusting,' said Mrs Leigh-Browne. The couple bought the DVD at a Morrison's store in Taunton Somerset. 'We apologise for any offence caused,' said a spokesman. - Metro (27.05.2005) (Also BBC News)

I love they way they watched it the whole way through, before they could confirm their disgust. I mean, can you imagine it ... blondes. I would be pretty disturbed too. I mean Italian blondes? That's so unrealistic. Don't people put any effort into getting the details right.

And where are the naked redheads?

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