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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

Tracy Cox (everyone's favourite sexpert) was on XFM Breakfast this morning talking about her new show.

Apparently women have 52 different ways of letting a man know they are interested in him. Fifty bloody two. We're screwed. If I had to learn one a week it would take me a whole year, and by then I would have forgotten the first 11 months worth. I don't have a hope in hell. Beyond "Fancy a shag?" I haven't got a clue.

Side note: This would go a long way to explaining why I thought Jose wasn't interested in me, up until the point she snogged me, and still wasn't 100% sure after.

Now men on the other hand have only 10 ways of showing a girl we are interested. Or in my case 1^*.

^* Staring.

There is no definitive history about how the word "barbecue" originated - or why it's sometimes used as a noun, a verb or an adjective. Some say the Spaniards get the credit for the word, derived from their "barbacoa" which is an American-Indian word for the framework of green wood on which foods were placed for cooking over hot coals. Others think the French were responsible, offering the explanation that when the Caribbean pirates arrived on our Southern shores, they cooked animals on a spit-like device that ran from "whiskers to tail," or "de barbe à queue." [via]

I always wondered where that came from. Although I'll still be calling it braai myself.

In a fairly random conversation with Green Fairy that went from this disturbing item of clothing packaging to men's abilities with bra hooks (mine is legendary unless endeavoured during 'romantic time' as opposed to simply annoying girls) to girls abilities (or lack there off) with mens button flies.

Being the engineer that I am, I explained the cause, the solution, and the workaround. Somebody shoot me!

The trick with button flies is that it's all about angels angles. This is why it's really easy to do your own, but near impossible to do someone else's. Part of the problem is that you are always pulling (ah the pun I'm so funny) the wrong way. You tend to pull sideways when doing some one else's or vertically (i.e. towards yourself if say he was lying on his back and you where lying on top of him)

The easiest way to do it is to come up behind someone and reach around while they are standing and do it as if it was your own. If circumstance don't afford you this positioning then you need to roll the hand on the hole bit so that you pull the hole em>up and then over each button. Use the other hand to pull the button bits straight up as this causes the buttons to bend downwards allowing the holes to slip over them easily.