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A twofer today:

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-08-09:

"It's hard to get really excited about semicolons, you know?" -- L. L. Thrasher, from the novel Charlie's Web.

(submitted to the mailing list by Jeannette Cezanne)

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-08-12:

"No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place." -- Isaac Babel, Russian writer (1894-1940), in the short story "Guy de Maupassant". [The submitter notes: In response to the person who thinks that it is impossible to get excited about semicolons!]

(submitted to the mailing list by Rachel W.W. Granfield)

So when I right-click on a URL I get a pop-up menu that includes, among other options,

• Open (as though I'd left-clicked),
• Open in new page,
• Open in background page (my favourite when I'm on a dialup connection, and pretty darned useful the rest of the time),
• Open in new window (tabbed vs. separate windows on the desktop; nice to have the option), and
• Open in background window.

I want another option.

I want "Open in the copy of this browser running on that machine over there, instead of on this computer."

Grant me this power[*], and I promise to use it only for good.

(I'm waaaay behind on my LJ friends page, and I've got a bunch of windows open showing through "?skip=950" as of a couple of days ago, and I just did something in the "restart the computer for these changes to take effect" category. If I close the windows, what I was about to read will have scrolled off past the limits of the friends-page view. So I'm skimming through quickly, and spotting things I want to come back to (comments I want to read, cut tags, potentially interesting pages folks have linked to), and opening them in the background so that when I quit the browser I can tell it "restart where I left off" the next time I fire it up, and see all of those, but I'm not absolutely certain that quitting it now and doing that after a reboot will get me the same list of friends'-entries that I'm seeing now. It might, but I'm not sure. If I could right-click to easily open these windows on the computer a little less than two meters to the right of the one I'm reading on, which isn't due for a reboot tonight, that would be even better. And last night when I was too tired to sit up in the office so I Googled from bed for an answer to a problem, it would have been nice to redirect the answer I found to the screen of the machine I'd be editing the registry of later. I guess I want my house to act like One Huge Multi-User/Multi-Session/Multiple-Operating-System Computer [That Reads My Mind And Does What I Mean].)

[*] And reminding me that if I used an open source browser I wouldn't need anyone else to grant me this ... doesn't count. I already have too many projects to get around to as it is, including finding source for the ancient MUA that I use (about the only one that I can stand) and hacking MIME support into it, writing a multiple-voice ABC viewer for PalmOS, getting a print server running again, repairing or replacing my mother's computer, practicing my bowing, and developing a whole big pile o' Tri-X, TMZ, and HIE. On the other hand, if someone tells me that a plug-in already exists for Firfox that does this, I may well take that as the final incentive to switch. While I still prefer Opera, more and more of the objective reasons to use it are showing up as features or extensions in Firefox.