Browsers sometimes do peculiar things. Firefox will occasionally decide that a typed apostrophe should be interpreted as [crtl]f, so it not so helpfully opens the find dialog and starts looking for whatever it was I typed after the apostrophe before I notice that the cursor is no longer where I thought it was. Restarting fixes it.
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DXMachina - Mar 06, 2008 10:01:52 am PST #1553 of 4673
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Laura - Mar 06, 2008 10:11:19 am PST #1554 of 4673
Our wings are not tired.
Are you trying to tell me that if you do the exact same thing repeatedly on a computer you may not get the exact same result each time!?
Kevin - Mar 06, 2008 10:23:16 am PST #1555 of 4673
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
DXM, are you sure you aren't hitting forward slash?
DXMachina - Mar 06, 2008 11:15:34 am PST #1556 of 4673
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Nope. It's definitely the apostrophe key, right there to the left of [Enter]. It hasn't happened often, but it's always the same key.
Vortex - Mar 06, 2008 11:31:44 am PST #1557 of 4673
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
firefox did that for me for awhile. When I upgraded to a new version, it stopped.
DXMachina - Mar 06, 2008 12:01:07 pm PST #1558 of 4673
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
That's possible, because I run 1.5x at home and 2.0x at work. Except if I remember right, I've had the problem at work.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 27, 2008 3:51:36 am PDT #1559 of 4673
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I've been noticing the boards been a bit slower the last couple of days, both for posting and for accessing threads. It could be my internet at work, but if anyone else has been noticing the same thing, I thought I'd mention.
Amy - Mar 27, 2008 4:28:22 am PDT #1560 of 4673
Because books.
I've noticed it, too. A real lag time between hitting "post" and it actually ... posting.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 27, 2008 4:34:12 am PDT #1561 of 4673
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I just noticed tommyrot said something about it yesterday in natter, so that would seem to be three of us.
ETA and a bunch of people in the Firefly thread commented during W&P last night.
Jessica - Mar 27, 2008 5:06:45 am PDT #1562 of 4673
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh, me too. I thought it was just my computer, though.