Hey! If any of you guys don't read BBABB++, I need some stylesheet debugging help. Does % this look exactly like this to you? If so, can you drill down in firebug or equivalent and tell me where the monospaced attribute is getting overridden--or hell, if it's never getting applied at all?

Also, why do all the FTP applications on my Mac end up being so useless I'm using command line? Filezilla was going great! But if I try and copy over the HTML folder here, it hangs mid-file. Command line grabs everything beautifully. I'm pretty sure I've gone through CuteFTP, Transmit, and something with a fish. Oh, and the Cyberduck. And they all bailed on me in the end. Or, maybe I refused to buy Transmit. But either they're not refreshing local NAS folders, or they're hanging or causing something else to crash.

I can't work out why FTP is my nemesis, especially since the evils of Windows integration mean I'm just dragging and dropping in the damned OS here. Come on!

I do not like Finder that much--does the upgrade improve it? I mean, when I set shortcut buttons, they're not visible when OS X pops a file dialogue, so I'm back to navigating all the way down the chain again. And other stuff I can't remember now that I'm not at my Mac.

What text/code editor do you guys recommend for Windows and OS X? I have a paid copy of UltraEdit on my home Windows machine, but I'm a number of releases behind. At work, I have Notepad++ which is just about tolerable--key feature I require is fancy search and replace. But being able to open and save files through FTP would be marvellous. Never mind the ne plus ultra of syntax highlighting and all that jazz. Smultron is almost meeting my requirements for OS X, but not quite. The save-to-disk, FTP-to-website, replace-previous-version dance is getting old.

"this" is indented, quoted text for me. The rest is normal post text. On Firefox 13.0.1 on Windows. (Don't even ask me what OS or version. We are in the middle of upgrade hell.)

I'm not 100% certain I'm using it right, but it looks the same to me (that is, not monospace and not indented) and I'm not seeing the monospace styling at all, using Mac OS X 10.6.8 and Chrome.

My CSS inheritance tree looks like body {} from buffista.css (nothing interesting), then body {} from 1220.css (must be my user style, yeah?) then eventually blockquote{} from "user agent stylesheet" whatever that is.

The only places I can think that might have an effect are my own font-family line ("Optima", "Verdana","Helvetica","Arial";) or the "display: block" line from my user agent stylesheet.

Where in the CSS tree should the monospace setting be applied?

Can we take % this to BBABB++? I totally meant to point the convo over there. I'll answer over there, Gris.

Is the cross device syncing automatic and reliable with Opera? I'm not thrilled with how iCloud handles my bookmarks.

I've never had a problem with it. You need to set up an Opera profile and point all synching devices to it--I have two Android (phone and tablet), and two computers (Windows and OS X), and one iOS.

That's pretty much how I'm set up with Safari, although not cross-platform. I kind of miss having multiple OSes, sometimes. Anyway, I have been annoyed at how editing my bookmarks on one device may or may not propagate to the others and there doesn't seem to be a way to access bookmarks directly from iCloud and force them to do what I want.

Eta: ...and I am already in love with Opera mini. Why have I not been using it all along? Sometimes I don't understand myself.

Does this: [link] look reasonable for a touchpad that doesn't click anymore? I feel like I'm hammering it to get response.

Or should I take it in for repair?

Bill Gates predeictions from 1987: [link]

Don't buy a Cisco (Linksys) router. Also, if you have a Cisco router with a model number of E2700, E3500 or E4500, be sure to read this:

Cisco’s cloud vision: Mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretion

Linksys built its brand on reasonably priced, widely compatible routers with decent performance, idiot-proof setup, and a few frills at the upper end of its product mix. As of last week, buying a new Linksys router means being forced to adopt a “cloud” service that offers no benefits, allows Cisco to snoop your Internet history, and gives the company the power to control access to hardware you legally purchased.