OK, this is just wonderful. Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen in memes. Article 13 would have a field day. I don’t expect this video to stay up for very long so watch it as soon as you can!
Monthly Archives: January 2019
Ballintemple on Sullivan’s Quay.
If you go over to Google Maps and click on the location of the now demolished IDA building you’ll be told that you’re in Ballintemple, somewhere that is a few km to the east.
A neat way to quickly get home if you happen to live in that area, but awkward when Google Timeline thinks I’ve been in Blackrock every time I head into town ..
Odd things:
- The popup marker shows the old building there.
- Clicking on it will zoom out and mark the real Ballintemple on the map.
Hopefully it’ll be fixed sooner rather than later as I remember this showing up several weeks ago but forgot to report the problem before now.
Firefox printing with no headers and footers
First it was Netscape, then Chromium, on to Chrome and now (back) to Firefox, but the paperless office is still a pipe dream for me and most people.
Printing from Firefox can be annoying. I don’t like seeing the title, URL, current time, etc in the headers and footers so I would change those settings each time. Since I don’t print that often I’d always forget to find out how to save those settings, until today.
Turns out it’s quite easy, but it does require some tinkering with internal Firefox settings!
In Firefox, type about:config.
- Search for print.print and list of entries will appear.
- Look for:
- print.print_headercenter
- print.print_headerleft
- print.print_headerright
- print.print_footercenter
- print.print_footerleft
- print.print_footerright
- Double click on each one and remove the text in the (value) box.
This will remove the header and footer information when you print.
Next time I tried to print a page the headers and footers were both blank!
Retro Reading in 2019
You can be nostalgic about something for a lot longer than that thing was current. So it is with the Commodore 64, the Speccy and early computers in general.
I had a rubber keyed Spectrum 48K for a couple of years followed by a C64 that I used every day for another 4 years or so and here we are in 2019 and I’m reading about those ancient computers. I’m not the only one. There are vibrant communities around both computers and it’s great to see!
Somehow I can’t see myself feeling the same way about Windows 3.1, but I have to admit I have maybe not so fond memories of tuning autoexec.bat to get a few KB more memory in the DOS days…
What are the books I’m reading and where can I get them?
- The latest issue of FREEZE64 fanzine.
- Crash Annual 2019.
- The story of the Commodore 64 in pixels_.