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A colleague pretty much ordered me to install the new(-ish) Firefox plug-in Firebug onto my machine at work. Now it’s on my machine at home. Why? Because it makes my job at least twice as easy as it was before. I won’t bore you with details; I’ll just say that even alongside other helpful tools such as the Web Developer plug-in, it’s super-handy if you’re building pages, regardless of whether you’re an amateur, a pro, or someone who fools himself into thinking he’s both. The drill is basically as follows: Hit F12. Press ‘Inspect’. Hover over any element on your page and click on it to see what css values that element is using (or not using). You can even change values ‘on the fly’ and the page will update in front of your very eyes (locally at least). It’s the perfect bug-fixing tool.

I’m now going to go do a little bit of fixing elsewhere. Previously, I wouldn’t have been arsed to bother with it had Firebug not made re-understanding previously forgotten old tag soup so easy.

Get Firebug here. If not for me, then for your own sanity!

Well okay it’s just 17 years actually and according to them it’s due to ‘musical similarities’. ha ha. Everybody’s ’2nd favourite band’ have split after many years of producing the sort of music that, personally, I find pretty boring but which no well-minded person can really bring themselves to hate. Their music was inoffensive but not entirely soul-less. They were a generally seemingly honest band without any air of pretension about ‘em and I know a guy who said he had a lovely chat with the leader once… Plus they were the one thing that came from Hull that didn’t generally cause repulsion amongst the wider populace.

Without them the charts might just feel a little different. A little.