If you’re using Google Reader for your RSS needs (and chances are you should), and if you’re like me on shortcut keys (love them, but can only learn them very slowly) you may be interested in the shortcut of shortcuts – ?
No, I’m not being quizzical. Just type a question mark while in the app and you’ll get an overlay of shortcut keys. Sadly it doesn’t work in Gmail, but when you’re trying to remember the shortcut for opening an item (v) it’s very handy.
The main story on BBC News today is the collapse of the I35W bridge in Minneapolis. So far I’ve heard from a few friends who are all OK, and as I don’t know many people from the northern suburbs it’s unlikely to affect me too directly, but it’s still an upsetting thing. I hope that you and your loved ones are similarly unaffected.
Today is the first day in my life that the British Army hasn’t been on active duty in Northern Ireland. That’s just part of a longer history of duty – I once read that British soldiers had been on active duty somewhere in the world for over 300 years, except for one day. Naturally we don’t get another day, because we’re fighting a neglected war in Afghanistan, and a worthless one in Iraq.