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It's my own fault, I suppose, but... OUCH! I'm hoping there is a solution in the collective wisdom of my fellow Soylentils.

My primary browser is Pale Moon (PM), a fork of Mozilla's Firefox (FF), which I run on Win 7 Pro x64.

Scenario: I tend to leave my browser open for days/weeks at a time. I regularly have 30+ tabs open with everything from SN's main site and editor-related pages, local weather forecast/history, Folding@Home stats, a few blogs I follow, etc. On occasion, depending on what I've been working on, I find myself with 70 tabs open. That is not a problem.

Once in a great while, I'll find myself switching back and forth between two tabs so often (like when submitting/reviewing a story), I find it easier to move one of the tabs to a separate window, so that I can see both on my screen at the same time. Or, on other occasions, I'll do a 'view page source' on a tab which is then opened in another browser window.

Event: On rare occasions, I need to reboot my system, or reload PM (after an update). I pre-emptively close PM and see a warning dialog displayed which states something like: "You have 37 tabs open; do you really want to close Pale Moon?" This is good! Yep, I know that I have a whole bunch of tabs open, no big deal. I let it shut down. Do whatever I needed to do. I relaunch PM and all my tabs are sitting there waiting to be reloaded. Usually.

NOTE: I suspect this capability may be a result of the Tab Mix Plus (TMP) addon I have installed, but it has become critical to my workflow and I don't want to lose the settings/features I've enabled, so I do not mess around with disabling it.

Problem: The problem arises when I have multiple Pale Moon windows open. I'll have, say, my main PM window open with those 37+ tabs, and another PM window open with a tab or two. I close the main window, get the dialog, confirm, and only then do I discover that I have another PM window open, with its one or two tabs. I complete closing this last instance of PM. Here's the problem... when I restart PM, I now only see the one or tabs from the last window I closed -- the other 37+ tabs are lost. (The workaround is to go through my browser history and try to find and reload all the prior tabs, but that is a major, time-consuming, error-prone pain.)

WIBNI: (Wouldn't it be nice if) What I would like to see is the warning dialog not only caution me that I have 37+ TABS open, but also warn that there are 'N' other WINDOWS open, as well. At that point, I could merge windows into one, or close the tabs in the other, non-main window. Only after closing all the other PM windows, would I then close my main window. Then, when I reloaded PM, I'd find all my tabs in all the same places and ready to reload.

Request: Has anyone else here run into this problem? Is there a setting, whether in TMP or PM, that I am missing? Do you know of a setting or addon that warns me when I am closing one of multiple windows? Any other suggestions on how I can avoid losing my window/tabs context for later restore?

Thanks for the kind message. I have been looking to submit more through the recent dry spell, but the usual sources did run pretty thin. Perhaps we could put call-outs for Soylentils to submit good primers and how-to's they have found to fill those rough patches?

The Briz pawnshop in downtown Vancouver, Washington specializes in musical instruments. Over the phone they estimated the could lend me $150 for them, but that won't be definite until they can inspect them. Both are in mint condition though.

I'll use the money to promote my business, mainly postage for junk mail to potential clients, as well as printing of business cards and PO box rental.

Yes I now live in Vancouver now - but I still work in Portland. No one needs to know that I work from Shari's Restaurant and Pies. If I purchase a $2.35 coffee, I get a power socket, wifi and restroom all night long.

Plus I get to flirt with a special lady. ;-)

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A great many - not just here at SN - have harshly criticized my amateurish website design. While presently it's an experiment, it's inspired by the websites of many world-reknowned coders, such as Ward Cunningham and Bjarne Stroustrup.

Somewhere I found a free webhost that specializes in technology professionals. I don't recall the URL but those guys are definitely Rocket Scientists. Every last one of them has a website just like mine.

At least my website has a logo.

The actual response I've received is entirely from hard-core techies. My experience is that those folks are the best clients.

I used to get a lot of work from non-technical people, such as some marketing chick who made bank in the dot-com boom, but every last one of those people gave me grief - including the sole owner of a $200,000,000.00 hedge fund.

After many months of negative pregnancy tests, a couple weeks ago I was woken up to my wife smiling from ear to ear with a positive test in hand. Things are happening and if everything goes well, I should get to meet my son/daughter early 2017. I still have a hard time believing it.

I've since been reading all about pregnancy, and educating myself. I know we have all learned about it in school, but I didn't really care at that time. Now, when I am reading up on everything, it's an absolute miracle how everything happens. It's magical to think that inside my wife is a little grape with a beating heart and that grape will form in to a living, breathing baby.

My wife is so happy. Her breasts are sore, she is eating like a horse, and goes to bed early. We have our first ultrasound at the end of June. It's an exciting time.

I told my mom (things are still early, and the chance of a miscarriage is still there), and she cried with joy. She is having a hard time not telling anyone and keeping it all inside. My dad doesn't know yet (he is on vacation), but I plan on telling him when he returns.

I'm still seeing the girl I wrote about in the last entry. She has been really busy, and it has been tough finding time to spend together. We saw each other last night, and had a great night of talking, play, and cuddling. I let her know that my wife was pregnant (she knew we were trying), and she was happy for us.

I really like this girl. She is definitely someone that I could (and am) fall hard and fast for. She is smart, sexy and level-headed -- the same things that I love about my wife. I think we may be looking for different things though... I am looking for a full relationship. I would like to see her regularly and ideally grow a deep relationship. I think that she is ideally looking for something more casual, but really enjoys the time she spends with me. I think that there may be an imbalance of power (I think I'm more invested that she is), but I just can't stop myself -- I really like her. I'm really enjoying this ride, but I have a feeling that I'm going to have my heart broken.

It's that time again. Time to pay tribute to those willing, nay eager, to say that which a lot of people do not want to hear. Be their motives sincere or simply to wind you up, they are the souls brave enough to be unpopular with the masses. Here are the top ten by sheer number of times modded Troll and (of the top 50 of the previous group) the top ten by percent of their comments that have been modded Troll. These are not an "all time" list, only the ones that haven't fallen off the end of our moderation log table. By count: NickTrolls%Troll Ethanol-fueled50117% Runaway19562617% jmorris18412% The Mighty Buzzard18111% aristarchus1558% Hairyfeet1459% frojack1262% zugedneb8624% khallow706% VLM672%

By percent: NickTrolls%Troll zugedneb8624% Ethanol-fueled50117% Khyber2015% jmorris18412% The Mighty Buzzard18111% jasassin3010% Hairyfeet1459% aristarchus1558% Arik418% TLA148%

Yeah, so someone suggested a pretty good name for the April 1st theme and I utterly lost track of it. Which is a shame because it's currently named "april1". Anyone have a link, remember what it was, or have a suggestion of their own? Best my brain is kicking out is GeoShitties and I don't particularly want to put "shit" in community-facing site stuff (code comments are another matter entirely).

For the life of me, i can't seem to get privateinternetaccess to work in archlinux, even with some googlefu

i like archlinux/antergos with i3wm, but have to boot into ubuntu to get pia vpn working.

damn.

will work on it some more, but any help will be welcome.

watching 'monarch of the glen' on smplayer on archlinux/antergos at the moment. Love the mother (hot for her age) and Golly, but a very simplistic show. Gets interesting around serial 4 or so.....

I think i am more of a Duncan than anyone else... my luck sucks, but i am a nice guy.

Being a Kuro5hin member, I learned the hard way not to post online the real names of the people in my life, so I will call her "Mary-Ellen".

She told me last week she is an artist. She told me tonight that she's a photographer; she shoots film. I'm a photographer too: I shoot slides. I call them "color positives" so I can sound artistic.

I haven't been taking many pictures in recent years due to being out of work, but I expect I can start it up again soon.

She obviously likes me quite a lot. She acts really relaxed around me. I like that, it makes me feel relaxed around her.

In December I realized that I was badly depressed. I went to my psychiatrist and asked him for imipramine. It is a very old antidepressant and so is not commonly used anymore, but in my experience it works well for me:

I was badly depressed from 1994 to 1997, but imipramine enabled me to court the woman who would become my wife. Sadly she is now my ex-wife.

So I take imipramine again, I ask a woman for a date and she accepts.

I'm a lot better than I was, but am still not quite out of my depression. In a normal mood, I like to write, and write prolifically, but these days writing is difficult for me. What little writing I do feels forced.

I'll be moving into my new apartment Sunday. I have a guitar and a professional-quality electric piano keyboard. Having the apartment will enable me to focus on my music. Music always does quite a lot to lift my spirits.

Today I sang on the streets with the aim of financing my as-yet hoped-for coffee date. I made $8.75, but then spent some of it on coffee just for myself earlier this evening, at Starbucks. Tomorrow and Wednesday I'll sing again; maybe I can even buy her something to eat.

I need a haircut. Actually, I need all of them cut. My goatee is way beyond hipster. I'm bald on top but have hair on the side and back of my head. That hair doesn't really grow long, it just gets more and more unkempt. The only way to make it look well-groomed is to cut it really short. Happily, the ladies like it that way.

The Catholic church in Oldtown Portland gives free haircuts every other Wednesday - this week's Wednesday. Hopefully I can get my haircut before meeting "Mary-Ellen" but I'll have to get in line early. (They also serve breakfast.)

In 1994 I recorded an album - an EP really - of my piano compositions, Geometric Visions: The Rough Draft. She has no computer to download my Oggs, so I'll burn a CD for her.

Don't feel like you have to like my music; not everybody does.

This isn't Section 8 but is quite similar to it. The money ultimately comes from Housing and Urban Development, then through the Vancouver Housing Authority, then through CSNW.

The previous tenant is in the same housing program as I am, but will be moving to a retirement home.

This last page points out that this housing leads to a significant decrrease in emergency room visits. I go to the emergency room quite a lot; the last time was not long ago, when I"d run out of my antidepressant and got suicidal. The emegency room gave me one dose, then set me up with a bus pass so I could get to my pharmacy.

There is some possibility that the apartment will come furnished. I have a few things in storage here, but not much - I would otherwise be sleeping on the floor. I have a nice futon in storage in Silicon Valley. My mother pays for all four of my storage lockers - RLY - but can't be convinced th financed moving the other stuff to Vancouver. This despite that the present arrangement costs a great deal more in the long run.

I was upset about that, but in the contest of wills between me and my mother, Mom clearly wins. We get along just great to the extent that I don't bring this up.

Hopefully having my own place will enable me to earn some coing through coding. If nothing else it will make it easier to focus on my music; maybe I could join a band someday.

(I'm a good pianist but have a hard time learning anything new, as I can't read sheet music. I can improvise original music but it's not like you can dance to my compositions.)

My case manager says "This is 99% certain". It wont' be a sure thing until I meed the landlord and sign the lease next week. But despite my mental illness people generally like me. All of my real enemies are on the Internet, where I'm more outspoken. In person I'm very quiet and thoughtful.

In other news, I'm going to ask a woman out for a date next time I see her, which should be Monday night. More about that in a future diary. She clearly likes me though, I'm just not sure that she likes me _that_ way.

I'm really looking forward to cooking my own food.

The Associated Press has recently put out a short article on President Andrew Jackson after it was announced his portrait would be replaced on the 20USD bill with one of Harriet Tubman, an iconic abolitionist and humanitarian. The article doesn't necessarily portray a positive image of Jackson.

Travis Loller, the writer of the piece describes Jackson's populist position in the political circles of the day, his status a military hero, providing the "infamous Indian Removal Act of 1830, which forced tribes from their land in the Southeast and pushed them into an uncertain future" as some context. The article continues noting his unprecedented use of veto power while in office, and his opposition to states seceding from the union.

The last section in my opinion, is included as a bit of trivia at best, quoting historian Daniel Feller, director of the Papers of Andrew Jackson at the University of Tennessee.

Paper money was printed by individual banks, and their value could fluctuate greatly. Some of it was worthless, and Jackson felt bankers were abusing the citizenry.

"Jackson thought that paper money wasn't real money," Feller said. "Real money was gold and silver."

The reality is, Jackson had quite a lot to say on this topic of money and banks. His image on a Federal Reserve Note could be seen as counter-intuitive at best, given his public position on the subject of central banking as we still know it today.

But if they have other power to regulate the currency, it was conferred to be exercised by themselves, and not to be transferred to a corporation.

If the bank be established for that purpose, with a charter unalterable without its consent, Congress have parted with their power for a term of years, during which the Constitution is a dead letter. It is neither necessary nor proper to transfer its legislative power to such a bank, and therefore unconstitutional.

I wonder what he would think of current monetary policy and 'tools' that the Federal Reserve and other privately owned/operated, completely unaccountable central banks are using today.