we're never gonna survive.

Die, Alanis.

My friends have long told me that Alanis is the very heart of all darkness on this earth, but having quite enjoyed Jagged Little Pill (which she carefully avoided tarnishing by writing any other music to speak of in a decade) while I was at university, and grinning at her appearance as god in Dogma, I was OK with even her haphazard understanding of the word 'ironic'.

I hadn't realised she'd covered "Crazy" by Seal.

The original (from about 15 years ago).

Her version.

The gratuitous auto-tuning. The "quirky" timing changes. The "poppy" arp synth. The "edgy" distortion on the vocal before the last chorus comes back in. My air-quote fingers are cramping up already.

and... OH LOOK! HAHAHA AT THE END THERE'S A TWIST RIGHT BECAUSE ALANIS IS REALLY A LEZZER AND SHE@S ALL ANGRY COZ ITS THE BIRD SHES AFTER HAHAHAHA!!!oen SO CLEVERRRR!1111

I think that particular twist worked better in the Prodge video for Smack My Bitch Up (also a decade old) - which, coincidentally, is what I want to do to Ms Morissette now.

Anyway. Enjoy the original version, as I do, as a fucking classic, iconic early 90s video and remember (if you didn't already) to spit and cross yourself if anyone mentions the A-word in future.

firefox plugins

A bit of functionality Firefox was lacking: popping a tab into a new window of its own, so that you can organise your browsing sessions a bit more easily.

These two plugins make this a lot cooler:

Tab History: When you open a link into a new tab or window, the new window inherits the browsing history of its parent, so you can page-back through your whole browsing trail. Not essential, but nice.

Duplicate Tab: Lets you clone the current tab to another tab, or open it into a new window.

Now, CTRL-SHIFT-N opens the current tab into its own window. It doesn't, then, close the previous version's tab, which is a little annoying, but it's better than the process of CTRL-N, copy URL, past URL, lose-my-browse-history that I used to have.

Anyone got any improvements?

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Dear Lazyweb,

Windows Mobile Programming. Introductory pointers, anyone?

I wouldn't mind dabbling so I could write a couple of small userful apps and not have to make do with shitty shareware that doesn't really do what I want it to and expects $20 for the privilege.

Ta!