Egad, the greater part of a year has passed since my last Taiwan post. ack. Something with wordpress is fudging with East Asian text, so this post will be purely English.

Started off the day over at The Sweet Dynasty, a restaurant known for its congee, for some breakfast/lunch. Congee, for the uninformed, is a sort of rice porridge, traditionally served to sick family members or to stretch the rice supply during food shortages. While Korean congee, aka jook, is more on the plain side*, Chinese congee has been expanded to encompass a wide variety of yummy flavors.
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I’ve learned most of these “tricks” not so long ago. None of these are impressive, but maybe there’s a small chance you’ve been living under an e-rock like I have and didn’t know about it.

F5 refreshes the page. F6 highlights the address bar.
F5 is something everyone should use, hands down. F6 has it’s obvious uses. You don’t have to struggle with trying to highlight the address yourself. (Sometimes the icon at the address bar works funky.)

Shift+Clicking on a link will open the link in a new window.
I’ve prolly known about this and the one above the longest.

Clicking on a link with the mouse wheel will open a link in a new tab. Clicking on an existing tab will close it. (IE7, Firefox2+)
This is something I actually found out within this past year. Yeah, I know it’s silly, but I’ve been using just IE6 for the longest time, and never really used tabs in browsers. E-fail.

Shift+Tab takes you to the previous option.
Everybody knows what the Tab key does. This, on the other hand, I’ve found that some people were unaware.

Ctrl+Enter adds “http://www.” and “.com” to what you type in the address bar.
I don’t use this quite so often, but it has it’s uses. For example, you could type “soursprite” in the address bar, and Ctrl+Enter will bring you to this website. Saves you an entire three keystrokes!

Very unimpressive, I know. But there are people who actually don’t know these things. Hey! Don’t look at me like that.