>I'll clean it today just in case. The scroll button (which I use a lot) seems to be sticking too and causing problems. I've always had a problem on the UT where on my keyboard (at least I think it's my keyboard) while typing a message I manage to hit some key combination that causes the UT to either save the message I'm typing (in the middle of fixing a sentence that makes it unreadable) or refresh the message I'm responding to and my response totally disappears.

My killer combination was ctrl+enter, which I regularly use for sending emails for years now. Don't remember what it does in a browser, and won't even try. Had to teach myself not to do that on UT.

>I guess when you got back home you gave up the "no smoking" policy?

I gradually resumed smoking more than a year before returning. Both stopping and resuming were simple daily decision, not a matter of any kind of policy. A whim, rather.

>No anti-smoking mobs there yet? :o)

Actually, the smokers are mostly seen as victims - the way they huddle around their designated (but not designed) places near the buildings where they work, during this rather nasty winter. Since I don't get out much, as if I'm chained to this keyboard, the only thing I've noticed that the bars larger than 80 m2 (roughly, 800sqft), which have to have a non-smoking place, usually fell under the influence of propaganda and dedicated the larger part to non-smokers. So now you have a part where it's hard to find a free table, and the part where only one or two tables are occupied. Smaller bars were left to decide on their own which they will be, and I don't know of a case that a bar decided to ban smoking.

Mobs against what, the draconian law (copied from who knows which country, I'd bet I'd find translation errors in it) or the smokers? There are far larger issues to rally against.

>I'm working on the opposite (again).

Opposite of what, mobs? Walk alone, then :).

> Not gonna say how long - don't want to jinx myself. I read an article last week that stated San Francisco is now studying 3rd hand smoke and the health damages of it.... I was going to add a smart comment just now, but I'll leave it up to you :o)
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>Found it (it appears to go back some time):
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>2009
>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-third-hand-smoke
>2010
>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35318118/ns/health-addictions/
>2011
>http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/02/08/researchers-raise-concerns-about-%E2%80%98thirdhand-smoke%E2%80%99/

Just like the research funded by Phillip Morris back then couldn't be trusted, I don't trust anything that is published about smoking in the last 25 years. There are known cases of pictures of miners' lungs being paraded as smokers' lungs etc etc. There's an enormous pressure to prove whatever point against smoking is invented, and nearly impossible to get money for any research which would double-check their results.

OTOH, there's an equally nil chance to get any research on the effect of chemtrails (aluminIum nanoparticles changing the Ph factor of the soil and killing some plants), GMO food, or alternative cancer therapies funded. The science is gone, there's only politics.

BTW, nobody ever died of pre-owned smoke.

>I wish someone would do a study on the danger of cooking smells seeping into condos, townhouses, and apartments from neighboring units. Those can be very aggravating :o) I once moved into a place where the smell was almost unbearable - the previous owner was Cuban and while I love the food and the culture, some of the scents from cooking seep into carpets and paint and are almost impossible to clean out completely.

Depends on what's cooking :). For a while in Charlottesville we had an Indian guy downstairs, and the vinegar was in the air.

Over here, you can just walk down the street at, say, 11am, and you'd sense the beautiful fragrance of zaprška (qv on my Serbia for dummies page) - someone will have a good paprikaš for lunch :). OTOH, in some places they'd cook something with sour cabbage (sarma or podvarak)... which is usually great, unless there's something slightly wrong with the cabbage. Then the smell is very wrong.