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Blogger aint the spot for me!

Lately I've started to feel that Blogger/Blogspot sucks a bit. Why? First of all Blogger has totally missed out the tag thing. Tags are the new black! And wordpress has a better editor, and it feels as if they give you more exposure to your blog. Wordpress has server errors too, but at least they can laugh about it. I also have a feeling that Blogspot is just filled with uninteresting blogs and canned ham. It feels as if Blogger has been standing on the same spot for at least a year now.
In all ways I can think of now, Wordpress beats Blogger. So I'm moving, if I can just import all stuff from this blog. See ya there!

Opera, how I love thee!

A few days ago I deided to take Opera 9.0 TP 2 for a spin. As a regular Opera user 9.0 was long awaited, and the new TP sure feels pretty stable. One of the first things that striked me was that Ctrl+N didn't open a new tab but rather a new window. This annoyed me, but was easily fixed.
One thing that could not be fixed as it seems is that shift+enter in the google search field, right of the address bar, does not open a new window. Annoying if you ask me.


So this is how it looks. Not much has changed on the surface since 8.x, but a lot has happened under the hood. The whole browser core feels, if possible faster than it used to be.

SVG rendering too feels a bit slicker. The changelog also talks about partial SVG 1.1 support, but I have yet to check that out.


This is the brand new error console. The Javascript console was appearantly renamed to reflect that there's now a universal console for all errors, such CSS and connection errors. This makes Opera's error console a very useful tool for web designers for debugging code and markup. And error/warning messages are more extensive than mozilla, and out of bounds extensive compared to IE's script error box. The window caption is "Message console" which reflects that the console is not only for errors but also warnings and general message. We have yet to see what the final name will be.
I found out about some gmail fixes in the console. Oh yeah, did I mention? Gmail does no longer crashes Opera, which it occasionally did in 8.x.


It seems as if Opera is moving upon a HTML based configuration system, opera:config. I'm not sure whether this will be an alternative to or replacement for the regular settings dialog in the future. Only the future can tell.
There are also other html-based "opera:" internals which have gotten a new design for this version, like opera:history and opera:cache, which have gotten a face lift.


Another neat little feature that I discovered by accident is that if you hover an inactive tab you'll get nice little tool tip with a miniature of the page in the tab. It's one of those small sparks of creativity that makes just love Opera Software ASA.

But what I really like the most in this TP is something called widgets. When I first saw it in the Tools menu I thought, "Hmm, do they really mean widgets?".
And sure they did! A widget is a HTML document, with an XML metafile, which is shown in a chromeless window. And what's more the background is transparent, effectively letting the windows or desktop underneath recieve mouse events. There's already a pretty great number of widgets readily available, such as clocks, weather forecast widgets and games. Everything works pretty stable, including translucency, but there are other bugs. If I close a widget, I can't seem to be able to bring it back without re-installling it. It's a neat nonetheless, and this might be my opportunity to finally make that yellow notes application that I've planning for a while. That'd require some additional support for a few things.

Another great surprise is that Opera finally supports opacity, not only in png images, but also for arbitrary HTML elements. You simply add opacity: value in your CSS.

This is black text with 50% opacity. This text should also be semi-transparent in FF 1.5.

<div style="color: black; opacity: .5;">
This is black text with 50% opacity. 
This text should also be semi-transparent in FF 1.5.
</div>

Apart from that the BitTorrent client is once again functioning, and this time we've got bandwidth limiting! That's about time. Although there are better BT clients, I like the idea of having many things so integrated in one application. Which other browser is an XHTML browser, mail client, BT client and RSS reader in one integrated app?

Stealing links

These are links that I just stole from the blog of Wolfgang Schmidetzki.

http://thedailywtf.com/forums/43457/ShowPost.aspx - A very redundant code for deciding whether an expression is true or false. I especially like this section:
// need to set the result if it hasn't been set yet, we'll randomly decide true or false
// because there should be no bias.




http://www.thetechzone.com/?m=show&id=469 - After scraping off the letters from my qwerty keyboard, and then writing new letters to the keyboard using the dvorak layout, and then adding diodes to backlight another keyboard, I found a new wet keyboard dream. This keyboard, although having less keys, actually seems to be something I could use efficiently. For example, one of the things that annoys me with the standard key layout is that I have to reach out for the arrow keys, no more doing that!

Speedblogging

Speedblogging was just invented by "Atariboy", and I like the idea so much I decided to speedblog myself! Read about it here: http://atariboy.wordpress.com/2006/03/08/speed-blogging/

http://atariboy.wordpress.com - One of the top blogs of wordpress. I don't know why, but I can't stop visiting this blog.

Http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/evolution - A link just dropped off by omniHAL an IRC robot that analyzes what people in the channel are saying and make intelligent or less intelligent response to it. For reference I told him this: omniHAL: Get free pictures of teen slutz to your mail [billgates@microsoft.com ] [Submit]

http://www.mybigball.com/home.html - I don't know how I got to this page, but it has the catchy title of "The trua adventures of Chad, the guy who was so much into super monkey ball deluxe that he decided to live in a ball". Well, the title says it all, don't it?

http://nocash.emubase.de/2k6.htm - A secret link hidden on Martin Korths home page (Martin Korth is the guy behind the nocash emulator series.)

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/leetspeak.mspx - microsoft tries to explain 13375p34k.

http://www.mangeman.net/ - That animated gif sure looks a little cool when it's sized up like that...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=49IDp76kjPw - The Simpsons intro IRL!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...362959167995041 - Makes a perfect couple with teh system administrator song.

Stop!

Does the word stop has to be in bold? Hehe! Great concept, thank you Atariboy!

I look like Hitler, have a monkey face, and supported the 9/11 attacks...

There are weirdos everywhere. First off I nearly got banned from an IRC server. The story goes like this, there was once some abusive user with a nick starting with nitro. So for that reason they had decided to dislike all users with nicks starting with nitro, to avoid confusion in the channels. Unfair if you ask me...
But the funny thing was that they also seemed to make a connection between my nick and the 9/11 attacks. I was like, what?!?! But to them it was abslutely clear that the name of an explosive and year could mean only one thing...

Next weird thing is guy named Leif Reinius who is a member of Jehova's Witnesses, but also bears clear signs of some sort psychic illness. He's been more or less harassing me to join JW for some time, so I decided to act the same to him and try to make him listen to some music I enjoy. He totally flipped out, and after that he has hardly said a single sane thing at all. He's been calling me names, and he has also told me that in his mind I look like Hitler. Another strange thing is that he asked me whether I had been getting a monkey face "Like Homer Simpson" lately, something he also saw in his mind...
Here's the full MSN log (Which I extend along with my discussion with him) It's in swedish though.

Btw, although I don't like JW, I don't blame them for what Leif is doing. I seriously believe this guy is mentally ill and needs help.

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nitro2k01 to play live at Deadline seppukku!

Yep, I'll be playing gameboy music live at this years edition of Deadline, Deadline Seppukku. Deadline is an annual Stockholm-based demo party, and this years edition takes place at Nymble KTH, (Stockholm, Sweden) 3-5 March 2006. My show will be 9-10 PM Saturday 4 March. Come and enjoy, will you!