Saturday, 7. March 2009, 20:50:28
Since my actual weblog is having issues at the moment, which are being worked out with the host, I'm posting some rudimentary research into Opera's history here for the moment. The purpose is to debunk Safari 4's false claims.
Because the
Opera changelogs do not go further back than Opera 5.0, I had to download Opera 4 to check whether or not it contained a transfer window already, and it was obvious that it had one quite quickly. I would have checked Opera 2 and 3 as well, but they refused to install due to some 16-bit related misfortunes.
Transfer window inside Opera 4 (MDI-style).
Transfer window detached from Opera 4, as a separate window (SDI-style).
Apple claims that Safari 4 was the first with the capability to open all bookmarks in a folder, but Opera 4 already did that, albeit not from the personal bar.
Open all bookmarks in folder in Opera 4.
Opera 6 introduced the feature to do so from the personal bar. I think the concept is a waste of space (if I'd want one I'd put it next to my address bar), but I believe that's what Apple is specifically claiming.
Open all bookmarks in folder from personal bar in Opera 6.
And last, but not least, there are the available cookie settings in Opera 4.
Saturday, 24. December 2005, 15:18:59
For this entry we'll have to go back in time. It was last year, September 2004, the second week of my first year in university. I was in Amsterdam switching trains. A blond pretty girl sat down next to me. She was 20 years old and happened to study psychology at the same university. You could say she was a bit of a movie-style stereotype college-girl.
It was around 18:00, so after the conversation where I discovered what I just told you, I took out my lunch package, which I had prepared at my parents place earlier that day. She did the same. It was not a lunch package however. It was half a bread, a knife and a can of peanut butter. She then took a book out of her bag and put it on her bosom. As you can probably imagine she put a slice of bread on it and started to put peanut butter on the slice.
You can probably imagine that I inquired further about this behaviour. Her reply was simple and effective. "I am a student, students do that. For example see that guy at the other side of the train eating pickles from that jar of pickles? He's a student." "Interesting, how can you be so sure?" "I know him, he's in my year."
I don't think I saw her after that trip ended, or else I didn't recognise her. I don't think I ever thought back at this until yesterday. Last Thursday we went out and came home around 5. I didn't get to sleep until something like 6. So when I got up around 11:30 I didn't do much except being lazy and tired. So when I wanted to catch the bus around 13:00 without thinking about it, I put half a bread, liver sausage, a knife and half a carton of grapefruit juice in my bag.
When I got a book out of my bag, put a slice of bread on it and started to use my knife to cut pieces of the liver sausage, suddenly all of this entered my head and I thought: "Aha, I am a student".
Sunday, 23. October 2005, 11:43:52
Melantrys passed
some meme to me and in lack of a different weblog I decided to post this here for now and not in a comment. Else this place looks so deserted... oh wait, it already did? I can only say one thing to that: bluh.
Seven things I plan to do:
- Spend some more actual time on my study.
- Let that result in getting EC's.
- Get my hair cut.
- See every Lost episode and keep up with the US (Mel already said that, but it applies to me as well, in fact, I'm her Lost-source, or whatever that should be called, Lost-source sounds really weird).
- Wintersport (skiing and snowboarding) sometime before I'm 80 and am not flexible enough anymore.
- Visit the US, Canada, Italia and... well, just more of the world.
- Own a huge library of books to read in peace and quiet.
Seven things I can do:
- Say very strange things semi-random such as "my moon-name is Oela-Bikila" and make people laugh by that.
- Write amusing stories.
- Blow up a clap-switch by turning the voltage too high and clapping.
- Get two girls in my bed.
- Completely ignore the apocalypse while reading a good book or playing a good game.
- Notice the apocalypse three hours later when my laptop dies from lack of engergy.
- Automatically filter out advertisements and religious crap with my brain so that I don't remember what people told me if it had something to do with religion.
Seven things I can't do:
- Concentrate on things I have to concentrate on.
- Watch Lost before it's broadcasted in the US.
- Murder Bill Gates, put on some stupid glasses and pretend to be him.
- Stop considering Opera superior to all other browsers.
- Watch a big mess in the living room and not clean it up (well, usually).
- Keep track of time while plaing Rome Total War or reading a good book.
- Consider Balkenende a great leader.
Seven things I say most often:
- "Hmm". Can mean anything from "what?" to "yes" to "no" or "not funny" to "crap, no inspiration to make one of my usual senseless comments".
- "Bluh". Braby gave me this word which I now always use for "whatever".
- "lol". Often in the Dutch sense, the consequence of which is that it results in the laughing out loud sense if foreigners don't understand that.
- "Skol". The word I use most often for "cheers". Other favourites include "proost", "prosit" and "santé".
- "Godverdomme". It sounds really good, it reliefs when you hurt something and it can possibly offend Christians. What more do you want?
- "Ja". Isn't yes possibly the most used word in any language (as long as "hmm" isn't used as global replacement)?
- "Girl, girl, girl". The start of the lyrics of Anouk's song "Girl" which is pretty much our flat anthem.
Wednesday, 31. December 2003, 15:27:07
2004, what will it bring us? Opera 7.5 will come soon, blasting away the last pieces left of IE. It will also be an interesting year for me, for I will have examinations at the end of this schoolyear.
Also, 2004 will bring you www.watchzine.com , the new initiative from us people at www.avidgamers.com/Watchtower
It will be yet another standards conforming CSS based site on the web.
Well, the future is bright.
And 2003? Well, 2003 featured my all time favourite minister of information: Al Sahhaf. It featured a lot of Opera improvements. It brought you Opera journals. It brought you my first Journal post, which is this one.
Continue to spreak the word.
Happy 2004.
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