Feanor

Today I went to my uncle and aunt's on the lake where we had lunch
with different kind of meat my uncle prepared on a small barbecue.View from the houseMonica holds Martina, the center of the party Uncle Edoardo cooks on the barbecue, cousin Alessando and brother Guido chat nearby.The cats wait for what is coming from the barbecue.Aunt Alba working in the kitchen and cousin Alessandro.Barbara, Martina waiting for her food, cousin Alessandro and his wife Monica.Barbara, Martina and me.People resting on the sofa. Martina taking some zzzz.

MyOpera themes are changing over time. See how the "Misty" theme looked like originally:
Besides the ugly top bar with the inconsistent buttons (for example, there are THREE different "friends" buttons/links), the theme background has been changed by MyOpera folks lately, who knows why.
Here is how it looks now: http://my.opera.com/BryanCox/blog/
I do not like the "new" background that looks like your granmother's sofa.
Here are the lines to add to your "user.css" to restore it back as it was:

body {background:#B8C2CF url(http://my.opera.com/community/graphics/themes/111/bg1.gif) top left repeat-x;}
#wrap0 {background:transparent url(http://my.opera.com/community/graphics/themes/111/bg2.gif) center 0px no-repeat;}

It will work until MyOpera folks don't delete the old files/location.

Let go! Let go! You @#@#!

I am reading the minimum system requirements from Windows 7 RC:

1 GHz CPU
1 GB RAM for 32 bit 2 GB for 64 bit
16 GB (32 bit) or 20 GB (64 bit) hard disk space
Video card enabling DirectX 9 and WDDM 1.0 o higher.

For versions with Windows XP Mode:
2 GB of RAM
Other 15 GB of hard disk space.
CPU enabling Intel VT o AMD-V.

Now, these are the same system requirements or even a little higher than Vista. The "XP mode" is going to waste even more resources (it doubles the system requirements). So, what is the claimed "revolution"? Where is the "best Windows ever built" (BTW, it was said about Vista as well)? In the best condition Windows 7 will be more responsive than Vista on the same hardware, besides the real difference must be proved on the final version and in real life conditions. But I do not see why people who are keeping XP instead of Vista should be happy of switching to Windows 7. I mean, you must pay for the new license, buy much more powerful hardware to end running your XP "legacy" software in an "emulated/virtualized" XP environment. When you aren't "emulating/virtualizing" XP, you get a slightly better Vista that does not add anything valuable to XP for 99% tasks but runs on a 10 times higher hardware. Besides, over 30 Giga taken in the HD for the clean OS alone. How cool.

On a side note: I am typing this over a PIII 500 - 256MB PC with Windows 2000 (not having a license of XP for this machine). After having installed the OS, all my software, documents and stuff I am using 4 or 5GB over a 15GB hard disk, so I still have about 9GB free. Ok, I can't play games and I can't use latest versions of image editing software or desktop publishing (I never could do 3D rendering). But how many people need to do these tasks? I wonder how much a PC like mine could cost, what people are buying nowadays and why.