Feanor

I am way too lazy to do any major work but I have "customized" some details here and there on this blog.
I just realized you may find useful this little trick:
How to make the page background stay fixed while the blog scrolls.

It is a bit tricky because it depends on the "template" you are using, anyway you should probably add this to your user CSS file:
body{background-attachment: fixed;}

In some templates (like mine) you must also add:
#wrap0{background-attachment: fixed;}

The good news:
It seems the Hitlinks stats now work correctly. I can log in and edit my account.

The rambling of the day:
I am not in a good mood lately so I am not posting much. I would like to propose these questions:

1. What are the topics you search more on search engines?
2. What are the more common keys you use for these searches?
3. What are you more interested in while browsing the Web?

Now the reason behind this. A guy I know is working on some sort of "blog" where he has put AdSense advertisement and thanks to some SEO (Search Engine Optimization) now he gets about 300 dollars per month in revenues from people clicking on AdSense links. I have been always against this idea of filling the Web of advertisement crap, as you can see in the sticky post of this blog. In the same time I do need some money, expecially these days. My personal worry is I would like to write either a simple and silly blog about my ramblings or at least something useful and interesting. In the first case I don't feel like adding advertisement to the blog and bother people with it, in the second it would be possibile but I can't find a topic that I know well enough. Now, that guy above told me it doens't matter what you write, you simply copy things from other places on the Web, until people are directed to your pages by Google and then they are presented the AdSense links, they click and go away and you get payed. Yes, money. But It looks so depressing... Maybe it is me being wrong as usual.

The Flash MP3 player I am using here comes from WordPress.
You can download the original version here:
http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/
A complete tutorial here:
http://www.macloo.com/examples/audio_player/

But you don't need to read all that stuff. Here is a short guide for MyOpera:
1. You take this file: http://files.myopera.com/LorenzoCelsi/files/music/player.swf
2. Upload the file on your "file" folder (or create a subfolder like "file/music")
3. you add this code block to your post:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://files.myopera.com/%5Byour account%5D/files/music/player.swf" id="audioplayer1" height="24" width="290">
<param name="movie" value="http://files.myopera.com/%5Byour account%5D/files/music/player.swf">
<param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=1&loop=no&autostart=yes&soundFile=http://files.myopera.com/%5Byour account%5D/files/music/%5Byour mp3 file%5D">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
</object>

Note: change the paths with your account name and your MP3 file name. Changing "autostart=yes" with "no" the player doesn't start upon page loading. You can link to MP3 files that aren't on MyOpera setting the correct URL.

In case somebody wants to get the same modifications from my blog, copy the user.css at: http://files.myopera.com/LorenzoCelsi/user.css

Nel caso qualcuno volesse copiare le modifiche dal mio blog, copiate il file user.css da: http://files.myopera.com/LorenzoCelsi/user.css

Here come some explainations:
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/* for changing header */
What ever you put between /* */ is considered a comment, can be text or CSS blocks you want to temporary disable
div#top { background: url(http://files.myopera.com/LorenzoCelsi/files/middleearth-top-myopera.jpg); }
This string tells the container "div" whose ID is "top" to use the image from "url" as backround. The symbol "#" means "ID" and the symbol "." means "CLASS"

/* height of the blog header */
div#top2 { height:150px; }
This string forces the container "div" whose ID is "top2" to be 150px high

/* title and subtitle */
div#top2 h1 { padding-top:80px; }
div#top2 h1 span { color:#ffffff; }
div#top2 p#subtitle span { color:#ffffff; }
Here you set the vertical position and colors for main title and subtitle. You can see a chain of nested elements, like "div#top2" that contains "h1" that contains "span". Empty spaces divide the nested elements

/* colors of elements in the post area */
h1.title { color:#708090; font-weight:normal; }
h1.title a { color:#708090; font-weight:normal; }
p.tags a { color:#778899; }
p.readmore a { color:#778899; }
p.editthis a { color:#778899; }
span.postcomments a { color:#778899; }
div.content { color:#c0c0c0; }
Same as above. First two lines define color and weight of the post title. Then there are the post tags, the "read more", the "edit post" button, the "comments" button and finally the color of the post body

Note: as told in the previous post, to pick the elements from the page I use Firefox with the Firebug extension, via the "inspect" feature. It can be done also reading the page code directly but it is much more painful.

I did not want to post this but then I thought it could be useful.
In the beginning I got the problem with the two files I uploaded and now I can't delete. I reported the problem in the forum but I did not get any feedback from any MyOpera admin or dev. I messaged Nicomen (from the devs blog, last entry I can see there dates 30 August)...
http://my.opera.com/devblog/blog/
... and he answred they would have taken a look at it. So far nothing changed.
Then Dimitris told me he could not access his files, he reported the problem in the forum and got this feedback:

FYI, I've located the problem, and it only applies to usernames starting with 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : < = A Q ^ _ { | ~

That problem (please note what kind of problem it was) seems to be fixed.
Then these last days there was a maintenance outage, I could not do anything with the file archive. After that, I got a "500 server error" whenever I tried to upload a file.
Reported on the forum, no feedback so far.

I am getting pretty disappointed.
MyOpera doens't owe me anything of course, besides I am the "user" and the service is either offline or gives me an error.

Edit: it seems the "500 server error" occurs with mp3 files. I've tried with a jpg file and it seems to work instead. I esitate to make more testing with other files extesions because I don't want to end with more files stuck there.

Edit: I've found several thread in the forum that report the "500 server error", it seems the problem occurrs with any file above some size.