General bloging

Since it appeared in the latest monthly update (March), the google search in the my opera top bar has cause mixed response. Some like it, some have somthing against google, and many don't like how it looks. Here are some solutions to the problem. You can remove it, or try and make it fit in with your design, like I did.

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I love to read Garfield, and I have been using the (opera) comics widget for a while now for daily readings

Yesterday I saw on ze franks page a recomendation for "Garfield minus Garfield" and the genius idea behind it. And indeed it really is good. As it is shortly explained on the page, by taking Garfield out of the comic, you get a great comic about fighting against loneliness in the American suburbs, "schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?"

So take a look (if you haven't already): http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com/

well as said a while back, I wanted to do some stuff with the page design. and finally I did. Didn't change it a whole lot, but it's different. The base theme is "The Dark One". I changed the background, the header and also the background of the text. This also required to change the frames around the pictures, because they were made for a clear black background. You can see an ilustration of the problem, and the solved version in the pistures on the right.

If you are interested in doing something like this, it's not hard, you don't even have to change the images, you can just change the size of the frame, and "move" the background position thru css.

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As you may know megaupload wants you to download their toolbar so that you can freely download stuff off their site... and as you are probably thinking, there has to be a catch. adn there is, as most toolbars, this one can also be apotential hole for viruses, and is tracking you web behaviour.
but there is a way around it, it just creates two cookies, so with a script for firefox (not sure how to put it in opera, but I guess I will try ), you don't need the toolbar

more in the article that explains it all: Megaupload country slots - (re)hacked ^_^

Somthing ubelievable is happening:
google is unavailable...

I was tweaking something about the net, and was testing it with a standard try to go to google.com. Which failed. For no aparent reason. And it was working just 5 minutes ago. Weird, so I tested it on the other machine, to check if my connection is ok, and I kliked on one of the speed dial links and it worked. Then I tried google - no go.

so now it's been a while and it is still not working, of course all the related service are down too, and the local googles are, of course, also down.
photobucket is down too, I saw that on another site that was linking a picture...

weird. a search thru the internet (without google - how do you search it ) showes that there was some downtime also in 2005 link. Then they aparently said it was somekind of a DNS issue. Maybe it's happening again.