Sunday, 23. December 2007, 20:44:52
Merry Christmas. I hope all of you are having a good time. Actually, I am not a Christian, but it is worth to celebrate together with my friends in the world, isn't it?
I narrowly finished a illustration for your Christmas card on time. Click the thumbnail for the larger image.
This is a present from my side. Today is the day everyone can easily give something to someone with warm feeling.
Friday, 14. December 2007, 14:26:54
Hmm... too much time has passed since I posted before. I'm fine so far.
In last few weeks, the topic titled "Which is more secure, IE or Firefox? Why don't you use Opera?"(the article is written in Japanese) brought stormy discussion in Japan. I guess it didn't effect to IE and Firefox users as much as we expected, but it gave us good opportunity to think about what attracted us to Opera.
I regard myself as an Opera user in the second oldest group in Japan. I met Opera in 2002 when its version was 6.x. (Some enthusiastic users began to use it from 5.x, although it couldn't show Japanese letter properly.) At that time, I got ADSL connection, and was looking for good web browser. As far as I remember, there were several choices such as IE6, Netscape4.x, Netscape6.x, Mozilla(unsure) and Opera. I chose Opera without hesitation.
I am a rock'n roll fan and a patient with twisted loser syndrome. I am always looking for an alternative selection and prefer to support the minor corner. But that wasn't the reason that I chose Opera. It was obvious that Opera was the best. All of the points were superior than the others. You might point out that Opera couldn't handle some pages suited to IE. Did it matter? No, for me. Especially I was deeply impressed by the functions and the interface that had not been found in the other browsers. Soon I decided to pay the money and registered.
The serious problems were only in M2 (previous name of Opera Mail). It couldn't treat Japanese letters well. I began posting to news group during the beta-term of 7.0. However my English was poor, my posts were received with sincerity. It was enough that I began to love Opera community and its staffs.
Since then Opera keeps up the best place for me. Actually, the other browsers lapped by Opera are catching up now, and Opera relatively loses its brilliance. I'm not anxious about that. Because the situation strengthens the value of supporting Opera as a user, and seems the cause of the strong storm mentioned above.
Sunday, 27. May 2007, 08:06:56
From what I've heard via the Internet, the Opera off-line meeting was held at Tokyo on 26th May 2007. It was the first and historical meeting that involved Opera Software in Japan. Amazingly, CEO Tetzchner ( we call him "Tetz-chan" as friendly nickname. I corrected spelling refered to this article ) joined the meeting via skype video chat.
I really wanted to attend the meeting, but I couldn't. All I can do is reading some reports about it with jealousy. One of the participants, Saito-san posted the article about the meeting to his blog. You can read it in English.
Although I couldn't join the meeting, "Opera-tan" did. I drew an image for the event. TERRAZI, who is the main coordinator of the event, printed it on a big A1 paper for the poster! The image is available also for you. You can use it as a cake decoration...
Thursday, 4. January 2007, 16:44:49
I updated "rag-blaster" and "rag-blaster lite". I just added fraud protection icons for 9.1.
Sunday, 31. December 2006, 21:03:37
Although I sang the song which written by John Lennon with children last Xmas, the people living in the country which I stay don't have custom to celebrate Xmas and a new year. Today is just a ordinary day for us, so I have to go to work. That remind me Stevie Wonder's lyric. Don't worry about me. Here is very peaceful place.
I just post to say "Happy new year" for all of you.
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