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http://japan.cnet.com/news/tech/story/0,2000056025,20381351-17,00.htm

This is a photo report by CNet Japan. You can see last 4 photos which show DSi Browser.
Descriptions say (when you :hover your mouse on the image, popups says "Click on the image, you can see next image.");

• photo 17: You can download softwares at DSi shop, one of them is DSi Browser. You can connect to the Internet via wireless LAN. The lower image shows "Please wait…"
  
• photo 18: View of CNet Japan site with DSi Browser.
  
• photo 19: You can select 3 ways to view web sites, direct input of URL, using search and bookmarks.
  
• photo 20: You can select between Google and Yahoo!Japan for search engine, and set image load/unload. The lower image shows you can set automatic text-wrap ON/OFF.
  

I had been working at Opera's Oslo headquarters office on the 1st and 2nd week of September, 2008. The photos for external viewers are up at this blog's PHOTO section. Those were mostly shot during weekends and evenings there.
I could meet our team members at Oslo, yes, they are really good guys (and ladies) at the team. Now I work away and alone at office in Far East, but this stay for 2 weeks made me feel to be a part of the wonderful team in Scandinavia.

It was cold in Oslo, especially for an old one came from subtropical Asia, Japan. September in Tokyo is still a part of summer, high temperature and humidity, almost 30 Degrees in C and always 70 to 80 per cent. It'd been around 13 Deg C, cool and dry there.
Everything was reversed, not only the weather, but also the population and streets. Cars are going on the right lane, on an escalator people are on the right side, not so many neon signs on the wall of buildings...

I am a smoker. In Japan, a package of cigarette, 20 pieces, is around 300 JPY (ca. 14 NOK). I bought Tax Free's Japanese ones, 10 packages, at Narita airport, at 2000 JPY (ca. 95 NOK)... In Norway, you can buy only ONE package of cigarette! We have heard cigarette in Western countries are very expensive, around 10 USD a package. That was far above my limited imaginations.
There seems to be a law to prevent smoking indoors, that's OK. Reasonable rule, I think. For, there are a lot of ash trays, so you can find it with ease, although it's quite hard to find a toilet around the city. I'm so educated that I could not do rude behaviours, of course

People at Opera work so hard, intensely, that's I admire indeed. Some from very early in the morning, the others till late in the evening, that's also I praise so much. They are making the best browser around. With this confident, they work with talented colleagues. That must be fun.
Even after coming back to Tokyo, I am proud to be a member of it.

I could meet those wonderful people in Oslo, the people who make The Browser, Opera.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/20/japans-mixi-a-social-network-as-a-purely-local-phenomenon/

Looks like well written article. I have an account, but don't like to add any except testings.