Writer's Block

This is a little different to my regular story posts. I'd simply like to share an article I read a few months ago, something I found particularly interesting. It's about clones of Western high-tech that are produced in China, leading with a hunt for a cloned iPhone.

China's iClone

I expect a few of you have probably read it before, but it's still worth sharing . It's mostly Opera Mini-friendly, although there is a YouTube video at the end as well.

At the moment i'm sitting in a room at work which when full holds 8 people. It currently holds two, one of whom finished 25 minutes ago and is currently asleep in his chair doing a Darth Vader impression. All the others are either on holiday or finished at 1630.
The room itself is a shithole we were summarily moved to 5 months ago.
Right now i'm feeling lonely and unappreciated
The question is, do i throw something in Darth's open gob?

Well, today's tag (arriving courtesy of Sugarwinx) is the '5 Things I'd Like To See On Opera' tag. It's supposed to be just the browsers, but a misinterpretation has led some people to include My Opera features in the brief.
I'm going to do five of each, so this will be a fairly hefty post.
Firstly, the browsers :

1) Opera for Desktop - Session Management
When I use Opera, I usually only use one window containing lots of tabs. When I use a session, I want it to relate only to one window and its pages. So, right now, I have 5 tabs in one window relating to My Opera. If at the same time I open one of my saved sessions it opens a new window(s) containing all the tabs in that session. If I save that session, it will include all the My Opera tabs as well. From my point of view, a session should relate only to one window and its tabs.
Additionally, the general session management should be improved so that you can see what's in them without opening them, rename them and also edit what's in them.
2) Opera for Desktop - Stopping Page Loads
This is something that bugs me as a dialup user. If I open a page, wait a little while and then realise it's loading about 5MB of pictures, I will usually close that page pretty quickly. As soon as I close that page, I expect the downloading of what's on it to stop instantly. It doesn't - it usually takes about 10 seconds before my connection is free to load other things. I suspect it has to finish loading whatever the last element was.
3) Opera for Desktop - Cache display
This one's real nerdy. I would like the display of the Cache to be improved so it can be sorted by file type, or grouped by domain. I would also like a filter implemented in a similar way to that in opera:config.
4) Opera Mini - RSS Feed Management
Firstly, I would like some way to Unsubscribe to several feeds at once - ie checkboxes and an Unsubscribe to Checked Items option. Secondly, at the top of a displayed feed is the Unsubscribe option. This is rather unforgiving if clicked accidentally - I would like this to have a Confirm option to appear. Thirdly, please restore RSS Feeds to the history view.
5) Opera (all versions) - Shared Bookmarks
I would like some way of using My Opera to store my bookmarks for the versions of Opera. The separate versions could interact with it, and overall admin could be done via a special page where you could designate certain pages as only relevant to a particular device's version of Opera. So, for example, every version I have has a link to Hotmail and My Opera. The two PCs I use have links to Indigo Puzzles. My phone and my home PC have links to my work email.

That's the browsers out of the way, now for My Opera.

1) Friends
This is probably picky, but I would like Friends on My Opera to be split into two categories - People I Like (added as friend but not reciprocated) and Friends (they reciprocated! ).
2) Subscriptions
Please fix it that the Subscriptions frame doesn't tell me that I have no unread posts when I actually have over 20.
3) Shoutbox
Please make it so that the blog owner can access the archived items, and also so that smilies are displayed in it. Also, for the owner to be able to delete/edit them.
4) Hitslink
When are those of us outside the chosen few getting HitsLink stats accessible from our Account page?
5) Recent Visitors
Whether it's broken, erratic or I'm misinterpreting it I don't know. But I have comments on my blog which predate any Recent Visitor.

That's the lot. There could be more, but it's 00:45.


Finally, I'm tagging brojoy, rose-marie, st0le, Embry Hallowed and, because I'm curious what form his revenge will take, Cois.

Thanks, Mik!

This will be complicated, as I was using a K800i (my third one) happily until a few days ago, when the joystick finally got Opera Mini-ed to death (although a few days rest for it is helping). I'm currently using my old W800i until I get a replacement. Stats will be tricky as they'll be a mixture of the two phones (where relevant). But I have stats for about a year with the W800, plus 2 months of the K800.

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Just heard this on BBC Radio Five Live. The most random news item ever :

"A giant telescope has opened to scan the skies above the Canary Islands. Brian May, the guitarist from Queen who has an astrophysics degree, was at the opening"*

What the hell? A one minute summary of the news, only five items squeezed in, and one of them was that?!

*quoted from memory, so the words aren't exactly right