I have wanted to visit Wrocław for a long time, and as it is situated in the South-Western corner of Poland, it is fairly nearby Prague. Nearby geographically at least, it is quicker to get to Oslo from Prague than to Wrocław. There is […]

Just published my first SVG article on Dev Opera.

I came across this report on a study by Jonathan Huebner showing that the rate of technological innovation is slowing down, and that by this rate we will be down to the Dark Ages level by 2024 (a curiously precise prediction, but presumably by […]

2005 was the year Mobile SVG arrived, and 2006 was the year Mobile SVG got lost. Before 2005 SVG was used in a few niches, “semantic graphics” like map applications with a limited number of users but really nothing to talk about. In 2005 […]

In Michle, between the proper urban architecture and the high-rise suburbs of South City, there is an area obviously created with a ruler&compass and city planning with an explicit lack of imagination. The streets have names like South-West IV, Lateral II, and North VII. […]

I got a well-appreciated birthday gift from myself a few days ago, the Rome series 1 DVDs. The second, and probably last season, will air in a few days. The time slice covered by this TV series will thus (assumedly) be from the fall […]

Something fishy in the state of Czechia

I came across a blog claiming that we’re at war, based on Eskil having a good partisan gloat on a negative review of the Konqueror-based Nokia browser (“A special circle of Hell needs to be created…”). The blog entry is somewhat unfair as it […]

This image, the phone blogging equivalent of a lens cap snap, was posted with Opera Mini 3, released today. I decided to go through the regular process, entering my phone number (which I never remember, but fortunately my phone remembers it for me), guessing […]

I am using a fairly fresh install of Opera right now, with more default settings than I normally would use. One of these was the PDF file handling, like with other browsers (at least for Windows) Opera uses the Adobe Acrobat plugin by default. […]