During the last few months I have gotten myself another permanent residence (especially after they got WiFi), a Chinese restaurant here in Prague. I spend more waking hours there than I do at home. Eating, drinking, socialising, and being on the Internet has occupied […]

New Scientist recently published a special issue, The Folly of Growth, ostensibly an expose of flawed economic theory. As you can deduce from this blog and writings elsewhere, New Scientist is my favourite magazine, and I have read practically every issue the last twenty […]

For anyone in Prague with an interest in Internet standards, it pays to look up the PROWAS site for the next event. Which happens to be today. The topic is HTML5 is happening, the speaker is Martin Hassman, and the talk will be held […]

Some nights ago, at a pub in Žižkov that used to be called U smrku (The Pine), I was chatting with a friend while not listening seriously to the songs being played. I asked her what would be the ten most decadent songs in […]

So the Irish vote was “Lisbon nil points”. An interesting state for this virtual superstate I’m living in. The Lisbon treaty isn’t necessary for the EU to continue, which may be seen as a good thing as Lisbon is dead. The only way it […]

I am interested in the concept of employee ownership, and early on while working for Opera I set a goal of a 1/1000 ownership. I never quite reached that goal, the rest of the world has more money than I do and I have […]

Opera has published some stats on phone use with Opera Mini the first quarter this year (based on the URL this seems to be a front page rather than a quarter report 2008/I, so if you read this post later the content may no […]

This post is a reaction to xErath's comment to an earlier rambling. Originally posted by xErath: There's enough info online about the deficiencies of ooxml. I don't need to quote them here. Just to have it over with, we agree. I may be a […]

At least until tonight when we, if in Prague, will find out. Opera’s Håkon Wium Lie (nice interview), will count down to its doom.