atw: Re: SEC: UNCLASS RE: Pet hates

Re. Opera Web browser test of  Howard's Pet Hates Web site:

(Caution: What follows is rather disjointed and rambling as, at time of
publication it is late and I am exhausted, but here goes.)

Works great in the new Opera 8 but, then most sites now do.

Just installed it, over the weekend and this morning, at each locale from
which I access the Web and Opera 8 is a magnificent new tool.
(Nice licence.  Install anywhere you like, provided you only use one PC
instance at a time.  Plus you now get the codes to use Opera on phones
and PDAs thrown in with your PC Opera licence.)

So many important yet subtle improvements over Opera 7.54, too.

Opera has finally risen to the challenge of Mozilla Firefox and the people
at Opera have really done an amazing job.  <http://www.opera.com/>

Opera gets more efficient with each new version, working even faster and
far more reliably with sites that I regularly visit.  Plus it is only a 3.5mb
download.  Amazing these days.

Plus the upgrade cost me a whole USD $15.00, which also gave me a bonus
OperaMail premium Webmail account, which was handy.

(IMNSHO, it is well worth the USD$39.00 to register for Opera, which
otherwise works as adware, with a choice of graphical or textual context
sensitive ads.  The Opera Premium Support is remarkable.  In my experience
most questions or issues are addressed within half a day and they go out
of their way, un there in Norway, to help their subscribers.)

A hint for people stuck in supposedly locked down operating environments
where you can download the install file but cannot save to the Windows
Program Files folder - just install Opera to C:\Opera - or to another folder
of your own choice on your local drive outside of the Program Files folder.
Then Opera can install regardless, as it doesn't mess with the Windows
Registry.  Like programs of the old days, it can just install as a bunch of
files in a folder on a drive without any special needs.  I've even been able
to install and run it from a remote network drive, with no noticeable slow
down in performance, once running.  Only the startup time can be a tad
slower.  By contrast, in similar locked down situations, Firefox was
unable to complete its install.

That aside, Howard, thanks for putting your words Blacklist together.
A handy asset for us fellow pedants.

You would really like Bill Bryson's Dictionary of Difficult Words
(From the late 1980s in Penguin paperback.)

Back on topic, I also loathe the use of with single people and entities,
especially in corporate PR style news releases.

For example, phrases like "Telstra do" as some kind of scungy shorthand
for "the people at Telstra do" instead of, when referring to the corporate
entity itself: "Telstra does".  I also dislike the use of corporate 
possessives,
such as "Shell's petrol" instead of Shell petrol, plus the failure to check the
spelling of company names, so the department store Myer becomes Myers.
Argh!  ABC radio news is about the worst culprit of all of the above.
(They would write "ABC radio news are", hanging the plural off the wrong
component in the sentence.)  Ah, ABC radio news, the people who report on
the "Ah-limp-pick games".

Checked out your home page too.  What's with the ant animation and yes, I
was too slow for your fast moving joke link.

Silly boy ;-)

Don't look at my home page then.  It's just a place marker with an E-mail
response mechanism.  More of a bookmark than a Web site.

Something to improve when I get the spare time.

Cheers,

Michael Granat
Write Ideas


At 16:37 23/5/2005, you wrote:
>Oops, now I
>realise I also haven't tested it on Opera and I know there are fans out
>there. OK, repeat the invitation for Opera too. And also any Linux/Unix
>users ... (for any Netscape 4 users, I *know* it will look awful)
>
>Howard

Michael E. Granat
(QGTWD) (FOTROTWYB!)
T/as Write Ideas
E-mail: mailto:writeideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: <http://home.pacific.net.au/~megranat/>
Without Prejudice.
E&OE.


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