Day: April 12, 2010

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Once Again, Opera Browser

Although the reviewer in the video below gets things mostly right *heh* he has a blind spot about add-ons. Sure, there are fewer add-ons available for Opera, but that’s primarily because so much that other browsers require one to add on to get what I consider basic functionality are already built into the Opera browser. But since the reviewer has apparently not used Opera all that much, yet, I’m willing to cut him some slack on that. Note that this review is of an early alpha of Opera 10.50, and that Opera is now in a solid release of 10.50 with beta builds available beyond that.

Crashes the reviewer refers to in the alpha are a thing of the past, for me at least, now that Opera 10.5x is out of alpha/beta status, and I remain sold, as my earlier posts affirm. No clunky, kludgy browser for me, TYVM.

Here’s a promo video from Opera Software. Lots of claims that are pretty well verified by recent testing by third parties. A few snippets about unique features.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_mU7lkE-sA

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“…doubt’s anodyne and care’s surcease… “

The snippet that is this post’s title? A Bartholomew Gill character speaking of fishing in Death On a Cold, Wild River. While I don’t find fishing to be “doubt’s anodyne and care’s surcease,” I do find some comfort in the volunteers of Spring to combat the barbaric nature of contemporary “civilization”. Notably,

Oh, I very much appreciate the delicious mint and wild garlic and even the “possum grapes” that thrust themselves to prominence in Spring, but the dandelion, one of God’s most beautiful flowers, delicious and nutritious, useful in all its parts*, is my favorite.

So, while wearing two knee braces on the same knee *heh* this a.m. (after dealing with some folks’ computer issues), I took a bucket out to sit on while “weeding” and gathered some mint and wild garlic and–for now–just appreciated my lovely crop of dandelions.

Our local cable service tech was out at our Good Neighbors’ place, and we exchanged uses for the dandelion. He told me of grandkids coming over and asking for “yard food”–he and his wife also harvest “volunteer crops” from their yard, and that gave me a foreshadowing of feeds for future grandkids of our own.

A nice lil interlude in the day.

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A Simple Question

How is it that professional congresscritters who begin their political “careers” with mostly modest resources can “retire” when forced from office as multi-millionaires? What other incomes do drop in their laps as the result of their political “careers”?

(“And where’s the nearest tree, and who has the rope?” might seem to be the next questions that pop to your mind, but I say, “Hold your horses! At least make them pay back their ill-gotten gains, first!” :-))