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As mentioned in my earlier post the Opera party has been rocking.Especially the IRC.I am posting the Transcript of that with Opera’s CEO Jon von Tetzchner.I would post the transcripts of the chat with H?kon Wium Lie,Opera’s CTO and Trond,Opera developer. Here is the transcript (My name is featured 3 times) Jon = Opera’s CEO [...]

Today my favorite browser Opera celebrates it’s 10th Birthday ONLINE! In 1994, two engineers at Telenor (the Norwegian phone company) developed the Opera browser for the company’s intranet.The following year, two members of the team — Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner and Geir Ivars?y — left Telenor to establish Opera Software to develop the browser commercially.Opera [...]

About a month after it’s release Opera v8 has crossed the 4 million download mark,thus prooving that it has created quite a bit of interest among netizens.Offcourse Firefox fan would perhaps grinn sarcastically at this figure as in about the same time Firefox had grossed twice the number of downloads.However that doesnt make any difference [...]

More than a year ago Google stirred the internet and revolutionised it by introducing Gmail! People instantly started believing that whatever Google would do would turn into gold. And ever since then Google has gone into frenzy. They have expanded at a tremendous rate, announcing new services every now and then. 3 days ago an [...]

Finally,i got my blog up and running.I had to change host as i couldnt acces the admincp of my previous host!As a result of that i couldn’t get my mysql db also backed up. I have put up some of my old articles but all comments have been lost. Let’s hope that this host lasts [...]

Election is the greatest exercise in democracy.And the communist party in west bengal is adamant to make sure that they carry out this exercise in a way like no other government(they do have some competition from the neighbour though) Here is picture from a local newspaper revealing as to how extraordinary this local governing bodies [...]

Advani’s recent comment that “Jinnah was secular” has created a huge political storm in India.In the face of barrage of attacks from RSS and internal grudgings Advani has decided to resign. But the question is was Jinnah secular? Jinnah was an well educated Muslim who didnt belive in the supersitions and rituals of the religion.Initially [...]