Dear Opera Software, for years I’ve used your wonderful browser and you keep making it better all the time. I’ve grown dependant on your flag ship features and wonder why the rest of the world is still ignorant of your beauty.
I missed the window of opportunity to post about the new version of the Opera Web Browser. I waited so long they came out with an even better version with a few bug fixes. By now I hope you know that there are more ways to access the Internet than the little blue E on your desktop. People might of talked you in using Firefox, or even Google’s Chrome. As for myself I press you to try out Opera.
As far as features go they’ve kept improving on the existing ones. They added better IMAP and RSS support, extended features of their Opera Link service that synchronizes Bookmarks, Notes, Browsing history and Speed Dial across different Opera Browsers (laptop, office, mobile device). It might be considered a small incremental update from 9.5 but steadily improving a great product is a good thing in my book.
Let me start out by pointing out I had no expectations about this movie. It wasn’t on my radar and were it not for this advance screening I would of missed it al together. Now this review is a great opportunity for you to decide if Ridley Scott’s new movie Body of Lies is the right one for you to see this week-end.
The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Russel Crowe, it’s an action-spy-drama. So from the very first scene my mind started wandering off as to why in God’s name are they making a movie about the War on Terror[ists] and how Hollywood keeps dishing out movies related to various threats around the world. When will the Russians come back as top dawgs bad guys? Never mind the personal thoughts, this movie has some serious story behind it, and if you’re not paying attention you will miss out on a lot of the intrigue. It’s called Body of Lies for many reasons, there are many lies and betrayals that turn out to be quite surprising and keep you on high alert. There is a cute love interest in the movie and even some light comic relief that helps the audience get away from the heavy subject of the movie: What are we doing in the Middle East? Our hero has been living there and knows how to work cases, he puts his trust into people and doesn’t like when bureaucrats screw up a good plan. Overall the movie depicts what I would believe to be a very credible situation and how the government is/might be dealing with it.
It’s not for the faint of heart and the final act is heart wrenching (Braveheart level). Really not a popcorn flick, can’t sit down to relax and follow the ride, it’s bumpy, tricky and very tasteful (see Eagle Eye if you need action packed stuff). I would recommend you seeing this movie to spur up some discussions among friends, the ending is as open as the reality on which it is based. I really appreciate where DiCaprio is going with his career (The Departed, Blood Diamonds) because I can finally put away his performance in Titanic and forget all about it.
So far this has been a really intriguing experiment. I’ve definately kept my part of the bargain to cut down on portions and avoid fried foods. I’ll confess that I’ve succumbed to temptation about 3 times over the course of the past two weeks. Also I haven’t been able to find the time to do the needed exercice to improve my cardio, so as you can expect there hasn’t been any significant weight loss. I’ve also significantly increased the number of fruits and vegetables that get in my diet. So until there is any kind of change I won’t really post anything new on my personal challenge.
So a week has gone by and I’ve experimented various ways to loose some wait. This first phase was all about nutrition, cut down on portions, fats and anything junk food related. I can’t say I have a perfect score, but at least I can count in one hand all the incidents in witch I have failed.
A can of Pepsi x2
A piece of cake with frosting
A donught with filling
Bacardi Breezer x3
The rest of the time I’ve been drinking blended peaches (it’s the season!), eating some salad with dressing, got Jell-O as an alternative snack (instead of chips!). This morning I weighted in a 250 pounds, but I have a definite sense that over the week I’ve been improving greatly on what I eat, I’ll keep on with the challenge and bet on a healthier diet. This week I shall introduce physical exercise. Stay tuned! (Yes videos will return).
Daniel Craig rules as James Bond! He opened my eyes to the franchise with Casino Royale and I’ve never been more excited about Bond movies before in my life. Here is a second trailer for the 22nd movie name Quantum of Solace. A quest for revenge will begin this november, take that Harry Potter!
My challenge is still on going, I guess I can’t find the time to put a blog post every day, but I still keep track of what is going on. Here’s on quick run down of Day 2 and the morning of Day 3. On Sunday I’ve decided to eat as usual but only cut down on the size of my portions. As of today I weighted in at 251 pounds! I know, I know it’s not a significant number but if it had gone up it would of been a total disaster.
As of this morning I’ve had a banana and a V8 for breakfast, I’ll probably eat outside the house for lunch but I will have to make sure it’s healthy.
