Opera's CEO will swim from Norway to the USA

[William Tasso]

Re: Opera's CEO will swim from Norway to the USA

On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 20:02:47 +0100, Eric Jarvis <web@ericjarvis .co.uk>
wrote:
[color=blue]
> sigvald@binet.i s sigvald@binet.i s wrote in
> <1114275061.846 217.125670@o13g 2000cwo.googleg roups.com>:[color=green]
>>
>> Eric Jarvis wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>> > Iceland is a chain of stores.[/color]
>>
>> Now I know that education is not something you Britishers have been
>> able to afford but Iceland is a European country and that should be
>> quite common knowledge.
>>[/color]
>
> Not at the Elephant and Castle it isn't. It's a small shop in the
> shopping centre, a big shop a bit down Walworth Road and someTV ads.[/color]

It's also the lorry in front of me on the M25
[color=blue]
> A small
> percentage of people will be aware that it's also a nation, but probably
> slightly fewer than know that Bjork is from Iceland. Of course there are
> estates round here that make rural Alabama seem the haunt of cosmopolitan
> intellectual high flyers.[/color]

it isn't?

--
Whatever you do - do something.

[William Tasso]

Re: Opera's CEO will swim from Norway to the USA

On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 21:05:31 +0100, Tony Raven <junk@raven-family.com>
wrote:
[color=blue]
> Toby Inkster wrote:[color=green]
>> Eric Jarvis wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> Iceland is a chain of stores. Originally specialising in frozen food
>>> but
>>> now more of a general supermarket.[/color]
>> http://www.iceland.co.uk/[/color]
>
> Not to be confused with http://www.iceland.com/[/color]

Oooh - I like this game. Seems ice land is in fact already in USA

http://www.ice-land.com/

or maybe not

http://www.ice-land.net/

--
Whatever you do - do something.

[Tony Raven]

Re: Opera's CEO will swim from Norway to the USA

William Tasso wrote:[color=blue]
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 21:05:31 +0100, Tony Raven <junk@raven-family.com>
> wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Toby Inkster wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> Eric Jarvis wrote:
>>>
>>>> Iceland is a chain of stores. Originally specialising in frozen
>>>> food but
>>>> now more of a general supermarket.
>>>
>>> http://www.iceland.co.uk/[/color]
>>
>>
>> Not to be confused with http://www.iceland.com/[/color]
>
>
> Oooh - I like this game. Seems ice land is in fact already in USA
>
> http://www.ice-land.com/
>
> or maybe not
>
> http://www.ice-land.net/
>[/color]

Or how about http://makeashorterlink.com/?V2AE122FA

Tony

[Ed Mullen]

Re: Opera's CEO will swim from Norway to the USA

Tony Raven wrote:
[color=blue]
> William Tasso wrote:
>[color=green]
>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 21:05:31 +0100, Tony Raven
>> <junk@raven-family.com> wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> Toby Inkster wrote:
>>>
>>>> Eric Jarvis wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Iceland is a chain of stores. Originally specialising in frozen
>>>>> food but
>>>>> now more of a general supermarket.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.iceland.co.uk/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Not to be confused with http://www.iceland.com/[/color]
>>
>>
>>
>> Oooh - I like this game. Seems ice land is in fact already in USA
>>
>> http://www.ice-land.com/
>>
>> or maybe not
>>
>> http://www.ice-land.net/
>>[/color]
>
> Or how about http://makeashorterlink.com/?V2AE122FA
>
> Tony[/color]

ROFLMAO. Too funny. But, you're all totally out of control now!

--
Ed Mullen

http://edmullen.net

http://edmullen.net/Mozilla/moz.html

A penny saved is ridiculous.

[Toby Inkster]

Re: Opera's CEO will swim from Norway to the USA

Dylan Parry wrote:
[color=blue]
> [1] My exact words were "I have my eye on Liechtenstein. It sounds like
> a nice place" :)[/color]

According to Google, eBay also has "great deals on nice place".

--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact

[Jim]

Re: Opera's CEO will swim from Norway to the USA

"Unknown User" <me@privacy.net > wrote in
news:op.splbd1y pr3xrds@sony:
[color=blue]
> Opera Internet Suite's CEO says he will swim from Norway to the
> USA if in four days Opera reaches 1 million downloads![/color]

Despite all the suggestions here about the location of "Norway",
apparently he started swimming from the actual *country* of Norway on
Monday morning...

http://news.com.com/Opera+CEO+starts+Atlantic+swim/2100-1032_3-

5683356.html?ta g=nl

http://tinyurl.com/apwwt

Jim

[Kevin Wu Won]

Re: Opera's CEO will swim from Norway to the USA

>> Opera Internet Suite's CEO says he will swim from Norway to the[color=blue][color=green]
>> USA if in four days Opera reaches 1 million downloads![/color]
>
> Despite all the suggestions here about the location of "Norway",
> apparently he started swimming from the actual *country* of Norway on
> Monday morning...[/color]

And despite speculation that he might have done it like so:
http://people.opera.com/nicolasm/opera_ch05.svgz (nice demo of SVG and
Opera 8's support of it, BTW)

it turns out that he turned around not far into it:

http://www.opera.com/swim/

--
Kevin Wu Won exclipy #40979410
@gmail.com