Wonderfalls

I haven't seen Wonderfalls in quite some time now and was reminded about it only when I saw the Caroline Dhavernas has a lookalike (from Europe and non related even!). Although I can only confess to have seen only 3 episodes, I loved the concept (not the lame talking animals thing) of witty dialogues filling up a drama about nothing. (Isn't that what popular television is all about)

The philosophical irony in the commentary will definetly catch you off-guard even when you're watching re-runs!

A few good ones that I remember
From wikiquote

Jaye: I make good life choices—mostly because they’re forced on me—but I make them, and I find myself in unpleasant situations all the time. You know why? Because even if you have a choice it can and will be taken away from you. We’re all fate’s bitch. You might as well go ahead and bend over for destiny now.

Bianca: Your home is a trailer. Don't you see the beautiful poetry in that? It's a thing that's been designed to go someplace, and yet the hitch isn't hooked up to anything. So it just sits here, never living up to it's potential… but never in any danger of breaking down either.

I was really surprised when I read that there are just 13 episodes of Wonderfalls! Atleast they show all of them on StarWorld. I just hope I'll get to see the 10 that I haven't seen.

Wikipedia in your Opera

Opera is the fastest browser there is, not only because of its unique caching system but also because it's got a hundred of shortcuts to improve your efficiency.

One of them is the "Hotclick".When a word, on any page is doubleclicked or highlighted, a different menu comes up when its rightclicked. Using this menu can improve your web-experience tremendously.

The trick lies in moderating your standard_menu.ini file. Windows users have this file in their C:/My Programs/Opera/ini folder while Linux users have it in the /usr/share/opera/ini folder.

WARNING:Don't modify this file while Opera is running.

First find where your hotclick popup menu section starts, it'll probably look something like this.

[Hotclick Popup Menu]

Item, 50872 = Copy

Item, 67652 = Copy to note

Platform Win2000-Unix-Mac, Feature Voice, Item, 70494 = Speak selection

--------------------1

Item, 65184 = Hotclick search, 200

;Submenu, 291920, Search with menu

Submenu, 291920, Internal Search With

Item, 65187 = Hotclick search, 50

Item, 65188 = Hotclick search, 51



I'm in love with Wikipedia so I just had to have it in here and I've found that Googling for definitions is much faster than the answers.com redirect that is provided by default. So now my hotclick section looks like this.

[Hotclick Popup Menu]

Item, 50872 = Copy

Item, 67652 = Copy to note

Platform Win2000-Unix-Mac, Feature Voice, Item, 70494 = Speak selection

--------------------1

Item, 65184 = Hotclick search, 200

;Submenu, 291920, Search with menu

Submenu, 291920, Internal Search With

Item, 65187 = Hotclick search, 50

Item, 65188 = Hotclick search, 51

Item, "Wikipedia" = Go to page, "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?search=%t"

Item, "Define" = Go to page, "http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=define:&t&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8"


Now you can easily add your own favorite sites to the menu by just looking at the search string in your browser's address bar when you're searching at that site and replacing the word that you queried for with "%t" without the quotes. That's it.