Circadian Shift

Well, have downloaded and installed Opera 7.

The good news:

• Opera 7 plays nicely with Blogger

The bad news:

• none of my settings from Opera 6 were preserved (which means, among other things, that I have to go and dredge up all my site passwords again)


• all sorts of wierdness ensued when I tried importing my bookmarks from other browsers; initial attempts at importing bookmarks from Opera 6 only transferred the "default" bookmarks (useful. not.) and none of the ones I made; importing Internet Explorer "Favourites" did work, but managed to somehow break the "Bookmarks" drop-down menu in Opera, which means that to access my bookmarks I have to open up the bloody "Hotlist" (which gobbles up valuable screen space) instead

Meanwhile, Media Dystopia has pointed me to a Towers Perrin report on the emotional connection that workers have with their jobs (the majority of workers hate their jobs, and management is utterly frigging clueless as to why -- quelle surprise). There's also a summary and video report from CTV News.

Incidentally, InformIT (free registration required) has added an article on The Value of Technical Leadership; much of it is applicable outside the realm of IT.