Today I wasn't sure if I'd be able to post anything. First, my Internet connection slowed down to a halt (well, I still had the normal 3Mbps upstream, but downstream I could barely get 0.5Mbps). Also, Posterous was down for a few hours today (
https://twitter.com/#!/posterous/status/158266563584196608 ), which may explain yesterday why my post's email seem to have been ignored, forcing me to manually post through the rather limited Posterous app for iOS.
This reminded me how much I enjoy Opera Mini on my phone (
http://www.opera.com/mobile/ ) and even its desktop version when bandwidth is severely limited. Before I upgraded to a proper (6 GB per month) phone data plan, I used to have only 50 MB per month. Yet, with Opera Mini installed on my unlocked RIZR Z8 phone, I could stay connected without too much issue. Text-only mind you, but with Opera Mini's amazing compression it wasn't a problem. I didn't mind much privacy-wise about the fact that this worked because the "real" browser was running on Opera's server since I never used it for anything too personal. I still use Opera Mini from time to time on both my iPhone and iPad, when my Internet connection sucks (like today), or when I want to read some graphics-intensive web site like The Verge.
Apart from that, I finished the day listening to Jerry Goldsmith's soundtrack for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. While I do not particularly enjoy Star Trek, the filler music used to accompany those interminable scenes are so good that the first time I saw the movie I didn't mind those "intermissions" that much. I fully understand why they reused the movie's theme for the entire Next Generation's series.