Opera CEO bails on promise to swim from Norway to USA after raft accompanying him on his journey "suddenly punctured in open sea." What a load of BS.

Opera 8 downloads surpassed 1M in 4 days... track Opera CEO swim from Norway to USA. Even if this is real - and it would be too disastrous from a PR perspective not to be - there is no way he swims the whole way unless he takes lots of rest breaks on a boat along the way. Which means his trip could take several weeks or even months.

This guy is crazy!! Earlier this week the CEO of Opera Software made the following promise...

“I will swim from Norway to the USA if download numbers of Opera 8 reach 1 million in four days.”

Results will be revealed on Monday, April 25. They apparently hit 600k downloads in 48hrs, so I think he’s up for a long, cold swim.

I can't wait... upcoming video games revive great movie characters with the real stars that made them famous: Al Pacino as Tony Montana, Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry, and Sean Connery as James Bond.

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This would be terrible... disappearance of juniper plants in UK threaten gin supply. I'm also aghast that gin isn't considered hip.

PDAs are getting really boring... if the Tungsten E2 is the most exciting thing palmOne can bring to market. Nothing to see folks, move along. Wake me up when the LifeDrive ships.