Christopher Blizzard

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Month: February, 2004

leaf sure can do a mean roy orbison

Flying somewhere near Albany, NY.

I've been in the Bay area for the last couple of days for the
Mozilla Developer Day, which was good. It was good [...]

the revenge of telnet

This is from Gerv's summary of Mozilla events at FOSDEM:

Alex gets the FOSDEM 2004 “cool tech” award, for his “JSSh”
tool – an add-on for Mozilla which makes it listen for telnet
connections on a given port. You can then telnet [...]

radar vectors to DREEM direct Pittsfield

I've spent some of the last couple of days reading plugin
documentation and puttering with the infastructure surrounding a
decent plugin widget for Totem. I feel like I have a better
understanding of how things need to come together, so I [...]

expletive deleted

For those of you who have been unable to stand the wait I
finally got a copy of the security gaim errata out for Fedora.
It was a weekend of pretty intense flight training. I've picked
up the pace of my [...]

freaky photos

Ken.

I triaged a lot of bugs today. I even got a little bit of hacking
done on a Totem
plugin for Mozilla. I've [...]

mmmm…forbidden donut

The 2004
Mozilla Developer Day is going to take place at the Mozilla
Foundation offices on February 27th. I'll be there. There will
be donuts. Asa
will also be there. And from what I hear, he won't be wearing [...]

previous day’s wrap up.

Having Mozilla / Thunderbird / Phoenix / Firebird / Firefox /
Epiphany / Galeon / MYFIRSTBROWSER crashes with Fedora Core 1 when you happen
to stumble across a page that contains Chinese or Japanese text?
Yeah, so have most other people. [...]

yay plugins

I've finally written up some
documentation on using XEmbed to build Mozilla plugins. In
the past we've basically been limited to using Xt widgets to build
plugins. Now, we can use a boring old GtkPlug to do so. In
[...]

I know the taste of fear.

Few things in the world can screw up a unix system like
accidentally executing and then responding positively to this
prompt:

rm: remove `/dev/null'? y

you named it what?

Here's my list if features that should be included for Firefox 1.0:

A mind-controlled UI: but it only works if you think in
russian!
Flashback mode: whenever you hear a helicopter overhead the
browser will redirect all page loads to web.archive.org, circa 5
years [...]