Monthly Archives: July 2008

DNS: A flag day for the Internet?

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

As defined on Wikipedia: * Jargon: Flag day is also a term used in discussing computer systems to denote a change which will require a complete restart or conversion of a sizable body of software or data. This usage of … Continue reading →

Posted in DNS, Security | 7 Comments

going to be at oscon this year? drop me some mail.

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

I want to run a little experiment. If you’re going to be at OSCON this year take 2 seconds and drop me an email. If you want to include your blog or whoisi ID I would appreciate it, but if … Continue reading →

Posted in oscon, whoisi | 2 Comments

yesterday’s guadec keynote – more links

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

I gave my keynote at GUADEC yesterday. I tried to make it fun and interactive for the audience, lots of questions, lots of heckling on my part and I tried to make fun of Miguel every chance I got. At … Continue reading →

Posted in GNOME, Mozilla | 6 Comments

gnome foundation hires stormy peters as executive director

Posted on July 7, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Sounds like the board of the GNOME Foundation has decided to hire the awesome Stormy Peters as the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. There’s a press release about the hire. Good luck, Stormy!

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added del.icio.us support to whoisi

Posted on July 4, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

I added support for del.icio.us to whoisi this evening. Let me know if you see problems. Update: There are still server throttling issues so sometimes adding del.icio.us urls doesn’t work. Still working on making the polling stuff smarter about that.

Posted in del.icio.us, whoisi | 2 Comments

another whoisi theme

Posted on July 4, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Garrett LaSage put together a user theme for whoisi.com. He’s got a link to the screenshots on his blog. It works with either Stylish or Greasemonkey. So cool!

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upcoming travel and event schedule – guadec, oscon + more

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

July is going to be a pretty intense travel month for me. Here’s a rundown of where I will be: July 6th-July 10th: Istanbul, Turkey. I’ll be there for GUADEC and I’m speaking on Wednesday. Hopefully to re-iterate how important … Continue reading →

Posted in Fennec, Firefox, Kicking My Ass, Mobile, Mozilla, Open Web, Speaking, Travel, whoisi | 1 Comment

whoisi mentioned on net@night

Posted on July 2, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

net@night 59: Barbecue Anchor with Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur They cover lots of stuff – the iPhone plan in Canada and talk with someone who used to be at Yahoo!. But there’s also a nice comment from Leo about … Continue reading →

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whoisi and identi.ca

Posted on July 2, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

It looks like identi.ca is finally public. I’ve been following Luis Villa on it for quite some time on whoisi. I added support to whoisi today to support rendering entries properly. Took about 30 minutes to write the code and … Continue reading →

Posted in identi.ca, Twitter, whoisi | 2 Comments

a note about whoisi and del.icio.us

Posted on July 1, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

I haven’t explicitly added support for del.icio.us yet to whoisi, but that hasn’t stopped people from adding about 150 accounts to various entries. del.icio.us is one of the services out there that’s most agressive at rejecting people if they are … Continue reading →

Posted in del.icio.us, whoisi | 3 Comments