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Month: October, 2008

welcome paul rouget

As John mentioned I’ve taken over helping to run the Evangelism group inside of Mozilla.  One of the best moments I’ve had in this new role has been to offer a full-time role to Paul Rouget.

Paul has been extremely active in the Mozilla community in Europe, particularly in France.  Those of you who who have [...]

choices, choices

Shona found her like this.  She had emptied the entire shelf of her books and spread them around her in order to choose just the right one. She knows tons of words now and walks all over the place.  Growin’ up pretty fast.

two days with the G1

I’ve had my T-Mobile/HTC/”with Google” G1 for two days now.  I got mine on the 21st in the mail, ahead of the launch date and I’ve been living with it for a couple of days.  A lot of people that I know are thinking of buying one, so I thought it would be worth it [...]

your personal collection of terry tate

Since Terry Tate has this awesome video which is making the rounds:

I thought I would collect some of my favorites from the past:

a little warning about flickr feeds

Last night I discovered the hard way that flickr uses slightly different GUIDs in its RSS and Atom feeds for the same entries.  The format looks something like this in the Atom feed:
tag:flickr.com,2005:/photo/12345678
And in the RSS2 feed:
tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/12345678
Notice the difference?  The photo ID is the same, the tag (a year, probably?) is slightly different.
I converted everyone’s [...]

my vacation this summer

Our vacation was months ago.  I was looking at old photos and this one made me laugh.  Yes, a pile of laptops.  Relaxing.  Just like their owners.

a shared culture

Via Joi Ito.

Fennec Alpha 1

Fennec, which is the code name we’re using for the lead-up to a mobile version of Firefox, has reached an important milestone: Alpha 1.  Mark has details up on his blog, including some good feeedback from people trying it out.
We’ve got builds for the Maemo platform.  We also have builds for Linux Desktop, Mac and [...]

clearing up a little confusion about geolocation in Firefox 3.1

There has been some confusion around the Geolocation functionality that we’re including in Firefox 3.1 Beta 1.  I thought I might make a short post to try and clear some of it up.
1. Out of the box, Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 doesn’t include any back-end providers of location information.
This is technical-sounding, and it is, but [...]

Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is available

Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is available for downloading and testing. I’ve been using it now for a few days with TraceMonkey enabled and it seems pretty stable for me (aside from the lack of extensions.)

I also wrote up a big post that goes over some of the new web developer features in this beta [...]