Category Archives: Design

old gas mileage is the new gas mileage

Crash by chaim zvi There’s an article running on CNN right now about how Geo Metros are making a comeback. From the article: The 1996 Metro’s average of 40 miles per gallon nears that of the hybrid 2008 Toyota Prius … Continue reading

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huge list of random firefox links

Firefox 3 goes on a diet, eats less memory than IE and Opera Ryan Paul talks about what a big changes we’ve made since Firefox 2 in our memory handling and also compares against other browsers as well. Nice to … Continue reading

Posted in Apple, Design, Firefox, Freedom, GNOME, Linux, Mobile, Mozilla, Open Web, WebKit | 3 Comments

interview on linux.com

Yes, this is more shameless self-promotion because it’s an interview with me. I did an interview a little while ago with Tina Gasperson and it’s up on linux.com. I spent some time talking about building success with a product instead … Continue reading

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pile of random firefox and mozilla stuff

I have a pile-o-stuff to post about here. In no particular order. Interview with John Lilly on GigaOM Interview starts about 4 minutes in. There’s a large number of people in the Mozilla community (outside of the Corporation staff) that … Continue reading

Posted in Design, Firefox, GNOME, Linux, Mobile, Mozilla, Red Hat, Speaking | 1 Comment

Firefox 3: rocking on Linux

A few people have been noticing how good our support on Linux has gotten during the Firefox 3 development cycle and I thought I would post to try and point out some of the good stuff that we have coming … Continue reading

Posted in Design, Firefox, GNOME, Linux, Mozilla | 41 Comments

random links for 2007-10-18

Design is Arrogance. Design is Humility. Indeed, I feel that I fight this battle inside myself all the time. When do you assert? When do you listen? When do you draw out what people are feeling when you think they … Continue reading

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random links for 2007-10-15

Lots of random stuff is showing on the Intertron today. A random sampling: Lessons about failure. Talking about the importance of failing fast. Try and avoid the success bias if you can. Corollary is that the way to succeed is … Continue reading

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I clearly live on the wrong coast

I wonder if they would let me build a plane in this place. (The classes alone look like pure gold.

Posted in Design, techshop | 9 Comments

great iphone review from david pogue

[ Via Leon. ] David Pogue has a wonderful little review of the iPhone. He’s an acquired taste, I think, but fits my sense of humor very well: silly, good points, and lots of over the top audience participation. I … Continue reading

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mesh networking overview in red hat magazine

Dan Williams, John Palmieri and Miguel Alvarez talk about the mesh networking in the laptop. They talk about the low level connectivity bits as well as the higher level set of activities and architecture that we’re building. Great job guys! … Continue reading

Posted in Design, GNOME, OLPC, Red Hat | 3 Comments