If you’re interested, please drop me a line at my email address, Twitter, or Google+.

For those of you who might read this and work at Mozilla, I will miss you and love what you’ve done for the web. I just feel lucky that I’ve had the chance to be a part of it. And for those of you who use the web every day I feel lucky to have an active hand in the technology that you’ll be using tomorrow.

Everyone is asking what’s next for me, so I’ll mention that here too. I’m trying something new and starting in the next week or so I’m going to be joining a very small start-up that’s based in Palo Alto. I happened to stumble across an amazing team that’s doing great (and difficult!) work that deals with the intersection of systems, compilers, and web-scale problems. It’s not browser work so it will be a bit of a change for me. But I’m super excited to be able to help drive a product that will positively affect the lives of a large number of web developers and improve the web at the same time.

This is part of our larger effort to bring open video to the web. We’ve been glad to work with NVIDIA and Youtube on this project building the solution entirely on open standards like WebM and HTML5. Our hope is that by lowering the barrier for 3D video on the web, we’ll see more interesting apps being build on open web technologies.

This feature requires that you have 3D Vision hardware. If you do have 3D Vision Hardware, go to youtube.com and search for ‘yt3d‘. Files encoded with 3D have this tag. You will also have to set your 3D mode for the type of hardware you have.

Even if you don’t have the hardware, trust me. This feature is pretty cool. I was able to load up some 3D trailers on youtube and it was pretty amazing to see a little world appear in the video box.

The article itself clocks in at 9 pages, but it’s worth reading all the way through.  In particular, reading the full article leads to the last two pages, which contain some possible connections that I had not seen until this article.  Truly scary stuff.

Just applied to try to be part of GOIN’ FOR BROKEN 2011, a real 24-hour race. I’m imagining what it will be like to wake up at 3am, climb into a car, and go out on a race track with other foolish people. They run this one 10am-10am. Should be an experience of a lifetime.

Here was my application.

TEAM JUDGEBUSTERS       *
Plantiff                *        IN THE
                        *       SUPREME COURT
v.                      *       FOR
                        *       24 HOURS OF
RENO-FERNLEY            *       LEMONS
RACEWAY                 *
Defendant               *
                        *       CIVIL ACTION: 555
                        *
*  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *

Team Judge Busters, Plaintiff, by Christopher Blizzard, and his attorneys,
sues the defendant, Reno-Fernley Raceway, and in support, states as follows:

PREAMBLE

1. Team Judge Busters, Plaintiff, is a resident of California.
2. Reno-Fernley Raceway, Defendant, is a resident of Nevada.
3. The defendant is currently a resident of Fernley, Nevada.
4. This action arises from a road race, scheduled to occur on May 14, 2011
through May 15, 2011.  This event will not take place on public roads.

STATEMENT OF FACTS

5. This road race is a 24 hour race, without breaks and without mercy.  The
Judge Busters team is currently scheduled to run their very first race at
Sears Pointless, yet sees yet another opportunity for risk and stupidity on
display in the desert wasteland of Nevada.  This dubious opportunity is
enough to raise the interests of these several drivers who will make the journey
to partake in the pointless exercise of chasing other, similarly
intellectually-challenged teams around a track, passing the same point over and
over again, accomplishing nothing and proving even less.

COUNT ONE

Plaintiff, Team Judge Busters realleges and incorporates by reference all those
facts and allegations in paragraphs 1 through 5 above and futher alleges:

6. This action is reckless and dangerous, and only fools are likely to participate.
  a. That Team Judge Busters is populated by said fools.
  b. That should the car hold together, the Team will complete said race.
  c. That Team Judge Busters will drive like non-asshats.

7. All of the Plantiff's losses are their own damn fault, and this racing this is a really
really bad idea.

WHEREFORE, the Plaintiff claims ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND ONE
DOLLARS ($1,501.00) in damages.

Respectfully Submitted,
Christopher Blizzard, Esq., DDS, MD, POS