When I browse the web looking to purchase a service, I find there are two pretty distinct kinds of sites. One feels like it was made in the early 90′s: it’s mostly functional, almost renders correctly, and has the odd combination of distracting images and colors we thought was a good idea back then. The [...]
Tagged open webI used to get several hundred spam emails a day on micropipes.com. I wasn’t thrilled with having a four or five digit message count in my spam folder, but I deleted the few that slipped through each day and didn’t think about it much more. Someone else running a domain on this server got enough [...]
Tagged mailI think it must be my old age shining through but rather than go down to the meeting and cause hate and discontent I decided to repair a hole in my kitchen floor instead. As much as I enjoy awkward conversations (when I’m the instigator), it just seemed like a lot of effort – and [...]
Tagged drama, grey area, o rlyThis afternoon my neighbor (who I’d never met before) showed up at my door with a bundle of bright pink papers. He explained to me that he was inviting me to a meeting tomorrow at our local library that would help me make vast amounts of money. Oh really? I probed for some details but [...]
Tagged drama, grey area, o rlyMozilla’s SVN repository was started on September 2nd, 2006 and just hit 10000 commits. That’s an average of over 19 commits a day for 520 days straight! After my positive experience with python I was gearing up for a script to do some repository analysis when I ran across MPY SVN Stats. After a fast [...]
Tagged code, Mozilla, open web, SVNI took the afternoon off work so I could drive to Portland to attend Ignite Portland. The introduction didn’t start until 6:20pm – I drove past the theatre at 4:45pm and there was already a line. The 500 person seating limit was filled while there were still people waiting in line. I slipped in with [...]
Tagged pdxFirefox 3 is coming down the pipeline along with a pile of great new features like caching web apps so they are available offline and the new Places API that provides a powerful interface to your bookmarks and history. No need to fret if your extensions will be compatible though – here’s the lowdown on [...]
Tagged add-ons, Firefox, Mozilla