In grad school, I remember a conversation across the campus green with an visiting psychologist from Harvard. I don’t remember much about the conversation except that he introduced me to Isaiah Berlin’s notion of the Hedgehog and the Fox, and correctly pegged me as a Fox. I think I was a bit offended at the [...]
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Personal computing in a decentralized world: a hopeful direction
I’ve been having a really stimulating few weeks, which is making me feel oddly optimistic, so I figured I’d spread the cheer. It’s been somewhat quieter than usual in my little corner of Mozilla, as many of my colleagues were busy preparing for on our big announcements and demos at Mobile World Congress. This lull [...]
Maturation of the hosting provider market
I’ve been considering switching hosting providers for a little while, as my current provider, while cheap, has been slower and slower, making me think that they’re not managing their hosts super well. And I figured it’d be good to get a feel for how that part of the market has evolved. A tweet and some [...]
IETF in Vancouver in December
I think I’ll crash (no, really, register) some sessions & BOFs. Any suggestions? Some of the words that stood out so far: vCardDAV, Sieve, Calsify, S/MIME, SASL.
I feel really bad for the Fotango team
I was quite interested in seeing what the Fotango team was working on with their Zimki server-side JavaScript system. Unfortunately, from what the grapevine says, their parent company wasn’t so interested. In the mail today: We regret to inform you that the Zimki service is to be withdrawn and therefore will no longer be available [...]
heading to foocamp!
For the first time my schedule is compatible with attending tim o’reilly’s foocamp, and I got one of the precious but hopefully less controversial invitations. It should be a great weekend (assuming I can work around my missing us passport..)
The secret to cheap tech support is to hide it…
Bought a Dell laptop a year or so ago. Got the fancy warranty to deal with the inevitable juice spills. Juice spill happens. Tried to get a replacement keyboard. It is stunningly hard to get to the right part of the website (being in Canada doesn’t help). Tried calling. On hold for a half-hour. No [...]
Google Summer of Code
So it’s finally live! I’m talking about the Google Summer of Code, a program whereby Google spends $$’s via open source foundations (such as our own Python Software Foundation) to students in exchange for code. I’m happy to see this project actually happen, and I hope it’s successful for all involved. I heard about it [...]
Productivity boost with feeddemon & bloglines
Install feeddemon 1.5 trial (still trying to figure out an alternative to bloglines) Enable the bloglines synchronization feature Decide the keyboard navigation still feels awkward, and still don’t like having to read blogs in the websites (not as fast as bloglines’ “everyone looks the same” model). Go back to bloglines, and notice that feeddemon marked [...]
Productivity boost with feeddemon & bloglines
Install feeddemon 1.5 trial (still trying to figure out an alternative to bloglines) Enable the bloglines synchronization feature Decide the keyboard navigation still feels awkward, and still don’t like having to read blogs in the websites (not as fast as bloglines’ “everyone looks the same” model). Go back to bloglines, and notice that feeddemon marked [...]
