Acts of Volition

I'm at the Gnome Summit at the Frank Gehry designed MIT Stata Center in Boston until tuesday. Check out the floorplan.

Being as humble as I am, it can be difficult for me when I’m showered with praise. However, it does soften the humility blow when the praise is written cleverly and with wit. Such is the case in my selection as Volunteer of the Week at SpreadFirefox.com.  •  SpreadFirefox.com, is a community site …

CBC Radio’s head geek, Tod Maffin, did a great piece about Firefox for CBC Radio today. I was invited into the local evening CBC Radio show, Mainstreet with Matt Rainnie to talk about the local connection we have to Firefox.  •  Today, Mainstreet played Todd’s piece and followed up with my …

Perhaps because I frequent web news outlets with a geeky bent, I’ve seen a lot of negative reaction to Microsoft’s Service Pack 2 update to Windows XP. Much of this criticism is understandable. Microsoft has been pushing the security issue hard, and it will be near impossible for them to live up … read more »

It's up! The new design for Mozilla.org by Daniel Burka, myself, and the others here at silverorange, working with the brilliant and patient people at the Mozilla Foundation has just gone live.  •  Here's the CVS checkin:  •  “dbaron%dbaron.org - 2004-08-31 14:31  •  Landing BETA_20040721_BRANCH …

There has been lots of helpful feedback to our public beta of the new Mozilla.org website.  •  We’ve fixed many of the issues that arose during the beta and we’re aiming to launch the new site tomorrow evening (Tuesday, Aug 31). This is a final call for critical issues before we launch. Feedback …

I was contacted this week by Alexander Klimetschek, who has built on the work of Hal Hockersmith to get finally get out a version 0.3 of the Luna Blue Theme for Mozilla Thunderbird.  •  My motivation for working on this theme was purely selfish, and now that I’m running Linux instead of Windows, I …

The excellent instant-messaging program/project, Gaim, could use a new logo. It would need to be something simple and elegant that works well as a little 16-pixel system-tray icon, as a full-size application icon, in larger spots (login screen, about dialog, etc.) and in other locations with … read more »

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