Acts of Volition

I wrote last year about a simple marvel of real-world standards when a paint-roller handle broke and we were able to screw in a broom handle into the same socket (fantastic!).  •  I was amused and amazed at lunch the other day by my colleague Peter Rukavina with another simple display of standards …

When looking for help in creating an improved set of sounds for the open-source instant messaging application, Gaim, I turned to a virtual rock star. The ironically named Brad Sucks was a great help and came back with a great set of sounds.  •  Here, for contrast, are the previous set of Gaim …

Yesterday’s Firefox launch garnered a lot of press. I noticed a peculiar pattern emerging on some of the news sites. There seems to be a whole weird underworld of hastily-photoshopped graphics for news sites.  •  Here is a collection of some images from some Firefox 1.0 launch news articles I …

It is 4:51AM Atlantic time and I am sitting in bed with my laptop on my lap. One minute ago, Ben Goodger gave me the final word and I made this CVS commit to the mozilla.org website:  •  “  •  steven%silverorange.com 2004-11-09 00:50  •  People of Earth, I give you Firefox 1.0  •  ”  •  It’s been …

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 …

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 …

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 …