Monthly Archives: January 2009

7 facts about me

So, it finally happened—I’ve been tagged by Stephen Donner. I’ve not been one to follow memes in this blog, but this one’s been going around the Mozillasphere for awhile now and has been kind of interesting. I’m half-tempted to bookmark and tag all the entries I’ve caught so far. Anyway, the rules: Link [...]

Tags do work (for me, at least)

For the “too long; didn’t read” crowd: I’ve been using a lot of tags on Delicious over a relatively long time, so they seem very useful to me. Delicious encourages the use of tags through UI convention and tool usage patterns, whereas Flickr presents no particular bias toward collecting tags from users. Since title and description attract more [...]

Enter the LizardFeeder

Behind Firefox is Mozilla, and behind Mozilla is a community. And the Mozilla community acts a lot like an ecosystem, which can be visualized as a kind of living tree—not to confused with the mozilla-central tree. Oh yeah, and Mozilla is the name of both a Foundation and a Corporation. Confused yet? If [...]

Resolutions

So, after all that, I suppose the thing to do for a new year is to figure out what’s next, maybe compose some disposable resolutions for the coming months. Well, here are some off the top of my head: Spend time with my lovely wife. Eat less, move more. Write more. Be a valuable contributor at Mozilla. Make a few [...]

Three Years in Review

It’s been a busy 3 years or so. Yes, this promises to be one of those posts I seem to keep writing. It’s not quite LiveJournal material, but it’ll be completely devoid of code or any notable geekery—so feel free to move along. In late 2005 to early 2006, after a busy and stressful [...]