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Tried to get the car washed but apparently on a sunny warm day, my intentions are the same as everyone else on the planet - not going to wait an 2 hours, I'll go back
After Five Years on the Web Firefox Preps for the Next Round - http://www.webmonkey.com/blog...
"Vladimir Vukićević was working at the Mozilla office when Firefox was first released into the wild. “All of our servers melted instantly,” Vukićević says. “We spent an hour trying to get the downloads back up.” Indeed, the anticipation around the release of Firefox 1.0 on November 9, 2004 — five years ago Monday — was electric. Mozilla had already produced its own eponymous browser based on open source code in 2002, but it was largely considered a failure. Firefox was the organization’s great re-do, and its second attempt to unseat its biggest nemesis, Microsoft Internet Explorer. A half-decade later, Firefox is no longer a scrappy upstart but a dominant player. Old rival IE still commands around 60 percent of the market share, but close to a quarter of the web now uses Firefox — a formidable number which speaks to its success as an open source project. At a time when nobody wanted to go toe-to-toe with Microsoft, thousands of disparate programmers rose to the challenge, landing...
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Introducing MongoDB | Linux Magazine - http://www.linux-mag.com/cache...
Martian landscapes - The Big Picture - Boston.com - http://www.boston.com/bigpict...
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It's been a while since I've hung out here. I'd forgotten how much more interesting and fun it is. Guess I'm back...
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Welcome back
- Amit Morson
welcome back to the undead site ;)
- alphaxion
This is exactly what I mean....thx :)
- Kevin Cearns
Zombies........LOL
- Eric Logan
Sleet and a traffic accident on the 400 - all's right with the world http://myloc.me/show....
Kevin taking some time tomorrow to visit a great aunt...although i wish the visit was a little further north than it is.
Kevin intending to get some work done but I've been distracted by upgrades (9.10 netbook remix, 9.10 desktop, itunes, apple TV)...the list goes on.
Kevin sales call claiming google docs servers in Canada - I say prove it to me, and haven't heard back - thought so.
Politics is about the party and not the people, this article puts that truth centre stage http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs....
Lunch, apple store, meeting - in that order http://myloc.me/show....
Kevin working on a price chart for the web site before I start dinner...
Kevin it appears the upgrade to Karmic Koala (more fun than saying 9.10) went flawlessly...
I think I'll put a pot of coffee on and finish up some paperwork while my workstation upgrades to 9.10 http://myloc.me/show....
Listening to the latest Muse album and realizing I have a very European musical taste.
Kevin looking forward to Karmic Koala http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009....
Kevin my share of the housework done - going to work through the sammy.js tutorial and then knock some items off my to do list.
Picking up some bits and pieces for dinner... http://myloc.me/show....
Waiting for a meeting to start - debating going home afterwards http://myloc.me/show....
Interesting that mozilla's raindrop utilizes couchdb...seems natural for a distributed communication platform... http://myloc.me/show....
I didn't expect to see Twitter updates appearing in google searches yet - but there they are...
I didn't expect to see Twitter updates appearing in google searches yet - but there they are...
Giving a new BB twitter client a try - obligatory first tweet.
no sleep last night - wondering if I can disappear for an hour or so before I have to spend the afternoon at a client
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