No More Typos

Million Pixels

Are these million pixels for firefox actually going to the mozilla corporation?

Well, I can certainly say they won't be going to the Mozilla Corporation since it doesn't accept donations!

Bugzilla Spam!

I think I've received some very targetted spam from my Bugzilla account:

Dear Gids,

Yoxel Systems is proud to present a demo account showcasing our exciting
on-demand software and IT project management services:

http://www.yoxel.com

The data used in our Firefox demo account is the actual data from Firefox's Bugzilla
that is represented in a way that allows you to have an alternative way of
viewing and analyzing the current state of the product. You can generate various reports,
graphs and charts which are not provided to anonymous users of the original database
otherwise.

While the purpose of the account is mainly to be a demo vehicle for
Yoxel Systems' services and capabilities we believe the actual content and its
representation could be of certain interest to you.

Happy New Year,
Yoxel Systems Info Team

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Yoxel Systems is a privately held ASP company dedicated to developing
intelligent and flexible solutions to optimize and automate project
management and customer support.

If these people have been harvesting Mozilla Bugzilla perhaps someone should be cracking the whip, they could just as easily get legitimate publicity on Mozillazine or the like.

Jorge has it right

Jorge Writes:
We're all in the same boat stuck with crappy hardware drivers, nearly non-existant ISV support, no common developer platform, and an increasing amount of momentum users willing to just give up on a Free Desktop and go buy Macs. And we're arguing about a print dialog! @!#$%@#$%!!!!

I can vouch for Jorge on that one having been in that exact situation. Trying to get people to use Linux and being stumped by broken printer drivers. The hoopla to get the thing on paper was akin to Danny Williams doing Ballet. To permit me a trashy metaphor, if the Linux Desktop is a steep hill, printer drivers are the sloshy mud right at the bottom, never mind if it's pretty nearer the top!

T-Shirt arrived

My T-Shirt arrived in the post this morning. Very cool indeed.

Why I choose GMail over Thunderbird

In Thunderbird

Select All--> Mark as Read ..... two minutes later ..... done

In Gmail

Select--> Actions --. Mark as Read ...... 10 seconds later ..... done

vive le difference

Firefox T-Shirt!

Ordered a T-Shirt from the new Mozilla International Store today.

Hope all goes well with my order,

I'll blog again when it arrives (fingers-crossed)

Google Space - Firefox usability lab!

Am I the only one to notice Google's new Heathrow Web Cafée computers are running Firefox? They make an ideal location for real-world usability studies!

Hat tip to ZDet for the image from their gallery