Archive for May, 2005

Sarcasm Found

Considering I’m about the most sarcastic person you’ll ever meet in your entire life, I bet you won’t care about this.
I’m curious if that region in my brain is larger than normal.

Monkey Monkey on my window

Did I mention I love a good Monkey icon? Grease Monkey is pretty cool regardless of the icon or name. But Grease Monkey just rocks with the name and icon!
Best thing I’ve seen since I spotted this little guy:

Be on the lookout for him in a NVU polo shirt.

Podcasting in iTunes, Intel Inside

iTunes is said to support podcasting in version 4.9, set for release within 60 days. Boy is that an endorsement to a movement. Also there’s yet another rumor that Apple may start using Intel processors in it’s products [Mac Observer link]. Apple has been said to have a x86 version of Mac [...]

Reporter Tool Changes

In the past week since we initially landed reporter we’ve fixed a few regressions, nits, and made an enhancement (now capturing gecko ID). Here the bugs for those interested:
281714 Not capturing gecko ID
294543 Reporter Doesn’t get the Correct Product Name/Version
294972 Reporter’s back/next buttons behaving badly
295156 Reporter should use rel=”nofollow” to deter spammers
293254 Reporter fails [...]

Is PageRank Dead

Google essentially started in 1996 when Larry Page and Sergey Brin started work on”BackRub” and quickly morphed into the Google we know today. The premise of their search engine has been a mythological technique known as “Page Rank”. Which Google briefly discusses:
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using [...]

Crying While Eating

Yup, this is officially the end of the internet. Crying While Eating. So wacky and far out there, I really don’t get it. It’s somewhat funny, yet sobering at the same time. What will they think of next?

Wanted: ProductName/Version

Were down to one reporter bug that needs to be fixed ASAP. Were not always getting the correct Product. By product I mean productName/productVersion. For example “Firefox/1.0+” or “SeaMonkey/1.8b2″. The below code is what’s currently being used. general.useragent.extra.firefox is not exactly reliable, even less so than I originally thought. [...]

Master I have mail for you

This has been my notification sound on my computer for a few years now when I have incoming mail in Thunderbird (about every minute). Yea it’s silly and rediculus, but you know something: I still find it funny after all this time. My computer is on mute 90% of the time anyway. [...]

Reporter is semi-live!

It’s great after about 10 months since the idea first came up, to see this project actually get somewhere.
Checkout Asa’s blog for the scoop on getting a build. Give it a run, and let us know of any bugs (perfer you enter them in bugzilla rather than a comment).
You can go to the reporter [...]

Rob Talks Food: HoJo’s shutdown, Pizza

Fark just reminded me that the famous Howard Johnsons in Time Square (actually Broadway, 46th) is closing down. A good place for Apple Pie Alamode before a Yankee game. Or well, pretty much anything. Guess I’ll have to go here instead.
Speaking of food: Flipping channels during breakfast I stumbled on Ray [...]