Today is Download Day over at Mozilla, conveniently coinciding with the launch of Firefox 3 final. They’re shooting (obliquely) for a record of most downloaded software. Understandably, the press coverage would be quite nourishing to their cause. As of this writing, there are just under 2 million downloads recorded. Given that Download Day extends until … Continue reading
I am now back in the U.S. My kind sister and wonderful mother picked me up at the airport in Philly, I had dinner at my sister’s place, then drove up to Harrisburg to overnight it here. It’s only 1am here, but that’s 7am Germany time, so I think I’m going to turn in now. … Continue reading
I will be traveling this week and thus incommunicado. I haven’t yet decided where or when or what yet, but I’m going to buy some travel essentials at the store across the street, charge my MP3 player, then go down to the main train station and pick a place. I likely will not post again … Continue reading
This weekend I’ll be chilling at Rock im Park, a 3-day long festival with a lot of bands and drinking and camping. We’re actually set to be leaving in a few minutes, and I haven’t even thrown stuff into a bag yet. I’ve been nominated as the driver up to Nürnberg, which should make for … Continue reading
For quite some time now, I’ve been working on cobbling together a stay in Taiwan in autumn 2008. I got accepted into the program after a rather nominal screening process (I assume the applicant pool is rather small, as rudimentary knowledge of Mandarin was a prerequisite), but the clincher was the scholarship for which I’d … Continue reading