Today as the first day we had snow in 2004 here on PEI
Firefox 1.0 is here!
It is 4:51AM Atlantic time and I am sitting in bed with my laptop on my lap. One minute ago, Ben Goodger gave me the final word and I made this CVS commit to the mozilla.org website:
steven%silverorange.com 2004-11-09 00:50
People of Earth, I give you Firefox 1.0
It’s been a long time coming, but Firefox 1.0 is here. See 1.0 announcement posts on Mitchell Baker’s weblog and Ben Goodger’s weblog.
It is an honour to be a part of this announcement.
Wiretap on CBC Radio
I’m not exactly sure what the CBC Radio program, Wiretap, is. Comedy, I guess. Regardless, it is fantastic. Jonathan Goldstein has a perfect dry radio voice. Here is a 9.6MB MP3 of Wiretap from Nov 6, 2004. Worth a listen – highly recommended.
Firefox 1.0: Coming Tuesday November 9, 2004
Rob Davis on NPR’s Future Tense about the Firefox New York Times ad campaign
This song about a plate of nachos sent in by a reader is surprisingly amusing (reminds me of Adam Sandler)
Icon Illustration In Practice
Jakub Steiner is an artist that works on Linux icons and interfaces at Novell. He is responsible for much of the look and feel of the Gnome icon set.
This week, he posted a fascinating movie of his illustration process. He was drawing a small dog/puppy icon for a notification panel applet and recorded the entire illustration process.
As he suggests, you should watch the video at a high speed, since it would be a bit long to watch the whole thing in real-time (about 10 minutes). I’ve re-encoded his video at a faster speed: download the high-speed version of Jakub’s video.
More rumblings about Adobe making open-source moves and some apt speculation from Novell’s Garrett LeSage
CBC is experimenting with Ogg Vorbis free/open audio streaming – excellent! (hat tip to nathan for calling them on their proprietary formats)
CNN: Election Tied!?!
According to CNN, as of this morning, the election is exactly tied!
