Archive for February, 2006

February 10, 2006 19

The Danger of Mediocrity

By morgamic in Mozilla, OSL, Technology

Addons make the difference between a regular web browser and a browser that just got “pimped” (you can also pimp your email client, too ). Having a wide variety of extensions and themes helps developers and product managers focus on core features the majority of users will need without having to simply say, [...]

February 8, 2006 2

Between the Bars

By morgamic in Personal, Society

Edin thought it was funny that people who don’t have real problems sing angry songs.
So I thought about it on the drive home from Portland late Saturday night after we sent off Rick to Seattle. Some thoughts crossed my mind:

Was the grunge movement just whiny drifters mad about their station in life?
Pseudo-existentialism aside, what [...]

February 7, 2006 4

SQL Weirdness

By morgamic in Mozilla, OSL, Technology

Maybe I was just really tired from putting together my toolbox, but I couldn’t figure out why my initial query didn’t work last night when I was debugging the SQL for the Extend Firefox Finalists Page. The original SQL query would not sort the result set based on v.vid DESC and I would receive [...]