Well, greetings from Whistler, BC! It’s raining, but sessions have started so we don’t really hang out too much outside at the moment anyway. And while meals are outside, they are luckily in a tent. Phew.

Of course at lunch, I was stirring the salad dressing and promptly a round piece of glass at the bottom of the jar broke out and decided to flood my pants with what I believe was yummy while still in the jar. Always good to have a pair of spare pants.

I added some pictures to ipernity already, so go over there if you’d like to see what I took pictures of. I also wrote some code to import ipernity into summit.mozilla.org, where I hope it’ll show up soon.

Enjoy!

Yay, I am out and about for the Mozilla Summit 2008 in the beautiful Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.

It’s going to be an exciting week with a lot of people I know and haven’t seen in a long time, and there will be many new people to meet as well. I am looking forward to it!

Whistler itself is a breathtaking place, they say, so I am particularly thrilled that such a great place was picked for the event. I know at least one of my friends is jealous because he’d love to go mountain-biking there!

If you want to see what’s going on at the Mozilla Summit, hop on over to summit.mozilla.org, a new mash-up site showing tons of media related to the summit. Soon it’ll look much fuller than this:

I’ll write again when I’m there

Recently I got caught up in Wikipedia again, this times investigating the computer games of my youth One of them was Commander Keen, whose page sent me straight to the Dopefish.

Soon after I felt the urge to put a dopefish on a t-shirt. What do you think of that design?

Or, do you prefer this (possibly less obtrusive) version?

Now it has happened: As an effect of the urgent need for a weekend, I registered with twitter. Only adding people I could think of easily, I am not “following” 37 people

Of course, my twitter experience started all peachy right off the bat, by first giving me site errors:

 
(hey, at least they are pretty)

… and then I noticed something weird about the times they show on every page:

“ungefähr 1 Stunde ago from web…” … is that… Germenglish? Englerman?

But let’s not be discouraged. They probably just started their announced maintenance window four hours early

Anyone else think I forgot to “follow” them on twitter? Leave a comment.

The Firefox world record attempt has just weighed in with a whopping 8 million downloads (plus change) in a 24-hour period.

And, as I recently noticed, each Firefox instance carries my name among the men and women mentioned in the credits list (for my work on the Mozilla Add-ons project):

Awesome (did I mention I dig my name being spelled correctly?)

If you want to see who else is on the list, click on “About Firefox” in the help (or Firefox, on Mac) menu, then “Credits”.

Thanks to Mike Connor (who I believe put me on the list) and to everybody who made Firefox 3 such a great product.

Nice, I ordered a “radioactive” t-shirt from Assault last week and it was just delivered. Here’s the design:

Looks like a pretty nice piece of fabric, doesn’t it?

The shirt is made by American Apparel — usually I don’t like AA, but I gave them another try. Why I don’t like them? Because the shape of their shirts is kind of weird, and they are usually way too small: In particular, when I get an M it fits pretty well the first day, but once I wash it, it shrinks far enough to resemble a small, making it a perfectly fine… cleaning rag. A colleague of mine once got a Women’s S and after when it arrived, it turned out so small she passed it on to her 7-year-old daughter (!). They even offer women’s XS and XXS. These must be either baby clothes, or they want to cater anorexic hollywood stars. Either option weirds me out.

So anyway, judging by this logic, I ordered an L, which is just a little too big on me right now — let’s hope it shrinks to a perfect M when I first wash it. If it shrinks further than that (and no, I am not washing it on “hot”), I’ll have to take it to the office and put it up for grabs–somebody sure has a kid at home it’ll fit.

For none of my other shirts I ever needed such elaborate considerations, so I am sorry but American Apparel sucks. While they are perfectly aware of their shirts “running small”, it will probably forever remain their secret why they don’t just go ahead and make shirts in the right size from the get-go…

That went quite quick: I looked at two places and the second one was good enough so I took it. It’s a little room in Squirrel Hill, furnished and with air condition (believe me, that is important here). I even have an own bathroom. (And, as I mentioned earlier, I have decent cable TV that allows me to watch Euro 2008 soccer — yay for the landlady!)

At the moment however I live in a different room of the house because the current person to live in my room-to-be will only move out on July 15.

Either way, I am happy to have found a place to stay.

Murray Avenue, Squirrel Hill’s main street (picture off Wikipedia)

By the way, the neighborhood is really nice, there are a lot of families living there, it’s very close to amenities (grocery store, restaurants, post office, even a liquor store) and it’s a really short walk to the bus stop too.

Looks like I’m all set — Now I only need to write my master’s thesis. Peanuts!