I made it! Starting today, I’ll be working from Mozilla Headquarters in Mountain View, California.
If you haven’t ran into me yet, feel free to step by and say hi. I was very happy to get such a warm welcome today, and I actually found it quite fun to be introduced as one of the “new hires” in today’s all-hands meeting. 
I am delighted to report that in the project I am currently working on, I get to play with a lot of smiley faces:
Hope that lightens up your day a little
(Yes, you guessed right: For every smiley page there is an equivalent with a frowny face, but sheesh, don’t tell anyone 
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Google Calendar has a new feature that many international Mozillians may like: It can now display more than one time zone at a time. In my case, lining up the Central European and Pacific time zones next to each other comes in quite handy:
Of course, when entering a new event, it does not seem to allow selecting the time zone this refers to quite yet, let’s hope that’ll be fixed in a future iteration.
My colleague Dave made a little Google Maps mashup, illustrating where in the world Mozilla employees are. The result is quite an impressive map:
Over at Dave’s blog, you can actually zoom in to see more closely where people are. The one in Munich, Germany, is yours truly, by the way.
I am happy to announce that starting this week, April 1, (and no, that’s not an April Fool’s joke) I am working full-time on the Mozilla WebDev team. I have been involved with the Mozilla project since 2006, and I have since been able to experience just how great all of the Mozilla community is. I am looking forward to working with the many awesome people who make Mozilla what it is, and who are as excited about the future of the Open Web as I am.
There is a lot in store for us: Firefox 3.5′s release is rapidly approaching, and the Web is concerning more people in the world than ever before. Though it is not all “smooth sailing”, and there are a lot of dangers for the Open Web and for the people who use and rely on it, I am still, or maybe all the more, excited to make a contribution to the development of the Web landscape, for the good of millions of Firefox users, and 1.5 billion Internet users as a whole.
Let’s do it!
Userfriendly.org published a funny little picture about the second Microsoft cake:
They should have covered the Firefox 2 cake instead: After all, it still rendered in black and white
(Thanks for the link, Jean Pierre!)
Minefield, pfft… what kind of name is that?
From a funny love letter Mozilla received. It’s part of a nice picture series wired.com took at the Mozilla headquarters. Check it out.
Fred Wenzel manages the Rapid Web Development team at Mozilla. fredericiana is his blog about the things he runs across between American West Coast and southern Germany.
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