Archive | May, 2006

European Mozilla Conference?

on 23-May-2006 in Lizard

There is a lot of talk in the Mozilla blogosphere about the role of conferences for Mozilla developers, fallout from Gerv’s post-XTech post. I just want to put my weight behind the idea of a Mozilla Conference in Europe. Hereafter is mostly a repeat of a comment I wrote in Gerv’s post. I’ve never been [...]

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Pyramid in Bosnia?

on 12-May-2006 in General, Out There, Slovenia, Travel

An archeological side is being examined in a hill in Visoko, Bosnia. In Slovene, ‘visok’ means tall, an apt name for a hilly town. It is thought that the hill conceals an ancient pyramid, the first of its kind discovered in (modern-day) Europe. Is this evidence that Egyptian culture spread its wings out this far, [...]

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Ongoing Contamination

on 7-May-2006 in General, Science & Technology

If you read the news at all, you’ve likely seem many stories about the 20th anniversary (somehow doesn’t seem like the right word) since the Chernobyl nuclear accident in the former Soviet Union (now territory of Ukraine). I’d urge everyone to follow this link to an excellent photo essay at PixelPress on the subject, or [...]

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mozdev.org Web Developer Job Available

on 6-May-2006 in General, Lizard

We are looking for people who will help keep mozdev.org running smoothly. Successful candidates will be familiar with the services that mozdev.org offers and will be dedicated to making our site the main incubator for Mozilla extension and application development. Web Application Developer We are looking for a developer to help us improve the functionality [...]

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Desktop Linux Summit Day 2

on 2-May-2006 in Events, Lizard, Science & Technology, Travel

Part 2 of a 2-part report. Part 1 is here. DAY 2 Tuesday morning started for me in the ‘Using’ track with an interesting talk by Peter van der Linden on his adventures in partitioning and multiple installs. I thought I was doing well with a 3 distro boot system, but Peter got up to [...]

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