Archive for May, 2009

The folks we know

Seth has blogged his response to Walt Mossberg’s interview with Mitchell and John, on top of the already great answer the two provided in the interview on Why wouldn’t it just be better for the consumer to go with the company that’s hired experts to do its translations? and here’s my take. The essential point [...]

Riding the Duck

I heard that quite a few folks wondered what it is like to take one of those amphibian truck tours in San Francisco. I took the one offered by San Francisco Ducks, there’s another provider called Bay Quackers. The tour was a mixed experience. The actual ride is fun, and there are some parts that [...]

Thoughts on killing tinderbox, foundations

I figured it’d be a good idea to just dump my thinkings on killing tinderbox (as in the the web interface to mozilla’s builds). As just the background information grows to a lengthy post, I’ll cut them into pieces. To point you where I’m heading, the executive summary of my thinking is: Killing tinderbox is [...]