Rob Sayre's Mozilla Blog

UPSO Stuff

rsayre — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:02:57 +0000

My friend Dustin has some posters and tote bags for sale.

I think the tote bags are for a good cause and the posters are pure capitalism.

Here Comes Everybody

rsayre — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:12:50 +0000

Clay Shirky’s latest post really hit me hard. I found it very uplifting.

When I was young, I wasted the same hours that Clay did in front of the television*, so I think it’s positive that kids are on their computers and phones, destroying the English language. A lot of my current lot in life comes down to Internet participation. I’ve gotten jobs, contributed to open source, made friends, made enemies, had wonderful intellectual conversations, written incredibly stupid and hurtful things, published my thoughts, had a recording of myself making an incredibly nerdy speech circulated on YouTube, found an apartment that came with roomates who became friends, answered random craigslist ads, helped someone out of a jam, damaged my permanent record, done things I’m proud of, done things I regret, traveled to far away places, lost my shit, acted holier-than-thou, reviewed restaurants, given noise-canceling headphone product advice, sent random email, had a black hat phase, and contributed to a community. I would do it again.

A lot of this happened in “spare time”. At least I wasn’t watching television.

* Mary Ann is way hotter. How could it even be a debate?

Mason Chang on Tamarin

rsayre — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:49:50 +0000

Mason has a great tour of Tamarin on his blog.

Fennec

rsayre — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:42:17 +0000

Check out this Ars.Technica post on Fennec. Our mobile efforts are going really well. I guess we should get around to adding ARM-specific optimizations, like we do for x86, PPC, and SPARC.

Fire and Motion

rsayre — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:58:39 +0000

Joel Spolsky: What do you do if you find yourself reacting to a rival’s agenda instead of setting your own? Break the cycle as fast as you can. What do you do if you find yourself reacting to a rival’s agenda instead of setting your own? The answer is to break the cycle as fast as you can.

In the web browser space, this applies to working groups and editors, too.

Google Inc.’s Statement about IPR related to RFC 5023 and RFC 4287

rsayre — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:41:17 +0000

https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/942/

Got this in the mail today… uh, OK.

Update: My RFC 4287 co-editor Mark Nottingham won’t link to this nonsense, but I’ll link to him.

From: IETF Secretariat
Subject: Posting of IPR Disclosure
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 12:32:10 -0700 (PDT)

Dear Mark Nottingham, Robert Sayre:

An IPR disclosure that pertains to your RFC entitled “The Atom Syndication
Format” (RFC4287) was submitted to the IETF Secretariat on 2008-03-31 and has
been posted on the “IETF Page of Intellectual Property Rights Disclosures”
(https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/ipr_list.cgi). The title of the IPR
disclosure is “Google Inc.’s Statement about IPR related to RFC 5023 and RFC
4287.”

The IETF Secretariat