http://john.jubjubs.net my semi-regular stream of consciousness Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:49:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We're at our first kid concert - it's a bit of a mass of kidmanity. There's even something like a five year old mosh pit up at the front (not kidding). It's great, really -- fun, engaged, optimistic. It boggles my mind a little bit, though, to look around the ... http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/11/16/kid-concert/ Along with (I think), thousands of Stanford alums, yesterday in my in box I found an extraordinary letter from John Hennessy, Stanford's President (and a wonderful CS professor and entrepreneur) about the current economic situation and the implications for Stanford. The letter speaks for itself, I think, but I'll preface ... http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/11/14/extraordinary-letter-from-stanfords-president/ I've had the good fortune to visit the Stanford CS department twice this week -- on Monday I visited with some of the current section leaders to talk about Mozilla some, and last night I was on a CS careers panel with my very good friends Schrep & Mauria and ... http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/11/14/distance/ Not a bad novel -- quirky look at a quirky town somewhere in North Dakota. Entertaining enough, but with Klosterman, I really like his essays a lot more. http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/11/11/downtown-owl-by-chuck-klosterman/ I've been involved with OSAF since before its inception -- my relationship with Mitch (and his investment in Reactivity) led us to collborate on a bunch of different things (and to become close friends), and building a new, modern sort of PIM was one of them. So over the years, ... http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/11/04/chandler-changes/ IMG_9848 Originally uploaded by John Lilly I'm posting a few more pictures from Berlin now that I've got a fast internet connection. Will put them in a set shortly. I have to say that while it's a pain to carry around a big camera, the camera + lens make all the difference. ... http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/10/24/a-few-more-berlin-pictures/ Holy cow, Madrid is, so far, unlike any place that I've been. We got to our hotel after midnight last night, and the area outside our hotel was filled with people, and lit up like it was the middle of the day. People were up through the whole night -- ... http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/10/24/madrid/ This is a political post that's more candid than most I do that aren't Obama-related lately, but feels important to me. If you're not interested in my view here, please do skip. Last week I voted absentee, and there were 2 extremely important votes in my mind: Obama for president, and ... http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/10/24/why-i-voted-against-proposition-8/ I've been in Berlin the past 2 days for a community event, some press meetings, and a talk at Web 2.0 Expo this morning. Got to walk around Berlin some last night, and saw the Festival of Lights all around the city. Amazing stuff. This is just before I crashed ... http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/10/23/brandenburg-gate-lit-up/ A few months back, my grandfather Monte (my mom's father) and his wife Myra came to visit us here. (From now on, though, I'll call him "Bampa," which I named him back about a million years ago.) This was no small feat -- they rode Amtrak out from Georgia -- ... http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/10/20/new-eyes/ 3rd thousand page book in the series, liked it well enough, although at the 3k page mark, feeling a little fatigued. The OCD part of my personality compelled me to get the 4th book downloaded to my Kindle, but not really feeling it. http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/10/17/a-storm-of-swords-by-george-r-r-martin/ The Big Picture does it again, with amazing, amazing photos of the Fall Season. I should just set up a permanent pointer to these, because they hit it out of the park every single time. As Paul mentions, it's a testament to the power of a good, simple photo. No ... http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/10/15/the-big-picture-days-of-autumn/ Every once in a while Pandora brings up Kathy's Song, by Simon & Garfunkel. Always makes me think of this, and how lucky I've been in my life and how amazing every day is. Other events lately (non-work related) make me even more acutely aware of this, and remembering just ... http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/10/15/remembering-2/ Harvey's got a post up on Yandex & some potentials for moving defaults in Russian language Firefox. Take a look, weigh in. http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/10/15/harveys-post-on-yandex/ Hopefully by now you've caught the news that we're lucky enough to count Ben and Dion, founders of Ajaxian, as the newest additions here at Mozilla -- here to start a new Developer Tools Lab. They're fired up & ready to go -- so many ideas that should result in ... http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/10/13/mozilla-chief-innovation-officer-chris-beard/ I posted a couple of months back that we'd made Mike Shaver Mozilla's Interim VP Engineering. He's been fantastic in the role during a very interesting summer for us, and so we've decided to make the position permanent. Mike's been an incredibly strong contributor and leader for a very long ... http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/10/13/vp-engineering-mike-shaver/ fivethirtyeight.com is my favorite election tracking site, from the Nate Silver who invented PECOTA for forecasting baseball performance. They're must reading for me every day at this point, and really interesting stuff that doesn't show up elsewhere for a few days or even a week. Below is what their electoral ... http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/10/07/map/ so, so good. tina fey as palin. http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/10/01/tina-fey/ An amazing meeting in Beijing -- Jimmy Wales seeing Chinese officials at the State Council Information Office. I met Jimmy in Dalian at the WEF event a year ago -- he mentioned then that people in the Chinese government were interested in talking with him about Wikipedia. Rebecca's got a ... http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/10/01/jimmy-in-china/ The sapphire mines of Madagascar - The Big Picture - Boston.com. As alwys, the Big Picture has an amazing, amazing installment, and as usual, there are serious implications here. One of my very favorite blogs. http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/10/01/the-sapphire-mines-of-madagascar-the-big-picture-bostoncom/