Oxymoronical

I find water fascinating in all its forms.

I don’t often blog about non-work related stuff.

It’s a common sight in California.

Slightly belated in some cases but I’d like to formally welcome four new toolkit peers.

Nearly a year ago I showed off the first version of my webapp for displaying recent changes in mercurial repositories.

Two weeks ago the developer tools teams and a few others met in the Portland office for a very successful week of discussions and hacking.

This week the whole devtools group has been sequestered in Mozilla’s Portland office having one of our regular meet-ups.

Long exposure night photos are one of my favourite things to do.

Me and my wife took a cruise down to Mexico and on one of the days when we went to eat ashore it got dark as we were on the way back to the boat.

We went for a hike through Sycamore Canyon this afternoon getting some amazing overlooks of the Pacific coast as well as seeing some very alien landscape.

There’s something very peaceful to me about looking at water.

Last weekend a friend of ours was visiting so we took him out to one of our favourite walks in the Wildwood Regional Park.

A friend recently made me a deal where he would buy me this book if I’d read it and tell him something that I learnt from it.

I had never really thought before what bees do with pollen but just look at this!

Since the big changes to Flickr last week I’ve been mulling over the idea of switching to a different photo sharing site. 500px had caught my eye in the past as being a very similar concept to Flickr.

To say that it was a shock to find Flickr had released a massive revamp of their site is something of an understatement.

Two years ago I blogged about how it had been six years since I wrote my first patch for Firefox.

It’s been a long ride but we can finally say it.

This is a recipe for a steak rub that I made up last night.

Back in the old days when we used CVS of all things for our version control we had a wonderful tool called bonsai to help query the repository for changes.

Tilt, or 3D view as it is known in Firefox, is an awesome visual tool that really lets you see the structure of a webpage.

I love the dreamlike quality of this.

I’m always impressed at how close pelicans skim to the surface of the sea, no matter how many waves there are.

We’re now a big step closer to shipping the SDK APIs with Firefox and other apps, we’ve uplifted the SDK code from our git repository to mozilla-inbound and assuming it sticks we will be on the trains for releasing.

Perhaps oddly the thing I most love about this photo is the stream of water from the tips of the Willet’s toes to the water as it launches itself into the air.

UPDATE: I’ll leave this around for posterity but a large part of this problem has now been fixed in the latest Raspberry Pi firmware.

A while ago now I switched to Windows on my primary development machine.

Toolkit is fast turning into the dumping ground of mozilla-central.

I recently posted in the newsgroups about a concern over super-review.

Who are the Jetpack team?

I forgot to blog about this last week, but Justin made me remember.

I’ve enjoyed making and eating chilli ever since I was in university.

After NASA decommissioned the space shuttles the Endeavour as flown to the California Science Center in Los Angeles.

It’s the first day back at work after spending a great work week in London with the Jetpack team last week.

Quite a while ago now I generated a map showing where all the Mozilla employees are in the world.

Water, and particularly the movement of water is something I love to see.

We took a row boat out on Lake Windermere and I was fascinated with the shapes and colours that the water made as the oar splashed into the lake.

TomTom made an interesting claim recently.

On a road trip to Solvang we stopped at a gas station and found a red-tailed hawk perched in a tree.

A wood duck in High Park in Toronto.

Yep, this post is totally not Mozilla related so I’ll keep it short, but a lot of people in Mozilla do take great photos and maybe they are stuck in my position: No actual GPS device and an compulsion to try to correctly GPS tag their vast collection.

One of our early homes was a condo on the top floor of a 6 storey building with a balcony.

About three and a half years ago (I recall it happening at the 2008 summit in Whistler), Rob Strong handed ownership of the add-ons manager over to me.

I recently switched to a Windows laptop and have been going through the usual teething pains related.

The extension I’ve been working on in my spare time for the past couple of weeks is now available as a first (hopefully not too buggy) release.

Perhaps the most common way of making changes to Firefox with an extension has always been using the overlay.

These little lizards were all over the place in Hawaii.

I shot this in Hawaii in the very early days of owning a DSLR.

Thanks to robcee you get to learn a little more about me.

For some time now Firefox for mobile has had this nice feature where add-ons could embed their preferences right into the list of add-ons, no need to open a whole a new window like add-ons for desktop have to.