Archive for the 'Geekology' Category

I’ll definitely be attending WikiSym 2008 this September 8-10 in Portugal. I’m quite looking forward to it. It’s the first time in a while that I’ve gone to a conference particularly focused to my areas of expertise and interest. I look forward to interacting with others whose professional lives revolve so heavily around wikis the way mine does.

While the deadline for papers for the conference has passed, they’re still accepting papers for the Wikis for Software Engineering workshop, so I’m going to write one up about what we do at Mozilla and submit that. I’m quite eager to participate in any way I can.

In the past year, we’ve blown through four routers. They keep failing on us, usually right around the same time we have a cluster of outages with our cable modem service provider.

Is it possible that the cable modem is somehow damaging the routers plugged into it? I have no idea, but it seems hard to believe that so many routers — each a different brand — would be defective.

This is totally awesome:

Just got off the phone with AT&T. The reason I can’t get DSL here is that they’ve already got customers using all the bandwidth they have at our CO. Epic fail.

As soon as Sarah gets off her currently ongoing phone call, I’m going to call AT&T and see if I can get DSL service here. Their web site tells me that I can’t, but I have neighbors that have it, so I’m hoping that it’s just a glitch in their system.

Charter has gone offline four times in the past week, for as long as 15 hours. I’m fed up with it.

I sure hope AT&T can hook us up. I’m getting tired of having to deal with outages when I’m trying to get work done.

My cable modem service failed last night around midnight and is still not back up. Frustrating, to say the least. Right now I’m trying to work at my mother-in-law’s house, where there’s Internet access that works.

I’m starting to wonder if the fact that I keep having trouble with Charter is because searching Google for “hate Charter” finds this blog as the top hit…

In more directly Mozilla related news, I hope to have the new MDC stuff into version control so that localizers can work on the skin. I have detailed instructions for how to go about doing it, which I’ll post prominently once the SVN access is ready.

Woot!

July 11th. I have to wait until July 11th to get my new iPhone. Oh, the humanity!

I want one.

I’m nigh-on giddy with anticipation at the impending WWDC keynote. Less than 12 hours to go now. I expect this is a sure sign of my immense nerdiness, but I don’t care.

I sure hope the rumor that it will be available later this week is true. I’m all set to go!