Robins (more than a dozen) Killdeer (at least 3) Meadowlark Turkey Vulture Single blade of green grass in a field of brown Mud I'm pleased to see you again, Spring, the girls, more so.…

"You like weekend cooking," was what my wife told me the other day.  By that she means that I like to spend a lot of time preparing somewhat complex food, and it's a very true assessment.  My secret, or one of them, is that I find great recipies…

In a recent comment on one of my patches, Mark made what I thought was a clever suggestion for how to do lazy initialization of a value via a js getter: >+ /// The user's profile dir, which we'll cache and use a lot for path clean-up >+ _profileDir:…

Today my wife took our girls to a birthday party for one of their friends, and they took her a gift: her first field guide.  It was something they knew she wanted, after watching her reaction on seeing one for the first time at the library a while ago, and…

Yesterday I wrote about our new Mozilla bugzilla keyword, student-project, and how to use it.  Today I see a very interesting post from a student at Seneca working with my colleague, Jordan, on Eclipse WTP: We’ve received today a list of 502 “Important Bugs” from IBM: _ “This is certainly…

As we ramp-up Mozilla Education, I also wanted to make you aware of another effort that's happening in parallel.  My colleague, Chris Tyler (Seneca and Fedora), has recently launched teachingopensource.org in order to to provide a neutral connection point between all the various open source-education projects (schools and open…

I wrote previously about our plan at Mozilla Education to make it easier for Mozilla, students, and academics to connect and collaborate on real-world projects.  Thanks to Reed we now have a brand new bugzilla keyword to help us flag such bugs: student-project. Doing this work in bugzilla is the…

James sent me an email the other day remembering "Saturday morning cartoons."  If you're old enough to remember a time when cartoons weren't available 24x7 via YouTube, or on dedicated channels, or saved by the hundreds on PVRs, you might also remember something else. Last week I saw…

Tonight after dinner, the girls were doing their usual thing, running around the kitchen and great room.  At one point our youngest told us she was going to see how far she could jump as she ran, and I told them about long jump.  Now, this is where some parents…

Does CDOT have a presence on twitter? -Kevin Wow, I wasn't expecting this.  I like to think of myself as a very web-savvy guy.  I live and work online, write web apps, web tools, and work on a popular web platform.  But I'll be straight with you and admit that…