I'm back from a mostly offline summer, and it's busy already! First, we're hosting Mozilla's Toronto DeveloperDays on Monday Sept 15 and Tuesday Sept 16.  In the past Developer Days have often been a chance for existing Mozilla developers to have some face to face time, but not the right…

Since I find myself at the airport with "hours to go before I sleep," I figured I should take a shot at recapping the Mozilla Summit from my perspective.  Others have discussed the rock-slide and such, so I'll focus on other things.  Having spent the night on a…

So this isn't good when you're actually staying in Whistler and need to fly out soon :(…

So I'm taking a break from my holidays to attend the Mozilla Summit, and I'm about to crash into bed before tomorrow arrives and finds me still jet lagged.  But I had to pause and say that you can't imagine a better organized event than this.  I don't know where…

One of the topics that recurs in my philosophical ruminations, dicsussions with close friends, and reading, is that of the importance of inteltionality.  It is who I am when walking, when working in the kitchen, and who I am when bird watching.  I've just picked-up Simon Barnes book, "How…

Last night I caught the end of a great documentary on Great White Sharks.  I've watched many of these in the past, but this one was unique in that it featured live footage shot by Peter Pyle from Oct 1997, where he filmed a Killer Whale attacking and eating a…

Yesterday, at my nephew's prompting, I filled a boat with 3 children and fishing gear, and headed out to the deepest spot on our pond.  "We've never got our own pole before," my youngest squeeled with glee.  "Dad, what happens when we catch a fish?" Within…

I just found out about Visor from the makers of Quicksilver, which is a persistent terminal you can invoke via a hot-key combo.  Upon hitting the hot-key, a terminal slides down and fills half your screen.  Pressing the key again slides it back out of view. I love this because…

There's a great post over on boingboing about Radio Head's new House of Cards video that was created using CC licensed data and open source tools.  It's really an amazing way to spend 4 minutes.  In fact, I'll just throw it down right here.…

Today was a perfect day, and as with most perfect days, it involved reading, the girls, and a tree.  Mimicing my wife, who has taught me a great deal about how to spend time with our daughters, we packed a picnic and went across the pond to the big tree.…