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I missed a few things.
[ Posted by Dan on April 07, 2003 | 5 Comments ]

In the past several weeks I've worked on one high profile project (the orange thing in the top right at AOL keyword: Safety), broken bad news to my wife, watched too much war coverage, played two thirds of the way thru Zelda and purchased a TiVo. Because of that I've missed these important items...

Mozilla is following a new path.: "It's clear to us that Mozilla needs a new roadmap, one that charts a path to an even better future. Below we will propose a new application architecture based on the Gecko Runtime Environment ( GRE ), which can be shared between separate application processes."

AOL may restate earnings again.: "Regulators reviewing AOL Time Warner's accounting said they may require the company to restate as much as $400 million in advertising revenue booked in relation to a deal involving the company's America Online division and Bertelsmann."

Plagiarism is still bad, even on a blog.: "Kelley's insightful window on the details of the war brought him increasing readership (118,000 page views on a recent day) and acclaim, including interviews in the The New York Times and on NBC's Nightly News, Newsweek online and National Public Radio.

The only problem: Much of his material was plagiarized -- lifted word-for-word from a paid news service put out by Austin, Texas, commercial intelligence company Stratfor."

Hmm... I wonder... how many new paths has Mozilla followed over the last few years and 200,000+ bugs?

AOL -- Did you see the article on the Onion a couple of weeks ago? "Ted Turner sends self back in time to prevent AOL-Time Warner merger."

Plagiarism... that's very bad. Someone needs to smack him silly.
On the other hand, he's probably going to bring a lot of publicity to Stratfor. I wonder if they worked this out between them.

-Posted by JC on April 8, 2003 10:20 AM

If you read the linked article, you'll see that the agonist and Stratfor came to an agreement where he can use two articles per day which must be identified as being from Stratfor. That's a pretty good deal for being caught red handed for plagiarism.

The Ted Turner thing on The Onion was hysterical. I love the inset image of Ted reaching out from the time warp.

-Posted by Dan on April 8, 2003 10:29 AM

I like the idea of Mozilla following the Phoenix route more closely. I love Phoenix and would switch to it full time if it weren't for a couple little quirks (and the fact that is a 0.x build).

-Posted by Anthony on April 8, 2003 11:33 AM

Yeah, it's great, one of my coworkers has it hanging on his door.

Actually I meant that I wonder if they worked it out beforehand. He got a lot of press, where stratfor alone wasn't, even though they were providing the same information. As a lone fellow, he got the publicity... and now the spotlight's aimed at the actual provider.

-Posted by JC on April 8, 2003 11:50 AM

I using Phoenix as my main browser at home - I'm not sure of the reasoning for the 0.x version number, but it has the 1.3a Gecko engine running behind it (with the next release to use 1.4a, I believe).

I guess the main reason for the small number is that it doesn't really have all that many features, aside from what it has ripped out from the extra Mozilla standard features.

-Posted by milbertus on April 8, 2003 06:00 PM

Comment posting has been turned off because I don't have enough time and will to deal with the constant comment spamming. I'm very sorry and will fix this sometime soon (soon = before 2004 ends).