Indistinguishable from Jesse

My del.icio.us bookmarks. This may be the end of my link propogation posts.

My copy of Garey and Johnson arrived the other day. I wonder if it will make good airplane reading while I'm heading to Mozilla Developer Day next week.

Firefox 1.0 Preview Release (previously Firefox 1.0 Release Candidate 1 (previously Firefox 1.0 Beta (previously Firebird 1.0 Beta (previously Phoenix 1.0 Beta)))) is planned for the second or third week of August. I'm glad the Mozilla Foundation decided to move away from using misleading "Release Candidate" names for builds that aren't release candidates.

Adam Sacarny, author of the Mozilla shell: vulnerability timeline, discusses what Mozilla can do to work around future holes in programs that register themselves as protocol handlers.

Steven Pinker, Listening Between the Lines:

In his grand jury testimony, Mr. Clinton expounded on the semantics of the present tense ("It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is") and of the words "alone," "cause" and, most notoriously, "sex."

Clinton's rebuttal to the Starr report:

Literally true statements cannot be the basis for a perjury prosecution, even if a witness intends to mislead the questioner. Likewise, answers to an inherently ambiguous question cannot constitute perjury.

A joke:

Have you ever touched Paula Jones or Monica Lewinsky?

It depends on your definition of "or".

Jakob Nielsen, Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002:

1. No prices. No B2C ecommerce site would make this mistake, but it's rife in B2B, where most "enterprise solutions" are presented so that you can't tell whether they are suited for 100 people or 100,000 people.

I also thought no B2C site would make that mistake, until I tried to purchase an SBC phone line for my apartment. After I clicked "Residential customers", clicked "Local > New Phone Service", and entered my address, the site asked me for billing and credit information. At no time did I see a price or even a link labelled "prices".

I decided not to purchase a phone line.

For visitors who reach my site through Google searches, browser percentages vary widely depending on search terms. In general, geekier terms have a higher percentage of Mozilla users. I analyzed stats for 35 days in June and July 2004 using a hacky batch file.

Stats for some of these search terms are skewed toward Mozilla not because the search terms themselves are geeky but because "Firefox" or "Mozilla" appears in the title of the result page on my site. Searches for "good porn" and "best porn" lead to a page on my site titled Why Mozilla Firefox is the best porn browser. Searches for "how to get a gmail" lead to my blog entry titled Help make Firefox better and get a Gmail invitation!.

By the way, over 50% of total hits to my site are Mozilla :)