Chromeo – Don’t Turn The Lights On

Category: Music

Any video that has eyeballs floating around is a-ok in my book!

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Gorilla Zoe – Day Dreamer

Category: Music

Really enjoying this song right now. Hate the annoying siren and “previews” at the beginning of the video though.

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Blizzard can write something as complicated as StarCraft 2 but can’t handle the difference between “a” and “A”

Category: Miscellaneous

According to various blog posts my StarCraft 2 patching issues are because I am running a case-sensitive filesystem. I saw this stupid issue before with Steam.  This is extremely frustrating and I can’t believe I have to work around it. They don’t even offer a manual patch package I can download and try. I found [...]

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Grum – Through the Night

Category: Music

This video is absolutely amazing. I bought the song as it’s pretty legit as well. Enjoy.

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My horrible experience with Blizzard’s StarCraft 2

Category: Miscellaneous

I picked up StarCraft 2 tonight @ 8:00pm. It’s 1:00 am and I still haven’t been able to play it. It’s going back to the store tomorrow. I spend my weekdays troubleshooting software and have no desire to do so on the weekends. I needed to vent, here’s how it goes down: I first read [...]

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Push notifications for Bugzilla!

Category: Mozilla

I’ve had some downtime between Firefox releases and chose to work on a pet project on-and-off for the past week. I’m announcing it today as bugzilla-amqp. What is bugzilla-amqp? A server-side Bugzilla extension that sends messages to a message broker via AMQP whenever a Bugzilla object (bug, keyword, component, etc) is created or modified. Why? [...]

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Creepily awesome video

Category: Miscellaneous

This is going around the internet but it’s awesome. Carl Burguess took stock footage from Getty and made a music video. So awkward and creepy it’s good. Song’s not too bad as well. Ratatat – Drugs from More Soon on Vimeo.

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Reminder: Firefox 3.6.9 and 3.5.12 code freeze is TOMORROW @ 11:59 pm Pacific

Category: Mozilla

Just a reminder that code freeze for Firefox 3.6.9 and 3.5.12 is TOMORROW @ 11:59 pm Pacific time. If you have any bugs in these queries, we need your attention on them ASAP: Firefox 3.6.9 blocking bugs that do not have an approved patch Firefox 3.5.12 blocking bugs that do not have an approved patch [...]

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Side projects for me in the coming weeks

Category: Mozilla

I am going to focus on these side projects in the coming weeks, in addition to driving the Firefox security releases. If you see anything missing or something that needs my attention, please let me know. Projects in order of importance Patch for Bugzilla to add rich bug relations. This will give us greater confidence [...]

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Mozilla Pulse and RabbitMQ

Category: Mozilla

I did a lightning talk at the Mozilla Summit about my pet infrastructure project, Mozilla Pulse. I’ll be talking about it in more depth in a future blog post. This post is more a call for help from message broker experts. I’ve been running into issues with RabbitMQ (the erlang message broker that runs on [...]

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