Mozilla and other various attractions

Submitted: Sunday, April 4, 1999 12:22

I tried compiling and running the recent M3 Seamonkey version of Mozilla. It's, well, slow, and quite unstable. I guess that's to be expected of a development version, though. What it does have looks quite promising. Uses gtk (yeah!), and the whole interface seems pretty slick. Now, if they could just stabilize it...

Things around slashdot have been somewhat depressing lately, with jwz's resignation and all. I guess that's kind of why I decided to try mozilla. See what his lamenting about the project is all about. I can definitely see it being depressing to work on something like that for over a year and still not have a truly working version. Ah well, maybe he'll do something even greater at wherever he goes next.

Man, I'm certainly feeling lazy today. Daylight Saving Time hangover. And the fact that I stayed up typing until what amounted to 0300 thanks to the clock change. Whoever came up with the idea to suddenly change the clock by an hour twice during the year was an idiot. I mean that. I mean, it sounds like something Microsoft would come up with. Makes no sense, serves no purpose, and just annoys people. The Dancing Paperclip of Daylight Savings Time!

I wonder if it would be beneficial to break up Random Ramblings into sections. Have like a section for comments about the computer industry, one for general entertainment, one for stuff about my personal life, and one with all the other garbage. I dunno. I'll have to think about it.