DISQUS

I've installed Feedly after hearing Deb like it. My main concern with Feedly is that it inserts suggested links in my Google searches. Try it and you'll see that after you do a search at google, Feedly pops in some links at the very top of the page. This is very interesting BUT should be a user option selected at startup, not something that I should be surprised by. I was so surprised by this action when I first saw it that I almost uninstalled Feedly at that moment. Once I realized what it's trying to do, I could see the value in it, but it's very disquieting for the user for Feedly to step in between the user and search results.

Make it a user-selectable pref at startup, not a default pref. My use of Feedly will hinge on this.

[Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla but don't work in the area under discussion.]

Regarding this statement, [Mozilla] "forces anyone who wishes to use encryption to pay a certificate authority (CA) for a signed SSL certificate, which goes against the openness of the Web."

Firefox 3 ships with certificates for StartCom, who provide FREE certificates. So those people who claim that they have to pay are misinformed.

http://www.startcom.org/

If you have a friend that teaches photography then by all means that should be your first investment.

Last thought: my favorite review site is dpreview.com. You can't go wrong buying a camera with a top recommendation from DPReview.

As to a DSLR, both Canon and Nikon made very good DSLRs. The Digital Rebel and the D40 are both really good- what will make the difference on both is the quality of the lens (budget spending perhaps even more than the camera body) and then your skills. I prefer Nikon, but it's a personal choice and both will take great photos. I'd stay away from the Sony as there's no telling how long they're going to be in this category (whereas for Nikon and Canon there's no way they'd ever leave the DSLR category.) I'm unfamiliar with the Olympus cameras.

The DP1 has a bunch of issues and I would not recommend it to anyone who wasn't fully aware of it's limitations and how to work around them.

If you are looking for something compact, pocket-able for your trip, I'd look closely at the Ricoh GX-200 and the Panasonic LX-3. The Canon G9 is also really powerful and flexible but is larger (not really pocket-able) and doesn't have a real wide-angle without an adapter.

Skip the new Nikon P6000 because Nikon made more idiotic changes to their RAW format which is basically unsupported in all applications except Nikon's own (which are terribly flawed) and there's no support for OS X.
http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~gisle/blog/?p=103
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b61a1b

This was from the campaign we did earlier this year:

http://foxkeh.jp/blog/1867/

Unfortunately they are not for sale, but we have done various fun contests to win these Foxkeh dolls in the past, with more coming up. Keep your eye on the rss feed at foxkeh.jp for more details on how to win a Foxkeh.

Firebug 1.2 works with Firefox 3.0

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/...

Leonard, we appreciate your extreme testing of Firefox 3 :)

Btw, Greasemonkey has a new version out: Greasemonkey 0.8.20080609.0

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748

I liked this Network World interview with Fallows.

http://www.networkworld.com/cgi-bin/mailto/x.cg...

Whoops- sorry I didnt see your link to his blog.

John Gruber calls Apple's behavior with installing Safari on Windows, "Interesting." Gruber is smart enough to know that it's clearly much more than merely, "Interesting" and I will lose respect for him if he does not critique Apple vehemently for this.
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/march#wed...

Jesper has much stronger words for Apple: "This is disgraceful. It fails the user in favor of serving Apple. It is, in fact, malware-level tactics."
http://waffle.wootest.net/2008/03/20/where-by-i...

I'm with Jesper and John Lilly.

If Microsoft did the identical action, install some non-user-selected software using their software update channel, there would be cacophony across the Internet.

Al, please don't forget the 2007 Firefox Developer Day in Japan.

http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2007/06/18/somethin...

I find it best to go to Europe for my news on the US. BBC & FT, FTW.

I also read my home town rag, the NYT.

It's a very... minimalist? theme. Highly legible. Maybe a tiny splash of color somewhere might be nice?

"I’d like to know how much is done by volunteers."

Mozilla has stated that 37% of Firefox 2 was code that was contributed by the community. In addition to that, every localization except for the English version is built by volunteers. There's a lot more that volunteers do for Mozilla but for the product itself it's clear that a significant portion is built by volunteers, not employees.

Thomas, Maxthon's browser rendering engine is either Trident, which is built by Microsoft, or Gecko, which is built by Mozilla. It is not a 100% Chinese built product.

Thomas, Maxthon's browser rendering engine is either Trident, which is built by Microsoft, or Gecko, which is built by Mozilla. It is not a 100% Chinese built product.

Glad to see you two having fun. If we can catch up in Tokyo before you leave Japan, we'd love to see you !

One of the extension developers who presented at the Tokyo DevDay, Akatsuka-san, has an extension similar to me.dium. His is called Wakurawa and essentially does the same thing- allows one to see other people who are on the same site you are on at the same time you are on that site. He chooses to use the status bar area to display icons for other users.

http://www.wakurawa.com/

We don't use brown rice but we do use a non-white rice (it is a light tan color). We generally mix it with white rice sort of 30:70 tan:white and it makes for what we think is a better bowl of rice.

Deb- the hot camera in Tokyo recently is the Ricoh GX100. You should check that one out before you go for the Nikon. The Ricoh has RAW (among a lot of other goodies.)