February 09, 2004
Firebird to FireFox
Mozilla team keep their promise:
* Mozilla Firebird Renamed Firefox, Version 0.8 Released
* Firefox 0.8 - The Browser, Rebranded
* The press release
If you stay tune at the Firebird mailing list as I, you would hear people asking time by time: when Mozilla is going to take action to settle the name conflict? Mozilla renamed its browser application, previously named Phoenix, to Firebird on April 2003. It has been brought concern to Firebird database community that the name conflict is hurting their promotion of the database server. Anyhow, it’s been promised Mozilla would take Firebird as an internal codename for the project and to rename it later in their release. Hence the rebranding. Hope this end the story. peace.
blogging feel
My last post was on September, 2003. In fact, I stopped actively blogging since July last year. It’s been 7 months! Seven months in blogging could mean a decade. Anyway, I lost track of what happening in blogland, didn’t mind what version MT is nowadays, and I even forgot my MT userid/passwd!! That’s funny, I have to go to my ISP control panel and access to the MySQL db, checking the mt_author, and then realizing for security consideration, I did choose a tricked username instead of my familiar id. The rule is: it’s always a trade-off between security concern and convenience of users.
If you’re going to leave your blog for a long while, be sure to put all necessary access in place (e.g. utilize Mozilla password manager).
[Update] Amazing, most of the stuff still work: the pinging, related entries/blog plugins.…etc. Yeah, the software is reliable. :-)