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Jorge Castro: (Also) In defense of Firefox

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LWN is running a story (for subscribers only) called “In Defense of Firefox” where they explain the fsync issue with FF3.

I’ve been pretty vocal in the past criticizing Mozilla’s Linux story during the Firefox 2 era,…

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Jorge Castro: On phones….

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It’s no secret that I hate phones. With a vengeance.

I have a blackberry 8830. It’s supposed to be one of the world’s finest smartphones. I hate it. It’s slow, the apps suck, the UI sucks, and mostly everything about…

jorge’s stompbox: I should get out more …

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I just spent 2 hours of my life arranging my Pieces of Flair. For some reason this picture seems like a good approximation of me as a person. This is scary.

This seems to be the only fun application on all of…

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Jorge Castro: Palmers, ftw.

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People have been noticing that I am addicted to a certain beverage (no, not beer):

It’s called an Arnold Palmer. Half iced tea, half lemonade. Most restaurants will make one for you. I’ve just started buying it by…

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Jorge Castro: Gadgets and People

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John Carr has started a launchpad team for packaging the newly released Google Gadgets. You can find the PPA here. I’ve created a project page so the source gets imported into bzr. (It’s still testing before…