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I am a design engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, working with the Theme Team to address the design concerns of millions of WordPress users.

• August 14th, 2007

  One year at AOL

  Today is the one-year anniversary of my first day at AOL/Netscape. More importantly, I’ve also been blogging for a little over a year. This means that I can start taking the lazy way out and post

• August 9th, 2007

  Rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated

  Hey, didja hear that Techcrunch may be shut down due to poor traffic and insufficient ad revenue? My sources say that Mike Arrington is totally freaked out about it. I heard about it from some guy that my cousin once met at a bar. After all, who needs legitimate sources when you can just make [...]

• July 12th, 2007

  Netscape Navigator 9 Beta 2 Released

  We released the second beta of Netscape Navigator 9 today. Much praise to Richard for taking the lead on development and the roadmap this round.

• June 26th, 2007

  AOL News and Netscape.com

  AOL News has undergone a redesign to be more “bloggy” (according to Reuters). Part of this update is that now they’re featuring the top stories at Netscape.com under the “User Submitted News” in the left-hand sidebar. I wouldn’t mind that section being a little higher up on the page though, maybe replacing any of the [...]

• June 6th, 2007

  Is Digg hiding stories from search?

  This link to the Navigator 9 download page was submitted to Digg around noon on Tuesday and received 10 diggs over the next 24 hours. A story about a Firefox-based browser release submitted by a top-100 Digger? That sounds like possible front-page material to me – why only 10 diggs? Maybe it’s because the story [...]

• June 6th, 2007

  Coverage of the Navigator 9 Beta

  Articles about the release of the Navigator 9 Beta have been all over the Web today. Here are the major ones that I’ve spotted: Slashdot: First Peek at Netscape Navigator 9 Fark: Netscape releases a new browser. In other news, Netscape still makes a browser 456 Berea Street: Software Update Day Pronet Advertising: Netscape Navigator [...]

• June 5th, 2007

  New Book of Mozilla verse

  If you’re running Netscape Navigator 9.0, type “about:mozilla” into the address bar to see the newest verse from the Book of Mozilla: “And thus the Creator looked upon the beast reborn and saw that it was good. — from The Book of Mozilla, 8:20″ A cookie goes to the first person who can identify the [...]

• June 5th, 2007

  Netscape Navigator 9.0 Beta Released

  The long national nightmare is over: the beta of Netscape Navigator 9.0 has finally been released to the public. Read the official announcement here. Read a more informal introduction to the browser here. Download it here. Read the release notes here. Discuss it here.