Congrats to the open-source world and mozilla devs. 8 million downloads in 23 hours. GG to crappy servers going down for the first hour. To date there has nearly been 30mil ff3 downloads.

60 came from Somalia. I figure it went something like this: "Hold on man, don't pick up the phone yet! I'm 97% done getting ff3." "Dood we are in the &#$3ing desert, what good is a browser?."

songbird is awesome. seriously. if you don't know already, it's an open source media player built on the mozilla xul engine. it already has a plethora of extensions written for it, and development on the project is progressing rapidly.

i'm attaching a screenshot of me having a bit of fun with it on my laptop.. i'll definitely be blogging more about this later.

note: this project is temporarily inactive while the build server is moved and the script is updated.

this project attempts to offer nightly builds of mozilla lightning for the 64-bit architecture.

so i've jumped on the mozilla thunderbird bandwagon, but it's common knowledge that the client doesn't provide a whole lot out-of-the-box. pop/imap monitoring and an address book aren't of much use to me by themselves in a standalone application, especially after my (sigh) extensive experience with microsoft's outlook. what i've quickly learned, though, is that the biggest mistake anyone can make after installing (firefox or thunderbird) is to accept the default configuration as the one-and-only way of doing things.