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What are the haps my friends

June 19th, 2008: Last night I went to the Mozilla Toronto launch party for Firefox 3! Don't let anyone tell you otherwise: the Mozilla folks know how to throw a great party. There were fancy beers AND ribs AND a webcam and mic recording it, with people watching and asking questions in a chat room. That was surreal: it was like the internet was at the party, telling me to arm wrestle with my brother, WHICH I DID. (I lost but only because I'm left-handed.) It was also surreal to see a giant chat board ask you questions and be able to answer by just talking to the screen.

They're going for the world record for most downloads in a single day, which means if you could download Firefox 3 today before 1 pm, they'd really appreciate it. And I would appreciate it too, since this version of Firefox finally fixes the truncated title text bug that Randy and I have been getting an email every few days about for the past several years! MOST EXCELLENT. Congratulations, everyone at Mozilla!

One year ago today: deleted dialogue had utahraptor saying 'my real objection is that by stringing together all these separate sentences with semicolons, you're really missing the spirit of the exercise, aren't you?' and then t-rex saying 'you forget though that Semicolons;

– Ryan