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The Update

February 16th, 2006 | Category: Mozilla

Hunter ThompsonIt’s been a long while since I’ve posted. No relaxation spa treatment involved, just a bunch of work that needed to get done.

When you’re part of Team Mozilla, and you’re up, your plate gets filled. Such is life.

Here’s a report from the field. Mostly personal.

  • We’re close to final on the Firefox marketing plan for 2006. Yes, Beavis, it’s mid-February. ;-) I just got done sharing it, and getting feedback here and abroad. We’re close enough to start rolling things out next week, including getting community feedback. Check Spread Firefox for updates.
  • I like the Flickr Motivator toy. I remember this meme, back in the day, from Despair, Inc. and kept trying tonight to figure out a good personal photo to match to my favorite Demotivator. I failed. Poetic justice.
  • And, last add, post-conversation with John today, let me close with a relevant Hunter S. Thompson quote:

    “History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of ‘history’ it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time — and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.”

3 Comments so far

  1. Tristan February 17th, 2006 3:36 am

    Paul, I’ve been a huge fan of the Demotivator Posters for years. Thanks for the link to the Flickr Motivator Toy.

    This one is for you :-)

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/nitot/100736592/

    You may also like http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/magazine.php , which produce stuff like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nitot/56102510/ (sorry it’s in French).

  2. Paul Kim February 17th, 2006 10:23 am

    Love it! :-)

  3. jjm March 18th, 2006 5:10 pm

    Your post reminded me of my favorite, most bittersweet Hunter S Thompson quote, about the rise and crash of 1960s liberalism:

    We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark — the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

    Not necessarily germane to your post, but nonetheless, here it is.