Channel 2 showed Zero Hour‘s episode of Estonia (ship, not country) today. Very sad to watch even if I was only attending first grade at that time and had, thankfully, no personal contact with this catastrophe.

That reminded me of a picture I have of the memorial in Stockholm. Before I went to look it up in my photo album, I did a Google image search. The first picture on results page was from mereblog.com, site I don’t think I’ve visited before. To my surprise one picture used there and the one found in Google search is from 7is7.com, web page of Otto, active Mozilla contributor from Estonia. Odd. Not the picture or the taker but that I arrived there doing a random search. Perhaps randomness hard to reach is not only an issue in computer science but also in life in general.

The picture itself is another story. After 11th grade I got to participate in an award trip to Sweden with other more-successful-than-average students. After having visited Vaasa museum I was walking around the place as I had some extra time. I didn’t know where the memorial was as nobody had told us it’s nearby so it caught me by surprise when I suddenly realised I had just walked into it (it’s three stone walls in a triangle-like shape). Didn’t have much time, but managed to shoot one picture still, text is completely unreadable though.

414520 – Lõpuks ometi tuleb Sertifitseerimiskeskuse juursertifikaat kohe Firefoxiga kaasa. Ei pea enam lisama id-kaardi kasutamiseks ega muudkui Firefoxile kinnitama, et https-ühendust krüptiv sertifikaat on ok kasutada. Ja selleks on vaja vaid viimast stabiilset versiooni kasutada.

495020 – Ma loen pidevalt Thunderbrdis meile selles kaustade vaates, kus kuvatakse ainult need kaustad, kus lugemata poste on. Ja kui keset postituse lugemist muutub iseenesest aktiivseks teine kaust ja loetav materjal kaob eest ära, siis ei ole väga tore. Tundub, et kuigi püsisin mõnda aega beeta-liini peal, siis nüüd on kiusatus uuesti arendusversiooni kasutama hakata. Pealegi pole ükski senistest arendusversioonidest ühegi suurema prohmakaga toime tulnud. Teatav tagavarakoopia on muidugi abiks riskide maandamisel .

Ja viimaks 167951, millega Firefox sai omale tekstilahtrid, mida saab oma suva järgi suuremaks venitada, kui arvamus piisava suurusega kastist ei lähe kokku veebimeistri omaga. Ka see uuendus on hetkel arendusversioonis nagu eelminegi.

Kõige lõppu veel kaks prototüübi tasemel katsetust:
* Contacts ehk kontaktid brauseris. Esialgu piiratud teenuste toega ja mitte millegagi integreeruv, aga kujutate ette sama asja enamlevinud teenuste toe ja Thunderbirdi integratsiooniga?
* Account manager – idee sellest vaatevinklist, et erinevatel veebilehtedel sisse-välja logimine on nii tavaline nähtus, et sellega peaks üks korralik veebilehitseja ilma lisadeta sujuvalt toime tulema. Või siis sellest, et su brauser saab aru, et andsid sülearvuti parajasti sõbrale ja tahad korraga kõigil veebilehtedel välja logida.

It would be a shame not to blog about MozCamp so here comes a really late post on the topic.

After a little more than a year of calendar translations and some months of Mozmill tests for calendar I was invited to attend this really nice event.

• Location: Prague.
• Point in time: 3-4 October 2009.

At this point I have to thank Clint Talbert who confessed dropping my name. Sadly he couldn’t come himself.

Given the number of interesting talks I really wish I could’ve split myself into three or so: two for talks and one for socializing . Nevertheless met all those nice people I’ve communicated with via IRC so far and of course some more great Mozillians.

Noting down here some afterthoughts:

• Listening to Gandalf’s talk made me realize that it would be really nice to have a Mozilla Communities site for Estonian translation instead of two separate and rather inactive sites currently live. Not sure if this fits into busy everyday agenda any time soon. Maybe it might fit into Sander’s (thinking out loud here ).
• L20n is going to very useful for languages like Estonian bringing localization flexibility without burdening native English developers with all the details. I once mistakenly thought it can’t be but Mozilla is obviously bending borders with it as with many other newer technologies like native ogg support, multitouch and accelerometers support in browser.
• SUMO talk. Sort of got me interested. Anyone willing to step in and localize some of the most popular articles?

From the quirkier side of this world:

• A man at the airport’s bus stop speaking English, Russian, some languages I don’t know and knowing some Estonian words. Saying that it’s cold compared to India. I’m still wondering if he had just arrived from there or so.
• Internet access at Andel’s hotel. “Internet access is 100% FREE but strangely, to go online, you must first choose a pricing plan then choose a number of units and then press on “Submit”. That will connect you to the internet.” Talk about usability.
• A must have link in a Mozcamp post – Chris Hofmann parodizing Steve ballmer.
• Facebook acting up entire time, continuously hanging my Windows session before loading up. I guess that was the collision of open and proprietary?
• Yellow penguins seen on the boat trip

Finishing up with a picture I didn’t miss as I was most likely checking out at the time this was taken on. Oh, and of course, thanks to both William and Irina for organizing the event!

Mozilla IRC tsitaatide andmebaasist: http://quotes.burntelectrons.org/3378

* FuzzyFox (chatzilla@…) has joined #qa

<FuzzyFox> !seen Kensaunders

<firebot> I’ve never seen a ‘Kensaunders’, sorry.

<FuzzyFox> !seen kensaunders

<firebot> I’ve never seen a ‘kensaunders’, sorry.

<FuzzyFox> !seen KenSaunders

* killer has kicked FuzzyFox from #qa (Stop repeating yourself!)

<firebot> I’ve never seen a ‘KenSaunders’, sorry.

* killer has kicked firebot from #qa (Stop repeating yourself!)

If they will have some for Thunderbird/Lightning, I might *have to* have one.