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At the time of this post, my Facebook NCAA basketball bracket standing is:

• Globally: #2052
• My friends: #1
• LSU: #7 (of 43,149 people (I’m actually tied for third place but they count strangely))
• Baton Rouge, LA: #1 (of 17,334 people)

I got the Final Four all correct, so hopefully UCLA and Georgetown will make it to the championship and I’ll be even more correct. Pretty good for not knowing anything about basketball.

Facebook’s Sneak Preview Group has some screenshots of the upcoming redesign. I’ve always been a fan of Facebook’s design; I think it is done very well. It’s one of the main reasons I favor it greatly over MySpace. I was a bit skeptical of this change at first, but I think this new design looks pretty cool. It’s very web 2.0, or something like that.

In other news, Firefox 2.0.0.3 was released tonight. Help -> Check for Updates if you can’t wait!

I started playing EverQuest II again recently, and happened to notice a “mozilla” folder in the EQII directory. I didn’t remember creating it or moving it there or anything like that, but got distracted and forgot about it.

Today I was playing around and found the fairly new in-game web browser. I remembered about the mozilla folder, and sure enough:

I think it’s pretty awesome that an MMORPG has a Mozilla-based browser inside of it. I fooled around it with, seeing what I could do. about:config works, and you can access chrome URLs. javascript: in the location bar doesn’t work. The user agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; chrome://navigator/locale/navigator.properties; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20070125

Just thought I’d share!

In January, a broadcast email was sent out with a Course Management System survey regarding the use of Semester Book and Blackboard at LSU. This is an issue I feel strongly about, as I am constantly frustrated by both Semester Book and Blackboard. I completed the survey, and in the comments section I basically wrote an essay.

Early this week I was invited to be on the Learning Management System Sub-committee, a part of the Flagship Information Technology Strategy (FITS) that will decide which single CMS to use as part of FITS Recommendation 7.01.

We had a committee meeting today and I am quite satisfied with the requirements that have been set out for the new CMS. I was also pretty pleased to see that several of the systems being considered for evaluation are open source. Unfortunately, this won’t be a quick thing - we are to make our final recommendation by August 2007 and then it will take a year for it to be implemented for August 2008.

I’m looking forward to working on this project - it should be interesting to see how it all works out, especially in regard to the open source vs. proprietary debate, some of which took place this morning.

The following addons.mozilla.org bugs for version 3.0 (Remora) were RESOLVED FIXED between Monday, Feb. 26 and Sunday, March 4.

• Bug 372302 - Plus sign not allowed in URLs - prevents downloads
• Bug 370604 - version range missing in remora
• Bug 367574 - Ability to filter search of an Add-ons by application (Firefox or Thunderbird)
• Bug 370614 - New download URLs make saving extensions difficult
• Bug 370602 - Popular add-ons are sorted by total downloads
• Bug 371231 - Migration script doesn’t account for entities in taglines
• Bug 371940 - Wrong date format for the Russian locale
• Bug 371618 - correct remora for SeaMonkey (section title, logo)
• Bug 372011 - 404s on the discussions pages
• Bug 370600 - Editing version info pushes add-on to top of “New and Updated” list
• Bug 372297 - Bogus sandbox link on add-on info page
• Bug 372010 - Discussions breadcrumbs are incorrect
• Bug 371614 - Several JavaScript strict warnings
• Bug 371780 - The “Build Your Own” link in the navigation menu is hardcoded to english
• Bug 371773 - User is not notified that reviews need editor approval before they appear
• Bug 371173 - Favicon is sent out with text/plain content type
• Bug 371616 - Several stylesheet anomalies
• Bug 372116 - User info page shows disabled add-ons
• Bug 371782 - Previous Versions page shows current version
• Bug 371472 - User Info Page misses full author name if present
• Bug 370774 - Language selection dropdown is smaller than lawyer smallprint

“Well, you know, screw you! I’m not anti-gay. We’re against gay marriage. I don’t want gays to be discriminated against.”
- Ann Coulter

Statement. Opposite of previous statement. Opposite of THAT previous statement.