I just realized that I forgot to blog about some of the exciting things going on in Thunderbird land these days.
First, I’m very happy to announce that another engineer has signed up to work full time on Thunderbird — Mark Banner, aka Standard8 on IRC. Mark is well known to the Mozilla community, as [...]

One of the topics we’re discussing in Thunderbird dev land involves how to distribute configuration files for Thunderbird, so that if you’re part of a group (users of large ISPs, enterprise users, gmail users, whatever), that the “right” default configuration can be picked up as automagically as possible.
There’s lots behind that effort, but there’s one [...]

I’ve been following the private beta of Lily for a while, but now it’s public and everyone can play.
Bill Orcutt seems to be a man with a weird, playful mind, and some serious technical chops.

Watching (and listening) to Philippe Starck is fun, and surprisingly easy to map onto my own beliefs about software and product design. A good way to end the week:

I particularly like the section in the middle about walking, and the difference between looking down, looking ahead, looking up, looking straight up, and looking inwards. [...]