Fresh off the press: Shredder alpha 1, the first alpha release of the next version of Thunderbird, is available for download!

If you ever used a Firefox alpha or a nightly build, you know it’s called Minefield. As I’ve explained, we’re going to do the same for Thunderbird, using the name “Shredder”. Now we need some artwork!

Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 was recently released to the world: yet another security release for Thunderbird. Yay, and thanks to all involved! All was well, until news came in through a bug report that one of those included updates is problematic for some users.

So I have this nice short iname that I registered last year when I was poking around OpenID and the like. That registration is about to expire, and I think I have yet to use it except for testing purposes, in part because there’s no way when being asked for...

Every now and then, a UI concept is so good that it becomes contagious in fascinating and frustrating ways. I’ve run across two recently.