I spent most of this week at CSUN. It’s been fun, I am really happy to finally meet a bunch of people, and to meet new folks. Manning the Mozilla booth is easy: every passerby is a grateful user. A lot of subdued dogs.

Update: I Made that sound like past tense. I still am at CSUN, and I will be here till tomorrow.

No, really. Accerciser is always listed first, not sure why. I think it has something to do with it being so good.
But seriuosly, I just rolled the tarballs for the 1.2.0 release, our second major release. You could get them here.
Besides the translation effort, which was awesome, as usual. This release saw plenty of contributions, here is an incomplete list of helpful folks, thank you!

• Brian G. Merrell
• Claude Paroz
• Frederic Peters
• Peter Parente
• Rich Burridge
• Scott Haeger
• Wouter Bolsterlee

Mike came out with another monthly mix. He gave it to me last Friday. This time the theme is “the many shades of love”. It’s pretty heavy on the R&B, but also a nicely rounded playlist.
You could listen to it here.

• Nina Simone – Since I Fell For You
• Talib Kweli/JayZ – Officially Missing You
• Jill Barber – Hard Line
• Bottleneck – Late Night Early Mornings
• Marvin Gaye – Yesterday
• The Avett Brothers – Shame
• Maroon 5 – This Love (Kanye Remix)
• Bother Ali – Forrest Whitaker
• Thao – You’ve Really Got A Holed On Me
• Grizzley Bear – Knife
• Grizzly Bear – Knife (Girl Talk Remix)
• The Roots & Erykah Badu – You Got Me
• Ghostland Observatory – Move With Your Lover
• The Gossip – Your Mangled Heart
• The Postal Service – Be Still My Heart
• Cat Power – Where Is My Love
• Julie Delpy – A Waltz For A Night
• Ms. Dynamite – Now You Want My Love
• Nina Simone – Black Is The Color Of My True Love’s Hair (Jaffa Remix)
• Andre 3000 – Happy Valentine’s Day

Barack, when someone accuses you of being Muslim, and catches you in non-Western garb. Why don’t you call out their racism and bigotry, instead of hiding behind your family bible? After the embarrassment we had in the last 8 years, I would hope the next leader of the free world could call out hate and xenophobia when she/he sees it.
For the last year I have been patiently waiting for the presidential candidates to be more eloquent about their mid-east peace policy, and to abandon the empty AIPAC rhetoric that every presidential hopeful must adopt. The truth of the matter is that up until now, their amorphism on the subject has been unchallenged by the media or their rivals. No more!
Ralph joined the race, and hopefully will help bring the debate up a notch. In the first few minutes of his presidential bid, Nader managed to challange Obama’s mid-east stance.
I don’t have much hope that Nader will be our next president, but I am hopeful that he will help keep the Democrat candidate honest, or at least make the hypocrisies clear. Ralph, I’m glad you are in my neighborhood.