I am not one of the main people considering applicants for Flock, but a lot of the resumes come across my virtual desk. I think a lot of the people could do a better job “selling” themselves.
Wow, have I been busy… and the pace of the Flock will not decrease until we get the public beta out. Then we will likely take a short break and then fly at full speed to Flock v1.0 .
I have a half dozen, half written drafts for blog posts, but what I really feel like writing about is Julia.
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So please stop asking for invites 
There is a signup form @ flock.com . The “announcements” mailing list will be used to seed the expanded (private) beta within a couple of weeks.
Blake Ross has been getting quite a bit of press over these last few days, some great and some bad. I cannot say that I am fan of his speaking, with much of his statements sounding disingenuous. It is comments like “because it scared me to think what another author with less Firefox experience might churn out” that are the shockers though!
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Kurt Cagle posted today with the title of “Is Javascript Dead?”. I considered stopping reading right then, because I think that crosses the line of journalistic good taste (oxymoron in a headline, but Kurt is often insightful and is a valued colleague of mine. Javascript is also something that I am interestd in. Having read the post, I know he can communicate more effectively than he does there.
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“I have arrived!” and I am having the time of my life. I am now in the San. Fran. Bay area living with the Flock. Literally. I am staying with Chris and Andy at The Langpad, and putting in the long hours at work. My photo stream and my favorites reflects the fun I have been having. It is hard to believe that I have only been here a few days.
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Today is a big day. Today Julia’s dear friends Nadia and Andrew are getting married. (Tomorrow, I fly out to San Fran for five weeks).
On a busy day like this, who wants to worry about making breakfast
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Usability and communicating about usability are what QA (Qommunity and quality Assurance) is all about. At least once a week, I want to post about my non-Flock usability issues from “real-life” situations
On my new laptop running MSWin, I wanted to add a Flickr upload tool. Of the tools listed the one at the bottom of the page seems most elegant, “Upload to Flickr via Windows XP Explorer”. It does not involve installing another application, only (in Firefox) downloading a text file with an .reg extension, and then double clicking on it.