This picture is awesome (original source and explaination).  How does one inspire such zeal in one’s users and advocates?  Go Firefox!

I had the opportunity to see Blake Ross in action while at Stanford (I was his RA in his freshman year).  Considering the energy he threw into every task he undertook, I’m not surprised by what Firefox has become.  Rock on Blake!

Actually, as I write this post, I recall a funny story about Blake.  We took Internet Technologies (CS191i) together.   Our first assignment was to build a rudamentary web browser in Perl; all it did was take in a URL and print out the result of a GET request by opening a TCP connection… The creator of Firefox was getting “build a web browser” as a homework assignment!  Ridiculous.  As I recall, Blake took it well… he just rolled his eyes and laughed.