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Thanks x2 - March 19, 2005

I got a Firefox t-shirt and mug this week. Coffee has never tasted this good. :) Maybe I should let Sofie pose in the t-shirt as the first official Mozilla Camgirl ;) Anyway, thanks Marcia! While I'm on a thanking spree, I'd like to publicly thank Brian Ewins for sending me the "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools" book for free last year. I really appreciate it and it saved me around SEK 700.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/djst/archives/007765.html

Building Firefox from CVS for the first time - March 13, 2005

Thanks to some initial help from Gavin, I'm currently building Firefox from CVS for the first time. I spent some time in the Synaptic Package Manager, trying to figure out what packages I should install in order to successfully compile Firefox. After lots of trial and error, I found a package called mozilla-firefox-dev. So this is a tip for Ubuntu users who want to build Firefox: don't spend too much time reading the prerequisites for building Mozilla, just install the mozilla-firefox-dev...
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/djst/archives/007732.html

London was great - March 11, 2005

I'm back from our trip to London! Actually, we came home on Tuesday, but I haven't had time to upload the photos to the computer until now. (I got to borrow my mom's soon-to-be husband's camera, haven't bought my own yet.) We had a great time, although we really didn't do much. Shopping, drinking, walking (lots of walking), and more drinking. London is a nice city to visit. In a way, it feels like you're travelling back in time when comparing to Sweden. Everything just looks older! Buildings,..
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/djst/archives/007722.html

London - March 4, 2005

Sofie and I are going to London tonight! It's actually the first time in London for both of us, but not the first time in the UK for me. We arrive at Luton Airport at 23:25 local time and will stay at a one of Sofie's friend's house somewhere near Marble Arch. I'll be sure to put up some pictures here once I get back on Tuesday. Alex, thanks for the info, I won't buy my laptop in the UK. :)
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/djst/archives/007676.html

I'm living in the wrong country for a laptop - March 4, 2005

Laptops in Sweden are expensive. A Dell Inspiron 6000 costs $739 in the US, and the same system costs SEK 7237 in Sweden, which is $1048. That's a 42% price difference!
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/djst/archives/007670.html

Me, a Mac user - March 3, 2005

I started out as a Macintosh user. It's been ten years since I first used a Mac to discover the Internet, which I first thought was just the Netscape portal with that interesting search feature. This was not only my first experience with the Internet, but also my first real experience with computers in general, if you exclude Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 (and an old friend's 286 with Prince of Persia on it). So why am I not a Mac user today Well, there are several reasons. First of all, when my..
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/djst/archives/007661.html