User Friendly on IE Cake

Apparently, the popular web comic User Friendly just did a cartoon about the cake that Internet Explorer sent to Mozilla the other day when we shipped Firefox 3.

You can see it on their site in full size but I’ve added it below in a smaller size as well:

This cake has gotten far more press than I think anyone expected. I guess people like it when conflicts can proceed with a certain amount of grace. As has been suggested, when IE8 ships, we should send the IE team a cake as well but we’ll make sure to include the recipe with it so they can make more of them…

Oh, and I like the little “The cake is a lie!” nod in the tiny cake graphic beneath the cake. :-)

IE Sends Mozilla a New Cake for Firefox 3

Sean from Microsoft came by just a few minutes ago to drop off a cake for the Internet Explorer team. As people may recall, the IE team sent Mozilla a cake after Firefox 2 shipped and it seems that they wanted to continue the tradition.

Sean and I used to work together and I happened to be the one that saw him as he came in so he presented the cake to me and John Lilly and we then took it around to staff. I think people found it amusing and the “E” portion of the Firefox 2 cake, which is preserved in our freezer to this day, was pulled out for comparison. I must say, the new cake is much nicer (and much less brown) than the old one.

Here are a couple of photos from Rob:

Me with the Cake

Closeup of the Cake

Burning Man Camp Blog

R and I are camping with friends of ours at Burning Man this year. The themecamp is named, “The Republic of Loafington,” and is organized by old friends of ours. The camp is organized around a mythical initiatory order of knights, the Holy Knights of Loafington, and subjects who wish to join the kingdom. It is said:

“Weary Pilgrims may seek Safe Refuge from the Perils of the Playa within the walls of Castle Loafington.

Foolish Pilgrims may become Loyal Subjects through Initiation into the Order of the Space Monkey.

Brave Serfs may aspire to the rank of Nobility through Initiation into the Squireship of Shirtcocking.

Purified Squires may accept the challenge of Ordination into the Holy Knights of Loafington.”

As it turns out, Slugbait, the main organizer, is who we camped with at our first Burning Man in 2001. That was the infamous village, “Someplace,” with the Chupacabra Policia. A tale of Burning Man woe rests in that camp between camp mates high on ketamine (or was it PCP? we never knew for sure…), an assault on a friend of mine by an individual, the sending of a desiccated pig’s head to the Death Guild, and a “Duel by Stereos at Dawn” with Japanese Ravers involving Black Sabbath turned to “11,” while the rest of us tried to sleep. Wait a second… all of those incidents involve the same psycho asshole, Caleb Schaber. I guess one man really can bring a camp down. Anyway… this person isn’t in our current camp (never again!).