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April 25, 2005

Google no longer seems to be ignoring common words in a search.

April 19, 2005

The commemorative coins celebrating 25 million downloads of Firefox have arrived at Mozilla headquarters.


Commemorative coins

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. We’re almost at 50 million now. So maybe the winners will receive 2 coins to make up for it :) Or maybe we’ll send out new, larger coins for 50 million, and work our way up to a paper bill for 100 million.

Or maybe Firefox is just a web browser and doesn’t need its own line of currency.

In any case, the coins are of very high quality, and winners will be receiving them shortly. Thanks again to CoinsForAnything for printing this free run for us!

April 18, 2005

Microsoft recently launched two ad campaigns to breathe new life into its flagship businesses, Windows and Office.

The first, called StartSomething, tells customers to get Windows XP and begin a new journey using 2001 technology.

The second, called Evolve, tells customers (represented as dinosaurs) to stop using ancient Office technology and upgrade.

I’m not sure which message I’d choose, though. The first encourages people to get technology that’s already on the chopping block, and the second insults people by calling them dinosaurs. I haven’t seen the StartSomething campaign yet, but Evolve is just embarrassingly bad.

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