The new version of Firefox was released today. When I first dropped IE it was called Phoenix, then it was Firebird and now Firefox. Apparently there is an open source database called Firebird so they had to change the name. It looks good and appears stable. I know that none of you care. Sorry kids, no porn today…

I had a busy day today. I contacted Maria’s buddy and sent my resume to him. He seems very friendly and willing to help me so that’s great. Tech is full of great people… hopefully I get an interview out of all of this but we’ll see. Whatever happens, I’ll end up where I’m supposed to be.

I met up with Neil and Dan for lunch at English Bay today. Brian even showed up despite not getting the message until we were already there. Then Neal came along and I went and had a coffee with him. Nice that Neal and Dan could finally meet.

Yesterday I watched Startup.com on Newsworld of all places. What a fascinating documentary on Govworks.com. They were a dot com that went through the typical idea phase, out of control growth and then implosion cycle that was so common back in the day.

What made it interesting was watching this take place from the founders point of view. I’ve been on the other side of the wall many times but it was interesting to see it from that perspective.

The film closed with a shot of of the empty cubes in the office, which I have also seen many times. What was funny was the founders went on to start a company to help distressed dot coms. I’ll be willing to bet that was a growth market that eventually dried up. Maybe I should start a company helping distressed tech workers…