FireFox Birthday Bash | November 9, 2004

So FireFox has hit release 1.0 and geeks all over the world are throwing FireFox birthday parties in celebration. Brighton has a very high geek contingent so after an initial suggestion to the BNM mailing list, local web developer Tristan Roddis put together a Brighton FireFox bash with the backing of his employers, Cognitive Applications.

Tristan put on a great bash complete with decorations, party poppers, birthday cake and a £100 bar tab. There was also fun and games such as “pin the cursor on the <div> tag” and “guess the number of lines of code in FireFox”. I stupidly guessed 35,000 when the actual figure was closer to 3 million. However the highlight of the evening had to be the live video web chat with none other that FireFox icon designer John Hicks

Brighton FireFox birthday picture

The usual geeks were there and Jeremy Keith snapped this pic of me and Richard Rutter posing for the camera.

Posted at November 9, 2004 11:53 PM

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You have hair!

Posted by: Malarkey at November 10, 2004 12:39 AM

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Hair! My thoughts exactly. Wow, that really is tremendously geeky, but good on ya. The live web chat really had me chuckling - fantastic!

Posted by: Dave Foy at November 10, 2004 8:59 AM

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To those weren’t there, I should point out that my live video chat was a rather bizarre one-way affair. Lots of waving and cheesy grins from me, as I was barely able to hear anything that was being said! Although I did hear a distant cry of ‘he looks a bit rough’ ;o)…

Posted by: Jon Hicks at November 10, 2004 9:19 AM

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Thanks for everybody’s concerns about my barnet. I can confirm that I do indeed poses a fine, thick and healthy head of hair which currently is in serious need of a cut. My usual crop is a matter of convenience, but I’ve been to lazy/busy since getting back from my hols to get it cut.

Posted by: Andy Budd at November 10, 2004 10:30 AM

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Just gutted that I missed it :(

Who is who in the photo?

Posted by: Rob McMichael at November 10, 2004 11:54 AM

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Andy - why not just try growing it for a bit? Get some hair products and have a play around with it?

Posted by: Jon Hicks at November 10, 2004 2:34 PM

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The Brighton area really does hold many of world’s oddest geeks.

Damn my little Valburg…

Posted by: Rob Mientjes at November 10, 2004 2:43 PM

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I now share my birthday with Lou Ferrigno, Tony Slattery and Mozilla Firefox. How wonderful! :)

Posted by: Trevor May at November 10, 2004 4:08 PM

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Oi Beardy… you’ll be wearing sandals next.

Posted by: Ian at November 11, 2004 6:03 PM