The new “MediaWiki”:http://www.mediawiki.com rendition of the “Homestar Runner Wiki”:http://www.hrwiki.org has gone live. There’s still a bit of work to be done, but the community has pounced on it and it should be complete in no time. If you’ve never contributed before, now would be a great time to get involved.

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Every day moves us closer to a full release of Firefox. The “1.0 Preview Release”:http://www.getfirefox.com went live this morning. I’ve downloaded and installed it, and I have to say it was the smoothest Firefox upgrade I’ve ever been through.

The only quibble I have is that a few of my favorite extensions aren’t compatible yet, but the installer didn’t miss a beat. It found all the incompatible extensions and asked me if I’d like to search for upgrades. It only found a few, but the process sure was slick.

This release also has some nice RSS/bookmark features, a master password system, improved FindFast, and — remarkably — it’s even _smaller_ than the last version, weighing in at only 4.5 MB.

On a related note, the “Mozilla Foundation”:http://www.mozilla.org announced a new website this week, “Spread Firefox”:http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=user/register&r=5005. It was slashdotted a few times today, so if it displays a static “Welcome Slashdotters” page, wait a few minutes and try reloading. It’s got a number of new buttons and advertising graphics and a myriad of new resources for the Firefox evangelism community to help spread the word.

“The Mozilla Foundation”:http://www.mozilla.org debuted a new website this week. I say it’s a long overdue improvement. I never much liked the previous website. Hm, I need to set up a links section on my sidebar again…

I just archived a bunch of old entries off to a different area of the site. I got tired of looking at such a long list of categories, half of which I wasn’t using. I’ve kept pretty much everything since June of last year, which is when my focus shifted to mostly web-related content.

The old stuff is at “Joey Day : First Edition”:http://firstedition.joeyday.com. I may clean that up a little, but for now the default MT template should do just fine.

According to “Wired”:http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/view.html?pg=3, Stephen Toulouse, security program manager for Microsoft, uses Firefox.

Toulouse was interviewed about recent security flaws in IE. He mentioned Firefox in passing, and I think he only brought it up in a lame attempt to show that all browsers are subject to the same security issues as IE — all he said about Firefox is that he had to download a security update recently.

It sounds to me as though he only uses it for testing, but it’s at least comforting to know that Microsoft is sitting up and taking notice of their latest competitors.

Thanks to “Tom”:http://www.tompreuss.com/index.php?p=69 for the heads up.