noise from a mozilla IT/Operations wrangler
Two weeks ago my entire team was onsite. It’s perhaps the first real IT/Operations onsite we’ve had. The group is finally large enough and geographically spread around where having focused onsites makes sense. Most of the week was spent with PuppetLabs and for various reasons, I missed the beginning of the week but I had… Read more
In late 2009 my friend and former colleague Dan Portillo introduced me to YearUp. I could say a lot about YearUp but none says it best than this PBS NewsHour segment. I met Jay and Sahaar at YearUp and immediately saw possibilities for Mozilla’s participation and by January 2010 we welcomed our first, albeit entirely… Read more
I’m posting this in the hopes others who find themselves in this predicament will find this online and find it useful. I certainly found comfort in this guy’s tale. I took a side trip to Hungary this past weekend and inadvertently lost my passport. So now what? This all happened on a Friday night. Thank… Read more
This came up the other day and it occurred to me that not everyone knows why I call myself what I call myself. Why mrz? It’s not short for Mr. Z. Shortly after moving out to Mountain View in 1996, I worked at 3Com. I worked in the engineering division that, during the two years… Read more
Musica cerca de Av. Corrientes y Av. 9 de Julio. Last week, for eight days, I was able to step outside my normal role managing Operations and wear an entirely different hat. I had an amazing opportunity to interact with the vibrant Mozilla and Open Source community; I got to interact with those who I… Read more
Mozilla has a long history of being a technology leader on the web and open standards. A short, and certainly not exhaustive, list includes: Firefox (of course) HTML5 Geolocation Do Not Track IT/Operations is often the unglamorous side of Mozilla. We work in the shadows and you generally don’t see us unless something’s broken. However,… Read more
