Weapons proliferation was bound to happen in Smurfland one day. Yahoo covers the story of the desolation of the Smurf village in this article

Gargamel may have just been reacting to provacation from the Smurfs. In this image we see the effects of Papa Smurf's lastest potion that causes the Smurfs to become giants. After taking the potion, Papa and Smurfette wandered into the local human town and started tearing the place apart. (notice the man in the foreground running for his life).

I was purusing a friends website and noticed he had a Creative Commons license on his page (along with having completely re-designed his website). I had heard about Creative Commons a little and decided to check it out. Very cool. They're all about licensing things, text, audio, video etc., to allow copyright holders some rights while letting others use their works in certain ways. For those familiar with open source licensing, they have similar things to the GNU-GPL. They let you pick what kinds of rights you want to retain and then give you some code to drop on your website that points back to the license.

So I am now licensing my website, all of it, under a Creative Commons license. If you'd like to use anything from my website, that's cool, just give me credit for it, don't use it commercially (can't make money from it) and whatever you do with it has to be licensed similarly. For more details click on the button in the nav-bar, it will take you to the CC site.

In general, the CC site is worth checking out. They have a section where people can upload their works, audio, video, images. I was listening to some music earlier and it was pretty good. They also have an article right now on a guy named Kembrew McLeod. He's a teacher at a college and he actually trademarked the phrase "Freedom of Expression®". He has a free book in pdf format that is licesened through CC and is doing a documentary, part of which is currently up on the CC site.

I'm starting some work on Mozilla/Gecko Embedding. To help me keep track of where I'm at I've started a page on embedding. Not much there yet, just some background and links to mozilla sites that contain documentation. My plan is to be able to comment on the state of those files and ultimatley to start updating them as I find out more information.

I've posted a new version 0.4 of the helloworld tutorial that has the proper verisoning. I was in a hurry to get it up the other day and posted it with v0.3 strings and install.rdf info.

v0.5 will have a C++ component and will communicate with the core XPCOM system to display something you can't normally get to from a webpage, like a pref or something. I'm also going to look into the update mechanism so ffox will look to my website to find a new version. I have no idea what that entails beyond adding the url to the install.rdf file and properly versioning the xpis on my website.

Hello World may not extend past the 0.5 mark since it will have accomplished most of my goals by then. Namely creating an extension that has xpcom components and can communicate with the core XPCOM system. But I may use it as a testground as I get further down the road and need to test out more advanced scenarios related to skinning and localization or whatever.