Just some news shorts here from yours truly. This time we’ll look at Peformancing’s newly re-re-incarnated Pmetrics statistics engine, a new blog in town called Amaldo and lastly, a Firefox 3 Planned Features post and comments thereof.

Okay…heeerrrreee we go….

Pmetrics: The new “bored and stroked” dedicated server is in place and the statistics service came back online again last night and it’s been tracking my blog here with no problems since. And since a Pre-Announcement on the re-launching has just been posted at Performancing. I guess it’s safe to make a similar announcement here and to throw my affiliates link back into my sidebar where it belongs. If you happen to notice a close resemblance to another statistics service, there’s a good reason for it. They are affiliates and there ain’t nothin’ wrong with that. Check it out if your looking for a stats service that’s a bit different than the rest.

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And there’s a new blog in the neighborhood called Bloggin’ With Amaldo that I had a wee hand in getting sorted out. More like a few emails worth of advice but the credit really goes to the author(s) who put a ton of work into it so let’s here it for Beth and her husband who put up with my explanations and invasions whilst we beat her theme into submission. She’s also a contributing writer to Jewilicious which I have found to be a real good read. Nice job Beth!

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Last but not least; Firefox 3 or at least a very early version of it (hence no link). Not much different from Firefox 2 in it’s current Alpha 4 build in fact it’s pretty crash prone but it’s a heck of a lot more stable than Firefox 2 ever thought of being when it was at this stage of development last year. Right now it’s more on getting the source code together and the bugs in the new Gecko 1.9 engine worked out which is Firefox 3′s new rendering engine. I’m currently testing the trunk builds which means the new browser gets a nightly update. Makes me feel like some work is being done on it…which there is.

The whole point in bringing this up is so I could put in a link to a Planned Features post at Mozilla Links which used to be the old Mozilla Newsletter way back when. The post is interesting enough but some of the comments are downright unbelievable. Doesn’t anyone out there understand what the phrase “Planned Features” means at this stage of the game? Obviously not, considering all the complaints and hollering going on about no really great new features and “what the heck you do that for?” type of guff. People never cease to amaze me. Like the Mozilla developers were anywhere even close to knowing what’s going to go into the 3rd generation of what has become a very popular browser especially among the blogging community where it has become absolutely indispensable for those working and developing blogs. Anyway—for those interested in this kind of thing, I recommend giving it a look. Especially at the comments.

Okay…That’s it for now. It’s late and I’m ready to hit the sack but I think I’ll go to bed instead. Easier that way.