Tech.It.To.Me->{By.Anton.Perez}

Mozilla has finally set a date for the official launch of Firefox 3, which open sourcers hope will set a world record for most ever downloads in a day.

Firefox 3.0 will be ready for download next Tuesday, June 17. But the big day, dubbed Download Day, could be delayed if a serious bug is uncovered at the last minute. The browser claims to be quicker, more stable, and a lot easier to set bookmarks.

Mozilla hopes to get at least 1.6 million downloads within 24 hours and set a new Guinness world record. It hopes Firefox fans will organize parties and get people to sign pledges to download the browser. Mozilla claims to have received over 40,000 pledges from the UK and more than 180,000 from the US.

Release Candidates of the software have been tested over the last few weeks.

Firefox accounts for some 20 to 30 percent of browser market share, depending on whose figures you believe. It is the most popular of the alternative browsers – those that are not pre-installed on PCs.

There’s more on the record attempt here.

Click on the image below to see how high gas prices is impacting the country. 

Holmes County, Miss. and and Wilcox County, Ala. are being hit the hardest with 15.6% and 16.0% respectively being spent on gasoline.

Mono County, Calif. shows an average of $4.79 a gallon.

I wonder how folks in Buffalo County, S.D. can live on $16,868 a year.

The U.S. government has to do something about this, as this is just disappointing and frustrating.  We’re getting robbed by the giants; take Exxon/Mobil, for example - they made a net profit of about $10 billion last quarter.  That’s net!

There’s a good article called The Importance of Volume in Automated Software Testing for you load testing folks.

Disclaimer: If you’re not Filipino, you may not understand nor get the humor of this.  If so, please move on.  =0)

Here are recently registered Chinese baby names born in the Philippines:

Born during the night = Andy Lim
Born blind = Kenneth Sy
Born being swindled = Lino Co
Born while cooking = Nilo Toh
Born as 10th child = Sam Po
Born while being courted = Lily Gaw
Born fat = Bob Uy
Born little = Kathy Ting
Born different = Eva Yan
Born with porridge = Lino Gaw
Born looking for someone = Allen Sia
Born while counterfeiting = Faye King
Born during Sunday = Lyn Go
Born with malice = Mali Sia
Born angry with someone = Ally Tan
Born with picture = Lara Huan
Born with sweets = Ken Dy
Born undefined = Sam Ting
Born while taking a bath = Lily Go
Born not to take a bath = Dinah Lily Go
Born while buying = Bill Li
Born secretly = Tina Go
Born to pass flatus = Otto Tin
Born ugly = Kaw Yan
Born Normal = Nath Ting Wong
Born Abnormal = Sam Ting Wong
May reklamo ka??? = Nath Ting