Nonsequittal Rumblings

Jeff just called me into his office, and asked me if I’ve heard or read about the story on…
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/06/21/japan.blood.reut/

What a sick story. And to see that it happened in Japan…

Don’t think that this kind of punishment is acceptable in Japan. It’s just that teachers like to escalate the disciplinary action, and often too much that it becomes abuse.

Of course, the other thing we can see in this story is how the victim did not ask for any more disciplanary action taken to the teacher either. And the school is willing to put this teacher back to work in a few days. I really don’t see exactly whose fault it is. Is it the fault of the system who don’t take these things seriously enough, or the fault of the students who don’t stand up for their rights?

After a long wait, and extensive Beta testing and a series of Release Candidates, Mozilla 1.7 is out.
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/

As of late, I like how mozilla has adopted BitTorrent with their releases. Finally, this practical P2P is gaining acceptance. I wish FireFox would adopt BT soon too. I’m sure that many FireFox users have adopted BT as well.

Otherwise… you know, I don’t hold my breath too much for Mozilla releases. I am now very fond of FireFox. There are just enough differences between the two to really bother me to use Mozilla as my main browser any more. (Most notable is the different keyboard shortcuts.) I still use Mozilla while I’m doing testing etc. Alas, no BT at work…