Today, from the "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" department: "DeadJournal" was renamed "ExtremeJournal"

On the ninth day of February, the proxy says to me:

ERROR

Access Denied by SmartFilter

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The following error was encountered:

• Access Denied by SmartFilter: Forbidden, this page (http://www.deadjournal.com/) is categorized as: Extreme.

Request: GET / HTTP/1.0
[snip]
Host: www.deadjournal.com
[snip]

Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact the cache administrator if you feel this is incorrect.

(Only the HTML was even worse than that.)

First reaction: "Whatchu talkin' about, Willis?"

Second reaction: "Rats."

Mozilla Phoenix^WFirebird^WFirefox...

timwi brought to my attention that the Mozilla's browser-only project has been renamed again, this time to "Firefox" [page currently overloaded], now that 0.8 is out. ("Thunderbird" is still called that, though.)

See also his journal entry.

(Random linguistic note: at first, I wrote "Timwi made me aware of the fact that..." but I discarded that as being too close to the German construction "Timwi machte mich darauf aufmerksam, dass..." which led me to doubt its idiomaticity(?).)

Edit: Their roadmap says that they want to "be building up an aggressive campaign to market the Firefox browser".

Renaming it fits right into a marketing campaign, I'm sure! Nothing quite like it to boost brand recognition!

Edit 2: See also the press release and the name change FAQ (if you can get it to load), as well as the SlashDot article.

Edit 3: Apparently, Mozilla have trademarked "Firefox" in the class of "Browsers, namely, software for browsing and interacting with data on the global computer network and secure private networks, and software programs to connect computers to the global computer network and to secure private networks", so hopefully this name change will be the last one.

An advertisement for LiveJournal!

Well, not really... it does end in Move [...] over to LiveJournal, but that's not meant in a good way. It's mostly bashing people setting up their own MT blog and thinking that their words of wisdom are the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Have a look at the article anyway: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/2/171117/8823.