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I’m back at work today for the first time since life changed completely and wonderfully two weeks ago. Thanks to everyone for their congratulations, support, and good wishes; they are very much appreciated by all three of us.

I have a pretty good-sized backlog of mail, and I suspect it’ll take me most of today to get through it, but if you are waiting for a response from me and don’t get something by the end of tomorrow, you should feel welcome to send me a gentle reminder. I will be on IRC and IM for your gentle-reminding needs.

In the interim, you can entertain yourselves with cute baby pictures:

Hot, or at least warm, on the heels of our addition of Mark Finkle to the Mozilla Corporation developer relations team, I am pleased as punch to announce that John Resig is sidling up beside Mark to add some more firepower to our developer support capabilities. John is an accomplished writer of both code and prose, and seems pretty fired up about putting those twin gifts to work in service of developers, add-on and web-stuff both. He’s jresig on IRC, and as with Mark and Sheppy you’ll see his fingerprints all over our developer support story in the weeks and months to come.

John’s first day was yesterday, but I was still clinging to the last fleeting hours of my Christmas vacation, so I’m a little late with this announcement. He appears to already be drinking ably from the Mozilla fire-hose, and scheming away with Mark on various plots for web domination, so my tardiness seems to not have impaired him too much!

Good evening, Mozilla world. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to Mark Finkle, who joins our intrepid Mozilla Corporation ecosystem team on this very day. Mark’s got a ton of software development experience, he writes very well, and he shares the neurochemical defect that makes me really excited about helping people build their own great stuff on top of our great stuff. You’ll certainly see him and his work on IRC, in the wiki, and on our newsgroups/mailing lists soon, if you haven’t yet had a taste. I’m not saying that the Spiderman theme song was directly inspired by his new role here at Mozilla, but it’s hard to deny that wherever there is an extension development hang-up, you may indeed find him there.

Ours is a daunting community to join, tantamount to learning a new language while riding a unicycle across lava, but I have the utmost confidence that he’ll be up and running in a terrifyingly short time, and before long we’ll be wondering what we did without him. In the meantime, if you should see him wandering the source tree looking slightly dazed, please offer him refreshment — his manager is a bit of a dork, and that can be a serious burden to bear.