Ars Technica has a summary of the visit from a group of brave Hobbits (Firefox developers) who visited Mordor (Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond) to have a look at potential interoperability issues between The One Ring (Windows Vista) and Narya, one of the three Elf rings (Firefox). You can also find the entire account of this brave trip in There and Back Again, A Hobbit’s Tale (Vladimir Vukićević’s blog).
Boring technical stories are so much more fun with Lord of the Rings.
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