This morning I noticed that Google Chrome dev 24.0.1290.0 was out with a respectable set of release notes. It appears they've felt with some crashing issues, but not a lot else. I suppose that's OK, it's still an improvement, and that's a step. I'm not sure where they are really going but it's nice to seem them still moving forward.
This morning I feel sick - I mean really sick! I know it'll pass, it was dinner last night, but it doesn't make it any better. I feel like crap, and there's nothing I can do to feel better other than give it time.
I'm sure by later this afternoon, I'll feel better, but right now my guts feel like someone stabbed me with a saber. It's nasty. But I know it'll pass… so I go to work and get on with life.
Crud.
OK, I've got to believe this is Photoshopped, but either way, it's pretty bloody funny:
There have been a very select set of political images that make me laugh, mostly because they all typically make me upset, but this is a rare gem. Really quite funny.
Thanks for the laugh!
UPDATE: it's not Photoshopped! I saw similar pictures from a campaign stop, and it's legit. Now, of course, the girl isn't reacting to The Romney Toot, but it's not faked! Too funny!
OK… I was just watching twitter this morning, and this came across, and I just started giggling:
Wil is a character. Smart, funny, witty, but a character that is totally unafraid of calling out someone or some company. It's nice to see it, as so many of the tech community has enforced biases, and that's not really doing anyone a service.
Funny, funny, tweet.
This morning I saw that the Google Chrome team has upped the major version number of Chrome to 24.0.1284.2 with a few nine updates, and several bug fixes - notably a few Flash issues, crashes, and a new version of WebKit and the V8 javascript engine. Nicely done. I'm curious why this qualifies as a major release number, but I think it has more to do with when the version gets stable enough to deploy out to the masses, then the dev version has to up it's number to be unique. Sure seems like it anyway.
Well… nicely done to the Chrome team!
I just saw a tweet and immediately started to giggle:
I hit the link and started reading. The changes are OK, but nothing substantial like keeping things open and allowing image sharing. Then, at the bottom of the article, they said:
We’ve made a bunch of other improvements to the app and many more are on the way. Thanks everyone for your great, constructive comments. We’re listening. We’ve also made the old version of Skitch available for those that want it. Stay tuned, our app to help you communicate and share your ideas visually is just getting started.
HA!
Evernote looked at the horrible ratings on the App Store, and they relented to leave the older version up. I immediately downloaded it on my MacBook Pro and it fixed all the configuration issues I've been trying to get around. This is excellent news!
Now, all I need is to set up a decent WebDAV server, or just leave it as FTP and I'm good to go. Also, I have CloudApp and that works as well.
Looks like we have a new version of Google Chrome dev this morning - 23.0.1271.10 with a sparse, but informative list of release notes. With this update, it appears they are about to jump to 24.x - but we'll have to wait and see. They may all be working on getting iOS Maps out 🙂
In any case, fixes for Flash are always good (I really dislike the implementation of the Flash interpreters I've seen from Adobe), and while I'm not a Windows 8 fan, it's nice to throw them a bone once and a while.
This morning I've been fighting off a few things and while I'm doing better at being able to handle the slings and arrows these days, I was given a wonderful reminder from twitter:
In 100 years I won't be here. My kids won't either. Their kids? Probably, but that's only if they live well. There may not be a soul on this planet that remembers what I'm doing in this life, and that's OK.
Who was working in the machine shop (the high-tech equivalent of today) in GE's plant 100 years ago? No idea. He worked hard, tried to raise a family, be a good husband, and some did well, others not so much. But today, they are long forgotten.
Carpe Diem. 'Nuff said.
This morning I saw this on Daring Fireball, and it reminded me of the recent conversation I've had with a guy that contracted me to do some work for a Bank and said that it'd be worth $25k to him. So I did it. It took me about 2 weeks, but it was a lot of fun getting back into OS X coding that I didn't mind the time.
I actually made it more flexible than he/they needed. I could sync up and down data between multiple devices and it always makes sure to send minimal packets of information. It's not Rocket Science, but it's nice, and I'm really proud of it. I put it up on a private repo on GitHub and let him see it.
He wanted to use it for something else, and when he asked how much that was worth, I said: "$25k".
"What? You said it'd only take a weekend to make the customizations I asked for."
"Yes, but that's not the point… it's the value the code represents."
I just wish I'd had this quote from Picasso to reference him. I have it now.
"Five thousand dollars," the artist replied.
"B-b-but, what?" the woman sputtered. "How could you want so much money for this picture? It only took you a second to draw it!"
To which Picasso responded, "Madame, it took me my entire life."
Well… I got to thinking this evening on the train ride home that getting Skitch 1.x working again might be nice. After all, I was able to use it on my work laptop and save an image to the Skitch.com servers, and that gave me hope. Well… honestly, it didn't hurt that the reviews for the latest version weren't looking too great on the Mac App Store:
…clearly, the vast majority of the people buying the app aren't buying the changes. So I thought Maybe they'll turn around? OK… so I'm a hopeful romantic.
In any case, I was able to fire up Skitch 1.x and then try to save something and it asked me if I wanted to use my Evernote account, or try the 'old school' login on my Skitch account. I put that in, and presto! I was logged in. As long as I don't go to the Preferences panel, I'm going to stay logged in. That's great news!
I'm still not going to get too attached to it - but maybe it's possible that Evernote is going to look at this feedback and see that they need to back off what they are doing.
At least that's what I'm hoping for…