Today Liza and the kids are coming down to meet me at the office and spend a "City Day" downtown. There are a few places everyone wants to go, and then it'll just be lunch, and a lot of walking around. It's a great way to spend a nice day, and while it's a little chilly, it's not bad.
Looking forward to it.
This morning I saw the expected update of Google Chrome dev to 12.0.712.0, marking the move to 12.x. I say this was expected because they just announced that the 10.x series was in beta (or release), and that meant that they needed to "up the voltage" a bit on the 'dev' channel. The third number is all that seems to matter, and there are still a few nice things to find in this update.
What seems to be missing is any new features that they might want to add after Firefox 4 went final a week ago. I've played with Firefox 4, and it's OK, but the rendering is the biggest issue, and while that's not quite right, I'll stick with Chrome. But Firefox is smooth, and the "Spaces"-like support is very cool and keeps the tab count to a minimum. Very nice indeed.
Note: the old icon is back, too. Seems "plastic" now.
This morning I got a tweet that MarsEdit 3.2 was out with a nice little list of goodies for the blogging public. Honestly, I think he'd be well-served by including a decent editor like SubEthaEdit or Vim, but that's his choice, and that's what makes life great.
Great app. Can't imagine using anything else for my journal.
This morning I noticed that Google Chrome dev 11.0.696.14 is out, and it seems to have several updates for a small minor point change. OK with me, I'm glad to see the continual improvement of the dev channel. I was also interested in the about:gpu, and tried it on my MacBook Pro - very neat. Glad it's used in rendering.
This afternoon I realized that git on my Mac Mini at home had the 64-bit version of git installed from the Mac OS X git installer, and that was a big mistake as it's a simple Core Duo CPU which can only run in 32-bit more on Snow Leopard. I had the 64-bit version for my MacBook Pro, and my iMac, but forgot to get the 32-bit version for the Mac Mini. Bummer.
Clearly, it'd be great if they had a universal build so I didn't have to deal with this, but hey... they build it and I can just keep things straight. My bad. Plain and simple. So I got the most recent builds for x86_64 and i386, and put the 64-bit package on my MacBook Pro, and tonight I'll install the 32-bit version on my Mac Mini. There. It'll work.
It's nice to see:
$ git --version git version 1.7.4.1
Nice. Love it when things "just work".
[3/18] UPDATE: this morning I installed the latest updates on my Mac Mini (i386) and on my iMac (x86_64) so all boxes are up to date and working fine.
I've been using Growl for a very long time. I think it's about the most interesting new technology - with style, that I've seen in workstations in the last few years. It's really amazing. Anyway, when I started using Colloquy I was very impressed with the stability, features and style of the IRC client. I've written IRC clients for a while, and this guy is just amazingly nice. Beautiful, in fact.
But there's one issue that I've never figured out - Colloquy supports Growl, but Colloquy 2.3 and Growl 1.2 on Snow Leopard (10.6) just doesn't work well. Both Growl 1.2.1 and Colloquy 2.3 are 64-bit apps, but Colloquy is constantly showing the "Bubbles" Growl notification style - even though I changed the default style. And the notifications fall on top of other notifications. It's like Colloquy 2.3 has a parallel version of Growl. Very odd.
So this morning I did a little digging and found a posting about an error in Colloquy with regards to Growl. I'm not positive, but I think it's related to Growl 1.2.1 being beta at the time 2.3 came out, and 32-bit at that. Then I found this article and it pointed me to the nightly builds of Colloquy.
I chose the latest - Colloquy-5138.zip and BINGO! Everything is working amazingly well now. Very nice. I still have 64-bit apps, and the style is respected as well as the location of the notifications. It's like it's working the way it was meant to. Lovely.
I'm sure they'll push out a new version soon, and when they do, I'll get back on the "released" version of Colloquy, but for now, this is just fine.
This morning I saw that Google Chrome dev 11.0.696.12 is out, and it's got a good number of fixes - mostly UI components and front-facing issues, but that's OK too. Glad to see it. One thing I didn't expect as a brand new icon - seems the Googlers are going for a more geometric look and less of the shiny plastic look.
Good for them. I like it.
This is something that was started by some of my kid's teachers years ago, and I still like it - Pi Day! We try to have pie in the house, and I'm happy to say that Pumpkin is the order of the day today. Yum!
Happy Pi-ing!
This morning I noticed that Google Chrome dev 11.0.696.3 was released with a few issues addressed. Nothing major, but it's nice to see the attention to detail my the builders.
This morning I checked and Google Chrome dev 11.0.696.0 was out. Seems in this release, they updated the V8 engine to 3.2.0.1 and made a few Mac-specific fixes/tweaks. Nice of them to pay attention to the platform, really. It's a decent browser, but I still can't help but wonder what's up with Google these days? Is it doing evil, or reforming it's ways?