This morning I saw that Google Chrome dev 10.0.648.82 was out with a stability release update. It's worded a little strangely, but then again, these guys re engineers not english majors, so you have to cut them a little slack now and again.
Nice to see the improvements. It's getting better and better.
This is a very interesting story I found over on Slashdot. Seems that a decent employee was fired for talking about her boss on Facebook. Protected free speech, countered the National Labor Relations Board. Very interesting.
It seems like the law - specifically, labor relations, is catching up to the idea that online speech is still that - speech, and therefore protected. Now it's not going to stop the at will hiring states from getting you fired for no cause, but that coupled with some changing HR policies I've seen of late around the area makes a case that things are loosening up for online speech.
I'd really like to open up this journal again, but can't until I'm certain I won't have the same situation I had a while back. Just not interested in going through all that again.
This morning, when I restarted Google Chrome, I noticed that there was an update to WordPress 3.0.5, so I went to HostMonster and updated all my installations and verified that they all took.
It's a little thing, yes, and I suppose there are a lot of places that this occurs, but I have to say that I'm just a very happy user of this kind of service. I used to run all these things on my own boxes, and while it was OK, it was just OK, and I soon realized that it was just a lot more work than pleasure. Glad I switched.
This morning I noticed that Google Chrome dev 10.0.648.45 was out with a few really nice additions. Among them are the latest V8 engine (3.0.12.12) and Flash (10.2), but also "many crash fixes". Good enough for them. I'm not using Flash anywhere else on my MacBook Pro, so it's my one place to view Flash content - and I use it every now and then, but not often.
When I restarted it, it was amazingly fast, and I was jazzed for the first time in a long time. Wouldn't this be great! I thought. But after a bit it was back to 'normal' speed. Guess Comcast was just speedy then.
This week has gone very fast. I haven't been able to really even keep up on what's happening day-to-day here. The middle of the week was a blur with the work on the infix-to-prefix parser, and a ton of help to some folks trying to use my ticker plants at The Shop. Given that they aren't really excited about the change, I'm really not at all shocked that they are being a bit high maintenance about this.
So it goes... but the fact of the matter was that I was feverishly trying to add and fix things for them while trying to get the infix parser working while trying to get home at reasonable hours. It's a job, and I knew there were going to be days like this, but it was a real trial.
One of the real kickers that happened was that my manager gave me a bit of a scare when he pointed out that the reputation of my work was a very big deal. The way The Shop deals with bonuses and such is just a reality of life that we have to deal with. No two ways about it.
So I'm going to have to push harder, and that means I'm liable to step on a few toes. But I'm going to be very up-front about it, and let the management know what I'm doing and why. But in the end, it's going to get a little more uncomfortable for those that are dragging their feet.
So it goes... I've been more than a little uncomfortable this week for sure.
This afternoon I saw a tweet that VoodooPad 4.3.2 was out, so I hopped right on that. The release notes are nice, but I also noticed that it's getting ready for the Mac App Store as it's now signed by Apple, which is a nice touch, I suppose.
I haven't had any problems with this guy, but it's nice to see the progress anyway.
This morning the Google Chrome team released 10.0.648.18 with a nice list of changes - including the latest version of their V8 javascript engine - 3.0.12.8. There were also a few Mac-specific fixes, and that's great, but they still have that new preferences 'page' that you can't resize the left-hand selector. Very odd, and even annoying as it's so bloody large.
So it goes... can't have it all, I suppose.
This morning I saw that Google Chrome dev 10.0.648.11 is out, and the release notes indicate that it's really about bug fixes and enhancements to the new preferences pane. It's not a horrible idea - to make a cross-platform preferences pane, but it's going to be unlike every other preferences system the user is used to - on any platform.
Sure, most will get used to it, but I don't understand the need to have such a "one size fits all" attitude to software. The basic browser is cross-platform, but there's no reason to make every keystroke and button the same. Oh well... that's Google.
