I've been busy for the past few weeks scratching out a living in a barren land, and so haven't posted here, which is infuriating to me because I have a treasure-trove of newly discovered bugs. OSX, specifically Leopard, incorporated 'Spaces' into the core OS offering, and messed it up, just a little - reminiscent of Microsoft grabbing up enterprising utilities & de-clawing them until an upgrade was the only viable alternative... Oracle went on a binge, not unlike Microsoft some years earlier, to buy up favorites of the opensource community: Java, OpenOffice, and VirtualBox, and promptly broke two of the three badly. If you want a viable alternative to OpenOffice now that the Lord of the Sith has taken over the original offering, try LibreOffice. Del.icio.us was down for an entire day today in the wake of it's sale from Yahoo, witless defender of opensource. Facebook continues to be the crown jewel of the interface hall of shame with their wiggy text-box edit controls. Picasa has a couple of new ones, and both Firefox and Thunderbird have new releases that create pain in terms of long mouse-sweeps and inappropriately disabled controls along with a much slicker look and a level of crashiness previously unknown.
It's not as if new bugs aren't being delivered by the bushel - it's just that life got in the way. How annoying. All the same, it's time to hit the code again...
