jQuery Master?

So I've been busy doing a lot of nothing lately.

Well, I take that back. I've been reading a lot and trying to do a review that is long over due for Nerdyblog. I've been building baby furniture and trying to get the house ready for our first child. It should be here in a little less than two months. And I say it because we don't know what we're having. Right now we're just hoping it's a human.

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I Do Feel Different, Sort Of

I wanted to post a short update to my previous post. It seems that Chrome is everything I hoped that it would be and more, just not on my PC. Last night I was using my wife's laptop to Google something when I noticed the link under the search bar for Chrome. On a whim, I decided to install Chrome on her laptop and give it a test run on a computer other than my own. Some of you are probably thinking, "Why didn't he do that in the first place before writing his previous post." And to that I say, "I don't know." I still stand by what I said previously. My last post detailed my first impression of Chrome. It seems now that my impression was muddied by some unknown compatibility issue with my computer. I wish I knew what that issue was, because I've never seen a browser that was so agile and quick or that ran Flash so well. Once I can figure out the issue, I look forward to using Chrome a lot more often. If anyone out there can tell me why my computer, arguably more powerful than the laptop in many ways, can't run Chrome as well, and how to fix that, I would be most appreciative.

I'll Probably Feel Different Tomorrow

I was planning to make this post on the release date, but after playing around with Chrome for a bit I decided that I wasn't going to be able to get away with a “Wow this is awesome, everything is great!” sort of post.

One thing about Google that has always gotten to me is that they release everything as a Beta. I can’t remember the last thing, if anything, they released that wasn't branded a Beta. Gmail is still considered to be in Beta. Why not remove Beta and call it version X, or simply call it Gmail? Slapping Beta on everything seems like a way of escaping blame should problems occur, saying, “We told you it was Beta after all!” You could also look at it as them being eager to share their excitement about their cool new projects that aren’t quite finished yet.

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