Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Java 1.6 for OS X

There are hundreds of thousands of pages on the 'Net right now by angry people who want to see Apple put Java 1.6 back into Leopard. I'm one of them. But rather than waste bandwidth rehashing the issues, I'll simply register my complaint: without Java 1.6 on the Mac, I can't use the Mac for Java development for projects I have going on at work. It's that simple and it's totally unacceptable. Way to go Apple: congrats on pissing off hundreds of thousands of loyal customers. Great marketing decision - especially in refusing to make an official statement regarding Java 1.6.

Here's making my voice heard: 13949712720901forosx

No Excuses

Really. There aren't any excuses for my silence. I've done cool things (white water rafting, biking, kayaking), bought cool things (the Ultimate Collector's Millennium Falcon), designed cool things (Lego ships on my computers), taken cool pictures.... I've just not made the time to post. I hope to change that over the next months, but making promises to that effect seems silly, right now.