I’ve been coming around full swing in the last 18 months and am now using a ton of Apple’s programs (mail, Safari, Address Book, iCal, etc…) to do my daily work and management as oppose to what I was using before (Entourage, Outlook Express, Camino, Palm Desktop, etc…), but the one thing I haven’t been able to move over to yet is iChat.

Now it definitely integrates with the Address Book nicely, full voice and video support, and has the whole Apple fluff look (which is way too much fluff if you ask me) going for it. The problem is how iChat decides to handle group management and viewing. There is no way to tell who is in what group at all and this is a major pain. You can say which groups can be seen and which are hidden, but that still doesn’t matter because it consolidates all of your buddies in one window and sorts it by name. Unacceptable. What is wrong with having a system like the collapsable groups that are in just about every other major chat client? It’s always worked well. You can add in the Apple fluff to it and make it color coded just like how you make different calendars in iCal.

Since I don’t see this being implemented into the current beta version of iChat AV before final release, I can think of only one fix that would be quick and make a hell of a lot of difference. Under the “View” menu where you can pick your different sorts, add in a “Sort by Group” option. Problem temporarily solved until you add in the color coded group in the next version (wink, wink).

It’s September 19th, and you know what that means! It is official Talk Like a Pirate Day! No, I’m not kidding. So happy Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arrr!

Scripting News: “Comment notification for Radio is released.”

I knew I stayed up for a reason. Turns out I’m not the only one awake right now. Mr. Jobs just finished his keynote in Paris.

Steve Jobs: “Our strategy at Apple is to innovate… We’re gonna keep innovating because that’s what we love to do.”

Check out more of Panther, the new and updated Powerbooks, and the Bluetooth mouse and keyboard.

Jesus Christ on crutches! This Conan O’Brien 10th Anniversary Special is about the funniest thing I’ve ever seen! Check it out.

I wonder if there is anything else that can make us Californians look like more of a joke because of the recall. Bingo! Apparently we’re also too stupid to use the punch-card polling system.

So I was at a small BBQ last night but I decided to cut out kinda early because I just didn’t feel like being there. Why? I’m trying to figure that one out myself. This whole weekend has been very blase. The holidays aren’t here yet, but for some reason, I’m starting to get that “holiday blues” feel, ya know? I can’t really explain it and it’s pissing me off. I can tell ya one thing, though. I’m done with the California summer. Bring on the cold and windy weather with the orange and tan leaves.

USC 61, Hawaii 32

Dave Winer: “In no way minimizing the suffering and grief caused by the crashes, it was also a day of incredible growth for the weblog world, and emphasized the need to continue to develop decentralized communication systems that route effectively around outages.”

I wass Jason vs freddy. It was awesoo eme and I am drunk! Thank you passadena! Goodnight!