A few of us have been working to get a NYC Sakai User Group off the ground, and Tue 9/25 is the day! Come join us for an afternoon of networking, sharing, and maybe some dinner, graciously hosted by NYU. Details are:
New York University 110 Fifth Ave (between 16th and 17th St) 5th Floor Small Conference Room
There will be Wireless, a projector, and possibly SNACKS!
More details in Collab wiki.
Looks like I’m famous 
A Q&A on how I got involved with JA-SIG and some of my thoughts on education and open-source was posted in the latest issue of the JA-SIG Newsletter (which Roger has done a superior job of publishing monthly, and on a real schedule too — congratulations!)
Blog and it shall be done! Colloquy just released an update which lists the blank chat room problem (source of amusement like “hello…?”. This makes me happy since aside from that small incapacitating bug, I’ve been extremely happy with Colloquy — it makes IRC feel like not IRC
Colloquy 2.1 (3720) The latest build on 9/11/2007 can be downloaded here (6.61 MB). Requires 10.3.9 or higher. Supplied as a universal binary, allowing it to run on an Intel or PowerPC Mac. Changes in this Release * Fix for the blank chat room bug. #576
Update: Hmmm… not entirely fixed — though happens much less now. Looks like /reload styles is still going to be my friend for a while. Apparently this fixes a case where with Safari 3 it happened a lot more.
I’ve been using Colloquy as an IRC client — for the most part it’s just beautiful and very Mac like. There is however one annoying recurring bug…
“Blank Chat Room Bug” [#576] Blank chat room bug Sometimes, in random intervals, some auto-joined chat rooms appear as blank / empty / not active / plain white (or whatever background color your style uses), although activity can be observed through the unread messages counter or Growl notifications. Workaround: As a workaround you can type /reload style in the affected chat rooms.
What this means is that sometimes, randomly all the text in the room disappears — this has lead to some funny “helloo…” moments on ##uportal. Hopefully posting this tip here saves someone some grief.
