Entropy Reducers Amalgamated

In this economy? Sure.

I'm doing craigslist again (see here or here) but I'm also trying out now the Joel on Software jobs board (see our ad here)

For what it's worth, I posted the CL ad yesterday and it took over an hour for the first person who didn't read the ad to spam me.

I have to admit to reading the CL gigs sections occasionally to try to find new clients, but I don't wildly spam every posting on the board. It's a little insane.

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Following the maddening crowds, I downloaded Google Chrome and installed it on my Windows machine. My first impressions are:

1. Javascript-heavy sites like Facebook, Jango, LinkedIn and Gmail itself feel much faster, whether they actually are is somehow irrelevant...I've not done any real testing of pageloading or rendering speed versus Firefox 3 (my default browser); my observations are totally subjective.
2. Ack! Where did all these advertisements come from? After having been spoiled by Adblock in Firefox, browsing sites in Chrome seems to be so ... much noisier.
3. The menu-barless top is something to get used to; Mac users have had it forever (MacOS has always had the menu bar pinned to the top of the screen), but for X-windows and Windows users, it's a new and somewhat disorienting feeling.
4. The "incognito" window is an interesting feature-let that should definitely be stolen by Firefox, while it doesn't prevent being spied upon by corporate firewalls or proxy servers, it does at least provide a way to prevent having things saved on your system that you might not want to find later. (Of course, no system is perfect, but at least this provides the thinnest veneer of deniability...)
5. Otherwise the look-and-feel isn't significantly different than the tabbed browsing in FF3, with the exception that there's no longer a "home page" (or set of pages) any more, just a thumbnail of your most recented sites.

I'm not a GoogleDocs user, so I'm not really the target audience for Chrome, but it's got that new-car smell and go-faster stripes that make the JS-heavy sites that are so prevalent and growing in complexity and pervasiveness. (There are still quite a number of non-JS-heavy plain-HTML sites out there--this blog being one of them--so there's some time for every other browser to keep up.)

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