Nigel McFarlane, author of Rapid Application Development with Mozilla, has put up his web site.

As promised, he has posted a page of book errata. It doesn't include everything I listed, does include some things others told him about, but at least he linked to my list of errors. He even called me eagle-eyed. (My alter-ego must be an editor.)

Note that my list is still incomplete, for two reasons. First, I haven't yet finished the book, and there are bound to be more errors to report. Second, I haven't yet figured out how to report the problems with the Hands On section in chapter 13. My hope is that if the book is ever updated then this section will be completely rewritten. Unfortunately I don't have that option, so I need to figure out how to report and explain those errors.

I started using Colloquy last week, for IRC. Colloquy is a mac-only IRC client that uses webkit (Apple's HTML renderer, on which Safari is based) to display the message interface.

I don't use IRC a whole lot these days, but I've been kicking around the idea of an unofficial #conversant irc channel. For weeks I've been using Mozilla's Chatzilla as an extension in Firefox. Once I'd tried out Colloquy, though... well, goodbye Chatzilla.

It's set up very much like the modern Mac OS X instant messaging clients (meaning, proteus and adium). Very speedy and, well, I really like it. Try it out! Colloquy is free and open source.