Danny emailed me today to say that he'd noticed spam links on the SWX web site (thanks, man!) When I looked, I couldn't see anything. That is, until I looked at the source.

Somehow, someone managed to inject spam links and hide them using display:none. The actual code starts like this:

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The SWX contest winners have been announced.

Read all about it on the SWX blog.

John Grden just forwarded me an email form John Olsen (thanks guys) alerting me that Apple has reportedly released a fix for the keyboard freezing issue in Leopard.

That's good news but, to tell you the truth, I'm going to wait a couple of months at least before even considering giving Leopard another shot. See, the thing is, I'm really happy on Tiger and downgrading to it made me realize just how many little issues I had with Leopard (responsiveness, general quirkiness, etc.) I absolutely love how stable Tiger is. I love how Tiger looks (yes, I love my non-transparent menu bar, rounded corners and blue apple logo) and I love how everything (all applications, etc.) work. I love the level of polish Tiger has.

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That's it, I've had it with Leopard. All the issues I've been having are driving me nuts. Leopard is just not stable enough for professional use. I almost feel like a Windows user again. (OK, not entirely, but I definitely don't feel like a Mac user anymore!)

So today, I bid adieu to Leopard and downgrade to Tiger.

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The reports of SWX's death have been greatly exaggerated. Well, OK, the one report, that is.

I'm referring to the blog post by David Arno that asks Has Adobe just killed SWX?

David's post refers to the recent opening of the AMF format (good one, Adobe, and about time, I'd say) and the open source release of BlazeDS.

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