I’ve got some good news and some bad news.

The good news is that Adobe Connect was just updated (well, a few weeks back) to a brand spanking shiny new version (8.1.2) and this is supposed to fix all of our current problems. Amazingly enough, judging from this past Friday’s performance, it seem to be working very well. There were few serious audio problems, and only intermittent video problems - although it seemed like the video “freezing” is most likely the new software’s method of dealing with bandwidth limitations. Anyway, 3 hours of chat went very smoothly, well mostly, well… better than usual. (Yes, I recognize that some of these problems are still around, causing some people to have to leave the chat and come back, repeatedly. But it IS getting better…slowly).

The bad news is that if you’re one of the sad frustrated people who’ve upgraded to MacOS 10.7 “Lion” then you’re pretty much screwed. There’s an issue with Flash that mostly prevents your microphone to work, leaving you staring and listening, but mostly frustrated that you can’t participate. On top of this, here’s all that Adobe has to say on the matter, “Uh…we’re working on it”. Great, thanks for nothing.

Anyway, If this effects you, stay tuned, because I’m staying on top of it and will let you know when we can go back to just having the old, expected problems, and not all these new ones, eh?

Also, watch the schedule. I’m working on adding new and exciting special guests.