Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

discuss.userland is taking a holiday

Dave Winer: discuss.userland is taking a holiday -- "I just changed the configuration of this DG, only editors can post. Basically this puts the DG into read-only mode. If you have a comment you want to post in response to something on Scripting News, post it on some other site, and send me a pointer and I'll read it. If I feel it adds an important fact or point of view I'll point to it on Scripting News."

Whaddaya know, he did it! This is great, the soap operas can end and UserLand can focus on making software again. As a UserLand Software user this makes me soooo happy!

Hello from Mac OS X Public Beta

This message posted from Mac OS X Public Beta.

Update: I've spent the day with the OS X Public Beta, and I'm extremely impressed, as an end-user and developer. I look forward to pushing this system further and further.

It's also very comforting knowing that this is UNIX, and knowing that I have a really good Java 2 implementation to work with!

In your face!

Woohoo! My ADC Select Orientation Kit arrived, along with the OS X Public Beta and OS X Developer Tools CDs!

That's the good part... the bad part(s):

It also came with an OS X T-Shirt. Why is that bad? I bought one of those a few months ago on Apple's Starting Line website -- total cost with shipping: $70 CDN! (Yeah I got shit for that)

It also came with an OS X System Overview book. Why is that bad? I bought one of those a few months ago on Fatbrain. Total cost with shipping: $30 CDN!

It also came with an OS X Public Beta CD (duh). Guess what, I bought one of those already too, before I decided to join the ADC Select program. Total cost with shipping: $58.14.

That's $160 wasted. Good job.