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

The RUst of the story

Over the last couple of days I've mentioned Radio UserLand. I haven't been fair to the people at UserLand Software.

Not because of what I said... (I won't take it back, what I said was what I felt at the time, this is a weblog, real-time and personal) but because of what I didn't say.

What I didn't say was this:

UserLand totally deserves to charge for Radio UserLand. Think of all the money and energy that team has put into it. Gotta be over $500K, if not close to $1M already, and close to 7 man years of effort! If you spent that kind of money and sweat you'd deserve a return too.

If Radio was something like $50 I'd buy a copy of the software for each of my computers. It's great software, it's easily worth that much to me, because I know how to make it sing like few people do. (I've been using Frontier heavily since '96)

But I was only thinking of me. I was upset that my dream of a free Frontier runtime to develop apps for was evaporating in front of my eyes.

Apparently Radio UserLand will be free as it is now, for the final release and for some time after that. That's great! What they intend to say on the home page is they don't promise it'll be that way forever.

So it wasn't a bait and switch. It was unclear communication, and not giving the benefit of the doubt. Humans do both every day.

Back to your regularly scheduled programming... I hope everyone gets this Radio virus.

Back to the Future for this weblog

It's now possible to post items into the past (to backfill) or future (to seed) of a Conversant weblog page.

I'm going to be using both historical and future entries on the weblog for the Oilogger site, to get it up to date and to set it up for future games. More on this later...

Stress is bad, but one expert says it’s also fattening

CNN.com: Stress is bad, but one expert says it's also fattening

I'm going to see my doctor for my routine weight-loss checkup today. I'm going to ask him about this and the other articles about fat viruses and genes.

I'm not making excuses for my obesity, but I'd like to know whether these things are plausible, it might help me manage with my situation once I've lost the weight. I don't want to gain it back.

BTW, my diet willpower has been very very low lately. And yes, I've been quite stressed.

RE: Templates in Conversant

The bit I did about templates in Conversant is about to roll off the bottom of the weblog, so here's a link to just that piece.

Independent

Independent.co.uk: The world according to 'Tog' -- "If you like using your computer, you probably have Bruce Tognazzini to thank. The interface guru talks to Charles Arthur"