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

Unix is Macintosh?

DaveNet: What happens when Unix is Macintosh?

Jabber

France Telecom To Take Equity Stake in Jabber.com, Inc.

Canada ranks fourth in e-readiness

CP: Canada ranks fourth in e-readiness That's not good enough, but if the only countries in the world ahead of Canada are the USA, Australia, and the UK, I guess that's not too bad.

Survivors of the downturn

The survivors of the dot-com downturn

I remember when I left school to join the tech industry early, while the getting was good. I thought it was unfortunate for me that the good-years were just a few years too early for me to finish school and still get in early enough.

Imagine how the people feel that have either stuck it out in college/university, graduating this year, or just graduating from high-school this summer. The good years past them by and they didn't even get a chance. What a bummer. At least I got to ride the wave...

Fewer wired homes

CNet: Fewer wired homes as free ISPs vanish

See, this Internet thing was just a big fad. Long live print and television!

But I'm bucking the trend (as always). Today, PacBell DSL should be activated in my home. I've never had DSL before, I had @Home cable internet in Canada since October, 1998.

How can I tell when they activate the DSL? Will I stop having a dial-tone on that line unless I put the filter on? I'm just wondering how to tell if DSL is activated when I get home from work today.

Looking back at PASBC

I was the lead developer for the new PASBC app (using WebObjects) in 1999. We rolled it out on December 15, 1999, just in time for Y2K. It was a challenging but fun project.

Check out the activity graph, it appears usage in 2000 was three times higher than in 1999! That's awesome, and very satisfying to see. (Warm fuzzy)

Apple Store in McLean, VA

Yvon Perreault has a report about the new Apple Store in McLean, VA. I think it's great that Apple has stores, and share Yvon's concern about competent employees.

However, I think there are enough mac-addicts that would rather get paid for selling Macs instead of doing what they're doing, which might not be computer-related as well and possibly not as rewarding (for a mac-addict, that is).