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

RE: Who is sparkpod?

I still haven't heard from sparkpod. Veeeewwwwy Mysteeeerious!

RE: Seth’s PMC fundraising drive

Well, apparently no-one else donated to Seth's PMC fund-drive as a result of my link on this site a couple days ago, or even the entry on MetaFilter I posted yesterday. Maybe I'm naive, but I'm really surprised by that.

BuyMusic.com’s catalog pirated?

macSlash: BuyMusic.com Ripping Off Artists

The shit might be about to hit the fan over at BuyMusic.com. Considering they ripped off pretty much every idea from Apple, it's not a surprise to me they may have ripped off the music too.

Seth’s PMC fundraising drive

My good friend Seth Dillingham is riding in the Pan-Mass Challenge, in 5 days. He needs to raise at least $2500 in support of the Jimmy Fund, for research and treatment of cancer at Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in order to participate. Seth hasn't reached that goal yet, and obviously time is running out!

Click on this link: PMC eGift page for the Jimmy Fund

Please support Seth's PMC ride today! Needless to say, it's a great cause, and it means a lot to Seth, an avid rider, to participate. Seth is sick of cancer, and we all should be.

I'm putting in $50. Unfortunately that's only 2% of his entry "fee", and he still needs about $750 to qualify.

If you run a weblog (or you don't ), please pass on this message there, even if you don't know Seth yourself, and please give.

Update: Seth says he's had a lot of new hits this afternoon but that hasn't translated into new donations. I've added a direct link to the secure eGift page, it only takes 30 seconds to give. You don't have to give $50 like I did, you could give $25, or $10, or probably $5, $2, I don't know if there's a minimum. Or you could give $100 or $500 or $1000.

Consider the satisfaction you'll get from reading Seth's report about the PMC on his web site. I know I'll feel good that I played a small part in making that happen. Let's share in that good feeling together, okay? Thanks!

Learning Subversion

The Zope 3 development community is discussing a move from CVS to Subversion, and the Plone people are also interested in doing this, if SVN hosting was available ala SF.net. I haven't used SVN yet, I think it's about time I start learning about it. A Google search turned up this:

PyPy: [getting started with] subversion

I'm sure I'll find more good information as time goes on, but I've run out of time to do that right now. If you know of good links for learning Subversion please email me.

IBM makes play for ‘next-generation Pixar’

Yahoo! News: IBM makes play for 'next-generation Pixar'

I wonder what Pixar's response to this will be, if anything.

More active lately

In the last few weeks, I've played tennis twice, golfed twice, and worked out on my home fitness equipment twice. Really, that doesn't sound like a lot, but it's a lot more than I've had since April when our UVic RecPlus membership expired and we stopped playing Squash once or twice a week.

I'm hoping to crank this up even farther, I want to exercise 4 days a week. Hopefully that can include one (cheap, 9 hole, probably par 3) round of golf, a couple sets of tennis, and one or more workouts. Really, I should be using the home equipment 3 days a week, but if I do that I'm not sure I'll have the energy to play tennis or golf, both of which I enjoy and get me outside in fresh air, which I don't get enough of.

RE: Who is sparkpod?

I haven't received an email from sparkpod yet. Who are these people?

John Robb is back

John Robb is back. If you have a weblog, please consider linking to his new weblog to help him route around the damage that UserLand caused when it destroyed his old website.

I hope UserLand will create a redirect from jrobb.userland.com/* to jrobb.mindplex.org/*.

Who is sparkpod?

MacCentral: New Mac-centric blogging service debuts

The story only refers to "the developers" of sparkpod. No names. Who are these WebObjects developers hosting on Xserves???

I decided to send them feedback on their feedback page. Here's what I wrote:

"AOL decided to call them Journals, because "blog" was too hard to understand. But if you're going to call them weblogs, why not call them weblogs instead of web logs? Your users are going to see soon enough that nobody else calls them that, and the software, media, publishing and conference industries refer to them as weblogs or blogs, so the term will be mainstream soon enough, if it isn't already. Frankly, calling them "web logs" either makes you sound dumb or makes me think you think I'm dumb. A weblog is a blog is a weblog. (Or a Journal, if you're on AOL )

Jim Roepcke
http://jim.roepcke.com/ "