and life goes on

[Christian Sciberras]

I'm starting to think I subscribed to the wrong mailing list. Either that,
or someone else did.

Then again, I know I'll be well-informed about deaths of (someone's)
heroes... *sigh*






On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:45 PM, <Bowerbird at aol.com> wrote:


> they say that deaths come in threes...

>

> for me, it was these:

> 1.  scott wannberg, los angeles poet, one of my favorite performers

> 2.  michael hart, founder of project gutenberg, icon and iconoclast

> 3.  steve jobs, seemingly the only guy who made stuff work correctly

>

> i'm sure that for others, dennis ritchie is on their list, for his own

> trio:

> 1.  c

> 2.  k&r

> 3.  unix

>

> godspeed to all of these people, who are "heroes" just as much as

> any firefighter or soldier, heroes of creativity and the imagination.

>

> and a hearty "chill out" to anyone who thinks this is "off-topic"...

>

> ***

>

> meanwhile, life goes on...

>

> it seems that fletcher finally received his app-store blessing, so

> we can hope that we will see "multimarkdown composer" soon...

>

> which means i can come out with my little tool as well.      :+)

>

> my editor uses z.m.l. (zen markup language), not markdown, but

> it's close enough that you might want to take a look at it anyway.

>

> if anyone wants to "alpha-test" it, just let me know backchannel...

> it's cross-platform to the mac (even very old ones), p.c., and linux.

>

> -bowerbird

>

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