[Little OT] About The Green Edge Magazine/BlogWorkz/iBlog/RunRev Stacks (... or Why I Hate Tropical Storms)

[Andre Garzia]

Hi Folks,

As some of you know, I am building a new apple newton magazine called 
the Green Edge magazine (www.thegreenedge.net). We're going pretty far, 
couple articles and interviews are already done and we  we're planning 
to launch this week. With web, newtonbook, pdf and real paper versions.

Also, I am the developer of BlogWorkz 
(http;//www.soapdog.org/blogworks) which is a Cocoa Blog Client, with 
some thousand happy users. It's like other iApps and got some cool 
features.

And, I am the developer of old iBlog software 
(http://iblog.soapdog.org), I must say old because LiFli stole it's 
name and launched a same-name program without check for trademarks, but 
iBlog is the most used blog client out there, it's the only client for 
Mac Classic, and it's features are unrivalled even by todays standards.

And last but not least, I was planning to release a couple libraries 
for the amazing Runtime Revolution (http://www.runrev.com), which is my 
premier programming language tool with amazing cross-compiler 
oportinities. The releases of XML-RPC Stack and ShareWare tools Stack 
are delayed because i've got not machine to further debug them and 
release them to our community.

My tutorials for MacMagazine and AppleTalk Newsletter are delayed since 
I lost the iBook HD where they were. Feel free to use the preliminar 
version I upload to author resources.

All my softwares and projects are freeware (some with source).

Sorry for bulkmailing, I am at a internet Cafe, and I must pay by email 
(U$ 4 per email), this is a mail to let everyone related to my work to 
know why I will disapear for a while from the scene.

The sad new is, I live in Brazil, it's raining season here, and last 
night, during a hellish storm, a thunderbolt striked near my house. My 
iBook crashed, it's HD was rendered to zero. It's burned beyond repair. 
My iMac G4 also suffered, it's ethernet is fried also. My APC NoBreak 
was not enought to solve this problems. Since my etherned card is on 
board, i must buy a new iMac G4 800 motherboard. Let's play the bill:

* iBook New Batterie (old is fried) = R$ 300
* iBook New HD 30GB (old is fried) = R$500
* iMac G4 Motherboard = R$2090,00
* Total repair is = R$ 2890,00

which is almost U$ 1000 dollars. My salary is R$180, which is 
U$Almost-Two-Big-Macs-and-A-Coke. It's will take couple time for me to 
come back to production and development since I'm having a hardtime to 
fix all this stuff. My salary is not enought and my freelance progaming 
jobs are halted till my machines are back.

If anyone who uses my software wants to help me fixing this mess, i've 
got a PayPal Account under agarzia at mac.com
Thanks for all who helped in the last years efforts.

Cheers on the crazy ones.
Andre Garzia  2003
imac2 ibook p100 e uma torradeira....