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Sep 27, 2003

I am glad I am not the only college grad who has trouble with this stuff

It's nice to see that Mitch Kapor, one of the key figures in the history of the PC --- ...he developed VisiCalc...the spreadsheet ... no there was not always a spread-sheet, which seeems odd now that they have become so basic to almost everything including to-do lists for a big camping trip --- doesn't know where stuff is stored in Mac OS x either:

I've been playing with iBlog. I'd send you over to it to see the results but I can't figure out what the URL is of the test blogs I've created on my .Mac account. Funny, no? Spent 20 minutes looking through help and trying various tests with no luck. Other than this small detail, which I'm sure some kind reader will see me through,it's a pretty nice desktop (Mac) client for both reading and writing blogs.

My threshold problem is that I cannot find iBlog, which is shown as a link in the original.

UPDATE: Note correction in comments. My (best) excuse is that I never used either program. Anyway, Lotus was pretty seminal, too.

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You've got your computer history mixed up. Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston invented the spreadsheet when they wrote Visicalc. Mitch Kapor worked for Visicalc at one time, and later wrote the copycat (and eventually more successful) program, Lotus 1-2-3. Cheers!

Thakns for the correction!...At least I had the genre right.

You can get iBlog directly from the developers:
http://www.lifli.com/

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