Many people made substantial contributions to this, my first, commercial product.

The Blurb Manager correctly hilites text and pictures in a blurb thanks to code I borrowed and adapted from James W. Walker, Dept. of Mathematics, University of South Carolina.  You can investigate the problem yourself by checking out his upload, "Show_help", on the various online services. I used version 1.6, dated March 1992.

     James W. Walker
     3200 Heyward Street
     Columbia, SC 29205
     CompuServe  76367,2271
     Internet  76367.2271@compuserve.com
     America Online  JWWalker

Much personal thanks goes to Robert A. Mintzer (great initials for a programmer, huh!) for the many selfless hours spent helping me learn Macintosh programming. "Uncle Bob", as he is affectionately known among certain Chicago Mac aficionados, has saved me literally months of lost time when I was down in the muck of some programming dead-end. In addition, he offered numerous suggestions for the improvement of Blurbs. The zooming rectangles seen in Blurbs are calculated and drawn by Bob's 264-byte assembly language routine, ZipZapZoom. He also adapted James Walker's assembly language deferred TextEdit hiliting routines for use in the Blurb Manager.

Dave Schulz and Geordie Korper of University Computers, Chicago, were very helpful in letting me test my software on their various Macs.

My good friend, Mike Adams, from Whittier, California, contributed two pieces of artwork - "Mr X", the picture from which this blurb zooms, and the landscape used behind the picture window in the "Blurbs" window.

                My work is made possible by my father who showed me the path, my mother who started me on it, and my wife who is travelling it with me.