About the Author
My name is Marc Zeedar. I've been using the Mac since '88, and computers since high school. (For some reason my ancient semi-compatible PC clone hasn't been touched, since, well, 1988. Gee, I wonder if there's a connection somewhere. ;-)

For years I ran my own graphic design company, DesignWrite, in Northern California. More recently I have moved to the beautiful Willamette Valley in the heart of Oregon's wine country and I am mainly a specialty magazine publisher. Programming is done in my "negative" spare time (i.e. the time I should be sleeping or having fun).

I maintain a number of websites:

You can also find my opinion column, Less Tangible, at MacOpinion, and I sometimes write articles for AppleLinks and other sites.

I got into programming in high school when I owned a PC clone and no software (or money to buy it with). Back then when I wanted software to do something I had to write it myself. Today I work as a graphic designer and I have ideas for all kinds of (seemingly) simple utilities that would make my life much easier, but no one is writing them. So I'm diving in and doing it myself. Z-Write is a terrific example of this process at work. I wrote it as something I'd like, but then figured others might find it useful.

As a reward to those of you who've delved this deep into the manual, here's a secret Easter Egg. Within any blank Section type "Marc story" (no quotes) and press return for something special. This will only work if that's the only text in the Section.

There's at least one other Easter Egg hidden in Z-Write. It's a "Connect Four" game (it's pretty smart, too -- I usually lose). It's been in there since version 1.0 but very few people have found it. Can you discover it? Hint: it involves Option-clicking on something, but not a button.