I'm just beginning to use Subversion, and this blog post seems to explain what I need to know. I'm doing it all within Eclipse, which is brilliant as it includes all the features from oXygen... The Version Control with Subversion book is online too. 

Tim Bray sounds like he had a merry time in London. 

Kent Newsome thinks that TechMeme has "evolved from the New York Times of the blogosphere to the Wall Street Journal of the blogosphere. I don't read the Wall Street Journal for one simple reason. It bores me to tears... layering a media slant on top of the larger business focus makes it even less techy and more something else. Something less interesting. Some square thing trying to get stuffed into a round hole."