On Wednesdays I teach

my class at McGill, commuting all the way from Ottawa to do so. One of the habits I have gotten into is to drive down early in the afternoon (class starts at 6) and spend the afternoon at Laika. This gives me the opportunity to have a real meal before class (hence avoiding junk food later in the evening), but it also (and more importantly, really) allows me to spend some time in one of my favourite spots. And, pretty much every week, that means I get to meet and/or spend time with another interesting Montrealer involved in pushing the net in important directions.

Yesterday I had just finished lunch and a coffee when Mike popped by and introduced me to Hugh McGuire, who is the founder of LibriVox, a project devoted to recording chapters of public-domain literature, providing an important spoken-word archive of timeless material on the Internet.