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OK I’ve been wrestling

August 27, 2000 by Michael Boyle

on and off today with an interesting problem. I found a perfect thing yesterday at the street sale on St Laurent Boulevard. It’s rare that one finds a “perfect thing”. In my experience anyhow. A perfect thing, as opposed to just a regular old garden-variety thing, has to be pre-owned, I think, and it has to actually serve very little purpose. A bauble, a plaything, a gewgaw. Utility is the antithesis of perfect things. I mean a fancy computer is great and all, or a nice keychain or whatever – but they’re too mixed up with trying to do something to be perfect.

In any case, I found a perfect thing, and I want to put it on the web to share. I think it would be fun to share this perfect thing, after all, as its perfection will only be enhanced by the sharing.

So here’s the problem. One part of this involves putting a scanned page of text on the web. But, as befits a perfect thing, I believe it should be perfectly executed. And I can’t get the page(s) of text into .gif or .jpg format and keep them small and readable! Any and all advice would be appreciated by real graphics gurus who know about this sort of thing. Please email me with a solution! I will greatly appreciate it, and the world will have one more perfect thing to share!

Tags: Email, Readable, Web

While I was driving

August 25, 2000 by Michael Boyle

to work this morning there was a piece on CBC radio in which one of blog-dom’s recent favourites was prominently featured. Yes, they discussed the Lego desk on the CBC!

Tags: Blogging

Pretty boring news

August 24, 2000 by Michael Boyle

, but I like my new desktop pic:

it's true!


This article will

August 24, 2000 by Michael Boyle

make several good friends of mine very happy: Krispy Kreme Reports Sweet Profits.

Tags: Friend

That DeCSS was ruled

August 24, 2000 by Michael Boyle

illegal is not terribly surprising, even if it’s a potentially flawed decision. But as Declan McCullagh wrote in a Wired News article called Only News That’s Fit to Link, that the judge went as far as saying that links to the download sites are illegal is way over the line, for me. The DMCA suggests that ruling, for sure. But the only thing I’m left with is that the DMCA is trying to treat copyrights like drugs – with trafficking, and (more tenuously) seeming to support trafficking (whether true or not) considered to be equivalent to doing the infringement in the first place.

At least Emmanuel Goldstein (aka Eric Corley) has approached it with some cheek and confronted the craziness of the issue… he left the addresses, only in text format, not as links.

Tags: CSS, Links, Wired

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