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If it changed, when?

May 3, 2000 by Michael Boyle

I just visited Precocious a minute ago and boy does it look great. The thing is, though, I’m sure I’ve been by before,and that it looked different than that. Anyhow the deep reds and ochres remind me of my childhood in the early 70s. A kind of an earthy, sincere but passionate feel.

Tags: Blogging

So, in honour

May 3, 2000 by Michael Boyle

of the whole concept of “everything old is new again” I’m contemplating a new spring look, which is going to be somewhat reminiscent of some others out there but is in fact inspired by London’s fantastic Modern Painters magazine. Actually, because it’s getting so nice out I’m going to call it my summer look and get the jump on the hordes who will be showing off their warm-weather finery in a month or so.

Tags: Blogging

Why is it

May 3, 2000 by Michael Boyle

that just when you’ve reformatted your hard drive using the 18-gig external you borrowed for a day or two so you decide to reinstall everything just for good computer hygiene (and to combat some pernicious problems) that your CD-ROM decides to crap out on you? Not 10 minutes earlier I’d used the self-same CD-ROM drive to install the OS on the external so that I could calmly and rationally proceed… but it never mounted another disk. Well, it mounted one disk – that containing the formatting software installer. Figures. Murphy squared.

Tags: Software, War

Arg

May 2, 2000 by Michael Boyle

this ongoing Time Warner/ABC story takes the award for biggest non-story all month. “my god – what will they do next – will the poor subscribers have to miss regis? how will they know how to match tomorrow? the poor souls will have to slink past the watercooler at work, what with nothing to talk about! oh the humanity of it all!”

Seriously – there are dozens of important issues surrounding media distribution in the post-Telecomms Reform Act era – this ain’t one of em.

Tags: Business, Media

Green

May 2, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Green!

Tags: Blogging

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