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OK, when I start

October 26, 2000 by Michael Boyle

a company there’s going to be a very simple test for the person who is responsible for setting up the virtual server for a new site. If you forget to set it up so you can get there using only the domain name + TLD without adding ‘www.‘ in front of it, you’re fired.

Tags: Test

I absolutely cannot

October 26, 2000 by Michael Boyle

reach caterina.net from home. Weird.

In other news

October 26, 2000 by Michael Boyle

, I am now on a company’s board of directors. It’s for cam.org, a small non-profit community-oriented ISP here in Montreal, which also happens to have been the first public ISP here many years ago. Should be fun, though I should try to learn a bit more about the ISP business pretty quickly.

Tags: Business, Community, Montreal

Much hilarity from

October 26, 2000 by Michael Boyle

the government subsidy file as well. The Montreal Gazette reported today about E-Commerce grumblings, which is about how unhappy developers are at a plan to develop “E-Commerce Place” and give subsidies to businesses that locate there (there’s a Tilden car rental place in the location now, right around the corner from the Molson Center). Thing is that the business that are currently succeeding here are doing so in spite of gov’t intervention, not because of it. Plus, we already have the Cit du Multimedia.

Tags: Business, Developer, Media, Montreal

I saw the most

October 26, 2000 by Michael Boyle

ridiculous little tidbit in Wired News today: GE to Dot-Coms: ‘Game Over’. Uh, right. If dot-coms get into trouble it will be mostly of their own making (lame business plans, no biz plans, high costs, egomania, etc.) not cause GE decided to jump in.

Tags: Business, Game, Wired

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