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Radio silence is golden

January 29, 2001 by Michael Boyle

. I was away and offline for the weekend, which was even more appreciated in this time of resume chucking and general wonder that every email I receive might be a really cool proposition. I haven’t swung into high gear on my job search yet, preferring to take some time and concentrate on some personal projects that I want to do for the joy of them. But I have received some very exciting nibbles – even though many of the emails I have sent to people were of the “less than 1% chance” variety.

In contrast, the offline-ness of the past few days has been great – and even more, no one I was with really works in the web world, or not primarily anyhow (not many can escape it in some form at work).

Tags: Email, Gear, Personal, Projects, Search, Web

Good news

January 29, 2001 by Michael Boyle

from the music world – we’ll probably start paying for Napster in June. I think it’s good news because I have never been able to reconcile the fact that although I love Napster’s service, I also make money doing freelance work for which I expect to be paid – quite like musicians do. That hasn’t stopped me from using Napster, but I did draw a line in the sand (and I realize that it’s a BS line I drew, but anyhow) and never downloaded whole albums to burn, for example. With hope the rate will be affordable enough to be accepted by the masses of Napster users.

Tags: Music

Too funny

January 26, 2001 by Michael Boyle

: Despair, Inc. secures official trademark registration for :-(

Tags: Funny

I know what

January 25, 2001 by Michael Boyle

I’m going to vote for as “best propogation of a meme” in next year’s Bloggies: The Anti-Bloggies, brought to you by Davezilla.

Tags: Blogging

Fun with Flash

January 25, 2001 by Michael Boyle

: Word Perhect, A real-world word processor.

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