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I’m in deep juggler mode

March 13, 2001 by Michael Boyle

at the moment, which is a really fun spot to be in. In theory I’m looking for work as a product/project manager for a web concern or something like that. In fact, I haven’t been looking much – I’ve been waiting by the phone for an offer that I will take. And in the interim – I’m learning, playing, and developing projects at a fever pitch.

I’m doing a lot of playing around with CSS box-properties layouts, which has been good, if a little frustrating. As well, Aaron and Luke pretty much convinced me to roll my own tools to manage content for montrealstories.org (although an interim solution will be deployed sooner) – so I’m playing with XML, PHP and some other stuff to get that going. I have a bit of a background in scripting, though with a different kind of tool, so I’m feeling pretty confident.

As well, though, I’ve just now figured out the next project, which could be pretty neat. I’m not going to say more so I don’t jinx it, but it would be a different sort of thing, and terribly interesting to develop.

Bottom line: what I really need isn’t a job but a patron, sort of like a renaissance-era painter, or maybe a poet in Paris in the 20s. All that said, I am still excited about the job on the horizon too. It’ll just cut into my personal research time

Tags: Aaron Straup Cope, CSS, Layout, Montreal, Paris, Personal, Projects, Research, Search, Web

This is the most

March 12, 2001 by Michael Boyle

severe warning of cracker/criminal activity related to ecommerce that I’ve ever seen: FBI Press Room – E-Commerce Vulnerabilities. Note that they specify that it was unpatched IIS servers they came through.

With any luck, this will be a positive result of the dot-com crash – the companies that survive will better understand the need for professional server management. I can’t imagine why consumers (if they knew they had been affected) couldn’t launch a (huge) class-action suit against the companies who chose to run servers without adequately staffing their IT departments to care for and feed them.

Tags: Professional, War

I wonder who won

March 12, 2001 by Michael Boyle

at the SXSW Web Awards? The Festival hasn’t updated its site with the news yet and I don’t see articles by any of the usual suspects. Hmmm.

Tags: War, Web

Happy Tech-Downturn Day everyone!

March 9, 2001 by Michael Boyle

Happy Tech-Downturn Day everyone! I’m celebrating by sitting in my bathrobe coding up for-fun projects waiting for a phone call. Oh, and I’m going to a hipster cafe in a while, which will doubtless be packed all afternoon.

Tags: Projects

I just sent this email

March 9, 2001 by Michael Boyle

:

Hola,

A (late) “official” announcement about the next Montreal Weblog keepers get together! This is more or less the first anniversary of the night that Ed Bilodeau, David Petite, Aaron Cope, Heather Champ and myself got together, so it’s worthy of recognition.

And we do that with beer.

So the plan is this: meet on Sunday at 2pm at News Cafe, which is on St-Laurent at (I think it’s) Guilbault – at the corner of the tiny sidestreet between Bifteck and des Pins. It’s on the West side of the street and there’s food and coffee and stuff there. At a later time it is rather likely that we’ll move elsewhere for a quiet (or not so quiet) Sunday afternoon beer.

Please pass this along to anyone else (she or he should keep a weblog or other personal website) you feel should have been included in this email. And, on the day, if you have to get in touch with me, you can sms my phone through mikel.org and I’ll call you back.

Tags: Aaron Straup Cope, Anniversary, Beer, Bilodeau, Blogging, Email, Food, Heather Champ, Montreal, Personal, SMS, Web

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