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The opening ceremonies

August 4, 2001 by Michael Boyle

of any sports event really sucks. How on earth did anyone decide that making up some lame, watered-down “myth” and acting it out with thousands of people wearing spandex (and usually with faux-native drums of some sort) over the course of a couple of hours could be a good idea? They usually border on the offensive, in fact, when they’re not simply embarrassing.

Tags: Hour, Sports

Sunday in Montreal

August 2, 2001 by Michael Boyle

features the 2001 Divers/Cit parade, aka the Pride parade. In Montreal, as in few other cities, this is an event for the whole city. It’s one of my favourite events of the year – for most of my friends as well.

Tags: Friend, Montreal

Not much more to say

August 2, 2001 by Michael Boyle

: Bruce Perens on Dimitry Sklyarov and is arrest, and the issues underlying the imperfections in the DMCA.

I love a good rant

August 2, 2001 by Michael Boyle

: The Talking Moose tells some more truth: “when you run a business by the spreadsheet, you deserve all the hell that you get.” A lot of interesting stuff about content, the place of content developers (aka writers and people like that) and the web.

Tags: Business, Developer, Web, Writers

I read about

August 2, 2001 by Michael Boyle

the WIRED Rave Awards a couple of places today. So I went to the site. Ugh. It doesn’t work (broken gifs, jerky flash, no hyperlinks even in the web category) and it looks butt-ugly. Orange highlighting a deep grey background is pretty tired as a combo, and anti-fuctionality is so September 2000.

Tags: Links, War, Web, Wired

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