Archives for 2002

It’s odd to find out

January 31, 2002 by Michael Boyle

It’s odd to find out

that a friend known mostly through one part of the net turns out to have a weblog as well. Or vice-versa – to come across a person whose weblog you’ve been reading in an online community. Not that odd, really, but mildly surprising anyhow, in that a person’s online “voice” is a little bit different in each different context in which you see her/him.

All that by way of shouting out Carl over at BigFool.com, proud maintainer of the FoolBlog. And owner of one of the great domain names on the internet today.

Michael Moore

January 31, 2002 by Michael Boyle

Michael Moore

: George W. in the Garden of Gethsemane. “Let me ask you this: If someone was setting a house on fire, and they called you to help them set it on fire, and you said no you wouldn’t help them — BUT then you also DIDN’T call 911 and inform the police that someone was going to burn down a house, do you think you would have committed a crime?”

By the way

January 31, 2002 by Michael Boyle

By the way

, I know that it’s a magic pencil with weird, improbable shadows and stuff. I may fix it, I may not.

The winners

January 31, 2002 by Michael Boyle

The winners

of the 2002 Bloggies have been announced over at Fairvue Central.

So I’ve mostly

January 31, 2002 by Michael Boyle

So I’ve mostly

installed my new design here at mikel dot org. There are still some nails and debris hanging around, but it’s OK now. And although there is still a table or two, it’s CSS and HTML 4.01 compliant. Or at least the templates were when I tested them immediately before adapting them to the various Blogger formats.