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If you wanted to improve

July 9, 2002 by Michael Boyle

If you wanted to improve

your facility in the language of Moliere, you couldn’t do much better than starting with Les coups de langue de la grande rousse, by Dolores Tam. Since I do most definately want to improve my French, I’ve been following links there like mad.

Tags: Blogging

Holy smokes

July 8, 2002 by Michael Boyle

Holy smokes

: the huge forest fires in northern Quebec have spread smoke over a huge swath of North America. Yesterday it looked like we were in the midst of an all-day eclipse through the clouds or something – the world had this odd pall about it. It has cleared here in Montreal today, mostly, but the smoke from the fires is still affecting millions.

Tags: Montreal, Quebec

I fully support

July 5, 2002 by Michael Boyle

I fully support

any effort to remove as much responsibility for domain registrations from Verisign as possible, so the “.org is a public trust” is very interesting to me. What I can’t figure out though, as an ORG owner, is how it might affect me personally. Will I be able to keep my domain under this proposal? Or is it the sunshine and popsicles it seems to be according to the sites I’ve seen who support this plan.

Tags: EFF, Personal, Verisign

Check it out

July 5, 2002 by Michael Boyle

Check it out

: TouchGraph GoogleBrowser V1.00. The best such application I’ve seen – smooth and fast, and works very well. Reminds me a bit of the old Apple Hotsauce stuff which gave a fly-through webspace in an alternate interface.

Tags: Apple, Browser, Google, Space, Web

The EFF has announced

July 4, 2002 by Michael Boyle

The EFF has announced

that 2600 Magazine will not seek Supreme Court review of the DeCSS decision. It seems that they are still working on the issue, just not using this case as the framework in which it happens.

Tags: US Politics

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