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It’s obvious

February 9, 2001 by Michael Boyle

that I don’t read Disinformation enough – I missed this sad story about a recent internecine Dead Kennedys event – the rest of the band v jello biafra & Alternative Tentacles. Evidently Jello refused to allow Levis to use Holiday in Cambodia for a jeans ad, so East Bay Ray, Klaus Fluoride and Peligro sued his ass, alleging that he wasn’t promoting their back catalogue enough as head of ATR.

The Zeldman mentions that

February 8, 2001 by Michael Boyle

The Zeldman mentions that Netscape 6.01 has been released, but also that it is incompatible with ATM on the Mac. From the release notes: “There is a known conflict with Adobe Type Manager, which causes windows to appear blank. Workaround: Uninstall ATM before you start Netscape 6.”

Uh, yeah. Hmmm. By my compass, releasing software that is incompatible with ATM is like releasing nothing at all. I don’t know of anyone who runs their Mac without ATM installed. Thanks guys, see you when you get that sorted out.

Aaron = Michael?

February 7, 2001 by Michael Boyle

Aaron = Michael? According to Environics, evidently that’s true. Of course it’s all BS though.

Personal note

February 7, 2001 by Michael Boyle

: You can put an idea for a website on the table and I can turn that into a half-million dollar proposal including detailed product descriptions, market analysis, competitive analysis, flowcharts, timelines, personnel requirements, etc. in a couple of days or a week. You can give me a vague notion of a new feature you want in an existing site and I can analyze it, figure out what it should be and how it should fit, in great detail, no problem. Offline – no problem – I once edited and largely rewrote an 800 page postal procedures manual. But I can’t deal with basic bureaucracy.

I’m going to be here, here, and at a couple other seemingly random government offices today.

Interesting development

February 6, 2001 by Michael Boyle

in Michael World. I have a promising interview next week for a job I’ll take if it’s offered to me. It’s still a web-centered job, but it’s on the other side of the table – not for a vendor (a web shop, an interactive agency, a dot-com, etc.) but for a purchaser of web services. It’s an appealing thought in that it will likely be a bit more stable than your average dot-com. And better managed as well, I bet.

Meanwhile, I’ve been furiously working on three sites simultaneously plus a possible redesign of this site to mark its first anniversary, which is on the 13th of February. February also marks the 6th anniversary of the launch of my first ever personal site, which (unfortunately, though it was an abomination) is completely lost now.