Michael Boyle — Page 451

Of course, from

October 18, 2000 by Michael Boyle

The Onion: Discovery Of Oil Turns Peru Into Bunch Of Assholes. Best part – the picture caption: “A Peruvian farmer in the mountain village of Arequipa calls his broker.”

: A visual vocabulary. Diagramming for the web world. I wish I had something that good years ago. I’ve made due – but with my own inconsistent, incomplete version that relies a lot upon my relationship with the developers I work with. Complements his earlier Elements of User Experience [pdf] document.

Holy shit

October 18, 2000 by Michael Boyle

I appreciate the dot-com company I work for when I read stuff like this article about a failure in Canadian Business magazine. It’s bad though, this whole thing with the stories of doom and stupidity. Many old friends who I don’t see much look at me quizzically when I tell them what I do these days. Of course it doesn’t help that I can barely describe my job.

I think if I hear

October 17, 2000 by Michael Boyle

some quip like “Heh heh Gore said he invented the internet!” – or worse, some serious critic pointing to it as an indicator of some serious deficiency of his I’m going to hit the roof. Declan McCullough discusses it more in Wired News: The Mother of Gore’s Invention.

And while I was

October 16, 2000 by Michael Boyle

posting that, my friend Andy called me and invited me to the next conundrum press book launch, which will be his first launch of a perfect-bound book (as opposed to a handmade or otherwise bound book). It’s this Wednesday at 9 at Casa del Popolo on St-Laurent near Mont-Royal. Support local art!