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They say practice

September 12, 2000 by Michael Boyle

makes perfect. Well, a little advice never hurt either, I bet.

Speaking of Aaron

September 12, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Speaking of Aaron, he, Ed, David and I are getting together for a beer tomorrow night after work, the third in an ongoing series (though we surely miss Heather who was still here for the first one). If there’s anyone else in Montreal reading this, you’re welcome to join us at around 6pm at the Dieu du Ciel pub (literally ‘god of heaven’) on Laurier near Clark.

Tags: Aaron Straup Cope, Beer, Montreal

Yup yup yup

September 12, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Yup yup yup. [via a boy and his basement aka aaron]

Tags: Aaron Straup Cope

The city I grew up in

September 12, 2000 by Michael Boyle

is profiled in Upside today. People are starting to take notice of Ottawa as a tech center. Everyone misses the story though. Ottawa isn’t just a johnny come lately – it has been a small but very significant player in the tech world for 30 years. It wasn’t by accident that pre-sale DEC manufactured their high-end processors there until the mid 90s. I know that voice mail as we know it today was at least partially invented in Ottawa. IBM has been doing (did?) research there (in association with the National Research Center) since the 60s. Whatever – it doesn’t really affect me cause there’s no web industry that I know of there.

Tags: Ottawa, Research, Search, Web

I can’t figure

September 12, 2000 by Michael Boyle

out why everyone’s getting so worked up about the sale of Fuckedcompany on ebay. Not the Metafilter crew, really (they’re more than worldly enough to take this in stride), but the attention this has generated in the press seems just a little breathless to me. It’s like they’re trying to be all cool and cynical about it but are really quite appalled. Really though – pud is just taking the hack one step further towards its logical conclusion: he increases the site’s notoriety, sets up the site as its very own fucked company for whoever buys it (how pomo), and all the while keeps and enhances his own notoriety – after all, he can sell if for whatever he wants, but at the end of the day he’s still the guy who founded Fucked Company.

Tags: Meta, Metafilter, War

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