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Easy to please:

February 26, 2000 by Michael Boyle

I called Sympatico support just now and bitched at them about the problem I’d called about 4 times before… and got a solution! So for the next hour or so I’ll be updating things here furiously. Excuse the mess as I put up a totally new design.

Tags: Bell

Frustration.

February 26, 2000 by Michael Boyle

OK. I’m a bit frustrated with my ISP. They added a PPPoE thingie (aka Access Manager) as a requirement for Sympatico ADSL users. And the damn thing won’t let me submit forms if they contain more than a certain amount of text. Which means it doesn’t work well for editing this very site.

Tags: Bell

Heh!

February 25, 2000 by Michael Boyle

I want a menu like this on my machine!
menu: I wish!

Tags: Personal

Privacy and pseudonymity

February 25, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Ian Goldberg published this paper in 1997. Fascinating – it lays the direction that ZKS has gone, up to and including the agreement with Brands this week.

Freedom:

February 25, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Freedom: Zero Knowledge Systems – I mentioned them earlier in the week – they are shipping software that pseudonymizes your travels online. Good idea. The real, “sticky” traffic on the web is social traffic, which can’t be pseudo. Hmmm.

Tags: Data Privacy

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