Michael Boyle's weblog
the difference between Google and Alta Vista’s new Raging search engines by doing a search on “michael boyle montreal” and comparing the results. Google was much much better. It put my old but still nominally active personal page at the very top and caught all my hits from when I worked at CTHEORY and put them near the top too.
The best thing, though, was to see my listing in the library. I’d never seen that before – I’d forgotten that they put theses in the library.
it’s not so bad. At least it’s getting a bit nicer out.
now I’m blushing. And, given the current weather in Montreal (it’s cold), it’s certainly not true this year. Outdoor soccer might start today, outdoor lunching, but not that except for the hairiest among us.
I don’t know how it’s going to work, but having Nasdaq’s first subsidiary here in Montreal is a Good Thing. I hope so anyhow.
I haven’t seen it on any news site yet – but mafiaboy’s father has been arrested too. He was arrested for “conspiracy to commit an assault” – but it’s totally unrelated to his son’s extracurricular activities.
It goes like this: the FBI and RCMP suspect mafiaboy – they get a wiretap on his house – his dad and some other guy talk on the phone about assaulting someone – they don’t just say “I’d like to kick that guy in the ass” but talk about plans and weapons etc. – the RCMP arrests the father.
Reminds me of the old line from Hunter S Thompson: “when the going gets tough, the tough get weird. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” [apologies if I’ve mangled that too much.]
