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On Wednesdays I teach

March 9, 2006 by Michael Boyle

On Wednesdays I teach

my class at McGill, commuting all the way from Ottawa to do so. One of the habits I have gotten into is to drive down early in the afternoon (class starts at 6) and spend the afternoon at Laika. This gives me the opportunity to have a real meal before class (hence avoiding junk food later in the evening), but it also (and more importantly, really) allows me to spend some time in one of my favourite spots. And, pretty much every week, that means I get to meet and/or spend time with another interesting Montrealer involved in pushing the net in important directions.

Yesterday I had just finished lunch and a coffee when Mike popped by and introduced me to Hugh McGuire, who is the founder of LibriVox, a project devoted to recording chapters of public-domain literature, providing an important spoken-word archive of timeless material on the Internet.

Tags: Montreal, Personal

Tea and Oranges:

February 27, 2006 by Michael Boyle

Tea and Oranges:

Yesterday Kate posted a link to this CBC historical piece on the real Suzanne of Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne” fame.

Tags: Montreal

A moment of silence.

December 6, 2005 by Michael Boyle

A moment of silence.

Today is a day that all Montrealers of a certain age will always remember; it is the 16th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, the deliberate killing of fourteen women at the École Polytechnique. So, at some point during the day, please take a moment and think about those victims and all victims of violence against women. This day has also become the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women.

Tags: December 6, Montreal

Ed has moved

October 23, 2005 by Michael Boyle

Ed has moved

his weblog again and this time he clearly has a very good reason for the move. Scary stuff from Blogger. Very little development at Blogger, and what has changed seems to be nothing but negative.

Tags: Bilodeau, Blogger, Google, Montreal

One of the regular discussions

September 15, 2005 by Michael Boyle

One of the regular discussions

among the consultants/freelancers/small-business-owners I know through YULBlog in Montreal was about setting up a space that would enable normally solitary workers to have a space in which to work away from the home and gain the benefit of the cross-pollination of ideas and creativity that come from seeing people on a daily basis. It looks like it’s a common problem, and in New York, the people at Paragraph seem to have a solution – at least for writers.

Tags: Montreal, YULBlog

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