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From Declan McCullagh:

June 6, 2001 by Michael Boyle

Code-Breakers Go to Court. Ed Felten, who did research for the Secure Digital Music Initiative Foundation and decided to publish it (and to present the paper at a conference) rather than turn it over to the SDMI is suing the RIAA, the SDMI, and others. The SDMI folks said that they never intended to pursue legal action, but the plaintiffs say that’s not enough – they’re seeking precedent that privileges the First Amendment over the DMCA.

Tags: Conference, Music, Research, Search

I’m in deep juggler mode

March 13, 2001 by Michael Boyle

at the moment, which is a really fun spot to be in. In theory I’m looking for work as a product/project manager for a web concern or something like that. In fact, I haven’t been looking much – I’ve been waiting by the phone for an offer that I will take. And in the interim – I’m learning, playing, and developing projects at a fever pitch.

I’m doing a lot of playing around with CSS box-properties layouts, which has been good, if a little frustrating. As well, Aaron and Luke pretty much convinced me to roll my own tools to manage content for montrealstories.org (although an interim solution will be deployed sooner) – so I’m playing with XML, PHP and some other stuff to get that going. I have a bit of a background in scripting, though with a different kind of tool, so I’m feeling pretty confident.

As well, though, I’ve just now figured out the next project, which could be pretty neat. I’m not going to say more so I don’t jinx it, but it would be a different sort of thing, and terribly interesting to develop.

Bottom line: what I really need isn’t a job but a patron, sort of like a renaissance-era painter, or maybe a poet in Paris in the 20s. All that said, I am still excited about the job on the horizon too. It’ll just cut into my personal research time

Tags: Aaron Straup Cope, CSS, Layout, Montreal, Paris, Personal, Projects, Research, Search, Web

Noted by boingboing

March 9, 2001 by Michael Boyle

Noted by boingboing: some important new research is taking place at Harvard in the I Can Eat Glass Project. The goal of the project: to list how to say, “I can eat glass, it does not hurt me” in as many different languages as possible. Warning: site features a truly horrifying bgimage.

Tags: Language, Research, Search, War

I think many

February 26, 2001 by Michael Boyle

people will be annoyed by the New Yorker’s article debunking the idea that Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer. It seems well enough researched though, and the Ada story always had a whiff of the fanciful around it.

Tags: New York, Research, Search

Radio silence is golden

January 29, 2001 by Michael Boyle

. I was away and offline for the weekend, which was even more appreciated in this time of resume chucking and general wonder that every email I receive might be a really cool proposition. I haven’t swung into high gear on my job search yet, preferring to take some time and concentrate on some personal projects that I want to do for the joy of them. But I have received some very exciting nibbles – even though many of the emails I have sent to people were of the “less than 1% chance” variety.

In contrast, the offline-ness of the past few days has been great – and even more, no one I was with really works in the web world, or not primarily anyhow (not many can escape it in some form at work).

Tags: Email, Gear, Personal, Projects, Search, Web

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