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April 11, 2006 by Michael Boyle

of this site has been sadly neglected for a long time, but I continue to have high hopes that I will be able to resurrect it and post longer-form pieces there from time to time. A small step in the right direction is a little thing I just posted called, “True Facts about Ottawa“. If you’ve been following along, you know that I moved from Montreal to Ottawa last summer, having spent my childhood and youth here in Capital City.

Tags: Montreal, Ottawa, Personal

If you haven’t read it yet,

April 11, 2006 by Michael Boyle

Sy Hersh’s new article in The New Yorker is a must-read. It’s all about current US plans related to Iran and it’s nuclear weapons program, subtitled, “Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb?” Terrifying, but oh-so-predictable.

Tags: International Affairs

File sharing and the Canadian

April 10, 2006 by Michael Boyle

music scene: New paradigm opened market to new music. The Toronto Star’s Christopher Hutsul on the real center of new music in Canada. “After last’s week’s Junos, it dawned on me that the only real threat to music in Canada is the ongoing glorification of pablum over art.” I think Hutsul overstates the impact of non-official downloads, but his comments on the overall environmental change in the music biz are right on the money.

Tags: Canada, DRM, Music

Anil Dash on Six Apart’s site:

April 10, 2006 by Michael Boyle

How to keep blogs from scaring the hell out of people. I guess the question for people trying to sell blog services to companies is whether they’re out to impress their client or actually sell something.

Tags: Anil Dash, Blogging, Six Apart

From Apple:

April 5, 2006 by Michael Boyle

Boot Camp public beta, which allows current Intel-based Macs to install and run Windows XP. I guess this ends a lot of speculation, right?

Tags: Apple

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