Archives for June 2000

Of course it

June 20, 2000 by Michael Boyle

does: Smut Filter Blocks All But Smut. This is a cultural issue, not a technology issue. Category errors abound on the net – this is just another one.

that it was pretty cool to show up this evening with all my gear (tower, 2 monitors, TV tuner box, Zip drive, scanner, printer, etc.) and just plug it all in and have the ADSL working – nothing to it. Props to Bell and Bell Sympatico High Speed for their service on this one. I’m not even getting killed with service charges – it just works. This 1-Meg modem thingie isn’t real ADSL in that it doesn’t offer a static IP etc., but it’s a no-brainer to set up and use. And evidently easy to transfer.

Not that anyone

June 19, 2000 by Michael Boyle

cares, but this is my first post here from my new apartment. I’ve found out in the last few days that I have a lot of godawful furniture. I haven’t paid a dime, pretty much, for a single thing in here – but that has resulted in a mess of white laminated Ikea crap.