Archives for 2000

This is getting

September 14, 2000 by Michael Boyle

a little tired, but I’ll follow up anyhow. FuckedCompany is no longer for sale on ebay – but it’s still for sale.

with something else all night, so I haven’t had time to do the full presentation (small though it is) of the pictures from last night. But I did take a minute to put up this really shaky mirror photo.

Busy busy busy

September 14, 2000 by Michael Boyle

. I found out this morning that I have a huge presentation to give tomorrow at a major international conglomerate who shall remain nameless. I just finished up the basic docs that set up (and support with data) my thinking on the whole issue/approach I’m presenting about – now I’m under the gun to wrangle with PPT to put something together that will seem appealing. Nonetheless, expect my photos from last night to be online later this evening.

See, where I was

September 13, 2000 by Michael Boyle

just snide and amazed (negatively, in the sense of holding one’s head as if in pain, not smacking one’s forehead with astonishment), Joel Spolsky has written out a nice explanation of why the little cat thing is stupid: Wasting money on cats. [via Ed]

I would love to see

September 13, 2000 by Michael Boyle

MTBE banned, for sure. Based on what I’ve read, it’s nasty stuff – a gasoline additive that pollutes the water supply. But the story in the Environment News Service: Billion Dollar NAFTA Challenge To California MTBE Ban ignores a salient point. A US firm sued the Government of Canada two years ago on the exact same issue – a plan by Canada to ban another additive, MMT. The US firms used NAFTA to halt the new legislation in its tracks. They also threatened to sue the gov’t for billions on the same grounds as the Canadian firm is suing the Government of California. The story as it’s now being reported is smug and self-satisfied, painting Canadians as evil foreigners who aren’t quite as sensitive as enlightened Californians. Which is bullshit, just like it’s bullshit that the US is full of greedy opportunists who want to dispense with others’ national sovereignty while holding their own sacred and inviolate.