Archives for February 2001

Aaron = Michael?

February 7, 2001 by Michael Boyle

Aaron = Michael? According to Environics, evidently that’s true. Of course it’s all BS though.

: You can put an idea for a website on the table and I can turn that into a half-million dollar proposal including detailed product descriptions, market analysis, competitive analysis, flowcharts, timelines, personnel requirements, etc. in a couple of days or a week. You can give me a vague notion of a new feature you want in an existing site and I can analyze it, figure out what it should be and how it should fit, in great detail, no problem. Offline – no problem – I once edited and largely rewrote an 800 page postal procedures manual. But I can’t deal with basic bureaucracy.

I’m going to be here, here, and at a couple other seemingly random government offices today.

Interesting development

February 6, 2001 by Michael Boyle

in Michael World. I have a promising interview next week for a job I’ll take if it’s offered to me. It’s still a web-centered job, but it’s on the other side of the table – not for a vendor (a web shop, an interactive agency, a dot-com, etc.) but for a purchaser of web services. It’s an appealing thought in that it will likely be a bit more stable than your average dot-com. And better managed as well, I bet.

Meanwhile, I’ve been furiously working on three sites simultaneously plus a possible redesign of this site to mark its first anniversary, which is on the 13th of February. February also marks the 6th anniversary of the launch of my first ever personal site, which (unfortunately, though it was an abomination) is completely lost now.

I’m a sucker for surveys

February 6, 2001 by Michael Boyle

like the one Heather wrote about today from Environics, a leading Canadian polling company. The online survey allows you to place yourself among the groups they identified following the analysis of the poll they did on the subject. I’m between “New Aquarian” (unfortunate name) and “Autonomous Rebel” and, as you can see, very very modern. Yup.

Long live Pine, long live Eudora

February 6, 2001 by Michael Boyle

Long live Pine, long live Eudora: Friends Don’t E-Mail Friends HTML [again from Wired News]. Or, as Cam Barrett put it, “HTML-Email Sucks Bad, Really It Sucks Bad, So Stop Using It Already.”