Archives for July 2001

A US district judge

July 13, 2001 by Michael Boyle

has made an interesting, and (I think, though not being educated in the law) correct decision regarding e-books and author copyrights. Authors whose contracts do no specifically cover electronic versions are free to sell them to whomever they wish.

Friday the 13th

July 13, 2001 by Michael Boyle

Friday the 13th. Of course I got a parking ticket today.

Hey

July 13, 2001 by Michael Boyle

! Metascene is back. Cool. Someone linked to an old post of mine as seeming evidence that I didn’t like the site, or the person. Nothing could be further from the truth. I don’t know the person, and I very much enjoy the site.

I love it

July 11, 2001 by Michael Boyle

! O’Reilly’s Learning Carbon cover animals are black Labs, while Learning Cocoa features a Golden Retriever.

I liked the new story

July 11, 2001 by Michael Boyle

over at O’Reilly, Death of a Dot-Com by Shelley Powers, until the very end. She wrote in her epilogue: “So why did Skyfish.com fail? Why did any of the dot-coms fail? We stopped believing in the phenomenon, and once you stop believing, there’s no going back.” Which, you know, just doesn’t make sense.