Archives for 2001

Wired News

February 6, 2001 by Michael Boyle

it’s another Montrealer who keeps a site like this one. luke.andrews.net, the weblog of Luke Andrews, who evidently does web work at Concordia, one of the universities I’ve attended. He wrote about the newly-launched Concordia site the other day, lamenting the “grand messy affair of interlinking files that reference each other”. If he only knew! I was tangentially involved with Concordia’s web development back in 95-96, when their grand plan was to give every department – not faculty, department – its own Mac with StarNine’s web server software on it – and each one was to develop its own site. Madness.

Powerbook Porn

February 3, 2001 by Michael Boyle

: Andrew Gore opens his new Titanium Powerbook.

Have I welcomed

February 2, 2001 by Michael Boyle

the blork blog to the world yet? Ed is one of my boon friends here in Montreal, and a fantastic writer. Blork blog is his weblog, with features such as the slob index, and coming soon (-er or later), Bent World.

Have you noticed

February 2, 2001 by Michael Boyle

that there’s a secret little three-pane cartoon built into Feed‘s interface? Go to the site and look at the little cartoon above “Who’s Better”. Click on the image and you’ll jump down the page to the second frame of the comic, then click again to go to the third (and last) frame. Click on that to return to the top. It’s the little touches that make the difference as far as I’m concerned. There’s no indication that it works like that, it’s just there – a little narrative cartoon.