Archives for 2001

Last night I listened

January 31, 2001 by Michael Boyle

to todradio.com, a CBC radio show that’s really coming along. The show covers the net and new media, each week focusing on a particular topic. Last night was online news, and they did a pretty good job of covering the basics for those not well versed in the subject while also allowing for some discussion of the more subtle points. Of course it’s broadcast on the web as well, and they have a chat room open during the broadcast as well.

I just heard a piece

January 30, 2001 by Michael Boyle

on the radio about the fact that there are dozens of stray cats on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and that they’ve put up a special cat house on the hill that they can live in. I’d always heard that it was a longer story than the site says though – that they released hundreds of cats in the 1870s to combat a huge rodent problem, and that the result was a huge population of feral cats in all the parks around, including down the cliffs behind the Center Block. Either way, it’s kind of odd.

Oh the humanity

January 30, 2001 by Michael Boyle

! Look what Heather found: My Awful Web Site: Canada. There are reasons we Canadians (well, more precisely, Canadians from Southern/Eastern Ontario) of a certain age are the way we are. These are most of them. It’s downright spooky.

I like it when

January 30, 2001 by Michael Boyle

people whose site I read refer to or link to something I was intimately involved in for several years as Peter Merholz did today. Even if he was being a little tongue in cheek.

Radio silence is golden

January 29, 2001 by Michael Boyle

. I was away and offline for the weekend, which was even more appreciated in this time of resume chucking and general wonder that every email I receive might be a really cool proposition. I haven’t swung into high gear on my job search yet, preferring to take some time and concentrate on some personal projects that I want to do for the joy of them. But I have received some very exciting nibbles – even though many of the emails I have sent to people were of the “less than 1% chance” variety.

In contrast, the offline-ness of the past few days has been great – and even more, no one I was with really works in the web world, or not primarily anyhow (not many can escape it in some form at work).