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This article will

August 24, 2000 by Michael Boyle

make several good friends of mine very happy: Krispy Kreme Reports Sweet Profits.

, among others, have been jawing about Napster and mp3 in general for months, usually over beers at our local watering hole. MJ has put it together in a great story in Hour this week. Ironically, as I read the story I decided I had to listen to Neil Young’s Thrasher. So I grabbed it – took but a minute.

The big news

August 19, 2000 by Michael Boyle

while I was away (no, not the sub or DemCon2K) was that my friend Michael‘s company was bought by Peregrine Systems, which is really cool. Someday I want to start a business with Michael, or to work for him or something like that. He is a huge geek in a way that I am not nor will ever be – and he’s also deeply interested in the more personal, quotidian applications of networking and whatnot. I like people who can work the heavy steel end of networking and the web but also understand and appreciate the everyday, individual applications as well.

So I’m on vacation

August 14, 2000 by Michael Boyle

for the next week. Much needed – but not too many updates coming until next Sunday when I return. I’m headed to Minneapolis, which promises to be a grand time, due mostly to the company I’ll keep there. I leave Tuesday morning early, so I may write a bit tomorrow, but then again even for a simple week away I have lots of details to take care of during the day tomorrow:

return the “Being John Malkovich” DVD I rented the other night
go to the regie to check on a possible health card mixup
finish up something I’d not completed to my satisfaction at work (but I can do it here)
send my old video card to ATI so they can update its BIOS, which will allow me to drive my secondary monitor
answer a dozen emails I’ve let sit too long, plus one postcard
arrange for flowers to be sent for a friend’s birthday late next week
laundry
pay my car insurance
etc.

My friend Lyle Stewart

August 11, 2000 by Michael Boyle

takes a look at the Philadelphia protests during the Republican Convention in his column this week. Lyle’s been working the protest beat for years now, and doing so very well at newspapers across North America, so he has an interesting perspective. The long view, maybe.