my expectations from the web are appropriate or out of whack. All I want is the final score of the Epson Cup rugby game between Canada and Fiji. OK OK, it’s being held in Apia, Samoa, of all places. But the game was on the 7th and as far as I know the 7th is over in Samoa. And yet no score on any of the rugby sites.
Yesterday was Canada
Day – not a huge event here in Montreal. Today is the championship game of Euro 2000 between France and Italy, a much bigger event in this town. For some reason, that makes sense to me. For my part, I just hope Italy doesn’t succeed in making it as boring a game as they’d like.
I’m moving today
and more this weekend, and none too soon. There was a murder on the corner yesterday, at the coke bar, and they’re setting up a huge dog and pony show for this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix. Honestly, the big Formula 1 display (complete with a stage for live shows, a virtual racing game and stuff) is more discomfiting to me than the murder was.
Next Saturday, Belgium
kicks off the first game of Euro 2000 in Brussels. I’m not a huge football (aka soccer) fan but I love the big tournaments. And Montreal is a particularly great place to be a soccer fan – it really comes alive during a big event. My neighbourhood (le Plateau Mont-Royal) is a mix of artists and students – but also of tons of first-generation Canadians, just here from Portugal, South and Central America, and little Italy is just up the way a mile or so. During the last World Cup if you had walked down boul. St-Laurent, you would have noticed that every business had a TV in it – barbershops, hair salons, cafs, bars, restos – and they were all tuned to a game.
My friend Roel splits his time between here and Amsterdam and tells me that Holland is particularly dangerous this year.
Web Networks’
highly-coveted domain – web.net – was hijacked the other day by an unknown person who sent an unauthorized change of information email to Network Solutions, which they promply executed without following proper procedures. So an innovative, old-guard non-profit internet host who works extensively with other non-profits, charities, and is a member of the Association for Progressive Communications, was left high and dry for a few DAYS – as were their clients.
I bet Network Solutions makes excuses rather than apologizing. I wonder when they’re going to realize that this isn’t just a game, this is people’s livelihoods, their vision of the future, their business. A bank doesn’t start sending my statements to someone else without a lot of information and confirmation. I wonder why Netsol thinks they should offer any less security?
