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Mmmm

July 9, 2002 by Michael Boyle

beautiful flower, and in our own backyard nonetheless!

to come out with statements about the current corruption scandals that have gripped American business in the past few months, but even very neutral articles from the wires note Bush’s credibility problems on this issue. I think they should just come right out and declare War on Corporate Malfeasance. To go along with the war on drugs and the war on terrorism. It’s clear that the corporate class are as much a threat to American values and the US constitution as terrorists or drugs.

If you wanted to improve

July 9, 2002 by Michael Boyle

your facility in the language of Moliere, you couldn’t do much better than starting with Les coups de langue de la grande rousse, by Dolores Tam. Since I do most definately want to improve my French, I’ve been following links there like mad.

Holy smokes

July 8, 2002 by Michael Boyle

: the huge forest fires in northern Quebec have spread smoke over a huge swath of North America. Yesterday it looked like we were in the midst of an all-day eclipse through the clouds or something – the world had this odd pall about it. It has cleared here in Montreal today, mostly, but the smoke from the fires is still affecting millions.

I fully support

July 5, 2002 by Michael Boyle

any effort to remove as much responsibility for domain registrations from Verisign as possible, so the “.org is a public trust” is very interesting to me. What I can’t figure out though, as an ORG owner, is how it might affect me personally. Will I be able to keep my domain under this proposal? Or is it the sunshine and popsicles it seems to be according to the sites I’ve seen who support this plan.