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It’s pretty much official

May 18, 2001 by Michael Boyle

now – it looks like I’m going to be teaching a class at McGill University in the fall. I’ll be doing a section of the Internet Design and Analysis course offered as part of McGill’s Graduate certificate in e-commerce program (Ed Bilodeau developed the curriculum and will teach the other section). I’m actually pretty excited about it, even though I won’t start until September.

In the thread about

May 18, 2001 by Michael Boyle

the WWW’s tenth birthday at Metafilter, some question was raised about the date. As this chronology indicates, however, I think it’s entirely fair to say that the 17th is the day – after all, presenting a working system to a committee is a diffferent thing than an initial development milestone. Anyhow, I guess it’s not that important either way.

Coming soon to a browser

May 18, 2001 by Michael Boyle

near you: Independents Day: Celebrating the Independent Web.

I learn nice things

May 17, 2001 by Michael Boyle

via Zeldman’s site quite often. But today was the topper – the WWW turned 10 today.

I received an interesting

May 17, 2001 by Michael Boyle

email yesterday:

This Friday May 18th, in an unprecedented gesture, the Union des crivains du Qubec will present an evening of ENGLISH poetry and literature in performance.
The show is entitled “Howls and Whispers (Souffles et hurlements)” and it highlights a remarkable cultural breakthrough that has occurred in the spoken word scene in Montreal.
Due to pioneer work by a list of names on both sides of the linguistic divide, the scene for performance literature has become a place where English and French performers know each other, work together and share an audience – an altogether amazing event when one considers that poetry is probably the most language-specific cultural activity one can find.

The show will feature a panoply of the most interesting writers and performers in the city, including Cat Kidd and jack beets, Fortner Anderson, and musician Tom Walsh – all in one of the best locations in town.
[ahem – I should have mentioned that location – it’s at the Lion D’Or, on Ontario St. E. Did you know that Ontario St had that name before the province of Ontario did?]