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I absolutely cannot

October 26, 2000 by Michael Boyle

reach caterina.net from home. Weird.

, I am now on a company’s board of directors. It’s for cam.org, a small non-profit community-oriented ISP here in Montreal, which also happens to have been the first public ISP here many years ago. Should be fun, though I should try to learn a bit more about the ISP business pretty quickly.

Much hilarity from

October 26, 2000 by Michael Boyle

the government subsidy file as well. The Montreal Gazette reported today about E-Commerce grumblings, which is about how unhappy developers are at a plan to develop “E-Commerce Place” and give subsidies to businesses that locate there (there’s a Tilden car rental place in the location now, right around the corner from the Molson Center). Thing is that the business that are currently succeeding here are doing so in spite of gov’t intervention, not because of it. Plus, we already have the Cit du Multimedia.

I saw the most

October 26, 2000 by Michael Boyle

ridiculous little tidbit in Wired News today: GE to Dot-Coms: ‘Game Over’. Uh, right. If dot-coms get into trouble it will be mostly of their own making (lame business plans, no biz plans, high costs, egomania, etc.) not cause GE decided to jump in.

In the Economist

October 25, 2000 by Michael Boyle

, Thrills and spills, the first article in its e-entertainment survey. “The digital revolution in entertainment was expected to sweep all before it. But so far it has proved somewhere between a disappointment and a disaster.”