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Interesting article

September 1, 2000 by Michael Boyle

today on A List Apart called Beyond the Browser discussing what’s coming with several important technologies. It’s good – it doesn’t go too far (as I tend to do).

interesting: HomeRF Gets Up to Speed. Anything that moves things along the path to wireless is worth watching. Massive broadband will never come through wires – I’m talking 70-90% penetration in North America, and not just to a single box or two, but to a whole home.

I’m curious to see whether there’ll be a wire into the location and then a transmitter or if everything will be wireless. I suspect the latter, with every network transaction encrypted, auto-config of new devices entering the space according to rules, and a distribution of network monitoring duties among devices (i.e., no central server in a location controlling everything).

Inspired!

September 1, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Inspired!

Lots of hand

August 31, 2000 by Michael Boyle

-wringing over content and it’s viability in the grand scheme of the web in Salon.com’s article, Remember when content was king? It is totally feasible to make money, and lots of it, doing content on the web. Lots of companies are doing it. It’s just that the answer isn’t obvious, and doesn’t involve trying to mimic Vanity Fair, the New York Times, or the National Enquirer.

It’s only recently

August 30, 2000 by Michael Boyle

that I got a machine that could handle downloading mp3s en masse, but now that I have enough space on my HD I’ve had some funny surprises. I’ve been tending to look for stuff I had on vinyl back in the day. Today I made a great find – and old song called Ici les enfants by a relatively obscure band whose most interesting recordings were done in the late 70s/early 80s, the Monochrome Set.

At the time their albums were near-impossible to find, at least on this side of the Atlantic. It meant going to a good shop, first of all, which was relatively hard to find in Ottawa (I shopped at Shake Records for years; now Pete Besserer owns the Black Tomato restaurant in Ottawa and sells records there as well), and second it meant shelling out for an import.Subsequently, it turns out, the band stayed active for many many years – but in 1982, it meant one record, seen but once in any store.