About This Site
BrianKaneOnline has been my home on the web since August 2000. It is hard to categorize this blog; sometimes it is about links to interesting news, articles and other stuff on the web in the true spirit of the “weblog”, other times it is about my own personal life in the spirit of the online journal, and sometimes it is in the unfortunate spirit of the soapboxes that have come to symbolize “blogs” in the public imagination. (I hope to engage in soapbox ranting as little as possible, but sometimes the need simply overwhelms me.)
For many years, I posted five days a week, three to five posts a day, but as of late I have cut back considerably. I try to post a few times a week, but prefer to wait until I have a lot of good material unless there is a hot time-sensitive topic I want to write about. So, I recommend subscribing to my RSS feed to know when there is something new to read rather than checking every day.
I post about whatever I come across that might interest me, and I am a person of very broad interests, so you never know exactly what you might find here. I tend to follow a number of technology topics, but I also have a serious academic background in media studies and am interested in the past, present and future of “broadcasting”. I have a penchant for finding weird and silly things on the web, especially signs, and most days at least one of my posts will be something amusing.
For a variety of reasons, mostly boring technical ones, the online archives for this site only go back to April of 2007. I realize this breaks links that people made to some of my posts way back when, but if that’s your biggest problem in life, you’re ahead of the game. My suspicion is that most people really don’t care about 10-year-old blog posts.
About Comments:
Everyone is welcome to comment on my site except spammers. Please feel free to chime in.
I moderate all comments on this blog. I do that mostly to combat comment spam, but you should know that I will hold back comments if I feel they are too inflammatory, personally insulting to me or others, or just too far off-topic to be worth approving. I *may* occasionally fix your spelling, but I don’t edit people’s comments as a rule (there have been one or two exceptions over the years). If you’re not comfortable with that policy, you are free to go comment elsewhere.
I try to keep up with comments during the day, but sometimes I may not get the notification that you posted a comment for several hours. Do not worry if your comment does not appear right away; I will get to it as soon as possible.
About The Author
If you are looking for Brian Kane, I am probably not the one you are looking for. There are at least half a dozen Brian Kanes with notable web presences, only one of which is me. I am not an astrophysicist, a jazz musician, a disk jockey, a multimedia artist, or a furniture designer, and DEFINITELY not an executive at Goldman Sachs.
I am a chubby little middle-aged guy living in the Boston suburbs with my wife, our nine-year-old daughter, two cats, and Nappy the Teddy Bear. For most of the last fifteen years, I have been an IT guy of various stripes, but only because it paid the bills. I tried to start my own business as a personal chef a couple of years ago, but it never really got off the ground. These days I do IT house calls for people who need help with their home computers or want to learn how to get more out of their tools. If you live in the Greater Boston area, feel free to contact me about my services.
If you read this blog for any length of time, my interests, leanings, prejudices, and predilections will become evident, but I can tell you that I am politically VERY liberal, I am not only an atheist I am also strongly anti-religionist, I do not suffer fools willingly or graciously, and I love LOLcats, Star Trek, my iPod Touch, Simon & Garfunkel, and cheese.
If you wish to contact me, e-mail is best. The address is below.
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
