About BKO

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.)

Generally speaking, I put up three or four posts per day, Monday through Friday. If there’s nothing that grabs my fancy on a particular day, or if I have other offline committments, I might skip a day or two, but I try to keep a pretty consistent schedule.

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.

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.

I am a chubby little middle-aged guy living in the Boston suburbs with my wife, our seven-year-old daughter, two cats, a couple of goldfish, and Nappy the Teddy Bear. For most of the last dozen 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.

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.