Happy New Year. As I’ve done every year since 2000 I hereby declare that I am hopeful that the future is officially started. I would also like to announce a new test for whether it is actually true. I’ve humbly named this test the Minnick Test of the Future. The test is quite simple: when …
Long Live The King
A good place to start looking for clues into what the future of the Web will look like is in the historical record and memories of the time before Web 2.0. I call anything pre-97 the “Long Public Beta” phase of the Web. This stretches back to Tim Berners-Lee’s first demo version in 1990. Berners-Lee’s …
My New Column: Web 8.0
I’m pleased to announce that I now have motivation to write something coherent on a regular basis. As of last week, I’m writing an approximately weekly column titled “Web 8.0” for Waterside Syndication. Here’s the marketing blurb about it: Chris Minnick discusses the future of the Internet with his unique brand of humor and insight. …
Web 3.0 Baloney
This site here (sorry, I can’t figure out who the author is) recently posted some nonsense about how Web 3.0 is going to be about using AI to create farms of people who think they’re playing games but are actually doing the bidding of corporations for no pay. This is absolutely sick nonsense. Go read …
Possible Gangster Fun Reunion?
For those of you who know what I’m talking about…there’s talk about a Gangster Fun reunion show happening at Detroit’s Magestic Theatre on December 29. For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about…I was in a ska band in the late 80s to early 90s in Detroit. Sometimes called the “Godfathers of …
Picking up the sax again
For a reason that deserves its own post, I’m playing sax again after a 10 or 12 year hiatus. The hiatus started when I sold my last tenor sax to get some money to help pay for moving to California. I don’t regret that. It was a crummy sax, and I figured I’d get a …
Wednesday is Suit Day
Strange things are afoot at Minnick Web Services. I came to the office slightly better dressed than normal today to try to cover up my hangover from Sunday night’s festivities. Basically, instead of wearing jeans and a dress shirt, I threw on a sportscoat and went for the whole “tech company executive” look. At our …
Looking for a theme that doesn’t suck
since switching to wordpress last week, the only theme I’ve seen that I like is the default one. I’m sticking with it for now, but maybe if I have some time I’ll look for a better one or pimp it out a bit.