Just updated the Magic 8 Ball Desktop Game so that it installs into an Eric Brooks.Com!^® folder in your computer. This way, as I make new games and stuff throughout this year, they can all go into one place.

PLUS… it comes with internet shortcuts to this site and the newly-refurbished Erox Graphix^™ so you guys will keep coming back to visit me (pretty slick, huh?).

Just got an email from the Zurich group of Artists formerly known as Etoy…

Well, former no longer…eToys has dropped the lawsuit against Etoy!
(Catch up with "Why Webmasters Should Care")

Seems like they finally realized the futility of declaring war on artists
(you know, us guys that MAKE the very web that they’re on???)

It’s now official Corporations have LOST every single case of "reverse domain hijacking"….eToys stock, valued Nov. 29th, 1999 at $67.00 per share is worth $19.31 at the time of this writing….

Time to take the protest banners down…looks like E-Commerce will play nice with us for just a little while.

Did you guys see today’s quote from George Carlin???

She turns 13 today….
(oh GAWD! I have a teenage daughter…..I’m not handling this well, folks!)

In honor of her and Dr. King’s birthday, I am proud to present "Daily Carlinisms". Daily quotes from comic genius, George Carlin, a man who was around for both of those eras.

I should be in a hospital.
Actually, Carole rushed me to Geisinger Medical Center yesterday, but I refused to get out of the car.

Only your coroner will know for sure….

Well, it seems I go to extremes, don’t I?

People didn’t under stand why a business site would have things like "The Guestbook from HELL™", Rants, and a Magic 8Ball™….critics said "it should be on a personal site", so I made EricBrooks.Com!^®…then critics said "how can I give you business, if you don’t take yourself seriously????"

Well, change is totally complete…check out the newly revamped Erox Graphix™…all straight-laced business, all of the time! And well, it makes no sense to have a "Personal section" on a personal site, does it???…so the personal section has been changed to "The Best Of Eric Brooks" (hey, two years worth of stuff, I think I’m entitled to a "Greatest Hits" page!).

• Happy Birthday Jeffrey Zeldman!
• I am burning up with a fever, and feeling very sluggish. I’m taking some Robitussin, and going back to bed now…nitey night! I’ll answer the flood of mail I got tomorrow…

(((Big group hug!))) I missed you!

I’m back, and like they say: "Out with the old and in with the new"

• Carole saved Christmas (Miraculously management risked their jobs in the Christmas sprit, and bent the rules so the Brookskidz could have a good Christmas …don’t tell ME there’s no Santa Claus! That was truly a tear-jerking bonafide "Christmas Miracle")
• I saw my very first "White Christmas" this year in the Poconos. It was all I ever wanted. (Not that I don’t appreciate the Magic 8 Ball and the Zip Disks!) I can die now…
• Erika turned seven yesterday. Special thanks to buddy Ken Price who read my mention of it in WHUZZUP, and sent her something cute! THANKS KEN!

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• The Mall & Chatroom are GONE! FINITO! HISTORY! I never made a dime with my affiliate programs (though I know people who have bought through my site…IT’S A SCAM FOLKS! LIKE THE LINK EXCHANGE (have you ever seen your banner on another site?)!!!!!!
• I spent all day December 29th fixing CGI scripts on 12 different sites, including this one. Certain CGI scripts run on 2 digit years and are now reading the date as "1900"….not devastating, but embarrassing as hell….

  Some Web Designers and the sites they were paid to design are going to look reeeeal bad this week. I could tell them about it, and save their sorry asses….

  And just why would I want to do that?????? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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• The Magic 8Ball Interactive screensaver is now a hot download at Tucows Interactive!
• Ongoing Series: Y2K Mike: Submitted for your approval….Mike and wife Cindy were your average survivalists. They stayed in their Y2K Bomb Shelter on New Years Eve, and the world was destroyed by Russian Missiles!

  Actually, Mike’s buddies convinced him the world was destroyed and have left him locked in the shelter, and reporting it all to this site! How far will they let this prank go? Read Y2K Mike, and find out….updated daily!

Sorry I talked your head off….