Sometimes we treasure something so much, and fear losing it… that we grab onto it so tight that we actually destroy it ourselves.

– A friendly word of advice from one insecure guy to another –

No, not them… those holidays are over.
It’s time to change the copyright on all your webpages. (For those of you that don’t know how to write ” © ” in your source codes, just copy my ” © ” from here….).

I’ve been spending the week updating Gresser Realty and Reis Homes sites… Meyer Modular Homes and this one are next. To add more fun to the holiday mix, I was informed by our webhost, ICOM that their servers will no longer support Server Side Includes on regular HTML pages without modifications….
so we’ll all be “SHTML” pages in the next few weeks (with .htaccess files modified for .html just in case.)

<SIGH>….

Weekend Surfing Picks…

• Simtastic! – Made by Faith Kaminsky, the site offers downloads & add-ons for The Sims program.
• The Family Corner Magazine – Haven’t plugged Amanda’s site in a while. Great resources for parents of all types. Fun & freebies too. It’s a lot like EricBrooks.Com!, except it understands responsibility. :0)
• Who’s The Man? – Part-time writer for The Family Corner’s Eric Ruhalter. He’s got his own site, and his stories are funny as hell! I wouldn’t be your CyberPal if I didn’t share this gem with you. Prepare to laugh your ass off!

Finally…. Zeldman removes his awards pages. He says what I have said for years. (Except Yers Trooly likes to send out letters to these benevolent “award-givers” with lots of colorful words… usually requiring the letter “F”, and explicit instructions to do something “anatomically impossible”).

That’s it… Zeldman did it. Now all of you mindless sheep must follow: DESTROY YOUR AWARDS PAGES! (BAA-A-A-A! BAAAA-A-A-A-A-!)

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Word of The day…

Billegible recently did a search on the web for “CyberPal“… of course I’m there.

Memo2Me: Get around to registering “CyberPal” as a trade mark, and sue the shit out of the rest of that list! (Well, uh, except coSmiC diVa, of course!)

Peace on Earth… And good will toward everyone.

Wow. Thank you all for your wonderful words of support. I have a few of my own but for a *small* minority of people (I’ll have a bigger better list for New Years):

• To KayCee, Fiona Elise, and my new CyberPal, Debra Smouse: I pray for your continued health, so I may hear from you all through 2001….
• To Jeffrey Zeldman & family, who are celebrating their first Christmas in years… ENJOY!
• To Joe Jenett, who will be visited tonight by the “Three Ghosts of Christmas Capitalism“, I wish you much success in the next year… and it’s okay to make money on the web, y’know (Didn’t you see “South Park” last night?).
• To Amber, Suzn, Patti, Tiffany, Kare, and Webmistress Jo, who have also had it rough this year… hang in there. 2001 will KICK ASS!!!!
• To Jeff Clark, John Stoddart, Madeline Jacobs, and Ken Price… your words of encouragement are always a comfort, and your wisdom always welcome.
• To Matt Rossi, wherever you are, I pray all is well with you, my friend…
• Faith… it’s been a blast (and all in good fun, right?)!

And most of all…

• Ashley… Mommy & Daddy love you and will see you tomorrow.

I know I left out a ton of important people, but it’s time to turn off the computer, and have Christmas…

Carole & I had a wonderful time tonight at the Reis Homes Christmas Party, held at the Hideaway Hills Country Club.

Highlights:

• The food was excellent!
• Carole & I met (and were re-aquanted with) a lot of contacts… as we had no idea the Gressers and the Brooks’ traveled in such similar social circles…
• I look so damn good in an Italian double-breasted suit! :0)

Also: Some good news was sitting in my Inbox this evening, and it looks like I will be gainfully employed at a great place by the beginning of the year!

So long, Year 2000… without a doubt, the worst year of my life!

…. when have I ever backed down from a dare?

Go ahead cutie… tear me to bunny bits.

At least one of us remembered to wear makeup. :0)

It only took 4 days, and a new keyboard to figure out why this page kept crashing in Netscape 4.piece-of-crap.

Now that you can read this… here’s some advice:

UPGRADE TO 6.0 YOU MORONS!!!

I’ve gotta admit… despite my original thoughts on the matter, I’m actually impressed with NN6. It’s support of standards and CSS will now enable the 4 or 5 whackos still using Netscape to see the web the way the rest of us have for the past two years.

Enough for me to switch? Hell no.

Thanks to Patti for bringing this to my attention, and all her help in resolving this.

Hot Or Not???

I’ll put up my pic, if you put up yours, Damnbaby Diva…

(ooh… a DARE!)