Joe Burns

************************************************************ Goodies to Go ™ June 1, 2000–Newsletter #82 ************************************************************ Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com ************************************************************ Greetings, Weekend Silicon Warriors, Did you hear… Victoria just can’t keep a secret. If the numbers are true, the latest Victoria’s Secret online fashion show was the most-viewed Internet event in history. I wrote a couple of jokes on this subject […]

************************************************************ Goodies to Go ™ May 22, 2000–Newsletter #81 ************************************************************ Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com ************************************************************ Greetings, Weekend Silicon Warriors, Did you hear… The Webby Awards are out! Why don’t they broadcast this on TV? Some of the lucky winners were: The Onion for best comedy site, MSNBC for best news site, Google for best search engine, […]

************************************************************ Goodies to Go ™ May 15, 2000–Newsletter #80 ************************************************************ Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com ************************************************************ Greetings, Weekend Silicon Warriors, Did you hear … The movie “Quantum” has just been released. It’s the first film specifically made for – and distributed by – the World Wide Web. It has some pretty big stars: John Cleese, Stephen Dorff, […]

************************************************************ Goodies to Go ™ May 8, 2000–Newsletter #79 ************************************************************ Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com ************************************************************ Greetings, Weekend Silicon Warriors, Question of the day: If the U.S. Government breaks up Microsoft into two companies, what are we going to call the second? One will, of course, be called Microsoft. My guess is that the company that keeps […]

************************************************************ Goodies to Go ™ May 1, 2000–Newsletter #78 ************************************************************ Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com ************************************************************ Greetings, Weekend Silicon Warriors, Oh, am I hooked! My wife has a collection of Mexican miracle crosses, which are called “cruz de milagros” in Spanish. Of course I felt left out, not having a collection of my own, so I thought […]

************************************************************ Goodies to Go ™ April 24, 2000–Newsletter #77 ************************************************************ Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com ************************************************************ Greetings, Weekend Silicon Warriors, Could telecommuting be the answer to air pollution? There’s a movement afoot in some states with poor air quality to push the issue of telecommuting. Cool! You can force me to work from home anytime you want. […]

************************************************************ Goodies to Go ™ April 17, 2000–Newsletter #76 ************************************************************ Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com ************************************************************ Greetings, Weekend Silicon Warriors, Did you see the iWon.com commercials? Well, that 10 million bucks was given away on an episode of the Leeza Gibbons Show on April 15th. There were three other winners of smaller prizes. Did you hear… I […]

************************************************************ Goodies to Go ™ April 10, 2000–Newsletter #75 ************************************************************ Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com ************************************************************ Greetings, Weekend Silicon Warriors, I got one of the neatest things the other day. A Goodies reader sent me a voice mail over ZDNet (www.zdnet.com). It’s their new Onebox deal that lets you send and receive e-mail, faxes, and voice mail. […]

************************************************************ Goodies to Go ™ April 3, 2000–Newsletter #74 ************************************************************ Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com ************************************************************ Greetings, Weekend Silicon Warriors, Did you hear… In a report released by Strategis, an online analyst company, Internet growth can be measured mainly in women. By the end of last year, the male-to-female ratio of people on the Web became equal. […]

************************************************************ Goodies to Go ™ March 27, 2000–Newsletter #73 ************************************************************ Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com ************************************************************ Greetings, Weekend Silicon Warriors, I wanted to tell you about a conversation I had with an IT friend of mine who runs a server in California. He told me a great story about the online theft of images. At least twice […]

************************************************************ Goodies to Go ™ March 20, 2000–Newsletter #72 ************************************************************ Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com ************************************************************ Greetings, Weekend Silicon Warriors, Did you hear – Heads up you thumb jockeys. Soon Sega and Sony will have new competition from the people you love to love. Microsoft is getting into the gaming industry with their X-Box. There’s a seven […]

Goodies to Go ™ March 6, 2000–Newsletter #70 ************************************************************ Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com ************************************************************ Greetings, Weekend Silicon Warriors, Did you hear… eCommerce! eCommerce! Rah! Rah! Rah! Apparently after three good years of business on the Web, colleges and universities have decided it’s here to stay and have begun offering degrees specifically geared to cyber-business. The University […]