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December 28, 1998 – Newsletter #8

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December 28, 1998 – Newsletter #8

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Hello Weekend Silicon Warriors…


I’m sitting in my kitchen writing this letter while my wife
is putting together a coconut white cake. It’s been the
traditional holiday treat in her family ever since her
childhood. It’s best to make it a couple of days before
the actual “eat it” date. It’s the only cake I know of that
gets better if it’s a little stale. I don’t know why.


In case you’re wondering, my gift to her this year was an
account at a flower shop. There’s a chunk of money there
she can use every week to buy fresh flowers. She always
comments we need more flowers in the house. Well, now
she’ll have fresh flowers every week for the next six
months. That is, if she follows the format. She does have
the ability to spend it all in one shot if she wants. I
think she’ll stick to the weekly pick up.


She probably got me something to do with computers. Go
figure.


In an effort to polish off the year is the traditional
fashion, I too will rip off David Letterman like every
radio morning show in the country and do my own Top Ten
list.


I now present to you, the top ten Web Developer New
Year’s Resolutions:


10.
I resolve to write using the HTML code understood by
the most browser versions. This will go a long way to
eliminating errors and strange looking pages.


9.
I will stop putting “under construction” messages on my
pages. I especially will stop putting that yellow
diamond-shaped animated image of the little guy digging
on my pages.


8.
I will use my real name. We all know no mother would
allow her child to be named “The HTML God” or “Da
Bomb.”


7.
I will use alert boxes sparingly. In addition, when I
use them I will make a point of making all return links
to that page go to a duplicate page that doesn’t have
that darn alert box.


6.
I will stop ending my e-mail letters with “C-ya” or
“l8r.”


5.
I will understand that Geocities gave me a site for
free and thus I will have no choice but to deal with
that brand thing in the lower right hand corner.


4.
I will understand that background music is a privilege
and not a right. Plus, I will resist the overwhelming
want to use Prince’s song “1999” at all this year.


3.
I will resolve to be honest and not set my new counter
to start counting at 1,345,843 visitors. I will also
not bump that number up now and again.


2.
I will stop throwing around the term “Y2K” like it’s
part of my common vernacular.


1.
I will understand that content is king. No amount of
fancy coding will help a page that has nothing of any
substance to offer.


That’s for 1998…3, 2, 1, Happy New Year!


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And that’s it. Our families arrive tomorrow and as soon as
I am done with this letter I will be sent off to clean the
bathrooms and my office. I could write me to get out of it,
but my fingers hurt. Happy Holidays!


Joe Burns, Ph.D.


“And Remember: This year when buying a gift, keep in mind
that the largest credit card transaction ever was when Eli
Broad of Los Angeles, CA put 2.5 million dollars on his
American Express card in order to buy a painting titled
“I…I’m Sorry” by Roy Lichtenstein. That’ll teach American
Express to declare no pre-set spending limit.”

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