Original emoticons are always guaranteed2002.03.06

Original emoticons are always guaranteed to get a smile out of me. My personal favourite is :-D* (person laughing so hard that he or she does not notice that a 5-legged spider is hanging from his or her lip). Also fun in the Internet communications subject is coolsig.com - hundreds of email .sigs to choose from. For those of you who don't have a web site to pimp in your .sig, anyway.

Have iPod, Will Bootleg. Laughed at this one. (I know, I know, piracy's not a laughing matter, but come on.)

An Open Letter to Jack Valenti and Michael Eisner. Gives you pause for thought. More about the insanity from Doc Searls. Read both of these and try not to be outraged at Big Business. I dare you. Read Doc's latest update to get the latest, and to find out what you can do to stop it.

Commercialism run amok. Crushing the little guys - like Internet radio - makes no sense unless all you want is a virtual monopoly in which you own Park Place and Boardwalk and half of the other properties (with hotels) and are just wanting to see the cash roll in. To hell with everyone else. I wish I could understand this kind of thinking, but it's based in fear, and I can't see myself ever learning to be afraid of technology.

Finally, (another little note of gloom on this gloomy day) HTML email is looking like a snake to me, rearing its head and readying itself for the bite. When ordered to do so, I'm going to have to figure out the technical "how" of it relatively quickly and found a very good resource on how to create HTML email. So if your employer puts the gun to your head, there's somewhere to turn. Ironic that I may be sending my first-ever HTML email the same month I finally broke down and bought The Bat! in order to strip all HTML email out of my life forever (excellent mail program, if you've never tried it).

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