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Baltimore - 6 December, 1999 - Silence is not always golden. I premiered a face-lift of our long-standing e-mail newsletter last week, hoping that readers would find it more informative and comprehensive. For the first time, rather than just providing links to two or three of the new features, I provided links to all of them. In the new design, we also added a number of tweaks which --- I believed, at least --- would make the newsletter more of a value-added offering.ONE PERSON wrote in to say, "Wow! This is really great. I like it much better than the old notification newsletter."
So now I have to wonder if the revamp was worth the time and effort...
Meanwhile, I did manage to survive November, which I shall always remember as Question Month, 1999. People all over the place seemed intent on popping questions at me that I needed to agonize over before answering. The most important one, as I intimated last week, was whether I am willing to move AGAIN for the Nth time in less than two years.
There were other questions, too. The Mommy-questions like how my health is holding up, have I found a new dentist, am I eating --- ultimately leading to e-mails with the Subject line "EAT!"
FEED THE HUNGRY. You can help someone else in this world and IT WON'T COST YOU A DIME. If you simply remember to drop by The Hunger Site every day that you surf and click a simple button ONE LESS PERSON WILL GO HUNGRY. The food is distributed by the United Nations World Food Programme and paid for through the sponsorship of companies that care. Do your part.
Went up to Massachusetts this past week to see if I was willing to rejoin the Dilbert ranks of the Corporate Drones in exchange for my much-treasured freedom and Big Dollars. I took a flight on Southwest Airlines, which from here takes all of an hour. It's like a cheat, in a way, because you end up spending more time getting to and from the airports, checking in early (as required), than you do actually taking the flight. It just served to make me look forward to my end-of-century flight to Europe.
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Now that's a plane ride! Hours of being cramped into that little cabin eating honey-roasted peanuts and plastic kiddie food and watching a bad movie. I can't wait.
But you know what? During a long telephone conversation this past weekend with my personal astrologer and your fave JENNIFER BLUE, I got into this mood of hilarity and asked myself:
"Hey, Rod! Why are you doing the typical Rod Thang and going to a hellish place like Belgrade for Y2K?"Why not do something completely frivolous and hedonistic like going to ARUBA for the New Year. Now that's some place you can really party like it's 1999.
"Warm beaches, scantily clad babes and the erotic sensuality of the tropics.
"Nobody would expect that of you, and you'd probably have the time of your life! Hang up that crown of thorns, Old Timer! Live, live, live!"
I'll keep you posted.
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Things That Bother Me This Week
- Well, the magazine is out a day late because of my travel schedule. Does that count?
- I know FAR TOO MANY people who think they should be running my life instead of allowing me the privilege of doing so on my lonesome,
- I don't like Mondays.
- The words that begin with e- anything.
- The shameless denigration of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle. I have heard Mouthpiece Media people say stuff that is just plain insulting and frivolous. They should know better. They are certainly being paid enough to demonstrate that they know better!
REMEMBER: Tell every single one of your friends about this Web site.
Why do we keep doing this? Because we like you.
Thanks for coming back this week."Work like you don't need the money,
"Love like you've never been hurt,
"Dance like no one is watching..."
Rod
This is another Web site made on a Macintosh.
EDITORIAL CORRECTIONS: What? I didn't make any mistakes last week? Yippee!
ROD AMIS has published this magazine since 1990. It first appeared as a hardcopy 'Zine. In March, 1996, he launched it here on the Web. Rod was a Contributing Editor at Suite101.com, where he wrote the " 'Net Publishing" feature. His work has been featured in the San Francisco Bay Guardian Online, NRV8, and at WebLab's Reality Check site. Rod was also a contributing writer on technology for Faulkner Information Services.
Rod is now a columnist for the Andover News Network, where he writes on web design and development issues every Thursday. He is principal writer and Editor for IT Manager's Journal, where he reviews technology issues five days a week. His opinions on the Info Age began appearing on MethodFive's HYPER technology newsletter in March.
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