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Netscape, We Hardly Knew Ye...

In 1995, I started using email. In my first college days, my friend Virge anointed me with a playful email handle - toddity. She never told me that your email address was somewhat permanent, and I spent the rest of my university days with an username that amused most who got a message from good, old Eudora. At that time, I used Netscape as my web browser. Fast forward almost 15 years. I moved on first to Internet Explorer (Microsoft had a monopolistic hand in it), and then to Firefox from which I am penning this blog entry. Somewhere along the way, Netscape was acquired by AOL and sent down the river on a slow obsolescence. Until next week, when Netscape will end up on the scrap heap with Prodigy, Compuserve, and Excite@Home. How much the internet has changed. I can wax poetically on blogs and social networks, but I can also remember messageboards, usenets, IM, forums, web 1.0, HTML, and the world wide web when www. was a foreign concept. The concept is still the same - connec

Better Late Than Never

Happy New Year! (a poem to Wendy) As January ends, outside is windy I'm leaving the office, and blog is empty For this year's entries, this is the first - Of all the droughts, this might be worst Of sparse words and spells of creativity. Much as there is to praise, I can't complain Of the life that now occupies my brain In these winter days - and nights often too - When work, life, and love make strange brew. Happy birthday to my dad, Lest I forget this as well As I pack my things at hand And reflect for trifle spell. Enough of this, I shall resolve To write more for hopes absolve The state I'm in - all work and no play - Dull boy I become is what some say. A few thoughts, these, I make as mark As a solemn pause to act as lark, For this entry portends what must come - Poetry and story should be in great sum!