New Year's Resolutions

Happy New Year everyone! Crisp air and cold red cheeks are signals of the excitement in the air and the thrill of that one day a year we're all allowed to start anew and make fresh promises. I, for one, have never really made resolutions till this year. And I'm starting off with an aggressive list: schedule my time better, eat right, exercise, remember people's names better, and give my web audience a column each week that packs a well written punch!

Thus, I'm attempting for the first one to recount the past year and project my hopes for the new year via some favorite holiday songs. Please forgive the alternate lyrics.

The 12 Days of Christmas

On the 12th Day of Christmas my true love sent to me:
Twelve servers serving
Eleven hackers hacking
Ten content providers piping
Nine ad reps a schmoozing
Eight designers designing
Seven e-commerce solutions
Six web authoring tools
Five new jobs
Four shops that closed
Three new clients
Two Internet accounts and
An Intel pentium machine

Auld Web Design

Should old programmers be forgot
and never brought to mind,
Should software launches be for naught
and days of Web design.

For auld Web design my dear,
for auld Web design.
We'll curse at buggy Java-ware
For auld Web design.

Where push technology bit the dust
The Active Desktop, Pointcast thyne
iFusion's capital vanished thus
As all push will in time.

For auld Web design my dear,
for auld Web design.
Our browsers crash without a care
For auld Web design.

Community was the buzzword when
'97 dawned in time.
The VCs' money came and went
But chat made naught a dime.

For auld Web design my dear,
for auld Web design.
Challenge Redmond if you dare
For auld Web design.

And now e-commerce leads the way,
if the hype you still believe.
But the bottom line will not be swayed
Leaving Jupiter bereaved.

For auld Web design my dear,
for auld Web design.
Netscape's losing market share
For auld Web design.

In Silicon Alley we make our way,
selling content that doesn't bomb.
But agency profits still flow away
To the giant Omnicom.

For auld Web design my dear,
for auld Web design.
The trade mags give you vaporware
For auld Web design.

If in selling ads you do believe
Your revenue exceeds a smidge
We've got a sale that's marked "must see"
It's called the Brooklyn Bridge.

For auld Web design my dear,
for auld Web design.
Best '98 wishes we hereby share
For auld Web design.

(Appeared originally in @The Scene in the @NY newsletter)