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The Bitter Network Administrator |
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A Website Dedicated to Computer Professional...and some not so Professional |
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The Information Highway can only support so
many hitchhikers by Doug Chick 
Computer people more than any,
are notorious for taking what they want on the net and complaining that it
didn't come fast enough or they had to suffer through a popup ad that helped
pay for this person's site. I hate ads, commercials, junk mail and
everything uninvited, but these days it may be advertising dollars that are
the only thing holding up the Internet. (I shiver in my geekedness to the
thought.) My wife once asked me after watching me throw my clothes on the
floor; "Whom do you think picks those up, washes them and hangs them
back in the closet?" I replied, "The laundry fairy?" That
statement cost me the next four years of doing my own laundry. If you ask
someone who finances the Internet I doubt that the answer will be the
Internet Fairy. Although, I’m sure that there are a few sites out there
that have made those contributions. Many people may think that
their contribution to the Internet is the 19.99 a month unlimited ISP
connection they pay, or DSL or Cable modem. Your Internet connection may
grant you access to an all you eat buffet, but it certainly doesn’t
support or help pay for it. So, I’m going to try to keep that in mind
during my late night looting of the Internets bounty of treasures. You know
what I mean.
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Recently
I did something I don't typically do; I e-mailed a website that offers ASP
scripts, (free for the taking) thanking them for the use of their site.
After all, I've gotten many a script from the site and thought this time I'd
say thanks. Of course this isn't really my style to do such a thing and
immediately I felt like a bit of a 