Web Celebs have put together a site called www.etoys-sucks.com. Some pretty heavy hitters too!

Read my point of view of the e-Toys boycott in “Why WebMasters should care…” right here!

T’is the season to send Chanukkah and Christmas cards…(NO ONE tells me Chanukkah started Friday…BAD GENTILE!!!)

The Card Shop is open for business….and I’m going to bed! YAWWWWN!

The web has declared war on e-Toys…read all about the boycott right here tomorrow!

In between web work on four different sites, simultaneously…I am SCOURING the web in search of great MIDI’s and PICs for the Christmas/Chanukkah installment of the cardshop… Contributions are always appreciated.

Men all over the world rejoice as Britney Spears finally becomes legal…

The Tribe called Brooks will be heading out to NYC to celebrate Turkey Day at grandma’s house tomorrow. Festivities include celebrating Carole’s dad’s 72nd birthday. We’ll be there ’till Friday, so if you’re in the Maspeth, Queens area and have nowhere to go…consider yourself invited!

Don’t forget to send a FREE Thanksgiving Card to all your Internet friends!

Attention burglars in Blakeslee: Yes, we’re going to be gone. However, we’re leaving our three dogs behind to stand guard…and chances are, we’re going to forget to feed them before we go… 🙂

Anyone catch The Worst of The Web today?

Today’s winner, had a threatening message that they can track anyone posting anything inappropriate on their site, and will prosecute. This, of course, triggered a wicked backlash. The floodgate burst open with hackers and hacker-wannabes taking this as a challenge.

The woman owning the site was flooded with taunts and lewd remarks, and her guestbook ballooned into an 85KB page full of entries from people offended by this. It was so bad that someone from Worst Of The Web posted on the guestbook asking the viewers to stop.

It certainly wasn’t W.o.W.‘s fault. I’m buddies with the main man behind the site (Name withheld, of course), and we’ve seen that they have had this problem for months…it’s all over their guestbooks. Today’s W.o.W. entry just gave the site larger exposure, that’s all… I wrote to her husband and literally BEGGED him to remove that message…I have received no reply as of yet.

Boys and girls…today’s object lesson: Don’t fuck with hackers!!!!! It’s like the Mafia…be nice to them, they’re nice to you!

I had a site that I was working on, where the owner wanted me to put a warning to hackers, to reassure all of his customers that the site is safe…

My reply? “Why don’t we hang a sign that says ‘WELCOME HACKERS!!! You’ll find our password directory here, and our customer’s credit cards scrambled in this directory…’.” You invite trouble with stupid warnings like that.

I felt for this family. They reminded a lot of the Tribe called Brooks. But their arrogance was the equivalent of her walking into a biker bar, wearing a chastity belt, declaring “No one can break into this!!!!”.

The guestbook entries are still pouring in on her site. I feel like I just witnessed a cyber-gang-rape.

A rant in Soapbox is definitely on the way.

Send your FREE thanksgiving postcards at the EG1 Cardshop.

Got some real goofy ones too (I just couldn’t be serious this year). I would have given ANYTHING to find the Underdog balloon from the Macy’s Parade…

Oh well…maybe next year…

Updated the Font Site with 23 new fonts in the “Numbers (#)” Section.

100,000

visitors to www.ericbrooks.com, at approximately 3:45PM Film at 11…

Does that little girl look familiar? Of course, it’s Erika! I was just hired to make a slew of banners & buttons for www.kidcarpet.com‘s new affiliate program.

This banner needed a kid…a cute kid. So I volunteered my little pixie-like Rikki, and launched a new career for her in Internet Modeling.

She’s been through so much with her eye problems, her eye surgery yesterday…her dog dying, her dog coming back to haunt us (because he’s too stoopid to know he’s dead! But she doesn’t know about this…SHHHH!)..Renting “Pet Sematary” is definitely out of the question this weekend!

I figure I have to do something to make this all up to her. Go visit her site, Erika Graphix!

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And in other news, since I was a little busy yesterday…

Happy Belated Birthday, Alyson!
Alyson as Loonette the Clown	Alyson sans Clown gear
Alyson Court, best known as “Loonette the Clown” from The Big Comfy Couch, and the voice of “Jubilee” in Fox’s “X-Men” turned the big “Two-Six” yesterday. She’s a great cyberpal of mine, and recently dropped my kids a note to tell them how much she loved their site. She’s touring with the Comfy Couch gang all across the Northwestern United States, as we speak. You can hang with Alyson, when she gets back at her fan club on Yahoo …also visit her official fan site for some great pictures of her.

The infamous website# 25 a/k/a www.motorific.com is being marketed for sponsors nationwide, as we speak.

Actually, they started last Monday, so I count November 1st as its official Launch Date. That pesky ol’ #25 is now proudly displayed in my list of web design references now. They were so happy with the site, that I’m now signed on as their “Creative Director”, a permanent job, kinda.

Look for me to call on a few of my buddies in my referral page when I get swamped!

In other News….I employed a more sophisticated form of Cascading Style Sheets on many of my main pages. It may not be noticable to the naked eye, but it’s there…..

In case you’ve noticed, the site went down Thursday.

Actually, it ceased to exist. This one’s kind of embarassing…

My check to interNIC for the ericbrooks.com domain bounced. No one told us. interNIC gave it time, and eventually took the domain name back.

Thanks to CyberPal, Bob Meyer , I’m back, I’m black & I’m baaaaaaaaaaad!

Alright, I’m just back, ok?