Desiderata.com Go placidly amid the glitches & errors & remember what peace there may be in DSL. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all message boards. Type your truth spelled properly & with grammatical correctness; and read others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid people who spam & use stupid icons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare your site to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater & lesser web sites than your own. Enjoy your site awards as well as your subscribers.
Keep interested in your link pop, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of dotcoms. Exercise caution in your affiliates; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; the information highway strives for high ideals; and everywhere the web is full of shareware.
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign HTML knowledge. Neither be cynical about code; for in the face of all obfuscation, it is as necessary as your password.
Take kindly the counsel of the geeks, gracefully surrendering to XML and PHP. Nurture patience with technology to shield you in sudden upgrades. But do not distress yourself with downtime worries. Many fears are born of infected attachments & poor connections.
You are a child of the Internet, no less than the hackers & the housewives; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Internet is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with Bill Gates, whatever you conceive him to be, and whatever your mission & agenda, in the noisy confusion of cyberspace, keep peace with your ISP.
With all its viruses, slow downloads & broken links, it is still a beautiful Internet. Be careful. Strive to stay connected.
FOUND IN OLD CPU, WALLING; DATED 2000
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