"New Year's Resolutions for you, our Internet Junkies"

1. I will try to figure out why I "really" need 12 e-mail addresses.

2. I will stop sending e-mail to my wife (husband). A phone call every now and then would be appreciated

3. I resolve to work with neglected children -- my own.

4. I will answer my snail mail with the same enthusiasm with which I answer my e-mail.

5. I will stop sending e-mail, ICQ, Instant Messages and be on the phone at the same time with the same person.

6. I resolve to back up my 12 GB hard drive daily...well, once a week...okay, monthly then...or maybe... at least once a year

7. I will spend less than one hour a day on the Internet. This, of course, will be hard to estimate since I'm not a clock watcher.

8. I will stop checking my e-mail at 3:00 in the morning... 4:30 is much more practical since my friends overseas already had time to answer me by then

9. When I hear a funny joke I will not reply, "LOL... LOL!"

10. I will read the manual... just as soon as I can find it.

11. I will think of a password other than "password."

12. I resolve... I resolve to... I resolve to, uh... I resolve to, uh, get my, er... I resolve to, uh, get my, er, off-line work done, too!

Added Aug. 26, 1996