The First Day of the Rest of My Life

I drove up to Vancouver, BC -- one of my favorite cities -- for a seminar on web marketing last weekend.

I don't know anything about marketing.

I do know a few things about the web. Well, let me rephrase that -- I know more about TCP/IP and Ethernet and the foundation that makes the Internet tick than I know about doing business on the web. Or doing business at all for that matter.

Yes, I am a geek. I grew up with the Internet; I was online before lines were full-on, though you'll only get that joke if you know what a BBS is and what they were all about, especially back in 1990. The transition to fully wired internetworks, when I got to college in late '92, was natural and didn't seem unusual to me at all. Heck, I'd seen email several years before, when I got to play "empire" with a bunch of classmates on a mainframe. I was more interested in "empire" than anything else, but that didn't mean I got to play it.