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What Do You Think of Banners?

Lately we've been hearing a lot of chatter about the future or death of the banner ad. From our ad sales spies who tell us their clients want something new to the designers who keep telling us that if they have to make one more 300x400 they're going to kill a baby, we're hearing about your hate.

The Online Publisher's Association is right there with you — er, so they say. They're all excited about the next great thing for the Web. They don't know where it is or what it looks like or how it's going to happen, but it is out there and it will save us all. Oh goodie, don't worry — the OPA is on the job.

No seriously, you're the ones who are on the job. We have no more faith that the OPA will figure it out than we do in President Bush getting elected for a third term.

It's laughable that the entire industry is waiting for this saving grace, some application or tool or formula to pop out of nowhere and save the business. But have we considered that maybe we're experiencing the second phase of a series of volcanic eruptions? Who's to say that the Web won't cool off into black hard, volcano rock? leaving us all S.O.L. while we futilely pick at the hard skin that's forming over online advertising. What do you think; are banners effective, should we expect them to disappear?

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My First Shirt!
Oh yes, I actually cobbled a shirt together with fabric, needle and thread!



For me, this is nothing short of amazing. Okay, it took me five weeks to make this piece of apparel in my weekly sewing class. But hey, I deserve a pat on the back for moving through this at times painful sewing experience nonetheless. However, I figured if I could master a yoke, collar, cuffs, setting in the sleeves and actually lining up my button holes, I'd be that much more the skilled seamstress! Check out the parts...







Not bad, eh? In fact, I am wearing my bee-you-ti-ful bee attire today in the office and not one person has uttered that dreaded question, "So, did you make that?"

Now, we all know this question and what evil lurks behind it. Yeah, what the inquirer really wants to ask is, "Hey, why are you even wearing that thing that looks as if it were cobbled together by a chimp on crack?"

Or, "Were you blindfolded (and on crack) while sewing that garment together?"

Or, "Let me guess, that shirt, is it? Yeah, well, whatever it is...could it have been made as a collaborative project between you and a chimp...um, while blindfolded, your brains addled by copious amounts of, um, crack, perhaps?"

Yeah, not one person has said anything remotely like the above to me today. Because of this, I'm calling this top a win/win. Yep, I learned a few new skills AND I actually made a wearable garment!

So, my top looks relatively store-bought AND the best part, aside from the stuff I mentioned prior that is...it has BUG BUTTONS!



It's all about the details peeps.

Sewing is definitely less scary after the completion of this project. Now stay tuned for my foray into quilting...