It's my company's birthday and you get free ice cream. Today only. So hurry your mint-chocolate-chip-loving self over to a nearby Baskin Robbins.

My coupon looks like this:



But you should get your own.

Also there's this 10-year "netrospective," for which I wrote an item or two. I'll let you guess which ones.

You're encouraged to comment.

Looking back at the last 10 years on the Internet (no more "Internets," I promise) was a fun exercise, and I'm ultimately incredibly grateful to work with 7,600 other people who understand that.

(In 1995, I was building My Very First Website for the Massachusetts Department of Revenue. I did this by working with our "webmaster," mapping content out in pencil, and literally walking up the hill to deliver floppy disks to the State House for uploading.)

Meanwhile, Jess wrote this netrospective of her own. It's long, but worth the read. Our personal netrospects have intertwined most interestingly over the last seven out of 10 years. She's really done all the work for me, making excellent points and finding some of the most sentimentally fabulous links, like Yahoo in 1996 and the "convergence" TV show we used to write for in 1998 and links I sent her in 2000 and red hair and platinum hair and hair-model hair.

While my hair's been merely dirty blond.

You should see our campus -- it's all sorts of purple. We'll take lots of photos.

Don't forget about the ice cream!