STORY:
Worldwide Work Party

Online New Year's Eve party planned for working at their computers

By Karen Shomo

With the threat of the Y2K computer bug millions of employees will be toasting midnight with their computer mouse and their boss. You may be stuck in the office but you can still take part in a New Year’s Eve party, a net party on-line.

A group of computer workers got together and decided just because they have to work, doesn’t mean they don’t get to enjoy the New Year. Thus the BindView New Year’s Bash was born.

BindView is inviting everyone to party online throughout the evening as you monitor for the Y2K bug. You can listen to music, watch movies and win prizes.

BindView is a Houson-based supplier of IT risk management solutions and they are sponsoring the on-line party along with many other companies that have donated prizes. The company decided to make the best of a working situation and get everyone involved.

The virtual New Year’s Eve Bash will include prize drawings throughout the night from Compaq and others. You can watch movies from Yahoo!/Broadcast.com. You can play the game Half-Life, which is gaining popularity and has the potential to be the world’s largest online game.

If you just want to enjoy music, you can do that too. How about chatting with someone besides those people you work side-by-side with every day. Live chat rooms will be open throughout the night also.

BindView wants you to tell all your friends about the party and the more people you tell the better chance you have of winning prizes. For every person who lists you as a reference, BindView will enter you into a drawing for the prizes.

When your at your computer on New Year’s Eve and want to take part in the festivities the web site address is www.BindView.com/onlineparty.

DATE: 12/16/99

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