In reward for all your hard work, you will all find a little something extra in your pay envelopes this morning.

For those of you in BMW acquisitions, you’ll find tickets for Eric Clapton and U2. Good job, guys. We wouldn’t be the company we are today if we didn’t have our Beemers.

For you folks in the employee relocation program; thanks to your diligent efforts and victory-at-any cost attitudes, we all live in the finest, most expensive houses in California. Enjoy your front row seats for the Styx / Bad Company concert. You put the “home” in our home page. Thanks, guys and gals.

For the wonderful people in the morale department; The parties you threw, featuring entertainment by Counting Crows and Chuck Mangione, made us the talk of the industry. Giving away sailboats, PDAs and Porshes as door prizes was simply genius. Here’s tickets and backstage passes for MTV Campus Invasion and the INXS / Midnight Oil tour. You people put our company on the map.

For our kitchen staff: Day after day you’ve served up the best filet mignon, truffles and lobsters. I salute you with tickets and limo service for Bob Dylan and Ben Harper. You provide the fuel that drives this corporation.

Our company was made by the combined efforts of all of you. Because of you, we’re the most famous Web consultants in the world. Sure, the Nasdaq took a dive. Sure, our stock is in the toilet. Sure, we burned through $50 million per month of venture capital last year. The important thing is we’re still here. This company would not have come this far without your hard work, loyalty and dedication. I honestly don’t know what I’d do without each and every one of you.

But starting today, I’m going to try. Security will show you to the door. That is all.