Midnight Musings

When I first became connected to the internet it was a social thing. I spent an inordinate amount of time in believers' chat rooms and instant-messaging people I didn't know. I gradually learned to use the internet on my own and quit the original service, spending more time answering e-mail, shopping and researching questions than socializing with masked strangers.

Suddenly, I find myself spending an inordinate amount of time surfing - this time courtesy of Spurl.net and StumbleUpon. The former is basically an online bookmarks site, but their "just in" feature sends me checking out all kinds of sites I wouldn't have come across on my own. Which is how I found the latter, ultimate time-waster (yes, it beats out the Perpetual Bubble Wrap page, conveniently listed in my selected weird sites links). It uses a Stumble! button in their toolbar which will take you on a magical mystery tour of as many web sites as you want to see, with subject matter you can choose. If you rate sites, random people who like your choices can send you messages and let you browse sites they've rated, it lists the member names of the random people who visit your home page with links so that you can visit theirs, it goes on and on. I can't decide if I'm complaining or advertising, since there are so many more practical things I could be doing. It is fun, though. Just sitting on the dock of the bay, wasting time...

'night, Otis.