You might download your friend's contribution to relationship at breakfast and upload yours - he or she can put their time in when it suits. It works and even better, it's socially acceptable. No wonder it is now common to see e-mail addresses on stationary or given along with a phone number. Well it makes sense because these days it can be difficult to contact people by phone because they are just too busy.

When first telephone connections were offered for sale it was thought it would be no more than another high tech business tool. Its arrival meant that you could be friends, and maintain contacts with people removed from your space.

The Internet enables you to do exactly same with people who are removed from you in context to time and space. One of most favorite phrases among those who work in IT industry is `enabling technology'. A word that's rapidly becoming just as well used is `compelling'. Of course a technology can't be compelling until it's been fully developed and there's no guarantee that an enabling technology will become compelling.

All of sudden people who wouldn't have dreamed of owing a PC are rushing out and buying latest kit complete with gadgets you can possibly imagine. Having discovered wonders of PC communications they're no doubt going to be compelled to find out what else this enabling technology can do for them.

Yep, adding a net address to those other important possessions - your car and your camcorder means you can now sift your whole life through time and space. You can't get much enabled than that, can you?

A little ray of sunshine is sometimes not a good thing, and no, don't rub sunscreen lotion on your modem (I already tried it - had to buy a new modem).

Just to put your mind at ease, here's current weather forecast from The Space Environment Center:

------------------------------------ "Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 21 February - 19 March 2001

Solar activity is expected to be at low levels during most of period.

No proton events are expected during period.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal levels during most of period.

Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels, barring an Earth-directed CME." ------------------------------------

...I feel so much better knowing that, gotta love them protons.....:0)

Michael Bloch  michael@tamingthebeast.net  http://www.tamingthebeast.net Tutorials, web content and tools, software and community. Web Marketing, eCommerce & Development solutions. _____________________________________________ 

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