Example #4,464,484 of how the Internet has changed everything
Yet another example of how the world has TOTALLY TOTALLY TOTALLY changed in the last 10 years with the Internet and associated techs....

I have The Saturday Age on the table here opened but unread. So rather than moving the 1.5 meters to the other end of the table to read it I jump to the web site (from my wireless laptop using my home lan and broadband connection) and browse every 2 hours or so the breaking news and anything else that catches my fancy.

Today it is an article about Gaijin!, a magazine about cool things from Japan.

Four clicks later and I'm subscribed for the year with my free t-shirt on the way and in the draw for a DVD.

All the while I'm soundtracked to whatever is pumping out of the iPod and transmitted to the stereo by my snazzy little FM transmitter.

No way this would have been possible 10 years ago...not one bit of it..none!!!