With a capital “A”. Seriously, since Web 2.0 started to really roll out and more and more sites started to adopt its philosophy I’ve noticed a complete paradigm shift in what the Internet means to me. I literally love the internet now whereas maybe 2 years ago I was becoming increasingly disillusioned as to its real world merits. It was becoming like TV, I was merely flicking through my favorite sites on a daily basis, reading my usual RSS feeds and then switching it off.

However things started to change a while back when a friend pointed me in the direction of this new toolbar called “Stumbleupon”. My whole life I have hated additional toolbars in browsers, all to often I’ve had to clean out a friends PC only to see the myriad of toolbars they have installed that are there due to a virus or are slowing down their computer because they are bloated and poorly coded. So when I was told about this “must have” toolbar, I took the advice with a pinch of salt.

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Thought I’d just post these links stumbleupon churned out for me. I work as a sysadmin for a dot-com and, more often than not, have to deal with customers and clients who are having PC issues. The issues are usually always minor and their description of them is always exaggerated. Sometimes I have to bite my lip from laughing at how frustrated they are getting over something as simple as changing the screen resolution or changing the locale settings on their keyboard. What’s even funnier is when I need them to give me their password which is, more often than not, lewd and embarrassing for them to read out.

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