"And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden blue [for clicked links].
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how hyperlink leads on to hyperlink,
I doubted if I should ever come back."
I apologise for having vandalised this verse but it seemed apt for what I wanted to say, which is about my journey through web pages, realising that google searches are just the tip of the iceberg; there are hidden worlds of dark "matter" undetectable save by traversing through them. It is so easy to be connected to someone and I have done some looking to find those connections that traverse the physical with this electronic world.
Just a few minutes ago, I was drooling over the karimpukala menu and as usual, my curiosity led me to a couple of blogs and webpages (again connected directly by 2 or 3 "nodes", nodes being people I know) and a google search resulted in my ending up at the home of a malayalee couple, whose friend I saw last time down with an illness and another friend who was in school with me. I think the six degrees of separation are in reality 3 or 4, especially with social networking sites.
There is a wealth of information on the net with at least one website mentioning every person I know. There is only one website I could find about me if you know my name - it sums up neatly what I have done in the last 8 years, a chapter of my life I wish i could rewrite.
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