4:58pm on a Friday

And there's definitely only one thing on my mind...unfortunately, I will have to put aside day-dreaming about the weekend for another hour. Sadly, the internet has become the crutch I lean on in times like these when the office is empty, and I should be able to complete some uninterrupted work. Damn you timewasting internet/email.

Which leads me to a second thought. Have you considered recently how small the internet has become? Doesn't it seem that not long ago that the internet actually put a mental picture of a tangled, unorganized web, that could lead you to new and exciting places? Now it's much more like a downtown city grid, organized with perfect right angles. Remember when your parent's feared the internet bill because they had already used up their first free 20 hours on AOL (Instead of the 15,000 free hours they offer now)? Or even better when they tried to use the internet lingo and used awkward sentences like, "Can you downsurf a file for me from the world wide web and send it to my electronic mail account?"

And what once was an arena dominated by the entrepreneurial minded, is now another tool dominated by the corporate arena.

Every search I make goes through a company worth 116 billion dollars (this blog included). My sports site (espn.com) is owned by Disney. Even Ebay has an ownership share of craigslist. Weather.com is an affiliate of the weather channel. I believe Myspace is owned by Newscorp (and myspace is purposely kept in a manner that keeps it feeling independent...thanks to everyone's good friend Tom!).

While the internet still does provide the opportunity for the unknown with a creative idea to make his million bucks, even that will soon be jeopardized by the upcoming two-tiered internet.

But back to reality- I have another email to read.