By: Michael Stone

It's there on my taskbar. Beckoning to me. Come search the world for information. It's my Google search bar. Or maybe it's Yahoo for you. It doesn't matter. It's there drawing us in and once we've made the cyber jump, there's no turning back!

I recently heard a story about (insert topic here), in my case it was , making your own cheese. I decided to "Google" info on that so maybe I could pursue the old world tradition and feel like I had a connection with my ancestors.

The first mistake I made was to use the word Google as a verb, an action, something that needed to be done!

So off I go and you know what happens next, pretty soon your investigating the origins of cheese making in the Khazak highlands with goat herders.

Every time this happens to me, I swear I won't be drawn into the Internet web of information overload. What an anemic attempt by me to resists the addictive nature of the Internet.

There is a reason they call it "THE WEB". You can't get out once you're in!

I've read recently they now have support groups started to "help" those of us thusly addicted.

So what's next? Library addiction support groups?

Isn't that what the Internet is? A wild and unfettered library of information with no end, but that of human kind's knowledge?

It's one addiction I can live with.....................Does anyone have some newly squeezed goat milk?

All the best!
Michael Stone
Radio personality
Singer-songwriter
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