Archive for October 18th, 2009

Can you remember life before the Internet?  (BI)  What an extraordinary change to our lives the Internet has become!  I can remember that far back (yeah, I’m showing my age!) and I can remember that our family depended heavily on the local yellowpages to find all of the businesses that we needed; from local plumbers and banks to local restaurants and barber shops! 

With the advent of the Internet, and the rapid acceptance and dependence of the Internet, I find it so much easier to use the Internet to do a local search for any business than going back to the old paper version!  And yes, we DO have the old paper version in the cupboard by the telephone, but I gravitate towards using the Internet first.  I really like how once I find the listing that i need I can often get directions to the place if I need them!  The paper version doesn’t do that at all!

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So last night I got another telemarketing phone call, which reminded me that I needed to check and see if the “do not call” registration of my phone had expired.  So I went to the national registry of do not call (yeah, I googled it) and saw that if the consumer registered their phone number after a certain date, that the registration never expires.  Well, I’m sure that I had registered before that date, so I went ahead and registered my phone number again.  I’m not sure how long it will take before the calls stop coming, but I sure will be glad when they stop!

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