I can imagine when people first used the telephones. It must have been great not to have to send someone down the street or across town to relay a message to someone. And I wonder what those people would think that to get a pizza all you have to do is call the local pizza place and they drive one over to your house in less than 30 minutes or it is free. Of course, we are now so much more advanced that you can order by computer, but forget the 30 minute delivery.

The reason I’m all about technology is how it has helped recently in getting some work done on my house in the Philippines while I am in the states. You see, we’ve decided to have wood laminate flooring put in the upstairs of our house. Of course in the old days we would have to go to the hardware store while we were there and pick out the type before they could do the work. Since I just can’t go there tomorrow it would have to wait a few months until we arrive in the Philippines and then we could choose the color and all .

But now that there are computers, we have been able to go to the website of the manufacturer and choose what type we want. In turn, my niece goes to the hardware store, gets a sample, and  through the magic of Yahoo Messenger we can compare what the website shows to the actual color. In fact to keep from confusing names and such we get the manufacturers part number also from the website and we compare those. All in the space of a couple of days we have our floors down upstairs and a few pictures from a digital camera shows us how great it looks. By the way if you are interested in such types of flooring a good website to check what’s available in the Philippines is Pergo Flooring.

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