The Internet is getting smaller and smaller

[almostwitty]

Evidenced by two recent random happenings where two very distinct areas of my personal Internet merge in bizarre ways:

• When news of the new Pet Shop Boys single came out, I naturally emailed it to all my Pet Shop Boys-loving friends (all seven of us. We could have a convention in a very large telephone kiosk). One of them excitedly emailed me to ask how on earth I knew someone else on that list - I replied that I used to live with him back in the halcyon summer days of 1998. It then turns out that Geoff and Iain also lived together in the early 1990s, before I met him.
• Through mutual friends, I ended up following Star’s blog, which was full of random pop culture links and funny words. She was a good blogger, but alas her life was very suddenly and rudely cut short. Today, I found that a professional blog colleague of mine used one of her pics in his latest blog post - something which may well have gladdened her. Or maybe not.

Maybe it’s time to find a new Internet or something.

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