Urgent 5:00 a.m. Post!

A lot of things on this crazy internet thing can cause disgust and fear to rise within. I've seen sites that display suicide notes, animal sacrifices, and scenes of death. Not to mention all the sick types of porn you can easily come across.

Well, tonight as I browsed Blogs and worked my way around the globe, I came across these chaps who have a simple little script that randomly creates a URL and sends you screaming through cyberspace and dumping you on some unsuspecting web administrator's doorstep. They call it "random URL."

"random URL"

This sounds like fun.

My first click on "Go" and seconds later I'm staring at...nothing. O.K. That's to be expected. I mean, generating a random link has to come up with non-existent servers all the time.

Close that window. Click on "Go" a second time.

I swear I could see the beam of infared light shooting out of my monitor as this uk web server scanned my brain. My eyes slowed the refresh rate of my screen such that I could watch my computer communicate with the world weird web as billions of 0s and 1s crunched and I was able to forsee the server I would soon be "randomly" conversing with.

w w w . a m p l i f y . c o m

Wait a second...

...that's my server! At first the recognition meant nothing. I know what our splash page looks like. It's just a place holder. I've been here before. But I was just sent here by some random script generating URLs from a heap of online data containing dictionary words that it tags with a .com.

OK, look. "Amplify" is not that uncommon of a word. Sure. But this was the second shot I gave at this little game. I'm not a gamblin' man by nature, but if I could obtain those odds on a ten-spot bet and get the same result, I'm sure I wouldn't be worrying about my next check from Uncle Perry.

Please, somebody explain this away as advanced technology scanning my hard drive and trying to freak me out.


Or maybe it was that fifth cup of coffee.