My view of the world

In the stats for this site, I noticed quite a few hits from Canada, the UK and Australia, but suprisingly the fifth country down on the list is Israel, followed closely by Germany and the Netherlands.
The reason I find Israel to be surprising is that, given the total population, a very large percentage of households that must have computers in order to generate traffic for a site like mine.
I would also assume that the reason for the larger number of visitors from Europe and Israel is the language, since a large number of people speak at least some English and an even larger number recognise the letters of this alphabet.
As an example, if I read something in German, Dutch, French or Spanish, I can figure most of it out and run for a dictonary for the words I don’t know, but if the message is in Hebrew or Arabic my current setup won’t even display the language properly.
The world is getting smaller because of the current state of communications, the internet is the ultimate instant messenger, where else can you piss off an entire continent with the singe push of a button.
Even the language differences are slowly disappearing because of the net, with English becoming the most common form of communication.

Mean while back at the ranch, one of the people I’ve actually had some face time with, wrote asking a question I couldn’t answer, because he wrote it in the Cyrillic alphabet, and while my machine will display this alphabet properly, I had to look closely at the headers to just to figure out which language it was and then who might have sent it… Putz

As a side note, I want to thank the people who’ve sent comments, then translated them into English and resent them.
The comments and the extra effort are appreciated.