It seemed like a good test of the Internet - and my knowledge of the W
orld Wide Web. The task was to find out which films were showing in Ca
mbridge over the following days. I remembered seeing a reference to a
film guide somewhen on the Web - but the question was where? The World
Wide Web is like a room into which people are constantly piling books
in a haphazard and random manner. So many items had landed in the 'Wh
at's New' section since the film guide that I had completely lost trac
k of where I had seen it. After checking a couple of media lists and a
few local directories I resorted to posting a request for the informa
tion in a local news group. The post was answered straight away. Someo
ne had the information ipa database and cut and pasted it into a reply
- perhaps without even looking at the address itself. The address thr
ew up an error and the software was using to access the Web told me th
e file did not exist.