Last weekend we arrived a half hour early for our daughters soccer match, as we do every weekend. However this time, as it grew closer to the actual game time, there wasn't an opposing team on the field and there wasn't a referee.

Having checked the Soccer Associations website earlier in the week, I knew that we had a Ref. assigned to the match, so it was a little worrisome to not see them at the field.

Normally, this would have ended as a story of miscommunication and a forfeited match. However, one of the parents pulled out their PDA and surfed over to the association website and found that they had changed the field for the match just the night before. We were supposed to be on another field 10 miles away, in 5 minutes, to play the match.

We all piled into our cars and raced on over to the field, while the same parent continued to surf the website and retrieved the other coaches cell phone number to let them know that we were on our way. We arrived on the field with one minute left before we would have had to forfeit the match.

I can't think of a better example of how the Internet has affected our daily lives. A cell phone alone wouldn't have been able to save us on this day.

Oh, and we did play the match. It ended in a 0-0 draw unfortunately.