1.   Bob Dudley, right, surfed the web avidly last summer.

2.   But now there are off-line services, most notably freeloader.com, that enable computer users to do other work as they surf the web.

3.   What could be better than spending an afternoon surfing the web?

4.   But it can also become a very expensive hobby if one starts surfing the web or makes it a habit to download software programs.

5.   While surfing the web for hotels in Thailand the other day a friend called to ask me what I thought of the rates now in Thailand.