I think I'm very happy with Blog Patrol. I've moved off Radio's web bug because it was slowing down page loads. Blog Patrol's got a lot more stats too. As well as top 20 referers, last 10 referers (prefer last 24 hours), top search words, last 10 searches; OS, screens... Not bad.

Time to roll it out across all my pages. A whole site render, well there's a few new things in the templates, like a Feedster search, which is very useful for me to find past posts. All due to my new tool, Back Log RSS.

And, I've finally moved all my blog reads from the tabs of NN7 into Radio's aggregator. Lets see how good it is.

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Other title(s) for this story: Radio's web bug V Blog Patrol

"The investigation has resulted in the most comprehensive study of the distribution of dark matter in a galaxy cluster so far." "The map reveals that the dark matter drops sharply with distance from the cluster centre, which is what astronomers expected." And those stars are galaxies! All a matter of scale. Makes you feel quite insignificant, eh?

"The nightmare is not that New Labour's targets for putting government online will not be achieved, but that hitting the targets might make very little difference on the 'modernisation' front. Already, for example, over 50 per cent of services are online, but only ten per cent of the population have ever used them. The Inland Revenue has built a magnificent system for online filing of tax returns, but only 70,000 people (out of a possible 8 million) use it.

The problem is exacerbated by the fact that those people who have most need to interact with the state (because of being poor, elderly or ill) are precisely the groups who feel most uneasy about using unfamiliar, online, channels. The battle to put government online has been won. But the battle to put citizens online has only just begun."

The digital divide, as it's called. This is the biggest obstacle, and to my mind, blogs are the answer. They're addictive for those who fall for them, involve life long learning, are a great communication platform for those who are ill, the elderly could blog to the past, building up a life of memories...

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"There's a real surge of women entering the sex industry and of sisters doing it for themselves."

"Everybody uses sex to sell their product, yet for style- and fashion-conscious women, there was no sex brand. We had this idea that there was a gap in the market."

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Other title(s) for this story: A woman's touch

"We're going to get a new TV, with wide screen and surround sound and castors so we can wheel it into the dining room on holidays."

"It was still not clear when and how much crude could be exported to market because of political sabotage in the north and economic sabotage of oil facilities in the south."

To the victors, the spoils of war. Maybe if there had been clarity in the reasons our attack on Iraq, the world may have helped more, as I suspect in what I'm reading that the rest of the world looks on at Iraq, not so much with a "I told you so" tone, but more resignation to the very long fuck up that Iraq is going to be.

And maybe that was one of the reasons for attacking Iraq, the distraction of the Muslim fundamentalists, moving their focus to Iraq.

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"in 2008: Scandinavia and the Netherlands will dominate the ratings (40%+); German-speaking Europe, Belgium, Finland, and the UK will form a second tier (30-25%); and Southern Europe and Ireland will continue to lag. "

South Korea: " The Korean government plans to spend over US$10bn to deliver VDSL or fibre to over 80% of the Korean population by the end of 2005"

VDSL goes up to 54Mbps. Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

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Other title(s) for this story: Forrester names Europe's lower tier broadband nations