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There’s been a renewed interested in statistics recently. First we hadreinvigorate, which has since then shut down and gone into closed beta testing, then came shortstat which mutated intomintand hit the internet by storm (hey, it’s running here so it must be good *cough*). Just recently, adaptive path announced the good-lookingmeasure mapand, last but not least, Google just hit us withGoogle Analytics, based on their recent purchase of Urchin.

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I thought we’d witnessed the death of the whole custom start page thing after the first bubble burst (am I subconsciously expecting another? Yessssss..., but I digress...), however they’ve been resurrected with a vengeance. They aggregate external content now instead of following the old walled garden model of their predecessors and they’ve been spiced up with flash or all kinds of ajaxy eye-candy goodness, but the principle remains the same: a single start page condensing everything you read or need into a bite-sized chunk of html.

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Nationmasteris a treasure trove of both interesting and useless statistics. You can spend ages exploring it, which is what I just did.

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There’s a detail I’ve been noticing on several weblogs recently that has got me slightly puzzled. It’s the position of the links for adding or reading comments.

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This morning, after paying7 Euroseach for a return ticket, we installed ourselves comfortably in a first class carriage away from all the screaming kids, scouts and other noisy groups; and less than 2 hours later we were ambling along the Belgian seafront enjoying the fresh breeze, the sand and the sun for a day.

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In a case brought by consumer defense organisation test-achats/test-aankoop againstthe music mafiathe record companies and IFPI, the Brussels court of appealsruled yesterdaythat making a private copy of a CD that you legally own is not a right, it’s a favour granted by the copyright owner (aka the record label).

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