Further ramblings of a self-made pauper

At the end of February, my ClustrMap was archived.

It had taken a year, but the UK had disappeared under a heap of red blobs, there was a smattering in Western Europe, an increasingly impressive swathe across the United States (with one clearly in Canada) and a smattering elsewhere, including a handful in the southern hemisphere. In fact, the only continent I hadn’t had a hit from was South America (admittedly there was only one in Africa, but hey).

Mt current ClustrMap is a sad reflection of the old one, though I have to admit that it is growing relatively quickly. The spots are reappearing in the US and already I have two big blobs on the UK. With the exception of a hit in what appears to be Burma (like the Foreign Office, I do not recognise Myanmar), all of the hits are in Europe and the US. When will I get my much cherished Australasian, South India and Sri Lankan hits back?

More annoyingly, once archived, the maps are only available in thumbnail!

There are about 5 days left on our troublesome internet contract - well, to be fair, in the fortnight or so since the engineer arrived and 'did nothing', it's worked a charm. Nonetheless, it took a long time to get someone out to look at it, and there has been no sign or sound of attempts at compensation from anybody.

Plus, whatever else can be said for or against Entanet, they are not cheap. I'm not sure that their pricing is even competitive now; it may have been twelve months ago, but their bulk standard 512k ADSL is only £1.50 cheaper a month than Wanadoo's 1mB connection. No contest there price-wise at any rate.

I think I need to mooch around the intarweb and look at a few other ISPs, but I have to say that despite its horrid name, Wanadoo (didn't it used to be Freeserve?) is looking choice. I don't see why we should pay £26.50 a month for 512k when £27.99 will buy us a full meg.