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3 December 2002

True Spies was a recent BBC documentary about how our internal security (MI5) keeps an eye on “subversives” – mostly covering previous decades but with some more up to date information. While it was interesting to hear about some of what happened, it would have been good to hear more about why some of it occurred, and it doesn’t appear to go on to talk about some of the more recent proposed and actual surveillance plans.

Filed under:Personal,Weblogs at1:27 am

It has come to my attention thanks to the hit tracking software I use that for some reason the third most likely physical location (as far as it can be determined) of those most likely to visit my pages appears, oddly, to be Poland. Unsurprisingly this comes after “Major Domains (.com, .net, .gov, .mil, .edu)” and UK but significantly ahead of Canada which has more Internet users and (I had thought) has more people likely to be interested in my writing.

If you are Polish, how did you hear about blog.org? According to this, blog doesn’t mean anything in Polish – that was my first thought… Perhaps the dictionary is incomplete? Any other ideas? Looking back I seem to have had substantial numbers of Polish readers for months.

Of course, I am delighted to be read by anyone who finds this interesting…