can we have a throbbing map on the homepage showing where all the people on line are at any given moment

[zippitippitoes]

..like that thunder clap website

colour coded preferably so that if you're apoplepltic it's a vilent red and if you are totally chilled a cool blue

What I want to know is this...

How can a village with a population of 5,500 that no-one has heard of have the highest MN usage in the world?!?!?

I'd assume it's proportionate to population? Also, that's just about who searches google for "mumsnet".

But yeah, very weird.

DH thinks it's because there are huge servers or something in Thames Ditton, possibly Claranet or someone equally huge, so lots of net traffic is routed through there.

ahhhhhhh the mist is clearing

Perhaps there is just one person there who hasn't figured out how to put mumsnet in her favourites and has to google everytime she wants to log on .

hahahahaha Skribble

I was brought up in Thames Ditton, though live nowhere near there now. It must be my fault

Sorry for suggesting no-one had heard of the place Lilymaid!