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I’ve been looking at the webstats for my three primary websites - Dream17, Jump Leads (currently my priority project), and this blog - and there are some interesting network locations popping up in my stats.

For example, did you know that Jump Leads has been accessed by no less than seven computers at Marvel, and a further 20 at Midway Games? It’s also very popular with Disney Worldside Services, but when you consider that my Dad works there it doesn’t count. The comic has also been accessed by people at Dell, Hudson Soft, Ask.com (which is more likely than not a web crawling spider), Hewlett Packard, the Ford Motor Company, Microsoft, Team17 (woo!), United Airlines, Tesco, Universal Studios, Vivendi Universal, California State Government (has the Governator been reading our comic?), the BBC, Sky Television, an Air Force testing facility (perhaps they’re looking into developing JumpShips), MTV Europe, Nvidia, Sony North America, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and any number of American Universities.

My blog has largely seen visitors from ISP networks, which generally means that people are reading it from home. There are a lot of people reading Jump Leads from home too, natch, but my blog doesn’t appear to be “read it at work” material. There have been a handeful of people from the Ford Motor Company and, bizarrely, a higher number of Tesco visits here than to JL which leads me to ask: when the Hell are you guys going to open a Krispy Kreme counter in the Dunstable branch? I may not live in the UK anymore but my family is still local and if they want to yield to their Krispy Kreme desires they have to make a 45-minute journey into Milton Keynes. You have the power to remedy this grievious injustice!

Dream17, meanwhile, gets a lot of hits from German web users and a variety of German-based companies. A lot. Still, it’s nice to see regular visits from Codemasters, THQ and Team17 employees.