Credit where credit is due...

ma vaaaaaa... even the guardian is copying me now!
as evidenced by this email i recently received;

Dear Generalissimo LB,
After the vast majority of our staff began utilising the genial Portfolio Eye View of the World from your baffling fantastic blog we have decided to create a world guide of sorts of our own, so we can avoid the moral obligation of sending you huge loads of wonga every month. As a non-profit organisation we hope this is acceptable to Your Gnarliness. Please rest assured that our feeble effort will forever be indebted to your clearly superior guide in every way, and additionally all staff of the guardian for all eternity will worship You and probably think of you when they are making love to their husbands/wives/pints of ale. Our guide will be in effect a tribute to your blogging majesty.
We love You
bowingly, scrapingly humbly
The Guardian

this inferior version of this site's dazzlingly brilliant world guide can be found and scoffed at here;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/interactive/2009/apr/18/country-profiles-world-map

My infinitely better world guide can be found HERE by typing the word 'portfolio' into the search function on the top left of the toolbar. You lucky, lucky bastards.
Ha!