I´m supposed to be on my hols, but...

Here in Spain, Que Web! ('What a website!') is a blog bringing together some of less fine features of the Spanish-speaking Web. Air Europa's website is the letest to get it in the neck.

And on to the sale of Lycos by Terra (owned by Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica). I could never figure out why they bought Lycos in the first place: it was always an inferior search engine, and Telefonica/Terra didn´t do anything with it - but now it's being sold to a South Korean ISP for around 1% of the original purchase price. Not sure what will be happening to Wired. But I loved the statement in El Pais that Terra had at one time planned to convert it into a "rival of Microsoft". A plan it recently abandoned. Building castles in Spain anyone?

Finally, the eternal Spanish gnashing of teeth over why Spanish TV is so bad. There's currently a 'committee of wisemen' looking into the matter, led by a philosopher without a television. Their verdict: British TV is better, the British public pay a licence fee...Perhaps not quite as simple as that, methinks.