Hi Logos,
Well it is in the EU anyway, so what does it matter?
With me they came no further as to pinpoint to Amsterdam, so I never got out of the ISP server location.
But let us stay on topic. The geo-location issue is more of a problem for mobile applications and as you could have read from the link I gave not so much for users on Static IP via cable/adsl etc. The whole discussion started when the Google van came to the streets, and earlier when GPS could trace mobile phone users with an accuracy of a couple of square inches of where you have the gadget. In densely populated areas with a lot of antennas (cover) and transmission transport the problems are felt more. I think people do not care mainly because they haven't tried to visualize it, when you do that you see the beams to trace you come from everywhere. You have a chip in your passport, they can trace it, you have a chip in the shirt you bought somewhere, you can trace that, you have a chip in a book you bought, they can trace it, you have a chip in your packet of cereals, they trace it etc. etc. and also the combination of all that tracking gives the herders of man an immense data load enough really to quite likely predict your habits to profit from that greatly, so the problem is geo-location combined with a lot of issues - the transparent citizen...1984BB revisited in 2010...
And for the second thing you two observed...
Well there are preferred router routes taken, so akamai servers may re-route you not directly as you would expect but route your packets via a preferred data transmission support route, and then you go via Amsterdam, or Frankfurt, London is also a possibility for you (thanks to the Akamai boys, there they have to rethink geo-location a bit), well anyway the logging will be rather profound. What is also interesting to couple is the last refresh date of the page of the blogger combined with other data, run from a script or bookmarklet (The server indicates that the page here was last modified: 08/13/2010 22:56:17 as of the moment that I write this posting for this forum.avast.com page)
polonus