Diving enthusiasts were awarded a much deserved award for compiling a list of Finns that have been found and missing during the recent tsunami, and also for picking up the slack of the Finnish government.

The Ministry of Education, that handed out the 10,000-euro award, said that the divers’ Internet pages showed how the World Wide Web can be used to provide data fast and under rapidly changing circumstances.

I too was a bit skeptical of the usefulness of the World Wide Web, but those divers made me a believer in the internet. I think the Finnish Parliament is still using dial-up modems.