Woke up, got on Facebook, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head ...

According to a news brief in Thursday's Prague Post, a study released by Prague Radio has revealed that roughly 70 percent of Czech Republic residents go online before they finish eating breakfast. This figure includes nearly one out of three people who go online before they get out of bed. This may surprise some of you, this may not surprise others of you, and some people might even dismiss it as wacky propaganda by The Liberal Media, not that I would ever mention Sean Hannity by name. I'm in the former group (but would not be surprised by the latter). Regardless, one can imagine how different the bridge to this song would be had it been written after the survey ...





This finding comes on the heels of another survey that shows the Czech Republic as one of the more technology-reliant countries in the European Union.

The E-Communications Household Survey released this month by Eurobarometer shows that ...

• 81 percent of Czech households have a mobile phone but no landline, the highest such figure in the EU and well above the EU average of 27 percent. (The most recent figure I could find from the U.S. is 26.6 percent in June 2010.)
• Only 17 percent of Czech households have a landline at all, lowest in the EU.
• 96 percent of Czechs have access to a mobile phone, tied for the highest percentage with four other countries.
• And, for whatever this is worth, Czechs are the most satisfied with their Internet's upload/download speed and capacity at 83 percent. Compare this to South Korea, which has the fastest Internet speed in the world, and where the latest satisfaction survey showed that 40 percent were happy with the speed and 60 percent wanted the latest version of Starcraft downloaded before the game was made.