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I'm glad I didn't know it was David Cronenberg who'd directed this film before I went to see it.
It was a spur of the moment decision. It suddenly struck me that I didn't fancy sitting in a pub that evening, so I suggested going to the cinema.
My girlfriend told me she'd […]

So, despite Jobs' denials and Apple's usual insane secrecy in order to build crazed hype, it was the long-awaited (and delayed) video iPod that was launched yesterday.
Aside from worrying that this latest iPod will suffer the same screen weakness of the recently released Nanos, this is a perfectly logical and lovely extension to […]

Another “Techno-bile” column from me this week in The Guardian. This week I'll be mostly ranting about computer security.
Here is:
Technobile
Instead of terrifying us with tales of doom, software companies should write programs without holes
Kieren McCarthyThursday October 13, 2005The Guardian […]

I have stumbled across a great example of the value of the professional journalist. And, ironically, it is through a failure in reporting that the reporter's value is revealed.
There has been alot of pretty low-grade discussion of late over the value of the traditional journalist, especially because “citizen journalism” - i.e. blogs and […]

The Guardian, unusually, has a leader article on the whole topic of Internet governance today.
I am also rather pleased to see that my story for The Guardian last Thursday in its technology section was the second biggest story on its website on Thursday, and the biggest on Friday. It was also linked […]

I absolutely love the Internet. Given a focus, you can discover the most extraordinary stuff.
I often check out Steve Bell’s cartoons in The Guardian. He is a gentle giant of a man but his political cartoons are, to my mind, probably the best in this country at the moment. He has great, dark visions […]

I have finally found time to produce a podcast covering the controversial topic of Internet governance, piecing together some of the most important remarks made tome during the PrepCom3 conference in Geneva.
Included is the EU radical announcement of a new co-operation model to run the Internet, the response of the US government and short […]

I have a fan. Mr Scaife of York appears in The Guardian's tech letters page today.
It begins with the delightful words “Kieren McCarthy is right”. LOL. I may have to photocopy it and send copies to all my exes and my family.
The insightful, intelligent and, I have no doubt, extremely well […]

There's a piece of mine, a broad summary of the situation wrt Internet governance, in The Guardian today. Quotes from the UK representative, US ambassador, Nitin Desai, Milton Mueller. Not a bad piece on reflection.
I am still working on two more podcasts covering my interviews in Geneva. The weekend was lost thanks to […]

I've finally had enough of Opera, even with the no-ads latest version that I have. I am sick of things just not working in my browser. And so I'm moving to Firefox - with all the hassle of finding out what the hell all my passwords are and reinputting them.
I moved to Opera […]