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Okay, I have completed the first, biggest stage of the Sexdotcom website.
I have grown sick of trying to get a blog fitting within the Latest news section so I have just stuck in some basic HTML covering where the book is up to, and what is going on with the Sex.com case in the real [...]

If you live in the UK, you won't have failed to notice that Tony Blair's premiership may finally have been brought to a close thanks to the revelation that several businessmen had secretly donated £14 million to the Labour Party, and then popped up on the list to be given peerages.
This in itself was a [...]

I got a call from my mate Iain last night asking if I wanted to go to the pub to watch Liverpool play Birmingham in the FA Cup quarter-finals.
Seeing as I'm a Liverpool supporter, and I love pubs, beer, football and the FA Cup, in that order, I said I'd love to. And what a [...]

There's a lot of fuss around podcasts, but with each iteration of technology that hands production control to the individual, we are finding that it takes less time for high-quality content to appear.
I remember when the Internet was slagged off because it was just full of dorky Americans with pictures of their cars, and [...]

Bill Gates announced the release of the second beta of Microsoft’s new browser – the first in, what, five years? – Internet Explorer 7.
Gates dedicated a fairly big chunk of his keynote address (watch it here) at the Mix06 conference in Las Vegas to the new browser, so I thought I might as well download [...]

The fight over the dotcom contract is escalating.
I've just received a copy of a letter sent to Internet overseeing organisation ICANN from the company that runs Canada's .ca registry, CIRA. They've effectively cut all links with the organisation.
CIRA has “grown increasingly concerned with ICANN's departure from a number of its core values”, the letter states. [...]

I had a moan yesterday about Steve Bell's “If…” cartoons in The Guardian. I couldn't find any to grab off The Guardian's website – in fact they do have that week's cartoons up and then presumably archive them somewhere I can't locate.
So I have scanned some in to explain what I mean. I feel a [...]

I've had one of those weeks where you rush around non-stop every day and yet don't seem to get anything done. Anyway, every day I've had something I've been itching to stick up on my blog but have resisted the urge so I actually get on with something more constructive.
I thought I'd get em all [...]

That’s the question everyone is asking.
Pipex is the biggest beast in the .uk domain market, and as a result it has the most votes in UK registry owner Nominet. In fact, it has 1,041, which gives it more than 10 percent of all available votes and provides it with a veto over Nominet because for [...]