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I’m a bit hungover today - and this is why.
It wasn’t a promising performance though. The two goals came in the last 10 minutes and up to that point we looked sloppy and played sloppy. If it hadn’t been for an extraordinary goaline kick from Terry, we could well have lost.Anyway, it means England […]

My mum told me this evening that she watched a really interesting program on TV yesterday about the world football body FIFA and how it was full of corruption. Timely of course because of the World Cup.
But, my mum explained, even though she was interested in the Panorama programme, after a while, despite herself, […]

Just a quick follow-up on what happened at the US Congress meeting yesterday over the dotcom contract signed between ICANN and VeriSign.
I haven’t found a transcript, or a webcast, or much coverage as yet. Declan McCullagh has done a good piece for ZDNet. I have also found a CFIT summary which is strikes me […]

The US Congress’ Committee on Small Business has a 2pm meeting today over the controversial dotcom contract that will see VeriSign handed the famous registry forever. The contract was approved by ICANN at the end of February, but the US Department of Commerce has the right to turn over any ICANN Board decision.
The DoC […]

It’s an extraordinary thing, this Pro-Test movement that started only a few months and yet has had an enormous nationwide impact on a very difficult subject - the use of animal testing.
On Saturday, the group - fronted as usual by 16-year-old Laurie Pycroft - had their second march through Oxford and even though there were […]

Oxford Castle opened its doors for the first time in 1,000 years today, so I thought I’d go along and check it out.
The castle doesn’t have the same kind of historical importance as other castles, but it is intriguing for several reasons. One, it is smack-bang in the middle of town. Two, until 1996, […]

I’ve written a piece for The Register which went up this morning about Nominet having to deal with a US company surreptiously data-mining the Whois details for .uk domains to use in their products.
It’s an interesting story in that it highlights something that most people are really very unaware of, plus helps outline the […]