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I have finally run out of space on my 60GB. I mention this fact because Apple launched a new 80GB iPod yesterday. But I’m holding off buying one for three reasons:
1. 80GB isn’t enough. If you start downloading videos and even films, as Apple is now encouraging you to do, that 20GB will be eaten […]

I’ve been meaning to point out that, as expected, getting the UK and Germany to agree to at least some form of agreement with Net overseeing organisation ICANN has seen a flood of other countries do so.

On Thursday, it was Guatemala. The week before that Peru and Hungary. A couple of weeks before that Honduras […]

I’ve just spoken to Markus [tag]Kummer[/tag], the man in day-to-day charge of the upcoming [tag]Internet[/tag] Governance [tag]Forum[/tag] in Athens in October, and have got an understanding of how the international meeting of governments, business and civil and private society is going to work.
I’ll do a piece for The Register on it (now up here), hopefully […]

Last night, as I was scrabbling around by the front door in the dark with a torch and a piece of fuse wire, my letterbox started juttering away behind me. Even the postmen manage to deliver before 9pm, so I was intrigued. And sure enough it was the latest newsletter (number 6 this year) from […]

The animal rights protest group [tag]Speak[/tag] is still protesting although it is becoming increasingly obvious that the organisation is not much beyond one man’s bitter fury.
Speak leader Mel [tag]Broughton[/tag], who writes emotive and heavily biased accounts of the organisation’s various actions for its website, has been banned from entering Oxford after he was arrested in […]

Having been nagged, on my own blog an’ all, about not having posted any pics from my trip to Islay yet, I have spent a hungover Sunday afternoon perusing them, saving them and now sticking em up on this site.

A big chunk of the pics were actually of places other than Islay - we also […]

It’s very rare that you get a photo that sums up a present situation and foretells the future ahead of it. But on Wednesday there was one, a historic snap, and it points to at least 12 months of political chaos in the UK. It is this:

The credit goes to Bruno Vincent, possibly the best […]

It was nearly two months ago now that reporter Kevin Murphy decided enough was enough and outed “Steve [tag]Forrest[/tag]”, the author of biased blog [tag]Free2Innovate[/tag], as Bill [tag]Hobbs[/tag], a right-wing PR man who gets paid to anonymously push companies’ agendas.

Kev’s piece - in which he suggested that [tag]VeriSign[/tag] might be the company picking up the […]

If you are not yet aware, there is to be a new [tag]Internet[/tag] Governance Forum meeting for the first time in Athens at the end of October where the world will gather to discuss what the problems are with this Internet thingy and what can be done to eleviate them.
The [tag]IGF[/tag] has been a while […]