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I cooked myself such a terrific paella last night that I have been itching to eat the remainder for lunch today (and I may have the remainder for dinner). But before I scoffed it, I managed to hold off long enough to take some quick pictures.

Delicious. Recipe follows.

Having visited ICANN’s headquarters in Los Angeles a month ago, I have finally got around to visiting the organisation’s virtual HQ in Second Life.

The secretariat of the Internet Governance Forum, part of the United Nations, has updated its website to include all the session transcripts, plus Markus Kummer’s “informal summing-up” of them.
More interestingly though it has also stuck up an online form asking for feedback on the meeting, asking the broad questions: What worked well? and What worked [...]

I am a heartless cynic and, what’s more, I think that people who complain about others’ cynicism are either deluded fools or up to something. But there are occasions that make my heart and mind soar in unison.
I think the reason why I have ended up following the Internet so closely is because the Net [...]

I have just seen an article in the Oxford Mail entitled “Watchdog criticises PC World”.
Hy heart leapt as I started reading: “Staff at a computer store in Oxford have been accused of failing to diagnose basic computer problems and overcharging for repairs.”

I’ve a piece in The Guardian today which is a broad summary of the IGF last week. It basically says that what could have been a disaster ended up being a success and finishes with Nitin Desai’s arranged marriage analogy – which I think was brilliant.

You’ve seen the show, read the reviews, bought the T-shirt, but now it’s time to reveal the *real* Internet Governance Forum, the kind of IGF that only photographs with pleasingly childish captions can provide…

There are constant complaints, in all areas, that the media is “dumbing down”. But it hadn’t really occurred to me until reading Charles Arthur’s blog just now that the same is happening in the tech press.
It is true that software is now so widespread, particular media players and Web browsers, that it has to be [...]

Well, it’s been nearly two months since they were chosen but finally we are allowed to know who the secretive NomCom has chosen to become the three new members of the ICANN Board of Directors:
They are:

Roberto Gaetano
Steven Goldstein
Rajasekhar Ramaraj

I have closely followed the process this time around – nominating myself and then making a [...]

I’ve just made my first official complaint to the BBC over its coverage of Saddam Hussein’s trial verdict this morning.
I was watching News 24 and was appalled to hear the presenters relishing the prospect of Hussein being given the death sentence (he has been), discussing in some detail how he might be killed. They were [...]