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There’s no point as such to this blog post just that I am sat in Charlotte International Airport, it is 4.32am, and I have just under two hours until my flight. Only the front part of the airport is open at the moment so I am sitting on one of the very few […]

I have lost most of the day in a hungover haze, sat in a motel room watching dreadful American TV and pondering about this extraordinary nation.
Coming as it does with the news of Saddam Hussein’s hanging, courtesy of the United States’ president, and the state funeral of Gerald Ford, it strikes me that the […]

I’m in North Carolina for my old friend Jonny Hennessey-Brown’s wedding. I arrived last night, the wedding is tomorrow and I’m best man.
Aside from the usual fear that American TV always gives me (CNN is on as I write this - it’s the least despairing option), I feel oddly relaxed. Must be the fact […]

Stephen Michael Cohen, the man who stole the Sex.com domain and is currently out of jail, has embarked on a touch of history rewriting, starting with the various entries of Wikipedia that deal with the case.
The Stephen M Cohen entry has been redirected to “Stephen Cohen sex.com” by Cohen himself, and all the information […]

In a redesign last month, the site I news edit for Techworld.com started including a nice big pic on its front page for the lead news story.
I change the lead on average once or twice a day just so it doesn’t get stale and so visitors that may look at it in the morning […]

Following some very irritating problems with 123-Reg and its parent company Pipex, which, it turns out stem from the company trying to consolidate and cut costs - I have started shifting my domains to another company.
Who’s the other company? Well, thanks to reader Andrew, it is Heart Internet. Heart Internet is set up by […]

It looks as though the Sex.com case is going to run and run. In fact, I was asked last week when it would finally end and my answer was “I’m beginning to think only when Stephen Cohen is resting peacefully in his grave”.
Anyway, I finally got around to updating the Sexdotcom.info website that covers […]

I was surprised to find this morning when reviewing stats for my Sexdotcom.info site that a site called Skweezer.net has appeared.
I was even more surprised when I followed links through and found that this website has grabbed a large chunk of the content on my site and stored it on its own servers. […]

I have stuck up a new poll today, pondering what will be the biggest Internet issue of 2007, and archiving the previous poll about ICANN’s planned report into domain names.
I asked ICANN’s chairman and CEO about where this report was up to at the end of the Sao Paulo meeting last week. They are […]

Some greater force has prevented me from doing any work today. And so this blog post is an attempt to at least do *something* constructive today. I am half expecting my laptop to blow up just before I hit “Publish”. One of those days.
Talking of blogs, I had a tour round the blogs I […]