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I have recently been in Mexico visiting my old mate Jonny Hennessey-Brown who got married on 29 December to the lovely Suzanne Evans, both of whom are in the string quarter called Cuarteto Genesis to which this blog post is a blatant plug (the other two are Tim Myall, a Brit, and Gocha Shkirtladze, […]

I’m a bit late to this one, with Charles Arthur, Andrew Grant-Adamson, Martin Stabe; and Roy Greenslade all drawing collective gasps and stiffling laughter, but just in case there is anyone interested in the UK media that reads this blog but none of those above…
My god The Independent doesn’t get the Internet.
It has started […]

The new head of the ITU, Malian citizen Hamadoun Toure, gave his first press conference on Friday to the press corps in Geneva and it would appear he used the opportunity to try to settle matters with ICANN.
The quote doing the rounds of the press reports is: “It is not my intention to take […]

As you can see, I am exhausting myself in Mexico.

Actually this was ten minutes of blissful relaxation forced on me as I had to wait for my room in Cascadas de Merida to be cleaned. I wish I could have stayed in the hammock all day but my brain is buzzing with ideas for […]

I am sat in Merida, Mexico at the moment when perhaps I should be in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show, but even so I have been keeping an eye on matters each morning thanks to my Internet connection.
I watched the iPhone announcement online (encapsulated review: about time someone rethought how we interact […]

I am having a strange half-holiday, half-work time in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. I am relaxing away from the nonsense of my normal life but at the same time spending most of the day working on my Sex.com book.
Not that there isn’t time for some political intrigue. I went to a 60th birthday party out […]

Well, Stuart Lawley won’t take no for any answer and .xxx has popped up on the ICANN agenda again, this time with such extraordinary controls and safeguards that it makes you wonder whether the business case is still there.
Contrary to common belief, the .xxx domain was never ruled out. In fact, because it had […]

It’s 3.23pm in Merida - out in Mexico’s elbow province of Yucatan, and I’m back to sweating.

Mexico City, for all its madness, has at least a level of heat that I find bearable, pleasurable. Merida sits close to the Caribbean and you can feel every inch of it. Still, it’s a pleasant town. I […]

I took place in a discussion with various notables just before Xmas for an edition of the BBC’s Digital Planet radio programme and just remembered it has now come out and you can download and listen to it from its website (although I will also stick it below for ease).
The discussion was on two […]

I write this a few days ago but haven’t been able to get it up online until now
Acapulco, Hotel Avalon Excalibur, 2 January 2007, 5.21pm.
Well, it’s taken three days of constant irritation in the grand resort of Acalpulco but finally it seems as though I may have a moment of peaceful relaxation. I have […]