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I’ve just been pointed to a cracking little story on ZDNet. It was the anniversary of 50 years of the hard disk yesterday. So someone at ZD decided to do a rewrite of a famous Monty Python sketch in honour.
Unless you know the sketch and unless you are a bit of a geek, you […]

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) […]

The webcast for the NTIA meeting in Washington has just started and it is playing, rather pleasantly, Stevie Wonder with a background noise of people in the meeting.
I love the idea of the room being filled with the funky vibes of Mr Wonder, as US government officials groove with the assorted Net experts, but […]

Last night, for reasons I’m still unsure of, I attended the New Statesman’s New Media awards at the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park.
I am now trying to remember the last awards ceremony I went to, because at it I decided I would never go to one again. Ah yes, it was the PPA Awards […]

Steven Forrest - the hopelessly biased blogger of Free2Innovate (aka Free2Fabricate) - has been outed as Bill Hobbs, a right-wing political blogger who receives payment for anonymously pushing corporate lines.
It’s long been known that Steven Forrest is a pseudonym and it has been widely assumed he was in the pay of VeriSign for the […]

The strangest thing. There is an enormous thunder and rain storm going on - as it has been all night - following a week of unusually hot weather in the UK. So far so normal for a British summer.
What is less usual is that half an hour ago - at 5am to be exact […]

ICANN Marrakech is over, save the Board meeting. And this fact was - as it always is - sufficient reason for everyone to head to the bar and mull things over while consuming (un)healthy quantities of booze.
What was the upshot of this week-long meeting in Morocco? Well, the general bottom-up consensus was that not […]

Brazil and football. If my calculations are correct, England will win its World Cup game against Portugal on Saturday and then lose on the Wednesday to Brazil. In many ways this would be better than beating Brazil and losing to either Germany or Argentina in the final. That would be too unbearable. And losing […]

It’s difficult to know if there is anything more frustrating that being unable to get on the Internet at an ICANN meeting, but then I’m certain that the greengrocers of Georgia or undertakers of Uxbridge have an anecdote or two to put that in shadow.

While it’s nice having a much bigger conference venue than […]

“Cause baby, I feel wonderful tonight…” The man singing this is lying. He doesn’t feel wonderful at all. He feels like a musician who has been reduced to playing old-favourites to a small bunch of indifferent tourists, sat tapping away behind two sythesisers, only one of which he ever plays, but both of which […]