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Dot everything

I read with interest the news that ICANN has approved the ability for companies to register .anything domain names (so KFC could register .chicken and have h...

Conspiracy theory of the year

Over lunch with some colleagues last month, the subject of why Microsoft is paying $8.5bn for Skype came up. "Simple", I replied, "for years, governments hav...

IPv6 support in Android

I'm pleased to report that (having fixed the IPv6 on my home WiFi), my HTC Desire S running Android 2.3 picks up an auto-configured IPv6 address on its WiFi ...

A smartphone named Desire

After years of thinking about it, and even writing about it, I've finally bought myself a smartphone. As I write, I'm coming to the end of my third week with...

India diary, day 4

In June/July 2010 I spent ten days travelling in Rajasthan, India with friends; this is my diary of the trip (full list of entries here). Today we left Jaipu...

India diary, day 3

In June/July 2010 I spent ten days travelling in Rajasthan, India with friends; this is my diary of the trip (full list of entries here). Quite a day today!...

Bogroll 0.3

I've just minted the 0.3 release of my stateless RSS reader, Bogroll. This version features caching support which actually works, plus deep-linking to catego...

When Sixxs met BytemarkDNS

Edit: Those of you coming across this post by googling for 'Sixxs rDNS' should note that Bytemark's DNS service isn't free unless you already have a server w...

RIP Freda (my car), 1995-2011

A fond farewell today to my car, which has been in the family since 1999 and suffered both myself and my sister learning to drive in it. The mighty Fiat serv...