my web 0.2 website

In between browsing Facebook and Youtube, the UK economy generates $1,930,000,000 of output a year. Thats $550,000 every two and a half hours. Well if today had been a work day, there’d have been one two and a half hour period where that was much higher. That’s because in a pique of […]

The death of email has already been predicted on approximately 1,258,926 blogs, so I barely need to recount the chant that IM is already replacing regular conversation, social networking manages infrequent messaging between your peers and introduces you to new business partners, and that web forums are how the population now find out information.  Email […]

Like most original internet standards, the DNS was designed to initially suit the needs of any section of the world that could communicate using 7-bit ASCII and Latin character sets. Then the internet became really popular. Everywhere. The DNS had to evolve to cope with naming schemes that came from alphabets all […]

There are not many silver linings on the cloud sitting over Information Security experts who work for the UK Government this Christmas.  Following the loss of personal information on welfare recipients by HMRC (twice), learner driver information by the DVLA, personal information on policemen binned in an unencrypted and intact form by Devon police, and […]

Ever since John Gage of Sun first offered the phrase “The Network Is The Computer” to the world, people have been using it as inspiration. Sun use it to explain that they mean Social Networking without actually using the phrase (they prefer the old fashioned “community”).
I think web 2.0 developers are offering a new […]

I’ve been allowing the webcast of RIPE55 to mutter away in my ears all week and have let myself get distracted from time to time when the topics turned relevant to networks I operate or the chatter got interesting.  A bit like the end of today’s ipv6-wg session.
Six months ago I was quite sure that […]

I have been fairly consistently telling people a lie for the last ten years - and that is that Round Robin DNS can not be used for high availability. Its a view I have held pretty strongly, but two people have shown me techniques in the last week that have made me change my […]

I cited a DoJ statement in a previous article that was destined to stagnate or kill all innovation on the web, by permitting ISPs to end the end-to-end nature of the internet.
I’ve been trying to draw the attention of some other technical people by talking about NN on mailing lists.  Sadly some people have got […]

For months, ISPs in Europe have been campaigning to preserve their ‘mere conduit’ status, or in English they have been fighting to prove that they should be able to treat all packets, between customers and the resources that they want to access equally.  This means, no content blocking, monitoring, and fundamentally no commercial favouritism - […]

I ranted on the Ecommerce Experts mailing list earlier in the week after canceling an order on a cabling website, after it prompted me to enroll in Mastercard Securecode, with no way out.
My gripes are that

The general public should NOT be encouraged to enter their secret personal data at a checkout, in random popups.  The […]