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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 […]

I presented a talk on recent European Internet exchange news [download] with Mike Hughes from the LINX last week at UKNOF. Many of the attendees run networks that do not peer publicly, so it was a pleasure to explain the impact that European IXPs have on member traffic. We also then gave a […]

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 […]

“Ma Bell is a system I want to explore. It’s a beautiful system, you know, but Ma Bell screwed up. It’s terrible because Ma Bell is such a beautiful system, but she screwed up. I learned how she screwed up from a couple of blind kids who wanted me to build a device. A certain […]

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 […]

Here’s an interesting statistic for all you web2.0 syndication fans. I opened my RSS reader this morning, and found what I am going to lay claim to as the ‘most wrong article ever syndicated in the history of RSS’.
It’s one line long - eleven words to be precise. Its wrong in every […]

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 […]