Net Neutrality

I'm sure I'm late to the party with this one but I haven't noticed it blogged anywhere until spotting it at craigblog. Ted Stevens, Senior Senator for the state of Alaska (he's 83) and President Pro Tempore of the United...

Google Network Speculation

Robert X. Cringely's column is always interesting, the most recent particularly so to network geeks. In Google-Mart he speculates that Google aims to get closer to their users by locating mini data-centers at peering points and connecting to each other...

Google Talk: IM Service launched

So, after years of speculation Google have finally brought out Google Talk in beta. It is, as rumoured, based on the Jabber/XMPP spec so any adhering clients can make use of the service. The client software (a slim 900K) which...

Like a phoenix

And so it came to be that sixteen full days after 'the move' the omnipotent British Telecommunications plc. have activated ADSL on my line. Most people wait only ten days to be activated but living, as it transpires I do,...

New TLD's

Via Andy Oram a link to a diagram explaining the process of securing a new generic top level domain. It explains why in the last tranch .aero, .museum and .coop somehow managed to be approved while others, equally abstract, failed....