TechnoLlama

Censorship UK

Today Britons have woken up to the fact that they are also browsing the Internet behind a firewall similar in some ways to the much maligned Great Firewall of China. Every news outlet is reporting that Wikipedia has been censored Read more

By Andres, ago

Pirates of the Amazon

Habitual and casual readers may have noticed my love of all things piratical. I’ve been a fan of pirates way before Johnny Depp donned the colourful bandanna and tricorn hat, mostly thanks to the great novel On Stranger Tides by Read more

By Andres, ago

Amazon.co.uk offers DRM-free MP3s

Finally! The DRM-free revolution has crossed the Atlantic, and Amazon’s UK site will now offer files without pesky technological protection measures in their brand new MP3 store. iTunes began the revolution with the inception of the iTunes Plus store, but Read more

By Andres, ago

To twit or not to twit

I’ve just read a shallow article in this month’s Wired that has me thinking about blogging. The article is entitled “Kill Your Blog” in the magazine version, a title that has been changed in the online version. The article declares Read more

By Andres, ago

The internet is for gay porn…

… or so it seems for British lawyer firm Davenport Lyons, which has been sending letters on behalf of German gay porn makers to obtain payment from people who download their films through P2P and Torrent sites. But not only Read more

By Andres, ago

Bio in 6 words

Mathias Klang at Wrote tagged me with the six word memoir meme, so I will try to rise to the challenge. I’ve always liked the line in Half a Person by The Smiths that says “16, clumsy and shy, I Read more

By Andres, ago

Jury decides on cyberbullying case

A Federal jury in Los Angeles has convicted Lori Drew of three misdemeanour counts of computer fraud, specifically accessing a computer without authorisation. This is not unusual in itself, but the novelty of the decision is that Ms Drew’s conduct Read more

By Andres, ago