Alejandro@Oxford

On BA plane in Moscow's Domodevo AirportJust arrived to Russia yesterday evening. I came with British Airways from London Heathrow. The flight was pleasant (as it is nearly always with BA). We arrived right on time. But while we were waiting in the alley to get off the plane, they asked us to sit again, [...]

Since some time, there is one question that keeps nagging me. What is the Internet? You’d think the answer to this question is arguably an obvious one. But you’d be wrong. It is, I reckon, a difficult topic that touches upon many elements of contemporary society. I intend here to give a response to this [...]

On January 1, I wrote my Happy 2009 post. It ended with the following words:The path of human history is impossible to foresee, for even if we could see with clarity this path we could then change it, so it wouldn’t be true anymore. We must be prepared for the good and the bad in [...]

These are some interesting links I found for April 16th through May 15th:Unsung hero | Politics | The Guardian – Getting the Network the World Needs – Google News Timeline – Mark Blankenship: Two Reasons Susan Boyle Means So Much to Us – YouTube – Facebook Manners And You -

Heather Brooke, the journalist who painstakingly unearthed the MPs expenses from the dark side of oblivion and secrecy, authors a great article in The Guardian explaining her efforts to force the House of Commons to make public MPs expenses. In the first trial of this process, Andrew Walker, Head of the House of Commons Fees [...]

New developments on the York University case. This is the last email I got from the “York Faculty Concerned about the Future of York University” group.York University went to triage court in Ontario May 8 seeking an order to compel Google to disclose information related to the YFCFYUA@gmail account. York’s lawyer William McDowell told the judge [...]

One of the founders of The Pirate Bay, Gottfrid Svartholm (aka anakata), has devised a way of “paying” the 30 million SEK fine for infringement of copyright. They are asking Internet users to pay 1 SEK to the account where the fine has to be payed, which is managed by the law firm that represented [...]

I’ve received a reply from the yfcfyu group, and it seems that the disclosure requirement to Google is going to court (see second email below). It looks that I was wrong after all and it is a real Google email. It looks quite serious, I wonder in which grounds they are requesting this personal [...]

‘Redefine the possible,’ this is York University ’s (in Toronto) motto. You would think this is just a strange, marketing sentence, but you would be wrong. For this what the administration of this university is apparently trying to do with the privacy of its faculty: redefining the real possibilities of Internet invasive potential.
I’ve just received [...]