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CNNIC recently updated its rules about who can register a .cn domain name. Basically only registered companies in China. OK. This was on 11 December 2009. GoDaddy wait until 5 February 2010 until they send an email to registrants with details of a list of paper work that must be submitted by 12 February 2010. That is, they give us one weeks notice. Here's the thing. They don't say in the email where the paperwork is to be submitted. Or if it has to be paper. Or if scans are OK. Only it is to be submitted. Duh! So I…

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Akamai's State of the Internet Report make an interesting read. I would never have guessed that China is number two in numbers of Internet connected devices (see above from the Q3 2009 report). The Q2 2009 report is also interesting for China Internet users because it brings news of a new regional undersea cable called the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) which should be on line in mid 2011. You can never have too much bandwidth.

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Well this is all over the blogs this morning. Google's reviewing its China ops and will stop censoring google.cn search results - announced on the official Google blog, which is on blogspot, which is blocked in China...

To summarise Google is threating to throw the toys out of the pram. And to take its ball and go home. And to tell teacher.

Here's what I've learned: the path to change lies in inclusion not exclusion.

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You need to be using an up to date versions of either Firefox, Safari or Chrome to view the above video.

Ah, those five minute tasks that end up taking the whole day... So, the kids got the above wind-up, light-up, musical toy for Christmas. Perfect for a little Christmas Day video I thought. And while I'm at it, lets make it with HTML5 video tags. That should be quick and easy... Here's what I discovered.

Dive Into HTML5 is a good resource

Firefox does not support MP4 files because of licensing issues. Safari/Chrome does not support OGG because…

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The Guardian have put together a decent Flash app illustrating the history of the internet as part of their internet is 40 series.

See also a post from a few days ago history of the internet.

In other news I'm still older than the Internet...

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Fascinating History of the Internet post over at Six Revisions. In which we discover I am older than the Internet. Groan...

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So, my Dad and Mum came over for a visit recently and we got talking about Wikipedia. They'd never looked at it before so I pulled it up at the page for Cleethorpes (where they live) and I was scrolling through it showing them the page when my Dad's name leapt out at me. Wow. Fame at last. He's web famous for helping Cleethorpes win a gold award in the RHS's Britain in Bloom competition. Proud son.

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Take a look at the source code the the Fujinon Binoculars site. Oh dear. At one point I count 250 lines that all say the same thing:

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One can only hope this was generated by a loser CMS. Still it make for pretty source pictures. The picture above was generated by saving the source, loading into BBEdit, saving as styled HTML (that is a new web page just showing the source - kind of a source in source loop), taking a screenshot of the resulting HTML with LittleSnapper and re-sizing the result. Click on the image to…

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The Leica a la carte configurator allows the customer to customise bits of a M7 or MP camera. It's a great example of a web app done right. Good design and simple navigation. Most importantly it's done sans-Flash. Phew!

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Yahoo Pipes is very cool. Proof at last that the Internet is a series of tubes.

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