Delighted to learn from Terry Eagleton’s Memoir, The Gatekeeper (Allen Lane, 2002), that the Irish village Ballyjamesduff was the birthplace of Henry James’s grandfather.

This is a test posting made from an iPAQ running on my wireless network.

Well, well. How times change. Sun Microsystems is rolling out a new range of low-end servers running, er, Linux.

Elegant piece of ego-puncturing reportage by Michael Kinsley on the ‘Davos’ summit which, for some mysterious reason, this year took place in New York. This is what journalists are for — to point out the nakedness of wannabe emperors.

BT claims to have invented (and patented) the hyperlink long before the Web existed. Now the debt-laden behemoth is going to law in the US to test its claim in the US courts. Given the fact that Ted Nelson invented hyperetext and Doug Engelbart demonstrated a hyperlinking system in action in the Fall of 1968, the claim seems fatuous. So why is BT pursuing it?