Well, after a terribly long drive and an even longer plane ride, I’m back in good ole Toronto. 23 hours from door to door makes for a very long day – I’m still a bit tired from the journey. A hard drive indeed.
The ICANN meetings were very productive. Lots of work was done on Whois, ICANN’s strategic plan and a host of other issues. Not much controversy this time out, barring some minor (and quite silly) perterbations surrounding .travel. I’ll have to give Ron a call and get some more details about the real story.
Its nice to have access to email again. Thanks for the great advice outlining how I might recover my data. I managed to pull 10gb of the important stuff off of my drive yesterday. It looks like the harddrive is in its final death throes. It locked up twice while I was copying data off of it, despite being hooked up to a completely different drive controller.
Now I just need to get all of my photograph’s back home so that I can start processing them. I’ve got some great shots of the ICANN meetings as well as some decent ones from a few brief sojourns to various parts of Mar del Plata. I’ll be posting them here as soon as I get some time.
Weird. Mr. Hasbrouck has written some of the best travel advice on the web including how to get the best international airfares. But he seems a little over-the-top here.
I've posted a follow-up article which may help clear up some of the misunderatandings about what I have requested from ICANN, and why.
Thanks for the pointer Ed - I'll definitely take some time over the next few days to read through your overview. You obviously care deeply about this issue and I'm always open to understanding more about issues.
Thanks again,
-rwr