I had two crazy days meetings with various visionaries and champions. Many of them are in town for the IX2003 organized by SITF. Yesterday, I had lunch with Patrick Gannon, CEO of OASIS. Patrick is in town to kickstart the “Framework for Web Service Implementation TC“, an initiative of my group. His ideas on “Standard […]
Month: September 2003
Executive Golf Course
Went to the 9 hole Executive Golf Course in Mandai today with Maynard, Melvin and Hon Chung. The course is a easy course for beginners and all four of us are beginners. In fact, this is the second time I am on the green. # Range Par Index MK ML HC JS 1 160/135/105 3 […]
Learning from the next generation
John Patrick has a very interesting blog today called “Youth at the Gate” (CIO Insight). When I am growing up as a kid (and I am not that old btw), we play five stones and “goli” (marbles). We play police & thief catching in the field or varity of sports. Kids today grow up with […]
IETF Education
Spend last night trying to put together a site for IETF Education Team using movabletype. Yes, I know MT isnt designed for CMS but hey, it works :-) Take a look at how I twist MT at http://james.seng.sg/ietf-edu/
Dyson on the world of blogging
Here is a rant from Esther Dyson, the editor of Release1.0 on Goggle of Blogging, Technorati. Although the premise of the blog world is decentralized, bottom-up, user-centered content, the value of Technorati-like services is in clustering: helping users to find like-minded people, or unlike-minded people with similar interests. (Incidently, a little bird told me in […]
SpamWar: Spammer 2, Anti: 0
I feel very sad today when I read on slashdot that two anti-spammer services are shutting down due to massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on their services. Monkeys.com and Compu.net joins Osirusoft in the antispam blacklists’ graveyard…ahem. Strictly speaking, blacklists aren’t useful in stopping spams due to its high false-positive. Blacklists, is at […]
Falling in love with Drupal
I haven’t been blogging for a while…this is because I found a new love…Drupal. Drupal is an open-source platform and content management system for building dynamic web sites offering a broad range of features and services including user administration, publishing workflow, discussion capabilities, news aggregation, metadata functionalities using controlled vocabularies and XML publishing for content […]
Software to Service
Eric S. Raymond, working on his latest book The Art of Unix Programming, wrote: Open source turns software into a service industry. Service-provider firms (think of medical and legal practices) can’t be scaled up by injecting more capital into them; those that try only scale up their fixed costs, overshoot their revenue base, and starve […]
“Oops, I did it again” – Verisign
A couple of days ago, New York Times reported that Verisign is going to modify its DNS infrastructure to redirect non-existence .com & .net to its search engine. Acutally, Verisign introduced limited DNS wildcard to do Internationalized Domain Names earlier this year and unfortunately, ICANN has not make any strong stand against it. So it […]
Type A or Type B
There are generally two kind of people in management or leadership: (1) the cool and quiet guy (2) the energetic and charismatic guy. I shall refer the first as Type A and latter as Type B. Asian (particularly Japanese) believes there is a colloration between their blood type and their character. This is not to […]