This trip to Beijing, I notice the immigration counter has a new device (above). Yep, you can give instant feedback of the officer who is serving you. Customer Service @ Immigration. Wow! Guess Beijing is taking Olympic 2008 very seriously, making sure they have the best in front of the visitors. Anyway, it is a […]
Month: April 2007
Transit in Hong Kong
Just arrived in Hong Kong and taking a super red-eye (3am) flight to Beijing. Don’t have a choice…only way to make it to my meeting in time. :-(
A virtue never tested is no virtue at all
viaTom Peters Billy Bragg was coming through my car speakers singing, “A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.” That pretty much summed up the two coaching sessions I had just completed. Both of the leaders I have been coaching have been identified as high potential candidates for the executive team.
Researchers Explore Scrapping Internet
A research for a next generation Internet (I blog about GENI earlier last year) made it in the mainstream media (TIME) with a sensationalized title as above. The idea may seem unthinkable, even absurd, but many believe a “clean slate” approach is the only way to truly address security, mobility and other challenges that have […]
Pearls Before Breakfast
Someone send me this article; it is too good not to share this. Pearl Before breakfast, an investigative story about putting the one of the world best violinist (Joshua Bell) in the Metro and watch what happened. It is so sad. Only a few stop to give money. Even less stay on to appreciate the […]
Interview @ SG Entrepreneurs
An email reminded me about the interview I had with SG Entrepreneurs. Check it out if you are interested.
Strange Encounter
Twitter hack – Shoutbox on WordPress
mrbrown and me was discussing what we can do with twitter last week. We thought it would be cool to have a shoutbox on seewhatshow linked to twitter so anyone can instantly feedback how good or bad the show they are watching via their mobile phone. I went to do some research and find a […]
IP over SFSS
RFC 4824 The Transmission of IP Datagrams over the Semaphore Flag Signaling System (SFSS): This document specifies IP-SFS, a method for the encapsulation and transmission of IPv4/IPv6 packets over the Semaphore Flag Signaling System (SFSS). The SFSS is an internationally recognized alphabetic communication system based upon the waving of a pair of hand-held flags [JCroft, […]
Thoughts on the Music Business
via Mark Cuban The first thing that dawned on me as I thought about this was simple, yet scary. I cant remember the last time I bought a CD Player of any kind, nor can i think of a reason why I would. Sure, my PCs have one, but its rare I use it for […]