I respect academic freedom but once in a while, a paper got through that makes you think “WTF!?” The sociology paper published last November, which has been making rounds over the Internet and was recently picked up by The Atlantic, uses illustrative statistics and qualitative data to conclude that there is a strong relationship between […]
Month: January 2008
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by Raymond Crowe
The $1.4 Trillion Question
Americans sometimes debate (though not often) whether in principle it is good to rely so heavily on money controlled by a foreign government. The debate has never been more relevant, because America has never before been so deeply in debt to one country. Meanwhile, the Chinese are having a debate of their own-about whether the […]
Phew…its done!
3 months, 27 companies & research institutions for 1 hour demo. Phew, it is finally done…smooth and well received. Not my show so not for me to talk about it here but I work with some of the most amazing companies in the last 3 months. As I was watching the 1 hour demo with […]
Vint Cerf for Japan Prize 2008
Jun Murai just informed IETF that Vint Cerf has won the Japan Prize for his work on TCP/IP. Congratulations! Update: With my wine adviser in Beijing and conspirator in Washington, a lafite 1986 was delivered successfully to Vint 48 hours later. Not exactly the prized 1961 but 1986 is still a classic. Enjoy!
The Legacy of Suharto
As Suharto lies in his bed on life support, and the buzz online about MM Lee visits over the weekend, mostly negative from the Singaporeans, it is timely to remember Suharto as he is. Like many outsider to Indonesia who is less then 40 years old, my original perceptive of Suharto is a corrupted dictator […]
Singapore National Broadband Network
Several weeks ago, Dr Lee Boon Yang, Minister for Information, Communications And The Arts, announced the launch of the RFP National Broadband Network (NBN) project for Singapore. The NBN project comes with a carrot of S$750m is a passive optical network fiber to the home (FTTH) that “will offer pervasive and competitively priced ultra high-speed […]