David Beckemeyer gave a very good argument why AT&T, Qwest, etc VoIP announcements are lame, with easy to understand illustration that a layman could easily understand. Having VoIP on the last mile but still retain PSTN on the core network isn’t really VoIP (IP Telephony). It is the same service, same model, just different (last […]
Month: December 2003
Send an SMS to WSIS
Via ITU SPU blog: People around the world will be able to to participate directly in the WSIS from 9 to 12 December through the Helloworld Project. Short messages can be sent via the Internet or SMS from 14hrs CET on Tuesday December 8. These messages will be projected via laser beam in the six […]
Etisalat Arabic Domain Name
I feel so proud :-)
Create your own South Park Character
That’s me, if I am in a character in South Park, created using this. Update 5th May 2005: The previous link don’t work anymore but I found another one that works.
Day 2 in Dubai
Jetlagged, I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t sleep. So I went down to the seminar room to use the wireless and catching up with my blogroll. By the time people comes walking into the room, I am already worned out which is kind of bad since I have to a […]
This site has been blocked
Jet lagged, I logon to catch up my blogroll. Until I come across this entry by Loic and this pop-up: :-)
Day 1 in Dubai
Took an overnight flight from Singapore and arrived in Dubai 7am in the morning. To my surprise, Taj Palace Hotel provided a transport to fetch me from the airport even though it is only about 5mins away. Checking in is unfortunately not that pleasant. They have a room reserved for me since last yesterday but […]
Availablity of IPv4 addresses
Paul Wilson (APNIC) just gave the presentation on the behalf of Geoff Huston at Dubai RIPE-NCC meeting here. The research is sponsored by APNIC and the answer, well, you know what to expect from Geoff. By considerating (a) the rate of IANA allocation (b) the rate of RIRs allocation (c) BGP tables on allocated but […]
RIPE-NCC Dubai
I am flying tonight to Dubai to give a presentation on IDN at the RIPE-NCC meeting (the European Regional Internet Registries). I will be talking abit on IDN-OSS, hopefully getting more support for the project. :-) You can find my presentation here. This is my first trip to Dubai. Heard a lot of good stuff […]
DABL – PonG
I haven’t been blogging because I have been spending almost all my free time working on a Distributed Address Book List (DABL) which I called PonG. (Download) PonG is a tool which allows you and your friends to keep up-to-date (contact) information of each another. PonG package includes a PonG server and a PonG client. […]