If you havent heard of DMCA, you probably should! With the US-SG FTA coming into effect next year, DMCA will come to Singapore. DMCA is one of the harshest copyright legistration. Basically, it outlaws any attempts to break any copyright protection. But it provides exceptions such as “scientific exploration”. Nevertheless, SDMI/RIAA has attempt to use […]
Year: 2003
sigh…
dunno why…dont feel good today. perhaps too stressed out…i guess thats happens when you have 3 meetings before lunch, skip lunch to have a board conference call, and follow up a storm of emails and papers to follow up until the end of day. I also feel quite bad that I probably wont be able […]
blogging with w.blogger
Trying out w.blogger. This blog entry is updated via w.blogger…I wonder if the the autotrack back works…Hmm…
Hacking MT
Just did a quick hack on Movable Type engine so that it will use Trackback mechanism to do publicity instead of XMLRPC-ping.
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday Singapore! The Today newspaper today (the previous one is with a captial ‘T’) have a number of stories from various journalists who apparently have an overdose of MrBrown’s SNE. Even the Letters from Readers section have 3 letters which sound like written by MrBrown himself.
Evolution
Following my posting yesterday about weeding out the bottom, some folks have indicated that this system does not work all the time. Well, the organization renewal process of weeding out the bottom 10% is actually an evolution system. And like all evolution system, the rules you set will determine what kind of organization you have […]
Microsoft IPv6
Found a big problem with Microsoft IPv6 implementation. Suppose you install IPv6 stack on your XP (type “ipv6 install” on your command prompt), MS will attempt to use Terado to connect your machine to 6bone. Because Terado dont work with the NAT, it will fall back and allocated a link-local fe80:: address. This shouldnt be […]
What I learnt from playing games…
For the last few months, I was trying to complete the RPG game Breath of Fire IV. (Yes, “Months” for a simple game. I dont really have much time for game, you know!) Anyway, in BoF IV, there is this cute mini faeries game. This game allows you manage a colony of 20 faeries. Each […]
Vision & Strategy
Any good general knows that a plan for a mission is valid until you meet your first enemy. But this is not to say we don’t do any planning. It is still important to do planning but vision & strategy become critical in an always-changing world. A good vision is one which is clear and […]
the future of SME …
During lunch with Alvin (Karloff), we have an interesting discussion about the future of SME in Singapore. From the macroeconomic perspective, one MNC probably creates more jobs and output (GDP) then 100 SMEs. Hence, logically, it makes more sense trying to get MNC to based in Singapore. And by some economists estimate, we probably need […]