Found an interesting article called Internet Apocalypso aka the ClueTrain Manifesto. I know I know, I am about four years late reading this (it is published online in 1999 and was the best seller in Business Week in 2000 and have been translated to a dozen of languages). But have things change over the last […]
Year: 2003
Crime gangs extort money with hacking threat
Saw this article from Dave Farber’s Interesting People list: Evidence of a new type of international extortion racket emerged on Tuesday with revelations that blackmailers have been exploiting computer hacking techniques to threaten the ability of companies to conduct business online. Sites have been asked to pay up to $50,000 to ensure they are free […]
Afghanistan support in Apple
Michael Everson wrote: I am pleased to announce that Mac OS 10.3 (Panther) is now shipping keyboard layouts which support the Afghan Pashto, Afghan Dari, and Afghan Uzbek keyboard layouts specified in the Computer Locale Requirements of Afghanistan report http://www.evertype.com/standards/af and that at least one of Apple’s shipping Arabic fonts, Geeza Pro, has full glyph […]
fältström.se
Patrik Fältström send me an email from his new and proud domain fältström.se. Notice there is the swedish character ä and ö? Yep, Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) finally! Yippee! IDN is the effort of the WG I co-chair (together with Marc Blanchet) from 1999 to 2002 to bring internationalization to domain names, initiated from a […]
Microsoft without Bill Gates
At the Asia Open Source Symposium today, a friend asked me: “What do you think will happen to Microsoft if Bill Gate leaves?” After giving it some thought, I said “Probably nothing”. I mean, why would it be any difference? While Bill Gates is the icon for Microsoft, the real power of Microsoft, IMHO, are […]
Asia Open Source Symposium
I drop by at the Asia Open Source Symposium at the Pan Pacific Hotel (which is a 10mins walk from my office) this morning. I mean, I have quite a few old friends are here at this closed door (hmm..) seminar like Shuichi Tashiro from Japan and Ho Jian Ming and Wu Guo Wei from […]
BoF on ENUM/SIP
There are many countries who have been experimenting with ENUM/SIP. At least I know the folks in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Australia, Sweden, Austria (etc etc) who are experimenting with ENUM/SIP. I met up with Yoneya a couple of days ago in Japan. So after seeing some of the JPRS work on ENUM, I suggested […]
The New Manager’s Handbook
The New Manager’s Handbook by Morey Stettner HR gave this book to every manager so I got a copy too. It helps the book is small (I finish the book over lunch). I suppose it is useful for a new manager but not particularly interesting to me. Not a book I would recommend.
Day seven in Japan
This is my last day in Japan. Nevertheless, the days are still as havoc as ever. I have an early breakfast with Keith from ANU and both of us recapped some of the interesting tibits from the ACT conference. Particularly, the energy group reminded all of us that energy is now one of the basic […]
Day six in Japan
“Party” yesterday was like any standard formal function: Speeches, then speeches then more speeches. They seem determined to starved you before they allowed you to eat. The highlight of the party is (no! not the speeches) the traditional Japanese drum performance by the kids in Zao. The last time I saw drum performance was in […]