Slept early last night and really well. In fact, I sleep for 10 hours which is amazing considering I usually sleep 6 to 7 hours. Anyway, wake up early and finally went to the Onsen for an early bath, and an early breakfast. Very refreshing start… Today, we are split into 3 group: Energy, Security […]
Year: 2003
Day four in Japan
This is the first day of the ACT Seminar and we have a set of impressives keynotes speakers. Fukushiro Nukaga, Chairman of the Policy Research Council and a member of House of Representives, Heizo Takenaka, Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy, and Syamsul Mu’arif, Minister for COmmunication and Information (Indonesia). I am most […]
Day three in Japan
Wake up early in the morning, skipped breakfast so I can check my email and then rush to meet the ACT folk. Spend the next 5 hours on the road and finally reach Miyagizao Hotel in Zao (of course). Miyagizao Hotel not surprising is an Hotel with Onsen (hotspring). But of course, I did the […]
Day two in Japan
I have a very interesting breakfast with Joichi Ito. We discussed so many things, from layer 1 to layer 7 and many things above layer 7. It is unfortunate we didn’t have more time to talk as he has to run off for another meeting. Lunch with Yoshiro Yoneya who is now with JPRS. Yoneya […]
What’s the manager role?
I’m sitting at my hotel louge drinking coffee waiting for my next appointment and started thinking about something that happened a month ago. I was having coffee with an old classmate. He has done pretty well too and now manages a team of people like I do. In the hour we sat in the lounge, […]
Day one in Japan
This is my first day in Japan. Reach my hotel at 9am morning and too early to check in. But luckily, the hotel has broadband and so login to do some mail. Was hoping to hear back from Toru but didn’t…I hope he is okay. Have lunch with Adam Peake who works for GLOCOM. Izumi […]
Flying to Japan…
Taking an overnight flight to Japan for the ACT Seminar and will be there for a week. This is going to be an interesting trip (more about it later)…hope I can get some blogging done :-)
Protest against broadcast flag
I couldn’t believe when I read Cory Doctorow summary of the broadcast flag Broadcast Protection Discussion Group (BPDG) is proposing. Although it have rejected by the US Congress, they are bring this to FCC. The Broadcast Flag is a signal embedded in a digital television signal. If it’s set to “true,” the receiving device is […]
Determinism
Rojisan’s entry on determinism was very interesting and reminded me something about inventors and innovators. Inventors are usually brilliant people but they are also very stubborn. I suppose it is the stubbornness that enables them to perserve on despite any criticisms. Unfortunately, it is also this stubbornness proof to be their greatest pitfalls. When they […]
On DNS Innovation … (again) …
Keith has responded to my entry again. Like him, I think it would be useful to air our differences in public. Whichever side you on, your own choice :-) “I say that his dns-search piece describes an outcome that is in every way similar to SiteFinder.” Yes. The goal is the same. The approach isn’t. […]