Who “Manages” the Internet by Michael Nelson. (via Internet Policy) “Phone governance” Who makes choices about the Net?
Month: August 2004
Email, a Dying Technology
A friend once told me “A guru is one who advocates common sense…except he makes sense of it before it is common.”. It is easy to look back on hindsight and make remarks how obvious things are but foresights are often not so easy. For instance, no one doubts that Internet is here to stay […]
Singapore e-Government
A nice article was published on Public Sector Technology & Management, (a site that discuss IT usage in Asia governments) on Singapore e-government. (via InternetPolicy) Amidst the flags and fly pasts, and other very visible signs of four decades of Singaporean nation building, a profound civic achievement deserves the attention of anyone interested in Asian […]
I am not evil
Wandered into Gematriculator today, a service that uses the infallible methods of Gematria to determine how good or evil a web site or a text passage is by looking at text starting with vowels and the divisiblity with 7 (a God number). I am rated 77% good and 23% evil *grin*
Innovator’s Dilemma
The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen. Actually, not a new book but I digged out from my closet and re-read it last week for some internal presentations. Highly recommended for someone who is interested in technology trends. Incidently, in the course of doing research for my presentation, I also come across this article The Myth of […]
My blogrolls
Sunday Times have an interview with the famous (notorious?) Singapore blogger xiaxue. Yes, I don’t just read technology related blogs like Joi Ito, John Patrick or Dan Gillmor. I also read foul-mouthed 20 year old girl who constantly bitch about her life. Speaking of my blogrolls, another worthy of mention is Mr Brown (blogger turn […]
Microsoft XP SP2 impression
lol. (via seattlepi.com) Matthew Fordahl of the Associated Press reviews the service pack in this story: “With the latest update to Microsoft Corp.’s Windows XP operating system, personal computers will soon join parents, bosses, teachers and spouses as a source of nagging in your life. But as mom always said, it’s for your own good.” […]
“It’s about user experience”
In August Wired edition: Wired: First, carrier fought number portability. Now you won’t unlock out phones. Why shouldn’t I be able to take my handset from Cingular to another carrier? Ryan (Cingular VP): It’s about user experience. If you had a T-obile phone and switched to Cingular, you could run into problems getting mobile browsing […]
Wireless PS2 controller
You know you are a geek when your wife bought an Wireless PS2 controller for your thirtieth birthday. But toys are just toys..stuff you buy for the thrill of owning a cool gadget, play for a while and then move on to the next. But hey, with a cool controller like this, maybe I can […]
Day 6 at IETF
I attended the BoF on URI. The discussion on lower barrier on IANA registration on URI scheme sound scary to me, esp the protocol identifiers are been exposed to end-users. And if it expose to end-users, you never know what creative things they will do with it. Yet on the other hand, I agree with […]