Elementary Students Suspended For MySpace Postings Two students were suspended at an Oak Lawn elementary school last week after the principal discovered questionable postings on a popular Web site, parents said. The MySpace postings allegedly contained foul language, a digitally altered photo of George Bush sticking up his middle finger, pop-ups of women in bikinis […]
Month: March 2006
The Future of Credit Cards
Via Make Blog Very soon, credit card companies and game makers will reward their customers who spend money in the real world using private label “rewards” credit cards. They will use gifts of virtual currency such as Blizzard’s World of Warcraft gold and Second Life’s Linden dollars. Yep, thats Joi Ito‘s gnome mage in World […]
Good to Great
Good to Great by Jim Collins
To be polite or not to be…
Ever since I left IDA, friends in the industry start telling me stuff they would never say it in my face previously. Was quite a shock initally as I will be in a defensive mode for IDA but after a couple of weeks, I got used to it and just smile and listen. The comments […]
Impression of Cambodia
First, let me congratulate Boon Leong who has successful setup Resolvo office in Cambodia. It is incredible to have a local partner who can with a phone call get the folks from the company registry to come to your office to register the company, bank clerk to turn up at your office to setup your […]
Holy Cow
Holy Cow! Thats dinner!
Phnom Phen – Cambodia
Okay, I am in Phnom Phen, Cambodia right now. Its a really last minute trip as a friend of mine is setting up his office in Cambodia and asked me if I would come along. I also have some friends here in Cambodia but guess I wont be able to catch them this trip. The […]
Its time to move house
Was wondering why my home wireless network getting slower lately so I downloaded NetStumbler and this is what I found: 11 channels, 13 base stations = bad idea. Time to look for a new place… (Luckily, I seem to be the only one who knows how to change my wireless channel :-)
On the road again
I left Vietnam a couple of days ago .. I didnt stay for the whole event as it is really depressing. If we believe everything that is said, my PC is probably infected by a dozen of (undetectable) spywares with maybe a stealth ‘rootkit’ or two, part of being a botnet participating in DDoS against […]
Timetable for IDN TLD testbed
ICANN announced the Timetable of Proposed Testing of IDNS in Top-Level Domains: ICANN released today a statement outlining a proposal by the President’s Committee on IDNs (co-chaired by Hualin Qian, Mouhamet Diop and Paul Twomey) for a timetable leading to the technical testing of IDNs at the TLD level. The timetable contains a series of […]