I have a bit of trouble waking up this morning after a late night. I was suppose to have breakfast with Michael Clark (part of Singapore delegation) and I got more then I bargain for. I ended up having breakfast with both Michael and Scott McNeil, the Executive Director for the FreeStandards, whom I havent […]
Author: jseng
Tokyo and Luggage
I am flying to Tokyo in a few hours time for the ISO/ITC JTC1/SC22 Linux Rapporteur Group. As the name suggest, the group is going to create ISO standards for Linux. I couldn’t wrap my head around this initially, considering most people prefer Linux to be on ISO disk instead. But I think there is […]
The Last Samurai
Just finish watching the Last Samurai and love it. I was expecting a silly Hollywood interpretation of feudral japan but the show surprise me. The scenery settings are beautiful and the swordplay are elegant (looks like authentic bushido). The war scenes are engaging and excitment. Most important of all, it illustrate the Way of the […]
Secure your Server
FTC is urgings companies to close their open proxies. I play a small role in advising IDA to participate in this initiative. Sure, whats the point of closing open proxy now that most spams dont even go through open proxy? But “why not?”. Yes, we can do more but that is a story for another […]
Architecture of the Internet
Andrew Odlyzko, author of The many paradox of Broadband, published an equally thought-provoking article: Pricing and architecture of the Internet: Historical perspectives from telecommunications and transportation While engineers and technologist like myself have been arguing the need for “End-to-End” principle either on ideological or technical reasons, Andrew provides an economical perspective of why the “threats” […]
Orkut
Orkut is back after been down for the last few days for upgrade. Google, probably upset for not able to buy friendster has outdone itself this with Orkut. In certain ways, it is better the friendster (at least faster) and less annoying then linkedin. It is best of breed of the two and I love […]
More on outsourcing
Wired ran another article on the outsourcing to India trend. I got a mixed feeling of between been proud to sad for the situation as the article confirmed the predictions i made last year on outsourcing. But there are many lessons to learn from the article, like the one comparing the introduction of computers in […]
Busy busy…
First thing first, happy lunar new year everyone! This year, I spend 3 days back with my parents and totally disconnected. No emails and no blogging. Refreshing but the fun ends when I saw 1500+ emails waiting for me. :-( It been a busy two weeks, particularly at work. This is the time we plan […]
Lessons from history
John Berresford, Attorney for Media Bureau at FCC, just published a draft on the webpage for Harvard Program for Information Resources Policy. It is called “How Government Can Bring New Communications to All Americans: Six1 Lessons from History Discovered by a Libertarian”. (via Dave Farber’s IP list)
WTF
David Isenberg is calling for an bottom-up face-to-face meeting to discuss the end of telephony, about end-to-end principles, smart people, dumb companies, etc etc. Please drop him an email if you are interested.