I wrote about Outsourcing in Part 1 of Predicting the future a month ago and I thought it is about time I write a sequel. So here is Part 2: “local industry”. Like Part 1, lets look at industry revolution and how railroad changed the business landscape. Railways bring people closer together and allow goods […]
Author: jseng
Andy Grove on Outsourcing
Andy Grove, CEO of Intel, warns the danger of outsource: The U.S. software industry is about to lose jobs and market share to foreign competitors unless the government acts quickly to fight protectionist trade policies and double U.S. productivity, he said. Actually, I wrote about the trend of outsourcing in Predicting the future a month […]
Solution for comments spams
Update 4th Feb 2005: Looking for a solution to deal with Trackback spams? Take a look at my TrackbackAntiSpam? Apparently, there are some automated bots which has been spamming comments on movabletype blogs. While it is easy to ban the IP and remove the posts, it takes a lot of time and effort to play […]
ASEAN Economic Community
From Singapore BusinessTimes: The Asean Economic Community (AEC) is an ambitious plan to create a stable, prosperous and competitive Asean economic region in which there is free flow of goods, services, investment and skilled labour and a freer flow of capital, equitable economic development and reduced poverty and socio-economic disparities by the year 2020. This […]
Marketocracy
Woolstar suggested I should put my investment portfolio on Marketocracy. Marketocracy is a virtual mutual fund. Members are given 1,000,000 virtual cash to invest in stock market. If you perform well, they might actually hire you to be a fund manager! Interesting… One problem however, my current portfolio is not compliance with the diversification requirements […]
Privacy, Racism and Sexism
I have another interesting discussion with Steph and Antoin in #joiito on privacy, racisim and sexism yesterday. Yep, how much more difficult can it be? The symbols for privacy and racisim is “1984” and Rosa Parks respectively. But not many Asian could relate to these primarly western concepts.
Zao, Miyagi, Japan
I just received the formal invitation to speak at the the Association for Communication of Transculture (ACT) Seminar in Zao, Miyagi, Japan from Oct 27 to 29. The theme for the seminar is “Exploring New Cooperative Era in Asia-Pacific”. Apparently, it is an annual event organized by ACT Foundation to bring young people who will […]
Palm Resort – Melati Course
Maynard, Melvin and me went to the Palm Resort in Malaysia yesterday. We played on the 18 holes Melati Course, the easiest of three courses at Palm Resort. Oh man, if this is easy, I couldn’t imaging the difficult one. Okay, perhaps this is my first 18 holes game so I shouldn’t complain. Anyway, I […]
Past Performances
I started stock investment seriously in 2001. I resisted buying anything in 1999 and 2000 because I just couldn’t find any stocks to buy using my investment strategy. The .com bubble burst in 2001 opens some opportunities to invest. I remember I couldn’t sleep for a few days the first time I bought some shares. […]
My Stock Investment Strategies
I started speculating stocks after my junior college in 1993. But that is pure speculating (or gambling) and I buy and sell without knowing why. I remember I made a bit of money but I did not keep track of my performance then. In 1999, I read about the effect of inflations and taxes on […]