Believe it or not, I once argued on a mailing list (back in 96/97) that “Why do I want to run my voice over IP over modem over voice line?” and “if VoIP is good enough to the entreprise, why haven’t CIOs drop their phone network”. Now, it is not as if I don’t have […]
Category: Random Musing
Zaurus and Zaurus
My new toy – Zaurus C3000 which comes with a 4Gb hitachi harddisk on the right. The C3000 is slightly thicker then my C760 (on the right) and a bit heavier but otherwise, almost the same. The keyboard feel is also much better. I love this series of Sharp Zaurus which unfortunately only sold in […]
April Fool RFCs
While normal human beings celebrate April Fools by making publishing their transparent desktop picture on national newspaper, geeks publish standards like UTF-9/UTF-18 and Morality requirements for Routing. Look, geeks can be funny too! (ie, if you can understand the joke :-) Anyway, IETF has a traditional to publish April Fool RFCs and I always watch […]
IT investment and productivity
Someone sent me this chart which is supposingly presented during 21st Century Communications World Forum by Marconi. Unfortunately, I could not find the sources nor the data point to support this. Have anyone seen this before? And before anyone asked, yes, I did tried to google for it but no answer. Or rather, I get […]
Mobile Gadget Form Factors
Russell has a very good article about all the different mobile gadget form factors. I like the diagram he has particularly as it is a fairly good summary of all the form factors we seen so far. We already see devices that ‘transform’ itself to multiple form factors. For example, the Motolora MPx or Nokia […]
Everybody is a Somebody
Finally back in Singapore after two weeks in US. Arrived back early in the morning at 5:30am and have to get back to office at 9:30am :P And gosh, I am not looking forward clearing up the 3000+ emails in my inbox :-( Anyway, it has been a great trip. On certain days, I feel […]
The Long Tail
I notice a trend lately : I seldom watch movies or TV. I get my dose of mass media movies from my longhaul flight (SingaporeAir has great collection on their movies-on-demand). I dont watch TV because I lost interest in Mediacorp programming and more importantly, I found something that suit my need – Internet. I […]
ETech Day 2
Few more things I picked up at ETech Day 2 a) James Larsson, power hacker, showed some amazing hacks he done. Some stuff he did is amazing (and pretty dangerous!) Like turning his old CRT into a mouse trap (8Mb AVI :-) He delivered the whole thing in such a funny manner that everyone was […]
Sun or Earth
From Peter Payne: My son just finished with his final tests, his last of the third grade. He did really well in his science final, only missing one question, which was about the shadow cast by a stick in the ground. Over the course of several hours, the position of the shadow moves — why? […]
IDN Parody on verisign.com
Guilllaume Rischard setup a parody on verisign.com using the IDN spoofing trick. He managed to get one registrar to register verisign.com with a cyrillic S (U+0405) (ie xn--veriign-mog.com :-) Also check out Neustar website, the competitor to Verisign. This actually started in #joiito a couple of weeks ago after the Eric published the spoofing attack […]