Tom Peters’ posted a review of Bob Stone lastest book called “Polite Revolutionary: Lessons from an Uncivil Servant” which is particularly interesting to me because who I work for :-) He full well knew that he could not force change on the Federal bureaucracy; even the President rarely succeeds by frontal assault. And as a […]
Category: Random Musing
No voice
I woke up this this morning only to discover I lost almost all my voice :-( Luckily, I can still blog.
Software Patents
The news that Linux potentially infringes 283 patents initiate a strong reaction from the OSS community. Actually, just look at some examples of software patents and you will see the most common algorithms like Quicksort (#5,175,857) and Random Number Generator (#5,251,165). So pardon me while I marvel : “Only 283 patents?” Some folks, like Richard […]
Can Asians Think?
Can Asians Think? by Kishore Mahbubani Kishore wrote this book when he is serving as Singapore ambassador to United Nation. While it is a bit outdated, it is an incredible book on the subtle political in the foreign policies within Asia and with the West. For example, how (nuclear) energy plays an important political balance […]
Handjobber
Okay, this may be inappropriate but it is too funny to pass! Im looking for an investor for my new product “the handjobberâ€. There are plenty of dildos for women out there, but there are no good masturbators for men. until now. The masturbator is designed using precise aluminum machining and plastic molding. I figure […]
More happenings at WTSA
WTSA is the meeting to layout workplans for ITU-T for the next four years. So even though ITU-T is supposing a technical group in ITU, the issues discussed here are more politically, like elections of chairs for various SGs, telco issues like callback and also several Internet issues. I wasn’t able to stay for the […]
Happenings at WTSA
I totally screwed up on the IDN presentation yesterday. Jetlag hits me pretty badly so my brain is totally blanked out. I remember looking at the confused look at the audience and wanted to dig a hole right there. (I did much better on my IPv6 presentation which went very smoothly) Anyway, as I mention, […]
Don’t eat cheap sushi
I love Japanese food. I used to spend my weekend hunting around Singapore looking for good Japanese restaurants. I am also pretty picky about Japanese food. Because Japanese food are often served raw, it taste horrible if it is little bit not fresh! Unfortunately, good Japanese food are also pretty expensive but I think they […]
Online at last!
My god!.The 36 hours flight from Singapore to Brazil is still giving me nightmare! My throat, lips and even eyes is complete dried up due to low humility humidity in the plane. Drinking more water isn’t helping either. By the time I landed in Florianopolis, the only thing on my mind is ‘Oh dear..I am […]
Flying to Brazil
I am packing my stuff now going to Florianópolis, Brazil for World Telecommunication Standard Assembly. WTSA is held once every four years which then layout the working plan for ITU-T groups in the next four years. I was invited to speak at a technical briefing session on IDN and IPv6. First time I attending this […]