I am in Kuala Lumpur this wekend to give an overview of IDN to Government Advisory Committee of ICANN. This ICANN meeting seem to be political charged, surrounding mainly on the 15M USD proposed budget for ICANN and heated discussion in ccNSO. There are also some discussion about new sponsorred TLD and and .net redelegation. […]
Category: Random Musing
Going up to ICANN…
Just concluded a successful APEET meeting in Singapore (thanks you!) and I am getting to leave for Kuala Lumpur in 10mins time. But before I leave, I thought of leaving two interesting news I saw today. First, is a report of Verisign SiteFinder by Steve Crocker (a representive of Security and Stability Advisory Committee of […]
Fahrenheit 911 factchecks
Here are Michael Moore’s extensive factchecking notes on Fahrenheit 911. (via Joiito). What it doesn’t say is how Michael strings the facts together in such a way to paint a reality he likes his audience to see. (No, don’t get me wrong…I watched the show in US and love it :-) Incidently, the next few […]
802.11a may still win the Wifi war
With the rise of popularity of 802.11b, there are two promising work on higher speed Wifi: 802.11a that on 5Ghz range and 802.11g that on 2.4Ghz range. Both boast of similar speed at around 54mbps but 11g is backward compatibility with 11b whereas 11a isn’t. And as 11a runs on different spectrum, you need another […]
Apple WWDC
I am here at the Apple WWDC 2004 in San Francisco. The stuffs Steve Jobs revealed are amazing: from 30inch Apple display (drool) to multiparty video conference in OS X 10.4 Tiger using H.264 codec. Tiger also feature stuff like integrated Search in the file system which makes Sherlock like childplay and cool stuff like […]
Sharing Wifi
Was about to leave for the pre-WWDC party tonight when I saw someone wandering at the corridor with his Apple notebook, scanning with Mac Stumbler for an open Wifi network he can use. So I asked him wait while I go back to my room, turn on my Airport sharing and let him access the […]
Fahrenheit Reservation
Reservation : An arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance as defined in dictionary.com but apparently not the same definition used by San Francisco Marriott who cancel my room reservation. They bumped me to the Palomar Hotel across the road for tonight and I still have problem for Monday night. This really sux! Anyway, […]
Loic Rocks!
Loic Stealth Disco Liz! Sweet! (He definately looks cooler then me :-)
Stealth Disco
Rule 1: Don’t join IRC channel when you are on a panel or you be forced to Stealth Disco your fellow Panelists. Well, luckily Jeffrey Blumenfeld, a partner at Crowell & Moring is pretty cool about it. (Jeff Ganek, CEO of Neustar is sitting beside Jeff Blumenfeld) (Photo taken by Loic) See more photos here […]
The Future of Work
The Future of Work by Thomas W. Malone Thomas distributed some of his book after his keynote speech at Supernova 2004. I like his speech and I am sure I will enjoy his book too.