In my previous entry, I discussed about the changes in the telecommunication industry to a world where data, IP Packets particularly, is the main revenue generator1 and Voice would become just one of the many application/service provided on top of the data world. Now, such radical change is extremely disruptive even though it is likely […]
Category: Random Musing
Overload…
Blogging have slow down: work, work and work. That’s what I get for been traveling for the last two weeks. :-( Oh, my baby girl just has its first month celebration. A local tradition where relatives and friends come to your place to admire your baby, make a lot of noises and then leave with […]
Breaking the law of physic?
This is unbelievable: a magnetic motor that consumed almost no electricity Next we move to a unit with its motor connected to a generator. What we see is striking. The meters showed an input to the stator electromagnets of approximately 1.8 volts and 150mA input, and from the generator, 9.144 volts and 192mA output. 1.8 […]
Book of Five Rings
Musashi’s Book of Five Rings by Steve Kaufman
Time flies
Don’t asked me what happened the last few days…Working Group meetings, breakfast meetings, lunch meetings, tea meetings and swoosh, I am now back in Singapore Airline lounge waiting to go back Singapore. Hmm, what really happened? I wonder how am I going to write my trip report…
Not funny
It is not funny when you are about to go to bed and you receive an request for the slides for a (very important) presentation by tomorrow morning. :PP It is even scarier when you managed to finish doing the presentation in less then an hour…Heck, I look at it again tomorrow when I am […]
Isn’t it ironical?
A friend come up to me last night and asked me why I am against the .ASIA TLD bid. “You are a public figure now! You can’t go around saying things like this!”, he said. Me, a public figure? Haha…and I thought I am just another engineer-geek in the AP community. But isn’t it ironical […]
Orkut…What next?
Orkut has done a lot of things “right” like its user-friendly interface. Unfortunately, when it comes to “what next”, it fails quite miserably. It does not know whether if it should be a casual social network like friendster or commerical social network like linkedin. It also not able to tell its users (like me) what […]
Scenario Planning: English in decline
Paul Hoffman send me this paper published by David Graddol of British Council which does a scenario planning (futorology :-) and went on to discuss what to do if English is slipping in influence due to demographic and technology trends. Scenarios are not predictions. The point of scenario planning is to help us suspend our […]
IETF, Seoul
I am now sitting in the bar in the Hotel Lotte with fellow IETFers in Seoul. Beer and WiFi..what more could we ask? ps: Oh, dda come over my place for dinner. Yes, I have the Zaurus sync charger cable for you :-)