First thing first, a friend pointed out that the ITU comissioned paper didn’t missed the point about “Internet Governance”. I went back to look at it again in detail and realized my mistake. My sincere apologises. I started the day very early with APRICOT AC discussion of the venue for APRICOT 2006. It was a […]
Category: Random Musing
Day 4 in Kuala Lumpur
It is a busy day packed with meetings from 8am to 11pm. With an early meeting with PIKOM followed by keynote panel (Dave Crocker and Suguru Yamaguchi) then Internet Exchange SIG before skipping lunch to attend APIA AGM. After an hour break, I hop into VoIP session and then went off chair the the ENUM/SIP […]
Day 3 in Kuala Lumpur
I woke up early this morning, maybe too much beer last night. Or perhaps I was excited over the panel I am suppose to be with Dave Crocker on SPF and antispam. Our offline debates have been colourful so I couldn’t wait for the real thing. But as it turned out, the panel was shifted […]
IDA allocates 2.3 Ghz and 2.5 Ghz spectrum for Trials and Commercial Deployment
While I am not directly involved in this, I am proud to see this announcement from IDA today! Well done! Congz to all all my friends who been working on this! The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) today announced the allocation of dedicated spectrum bands for trials and commercial deployment of wireless broadband. This […]
Day 2 in Kuala Lumpur
The funs begin today with friends started to arrive and doing the usual “Hey hi!”, “When you arrived?”, “How’s your flight” etc etc. I am also getting a lot of “Oh, how’s your baby?” :-) Spend the morning at a ad-hoc session called by Kilnam on “Native Names” which is kind of related to IDN […]
Day 1 in Kuala Lumpur
Technically, Day 1 is yesterday but I spend most of the day with Tommy, just chatting about things. Other then the shock we have when the hotel staff informed us that the 9 hole golf game will cost us RM1,500 (400USD), nothing else happened. :-) So, back to topic, I spend day 1 stuck in […]
Personal Glider
One of my all time fav movie is Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind which feature a personal jet glider. I am very please to learn that OpenSky is attempting to build such a glider (via Slashdot). They even have a movie clip of the test flight! Now, I couldn’t wait to get my […]
Going to APRICOT
Just packed my luggage. Next stop is Hotel Intercontinental where I will pick up Tommy Matsumoto and then fly to Kuala Lumpur with him for APRICOT. This is going to be an extremely busy meeting for me, attending APSTAR retreat and numerous APIA/APRICOT board and members meetings. I am also going to do presentations at […]
Promotion: Dad
  My first baby girl, Zee Yau, borned on 14th Feb 2004 @ 9:04pm SGT. Both Mother and baby are doing well! Update: The Chinese name is 莊茈遙/庄茈遥 (Zhuang1 Zi3 Yao2). 茈 (Zi3) is a kind of flower which is often mention in chinese poems for its fragrance and sturdiness. 遥 (Yao2) comes from the […]
$8,000 to become your own (voip) telco
Ted Shelton done a brief analysis of the economics of starting a VOIP telco and conclude it will take only $8,000. (Via Kevin Werbach) I made a similar rant last year arguing that people will wonder why they dont do it themselves once they discover how cheap it is. I also believe that IP Telephony […]