Finally, after nearly 8 years of tug-of-war, ITU finally comes to terms that it needs to work with ICANN as I noted a few years ago (here and here). The Internet should continue to be overseen by major agencies including ICANN and the ITU, rather than any new “superstructure,” the new head of the International […]
Repairing Submarine Cables
Alcatel, one of the major submarine cable builder in the world, has an interesting resource page on submarine cables like an animation on how to repair submarine cables cut. (via Ben Frankes) The animation looks easy. Detect the cut, pick up one cable, then the other and then join them back. Even considering it takes […]
The Future of Learning
“The Future of Learning” Manifesto is a great read even if you are not an educator. For the educators, this definitely rings a bell: “I could memorize your facts, but I got Google for that…Are you teaching me to think? Or just to take notes?” “Playing Small Does Not Serve the World…You’ve got one choice. […]
New Media
Found this “comic” in the newspaper. It is more real then funny tho.
Predictions for 2007
I have a fun time reading various predictions for 2007, e.g. Wired, Wireless, Funny, Google and Information Week. Some sample includes: – Internet Traffic Doubles to 5,000 petabits per day by the end of 2007. And 80 percent of it is peer-to-peer file sharing, mostly Skype video and BitTorrent. – Google GDrive will finally be […]
IPv4 Address Usage
Happy New Year As we start on a new year, lets look at the 2006 IPv4 Address Use Report The current (jan 1st, 2007) figure for 2005 is 175.52 million addresses. Together with adjustments for earlier years, this brings the total addresses available to almost exactly 1.3 billion, down from 1468.61 million a year ago. […]
Submarine fibers in Asia
We are slowly recovering from the disaster submarine fiber cut due to the earthquake in Taiwan. It is definitely one of the worst I remember…the last time a fiber cut affect us that badly is in 1994. First, lets clarify a few misconceptions: submarine cables are not under the seabed. It is just lay across […]
Play to Win
I went to a neighbourhood secondary school – Anderson Secondary School. Now, it is one of the better neighbourhood school but it was a humble school back then. I often represented the school for competitions (mainly math and computer) and the teacher in charge often gave us this advise “Don’t worry about losing. It is […]
Merry Christmas
On to Korea
I took my family back home over the weekend thinking I could be back in KL on Monday. A phone call later, meetings lined up and there goes my weekend. When I was thinking whether to go back to KL on Tuesday, I come down with a fever. Arghh. I missed a very important meeting […]