First, congratulations to mrbrown on his third child. I received an email this afternoon from an excited mrbrown with his baby photo attached using his handphone. God knows how many other people he sent it to so let me also congratulate his mobile phone operator too. Back to topic, I wanted to write about Singapore […]
Virtual Property
Just saw this news on Slashdot A gamer who spent £13,700 on an island that only exists in a computer game has recouped his investment, according to the game developers. The 23-year-old gamer known as Deathifier made the money back in under a year. Wohoo!
What the heck did he just said?
Just saw this at the world of warcraft forum with a damn funny subject title! I bet the folks at Blizzard must be scratching their head wondering what this guy just said. Muhahahaah.
What if…
Everyone knows “wireless” has been the catchphrase in this decade – cordless phone, mobile phone, laptops, wifi and moving forward, wimax, uwb, etc etc. Wireless isn’t just a multi-billions dollar industry, it is has also change our way of life. But I am sure we have friends or families who tell us how they feel […]
Two sides of a Coin
A few days ago, while discussing WSIS, ICANN, DNS, and all stuff that is geeky over lunch, he commented: “Wow, the Internet is a messy place, isn’t it?” To which I responded: “Yes. But this is the mess that gives us email, web, p2p and all things that is wonderful about the Internet”.
Is P2P TV Legal?
I have a great morning at work! I am feeling the same excitement I had two year ago when I first started working on VoIP except this time is on another technology. As a matter of principle, I dont blog about my work but just wanted to spread the joy :-) On another topic, I […]
When will we run out of IPv4?
A month ago, I mentioned about a paper by Tony Hain regarding IPv4 allocation status. The paper was recently published in the Internet Protocol Journal which sparked a debate on Slashdot. Particularly, Tony’s paper suggested that IANA will run out of IP addresses in 5 years or less. However, there is another paper written by […]
Google Starts Up Philanthropy Campaign
Washington Post reports (also see google.org): Google Inc. is launching an unusual corporate philanthropy campaign that will focus on fighting poverty and disease in Africa, addressing energy and environmental issues, and assisting nonprofit groups by giving away free online advertising. Not that I am against it but given that Google is now a public company, […]
Starwars IV in ASCII-art movie
I dunno how old is this but I just found this: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl. Someone converted the whole Starwars into an ASCII art-movie :-)
World of Warcraft Economy
Let me introduce my World of Warcraft character. As you can see, I just spend 1000 gold pieces (900 after discount) on an Epic Mount (the mechnical bird) which allows me to travel twice as fast. 1000 gps is really a lot of money which tooks me several months to accumlate so I am pretty […]