Okay, seem like bad week isn’t over yet. My dry throat now developed into a full blown cold. Nevertheless, with my running nose, I managed a 5hrs bus train to Genting Highland so now I am blogging this from the ‘top of Malaysia’. Anyway, Merry Christmas everyone. Hope next week is better for me.
Bad week
I have a terrible week – I was terrible tired for in the last few days, running out of energy often. Then I ran my car into another car last night damaging my car pretty badly (luckily no one was injured). And today I developed a cold, vomitting, dry throat and with a bad headache. […]
History of the Future – EPIC
Wonderful story of how Blogging is going to change the world (via Michael Everson via Email :-)
Trackback spams
Finally, comment spammers has found trackback spams. I got a dozen of them today. Well, I suppose it is obvious. Perhaps it is time for me to do something about it. I have a simple idea against it. Watch this space :-)
Engineers on TLDs
Engineers on TLDs: Do You Want Me With Fries? on CircleID by Vittorio Bertola: This is why engineering solutions are not carved in stone, and young engineers have always been eating up old engineers since gave engineering to the world. That’s not because the old solutions were better than the new ones, or the opposite, […]
Confessions of a Civil Servant
Confessions of a Civil Servant : Lessons in Changing America’s Government and Military – by Bob Stone I got a pleasant surprise this morning: Bob Stone emailed me to tell me his book is available in paperback. (PDF is also available on his website but hey, please go buy the book!) Actually I blog this […]
Why cyclists wear black
lol (via MrBrown)
Virtual Keyboard
After waiting for nearly 2 years, the innovative virtual keyboard (called BTVKB) finally arrived in Singapore stores! Guess what I am getting for christmas? Ho Ho Ho! Update: Damn, it does not work with any of my current portable gadget/phones yet :P
Dinner with Joho & Meng Wong
I have a wonderful dinner with David Weinberger (of Cluetrain Manifesto fame) and Meng Wong (of SPF fame) last night. David is in town to give an 8 hours (poor guy) talk for a Knowledge Management event and Meng Wong (who is a Singaporean) is back for to attend a wedding dinner. Anyway, we have […]
Chinese IDN in the news
[Update 21st Dec: This article is also syndicated to CircleID] News.com published a well-research article on the Chinese Domain Names by Winston Chai. This approach works fine in the English-savvy world. However, for non-English speakers, they could be faced with the unenviable task of rote-learning numerical IP addresses, which is highly improbable, or the English […]