One of the important skill CEO must have is the ability to talk. Not just normal talk but one that is passionate, powerful, slick and smooth: whether to motivate your staff, paint your vision to the customer or sell your company to the investors. Put him on the stage and he can just go on […]
Bad placement
An advertisment for Windows appearing next to an article about Windows causing 800 planes pile-up. Hahaha (via MrBrown).
Principle of Bureaucracy
James Seng’s Principle of Bureaucracy #1 : Any problem left unsolved long enough will eventually disappear on its own. I quote this to Antoin who was ichat’ed me about a recent policy by Irish regulator (Commision for Communications) : Protecting Phone Users from Internet Dialer Scam. You know, those programs you can download that promises […]
The problem with networking session…
…is you meet too many people in a 2-3hrs session. And you dont have the time to pause and reflect who just spoke to you. After receiving x numbers of name cards with ‘VP’ or ‘CEO’, everyone looks the same to you. Case in point, at one of the evening receiptions last week, I have […]
Job Opening in IDA
There is a opening in my team in IDA for Senior Consultant, Enabler Technologies. Senior Consultant in the Technology Group is a pretty senior position equivalent to a ‘Senior Manager’. Candidates must have at least 5 years of ICT experience and deep technical knowledge in the Next Generation Network. It is definately a plus plus […]
MARID shutdown
IETF shutdown MARID working group. (See Ted Hardie’s email to the MARID mailing list). No more SPF, CallerID, PRA/SenderID or MAILFROM/SenderID… I don’t know what I feeling now. On one hand, I have been a strong supportor of SPF/SenderID and it is sad we lost one tool to fight spam1. On the other hand, I […]
Busy week
It has been a busy with with APEC TEL 30 hosted by IDA/Singapore. For those who don’t know about APEC TEL, it is a group that meets once every quarter and reports to the TELMIN, a gathering of APEC IT Ministers. It has 4 steering committees looking at technology, business, liberalization and human resource development. […]
IP Telephony and ENUM
There is a APEC TEL NGN Brainstorming session this morning. I was one of the speaker for the session and did a presentation on IP Telephony and ENUM. Singapore also made a contribution on both IP Telephony and Spectrum management. Both my presentation and Singapore contribution was well-received by the participants and I got a […]
Internationalization and IDN
Today is the 2nd day of APEC TEL 30, which is hosted by IDA in Singapore. I spend my afternoon at a side event, organized by APDIP to soliciate feedbacks from AP region on Internet Governance issues as part of the WSIS process workings towards Tunis 2005. And I gave a presentation on my fav […]
Singapore Bloggers
I know I was late but better late then never. Singapore two most famous bloggers, Xiaxue and MrBrown was featured on local TV last week, on a segment calls “What’s matter”. You can find the bittorrent of the segment here (via MrBrown). Oh yea, I also feel quite shiok this morning, having done a presentation […]