Radicals and Extremists are always a bad news, even if they are on your side. It is okay to have strong views and argue sensible. And it is also important to recongize different people will have different views. And even people on the same side may comes in different shades of greys. But when you […]
Chinese Names
Paul Hoffman send me an email a couple of weeks ago asking me how Chinese choose their name, esp. their English names which prompted me to write this entry. Background1 Chinese has a Family name followed by a Given name and no Middle name. Family names are typically one chinese ideograph although there are some […]
The Maverick & The Elegant Universe
How to think like Leonardo…
How to think like Leonardo Da Vinci (via Dewayne-Net): In business, it’s important to employ ambidextrous employees — people who have business and technology skills. For they can imagine the future. If you don’t employ multi-talented professionals, you lose out on business oportunities that cannot be imagined by the linear worker. Yep, how true! It […]
IDN support in browsers
I just left NIDA stealing some of the IP packets :-) While there, I bounced in Dongman Lee and Chanki Park. Park is an old friend who is currently the manager in charged of the .KR domain names registry and we have a brief chat about Korean domain names. Apparently, they have over 80,000 thousand […]
Seoul Day 3 – Korea IT 8-3-9 Strategy
I arrived in Seoul last night and catch dinner with dda. Ah, Korean BBQ, how I missed it! Then we went over to Bar 66 for beer with Anthony (the Strategic Director of Lucent whom I met on plane on the way here). Great fun and dda, thanks for putting up with me at your […]
Busan Day 2 – Emerging Spam
Yesterday, the speakers have more or less covered almost all the current antispam techniques, I wonder if I should repeat them again for my talk today which will probably makes it pretty boring. Or should I do something else and make it interesting…so I did the latter :-) Since my session is ‘Emerging Technologies’, I […]
Microsoft and Open Source
I was sitting with a Microsoft PR lady over dinner yesterday and I commented how sad Microsoft has alienated the Open Source community. I mean, it is one thing for Microsoft would see Linux as a competitor and react strongly towards it as they would against any other competitors, it is another to go against […]
Busan Day 1 – OECD Antispam Toolkit
OCED Antispam Workshop is a suit and tie conference, something I am not very used to. Luckily, knowing Korea, I packed my suit with me so I dont look so out of place this time round. The main discussion on Day 1 revolves around an “OCED Antispam Toolkit”. But don’t think of it as a […]
No long term solution
My talk at the OCED is tomorrow but I think I can share my last slide now…Oh boy, I am going to have fun! :-) [There is no long term (antispam) solution. (In the long run, there is no Email)]