I wrote MT-Bayesian as a quick hack last year because of my dislike of MT-Blacklist. I still don’t like Blacklist concept (been-there, done-that in Email) but I have to admit there are serious problem with MT-Bayesian. 1. Bayesian is extremely CPU intensive. Bayesian algorithm isn’t complex but it suck up a lot CPU resources. This […]
The Road Ahead
The Road Ahead by Bill Gate
More on Horizontal Layering…
In my previous entry, I discussed about the changes in the telecommunication industry to a world where data, IP Packets particularly, is the main revenue generator1 and Voice would become just one of the many application/service provided on top of the data world. Now, such radical change is extremely disruptive even though it is likely […]
dot.skype
Skype secures $18.8m funding (via Dave Farber IPer). Skype, a London-based company that is enjoying strong growth with software enabling free phone calls over the internet, has secured $18.8m (?11m) in second-round funding. Okay, I am a happy user of Skype. But would I invest in them without bottomline? Sure, if it is a “sell […]
Overload…
Blogging have slow down: work, work and work. That’s what I get for been traveling for the last two weeks. :-( Oh, my baby girl just has its first month celebration. A local tradition where relatives and friends come to your place to admire your baby, make a lot of noises and then leave with […]
Ban on blogsite?
China has ordered a blogbus.com, a blogging service in China, to shutdown it service. It is the annual season that China’s Parliament held session. (via Joi Ito) Singapore is also having our Parliament debate right now and I am glad there is no gag order on the Internet (at least none I am aware of). […]
Breaking the law of physic?
This is unbelievable: a magnetic motor that consumed almost no electricity Next we move to a unit with its motor connected to a generator. What we see is striking. The meters showed an input to the stator electromagnets of approximately 1.8 volts and 150mA input, and from the generator, 9.144 volts and 192mA output. 1.8 […]
Secure Web?
Think you are safe if the site you visit have a “lock”? Think again (via Slashdot) Scammers can also configure their web server so that deceptive SSL certificates won’t trigger an alert in the user’s browser. “One of the SSL encoding methods is ‘plain text’,” Neal Krawetz from Secure Science Corporation noted in the SANS […]
Book of Five Rings
Musashi’s Book of Five Rings by Steve Kaufman
Time flies
Don’t asked me what happened the last few days…Working Group meetings, breakfast meetings, lunch meetings, tea meetings and swoosh, I am now back in Singapore Airline lounge waiting to go back Singapore. Hmm, what really happened? I wonder how am I going to write my trip report…