New Thinking for the New Millennium by Edward De Bono. They gave out this book to all attendee of Edward’s seminar on Creative Thinking And Lateral Thinking. It is a interesting book.
Skype & SIP
A reader of my “Predicting the future” series asked me if I can write about how Skype is the future. I replied to him that I believe in VoIP but I don’t the future is in Skype. Unfortunately, I didn’t go into details with him then. So I was quite please to see a very […]
Geoff Huston on ENUM
Geoff Hudston wrote an article for ISP Column on ENUM called “Lord of the Numbers“, one of the best introduction to ENUM I have seen so far. Incidently, Geoff said this in his article: Interestingly enough a close inspection of your local table of international dialing codes and a close inspection of the E.164 registry […]
IDN-OSS project
After a long delay, I finally got some time this weekend to start doing some work on IDN Open Source Software. It is an idea that was floated around at ICANN Montreal meeting and I spend a couple of weeks putting a proposal together. ..to develop quality RFC-compliant software to support IDN capabilities in different […]
Internet Apocalypso
Found an interesting article called Internet Apocalypso aka the ClueTrain Manifesto. I know I know, I am about four years late reading this (it is published online in 1999 and was the best seller in Business Week in 2000 and have been translated to a dozen of languages). But have things change over the last […]
Crime gangs extort money with hacking threat
Saw this article from Dave Farber’s Interesting People list: Evidence of a new type of international extortion racket emerged on Tuesday with revelations that blackmailers have been exploiting computer hacking techniques to threaten the ability of companies to conduct business online. Sites have been asked to pay up to $50,000 to ensure they are free […]
Afghanistan support in Apple
Michael Everson wrote: I am pleased to announce that Mac OS 10.3 (Panther) is now shipping keyboard layouts which support the Afghan Pashto, Afghan Dari, and Afghan Uzbek keyboard layouts specified in the Computer Locale Requirements of Afghanistan report http://www.evertype.com/standards/af and that at least one of Apple’s shipping Arabic fonts, Geeza Pro, has full glyph […]
fältström.se
Patrik Fältström send me an email from his new and proud domain fältström.se. Notice there is the swedish character ä and ö? Yep, Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) finally! Yippee! IDN is the effort of the WG I co-chair (together with Marc Blanchet) from 1999 to 2002 to bring internationalization to domain names, initiated from a […]
Microsoft without Bill Gates
At the Asia Open Source Symposium today, a friend asked me: “What do you think will happen to Microsoft if Bill Gate leaves?” After giving it some thought, I said “Probably nothing”. I mean, why would it be any difference? While Bill Gates is the icon for Microsoft, the real power of Microsoft, IMHO, are […]
Asia Open Source Symposium
I drop by at the Asia Open Source Symposium at the Pan Pacific Hotel (which is a 10mins walk from my office) this morning. I mean, I have quite a few old friends are here at this closed door (hmm..) seminar like Shuichi Tashiro from Japan and Ho Jian Ming and Wu Guo Wei from […]