Believe it or not, I once argued on a mailing list (back in 96/97) that “Why do I want to run my voice over IP over modem over voice line?” and “if VoIP is good enough to the entreprise, why haven’t CIOs drop their phone network”. Now, it is not as if I don’t have […]
Tag: Random Musing
IT investment and productivity
Someone sent me this chart which is supposingly presented during 21st Century Communications World Forum by Marconi. Unfortunately, I could not find the sources nor the data point to support this. Have anyone seen this before? And before anyone asked, yes, I did tried to google for it but no answer. Or rather, I get […]
Sun or Earth
From Peter Payne: My son just finished with his final tests, his last of the third grade. He did really well in his science final, only missing one question, which was about the shadow cast by a stick in the ground. Over the course of several hours, the position of the shadow moves — why? […]
Virtual Suw
Suw Charman participates in ETech virtually, thanks to KevinMarks
Creative vs Apple
Went to University Ave @ Palo Alto (just outside Stanford U) for dinner and saw this Soundworks (aka Creative Shop) selling Creative.
VON Town Hall
This is my first townhall session at VON. Basically an open mike no-barrier Q&A session with FCC folks (Jeffrey Carlisle, Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau and Robertt Pepper, Chief of Policy Development). What is amazing is how open they are in answering the questions, about FCC views, position or thoughts on a whole slew of issues. […]
Japanese kids on death
Saw this disturbing news on Asahi Shimbun: For many kids, death not final – just hit the reset button A mother who attended Nakamura’s lecture told her children afterward that death was a scary thing and they shouldn’t even consider taking their own lives. Her conversation with her then first-grade son continued as follows: Son: […]
Paint for OSX
Ever since switching from Windows to using Mac full time, there is one application which I missed the most: MS Paint. Yes, laugh all you can but it is a small and allow some very simple image editing (resize, crop, cut&paste) and format conversion. Both Photoshop and GIMP aren’t really the most ideal replacement – […]
No more free ST
While I am away in Japan, back home, Singapore Press Holding turned their ST Interactive into a paid service. (via MrBrown). Heck, who cares!? Obviously I don’t read ST Interactive; In fact, I seldom even read their printed Straits Time. The fact I got this news via MrBrown blog is a good indication how much […]
Man don’t get it
I been scretching my head for a while what to get for my wife for Valentine – handphones, PDA, Tiffany – been there done that. Used to send her flowers but that was before the wedding. But when my wife hinted to me she wanted a mini-oven, I thought she was joking. It’s so boring […]