First, congratulations to mrbrown on his third child. I received an email this afternoon from an excited mrbrown with his baby photo attached using his handphone. God knows how many other people he sent it to so let me also congratulate his mobile phone operator too. Back to topic, I wanted to write about Singapore […]
Tag: Random Musing
Two sides of a Coin
A few days ago, while discussing WSIS, ICANN, DNS, and all stuff that is geeky over lunch, he commented: “Wow, the Internet is a messy place, isn’t it?” To which I responded: “Yes. But this is the mess that gives us email, web, p2p and all things that is wonderful about the Internet”.
Google Starts Up Philanthropy Campaign
Washington Post reports (also see google.org): Google Inc. is launching an unusual corporate philanthropy campaign that will focus on fighting poverty and disease in Africa, addressing energy and environmental issues, and assisting nonprofit groups by giving away free online advertising. Not that I am against it but given that Google is now a public company, […]
World of Warcraft Economy
Let me introduce my World of Warcraft character. As you can see, I just spend 1000 gold pieces (900 after discount) on an Epic Mount (the mechnical bird) which allows me to travel twice as fast. 1000 gps is really a lot of money which tooks me several months to accumlate so I am pretty […]
Slow blogging week
No, I have not disappear again, just busy week but looks like things are settling down. Anyway, here is a quick update: 1. ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22 Linux Study Group (LSG) held their meeting in Singapore last week. LSG is transposing Linux Standard Base into an ISO standard and this is the final meeting to discuss comments […]
I am back!
Over a month but I am back. First, I like to thank all those took the time to email me. I appreciate your concerns but I dont wish to discuss the reasons behind my blog intermission. Nevertheless, I hope I will be back on permanent basis. So what happened in the last month? Lets see, […]
Blog Intermission
I have a lot of things I wanted to write, on Dave Farber recent trip in Singapore, on the first ENUM conference which is happening in Miami (I am sorry, I have to bailed out last minute), etc etc. But for reasons that I do not wish to discuss, I am putting all these blogging […]
Dave Farber in Singapore
Just got back from dinner with Dave Farber and his wife GG. They just arrived in Singapore this evening. This is going to be a busy week for Dave, with a live TV interview tomorrow morning (CNA at around 9am) and a public lecture the day after. The registration for the public lecture is still […]
Quoted in the papers
It started with a SMS from my boss: “Saw your blog quoted dbs in straits times today”. And I learnt it is not such a good idea to reply “Huh?” at this point in time. So quickly, I flipped through the papers and found the article written by Grace Ng, taking quotes out of my […]
My Music Baton
Okay, I got the musical baton from mrbrown so must give face to Singapore Number One Funny Man. Total volume of music files on my computer: 14.87Gb – 3895 songs – 11.3 days The last CD I bought was: Sonates pour piano n° 14, 8 & 23 – Alfred Brendel Five Songs I listen to […]