Archive for the 'Tech Horizon' Category

Nov11th2009

The China Iceberg

Friend and collegue Jorn Knutsen has just launched his new blog about business in China. Written from 10 years of running factories, business councils and IT start ups in China.

Oct19th2009

Got Servers? FaceBook has 30K!

Good to see that good old memcached is in use too! ;-)

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/13/facebook-now-has-30000-servers/

Aug17th2009

iPhone in China September 1st 2009?

I went into my local China Mobile Shop and the accompanying China Unicom shop (next door) yesterday to get the wife a new phone. Seeing as my monthly bill would pay for three contracts out right – we might as well get something back out of it – as opposed to just a Gold VIP Card that only works in select airport lounges around China and god forbid if you are on a flight later than 8PM and want a free coffee or cold drink or foot bath….

Jul3rd2009

The South China Sea Oil Rig IT set to fly

Well two of our engineers passed their safety training today after a long course. They are now licenced to go on oil rigs and make the 2 hour helicopter flight out to the oil rigs.

Jun29th2009

New Word Press. Web 2.0 and the mashups

I finally upgraded to 2.8 from 2.2.

Mar8th2008

Open Office Conference Confirmed for Beijing

Yay!
Go read www.beijinglug.org for more.
Now if only IDG could put on a half decent Linux World instead of the token crap they excrete out like a constipated hippo.

Jan18th2008

Software as a Service, ASPing, ESPing, ISPing and many more “SP’s”

Software as a service. Sounds nice doesn’t it? How about utility computing or computing as a service?
Well it is not until you actually start to UNDERSTAND it – that you get to appreciate it. All too often the pundits of tech in society (as nice as they are), like twit.tv, cnet.com and [...]

Jan9th2008

China an inefficient truth

I read this entry over on David Wolf’s blog before my recent trip back down under about power usage and IT infrastructure.
Silicon Hutong
And the topic did strike a “Hey this is real man!!!” kind of chord with me. A cathartic resonance that shall never come from me with respect to the greater greenhouse effect [...]